Materializing Greenland within a Critical Arctic Geopolitics

Klaus-John Dodds; Mark Nuttall

Materializing Greenland within a Critical Arctic Geopolitics

Klaus-John Dodds, Mark Nuttall

Department of Geography

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Abstract

This chapter is a material, volumetric and discursive intervention into, onto and
across Greenland including its ice mass and surrounding seas. It is not a frictionfree
encounter, but one where the “geo” in geopolitics is scrutinised. Our advocacy
of a critical Arctic geopolitics is one rooted in materiality where the Arctic is not
simply a backdrop to human events. Rather we advance an interest in how the
materiality of the waters, ice, snow, rock, wind and air of the Arctic becomes
available for further geopolitical manifestations. As Elizabeth Grosz (2008) has
written on the subject of geopower, the Arctic might be conceived as something
that also challenges and even subverts the geopolitical, cartographic and scientific.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Greenland and the International Politics of a Changing Arctic
Subtitle of host publication	Postcolonial Paradiplomacy between High and Low Politics
Editors	Kristian Søby Kristensen, Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen
Place of Publication	Abingdon
Publisher	Routledge
Pages	139-154
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Print)	1138061093
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 13 Sept 2017

Publication series

Name	Routledge Research in the Polar Regions
Publisher	Routledge

Keywords

Geopolitics
Materiality
Greenland
Ice
Security

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Materializing Greenland within a Critical Arctic Geopolitics. / Dodds, Klaus-John; Nuttall, Mark.
Greenland and the International Politics of a Changing Arctic: Postcolonial Paradiplomacy between High and Low Politics . ed. / Kristian Søby Kristensen; Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen. Abingdon : Routledge, 2017. p. 139-154 (Routledge Research in the Polar Regions ).

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