Sverker Sörlin

Science, Geopolitics and Culture in the Polar Region (eBook, PDF)

Norden Beyond Borders

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Produktbeschreibung

Throughout the twentieth century, glaciologists and geophysicists in Norway and Sweden, as well as Danish geoscientists and ice core scientists in Greenland, made important contributions to polar field science. It is in the polar regions, especially in the Arctic, where Norden has a strong presence and a geopolitical significance that punches far above its weight in terms of population, geographical size, or economic activity. This volume explores the critical issues related to the significance of an 'Arctic Norden'. Empirically the contributors focus on science relations between Sweden and Norway in the twentieth century and their contributions to policy and diplomacy, particularly in the International Polar Years, but the perspective in the book includes a wider North Atlantic realm.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 462
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317058939
• Artikelnr.: 44873558

Autorenporträt

Sverker Sörlin is Professor in the Division of History of Science and Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and Senior Researcher at Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden. In 2004 his two-volume history of European science and ideas from 1492-1918 won the August [Strinberg] Prize for the best non-fiction book of the year. His most recent book in English is Nature's End: History and the Environment (with Paul Warde) (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction: Polar Extensions - Nordic States and their Polar
Strategies; I: Bipolar Extensions: The Geopolitics of Nordic Presence in
the Arctic and Antarctica; 2: Ice Diplomacy and Climate Change: Hans
Ahlmann and the Quest for a Nordic Region beyond Borders; 3: Nordic or
National? Post-war Visions of Polar Conflict and Cooperation; 4: 'But Why
Do You Go There?' Norway and South Africa in the Antarctic during the
1950s; II: Eastward Extensions: Russia and the Nordic Nations; 5: Field
Stations on the Coast of the Arctic Ocean in the European Part of Russia
from the First to Second IPY 1; 6: Science In-between: Norway, the European
Arctic and the Soviet Union; 7: Linking People through Fish: Science and
Barents Sea Fish Resources in the Context of Russian-Scandinavian
Relations; 8: Science and Industry in Northern Russia from a Nordic
Perspective; III: Westward Extensions: Greenland and the Ambiguities of
Sovereignty; 9: Discourses of Indigeneity: Branding Greenland in the Age of
Self-Government and Climate Change; 10: The Arctic Gaze: Redefining the
Boundaries of the Nordic Region 1; IV: Cultural Extensions: Ideas and
Institutions; 11: Displaying the Polar Nation: Nordic Museum Exhibits and
Polar Ambitions; 12: Heritage in Action: Historical Remains in Polar
Conflicts; 13: The Nordic Nations in Polar Science: Expeditions,
International Polar Years and their Geopolitical Dimensions; 14: The Nordic
Arctic Periphery: Fragments from Fieldwork