LEADER 05347nam 22007095 450 001 9910255238603321 005 20240207123917.0 010 $a1-137-58817-9 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-137-58817-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000765498 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-58817-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4720176 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000765498 100 $a20160726d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPostcolonial Perspectives on the European High North $eUnscrambling the Arctic /$fedited by Graham Huggan, Lars Jensen 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (XI, 155 p. 14 illus., 10 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Pivot 311 $a1-137-58816-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aThis book approaches the Arctic from a postcolonial perspective, taking into account its historical status as a colonised region and new, economically driven forms of colonialism. One catchphrase currently being used to describe these new colonialisms is "the scramble for the Arctic". This cross-disciplinary study, featuring contributions from an international team of experts in the field, offers a set of broadly postcolonial perspectives on the European Arctic, which is taken here as ranging from Greenland and Iceland in the North Atlantic to the upper regions of Norway and Sweden in the European High North. While the contributors acknowledge the renewed scramble for resources that characterises the region, it also argues the need to 'unscramble' the Arctic, wresting it away from its persistent status as a fixed object of western control and knowledge. Instead, the book encourages a reassertion of micro-histories of Arctic space and territory that complicate western grand narratives of technological progress, politico-economic development, and ecological 'state change'. It will be of interest to scholars of Arctic Studies across all disciplines. Graham Huggan is Chair of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Leeds, UK, where he directs the EU-funded 'Arctic Encounters' project. His work cuts across three fields: postcolonial studies, environmental humanities, and tourism studies. His most recently published book is Nature's Saviours: Celebrity Conservationists in the Television Age (2013), and he is currently working on another on the cultural politics of whale-watching. Lars Jensen is an Associate Professor at Cultural Encounters, Roskilde University, Denmark. His main research fields are postcolonial studies and cultural studies, both of which are represented in his latest book, Beyond Britain: Stuart Hall and the Postcolonializing of Anglophone Cultural Studies (2014). He is currently writing a book on postcolonial Europe. 410 0$aPalgrave pivot. 606 $aEthnology?Europe 606 $aHuman geography 606 $aPopular culture$xStudy and teaching 606 $aSocial structure 606 $aEquality 606 $aArea studies 606 $aCultural heritage 606 $aEuropean Culture$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411070 606 $aHuman Geography$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X26000 606 $aCultural Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22040 606 $aSocial Structure, Social Inequality$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22010 606 $aArea Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22045 606 $aCultural Heritage$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/419000 615 0$aEthnology?Europe. 615 0$aHuman geography. 615 0$aPopular culture$xStudy and teaching 615 0$aSocial structure. 615 0$aEquality. 615 0$aArea studies. 615 0$aCultural heritage. 615 14$aEuropean Culture. 615 24$aHuman Geography. 615 24$aCultural Studies. 615 24$aSocial Structure, Social Inequality. 615 24$aArea Studies. 615 24$aCultural Heritage. 676 $a306.094 702 $aHuggan$b Graham$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aJensen$b Lars$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255238603321 996 $aPostcolonial Perspectives on the European High North$92541227 997 $aUNINA