Overview
- Investigates and clarifies the ecological and cultural implications of losing ice in the face of climate change
- Brings together diverse perspectives from research and practice across disciplines and media
- Clarifies the role of art and popular culture in raising environmental awareness
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication (PSMEC)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Staging Ice and Ice Stages in Science, Science Communication and Aesthetic Experience
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Ice Exploration: Heroism, Art and Imaginaries
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Pop Cultural Meanings of Ice in Visual Fiction and Film
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Reviews
"It matters what stories tell stories, what visions create visions. In order to change a story, we have to know what it is. Only then can we open ourselves to new narratives, new visions. This book manages to do both. It analyses how our imagination of ice is shaped by masculine and colonial fantasies.But it also demonstrates how a novel ‘ice science’ may emerge from removing the traditional boundaries that separate science, art and humanities. With its well-written analyses, new insights and, not least, uplifting visions of new approaches, collaborations and opportunities, this book is a joy to read."
- Kirsten Thisted, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
"This original, interdisciplinary volume examines how we engage with melting ice from a variety of perspectives, bringing into dialogue views from ecology, oceanography, geography, geopolitics, science communication, comparative literature, art history, media studies, musicology, popular entertainment studies and more. This book makes a compelling attempt to understand ice not as an object but as an agent with which we must interact differently. The contributions thus convey a fascination with ice that transcends the traditional Arctic sublime and indicates new directions for a multidisciplinary (Ant)Arctic discourse. Ultimately, the highly recommended volume points to the extreme urgency of political action to curb global warming"
- Evi Zemanek, University of Freiburg, Germany
"This collection brilliantly illustrates how storytelling and aesthetic presentation are crucial aids to understanding and communicating about objects of scientific inquiry. Engaging with a subject that is particularly topical—how ice has become a symbol of the fragility of the planetary environment—its chapters are at once fun to read and deeply serious investigations into the interplay between ice research, art and aesthetics. A timely and vital contribution to the environmental humanities, posthumanism and science communication."
- Chris Danta, School of Cybernetics, Australian National University, Australia
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr Anna-Sophie Jürgens is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Science Communication at the Australian National University exploring science in popular entertainment and pop culture. She has published on circus fiction and aesthetics, the history of (violent) clowns, comic mad scientists, clown robots, the cultural meanings of science, and comic performance and technology in culture in numerous academic journals. She was an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at the Australian National University and the Freie Universität Berlin from 2017 to 2020. She is the guest editor of two special themed journal issues on popular performance and science (Journal of Science & Popular Culture, 2020) and violent clowns (Comedy Studies, 2020), co-editor of Manegenkünste: Zirkus als ästhetisches Modell (transcript, 2020) and the sole editor of the volume Circus, Science and Technology: Dramatising Innovation (Palgrave, 2020). Her next co-edited book, Circus and the Avant-Gardes, will appear in 2022.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Communicating Ice through Popular Art and Aesthetics
Editors: Anne Hemkendreis, Anna-Sophie Jürgens
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39787-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39786-8Published: 23 February 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39789-9Due: 25 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-39787-5Published: 22 February 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-6451
Series E-ISSN: 2634-646X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 293
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour
Topics: Arts, Environmental Communication, Popular Culture