Postcolonial perspectives on the European high north : unscrambling the Arctic /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Huggan, Graham, 1958- (Editor), Jensen, Lars (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Series:Palgrave pivot.
Subjects:
Postcolonialism > Europe, Northern.
Postcolonialisme > Europe septentrionale.
Human geography.
Cultural studies.
Social issues & processes.
Regional studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Postcolonialism
Northern Europe
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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