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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ftunitroemsoe:oai:ojs.henry.ub.uit.no:article/3423 2023-05-15T14:21:40+02:00 The Useless Arctic: Exploiting Nature in the Arctic in the 1870s Spring, Ulrike Schimanski, Johan 2015-04-22 application/pdf https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3423 https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3423 nor nor Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3423/3329 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3423 doi:10.7557/13.3423 Copyright (c) 2015 Ulrike Spring, Johan Schimanski http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY Nordlit; No 35 (2015): Arctic Modernities; 13–27 Nordlit; Nr 35 (2015): Arctic Modernities; 13–27 1503-2086 0809-1668 Nature the Arctic Austria-Hungary Austro-Hungarian Arctic Expedition ecology discourse exploitation Norway info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed article Fagfellevurdert artikkel 2015 ftunitroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3423 2021-08-16T15:51:17Z 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 University of Tromsø: Septentrio Academic Publishing 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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The Useless Arctic: Exploiting Nature in the Arctic in the 1870s |
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