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SUMMARY:Does Ice have Politics? The Materiality and Mobility of Frozen Sta
 tes - Dr. Michael Bravo\, Dept. of Geography\, University of Cambridge
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DESCRIPTION:_Abstract_: In 2006 I predicted that there will another Exxon 
 Valdez ecological disaster and that it would be watched in real time acros
 s boardrooms and throughout public spheres around the world – my message
  was that the new Arctic is less remote or hidden from view than we have i
 magined. In the same article in the Brown Journal of World Affairs (co-aut
 hored with Gareth Rees)\, I coined the term ‘cryopolitics’ to draw att
 ention to the claim that frozen states – in their many forms – have a 
 material history\, culture and environmental politics.  These cryopolitics
  are both changed and distorted by the dominant neoliberal narrative that 
 a future ice-free Arctic presages and enables new more efficient flows of 
 global commodities.\n\nIn this seminar\, I want to discuss three aspects o
 f cryopolitics. First I will try to communicate something about the materi
 ality of the High Arctic archipelagic region by sharing some of my fieldwo
 rk experience working with Inuit Elders in Pond Inlet near Lancaster Sound
 \, the eastern entrance to the Northwest Passage. Secondly I will illustra
 te contemporary cryopolitics by briefly exploring some relationships in th
 e indigenous world between the materiality of ice and mobility\, and how t
 hey risk being displaced by industrial investments. Thirdly\, and most imp
 ortantly\, I hope to engage the audience in generating a discussion as to 
 what if anything\, makes cryopolitics distinctive from other kinds of envi
 ronmental materialities and their associated geopolitics in other parts of
  the world (e.g. aridity\, drought\, flooding\, volcanic eruptions).\n\n* 
 M. T. Bravo and W. G. Rees\, Cryopolitics: Environmental Security and the 
 Future of Arctic Navigation\, Brown Journal of World Affairs\, 13(1)\, Fal
 l/Winter 2006\, 205-215\n\n*The link to access this paper is: http://web.e
 bscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=c976ef80-6f69-407c-894c-6ce9d37
 4ff8b%40sessionmgr112&vid=2&hid=123\n
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