Beschreibung:
This book approaches the Arctic from a postcolonial perspective, taking into account 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.
Introduction: Unscrambling the Arctic; Graham Huggan.- Chapter 1. Barentsburg and Beyond: Coal, Science, Tourism and the Geopolitical Imaginaries of Svalbard's "New North"; Roger Norum.- Chapter 2. Jokkmokk: Rapacity and Resistance in Sápmi; Simone Abram.- Chapter 3. Qullissat: Historicising and Localising the Danish Scramble for the Arctic; Astrid Andersen, Lars Jensen and Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen.- Chapter 4. Þingvellir: Commodifying the "Heart" of Iceland; Kristín Loftsdóttir and Katrín Anna Lund.- Afterword: Tourism, Extraction, and the Postcolonial Arctic; Philip E. Steinberg.