Postcolonial Perspectives On The European High North
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Author |
: Graham Huggan |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 163 |
Release |
: 2016-07-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137588173 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137588179 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Postcolonial Perspectives on the European High North by : Graham Huggan
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.
Author |
: Matthias Finger |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 485 |
Release |
: 2022-02-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030812539 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030812537 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Global Arctic by : Matthias Finger
The Arctic has become a global arena. This development can only be comprehensively understood from a transdisciplinary perspective encompassing ecological, cultural, societal, economic, industrial, geopolitical, and security considerations. This book offers thorough explanations of Arctic developments and challenges. Global warming is in large part the driving force behind the transformation of the Arctic by making access possible to the areas previously out of reach for mining and shipping. An all-year ice-free Arctic Ocean, a reality possible as soon as perhaps 2030, creates a new dynamic in the North. The retreating ice edge enables the exploitation of previously inaccessible resources such as hydrocarbon deposits and rare metals, as well as the shortest sea route from Asia to Europe. Consequently, the Northern Sea Route (NSR) promises faster and cheaper shipping. Russia, along side foreign investment, especially from China, is financing the needed infrastructure. A warming Arctic, however, also has negative impacts. The Arctic is home to fragile ecosystems that are already showing signs of deteriorating. The Arctic has seen unprecedented wildfires, which, together with the release of trapped methane from the disappearing permafrost, will, in turn, accelerate global warming. A warmer Arctic Ocean will also negatively impact fisheries. Couple this with other global changes, such as ocean acidification and modified ocean currents, and the global outlook is bleak. Additionally, the security situation in the Arctic is worsening. After the 2014 Ukraine crisis, the West imposed sanctions on the Russian Federation, which have revived the divisions of the Cold War. The reemergence of these postures is threatening the highly successful Barents Cooperation and other initiatives for peace in the circumpolar North. This book offers new insights and presents arguments for how to mitigate the challenges the Arctic is facing today.
Author |
: Duncan Depledge |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 152 |
Release |
: 2017-12-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319692937 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319692933 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Britain and the Arctic by : Duncan Depledge
British interest in the Arctic has returned to heights not seen since the end of the Cold War; concerns about climate change, resources, trade, and national security are all impacted by profound environmental and geopolitical changes happening in the Arctic. Duncan Depledge investigates the increasing geopolitical significance of the Arctic and explores why it took until now for Britain – once an ‘Arctic state’ itself – to notice how close it is to these changes, what its contemporary interests in the region are, and whether the British government’s response in the arenas of science, defence, and commerce is enough. This book will be of interest to both academics and practitioners seeking to understand contemporary British interest and activity in the Arctic.
Author |
: Graham Huggan |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 151 |
Release |
: 2018-08-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350010901 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350010901 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Colonialism, Culture, Whales by : Graham Huggan
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Colonialism, Culture, Whales: The Cetacean Quartet explores how our attitudes to whales, whale hunting, and whale watching expose colonial attitudes to the natural world in modern Western culture. Foraging across the disciplines and moving between ideas and methods drawn from postcolonial criticism, animal studies, and environmental humanities, the book critically examines the colonial histories of whaling, their legacies in contemporary tourism from whale-watching excursions to the performing orcas at SeaWorld, and cultural representations of anxieties about extinction in recent literature, television, and film. Extensively researched and engagingly written, the four essays that comprise The Cetacean Quartet should appeal to scholars in a number of different fields as well as to general readers interested in finding out more about our enduring, guilt-ridden fascination with one of the world's most iconic living creatures, the whale.
Author |
: Lars Bluma |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2021-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110730036 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110730030 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Boom – Crisis – Heritage by : Lars Bluma
Boom – Crisis – Heritage, these terms aptly outline the history of global coal mining after 1945. The essays collected in this volume explore this history with different emphases and questions. The range of topics also reflects this broad approach. The first section contains contributions on political, social and economic history. They address the European energy system in the globalised world of the 20th and 21st centuries as well as specific social policies in mining regions. The second section then focuses on the medialisation of mining and its legacies, also paying attention to the environmental history of mining. The anthology, which goes back to a conference of the same name at the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, thus offers a multi-faceted insight into the research field of modern mining history.
Author |
: Ken S. Coates |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 567 |
Release |
: 2019-11-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030205577 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030205576 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics by : Ken S. Coates
The Arctic has, for some forty years, been among the most innovative policy environments in the world. The region has developed impressive systems for intra-regional cooperation, responded to the challenges of the rapid environmental change, empowered and engaged with Indigenous peoples, and dealt with the multiple challenges of natural resource development. The Palgrave Handbook on Arctic Policy and Politics has drawn on scholars from many countries and academic disciplines to focus on the central theme of Arctic policy innovation. The portrait that emerges from these chapters is of a complex, fluid policy environment, shaped by internal, national and global dynamics and by a wide range of political, legal, economic, and social transitions. The Arctic is a complex place from a political perspective and is on the verge of becoming even more so. Effective, proactive and forward-looking policy innovation will be required if the Far North is to be able to address its challenges and capitalize on its opportunities.
Author |
: E. Carina H. Keskitalo |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 410 |
Release |
: 2019-04-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351705332 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351705334 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Politics of Arctic Resources by : E. Carina H. Keskitalo
The Arctic has often been seen as a natural area, or even a “wilderness”, where mainly indigenous and subsistence activities have been prominent. Contrary to this, the present volume highlights the very long historical development of resource use systems in northern Europe, across multiple actors and multiple levels, and including varying population groups. The book takes a past-present-future perspective that illustrates the paths to institutional emergence, change or persistence over time. It also illustrates how institutions may themselves drive changes, through a focus on resource use cases in northern Europe. This volume demonstrates that understanding “northern” issues is less about understanding sets of geophysical, climatological or environmental conditions than about understanding social and institutional structures. Understanding these trajectories into the future is seen as a key way of understanding what responses to future change may be likely and what the institutions are that will shape, limit or enable our responses to climate change. This book will be of great use to scholars and graduates in the fields of Arctic and northern-region politics, and to researchers of resource use and climate change with a focus on vulnerability, social vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation.
Author |
: Robert Rix |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 423 |
Release |
: 2023-07-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781009359474 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1009359479 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Vanished Settlers of Greenland by : Robert Rix
A gripping account of one of the most contested questions in colonial history: what became of Greenland's vanished Viking settlers?
Author |
: Carrie Hertz |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 259 |
Release |
: 2021-12-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253058584 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253058589 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dressing with Purpose by : Carrie Hertz
Dress helps us fashion identity, history, community, and place. Dress has been harnessed as a metaphor for both progress and stability, the exotic and the utopian, oppression and freedom, belonging and resistance. Dressing with Purpose examines three Scandinavian dress traditions—Swedish folkdräkt, Norwegian bunad, and Sámi gákti—and traces their development during two centuries of social and political change across northern Europe. By the 20th century, many in Sweden worried about the ravages of industrialization, urbanization, and emigration on traditional ways of life. Norway was gripped in a struggle for national independence. Indigenous Sámi communities—artificially divided by national borders and long resisting colonial control—rose up in protests that demanded political recognition and sparked cultural renewal. Within this context of European nation-building, colonial expansion, and Indigenous activism, traditional dress took on special meaning as folk, national, or ethnic minority costumes—complex categories that deserve reexamination today. Through lavishly illustrated and richly detailed case studies, Dressing with Purpose introduces readers to individuals who adapt and revitalize dress traditions to articulate who they are, proclaim personal values and group allegiances, strive for sartorial excellence, reflect critically on the past, and ultimately, reshape the societies they live in.
Author |
: Markku Lehtimäki |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2021-03-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000366334 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000366332 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Visual Representations of the Arctic by : Markku Lehtimäki
Privileging the visual as the main method of communication and meaning-making, this book responds critically to the worldwide discussion about the Arctic and the North, addressing the interrelated issues of climate change, ethics and geopolitics. A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the Arctic, it supplies an original conceptualization of the Arctic as a visual world encompassing an array of representations, imaginings, and constructions. By examining a broad range of visual forms, media and forms such as art, film, graphic novels, maps, media, and photography, the book advances current debates about visual culture. The book enriches contemporary theories of the visual taking the Arctic as a spatial entity and also as a mode of exploring contemporary and historical visual practices, including imaginary constructions of the North. Original contributions include case studies from all the countries along the Arctic shore, with Russian material occupying a large section due to the country’s impact on the region