What is the imagined North? Danish What is the imagined North? Danish: Ethical Principles Danish

• Main Author: Chartier, Daniel
• Other Authors: Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM), Laboratoire international d'étude multidisciplinaire comparée des représentations du Nord, Arctic Arts Summit
• Format: Book
• Language: Danish
• Published: HAL CCSD 2018
• Subjects: Russia; North; Literature; Culture; Far North; Colonialism; Arctic; Siberia; Greenland; Alaska; Québec; Images of the North; Nordicity; Aboriginal; Research ethics; Winter; Decolonial theory; Cultural representations; Canada; Nunavik; Discursive analysis; Scandinavia; Inuit; litt; hist; Nordpolen; North Pole; Grønland; inuit; Nordpol*; sami
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02134949/file/222058504%20DK.pdf; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02134949

International audience Translation in Danish. The North has been imagined and represented for centuries by artists and writers of the Western world, which has led, over time and the accumulation of successive layers of discourse, to the creation of an “imagined North” – ranging from the “North” of Scandinavia, Greenland, Russia, to the “Far North” or the poles. Westerners have reached the North Pole only a century go, which makes the “North” the product of a double perspective: an outside one – made especially of Western images – and an inside one – that of Northern cultures (Inuit, Sami, Cree, etc.). The first are often simplified and the second, ignored. If we wish to understand what the “North” is in an overall perspective, we must ask ourselves two questions: how do images define the North, and which ethical principles should govern how we consider Northern cultures in order to have a complete view (including, in particular, those that have been undervalued by the South)? In this article, I try to address these two questions, first by defining what is the imagined North and then by proposing an inclusive program to “recomplexify” the cultural Arctic. Verdens nord er et opdigtet sted. Op igennem århundrederne har kunstnere og forfattere i den vestlige verden gjort sig forestillinger om og fremstillinger af de nordlige egne. Med tiden og den gradvise ophobning af diskursive lag har det ført til skabelsen af en forestilling om de nordlige egne – det være sig de nordiske lande inklusive Skandinavien eller Grønland, Rusland, Canadas tre nordlige territorier eller polerne. Imidlertid nåede vesterlændingene jo først til Nordpolen i starten af forrige århundrede, og dette forhold har gjort det nordlige til produktet af et dobbeltblik: et blik ude fra de mestendels vestlige forestillinger og fremstillinger og et andet inde fra de nordlige kulturer selv – heriblandt inuitterne, de nordamerikanske indianere og skandinaverne. De vestlige fremstillinger af det nordlige er ofte forsimplede og de lokale kulturers egne ...