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Earth, ice, bone, blood : permafrost and extinction in the Russian Arctic
- Title
- Earth, ice, bone, blood : permafrost and extinction in the Russian Arctic / Charlotte Wrigley.
- Author
- Wrigley, Charlotte
- Publication
- Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]
- ©2023
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- Description
- xiii, 236 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood presents a meditative engagement with permafrost as more than just frozen ground. Wrigley considers how permafrost and its disappearance redefines extinction to be a lack of continuity, both material and social, and something that affects not only life on earth but nonlife, too"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Permafrost life -- Earth -- A global permafrost apocalypse -- Permafrost science at the Pleistocene Park -- The Pleistocene Park as planetary redemption -- Chersky and the mainland -- Permafrost ruptures and island apocalypses -- Reimagining the planetary -- The lives all around -- Ice -- Sakhan refrigerators -- The antipermafrost and extinction in the permafrost tunnel -- The permafrost law and inhuman subjectivity -- Does permafrost breathe? -- Permafrost as commodity and the hunt for white cold -- Unearthing multiplicity through stories -- The lives underfoot -- Bone -- Permafrost underground and the verticality of time -- Deep pasts : the super-terrestrial with(out) humans -- Shallow histories : the Soviet Union and the genesis of the Pleistocene Park -- (Re)emergent landscapes and the intricacies of reproduction -- Animal agencies and skeletal afterlives -- The subterranean as a future repository -- The lives coming back -- Blood -- Mammoth histories -- (Un)broken lineages and blood ties -- Entering the cryobank -- The cryopolitics of future life -- Immortality and resurrection in the secular age -- Giving up on life -- The lives of the future.
- ISBN
- 9781517911829
- 1517911826
- 9781517911812
- 1517911818
- 9781452968988 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022052934
- 99993713100
- 40031682930
- OCLC
- on1346615212
- 1346615212
- SCSB-14507662
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries