Postcolonialism, Multitude, and the Politics of Nature
Subtitle: On the Changing Geographies of the European North
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: April 28, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780761834175
Subjects: Human geography; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Economics - General; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Northern Europe, Scandinavia; Economics - Theory; Business & Economics / Economics / General; General
Description: "[This book] offers an overview of the latest developments of Nordic human geography and relates it to parallel Anglo-American and Continental European debates. The case studies focus on the Finnish-Russian Greenbelt, also known as the Fennoscandian Greenbelt, located at the long north-south border between the two countries. The Greenbelt is a geopolitical and socioenvironmental hybrid, or anomaly, that contains an array of cultural, economic, environmental, political, and epistemic interfaces. The drama and the dynamics of the border challenge the analytical and interpretative capabilities of human geography. [This book] describes in detail the lands and lives of the Greenbelt inhabitants who settled down in a multicultural meeting place of Finno-Ugric, Scandinavian, and Slavic cultures, as well as Orthodox and Lutheran faiths. The Greenbelt is also studied in relation to contemporary pressures of globalization, ranging from geopolitical reformulation of the relations between the European Union and Russia to transcontinental reorganizations in trade and environmental concerns"--Back cover.