1st Edition

Heritage and Arctic Late Industrialism in Alaska Island of Inland Empire

By Arthur Mason Copyright 2027
232 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Based on long-term ethnographic engagement with Alutiiq/Sugpiaq communities in Southwest Alaska, this book explores the interrelationship of cultural heritage, (de)colonialism, environmentalism, political agency, and the representation of Indigenous identity in museums. Drawing on anthropological and social theory, Mason shows how Alutiiq/Sugpiaq identity and heritage have been collaboratively... Read more

1. Culture in Arctic Late Industrialism 2. Heritage Epistemes 3. Emblematic Data 4. Of Enlightenment and Alaska Early Moderns 5. The Rise of an Alaska Native Bourgeoisie 6. Vanguard Heritage Practices 7. The Ruderal Analytic.

Biography

Arthur Mason is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Social Anthropology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. He is a political anthropologist specializing in energy security, ecological vulnerability, and cultural heritage in the Arctic. He is the author of Energy Capitol: The Waning of Regulatory Form (Routledge, 2024), Consulting Energy: From Judgment to Decision-Making (Routledge, 2025), and Energy Images: Aesthetics of Resemblance and Form (Routledge, 2026). He is also the editor of Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North (2022) and co-editor of Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas (2015).