Unearthing Greenland’s Resource Frontier: Mineral Resource Extraction and Naalakkersuisut’s Bid for Greenlandic Independence

• Main Author: Blanchard, Aoife
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository 2019
• Subjects: Mining; Mineral resources; Geopolitics; Greenland; Naalakkersuisut; Arctic; New Ground; Climate change; greenlandic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.71075; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/323615

This dissertation analyses the role that mineral resources have played in visions of Greenlandic Independence over the last decade of Self Rule. As climate change and melting ice make Greenland greener, the trope of a “New North’ increasingly open to exploitation is reinforced. However this depoliti...