Postcolonial Perspectives on the European High North:Unscrambling the Arctic
This book approaches the Arctic from a postcolonial perspective, taking into account both its historical status as a colonised region and new, economically driven forms of colonialism. One catchphrase currently being used to describe these new colonialisms is 'the scramble for the Arctic'....
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fturoskildefispu:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/28ef5110-4834-4f04-88ad-903f0df6b597 2023-05-15T14:22:04+02:00 Postcolonial Perspectives on the European High North:Unscrambling the Arctic Jensen, Lars Huggan, Graham 2016-08 https://forskning.ruc.dk/da/publications/28ef5110-4834-4f04-88ad-903f0df6b597 https://hdl.handle.net/1800/28ef5110-4834-4f04-88ad-903f0df6b597 http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137588166#aboutBook eng eng Palgrave Macmillan info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Jensen , L & Huggan , G (eds) 2016 , Postcolonial Perspectives on the European High North : Unscrambling the Arctic . Palgrave Macmillan , London . book 2016 fturoskildefispu 2022-12-11T06:59:13Z This book approaches the Arctic from a postcolonial perspective, taking into account both its historical status as a colonised region and new, economically driven forms of colonialism. One catchphrase currently being used to describe these new colonialisms is 'the scramble for the Arctic'. This cross-disciplinary study, featuring contributions from an international team of experts in the field, offers a set of broadly postcolonial perspectives on the European Arctic, which is taken here as ranging from Greenland and Iceland in the North Atlantic to the upper regions of Norway and Sweden in the European High North. While the contributors acknowledge the renewed scramble for resources that characterises the region, it also argues the need to 'unscramble' the Arctic, wresting it away from its persistent status as a fixed object of western control and knowledge. Instead, the book encourages a reassertion of micro-histories of Arctic space and territory that complicate western grand narratives of technological progress, politico-economic development, and ecological 'state change'. It will be of interest to scholars of Arctic Studies across all disciplines. Book Arctic Arctic Greenland Iceland North Atlantic Roskilde University Research Portal (RUC) Arctic Greenland Norway |
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This book approaches the Arctic from a postcolonial perspective, taking into account both its historical status as a colonised region and new, economically driven forms of colonialism. One catchphrase currently being used to describe these new colonialisms is 'the scramble for the Arctic'. This cross-disciplinary study, featuring contributions from an international team of experts in the field, offers a set of broadly postcolonial perspectives on the European Arctic, which is taken here as ranging from Greenland and Iceland in the North Atlantic to the upper regions of Norway and Sweden in the European High North. While the contributors acknowledge the renewed scramble for resources that characterises the region, it also argues the need to 'unscramble' the Arctic, wresting it away from its persistent status as a fixed object of western control and knowledge. Instead, the book encourages a reassertion of micro-histories of Arctic space and territory that complicate western grand narratives of technological progress, politico-economic development, and ecological 'state change'. It will be of interest to scholars of Arctic Studies across all disciplines. |
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