The Useless Arctic: Exploiting Nature in the Arctic in the 1870s
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 187...
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ftoslouniv:oai:www.duo.uio.no:10852/49778 2023-05-15T14:23:15+02:00 The Useless Arctic: Exploiting Nature in the Arctic in the 1870s Spring, Ulrike Schimanski, Johan Henrik 2015-04-23T13:21:46Z http://hdl.handle.net/10852/49778 http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-53503 https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3423 EN eng http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-53503 Spring, Ulrike Schimanski, Johan Henrik . The Useless Arctic: Exploiting Nature in the Arctic in the 1870s. Nordlit. 2015(35), 13-27 http://hdl.handle.net/10852/49778 1238715 info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.jtitle=Nordlit&rft.volume=&rft.spage=13&rft.date=2015 Nordlit 35 13 27 http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3423 URN:NBN:no-53503 Fulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/49778/1/1238715.pdf Attribution 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY 0809-1668 VDP::Kulturvitenskap: 060 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed PublishedVersion 2015 ftoslouniv https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3423 2020-06-21T08:49:27Z 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 Universitet i Oslo: Digitale utgivelser ved UiO (DUO) Arctic Norway Pálsson ENVELOPE(-65.509,-65.509,-67.332,-67.332) Nordlit 35 13 |
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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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