Postcolonial Perspectives on the European High North Unscrambling th
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 colonialism
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Edited by Graham Huggan and Lars Jensen
Postcolonial Perspectives on the European High North
Graham Huggan • Lars Jensen Editors
Postcolonial Perspectives on the European High North Unscrambling the Arctic
Editors Graham Huggan University of Leeds Leeds, United Kingdom
Lars Jensen Roskilde University Roskilde, Denmark
ISBN 978-1-137-58816-6 ISBN 978-1-137-58817-3 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-58817-3
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The editors and authors would like to thank the European Commission for its support in funding the three-year international research project, “Arctic Encounters: Contemporary Travel/Writing in the European High North,” from which the work in this volume is drawn.
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CONTENTS
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Introduction: Unscrambling the Arctic Graham Huggan
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Barentsburg and Beyond: Coal, Science, Tourism, and the Geopolitical Imaginaries of Svalbard’s “New North” Roger Norum
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Jokkmokk: Rapacity and Resistance in Sápmi Simone Abram
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Qullissat: Historicising and Localising the Danish Scramble for the Arctic Astrid Andersen, Lars Jensen, and Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen
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Þingvellir: Commodifying the “Heart” of Iceland Kristín Loftsdóttir and Katrín Anna Lund
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Afterword: Tourism, Extraction, and the Postcolonial Arctic Philip E. Steinberg
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Index
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NOTES
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CONTRIBUTORS
Simone Abram is Reader in Social Anthropology at Leeds Beckett University and at Durham University. Her books include Media, Engagement and Anthropological Pract
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