Vol. 9 • No. 1 • 2015

Vol. 9 • No. 1 • 2015 Published by Umeå University & The Royal Skyttean Society Umeå 2015 The Journal of Northern Studies is published with support from The Royal Skyttean Society and Umeå University © The authors and Journal of Northern Studies ISSN 1654-5915 Cover picture A map of the Arctic published in Amsterdam in 1606 (from G. Mercator & J. Hondius, Atlas, Amsterdam 1606). Design and layout Lotta Hortéll och Leena Hortéll, Ord & Co i Umeå AB Fonts: Berling Nova and Futura Paper: Invercote Creato 260 gr and Artic volume high white 115 gr Printed by TMG Tabergs Contents / Sommaire / Inhalt Editors & Editorial board ................................................................................................................5 Articles / Aufsätze Tina Adcock & Peder Roberts, Nations, Natures, and Networks. The New Environ- ments of Northern Studies. 7 Janina Priebe, The Arctic Scramble Revisited. The Greenland Consortium and the Imagined Future of Fisheries in 1905. 13 Rafico Ruiz, Media Environments. Icebergs/Screens/History ..........................................33 Janet Martin-Nielsen, Re-Conceptualizing the North. A Historiographic Discussion. 51 Dagomar Degroot, Exploring the North in a Changing Climate. The Little Ice Age and the Journals of Henry Hudson, 1607–1611 ..................................................................... 69 Sverker Sörlin, The Emerging Arctic Humanities. A Forward-Looking Post-Script . 93 Reviews /Comptes rendus / Besprechungen Review essay: Changes in the Attribution of Values to Northern and Arctic Spaces. Silje Gaupseth, Marie-Theres Feerhofer & Per Pippin Aspaas (eds.), Travels in the North, Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag 2013; John McCannon, A History of the Arctic. Nature, Exploration and Exploitation, London: Reaktion Books Ltd. 2012; Martin Breum, Når isen forsvinder. Danmark som stormagt i Arktis, Grønlands rigdomme og kampen om Nordpolen, København: Gyldendal 2013; Barry Scott Zellen (ed.), The Fast-Changing Arctic. Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World, Calgary: Univer- sity of Calgary Press 2013; Miyase Christensen, Annika E. Nilsson & Nina Wombs, Media and the Politics of Arctic Climate Change. When the Ice Breaks, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire UK: Palgrave Macmillan 2013 (Aant Elzinga) .........................99 Christine Ekholst, A Punishment for Each Criminal. Gender and Crime in Swedish Medieval Law, Leiden & Boston: Brill 2014 (Dieter Strauch) .............................................123 Jonas Harvard & Peter Stadius (eds.), Communicating the North. Media Structures and Images in the Making of the Nordic Region, Farnham: Ashgate 2013 (Annegret Heitmann) .......................................................................................................................................129 Takashi Irimoto, The Ainu Bear Festival, Sapporo: Hokkaido University Press 2014 (Olle Sundström). .133 Iain G. MacDonald, Clerics and Clansmen. The Diocese of Argyll between the Twelfth and Sixteenth Centuries, Leiden & Boston: Brill 2013 (Bertil Nilsson) . .137 Osmo Pekonen & Anouchka Vasak, Maupertuis en Laponie. À la recherche de la figure de la Terre, Paris: Éditions Hermann, 2014 (Karin Becker). .143 3 Grete Swensen (ed.), Å lage kulturminner. Hvordan kulturarv forstås, formes og forval- tes, Oslo: Novus Forlag 2013 (Peter Aronsson) .......................................................................148 Kathrin Zickermann, Across the German Sea. Early Modern Scottish Connections with the Wider Elbe-Weser Region, Leiden & Boston: Brill 2013 (Thomas Riis) .....................152 Instructions to Authors. .155 EDITORS Editor-in-chief: Professor Lars-Erik Edlund, Dept. of Language Studies, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden Tel. +46-(0)90-786 7887 [email protected] Assistant editors: Professor emerita Barbro Klein, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Linneanum, Thunbergsv. 2, SE-752 38 Uppsala, Sweden [email protected] Professor emeritus Kjell Sjöberg, Dept. of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden [email protected] Editorial secretary: Associate professor Olle Sundström, Dept. of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden Tel. +46-(0)90-786 7627 [email protected] EDITORIAL BOARD Professor Jóhann P. Árnason, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Professor emerita Louise Bäckman, Stockholm, Sweden Associate professor Ingela Bergman, The Silver Museum, Arjeplog, Sweden Professor Susan Brantly, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Professor Tatiana D. Bulgakova, Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg, Russia Professor Ken Coates, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Professor emeritus Öje Danell, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden Professor François-Xavier Dillmann, École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, France Professor Thomas A. DuBois, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Professor emeritus Aant Elzinga, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 5 Professor, Elena M. Glavatskaya, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia Professor Sherrill E. Grace, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Professor Annegret Heitmann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany Professor Kristin Kuutma, University of Tartu, Estonia Reader, PhD Cornelia Lüdecke, University of Hamburg, Germany Professor Else Mundal, University of Bergen, Norway Professor emeritus Einar Niemi, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway Professor Jill Oaks, University of Manitoba, Canada Professor Lars Östlund, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden Professor Anssi Paasi, University of Oulu, Finland Professor emeritus Andrejs Plakans, Iowa State University, Ames, USA Professor Neil Price, Uppsala University, Sweden Professor Håkan Rydving, University of Bergen, Norway Professor emerita, Academician of Science, Anna-Leena Siikala, University of Helsinki, Finland Professor Peter Sköld, Umeå University, Sweden Professor Björn Wittrock, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala, Sweden Professor emerita Takako Yamada, Kyoto University, Japan 6 JOURNAL OF NORTHERN STUDIES Vol. 9 • No. 1 • 2015, pp. 7–11 TINA ADCOCK & PEDER ROBERTS Nations, Natures, and Networks The New Environments of Northern Studies Change is a prominent, even ubiquitous theme of early twenty-first cen- tury discussions about the North. The rapid decrease of sea ice in the last decade has placed northern ecosystems under multiple kinds of stress. It has simultaneously prompted visions of newly traversable shipping lanes, newly accessible deposits of minerals, and newly possible connections to markets and consumers far to the south of the Arctic Circle. This descrip- tion of the “New North” or “New Arctic” (Stuhl 2013; Doel, Wråkberg & Zeller 2014) is now familiar, even bordering on clichéd. That this is the case speaks to the startling rapidity with which scholarly perspectives on this region have changed. Not so long ago, as Dolly Jørgensen and Sverker Sörlin (2013) remind us in their introduction to Northscapes, historians in more temperate climes imagined the North as a place without history and a place outside of time—a static, cold, and isolated space of little rele- vance to grand narratives of human affairs. Contemporary academic understandings of the region have done much to thaw this North, frozen in both time and space. Scholars work- ing at the confluence of history, geography, and environmental science have begun to re-emphasize a point that the French-Canadian geogra- pher Louis-Edmond Hamelin made decades ago: that “there are so many Norths within the North” (Hamelin 1978: 7). There is no single North- ern environment or idea of North, but rather multiple spaces and places that have shaped and been shaped by different constellations of phys- ical, political, economic, and cultural factors. Newer Northern schol- 7 TINA ADCOCK & PEDER ROBERTS, NATIONS, NATURES, AND NETWORKS arship also lays to rest any lingering notions of regional isolation by high- lighting the longstanding connections between the North and other places. This “networked North” is one in which people, animals, information, raw materials, and commodities animate particular routes and trajectories, cast- ing a shifting web of movement over the planet (F.A. Jørgensen 2013). The newfound sensitivity of Northern scholars to global historical networks arises in part from their increasing participation in more-than-national forums today. Political organizations such as the Arctic Council and the Inuit Circumpolar Council are established fixtures, but so too are academic forums such as the International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences. The flurry of scholarly activity associated with the most recent Internation- al Polar Year (IPY) of 2007–2008 created a raft of new multidisciplinary and multinational initiatives, in which humanists and social scientists were more prominent than ever before. It is perhaps no coincidence that environmental historians and historians of science have figured prominently in the “new northern history,” a strand of scholarship central to this forum. Motivated principally by thematic questions and literatures, and unafraid to cross disciplinary borders in search of new tools and methods, these historians seem less concerned than others to confine themselves to national(ist) traditions and frameworks of inquiry. They have instead pursued research across national historiographical

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