The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic: Reconfiguring Identity, Space, and Time

ISBN-13: 9781138491830 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 262 str.

Ulrik Pram Gad; Jeppe Strandsbjerg

Opis

This book sets out a theoretical framework for understanding and analysing sustainability as a political concept, and provides a comprehensive empirical investigation of Arctic sustainability discourses.

Spis treści

Preface  1. Introduction: sustainability as a political concept in the Arctic Ulrik Pram Gad, Marc Jacobsen and Jeppe Strandsbjerg  2. The sustainability of what? Stocks, communities, the public purse? Rikke Becker-Jacobsen  3. Sustainability understandings of Arctic shipping Kathrin Keil  4. Digging sustainability: scaling and sectoring of sovereignty in Greenland and Nunavut mining discourses Marc Jacobsen  5. "Without seals, there are no Greenlanders": colonial and postcolonial narratives of sustainability and Inuit seal hunting Naja Dyrendom Graugaard  6. Scaling sustainability in the Arctic Frank Sejersen  7. Same word, same idea? Sustainable development talk and the Russian Arctic Elana Wilson Rowe  8. The right to "sustainable development" and Greenland’s lack of a climate policy Lill Rastad Bjørst  9. Building a Blue Economy in the Arctic Ocean: sustaining the sea or sustaining the state? Philip Steinberg and Berit Kristoffersen  10. Saving the Arctic: Green Peace or oil riot? Hannes Gerhardt, Berit Kristoffersen and Kirsti Stuvøy  11. Sustaining the Arctic nation state: The Case of Norway, Iceland, and Canada Ingrid Medby  12. ‘How we use our nature’: sustainability and indigeneity in Greenlandic discourse Kirsten Thisted  13. Sustaining Denmark, sustaining Greenland Johanne Bruun  14. A new path in the last frontier state? Transforming energy geogragrahies of agency, sovereignty, and sustainability in Alaska Victoria Herrmann  15. Geo-assembling narratives of sustainability in Greenland Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall  16. Conclusion: sustainability reconfiguring identity, space, and time Ulrik Pram Gad and Jeppe Strandsbjerg