Ari Aukusti Lehtinen

Postcolonialism, Multitude, and the Politics of Nature

On the Changing Geographies of the European North

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Produktbeschreibung

Postcolonialism, Multitude, and the Politics of Nature explores the latest developments of Nordic human geography in the Finnish-Russian Greenbelt, also known as the Fennoscandian Greenbelt, located at the long north-south border between Finland and Russia. Through case studies, this exciting work examines the region's hybrid geopolitical and socioenvironmental identity that is made up of an array of cultural, economic, environmental, political, and epistemic elements.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780761834175
• ISBN-10: 0761834176
• Artikelnr.: 22040483

Autorenporträt

By Ari Aukusti Lehtinen

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface and Acknowledgements Part 2 I. Introduction: Chapter 1.
Postcolonial North?; Chapter 2. Under German and British Influence: Nordic
Socioenvironmentalism; Chapter 3. Samhällsgeografi and the Politics of
Nature Part 3 II. A Greenbelt Travelogue: Chapter 4. Layered Landscapes:
Taming of the Land in the Finnish Northwoods; Chapter 5. Politics of the
Margin: Contested Mirescapes; Chapter 6. Raubwirtshaft in the North?:
Branding the Northern Forests; Chapter 7. Part 4 III: Conclusions: Chapter
14. Respecting the Difference: Geographies of the Multitude