The North signifies as do all four cardinal directions emotional environmental and cultural
bodies of knowledge. These include political structures (the wealthy North) artistic
productions (Scandinavian design) nomadic Hunter Indigeneity and Colonizer Whiteness as
Northern signifiers - and of course the domain of many species of spirit masters demons and
missionaries. Twelve previously unpublished essays represent the disciplines of literature
history art history film studies rhetoric religious studies cultural and queer
studies.Eco-humanities in Northern hemispheric circumpolar and arctic contexts