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ANTHMAI copy Purchased from the Jean Axelrod Acquisitions Endowment. Introduction: Back to the futures of an uncertain Arctic / Nina Wormbs -- Constructing Arctic energy resources : the case of the Canadian North, 1921-1980 / Paul Warde -- Extracting the future in Svalbard / Dag Avango -- "Red herring" : the unpredictable Soviet fish and Soviet power in the 1930s / Julia Lajus -- A reindeer herding people? : political visions of Sami futures / Patrik Lantto -- Creating a safe operating space for business : the changing role of Arctic governance / Annika E. Nilsson -- Voicing bipolar futures : the Antarctic treaty system and Arctic governance in historical perspectives / Lize-Marié van der Watt and Peder Roberts -- Political regime influences in the Barents Euro-Arctic region / Alexander Gnatenko and Andrian Vlakhov -- The telecoupled Arctic : assessing stakeholder narratives of non-Arctic states / Eric Paglia -- Arctic modernism : new urbanisation models for the Soviet Far North in the 1960s / Ekaterina Kalemeneva -- Conclusion: Anthroposcene Arctic - reductionist imaginaries of a "new north" / Sverker Sörlin -- Index This edited collection explores how narratives about the future of the Arctic have been produced historically up until the present day. the contemporary deterministic and monolithic narrative is shown to be only one of several possible ways forward. This book problematizes the dominant prediction that there will be increased shipping and resource extraction as the ice melts and shows how this seemingly inevitable future has consequences for the action that can be taken in the present. This collection looks to historical projections about the future of the Arctic, evaluating why some voices have been heard and championed, while others remain marginalized. it questions how these historical perspectives have shaped resource allocation and governance structures to understand the forces behind change in the Arctic region. considering the history of individuals and institutions, their political and economic networks and their perceived power, the essays in this collection offer new perspectives on how the future of Arctic has been produced and communicated xiv, 281 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 22 cm