{"product_id":"earth-ice-bone-blood-permafrost-and-extinction-in-the-russian-arctic-paperback","title":"Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood: Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharlotte Wrigley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExploring one of the greatest potential contributors to climate change--thawing permafrost--and the anxiety of extinction on an increasingly hostile planet\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClimate scientists point to permafrost as a \"ticking time bomb\" for the planet, and from the Arctic, apocalyptic narratives proliferate on the devastating effects permafrost thaw poses to human survival. In \u003ci\u003eEarth, Ice, Bone, Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, Charlotte Wrigley considers how permafrost--and its disappearance--redefines extinction to be a lack of continuity, both material and social, and something that affects not only life on earth but nonlife, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEarth, Ice, Bone, Blood\u003c\/i\u003e approaches the topic of thawing permafrost and the wild new economies and mitigation strategies forming in the far north through a study of the Sakha Republic, Russia's largest region, and its capital city Yakutsk, which is the coldest city in the world and built on permafrost. Wrigley examines people who are creating commerce out of thawing permafrost, including scientists wishing to recreate the prehistoric \"Mammoth steppe\" ecosystem by eventually rewilding resurrected woolly mammoths, Indigenous people who forage the tundra for exposed mammoth bodies to sell their tusks, and government officials hoping to keep their city standing as the ground collapses under it. Warming begets thawing begets economic activity-- and as a result, permafrost becomes discontinuous, both as land and as a social category, in ways that have implications for the entire planet. Discontinuity, Wrigley shows, eventually evolves into extinction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffering a new way of defining extinction through the concept of \"discontinuity,\" \u003ci\u003eEarth, Ice, Bone, Blood\u003c\/i\u003e presents a meditative and story-focused engagement with permafrost as more than just frozen ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharlotte Wrigley recently finished her PhD in Human Geography at Queen Mary University, London, and is postdoctoral fellow at the University of Stavanger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 8.43 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755605459232,"sku":"9781517911829","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/fa98f6a6f4ad7bb7225ef5f6f8a80c76.webp?v=1780063450","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/earth-ice-bone-blood-permafrost-and-extinction-in-the-russian-arctic-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}