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Arctic Silk Roads: An Anthropology of the Unbuilt

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Studies in the Circumpolar North

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Arctic Silk Roads

An Anthropology of the Unbuilt

Edited by Natalia Magnani and Matthew Magnani

Full Text PDF | Full Text ePUB Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4. license with support from Norwegian Research Council. 

216 pages, 15 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-308-1 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Published (January 2026)

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781836953081


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“I found this book to provide a novel and interesting take on the Silk Road concept, by relating and applying it to movements in the Arctic.” • Per Ditlef Fredriksen, University of Oslo

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As climate change accelerates, melting sea ice is fueling the global imagination and geopolitical anticipation of the Arctic region’s accessible transport routes and possibilities for resource extraction. “Silk Roads” are being conjured across the Circumpolar North, both as official Arctic and infrastructural policy, and as broader visions of global connectivity with other markets. Following the myriad ways that local economies and agencies are proliferating around the anticipation of large-scale infrastructural corridors and their often-unrealized arteries, Arctic Silk Roads examines the different conditions under which top-down infrastructural dreams facilitate or constrain individual agencies.

Natalia Magnani is Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology and Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. She leads the Norwegian Research Council project “Arctic Silk Road” at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and is the author of Silent Knowledge: Reviving Embodied Practice in Sápmi (UBC Press, 2026).

Matthew Magnani is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Climate Change at the University of Maine, and a researcher on the “Arctic Silk Road” project based at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He is the co-author of The Craft of Belonging: Material Culture and Social Boundaries in Sápmi (Toronto, 2026) with Natalia Magnani.

Subject: Political and Economic AnthropologyEnvironmental Studies (General)Development StudiesSustainable Development Goals
Area: Circumpolar

Arctic Silk Roads Edited by Natalia Magnani and Matthew Magnani is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from Norwegian Research Council. 

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OA ISBN: 978-1-83695-310-4



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