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The Giant Squid in Transatlantic Culture
This book builds upon the extensive study of the historical relationship between sea animals and humans in transatlantic culture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It exposes the present understanding of the human relationship with the giant squid not only as too simplistic but also as historically inaccurate. For instance, it redefines the earlier understanding that humans and especially seafarers have understood giant squid as horror-evoking and ugly creatures since the dawn of history and explains the origins of mythical sea monsters such as the Kraken. The book is, however, more than a critical response to previous work. It will point out that animals such as cephalopods, wh...
Animal Industries
This book examines an extremely topical phenomenon, the massive industrial exploitation of animals, from a previously neglected perspective. It explores the history and development of animal industries in Nordic countries from their establishment in the late nineteenth century to the present day. These countries are often considered to be progressive and advanced in animal protection, but consumption practices in this area are actually excessive in relation to planetary resources and are among the most unsustainable on a global scale. If we want to understand current problems, it is essential to be aware of long-term changes and continuities, as well as the diversity of animals that have been exploited. The purpose of this book is to explain these changes and provide new knowledge for scholars in human-animal studies, decisionmakers and the general public.
Understanding Marine Changes
With no linear cause-and-effect relationship between marine environmental changes and the often human-induced stressors which cause them, the changes to our seas and oceans are complex, uncertain, and arising due to multiple and interconnected issues. Studying environmental changes to the seas and oceans through a variety of perspectives and disciplines, this pioneering book outlines the challenges of researching marine environmental issues.
Cold Waters
This book addresses the Arctic and the northern regions by exploring cold waters and northern seascapes. It focuses on cultural discourses and artistic representations concerning the human experience and imagination of how the Arctic Ocean has been explored and used. It aims to assess what is specific to the northern waters vis-à-vis other sea and water areas in the world. The contextual background is provided by the fundamental shift from terra-based thinking towards aqua-based thinking, including the histories of the northern waters and the innovative ocean studies of the last decades. This book will be of interest to readers in Arctic studies and Sea and Ocean studies (including those wi...
The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies
This open access handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the ‘digital’ is simultaneously changing Russia and the research methods scholars use to study Russia. It provides a critical update on how Russian society, politics, economy, and culture are reconfigured in the context of ubiquitous connectivity and accounts for the political and societal responses to digitalization. In addition, it answers practical and methodological questions in handling Russian data and a wide array of digital methods. The volume makes a timely intervention in our understanding of the changing field of Russian Studies and is an essential guide for scholars, advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying Russia today.
Kulttuurihistorian tutkimus
Kulttuurihistoriallisesti suuntautunutta tutkimusta tehdään monilla humanistisen tutkimuksen aloilla. Tieteenalasta riippumatta humanistit etsivät vastauksia kysymyksiin, mitä on ihmisyys, kulttuuri, historia, yhteiskunta, ja miten tämä kaikki ilmenee ihmisten toiminnassa ja siitä syntyvissä lähteissä. Tässä teoksessa monitieteisyys ja tieteenalojen välinen vuorovaikutus toteutuvat monisyisesti. Kulttuurihistorian tutkimus: Lähteistä menetelmiin ja tulkintaan pureutuu tutkimusprosessiin. Sen artikkelit esittävät havainnollisesti menetelmien yhteyden ja soveltamisen lähdeaineistoihin sekä osoittavat, miten menetelmän ohjaama lähdeanalyysi tekee mahdolliseksi tutkimuskysymyksiin vastaamisen. Kirjassa kootaan monipuolisesti yhteen tämänhetkistä kulttuurihistoriallista tutkimusta ja pohditaan, millaisia ovat humanistisen tutkimuksen ajankohtaiset kysymykset 2020-luvulla.
Arrivals and Departures
This book examines a topical phenomenon from a previously neglected perspective by bringing together multidisciplinary insights from the field of humanities into human-nature relations. So far, the changes in biodiversity have been mainly studied by natural scientists. We approach the human relationship with the changing biodiversity from three different angles: 1) Belonging and non-belonging, 2) Emotions and 3) Environmental Policy. The question of belonging and non-belonging is crucial when it comes to changing biodiversity. We ask who decides where species can move and live and when invasive becomes native. Similarly, emotions have a big role in human-nature relations. Our book shows why ...
What is Digital History?
Digital history is an emerging field that draws on digital technology and computational methods. A global enterprise that invites scholars worldwide to join forces, it presents exciting and novel ways we might explore, understand and represent the past. Hannu Salmi provides the most compelling introduction to digital history to date. Beginning with an examination of the origins of the digital study of history, he goes on to discuss the question of how history exists in a digitized form. He introduces basic concepts and ideas in digital history, including databases and archives, interdisciplinarity and public engagement. Outlining the problems and methods in the study of big data, both textual and visual, particular attention is paid to the born-digital era: the contemporary age that exists primarily in digital form. What is Digital History? is essential reading for students of history and other humanities fields, as well as anyone interested in how digitization and digital cultures are transforming the study of history.
Visual Representations of the Arctic
Privileging the visual as the main method of communication and meaning-making, this book responds critically to the worldwide discussion about the Arctic and the North, addressing the interrelated issues of climate change, ethics and geopolitics. A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the Arctic, it supplies an original conceptualization of the Arctic as a visual world encompassing an array of representations, imaginings, and constructions. By examining a broad range of visual forms, media and forms such as art, film, graphic novels, maps, media, and photography, the book advances current debates about visual culture. The book enriches contemporary theories of the visual taking the Arctic as a spatial entity and also as a mode of exploring contemporary and historical visual practices, including imaginary constructions of the North. Original contributions include case studies from all the countries along the Arctic shore, with Russian material occupying a large section due to the country’s impact on the region
Riding High
Horses were key to the colonial economies of southern Africa, buttressing the socio-political order and inspiring contemporary imaginations. Just as they had done in Europe, Asia, the Americas and North Africa, these equine colonisers not only provided power and transportation but also helped transform their new biophysical and social environments. In some ways "Riding High" is an attempt to chronicle the effects of an inter-species relationship whose significance was vast and lead to major changes in the history of leisure, transportation, trade, warfare, and agriculture. On another level, these stories are simply the adventures of a big, gentle herbivore and a small, rogue primate. The hor...
