The useless Arctic: Exploiting nature in the Arctic in the 1870s
Summary What is the discursive genealogy of an ecological approach to the Arctic? Building on distinctions suggested by Francis Spufford and Gísli Pálsson, this article examines a specific juncture in the history of European–Arctic interaction – the reception of the Austro-Hungarian Arctic Expeditio...
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fthsvestlandet:oai:hvlopen.brage.unit.no:11250/282649 2024-03-03T08:39:57+00:00 The useless Arctic: Exploiting nature in the Arctic in the 1870s Spring, Ulrike Schimanski, Johan 2015 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/11250/282649 eng eng Universitetet i Tromsø Spring, U., & Schimanski, J. H. (2015). The Useless Arctic: Exploiting Nature in the Arctic in the 1870s. Nordlit(35), 13-27. urn:issn:0809-1668 http://hdl.handle.net/11250/282649 Navngivelse 3.0 Norge http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/no/ 13-27 35 Nordlit nature the Arctic Austria-Hungary Austro-Hungarian Arctic Expedition ecology discourse exploitation Norway Journal article Peer reviewed 2015 fthsvestlandet 2024-02-02T12:41:15Z Summary What is the discursive genealogy of an ecological approach to the Arctic? Building on distinctions suggested by Francis Spufford and Gísli Pálsson, this article examines a specific juncture in the history of European–Arctic interaction – the reception of the Austro-Hungarian Arctic Expedition in 1874 – and traces the potential for ecological and relational understandings in what seems to be an orientalist and exploitative material. Examining the medial reception in Austria and in Norway, along with certain key texts in which Arctic wildlife is described, we find that the Norwegian reception of the expedition emphasizes practical issues connected with resource exploitation in the Arctic, while the Austrian reception mostly sees the Arctic as a symbolic resource with which to negotiate issues of identity and modernity. The Austrian discourse revolves around a set of paradoxical contradictions, the most central being those between materialism and idealism and emptiness and fullness; we argue it is the instability of such ambiguities which produces the possibility of a future ecological discourse. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Høgskulen på Vestlandet: HVL Open Arctic Norway Pálsson ENVELOPE(-65.509,-65.509,-67.332,-67.332) |
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Summary What is the discursive genealogy of an ecological approach to the Arctic? Building on distinctions suggested by Francis Spufford and Gísli Pálsson, this article examines a specific juncture in the history of European–Arctic interaction – the reception of the Austro-Hungarian Arctic Expedition in 1874 – and traces the potential for ecological and relational understandings in what seems to be an orientalist and exploitative material. Examining the medial reception in Austria and in Norway, along with certain key texts in which Arctic wildlife is described, we find that the Norwegian reception of the expedition emphasizes practical issues connected with resource exploitation in the Arctic, while the Austrian reception mostly sees the Arctic as a symbolic resource with which to negotiate issues of identity and modernity. The Austrian discourse revolves around a set of paradoxical contradictions, the most central being those between materialism and idealism and emptiness and fullness; we argue it is the instability of such ambiguities which produces the possibility of a future ecological discourse. |
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The useless Arctic: Exploiting nature in the Arctic in the 1870s |
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The useless Arctic: Exploiting nature in the Arctic in the 1870s |
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The useless Arctic: Exploiting nature in the Arctic in the 1870s |
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The useless Arctic: Exploiting nature in the Arctic in the 1870s |
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The useless Arctic: Exploiting nature in the Arctic in the 1870s |
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useless arctic: exploiting nature in the arctic in the 1870s |
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Universitetet i Tromsø |
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2015 |
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Spring, U., & Schimanski, J. H. (2015). The Useless Arctic: Exploiting Nature in the Arctic in the 1870s. Nordlit(35), 13-27. urn:issn:0809-1668 http://hdl.handle.net/11250/282649 |
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