Northern sea routes of Russia
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Northern sea routes of Russia
19.99 €
The Northern Sea Route, which occupies a special place in the geographical imagination of the Russian public, was pushed out of the forefront of Russian politics in the 1990s after the active conquest of the Arctic in the 1930s and subsequent planned development in the late Soviet period. A new surge of interest in the Arctic occurred at the beginning of the 21st century, when the phrase "Northern Sea Route" again became important for the state agenda. This collective monograph offers three approaches to the study of the Northern Sea Route - from the perspective of social anthropology, history and economic geography.
The corpus of topics under consideration includes the connections between the physical infrastructure of the Northern Sea Route and the social relations that support it; the presentation of the Northern Sea Route by residents of the Arctic coast, professional communities and the general public; the practical and rhetorical adaptation of coastal settlements to socio-economic changes; various concepts of managing the Northern Sea Route infrastructure, as well as the political logic of projects to develop the "national transport highway".
The plural stated in the book’s title indicates that for different audiences the phenomenon itself is not identical: the Northern Sea Routes are historical and modern, social and political, rhetorical and practical – multiple paths of Russia in the Arctic.
The corpus of topics under consideration includes the connections between the physical infrastructure of the Northern Sea Route and the social relations that support it; the presentation of the Northern Sea Route by residents of the Arctic coast, professional communities and the general public; the practical and rhetorical adaptation of coastal settlements to socio-economic changes; various concepts of managing the Northern Sea Route infrastructure, as well as the political logic of projects to develop the "national transport highway".
The plural stated in the book’s title indicates that for different audiences the phenomenon itself is not identical: the Northern Sea Routes are historical and modern, social and political, rhetorical and practical – multiple paths of Russia in the Arctic.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books in the series Library of the magazine "Neprikosnovny zapas"