The Politics of Arctic Resources: Change and Continuity in the Old North of Northern Europe

ISBN-13: 9781138040601 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 272 str.

Carina Keskitalo

Opis

The book takes a past-present-future perspective to Northern Europe 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.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction. Understanding historical contingencies into the future: cases from northern Europe Chapter 2: Hot-spots and spaces in-between – Development and settlement in the ‘Old North’ Chapter 3: State and Resources in the North: From territorial assertion to the ‘smorgasbord state’ Chapter 4: The institutionalization of forestry as a primary land use in Sweden Chapter 5: Constructing northern Fennoscandia as a mining region Chapter 6: Making "Wilderness" in a Northern Natural Resource Periphery: On Restructuring and the Production of a Pleasure Periphery in Northern Sweden Chapter 7: Ethnic Identity and Resource Rights in Sweden Chapter 8: Energy Regimes in the Fennoscandian north, c1900-2015 Chapter 9: Oil and gas extraction in the Barents Sea: A Nordic state-industry governance system goes north Chapter 10: Troubling the Northern Seas: The Turbulent History of Norwegian and Russian Fisheries Chapter 11: Imageries and historical change in the European Russian Arctic Chapter 12: Regional futures nested in global structures Chapter 13: Conclusion: The "Old Arctic" – or quite simply the developed northern Europe