The Useless Arctic: Exploiting Nature in the Arctic in the 1870s
Published version. Source at http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3423 . 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...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/8670 2023-05-15T14:32:35+02:00 The Useless Arctic: Exploiting Nature in the Arctic in the 1870s Spring, Ulrike Schimanski, Johan Henrik 2015 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/8670 https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3423 eng eng Septentrio Academic Publishing Norges forskningsråd: 226030 http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3423 Nordlit 2015(35):13-27 FRIDAID 1238715 http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3423 1503-2086 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/8670 URN:NBN:no-uit_munin_8212 openAccess Arktiske diskurser / Arctic discourses Natur / Nature Polarhistorie / Polar History Økologi / Ecology VDP::Humaniora: 000::Kulturvitenskap: 060 VDP::Humanities: 000::Cultural studies: 060 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed 2015 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3423 2021-06-25T17:54:39Z Published version. Source at http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3423 . 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 Arktis* University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Norway Pálsson ENVELOPE(-65.509,-65.509,-67.332,-67.332) Nordlit 35 13 |
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Published version. Source at http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3423 . 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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