Postcolonial Perspectives on the European High North: Unscrambling the Arctic
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leeds
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- UOA27-4331
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Palgrave MacMillan
- ISBN
- 9781137588166
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Featuring contributions from an international team of experts in the field, Postcolonial Perspectives on the European High North is one of few full-length studies of its kind to approach the European Arctic from a postcolonial perspective. Addressing the so-called ‘scramble for the Arctic’, the book offers ‘unscrambling’ as a way to recognize the specific societies and ecologies that make up the Arctic, their connection to (but also disconnection from) Europe, and their internally differentiated colonial pasts. The book derives from a major international research project, Arctic Encounters (£1 million) led by Huggan and his introduction frames the book according to many of the project’s themes. As co-editor, Huggan included contributions from researchers attached to the project based in Denmark, Iceland, and the UK. Their chapters focus on particular towns or regions in Greenland, Iceland and Norway respectively, with the ‘European Arctic’ taken as ranging from Greenland and Iceland in the North Atlantic to the upper regions of Norway and Sweden (Scandinavia’s ‘High North’).
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- Non-English
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