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• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Maki
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.452.2099; http://www.uta.fi/jkk/jmc/studies/courses/reading1 + arctic + moisio.pdf

scou utio litic e, th g a discou rge in-maki foreig show how a geopolitical analysis attuned to embodiment, the resolutely translocal, and the everyday can contribute to a richer understanding of how, and why, the Arctic is suddenly so prom-inent in national, inter-national and circumpolar politics. increasing competition for resources and the like, weweave through this a discussion of three examples (two Arctic exhibitions in Lon-don; the Russian Polar expedition of 2007 and ‘sovereignty patrols’ by Canadian Rangers) that complicate those orthodox accounts found within academic and media circles. We identify two kinds of spatial ordering entwined in the pre-vailing discourse of Arctic geopolitics. The first is of the Arctic as a space as such. Here we draw attention to the various ways in which the Arctic is imagined and performed as a distinct or