Science, geopolitics and culture in the polar region
Subtitle: Norden beyond borders
By: edited by Sverker Sörlin
Series: The Nordic experience
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9781472409690; 9781472409706; 9781472409713
Subjects: Political geography; Geopolitics; Strategic aspects; International status; International cooperation
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Polar extensions : Nordic states and their polar strategies / Sverker Sörlin; title: Ice diplomacy and climate change : Hans Ahlmann and the quest for a Nordic region beyond borders / Sverker Sörlin; title: Nordic or national? : post-war visions of polar conflict and cooperation / Peder Roberts; title: "But why do you go there?" : Norway and South Africa in the Antarctic during the 1950s / Klaus Dodds, Peder Roberts & Lize-Marié van der Watt; title: Field stations on the coast of the Arctic Ocean in the European part of Russia from the First to Second IPY / Julia Lajus; title: Science in-between : Norway, the European Arctic and the USSR / Stian Bones; title: Linking people through fish : science and Barents Sea fish resources in the context of Russian-Scandinavian relations / Julia Lajus; title: Science and industry in northern Russia from a Scandinavian perspective / Urban Wråkberg; title: Discourses of indigeneity : branding Greenland in the age of self-government and climate change / Kirsten Thisted; title: The Arctic gaze : redefining the boundaries of the Nordic region / Jessica Shadian; title: Displaying the Arctic nation : Nordic museum exhibits and polar ambitions / Anders Houltz; title: Heritage in action : historical remains in polar conflicts / Dag Avango; title: The Nordic nations in polar science : expeditions, international polar years and their geopolitical dimensions / Aant Elzinga; title: The Nordic arctic periphery : fragments from fieldwork / Lisbeth Lewander.