Performing Arctic Sovereignty: Policy and Visual Narratives

ISBN-13: 9780367606770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 136 str.

Corine Wood-Donnelly

Opis

This book offers a novel analysis of Arctic postage stamps and their representations of Arctic sovereignty in the United States, Canada and Russia. It explores how these countries have absorbed Arctic territory into their national consciousness through the symbolic imagery of postage stamps, examining how the choice of, and use of, symbols and imag

Spis treści

Part I Setting the scene

Introduction

1. Who owns the Arctic? 

Part II Policy and visual representations

2. The American Arctic

3. The Canadian Arctic

4. The Russian Arctic

5. Comparing performances of Arctic sovereignty

Conclusion

O autorze

Corine Wood-Donnelly is a researcher at Uppsala University, Sweden, and is also affiliated with the Scott Polar Research Institute. Her interdisciplinary research in political geography and international relations specialises on the Arctic region. She has research interests in performativity, materiality and cosmologies of sovereignty, especially related to maritime spaces.