Arctic modernities: the environmental, the exotic and the everyday

Less tangible than melting polar glaciers or the changing social conditions in northern societies, the modern Arctic represented in writings, visual images and films has to a large extent been neglected in scholarship and policy-making.

However, the modern Arctic is a not only a natural environment dramatically impacted by human activities.

It is also an incongruous amalgamation of exoticized indigenous tradition and a mundane everyday.

The chapters in this volume examine the modern Arctic from all these perspectives.

They demonstrate to what extent the processes of modernization have changed the discursive signification of the Arctic.