Climate Change as Disaster or Icing on the Cake?
My paper looks at how climate change has dramatically altered not only the political climate between Greenland and Denmark, but also within Greenland itself. In a book published in 2012 in Danish, Denmark: Rigsfaellesskab, Tropical Colonies and the Postcolonial Aftermath, I looked at how Denmark has...
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fturoskildefispu:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/dcda0c57-66bb-4ea0-9db6-9b07805a68eb 2023-05-15T14:24:07+02:00 Climate Change as Disaster or Icing on the Cake? Jensen, Lars 2014-05 https://forskning.ruc.dk/da/publications/dcda0c57-66bb-4ea0-9db6-9b07805a68eb https://hdl.handle.net/1800/dcda0c57-66bb-4ea0-9db6-9b07805a68eb http://resweb.res.unbc.ca/icass2014/Book_of_Abstracts_2014.05.12.pdf eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Jensen , L 2014 , ' Climate Change as Disaster or Icing on the Cake? ' , International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS) VIII , Prince George, British Columbia , Canada , 22/05/2014 - 26/05/2014 . < http://resweb.res.unbc.ca/icass2014/Book_of_Abstracts_2014.05.12.pdf > climate change Greenland scramble for the Arctic sustainability political agency conferenceObject 2014 fturoskildefispu 2022-12-11T06:58:15Z My paper looks at how climate change has dramatically altered not only the political climate between Greenland and Denmark, but also within Greenland itself. In a book published in 2012 in Danish, Denmark: Rigsfaellesskab, Tropical Colonies and the Postcolonial Aftermath, I looked at how Denmark has understood itself through its relationships with its former colonies in the North Atlantic, the tropics, as a reluctant emerging multicultural society, and through international intervention (development aid). After completing this book, I have turned the gaze to Greenland, to see how it understands its position in an Arctic that has emerged as a focus for neoliberally driven resource extraction, geopolitical power games, and science (climate change, ecology etc). The paper will investigate how climate change is produced as a local, national, inter-Rigsfællesskab, regional and global Greenlandic narrative. My paper looks at how climate change has dramatically altered not only the political climate between Greenland and Denmark, but also within Greenland itself. In a book published in 2012 in Danish, Denmark: Rigsfaellesskab, Tropical Colonies and the Postcolonial Aftermath, I looked at how Denmark has understood itself through its relationships with its former colonies in the North Atlantic, the tropics, as a reluctant emerging multicultural society, and through international intervention (development aid). After completing this book, I have turned the gaze to Greenland, to see how it understands its position in an Arctic that has emerged as a focus for neoliberally driven resource extraction, geopolitical power games, and science (climate change, ecology etc). The paper will investigate how climate change is produced as a local, national, inter-Rigsfællesskab, regional and global Greenlandic narrative. Conference Object Arctic Arctic Climate change Greenland greenlandic North Atlantic Roskilde University Research Portal (RUC) Arctic Greenland |
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My paper looks at how climate change has dramatically altered not only the political climate between Greenland and Denmark, but also within Greenland itself. In a book published in 2012 in Danish, Denmark: Rigsfaellesskab, Tropical Colonies and the Postcolonial Aftermath, I looked at how Denmark has understood itself through its relationships with its former colonies in the North Atlantic, the tropics, as a reluctant emerging multicultural society, and through international intervention (development aid). After completing this book, I have turned the gaze to Greenland, to see how it understands its position in an Arctic that has emerged as a focus for neoliberally driven resource extraction, geopolitical power games, and science (climate change, ecology etc). The paper will investigate how climate change is produced as a local, national, inter-Rigsfællesskab, regional and global Greenlandic narrative. My paper looks at how climate change has dramatically altered not only the political climate between Greenland and Denmark, but also within Greenland itself. In a book published in 2012 in Danish, Denmark: Rigsfaellesskab, Tropical Colonies and the Postcolonial Aftermath, I looked at how Denmark has understood itself through its relationships with its former colonies in the North Atlantic, the tropics, as a reluctant emerging multicultural society, and through international intervention (development aid). After completing this book, I have turned the gaze to Greenland, to see how it understands its position in an Arctic that has emerged as a focus for neoliberally driven resource extraction, geopolitical power games, and science (climate change, ecology etc). The paper will investigate how climate change is produced as a local, national, inter-Rigsfællesskab, regional and global Greenlandic narrative. |
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Jensen , L 2014 , ' Climate Change as Disaster or Icing on the Cake? ' , International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS) VIII , Prince George, British Columbia , Canada , 22/05/2014 - 26/05/2014 . < http://resweb.res.unbc.ca/icass2014/Book_of_Abstracts_2014.05.12.pdf > |
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