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The Shaping of Greenland’s Resource Spaces: Environment, Territory, Geo-Security book cover

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The Shaping of Greenland’s Resource Spaces Environment, Territory, Geo-Security

By Mark Nuttall Copyright 2024
228 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The book examines ideas about the making and shaping of Greenland’s society, environment, and resource spaces. It discusses how Greenland’s resources have been extracted at different points in its history, shows how acquiring knowledge of subsurface environments has been crucial for matters of securitisation, and explores how the country is being imagined as an emerging frontier with vast... Read more
  1. Enclosure and extraction

  2. Transformation and design

  3. Re-making and becoming

  4. Geo-security and subterranean Greenland: a Cold War legacy

  5. Extractive spaces and the reproduction of remoteness

  6. Places of human and non-human encounters

  7. Conservation and Indigenous rights

Biography

Mark Nuttall is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta, Canada, and Adjunct Professor at Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland and the Greenland Climate Research Centre in Nuuk. His books include Climate, Society and Subsurface Politics in Greenland: Under the Great Ice (Routledge, 2017), The Scramble for the Poles: the Geopolitics of the Arctic and Antarctic (with Klaus Dodds, 2016), and The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Klaus Dodds, 2019). He is editor of the Encyclopedia of the Arctic (Routledge, 2005), and co-editor of Anthropology and Climate Change (Routledge, 2016) and the Routledge Handbook of the Polar Regions (Routledge, 2018). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

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