Smi Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North (Cocq Copplie)(Paperback)

Smi Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North (Cocq Copplie)(Paperback)

Digital media-GIFs, films, TED Talks, tweets, and more-have become integral to daily life and, unsurprisingly, to Indigenous people's strategies for addressing the historical and ongoing effects of colonization. In S mi Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North, Thomas DuBois and Copp lie

Canada - Bernhard Mogge, Karl-Heinz Raach

Canada borders the USA in the south and the Arctic Circle in the north. This results in a landscape diversity with endless forest areas in the south and ice and rock areas in the north, beyond the Arctic tree line. In over 500 pictures, this volume shows the multifaceted wilderness of Canada. These

The Arctic Guide: Wildlife of the Far North (Chester Sharon)(Paperback)

The definitive full-color field guide to Arctic wildlife The Arctic Guide presents the traveler and naturalist with a portable, authoritative guide to the flora and fauna of earth's northernmost region. Featuring superb color illustrations, this one-of-a-kind book covers the complete spectrum of

Contesting the Arctic: Politics and Imaginaries in the Circumpolar North (Steinberg Philip E.)(Paperback)

As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention. The promise of new sources of mineral wealth and energy, and of new transportation routes, has seen countries expand their sovereignty claims

Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America (Hinton Alexander Laban)(Paperback)

This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America. Colonists made multiple and interconnected attempts to destroy Indigenous peoples as groups. The

Magnetic North - Travels in the Arctic (Wheeler Sara)(Paperback / softback)

Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and shadowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline with truckers, the author discovers a complex and ambiguous land belonging both to ancient myth and modern

North American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence (Chacon Richard J.)(Paperback)

Despite evidence of warfare and violent conflict in pre-Columbian North America, scholars argue that the scale and scope of Native American violence is exagerated. They contend that scholarly misrepresentation has denigrated indigenous peoples when in fact they lived together in peace and harmony

Liberating Spmi: Indigenous Resistance in Europe's Far North (Kuhn Gabriel)(Paperback)

The S mi, who have inhabited Europe's far north for thousands of years, are often referred to as the continent's 'forgotten people.' With S pmi, their traditional homeland, divided between four nation-states--Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia--the S mi have experienced the profound oppression and

Emerging Trends in Indigenous Language Media, Communication, Gender, and Health (Oyesomi Kehinde Opeyemi)(Pevná vazba)

Provides sustainable policy trajectory measures for indigenous language media and health advocacy. This book will provide a better global understanding of the significance indigenous language still has in modern society. It highlights a range of topics, including digitalization, sustainability, and

Virtue, Nature, and Moral Agency in the Xunzi(Paperback / softback)

Land of the Midnight Sun: My Arctic Adventures (Armstrong Alexander)(Paperback)

In an adventure of a lifetime, Alexander Armstrong wraps up warm and heads ever north to explore the hostile Arctic winter--the glittering landscape of Scandinavia, the isolated islands of Iceland and Greenland, and the final frontier of Canada and Alaska. Along the way he learns from the Marines

Arctic Life (Callery Sean)(Paperback)

Who lives in the Arctic? This photographic information book by Sean Callery explores the Arctic and looks at how the animals and people that inhabit this frozen landscape survive

Arcticness: Power and Voice from the North (Kelman Ilan)(Paperback)

Climate change and globalization are opening up the Arctic for resource development and exploitation. But what about the views, interests, and needs of the peoples who already live in the region? Featuring essays by both academics and Arctic peoples themselves, this new book covers the social,

Indigenous Women's Theatre in Canada: A Mechanism of Decolonization (MacKenzie Sarah)(Paperback)

Despite a recent increase in the productivity and popularity of Indigenous playwrights in Canada, most critical and academic attention has been devoted to the work of male dramatists, leaving female writers on the margins. In Indigenous Women's Theatre in Canada, Sarah MacKenzie addresses this

Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education - Mapping the Long View(Paperback / softback)

Indigenous and decolonizing perspectives on education have long persisted alongside colonial models of education, yet too often have been subsumed within the fields of multiculturalism, critical race theory, and progressive education. Timely and compelling, Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in

Community-Based Monitoring in the Arctic (Danielsen Finn)(Paperback)

Community Based Monitoring Programs in the Arctic explores the concept and use of community-based monitoring (CBM) of ecological conditions in the Arctic. The authors analyze current programs and determines that CBM, while widespread and effective, nonetheless still has untapped potential

Inscribing Difference and Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Personal Non-fiction and Life Writing in Australia and North America - Martina Horáková

Kniha Inscribing Difference and Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Personal Non-fiction and Life Writing in Australia and North America zkoumá, jak literárně-esejistická tvorba domorodých obyvatelek v USA, Kanadě a Austrálii, publikovaná v 90. letech 20. století, přispěla k formování

Baffin Island: Field Research and High Arctic Adventure, 1961-67 (Ives Jack D.)(Paperback)

A geographer with extensive research experience in the Canadian North, Jack D. Ives has written a lively and informative account of several expeditions to Baffin Island during the 'golden age' of federal research. In the 1960s, scientists from the Geographical Branch of Canada's Department of

North American Indian Art (Penney David W.)(Paperback)

This timely new book surveys the artistic traditions of indigenous North America, from those of ancient cultures such as Adena, Hopewell, Mississippian, and Anasazi to the work of modern artists like Earnest Spybuck, Fred Kabotie, Dick West, T. C. Cannon, and Gerald McMaster. The text is organized

Dlvi: Six Years in the Arctic Tundra (Galloway Laura)(Pevná vazba)

An ancestry test suggesting she shared some DNA with the S mi people, the indigenous inhabitants of the Arctic tundra, tapped into Laura Galloway's wanderlust; an affair with a S mi reindeer herder ultimately led her to leave New York for the tiny town of Kautokeino, Norway. When her new boyfriend

Blood Run (Hedge Coke Allison Adelle)(Paperback)

This volume testifies to the need to protect the remarkable ruins of the Indigenous North American city of Blood Run and the sacred remains she guards there in mounded tombs. The persona poems herein emanate its character embraced in architectural accomplishment designed in accordance with the sun

Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (Barker Joanne)(Paperback)

Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty,

Science and the Modern World (Whitehead Alfred North)(Paperback)

Alfred North Whitehead's Science and the Modern World, originally published in 1925, redefines the concept of modern science. Taking readers through the history of modern science, Whitehead shows how cultural history has affected science over the ages in relation to such major intellectual themes

First Peoples: Indigenous Cultures and Their Futures (Sissons Jeffrey)(Paperback)

It is widely assumed that indigenous cultures are under threat: they are rooted in landscapes that have undergone radical transformations, and the opposing forces of business corporations and ruling political powers only seem to grow stronger. Yet Jeff Sissons argues here in First Peoples that, far