The useless Arctic: Exploiting nature in the Arctic in the 1870s

• Main Authors: Spring, Ulrike, Schimanski, Johan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universitetet i Tromsø 2015
• Subjects: nature; the Arctic; Austria-Hungary; Austro-Hungarian Arctic Expedition; ecology; discourse; exploitation; Norway; Arctic; Pálsson
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/282649

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...