Envisioning The North Atlantic:Current Narratives and Official Discourses

• Main Authors: Thisted, Kirsten, Gremaud, Ann-Sofie Nielsen
• Other Authors: Gremaud, Ann-Sofie
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Aarhus Universitetsforlag 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Faroe Islands; Greenland; Norway; Climate change; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://curis.ku.dk/portal/da/publications/envisioning-the-north-atlantic(637b445f-3097-4984-9f0e-3474c6a45b75).html; https://unipress.dk/udgivelser/d/denmark-and-the-new-north-atlantic/

This book investigates how the emergence of the Arctic as a new geopolitical arena affects and reshapes the area known as the North Atlantic: Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and coastal Norway. With climate change a whole new reality is emerging in the Arctic and sub-Arctic areas. Power is moving north, and new connections and partnerships are being developed. The North Atlantic countries share a history as being part of a Danish empire, and some of the hierarchies and mindsets inherited from the past still affect the present. This calls for an in-depth understanding of the cultural history of the North Atlantic. What narratives make up the foundation for contemporary cooperation? How are historical relations and narratives being reinterpreted today? How do postcolonial relations affect decision-making concerning natural resources? How do North Atlantic communities envision the future? A team of historians, literary theorists, art historians, ethnographers and culture and communication scholars with profound insight into the histories, languages and cultures of the North Atlantic have collaborated on this study of the North Atlantic countries as an emerging new center in the North.