Wisdom of affect? Emotion, environment, and the future of resource extraction

Abstract The “Arctic Uchronotopias” special issue of Polar Record is an important contribution to scholarly reflection on resource extraction. ideas, perspectives, and empirical cases that we encounter have significance for extractivism wherever it takes place, both inside outside the Arctic region. To see through lens particularly useful since brings up many issues are often at stake in extraction activities, but not always same time: geopolitics, transboundary relations, environmental climate impacts, cultural natural heritage, indigenous rights issues, local regional development, lives fates communities. Above all, these papers bring out full spectrum tensions related ongoing major global shifts, such as Great Acceleration Overheating, those transformations which forms a part. research presented Uchronotopias demonstrates affect emotions explanatory value geopolitics It also shows emotional cognitive experience wisdom carry values properties conventional Environmental Impact Assessments other technologies evaluation decision-making can capture.