10/29/2024
Delighted that our book After Ice is out: our meditation on the role of a ‘cold humanities’ in understanding climate warming.
As the climate warms and the water cycle is disrupted, ice is no longer a certain experience even in higher latitudes or winter seasons. No more frost on the windows. I have to explain icicles to children. What are the human and nonhuman consequences of the planet’s waning capacity to cool? In other words, what comes "after ice"?
This collection examines the implications of the end of consistent freezing and thawing cycles. The cryosphere traditionally refers to areas where water is solid, such as places on the planet of snow, ice, and permafrost. Today, the cryosphere is melting. Its future is determined by human behaviour. "After Ice" gathers experts in a wide range of disciplines – environmental history, game studies, Indigenous studies – to articulate aspects of the cold humanities. They investigate ice and cold and its dynamic properties as a foundational element of Indigenous communities in the Arctic, as a commodity with technological and political value, and as a reflection of environmental change and the passage of time. We envision ice not only as a phase of water but also as a milieu for semantic and embodied sense-making. It asks us to consider how to define, describe, and materially characterize our warming world. Published by UBC Press. Ask for this at your book store, library, Amazon https://shorturl.at/IHzF2 etc.
