Natural resources and social visions for Greenland’s future
The Arctic is often perceived as the new resource frontier in a resource hungry world. Many actors both inside and outside the region are eager to know what opportunities lie under the ice, and many claim a say in the future development of the Arctic. In Greenland, a national economy based on natura...
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ftulundlup:oai:lup.lub.lu.se:1c2dde3a-d518-4bf4-85d0-49ed9b73c7a8 2023-05-15T14:45:37+02:00 Natural resources and social visions for Greenland’s future W. Lindberg, Helena 2016-01-24 https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/1c2dde3a-d518-4bf4-85d0-49ed9b73c7a8 eng eng https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/1c2dde3a-d518-4bf4-85d0-49ed9b73c7a8 Political Science Environmental Engineering contributiontoconference/abstract info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject text 2016 ftulundlup 2023-02-01T23:37:29Z The Arctic is often perceived as the new resource frontier in a resource hungry world. Many actors both inside and outside the region are eager to know what opportunities lie under the ice, and many claim a say in the future development of the Arctic. In Greenland, a national economy based on natural resources will lessen the dependence on the former colonial power Denmark. Many consider this an important step towards full independence and statehood for Greenland. Others warn against natural resource exploitation, raising environmental concerns about for example oil spills, pointing to climate change due to the emissions from burning fossil fuels and its effects in the Arctic, but also questioning the indigenous ambition of joining the market economy. This paper looks at representations of natural resources in the Arctic region, and in particular the case of Greenland: How do certain representations of natural resources impose constraints on social visions for Greenland’s future? Inspired by Bacchi’s (1999) What’s the problem approach, I look at the representation of natural resource exploration and exploitation from the view of the Greenlandic Government, the Inuit Circumpolar Council and Greenpeace International. These are chosen as three voices, representing national government, a regional, multinational organisation, and an international non-profit civil actor, who all have opinions about the Arctic’s future development. The paper discusses the constraints the actors’ discourses have on social visions, and how representations of certain natural resources as “the” development path inhibit other imagined Arctic futures. Conference Object Arctic Climate change Greenland greenlandic inuit Lund University Publications (LUP) Arctic Greenland |
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The Arctic is often perceived as the new resource frontier in a resource hungry world. Many actors both inside and outside the region are eager to know what opportunities lie under the ice, and many claim a say in the future development of the Arctic. In Greenland, a national economy based on natural resources will lessen the dependence on the former colonial power Denmark. Many consider this an important step towards full independence and statehood for Greenland. Others warn against natural resource exploitation, raising environmental concerns about for example oil spills, pointing to climate change due to the emissions from burning fossil fuels and its effects in the Arctic, but also questioning the indigenous ambition of joining the market economy. This paper looks at representations of natural resources in the Arctic region, and in particular the case of Greenland: How do certain representations of natural resources impose constraints on social visions for Greenland’s future? Inspired by Bacchi’s (1999) What’s the problem approach, I look at the representation of natural resource exploration and exploitation from the view of the Greenlandic Government, the Inuit Circumpolar Council and Greenpeace International. These are chosen as three voices, representing national government, a regional, multinational organisation, and an international non-profit civil actor, who all have opinions about the Arctic’s future development. The paper discusses the constraints the actors’ discourses have on social visions, and how representations of certain natural resources as “the” development path inhibit other imagined Arctic futures. |
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