The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic: Reconfiguring Identity, Space, and Time

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Ulrik Pram Gad (DIIS, Denmark) Jeppe Strandsbjerg

The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic

Reconfiguring Identity, Space, and Time

Ulrik Pram Gad (DIIS, Denmark), Jeppe Strandsbjerg

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English

Routledge
22 October 2018

Development studies; Politics & government; Environmental science, engineering & technology

Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability

The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic argues that sustainability is a political concept because it defines and shapes competing visions of the future. In current Arctic affairs, prominent stakeholders agree that development needs to be sustainable, but there is no agreement over what it is that needs to be sustained. In original conservationist discourse, the environment was the sole referent object of sustainability; however, as sustainability discourses have expanded, the concept has been linked to an increasing number of referent objects, such as society, economy, culture, and identity.

This book sets out a theoretical framework for understanding and analysing sustainability as a political concept, and provides a comprehensive empirical investigation of Arctic sustainability discourses. Presenting a range of case studies from Greenland, Norway, Canada, Russia, Iceland, and Alaska, the chapters in this volume analyse the concept of sustainability and how actors are employing and contesting this concept in specific regions within the Arctic. In doing so, the book demonstrates how sustainability is being given new meanings in the postcolonial Arctic and what the political implications are for postcoloniality, nature, and development more broadly.

Beyond those interested in the Arctic, this book will also be of great value to students and scholars of sustainability, sustainable development, and identity and environmental politics.

Edited by: Ulrik Pram Gad (DIIS Denmark), Jeppe Strandsbjerg
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9781138491830
ISBN 10: 1138491837
Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 22 October 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jeppe Strandsbjerg is Editor-in-Chief for Social Science at Djøf Publishing. Previously, he was Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Ulrik Pram Gad is Associate Professor of Arctic Culture and Politics at Aalborg University, Denmark

Reviews for The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic: Reconfiguring Identity, Space, and Time

Gad and Strandsbjerg have succeeded in gathering an interdisciplinary group of scholars that share their insight into the many aspects, understandings, perceptions and applications of the politics of sustainability in the Arctic. The multifaceted approaches and answers to the editors' key research questions: 'What is to be sustained?' 'In relation to what?' and 'How?' provide valuable reading for the academic community, politicians, indigenous peoples' organisations as well as other Arctic decision makers and stakeholders. - Birger Poppel, Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland As the SDGs are being implemented as a tool for monitoring both human and planetary well-being, the essays in The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic: Reconfiguring Identity, Space, and Time serve as a crucial reminder that probing the reference object of sustainability, an historical gaze and empirical richness are necessary for understanding sustainability politics. - Annika E. Nilsson, Independent researcher, Sweden