The politics of sustainability in the Arctic : reconfiguring identity, space, and time / edited by Ulrik Pram Gad and Jeppe Strandsbjerg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gad, Ulrik Pram, editor.

Strandsbjerg, Jeppe, 1973- editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in sustainability

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development--Arctic regions.

Politics and government.

Sustainable development.

Arctic regions--Politics and government.

Arctic Regions.

Physical Description:

xiii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic argues that sustainability is a political concept because it defines and shapes competing visions of the future. In current Arctic affairs, prominent stakeholders agree that development needs to be sustainable, but there is no agreement over what it is that needs to be sustained. In original conservationist discourse, the environment was the sole referent object of sustainability, however, as sustainability discourses expand, the concept is linked to an increasing number of referent objects, such as, society, economy, culture and identity. 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. Presenting a range of case studies from Greenland, Norway, Canada, Russia, Iceland and Alaska, the essays in this volume analyse the concept of sustainability and how actors are employing and contesting this concept in specific regions within the Arctic. In doing so, the book demonstrates how sustainability is being given new meanings in the postcolonial Arctic and what the political implications are for postcoloniality, nature, and development more broadly. Beyond those interested in the Arctic, this book will also be of great value to students and scholars of sustainability, sustainable development, and identity and environmental politics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction sustainability as a political concept in the Arctic / Jeppe Strandsbjerg, Marc Jacobsen & Ulrik Pram Gad

The sustainability of what? Stocks, communities, the public purse? / Rikke Becker-Jacobsen

Sustainability understandings of Arctic shipping / Kathrin Keil

Digging sustainability scaling and sectoring of benefits and responsibilities in Greenland and Nunavut mining discourses / Marc Jacobsen

"Without seals, there are no Greenlanders" Colonial and postcolonial narratives of sustainability and Inuit seal hunting / Naja Graugaard

Scaling sustainability in the Arctic / Frank Sejersen

Same word, same idea? Sustainable development talk and the Russian Arctic / Elana Wilson Rowe

The right to sustainable development and Greenland's lack of a climate policy / Lill Bjørst

Building a blue economy in the Arctic Ocean : sustaining the sea, or sustaining the state? / Berit Kristoffersen & Philip Steinberg

Saving the Arctic : green peace or oil riot? / Hannes Gerhardt, Berit Kristoffersen and Kirsti Stuvøy

Sustaining the Arctic nation-state : the case of Norway, Iceland, and Canada / Ingrid Medby

'How we use our nature." Sustainability and indigeneity in Greenlandic discourse / Kirsten Thisted

Sustaining Denmark

sustaining Greenland / Johanne Bruun

A new path in the last frontier state? Transforming energy geogragrahies of agency, sovereignty, and sustainability in Alaska / Victoria Hermann

Geo-assembling narratives of sustainability in Greenland / Klaus Dodds & Mark Nuttall

Conclusion : sustainability reconfiguring time, space and identity / Ulrik Pram Gad & Jeppe Strandsbjerg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Politics of sustainability in the Arctic

ISBN:

9781138491830

1138491837

OCLC:

1056201331

Publisher Number:

40028819088