The Politics of Arctic Sovereignty: Oil, Ice, and Inuit Governance

ISBN-13: 9780415640350 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 252 str.

Dr Jessica M. Shadian

Opis

Drawing out the complex relationship between domestic, Arctic, international and transnational Inuit politics, this books sets out to recognise the politics of the Inuit and the Arctic as a much more complex and an age old story of the history of the Westphalian political system.

Spis treści

Preface  Acknowledgements  List of acronyms  Introduction: who are the Arctic’s Inuit?  1 Sovereignty historicized  Part I Constructing Westphalia  2 Discovery  3 Constructing an indigenous Inuit  Part II Expanding the boundaries of Westphalia  4 Building blocks: domestic Inuit governance  5 Oil and circumpolar Inuit politics  6 Building an Arctic regime  7 Indigenous internationalism: expanding the boundaries of international law  8 Turning theory into practice  Part III Governance beyond Westphalia  9 Arctic governance in a post-August 2007 world  10 Governance beyond Westphalia: the ICC, oil, and Arctic sovereignty  References  Index

O autorze

Jessica M. Shadian is a Associated Researcher with the Anthropology Research Team at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland.