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This open access book presents a series of speculative,
experimental modes of inquiry in the present times of environmental
damage that have come to be known as the age of the Anthropocene.
Throughout the book authors develop more nuanced ways of engaging
with the environmentally vulnerable Arctic. It counters distancing,
exoticising, and even apocalyptic imaginaries of the Arctic by
staying proximate with mundane places and beings of the north. The
volume engages and plays with familiar tourism concepts, such as
hospitality, visiting, difference, care, openness, and distance,
while expanding the focus from binary and human-centric approaches
of hosts and guests to questions of wellbeing among multispecies
communities. The transdisciplinary group of contributors share a
curiosity about how staying proximate may provide theoretical depth
and epistemological openings to attend to current tensions and to
diversify the ways we do and enact research. Thus, each chapter
provides a methodological experiment with proximity, developing
diverse ways of envisioning and storying more-than-human
worlds.  Â
This open access book presents a series of speculative,
experimental modes of inquiry in the present times of environmental
damage that have come to be known as the age of the Anthropocene.
Throughout the book authors develop more nuanced ways of engaging
with the environmentally vulnerable Arctic. It counters distancing,
exoticising, and even apocalyptic imaginaries of the Arctic by
staying proximate with mundane places and beings of the north. The
volume engages and plays with familiar tourism concepts, such as
hospitality, visiting, difference, care, openness, and distance,
while expanding the focus from binary and human-centric approaches
of hosts and guests to questions of wellbeing among multispecies
communities. The transdisciplinary group of contributors share a
curiosity about how staying proximate may provide theoretical depth
and epistemological openings to attend to current tensions and to
diversify the ways we do and enact research. Thus, each chapter
provides a methodological experiment with proximity, developing
diverse ways of envisioning and storying more-than-human
worlds.  Â
This book provides a comprehensive insight into the contemporary
naturecultural world by exploring infrastructures through the
dwelling approach. The notion of naturecultures has been utilized
in environmental humanities and social sciences to emphasize the
inherent messiness of the lived world and the inseparability of
social and biophysical elements. Concept of naturecultures stresses
that seemingly "natural" is always simultaneously "cultural" and
vice versa. This approach allows fleshing out the messy engagements
with infrastructures, which in this book is conceptualized as
infrastructural being. This book is a contribution to emerging
discussions on infrastructures in the fields of environmental
social sciences and humanities. It sensitizes to the peculiarities
of modern dwelling and modern, yet often overlooked, ways of being
connected with nature. Moreover, it provides tools for speculating,
how could things be otherwise. The book is a topical response to
the urgent call for developing new forms of human-nature relations
in times of environmental turbulence.
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