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... the North Coast as a propitious field site for the deployment of these concepts. After overviewing the author’s relationships to the communities in the region—most notably its Indigenous communities—the chapter outlines the capitalist development circumstances that motivate its sound studies approach...

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... The conclusion considers prospects for liberatory environmental politics. After reviewing the book’s main arguments and findings, it considers emerging moments of a sounded North Coast—including the formation of new scientific research networks and the cultivation of multigenerational forms...

... observatories in key development areas of the North Coast, including Hartley Bay, Dodge Cove, and Prince Rupert. The digital sound objects collected by Smart Oceans valorize sound in terms of informational functionality and not listening. Drawing on theories of enclosure from Alvaro Sevilla-Buitrago and Mark...

... to consider how prospects of cetacean injury have become a frontier for capitalist-led innovation. It further seeks to connect the disarticulated moments of an ocean noise politics to the regulatory hotspot of the North Coast, where state regulatory inertia and the hidden work of shipping labor connect...

... Chapter 4 considers how new Indigenous sensibilities and political ambitions on the North Coast were prefigured in the music of Gyibaaw, a project that cultivated critical forms of Indigenous self-recognition through a globalizing cultural idiom of black metal. In conversation with family...

... This extract, from the picaresque diary of an anonymous silver trader, vividly describes a journey with a mule train from the highlands to the coast, from La Paz to Lima. It depicts the vicissitudes of life on the road, such as fording rising rivers in the rainy season, the illness and death...

...), and the village itself is also a remarkable microcosm of life in the Russian North. From Varzuga the route proceeds to the western shore of the White Sea and down the coast to the town of Kem in the Republic of Karelia. In addition to its own landmarks, including the wooden Cathedral of the Dormition, Kem has...

... The introduction contains an overview of William Brumfield’s journeys throughout the Russian North, a territory broadly defined by the regions around the White Sea in the northwestern part of the Russian Federation. After an exposition of the significance of this territory for Russian history...

... Chapter 3 offers a theory of economic irrationality rooted in romantic anticapitalism that contextualizes Japanese wartime relocation and internment in North America. The chapter probes how the destructively abstract content of Japaneseness, based on the perception that Japanese labor held...

... the picaresque diary of an anonymous silver trader, vividly describes a journey with a mule train from the highlands to the coast, from La Paz to Lima. It depicts the vicissitudes of life on the road, such as fording rising rivers in the rainy season, the illness and death of a young black child, a man infected...

..., an innovative cartography adopting an aerial perspective—popularized by Richard Edes Harrison’s “One World, One War” map, drawn in an azimuthal projection centered on the North Pole—represented the United States’ fresh world outlook. It ushered in “air-age globalism.” This chapter asks what is enabled...

... to be Christian truth. Tunupa is among the oldest gods of the people of the southern Andean and Qollasuyu region and is associated with the creative and destructive forces of fire and volcanoes, thunder and lightning. In the classic version of Tunupa’s story, an elderly male figure travels from the north...