Russia's Northern Sea Routes
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Russia's Northern Sea Routes
19.99 €
12.79 €
The Northern Sea Route, which occupies a special place in the geographical imagination of Russian audiences, after the active conquest of the Arctic in the 1930s and subsequent planned development in the late Soviet period, was pushed out of the forefront of Russian politics in the 1990s. A new surge of interest in the Arctic came at the beginning of the twenty-first century, when the phrase "Northern Sea Route" once again became important on the state agenda. This collective monograph offers three approaches to the study of the Northern Sea Route - from the perspectives of social anthropology, history, and economic geography. The corpus of topics covered includes the connections between the material infrastructure of the Northern Sea Route and the social relations that support it; the representation of the Northern Sea Route by Arctic coastal residents, professional communities, and general audiences; the practical and rhetorical adaptation of coastal settlements to socio-economic change; various concepts of managing the infrastructure of the Northern Sea Route; and the political logic of "national transportation highway" development projects. The plural stated in the title of the book indicates that the phenomenon itself is not identical for different audiences: the Northern Sea Routes are historical and contemporary, social and political, rhetorical and practical - Russia's multiple paths in the Arctic.
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