Espaces et politiques de la frontière au Groenland. Les projets miniers comme voie de territorialisation de l’État ?
Since the 1990s, Greenland has been developing its mining industry around the “frontier area”, a strategy of subsoil exploration and mapping. The aim is to achieve economic independence from Denmark, based on a nationalist definition of the resource frontier. However, between 2013 and 2021, the Kuan...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:4ecf33af711e4e7ea5ece5b534825b5a 2024-09-15T18:09:27+00:00 Espaces et politiques de la frontière au Groenland. Les projets miniers comme voie de territorialisation de l’État ? Pia Bailleul https://doi.org/10.4000/11r6a https://doaj.org/article/4ecf33af711e4e7ea5ece5b534825b5a EN FR eng fre Université de Reims Champagne-Ardennes https://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/12153 https://doaj.org/toc/1958-5500 1958-5500 doi:10.4000/11r6a https://doaj.org/article/4ecf33af711e4e7ea5ece5b534825b5a L'Espace Politique, Vol 49 frontier independence territorialization Kuannersuit Greenland volume Political science J Political science (General) JA1-92 article ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.4000/11r6a 2024-08-05T17:49:15Z Since the 1990s, Greenland has been developing its mining industry around the “frontier area”, a strategy of subsoil exploration and mapping. The aim is to achieve economic independence from Denmark, based on a nationalist definition of the resource frontier. However, between 2013 and 2021, the Kuannersuit mining project, which would initiate the switch to exploitation, generated massive social opposition. Drawing on ethnographic data relating to this conflict collected between 2016 and 2022, as well as industrial documents from the mining company, this article examines this conflict in terms of its engagement with this national frontier. In what ways does industrial intervention affect its deployment, and to what extent does the state operate its own territorialization through industrial development? The article begins by highlighting the phenomenon of spatial redefinition around a volume of resources controlled by the state - a frontier volume - generated by mining enclavement. It then analyzes territorialization through private-sector discharge. Finally, it examines the paradox of a border that is simultaneously a space of resources and state regulation, and a space of speculation and commercial appropriation. It is thus intended as a contribution to the literature on frontier zones and extractivism. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Groenland Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles L’Espace Politique 49-50 |
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Since the 1990s, Greenland has been developing its mining industry around the “frontier area”, a strategy of subsoil exploration and mapping. The aim is to achieve economic independence from Denmark, based on a nationalist definition of the resource frontier. However, between 2013 and 2021, the Kuannersuit mining project, which would initiate the switch to exploitation, generated massive social opposition. Drawing on ethnographic data relating to this conflict collected between 2016 and 2022, as well as industrial documents from the mining company, this article examines this conflict in terms of its engagement with this national frontier. In what ways does industrial intervention affect its deployment, and to what extent does the state operate its own territorialization through industrial development? The article begins by highlighting the phenomenon of spatial redefinition around a volume of resources controlled by the state - a frontier volume - generated by mining enclavement. It then analyzes territorialization through private-sector discharge. Finally, it examines the paradox of a border that is simultaneously a space of resources and state regulation, and a space of speculation and commercial appropriation. It is thus intended as a contribution to the literature on frontier zones and extractivism. |
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Espaces et politiques de la frontière au Groenland. Les projets miniers comme voie de territorialisation de l’État ? |
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Espaces et politiques de la frontière au Groenland. Les projets miniers comme voie de territorialisation de l’État ? |
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Espaces et politiques de la frontière au Groenland. Les projets miniers comme voie de territorialisation de l’État ? |
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