Unscrambling the Arctic
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Köp båda 2 för 1132 krGraham Huggan is Chair of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Leeds, UK, where he directs the EU-funded 'Arctic Encounters' project. His work cuts across three fields: postcolonial studies, environmental humanities, and tourism studies. His most recently published book is Nature's Saviours: Celebrity Conservationists in the Television Age (2013), and he is currently working on another on the cultural politics of whale-watching. Lars Jensen is an Associate Professor at Cultural Encounters, Roskilde University, Denmark. His main research fields are postcolonial studies and cultural studies, both of which are represented in his latest book, Beyond Britain: Stuart Hall and the Postcolonializing of Anglophone Cultural Studies (2014). He is currently writing a book on postcolonial Europe.
Introduction: Unscrambling the Arctic; Graham Huggan.- Chapter 1. Barentsburg and Beyond: Coal, Science, Tourism and the Geopolitical Imaginaries of Svalbard's "New North"; Roger Norum.- Chapter 2. Jokkmokk: Rapacity and Resistance in Spmi; Simone Abram.- Chapter 3. Qullissat: Historicising and Localising the Danish Scramble for the Arctic; Astrid Andersen, Lars Jensen and Kirsten Hvenegrd-Lassen.- Chapter 4. ingvellir: Commodifying the "Heart" of Iceland; Kristn Loftsdttir and Katrn Anna Lund.- Afterword: Tourism, Extraction, and the Postcolonial Arctic; Philip E. Steinberg.