The Scramble for the Arctic

Craciun, Adriana

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“…The liminal status of floe ice (and shore-fast ice and ice-covered land as well) and the complex ways in which it is experienced and used as neither land nor sea has confounded explorers while providing opportunities for policy makers, indigenous and environmental Atlantic Studies 163 activists, and corporations who seek to establish governance institutions that lie partially outside the model of the sovereign, territorial state. 45 The existence of these counter-examples should give us further pause as we construct ideal-type ocean regions that characteristically are described as having settlements on the rim and an empty surface of movement in the middle. This ideal references an imagined one-to-one correspondence between the geophysical and geopolitical properties of points on Earth's surface.…”

Section: Rethinking Land-sea Binariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Of other seas: metaphors and materialities in maritime regions

Steinberg¹

2013

Atlantic Studies

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Section: Rethinking Land-sea Binariesmentioning

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Of other seas: metaphors and materialities in maritime regions

Steinberg¹

2013

Atlantic Studies

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“…The quest for a sea route to China, as well as rumours of the riches of the New World, encouraged sailing into the relative unknown (Craciun, 2009). Many of the early explorers were supported by consortiums of business actors, often interconnected with royal or political patronage, and military actors as well.…”

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Arctic governance

Rowe¹

2018

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This electronic version has been made freely available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) licence, which permits non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction provided the author(s) and Manchester University Press are fully cited and no modifications or adaptations are made. Details of the licence can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Typeset by Out of House Publishing AcknowledgementsThis book would have been impossible to carry out without the contributions of others.I am grateful to all of the interviewees from many years from Moscow; Murmansk; Ottawa; Washington, DC; Iqaluit; Copenhagen; Oslo; Anchorage; and elsewhere. All of these interviewees are busy practitioners, whose responsibilities and schedules are not necessarily designed to accommodate discussing questions with a researcher. Yet they found the time and energy to meet with me, and their insights have been invaluable.The enthusiasm of these practitioners is matched by a thriving world of Arctic social-science scholars, who continuously produce so much new, interesting research that I had to keep updating the references of this book until the very last minute. Discussions with this community of scholars, established and junior, at project workshops, at the International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences, Arctic Circle and Arctic Frontiers have been inspiring and formative. My 'long ago' friends and teachers from student days at the Scott Polar Research Institute continue to shape my thinking. My 'part-time' colleagues, Frode Mellemvik, Anatoli Bourmistrov and Elena Dybtsyna, as well as students at the High North Centre for Business at Nord University in Bodø, have increased my understanding of Arctic politics.I also appreciate the efforts of the anonymous reviewers who took time to comment, and of Jessica Shadian, who looked closely at the manuscript for me at an important juncture. From the days of the Greek cartographers dreaming about Ultima Thule at the edges of the known world, the cold reaches of the northern hemisphere have inspired grandiose caricatures of risk and opportunity. The region is often imagined from a distance as sublime, exceptional and prone to extremes. Out of space and out of time, as Poe put it, the circumpolar North is frequently envisioned as fundamentally apart from the complexities, indeterminacies and intricacies of life and politics in other parts of the globe. We see some of this exceptionalism in the application of dichotomies to the Arctic: the Arctic will either be preserved as humanity's last wilderness, or plundered by coastal states jealously guarding their natural resource treasure chests. All Arctic states are completely equal in Arctic governance, or the USA and Russia dominate militarily and diplomatically against a ve...

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“…But at another level, he wanted no part of that emergent industry, which from the early decades of the nineteenth century onwards would not just transform the social and economic conditions of whaling, but increasingly shift its geographical axis of commercial activity from north to south (Burnett 2012;Jackson 1978). This perhaps, in the broadest sense of that always tricky term, might be described as whaling history's 'imperial' moment, even if the Scoresbys' own historically earlier professional ambitions, which acknowledged the political as well as economic advantages of combining whaling trips with (ideally) government-funded journeys of northern exploration and discovery, were bound up whether they liked it or not in a larger, international 'scramble for the Arctic' which had distinctly imperialistic overtones that remain present in British commercial and geopolitical designs upon the Arctic today (Craciun 2009;Huggan and Jensen 2016).…”

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“…As the literary scholar and art historian Peter Davidson has argued, there is no such thing as a single idea of north. Rather, there are multiple, conflicting ideas and imaginings that have proved hugely influential in shaping attitudes and perceptions which, in turn, have driven activities in the Arctic and other high northern regions that have made vast fortunes for some and early graves for others, providing a rich site for ambitions both achieved and not, adventures both brilliantly realized and spectacularly backfired (Davidson 2005; see also Craciun 2009).…”

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Sperm Count: The Scoresbys and the North

2018

Colonialism, Culture, Whales

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The Scramble for the Arctic

Cited by 33 publications

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Of other seas: metaphors and materialities in maritime regions

Of other seas: metaphors and materialities in maritime regions

Arctic governance

Sperm Count: The Scoresbys and the North

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