National identity politics and postcolonial sovereignty games:  Greenland, Denmark, and the European Union

Rebhan, Christian

doi:10.1080/14782804.2018.1429231

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“…In IR, the literature on 'sovereignty games' similarly highlights the merits of the nonsovereign status by investigating how agency is exercised through hybridity. First developed by Adler-Nissen and Gammeltoft-Hansen (2008), the literature developed to focus specifically on Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) affiliated with the European Union (EU; Adler-Nissen and Gad, 2013) and then later specifically on the Faroe Islands (Adler-Nissen 2014) and then Greenland (Adler-Nissen and Gad, 2017;Gad, 2014Gad, , 2017Jacobsen, 2020). Through the heuristic device of 'sovereignty games', the contributors highlight that non-sovereign entities exercise agency through this hybrid status.…”

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“…Further research of Danish elites would do well in mapping out their ontological security concerns. The framework on ontological security could also in the future be productively deployed to investigate Gad's (2017) analysis of the tension between ethno-cultural homogeneity and Nordic welfare ambitions. On the point of causality, it is difficult to demonstrate the causal impacts of post-colonial gaslighting.…”

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Post-colonial gaslighting and Greenlandic independence: When ontological insecurity sustains hierarchy

Hansen¹

2023

Cooperation and Conflict

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This article proposes the concept of ‘post-colonial gaslighting’ to analyse subtle forms of colonialism and domination in international relations and the persistence of hierarchies in the international system. It asks why Greenland, despite electoral majorities for independence, remains a part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Going beyond existing materialist explanations focusing on lack of economic development, the article deploys the framework of ontological insecurity to show how Danish elites through techniques of gaslighting challenge the post-colonial status of Greenland and prevent agency. The Greenlandic colonial experience is rejected and delegitimised, in turn providing the foundation for blaming Greenlanders for failing to live up to the criteria of statehood. The article thus breaks with widespread assumptions of voluntarism in the literature on non-sovereignty, as well as introducing mechanisms of contestation to the literature on ontological security. The theoretical contribution of the article is the conceptual marriage of the hierarchy and ontological security literatures through the concept of post-colonial gaslighting.

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Post-colonial gaslighting and Greenlandic independence: When ontological insecurity sustains hierarchy

Hansen¹

2023

Cooperation and Conflict

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“…Until then, Danish colonizers had fostered an atmosphere of acceptance and support for 'traditional' Indigenous ways of living, considering tasks such as hunting or fishing noble endeavours worth preserving. With the integration of Kalaallit Nunaat into the Danish Realm, this perception changed radically, and modernization came in the form of a welfare state and economic and educational programs based on a Danish model (Gad 2017). Whilst Kalaallit society has moved towards greater independence over timefor instance, through the youth movement in the 1970s and the referendum in 2008many institutional frameworks remain rooted in Danish and Western knowledge systems (Lynge 2011;Berthelsen 2020;Graugaard 2020).…”

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Future memory work: unsettling temporal Othering through speculative research practices

Chahine

2022

Qualitative Research

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This article introduces ‘future memory work’ as a conceptual framework and speculative practice to unsettle the temporal hierarchies that are intrinsically tied to the anthropological project and that lead to Othering through time. By adding a future dimension to memory work – a concept and methodological tool to better understand how we make sense of the world around us – it becomes possible not only to acknowledge but proactively make use of how the future shapes the way we (re)construct the past in the now. The article foregrounds a study wherein young Indigenous people from Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) were invited to create ‘future memories’ for subsequent generations by producing ‘memory texts’ that best represent what they consider worth preserving. In my research, I utilize the future to elevate the present in conjunction with the past and illustrate how this future-orientation offers an alternative temporal frame to investigate young Kalaallit’s (Greenlandic Inuit) multitemporal relations to the world.

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“…The EU's current sovereignty approach does facilitate a measure of ambiguity, and the EU therefore appears less prone to deny acknowledgment of the subjectivities of non-sovereign governments if they make sovereignty claims (Adler-Nissen & Gad, 2013). Gad (2016) used Greenland as an example, claiming that the Greenland government's use of 'sovereignty games' in its relations with the EU demonstrates how a non-sovereign polity can enhance its own subjectivity in relation to third parties. He provided a series of scenarios for the slow-motion decolonization of Greenland from the Danish realm.…”

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Paradiplomacy of Jersey: Opportunities and challenges in the post-Brexit era

Zhao¹

2023

ISJ

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This paper explores challenges that Jersey faces in the post-Brexit era, and how Jersey can utilize paradiplomacy to overcome obstacles and broaden opportunities. Due to its constitutional status, preexisting international arrangements, and turbulences resulting from Brexit, the Bailiwick of Jersey is in a complicated context. Since May 2021, fishing conflicts have erupted off the coast of Jersey after the Jersey government adopted a post-Brexit fishing licensing scheme that requires French fishing boats to provide data showing they have a history of fishing in Jersey’s waters. On the other hand, Jersey’s export industry is stuck due to the island no longer benefiting from the free movement of goods after Brexit. In future negotiations, Jersey can use paradiplomacy to resolve post-Brexit difficulties. Jersey’s interests will be best served by actively pursuing paradiplomacy with the EU and its members in order to achieve more beneficial trade and fishing arrangements for both parties. Jersey’s paradiplomacy is not synonymous with protodiplomacy. It would be preferable for Jersey to remain under the sovereignty of the UK to maintain the substantial economic advantages and preferential treatment granted by the metropolitan territory.

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National identity politics and postcolonial sovereignty games: Greenland, Denmark, and the European Union

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Post-colonial gaslighting and Greenlandic independence: When ontological insecurity sustains hierarchy

Post-colonial gaslighting and Greenlandic independence: When ontological insecurity sustains hierarchy

Future memory work: unsettling temporal Othering through speculative research practices

Paradiplomacy of Jersey: Opportunities and challenges in the post-Brexit era

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