'How we use our nature.' Sustainability and indigineity in Greenlandic discourse.
In the network of signs and symbols that add meaning to the concept of sustainability, indigeneity entails a significant denominator. Indigenous peoples are expected to build their community on values derived from ‘indigenous knowledge’, different from Western standards. However, the debate about na...
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ftcopenhagenunip:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/9cc4bca5-6849-4fa5-a63d-432e91020a93 2023-05-15T14:24:16+02:00 'How we use our nature.' Sustainability and indigineity in Greenlandic discourse. Thisted, Kirsten Gad, Ulrik Pram Strandsbjerg, Jeppe 2018-10-22 https://curis.ku.dk/portal/da/publications/how-we-use-our-nature-sustainability-and-indigineity-in-greenlandic-discourse(9cc4bca5-6849-4fa5-a63d-432e91020a93).html dan dan Routledge info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Thisted , K 2018 , 'How we use our nature.' Sustainability and indigineity in Greenlandic discourse. i U P Gad & J Strandsbjerg (red) , The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic: Reconfiguring Identity, Space, and Time . Routledge , s. 176-194 . bookPart 2018 ftcopenhagenunip 2021-09-23T18:15:48Z In the network of signs and symbols that add meaning to the concept of sustainability, indigeneity entails a significant denominator. Indigenous peoples are expected to build their community on values derived from ‘indigenous knowledge’, different from Western standards. However, the debate about nature preservation has a long history in Greenland, which has made the connection between indigeneity and sustainability a lot more complex and contested. The chapter looks into this history in order to better understand the complicated situation of today, where non-Western ontology plays a minor role in Greenlandic environmental politics. First, a section juxtaposes the difficulties of translating the concept of sustainability into the Greenlandic language with the efforts made to claim it as Greenlandic, and a section revisits the literature on the relation between man and nature in pre-colonial and colonial discourses. Then a section analyses the way knowledge and authority were negotiated in debates on progress and conservation as they unfolded in the Greenlandic press in the early twentieth century, a period crucially reconfiguring life and identities. Finally, a section explicates how local – rather than indigenous – knowledge is presented as that which makes colonialism unsustainable, and how local knowledge is later ‘nationalized’. In sum, a brief conclusion finds that the cultural heritage from the Inuit past is central to many Greenlanders’ self-identification, as well as to Greenland’s brand as a nation. However, the negotiated in debates on progress and conservation as they unfolded in the Greenlandic press in the early twentieth century, a period crucially reconfiguring life and identities. Finally, a section explicates how local – rather than indigenous – knowledge is presented as that which makes colonialism unsustainable, and how local knowledge is later ‘nationalized’. In sum, a brief conclusion finds that the cultural heritage from the Inuit past is central to many Greenlanders’ self-identification, as well as to Greenland’s brand as a nation. However, the approach guiding how the Self-Government works with the sustainability concept affirms modernity and nation, rather than tradition and indigeneity. Book Part Arctic Greenland greenlander* greenlandic inuit University of Copenhagen: Research Greenland |
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In the network of signs and symbols that add meaning to the concept of sustainability, indigeneity entails a significant denominator. Indigenous peoples are expected to build their community on values derived from ‘indigenous knowledge’, different from Western standards. However, the debate about nature preservation has a long history in Greenland, which has made the connection between indigeneity and sustainability a lot more complex and contested. The chapter looks into this history in order to better understand the complicated situation of today, where non-Western ontology plays a minor role in Greenlandic environmental politics. First, a section juxtaposes the difficulties of translating the concept of sustainability into the Greenlandic language with the efforts made to claim it as Greenlandic, and a section revisits the literature on the relation between man and nature in pre-colonial and colonial discourses. Then a section analyses the way knowledge and authority were negotiated in debates on progress and conservation as they unfolded in the Greenlandic press in the early twentieth century, a period crucially reconfiguring life and identities. Finally, a section explicates how local – rather than indigenous – knowledge is presented as that which makes colonialism unsustainable, and how local knowledge is later ‘nationalized’. In sum, a brief conclusion finds that the cultural heritage from the Inuit past is central to many Greenlanders’ self-identification, as well as to Greenland’s brand as a nation. However, the negotiated in debates on progress and conservation as they unfolded in the Greenlandic press in the early twentieth century, a period crucially reconfiguring life and identities. Finally, a section explicates how local – rather than indigenous – knowledge is presented as that which makes colonialism unsustainable, and how local knowledge is later ‘nationalized’. In sum, a brief conclusion finds that the cultural heritage from the Inuit past is central to many Greenlanders’ self-identification, as well as to Greenland’s brand as a nation. However, the approach guiding how the Self-Government works with the sustainability concept affirms modernity and nation, rather than tradition and indigeneity. |
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Thisted , K 2018 , 'How we use our nature.' Sustainability and indigineity in Greenlandic discourse. i U P Gad & J Strandsbjerg (red) , The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic: Reconfiguring Identity, Space, and Time . Routledge , s. 176-194 . |
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