Before the Bonanza: Hydrocarbons in Greenland

• Main Author: Meinild, Ebbe Dam
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Bergen 2010
• Subjects: Hydrocarbons; Oil; Nature; Ecology; Environment; Co-production; Ecological modernisation; Latour; Hajer; Jasanoff; Greenland; Grønland; 713999; VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Samfunnsgeografi: 290; Bonanza; greenlandic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1956/4172

The issue of Greenlandic hydrocarbons gradually moved towards the centre of the creation of autonomous Greenland. Hydrocarbons in Greenland and the Greenlandic nation were co-produced in the same process. Thus, when hydrocarbons were connected to an ecological modernisation it allowed the newly form...