Visual Representations of the Arctic: Imagining Shimmering Worlds in Culture, Literature and Politics Lehtimki Markku
Visual Representations of the Arctic: Imagining Shimmering Worlds in Culture, Literature and Politics Lehtimki Markku Privileging the visual as the main method of communication and meaning-making,…
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Visual Representations of the Arctic: Imagining Shimmering Worlds in Culture, Literature and Politics Lehtimki Markku
Privileging the visual as the main method of communication and meaning-making, this book responds critically to the worldwide discussion about the Arctic and the North, addressing the interrelated issues of climate change, ethics and geopolitics. By examining a broad range of visual forms, media and forms such as art, film, graphic novels, maps, media, and photography, the book advances current debates about visual culture. A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the Arctic, it supplies an original conceptualization of the Arctic as a visual world encompassing an array of representations, imaginings, and constructions.
Original contributions include case The book enriches contemporary theories of the visual taking the Arctic as a spatial entity and also as a mode of exploring contemporary and historical visual practices, including imaginary constructions of the North.