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Postcolonial Perspectives on the European High North

Author : Graham Huggan,Lars Jensen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137588173

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Postcolonial Perspectives on the European High North by Graham Huggan,Lars Jensen Pdf

This book approaches the Arctic from a postcolonial perspective, taking into account both its historical status as a colonised region and new, economically driven forms of colonialism. One catchphrase currently being used to describe these new colonialisms is 'the scramble for the Arctic'. This cross-disciplinary study, featuring contributions from an international team of experts in the field, offers a set of broadly postcolonial perspectives on the European Arctic, which is taken here as ranging from Greenland and Iceland in the North Atlantic to the upper regions of Norway and Sweden in the European High North. While the contributors acknowledge the renewed scramble for resources that characterises the region, it also argues the need to 'unscramble' the Arctic, wresting it away from its persistent status as a fixed object of western control and knowledge. Instead, the book encourages a reassertion of micro-histories of Arctic space and territory that complicate western grand narratives of technological progress, politico-economic development, and ecological 'state change'. It will be of interest to scholars of Arctic Studies across all disciplines.

Views on Europe

Author : Lilli Riettiens,Elke Kleinau
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110734966

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Views on Europe by Lilli Riettiens,Elke Kleinau Pdf

The history of travel has long been constructed and described almost exclusively as a history of "European", male mobility, without, however, explicitly making the gender and whiteness of the travellers a topic. The anthology takes this as an occasion to focus on journeys to Europe that gave "non-Europeans" the opportunity to glance at "Europe" and to draw a picture of it by themselves. So far, little attention has been paid to the questions with which attributes these travellers endowed "Europe" and its people, which similarities and differences they observed and which idea(s) of "Europe" they produced. The focus is once again on "Europe", but not as the starting point for conquests or journeys. From a postcolonial and gender historical view, the anthology’s contributions rather juxtapose (self-)representations of "Europe" with perspectives that move in a field of tension between agreement, contradiction and oscillation.

Deconstructing Europe

Author : Sandra Ponzanesi,Bolette B. Blaagaard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317995180

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Deconstructing Europe by Sandra Ponzanesi,Bolette B. Blaagaard Pdf

This book engages with the question of what makes Europe postcolonial and how memory, whiteness and religion figure in representations and manifestations of European ‘identity’ and self-perception. To deconstruct Europe is necessary as its definition is now contested more than ever, both internally (through the proliferation of ethnic, religious, regional differences) and externally (Europe expanding its boundaries but closing its borders). This edited volume explores a number of theoretical discussions on the meaning of Europe and proposes analyzing some of the deeds committed, both today and in the past, in the name of Europe by foregrounding a postcolonial approach. To deconstruct Europe as a postcolonial place does not imply that Europe’s imperial past is over, but on the contrary that Europe’s idea of self, and of its polity, is still struggling with the continuing hold of colonialist and imperialist attitudes. The objective of this volume is to account for historical legacies which have been denied, forgotten or silenced, such as the histories of minor and peripheral colonialisms (Nordic colonialisms or Austrian, Spanish and Italian colonialism) and to account for the realities of geographical margins within Europe, such as the Mediterranean and the Eastern border while tracing alternative models for solidarity and conviviality. The chapters deal with social and political formations as well as cultural and artistic practices drawing from different disciplinary backgrounds and methodological traditions. As such it creates an innovative space for comparative and cross-disciplinary exchanges. This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Social Identities.

Postcolonial Europe

Author : Lars Jensen,Julia Suárez-Krabbe,Christian Groes,Zoran Lee Pecic
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786603067

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Postcolonial Europe by Lars Jensen,Julia Suárez-Krabbe,Christian Groes,Zoran Lee Pecic Pdf

How has European identity been shaped through its colonial empires? Does this history of imperialism influence the conceptualisation of Europe in the contemporary globalised world? How has coloniality shaped geopolitical differences within Europe? What does this mean for the future of Europe? Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires brings together scholars from across disciplines to rethink European colonialism in the light of its vanishing empires and the rise of new global power structures. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the postcolonial European legacy, the book argues that the commonly used nation-centric approach does not effectively capture the overlap between different colonial and postcolonial experiences across Europe.

Postcolonial Perspectives on Postcommunism in Central and Eastern Europe

Author : Dorota Ko?odziejczyk,Cristina ?andru
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317285991

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Postcolonial Perspectives on Postcommunism in Central and Eastern Europe by Dorota Ko?odziejczyk,Cristina ?andru Pdf

A quarter of a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and from the vantage point of a post-Cold War, globalised, world, there is a need to address the relative neglect of postcommunism in analysis of postcolonial and neo-colonial configurations of power and influence. This book proposes new critical perspectives on several themes and concepts that have emerged within, or been propagated by, postcolonial studies. These themes include structures of exclusion/ inclusion; formations of nationalism, structures of othering, and representations of difference; forms and historical realisations of anti-colonial/anti-imperial struggle; the experience of trauma (involving issues of collective memory/amnesia and the re-writing of history); resistance as a complex of cultural practices; and concepts such as alterity, ambivalence, self-colonisation, dislocation, hegemonic discourse, minority, and subaltern cultures.? Taken together, this volume suggests that some of the methodological instruments of postcolonial criticism can be fruitfully applied to the study of postcommunist cultures and, conversely, that the experience of the Soviet brand of imperialist rule in the form of communism in East-Central Europe can function as an ideological moderator in Third-World oriented, Marxist-inspired, postcolonial discourses. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

Postcolonial Denmark

Author : Lars Jensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429959233

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Postcolonial Denmark by Lars Jensen Pdf

This book adopts a global approach to analysing Danish nationhood in the current context of a Europe paralysed by crises. Focusing on the global strands which have produced understandings of national selfhood as a consequence of a series of historical and contemporary global encounters, it calls for the production of narratives which better capture how European nations, including Denmark, are shaped by narratives that cannot be understood in (national) isolation, but are contingent on ideas about the nation’s globality. In historical terms, this entails examining how colonialism shaped national self-perceptions; in a contemporary context, it requires looking at colonialism’s unfinished business. The first chapters revisits colonialism throughout the Danish empire. In the second section, the book revisits Danish (post-1945) attempts to restage global interventions and military intervention since 2000, and considers how migration since 1965 has led to a profound questioning of relationships with the non-European world – and increasingly with Europe itself. Postcolonial Denmark situates Denmark at the centre of a number of current and ever more urgent challenges facing Europe. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, political science and cultural studies with interests in Europe, the Nordic region through a postcolonial, a whiteness and a decolonial inspired approach.

Visual Representations of the Arctic

Author : Markku Lehtimäki,Arja Rosenholm,Vlad Strukov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000366372

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Visual Representations of the Arctic by Markku Lehtimäki,Arja Rosenholm,Vlad Strukov Pdf

Privileging the visual as the main method of communication and meaning-making, this book responds critically to the worldwide discussion about the Arctic and the North, addressing the interrelated issues of climate change, ethics and geopolitics. A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the Arctic, it supplies an original conceptualization of the Arctic as a visual world encompassing an array of representations, imaginings, and constructions. By examining a broad range of visual forms, media and forms such as art, film, graphic novels, maps, media, and photography, the book advances current debates about visual culture. The book enriches contemporary theories of the visual taking the Arctic as a spatial entity and also as a mode of exploring contemporary and historical visual practices, including imaginary constructions of the North. Original contributions include case studies from all the countries along the Arctic shore, with Russian material occupying a large section due to the country’s impact on the region

Human and Societal Security in the Circumpolar Arctic

Author : Kamrul Hossain,Jose Miguel Roncero Martin,Anna Petrétei
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004363045

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Human and Societal Security in the Circumpolar Arctic by Kamrul Hossain,Jose Miguel Roncero Martin,Anna Petrétei Pdf

Human and Societal Security in the Circumpolar Arctic addresses the comprehensive understanding of security in the Arctic, and specific challenges of the Arctic population from the viewpoint of human security.

Green Ice

Author : Simone Abram,Katrín Anna Lund
Publisher : Springer
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137587367

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Green Ice by Simone Abram,Katrín Anna Lund Pdf

This book presents lively case studies of tourism developments in the European High North from diverse perspectives. It compares views of the changing political ecology of a fragile region shaped by climatic and cultural factors. In exploring the mutual relations between new developments in Arctic travel narratives and tourism practices. Green Ice: Tourism Ecologies in the European High North pays particular attention to the changing discourses that produce, and are in turn produced by, encounters between contemporary Arctic peoples and territories. Questions of gender and nationality are considered alongside a comparison of texts and practices in different languages, examining the politics of language and its significant role in tourism. This title pays attention to the changing symbolic value of Arctic discourses in environmental movements, in order to consider the close connections between global forms of environmentalist discourse and action and local cultural responses. An engaging and timely work, this book will be of great interest to scholars of Geography, Anthropology, and Arctic Tourism.

Digging into the Dark Ages

Author : Howard Williams,Pauline Magdalene Clarke
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789695281

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Digging into the Dark Ages by Howard Williams,Pauline Magdalene Clarke Pdf

What does the ‘Dark Ages’ mean in contemporary society? Tackling public engagements through archaeological fieldwork, heritage sites and museums, fictional portrayals and art, and increasingly via a broad range of digital media, this is the first-ever dedicated collection exploring the public archaeology of the Early Middle Ages.

Postcolonialism Cross-Examined

Author : Monika Albrecht
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000007824

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Postcolonialism Cross-Examined by Monika Albrecht Pdf

Taking a strikingly interdisciplinary and global approach, Postcolonialism Cross-Examined reflects on the current status of postcolonial studies and attempts to break through traditional boundaries, creating a truly comparative and genuinely global phenomenon. Drawing together the field of mainstream postcolonial studies with post-Soviet postcolonial studies and studies of the late Ottoman Empire, the contributors in this volume question many of the concepts and assumptions we have become accustomed to in postcolonial studies, creating a fresh new version of the field. The volume calls the merits of the field into question, investigating how postcolonial studies may have perpetuated and normalized colonialism as an issue exclusive to Western colonial and imperial powers. The volume is the first to open a dialogue between three different areas of postcolonial scholarship that previously developed independently from one another: • the wide field of postcolonial studies working on European colonialism, • the growing field of post-Soviet postcolonial/post-imperial studies, • the still fledgling field of post-Ottoman postcolonial/post-imperial studies, supported by sideways glances at the multidirectional conditions of interaction in East Africa and the East and West Indies. Postcolonialism Cross-Examined looks at topics such as humanism, nationalism, multiculturalism, nostalgia, and the Anthropocene in order to piece together a new, broader vision for postcolonial studies in the twenty-first century. By including territories other than those covered by the postcolonial mainstream, the book strives to reframe the “postcolonial” as a genuinely global phenomenon and develop multidirectional postcolonial perspectives.

Critical Studies of the Arctic

Author : Marjo Lindroth,Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen,Monica Tennberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031111204

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Critical Studies of the Arctic by Marjo Lindroth,Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen,Monica Tennberg Pdf

This book is a pioneering effort in critical Arctic studies. The contributions identify and investigate some of the blind spots in human development in the Arctic that research in the social sciences had yet to broach. To this end, the authors tap a variety of critical approaches in fields spanning aesthetics, affect theory, biopolitics, critical geopolitics, Indigenous archaeology, intersectionality, legal anthropology, moral economy, narrative studies, neoliberal governmentality, queer studies and socio-legal studies. The chapters probe topics such as representations of the Arctic in contemporary art, the role of affects in postcolonial Greenland, Canada’s Arctic policies and China’s engagement with the Arctic. The book provides a rich knowledge base for researchers in Arctic social sciences and offers an absorbing textbook for students interested in Arctic issues.

Transitional Justice in Aparadigmatic Contexts

Author : Tine Destrooper,Line Engbo Gissel,Kerstin Bree Carlson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000845600

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Transitional Justice in Aparadigmatic Contexts by Tine Destrooper,Line Engbo Gissel,Kerstin Bree Carlson Pdf

This book explores the practical and theoretical opportunities as well as the challenges raised by the expansion of transitional justice into new and ‘aparadigmatic’ cases. The book defines transitional justice as the pursuit of accountability, recognition and/or disruption and applies an actor-centric analysis focusing on justice actors’ intentions of and responses to transitional justice. It offers a typology of different transitional justice contexts ranging from societies experiencing ongoing conflict to consolidated democracies, and includes chapters from all types of aparadigmatic contexts. This covers transitional justice in states with contested political authority, shared political authority, and consolidated political authority. The transitional justice initiatives explored by the wide range of contributors are those of Afghanistan, Belgium, France, Greenland/Denmark, Libya, Syria, Turkey/Kurdistan, UK/Iraq, US, and Yemen. Through these aparadigmatic case studies, the book develops a new framework that, appropriate to its expanding reach, allows us to understand the practice of transitional justice in a more context-sensitive, bottom-up, and actor-oriented way, which leaves room for the complexity and messiness of interventions on the ground. The book will appeal to scholars and practitioners in the broad field of transitional justice, as represented in law, criminology, politics, conflict studies and human rights. The Introduction, Chapter 8 and the Concluding Remarks of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Renewable Economies in the Arctic

Author : David C. Natcher,Timo Koivurova
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000464603

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Renewable Economies in the Arctic by David C. Natcher,Timo Koivurova Pdf

This book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on renewable economies in the Arctic and how these are being supported scientifically, economically, socially, and politically by Arctic states. The economic development of the Arctic region is witnessing new, innovative trends which hold promise for the sustainable development of the region. This book discusses the emerging forms of renewable economies to understand where intellectual and technological innovations are being made. It draws on the expertise of scholars from across the Arctic and provides the reader with a foundation of knowledge to identify the unique challenges of the region and explore opportunities to unlock the immense potential of renewable resources to boost the region’s economy. This book offers a holistic Arctic perspective against the backdrop of prevailing social, economic, and climatic challenges. With critical insights on the economic state of play and the role of renewable resources in the development of the Arctic region, this book will be a vital point of reference for Arctic scholars, communities, and policy makers.

Postcolonial Transitions in Europe

Author : Sandra Ponzanesi,Gianmaria Colpani
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783484478

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Postcolonial Transitions in Europe by Sandra Ponzanesi,Gianmaria Colpani Pdf

A comparative and multidisciplinary exploration of Europe’s colonial past in relation to present multicultural, cosmopolitan and/or neocolonial experiences, assessing political, cultural and mediatized transitions