Hunting the Northern Character

ISBN-13: 9780774880008 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 348 str.

Tony Penikett

Opis

We often hear world leaders, environmentalists, and the media invoke "the northern character" and "Arctic identity," but what do these terms mean, exactly? Stereotypes abound, but these southern perspectives fail to capture northern realities. During decades of service as a legislator, mediator, and negotiator, Tony Penikett witnessed a new northern consciousness grow out of the challenges of the Cold War, climate change, land rights struggles, and the boom and bust of resource megaprojects. His lively account of clashes and accommodations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders not only tracks his own footsteps in his hunt for a northern identity but tells the story of an Arctic that the world does not yet know.