The Useless Arctic: Exploiting Nature in the Arctic in the 1870s

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Authors: Spring, Ulrike, Schimanski, Johan Henrik
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2015
• Subjects: Arktiske diskurser / Arctic discourses; Natur / Nature; Polarhistorie / Polar History; Økologi / Ecology; VDP::Humaniora: 000::Kulturvitenskap: 060; VDP::Humanities: 000::Cultural studies: 060; Arctic; Norway; Pálsson; Arktis*
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/8670; https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3423

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...