Contesting the Arctic : Politics and Imaginaries in the Circumpolar North - Philip E. Steinberg

Contesting the Arctic

Politics and Imaginaries in the Circumpolar North

By: Philip E. Steinberg, Jeremy Tasch, Hannes Gerhardt, Adam Keul, Elizabeth A. Nyman

Paperback | 30 March 2018

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As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention. The promise of new sources of mineral wealth and energy, and of new transportation routes, has seen countries expand their sovereignty claims. Increasingly, interested parties from both within and beyond the region, including states, indigenous groups, corporate organizations, and NGOs and are pursuing their visions for the Arctic. What form of political organization should prevail? Contesting the Arctic provides a map of potential governance options for the Arctic and addresses and evaluates the ways in which Arctic stakeholders throughout the region are seeking to pursue them.
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'Contesting the Arctic is a sophistcated analysis of how contemporary discourses and prformances are caught up in older colonial and Cold War legacies of knowledge production and geopolitics. It is a reminder to us all that we need to be ever vigilant in terms of how vast and complex spaces such as the 'Arctic' are constituted and reproducd in political and popular cultures. As global attention grows towards the Arctic, this book reminds us that the Arctic is also a homeland and not an 'empty space' to be scrambled over.' - Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics, Royal Holloway, University of London

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