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

List of contents

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

About the author

Jeppe Strandsbjerg is Editor-in-Chief for Social Science at Djøf Publishing. Previously, he was Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Ulrik Pram Gad is Associate Professor of Arctic Culture and Politics at Aalborg University, Denmark

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ulrik Pram (Diis Gad
• Assisted by: Ulrik Pram Gad (Editor), Gad Ulrik Pram (Editor), Jeppe Strandsbjerg (Editor), Strandsbjerg Jeppe (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.10.2018
• EAN: 9781138491830
• ISBN: 978-1-138-49183-0
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Politics & government, environmental science, engineering & technology, Politics and government, Development Studies, Environmental science, engineering and technology