1st Edition

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

By Jessica Shadian Copyright 2014
292 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

Interest in Arctic politics is on the rise. While recent accounts of the topic place much emphasis on climate change or a new geopolitics of the region, the history of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) and Arctic politics reaches back much further in time. Drawing out the complex relationship between domestic, Arctic, international and transnational Inuit politics, this book is the first... Read more

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

Biography

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