What is the “Imagined North”? Ethical Principles
The North has been imagined and represented for centuries by artists and writers of the Western world, which has led, over time and the accumulation of successive layers of discourse, to the creation of an “imagined North” – ranging from the “North” of Scandinavia, Greenland, Russia, to the “Far Nor...
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ftunivquebec:oai:www.archipel.uqam.ca:11349 2023-05-15T14:58:32+02:00 What is the “Imagined North”? Ethical Principles Chartier, Daniel 2018 application/pdf http://archipel.uqam.ca/11349/1/English%20complet.pdf en eng Imaginaire Nord and Arctic Arts Summit http://archipel.uqam.ca/11349/ North Arctic Quebec Canada Norway Sweden Iceland Greenland Russia Alaska Native Cold Scandinavia Far north Nordicity Winterity Ethics Pole Imaginary Culture Minority Finland Denmark Colonization Livre PeerReviewed 2018 ftunivquebec 2018-06-16T23:05:06Z The North has been imagined and represented for centuries by artists and writers of the Western world, which has led, over time and the accumulation of successive layers of discourse, to the creation of an “imagined North” – ranging from the “North” of Scandinavia, Greenland, Russia, to the “Far North” or the poles. Westerners have reached the North Pole only a century go, which makes the “North” the product of a double perspective: an outside one – made especially of Western images – and an inside one – that of Northern cultures (Inuit, Sami, Cree, etc.). The first are often simplified and the second, ignored. If we wish to understand what the “North” is in an overall perspective, we must ask ourselves two questions: how do images define the North, and which ethical principles should govern how we consider Northern cultures in order to have a complete view (including, in particular, those that have been undervalued by the South)? In this article, I try to address these two questions, first by defining what is the imagined North and then by proposing an inclusive program to “recomplexify” the cultural Arctic. Multilingual edition in English, but also in Norwegian, Russian, Danish, French, Swedish, and Northern Sami. Book Arctic Greenland Iceland inuit North Pole sami sami Alaska UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal: archipel Arctic Canada Greenland North Pole Norway |
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The North has been imagined and represented for centuries by artists and writers of the Western world, which has led, over time and the accumulation of successive layers of discourse, to the creation of an “imagined North” – ranging from the “North” of Scandinavia, Greenland, Russia, to the “Far North” or the poles. Westerners have reached the North Pole only a century go, which makes the “North” the product of a double perspective: an outside one – made especially of Western images – and an inside one – that of Northern cultures (Inuit, Sami, Cree, etc.). The first are often simplified and the second, ignored. If we wish to understand what the “North” is in an overall perspective, we must ask ourselves two questions: how do images define the North, and which ethical principles should govern how we consider Northern cultures in order to have a complete view (including, in particular, those that have been undervalued by the South)? In this article, I try to address these two questions, first by defining what is the imagined North and then by proposing an inclusive program to “recomplexify” the cultural Arctic. Multilingual edition in English, but also in Norwegian, Russian, Danish, French, Swedish, and Northern Sami. |
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