The elusive social : remapping the soci(et)al in the Arctic energyscape
Journal: LaCRIS (University of Lapland)
Year: 2017

In political, popular and scholarly debates, the Arctic region is portrayed as being on the brink of becoming the “world’s new energy province”. Growth in global energy demand, dwindling reserves and political instabilities at existing production sites, warming climate, as well as advancements in extraction and transportation technologies are pushing energy activities further towards the previously inaccessible north. In these framings, energy in the Arctic is mostly understood as synonymous wit