‘The ice edge is lost … nature moved it’: mapping ice as state practice in the Canadian and Norwegian North
This paper explores how ‘ice’ is woven into the spaces and practices of the state in Norway and Canada and, specifically, how representations of the sea ice edge become political agents in that process. We focus in particular on how these states have used science to ‘map’ sea ice – both graphically...
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crwiley:10.1111/tran.12184 2024-03-24T08:59:59+00:00 ‘The ice edge is lost … nature moved it’: mapping ice as state practice in the Canadian and Norwegian North Steinberg, Philip Kristoffersen, Berit Universitetet i Oslo Leverhulme Trust 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tran.12184 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Ftran.12184 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/tran.12184 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/tran.12184 https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/tran.12184 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers volume 42, issue 4, page 625-641 ISSN 0020-2754 1475-5661 Earth-Surface Processes Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 2017 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12184 2024-02-28T02:14:54Z This paper explores how ‘ice’ is woven into the spaces and practices of the state in Norway and Canada and, specifically, how representations of the sea ice edge become political agents in that process. We focus in particular on how these states have used science to ‘map’ sea ice – both graphically and legally – over the past decades. This culminated with two maps produced in 2015, a Norwegian map that moved the Arctic sea‐ice edge 70 km northward and a Canadian map that moved it 200 km southward. Using the maps and their genealogies to explore how designations of sea ice are entangled with political objectives (oil drilling in Norway, sovereignty claims in Canada), we place the maps within the more general tendency of states to assign fixed categories to portions of the earth's surface and define distinct lines between them. We propose that the production of static ontologies through cartographic representations becomes particularly problematic in an icy environment of extraordinary temporal and spatial dynamism, where complex ocean–atmospheric processes and their biogeographic impacts are reduced to lines on a map. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Sea ice Wiley Online Library Arctic Canada Norway Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 42 4 625 641 |
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This paper explores how ‘ice’ is woven into the spaces and practices of the state in Norway and Canada and, specifically, how representations of the sea ice edge become political agents in that process. We focus in particular on how these states have used science to ‘map’ sea ice – both graphically and legally – over the past decades. This culminated with two maps produced in 2015, a Norwegian map that moved the Arctic sea‐ice edge 70 km northward and a Canadian map that moved it 200 km southward. Using the maps and their genealogies to explore how designations of sea ice are entangled with political objectives (oil drilling in Norway, sovereignty claims in Canada), we place the maps within the more general tendency of states to assign fixed categories to portions of the earth's surface and define distinct lines between them. We propose that the production of static ontologies through cartographic representations becomes particularly problematic in an icy environment of extraordinary temporal and spatial dynamism, where complex ocean–atmospheric processes and their biogeographic impacts are reduced to lines on a map. |
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‘The ice edge is lost … nature moved it’: mapping ice as state practice in the Canadian and Norwegian North |
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‘The ice edge is lost … nature moved it’: mapping ice as state practice in the Canadian and Norwegian North |
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‘The ice edge is lost … nature moved it’: mapping ice as state practice in the Canadian and Norwegian North |
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‘The ice edge is lost … nature moved it’: mapping ice as state practice in the Canadian and Norwegian North |
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‘the ice edge is lost … nature moved it’: mapping ice as state practice in the canadian and norwegian north |
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