Volume edited by Hannah Strauss-Mazzullo and Monica Tennberg “Living and Working with Snow, Ice and Seasons in the Modern Arctic” brings together accounts of contemporary engagement with Arctic and Subarctic weather conditions affected by climatic changes and requiring continuous adaptation.

Book consists
of eleven peer-reviewed chapters providing valuable empirical accounts of
theoretical approaches relevant to a multiplicity of
disciplines.

– Social and
natural scientists from Northern Finland have collaborated with enthusiasm on this
new publication about everyday life in the Arctic, says one of the editors, Hannah
Strauss-Mazzullo.

Strauss-Mazzullo and the other editor Monica Tennberg
intentionally encouraged authors to include personal experience of what it means to
work and move in the Arctic environment in their research methodology, making this
publication suitable for consumption by an interdisciplinary audience.

– In the
perspective of Critical Arctic Studies, this book is meant to provide food for
thought to everyone inside and outside academia and encourage debate on future
adaptation to a changing Arctic climate in local and global terms, Tennberg
suggests.

The book consists of the following
chapters:

Introduction: Everyday Practices of Adaptation in the
Modern Arctic by
Monica Tennberg and Hannah
Strauss-Mazzullo

Waiting for Snow: Discrepancy Between the Demand for Snow
and Actual Snow Conditions by
Seija
Tuulentie

Living with Baltic Sea Ice by Élise
Lépy

Reindeer, Cows and People: Sustainable Human–Animal
Adaptations in Finnish Lapland by Nuccio
Mazzullo and Päivi Soppela

Managing Snow in an Arctic City: Urban Political Ecology
Approach by
Birgitta Vinkka and Jarno
Valkonen

The (Snow) Garden as a Unique Space for Human–Nature
Relations by
Hannah Strauss-Mazzullo

When the Risk Realizes on a Wintry Road. The Failure of
the Socio-technical System of Land-Based Transport in Northern Conditions by Leena
Suopajärvi

From Everyday Work to Sensations of Freedom: Snowmobile
Users’ Relationships to Snow, Ice and Weather by Tapio
Nykänen

Winter Cycling Developments in Two Cities of Northern
Finland by
Minna T. Turunen

Watch Your Step: Everyday Urban Mobility in the Arctic
by
Monica Tennberg

Winter Wonderland: Girls’ Interactive Relationship with
the Arctic Environment by
Varpu
Wiens

Welcome Aboard! Motorboating Encounters in Arctic Inland
Waters by
Vesa Markuksela

Concluding Remarks: Everyday Negotiations with Arctic
Weather by
Hannah Strauss-Mazzullo and Monica Tennberg

Upcoming book
launch

The book is published as part of the series Arctic
Encounters by Palgrave Macmillan and will be presented in the lecture series
“Häiritsevä yhteiskuntatutkimus” (disruptive social research) on Friday 15 December at the
University of Lapland in lecture hall C193 (previously LS10) at 13-15hrs. This event
is open to the public, and both Finnish and English will be used during presentation
and discussion. Welcome to meet the authors!

Information on
the publication:

Living and
Working with Snow, Ice and Seasons in the Modern Arctic: Everyday Perspectives.
Edited by Hannah Strauss-Mazzullo and Monica Tennberg. Palgrave
Macmillan.https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-36445-7 Published
online 1 September 2023

Further
information:

Hannah Strauss-Mazzullo, Postdoctoral Researcher
Arctic Centre, Northern Political Economy
hannah.strauss-mazzullo(a)ulapland.fi

Monica Tennberg,
Research Professor
Arctic Centre, Northern Political
Economy
monica.tennberg(a)ulapland.fi