Science, Markets, and Power : Adolf Severin Jensen in the debate over Greenland's fisheries development during the early twentieth century
As a fisheries consultant to the colonial administration, Adolf Severin Jensen (1866-1953) followed, and was an active commentator on, all stages of the commercialisation of Greenland's fishing industry - from its early assessment shortly after 1900 to the sector's peak in the 1930s, and t...
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ftumeauniv:oai:DiVA.org:umu-142069 2023-10-09T21:51:57+02:00 Science, Markets, and Power : Adolf Severin Jensen in the debate over Greenland's fisheries development during the early twentieth century Priebe, Janina 2018 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-142069 https://doi.org/10.3197/096734018X15137949591990 eng eng Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier Umeå universitet, Arktiskt centrum vid Umeå universitet (Arcum) Environment and History, 0967-3407, 2018, 24:3, s. 349-375 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-142069 doi:10.3197/096734018X15137949591990 ISI:000438106900004 Scopus 2-s2.0-85049806814 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess fisheries Greenland colonial history industrialization modernization History Historia Other Humanities not elsewhere specified Övrig annan humaniora Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2018 ftumeauniv https://doi.org/10.3197/096734018X15137949591990 2023-09-22T13:58:21Z As a fisheries consultant to the colonial administration, Adolf Severin Jensen (1866-1953) followed, and was an active commentator on, all stages of the commercialisation of Greenland's fishing industry - from its early assessment shortly after 1900 to the sector's peak in the 1930s, and the first signs of a changing trend in the 1940s. This paper puts Jensen's perceptions of Greenlandic fisheries in dialogue with the ideas of scientific rationalisation, economic efficiency and colonial power. The accounts of the fisheries scientist offer a glimpse into the complicated interplay of applied science in natural resource exploitation and state interests at the turn of the twentieth century. His research agenda was coined by the goals of fisheries science to connect knowledge production to markets. However, Jensen's findings also merged with Denmark's aim to secure its colonial authority in Greenland and to exert effective power over both resources and people. Originally included in thesis in manuscript form. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland greenlandic Umeå University: Publications (DiVA) Greenland Environment and History 24 3 349 375 |
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As a fisheries consultant to the colonial administration, Adolf Severin Jensen (1866-1953) followed, and was an active commentator on, all stages of the commercialisation of Greenland's fishing industry - from its early assessment shortly after 1900 to the sector's peak in the 1930s, and the first signs of a changing trend in the 1940s. This paper puts Jensen's perceptions of Greenlandic fisheries in dialogue with the ideas of scientific rationalisation, economic efficiency and colonial power. The accounts of the fisheries scientist offer a glimpse into the complicated interplay of applied science in natural resource exploitation and state interests at the turn of the twentieth century. His research agenda was coined by the goals of fisheries science to connect knowledge production to markets. However, Jensen's findings also merged with Denmark's aim to secure its colonial authority in Greenland and to exert effective power over both resources and people. Originally included in thesis in manuscript form. |
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Science, Markets, and Power : Adolf Severin Jensen in the debate over Greenland's fisheries development during the early twentieth century |
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