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Cold Rush : Critical Assemblage Analysis of a Heating Arctic (2024)


Pietikäinen, S. (2024). Cold Rush : Critical Assemblage Analysis of a Heating Arctic. Palgrave Macmillan. Language and Globalization. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63995-1


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Publication details

All authors or editorsPietikäinen, Sari

ISBN978-3-031-63994-4

eISBN978-3-031-63995-1

Journal or seriesLanguage and Globalization

ISSN2947-7506

eISSN2947-7514

Publication year2024

Publication date23/09/2024

Number of pages in the book239

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

Place of PublicationCham

Publication countrySwitzerland

Publication languageEnglish

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63995-1

Publication open accessNot open

Publication channel open access


Abstract

This book is an original study of Cold Rush, an accelerated race for the extraction and protection of Arctic natural resources. The Northernmost reach of the planet is caught up in the double developments of two unfinished forces – rapidly progressing climate change and global economic investment - working simultaneously in tension and synergy. Neither process is linear or complete, but both are contradictory and open-ended. This book traces the multiplicity of Cold Rush in the Finnish Arctic, a high-stakes ecological, economic, and political hotspot. It is a heterogeneous space, understood as indigenous land within local indigenous Sámi people politics, the last frontier from a colonial perspective, and a periphery under the modernist nation-state regime. It is now transforming into an economic hub under global capitalism, intensifying climate change and unforeseen geo-political changes. Based on six years of ethnography, the book shows how people struggle, strategize, and profit from this ongoing, complex, and multidirectional change. The author offers a new theoretical approach called critical assemblage analysis, which provides an alternative way of exploring the dynamics between language and society by examining the interaction between material, discursive, and affective dimensions of Cold Rush. The approach builds on previous work at the intersection of critical discourse analysis, critical sociolinguistics, nexus analysis and ethnography, but expands toward works by philosophers Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari. This book will be of interest to researchers on language, discourse, and sociolinguistics interested in engaging with social critique embedded in global capitalism and accelerating climate change; as well as researchers in the social and human sciences and natural sciences, who are increasingly aware of the fact that the theoretical and analytical move beyond the traditional dichotomies like language/society, nature/human and micro/macro is central to understanding today´s complex, intertwined social, political, economic and ecological processes.


Keywordsarctic regionnatural resourcesvaluationnatural resources policycapitalismglobalisationneocolonialismmining industrynon-timber forest productswild berriesberry pickingforeign labourethicalitytourism sectorexperience tourismaurorasminority languagesSámi peoplediscourse researchsociolinguisticsmethodologydiscourse analysisdiscourseassemblages

Free keywordscapitalism; discourse; minority languages; Northern Lights; relational ethics; Wild Berries; mining


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Ministry reportingYes

VIRTA submission year2024

Preliminary JUFO rating2


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