This is the first episode in our polar environmental humanities series, and our guest is Dr. Isabelle Gapp from the University of Aberdeen! We met to discuss her new book, A Circumpolar Landscape, and the fascinating comparisons between Scandinavian and Canadian landscape painting beyond national borders. We discuss the way the paintings can often exhibit masculine performativity in their erasures and how the painters are nostalgically reminiscing about a landscape changing in front of their eyes from colonial environmental degradation, making the landscapes they painted an “environmental history [that] had become a memory”. Stay tuned for two more episodes in this series!

Episode recorded March 22, 2024.  CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

For more on Isabelle:

Twitter: @issy_gapp
Instagram: @isabellegapp
Website: https://isabellegapp.com/
Email: isabelle.gapp@abdn.ac.uk

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