Living and Working With Snow, Ice and Seasons in the Modern Arctic

ISBN-13: 9783031364440 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Opis

This book describes everyday practices of life in changing Arctic winter conditions. The authors explore the contemporary and situated outdoor practices in different work settings in Finnish Lapland and investigate how, for example, tourism, reindeer herding, cattle breeding and urban snow management adapt to the physically limiting or enabling features of cold temperatures, snow and ice. The book also highlights individual and societal adjustments to such harsh conditions and their seasonal changes in mobility, including winter cycling, use of snow mobiles and walking with studded shoes. The impact of a warming climate is a great concern for those utilising the enabling qualities of winter weather. The need, then, for continuous adaptation in everyday practices of work and mobility will increase in the future.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction: Everyday practices of adaptation in the modern Arctic

Monica Tennberg and Hannah Strauss-Mazzullo

 Part I Situated weather practices in work contexts

Chapter 2 Waiting for snow: Discrepancy between the demand for snow and actual snow conditions

Seija Tuulentie

Chapter 3 Living with Baltic Sea ice

Élise Lépy

Chapter 4 Reindeer, cows and people: Sustainable human—animal adaptations in Finnish Lapland

Nuccio Mazzullo and Päivi Soppela

Chapter 5 Managing snow in an Arctic city: Urban political ecology approach

Birgitta Vinkka and Jarno Valkonen

Chapter 6 The (snow) garden as a unique space for human–nature relations

Hannah Strauss-Mazzullo

Part II Situated weather practices in mobility contexts

Chapter 7 When the risk realises on a wintry road. The failure of the socio-technical system of land-based transport in northern conditions 

Leena Suopajärvi

Chapter 8 From everyday work to sensations of freedom: Snowmobile users’ relationships to snow, ice and weather

Tapio Nykänen

Chapter 9 Winter cycling developments in two cities of northern Finland

Minna T. Turunen

Chapter 10 Watch your step: Everyday urban mobility in the Arctic

Monica Tennberg

Chapter 11 Winter wonderland: Girls’ interactive relationship with the Arctic environment

Varpu Wiens

Chapter 12 Welcome aboard! Motorboating encounters in Arctic inland waters

Vesa Markuksela

Chapter 13 Concluding remarks: Modern Arctic winter life – everyday negotiations with weather

Hannah Strauss-Mazzullo and Monica Tennberg

O autorze

Hannah Strauss-Mazzullo, conducts research at the University of Lapland on people’s relationship with the Arctic environment. She has published widely on conflicting land uses and public involvement in environmental decision-making processes, especially in the context of nuclear and hydropower production.

Monica Tennberg, research professor at the University of Lapland, is an expert in Arctic environmental social studies. Her recent work includes Unravelling the North: Critical studies of the Arctic, a book co-edited with Marjo Lindroth and Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), and Indigenous peoples, natural resources and governance: Agencies and interactions, a volume co-edited with Else Grete Broderstad and Hans-Kristian Hernes (Routledge, 2022).

Blurb

This book describes everyday practices of life in changing Arctic winter conditions. The authors explore the contemporary and situated outdoor practices in different work settings in Finnish Lapland and investigate how, for example, tourism, reindeer herding, cattle breeding and urban snow management adapt to the physically limiting or enabling features of cold temperatures, snow and ice. The book also highlights individual and societal adjustments to such harsh conditions and their seasonal changes in mobility, including winter cycling, use of snow mobiles and walking with studded shoes. The impact of a warming climate is a great concern for those utilising the enabling qualities of winter weather. The need, then, for continuous adaptation in everyday practices of work and mobility will increase in the future.

Hannah Strauss-Mazzullo, conducts research at the University of Lapland on people’s relationship with the Arctic environment. She has published widely on conflicting land uses and public involvement in environmental decision-making processes, especially in the context of nuclear and hydropower production.

Monica Tennberg, research professor at the University of Lapland, is an expert in Arctic environmental social studies. Her recent work includes Unravelling the North: Critical studies of the Arctic, a book co-edited with Marjo Lindroth and Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), and Indigenous peoples, natural resources and governance: Agencies and interactions, a volume co-edited with Else Grete Broderstad and Hans-Kristian Hernes (Routledge, 2022).