Northern Development: Modernization with Equality in Greenland
Over the past few years, northern development has become a major issue in all countries who territories extend beyond the Arctic Circle. This fact is in part of a result of the discovery of new resources and the technological means of developing them, but also reflects the aspirations, expectations...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/65843 2023-05-15T14:19:18+02:00 Northern Development: Modernization with Equality in Greenland Ørvik, Nils 1976-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65843 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65843/49757 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65843 ARCTIC; Vol. 29 No. 2 (1976): June: 65–128; 67-75 1923-1245 0004-0843 Age Amphipoda Animal food Animal mortality Beluga whales Biological sampling Internal organs Necropsy Polar bears Predation Cunningham Inlet region Nunavut info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 1976 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:22:49Z Over the past few years, northern development has become a major issue in all countries who territories extend beyond the Arctic Circle. This fact is in part of a result of the discovery of new resources and the technological means of developing them, but also reflects the aspirations, expectations and growing self-awareness of the native peoples concerned. Though each northern area is different from every other in regard to available natural resources as well as ethnic character and cultural traditions, some common characteristics of northern development may be identified. Most natives in the North desire modernization, i.e. some form of adaptation to the conditions prevailing in the southern, developed parts of their respective countries, which may be referred to in brief as the "southern model". There is no northern model for development; natives see their forms of society in relation to the past, not the future, and therefore regard change as a threat and endeavour to preserve their own values and culture in the process of adaptation to the southern model. The natives, however, desire parity of material condition and esteem with the peoples in the southern areas, and modernization is seen by them as a means of achieving this equality. The desired modernization with equality must, of course, be sought in relation to some compromise between centralization and decentalization of government and employment. The foregoing concepts are discussed in the present paper with reference to Greenland, the development of which has for over a hundred years been the subject of considerable documentation - albeit until quite recently mostly in Danish - and so is amenable to systematic studies such as are not possible in respect of other northern territories. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Beluga Beluga* Greenland Nunavut University of Calgary Journal Hosting Arctic Cunningham Inlet ENVELOPE(-93.834,-93.834,74.118,74.118) Endeavour ENVELOPE(162.000,162.000,-76.550,-76.550) Greenland Nunavut ARCTIC 29 2 |
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Over the past few years, northern development has become a major issue in all countries who territories extend beyond the Arctic Circle. This fact is in part of a result of the discovery of new resources and the technological means of developing them, but also reflects the aspirations, expectations and growing self-awareness of the native peoples concerned. Though each northern area is different from every other in regard to available natural resources as well as ethnic character and cultural traditions, some common characteristics of northern development may be identified. Most natives in the North desire modernization, i.e. some form of adaptation to the conditions prevailing in the southern, developed parts of their respective countries, which may be referred to in brief as the "southern model". There is no northern model for development; natives see their forms of society in relation to the past, not the future, and therefore regard change as a threat and endeavour to preserve their own values and culture in the process of adaptation to the southern model. The natives, however, desire parity of material condition and esteem with the peoples in the southern areas, and modernization is seen by them as a means of achieving this equality. The desired modernization with equality must, of course, be sought in relation to some compromise between centralization and decentalization of government and employment. The foregoing concepts are discussed in the present paper with reference to Greenland, the development of which has for over a hundred years been the subject of considerable documentation - albeit until quite recently mostly in Danish - and so is amenable to systematic studies such as are not possible in respect of other northern territories. |
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Northern Development: Modernization with Equality in Greenland |
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Northern Development: Modernization with Equality in Greenland |
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