Contesting the Arctic: Politics and Imaginaries in the Circumpolar North (International Library of Human Geography)

As Climate Change Makes The Arctic A Region Of Key Political Interest, So Questions Of Sovereignty Are Once More Drawing International Attention. The Promise Of New Sources Of Mineral Wealth And Energy, And Of New Transportation Routes, Has Seen Countries Expand Their Sovereignty Claims. Increasingly, Interested Parties From Both Within And Beyond The Region, Including States, Indigenous Groups, Corporate Organizations, And Ngos And Are Pursuing Their Visions For The Arctic. What Form Of Political Organization Should Prevail? Contesting The Arctic Provides A Map Of Potential Governance Options For The Arctic And Addresses And Evaluates The Ways In Which Arctic Stakeholders Throughout The Region Are Seeking To Pursue Them. Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. Imagining The Arctic -- 2. Terra Nullius -- 3. Frozen Ocean -- 4. Indigenous Statehood -- 5. Resource Frontier -- 6. Transcendent Nationhood -- 7. Nature Reserve -- 8. Normalizing The North. Philip E. Steinberg, Jeremy Tasch And Hannes Gerhardt With Adam Keul And Elizabeth A. Nyman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention. The promise of new sources of mineral wealth and energy, and of new transportation routes, has seen countries expand their sovereignty claims. Increasingly, interested parties from both within and beyond the region, including states, indigenous groups, corporate organizations, and NGOs and are pursuing their visions for the Arctic. What form of political organization should prevail? Contesting the Arctic provides a map of potential governance options for the Arctic and addresses and evaluates the ways in which Arctic stakeholders throughout the region are seeking to pursue them."--Bloomsbury Publishing. Black artists have been making major contributions to the British art scene for decades, since at least the middle of the twentieth century. Sometimes, these artists - with backgrounds in the countries of Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia - were regarded and embraced as British pratictioners of note and merit. At other times, particularly during the 1970s and 1980s, they were not. In response, on occasion, Britain's black artists came together and made their own exhibitions or created their own gallery spaces. In this book, Eddie Chambers tells the story of Britain's black artists, from the 1950s onwards, including the contemporary art of Steve McQueen, Chris Ofili and Yinka Shonibare.--Publisher Table of Contents* -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Rob Shields -- Chapter 1: Imagining the Arctic -- Chapter 2: Terra Nullius -- Chapter 3: Frozen ocean -- Chapter 4: Indigenous statehood -- Chapter 5: Resource frontier -- Chapter 6: Transcendent nationhood -- Chapter 7: Nature reserve -- Chapter 8: Normalizing the North Bibliographic Essay -- Index As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention. This book provides a map of potential governance options for the Arctic and addresses and evaluates the ways in which Arctic stakeholders throughout the region are seeking to pursue them.