Ulrik Pram Gad
Biographic Data
| ID | 369010 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ulrik Pram Gad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ulrik Pram |
| FAMILY NAME | Gad |
| SIGNATURE | GAD U P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7018-5480 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Politics of Connections in Greenland: A Typology of Imperial and Post-colonial Infrastructure Logics
The sum of built infrastructure shapes societies, just as attempts at re-shaping social order involve restructuring infrastructure. Understanding infrastructure is therefore essential to understanding colonisation and decolonisation. Nevertheless, despite an ‘infrastructural turn’, studies in geopolitics routinely proceed without thinking through the concept of infrastructure. To understand the span of infrastructures related to both colonialism …
Liminal Strategies in the Margins of International Politics: The State-Like Power of Non-State Greenland
A growing body of literature builds on the observation that power is relational and directs attention to the diplomacy of marginal and liminal subjects, implying that they harbor a potential to change the structures undergirding international politics. However, performances of state power routinely find other loci than diplomacy, and all states are more or less marginalized from the conceptual core of statehood. This article therefore offers a re…
Greenland in Arctic Security: (De)securitization Dynamics under Climatic Thaw and Geopolitical Freeze
Greenland has increasingly captivated imaginations around the globe. Yet, while it is central to the Arctic region, its role has been poorly understood. Greenland in Arctic Security delivers a comprehensive overview of how security dynamics unfold in and in relation to Greenland. Each individual chapter analyzes specific discourses and dynamics pertaining to hard or soft security questions. These span from great power interests in geostrategic in…
Translations of Security: A Framework for the Study of Unwanted Futures
This book scrutinizes how contemporary practices of security have come to rely on many different translations of security, risk, and danger.\nInstitutions of national security policies are currently undergoing radical conceptual and organizational changes, and this book presents a novel approach for how to study and politically address the new situation. Complex and uncertain threat environments, such as terrorism, climate change, and the global …
Translations of Security
This book scrutinizes how contemporary practices of security have come to rely on many different translations of security, risk, and danger. Institutions of national security policies are currently undergoing radical conceptual and organizational changes, and this book presents a novel approach for how to study and politically address the new situation. Complex and uncertain threat environments, such as terrorism, climate change, and the global f…
The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic: Reconfiguring Identity, Space, and Time
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In the post-colonial waiting room
Greenland, New Caledonia and Mayotte have one thing in common. They have so far opted not to decolonize formally from their European metropoles. This chapter investigates this puzzle of choosing non-sovereignty in a postcolonial setting. It explores a number of European overseas countries and territories. The chapter focuses on French dependencies in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and North Atlantic Greenland constitutionally connected to Denmark…
National identity politics and postcolonial sovereignty games: Greenland, Denmark, and the European Union
The relationship between Greenland and the EU is to a great degree influenced by the image of Greenland being on the path towards independence from Denmark. In both countries, identity discourse idealizes the homogenous nation state, leaving the ‘community of the realm’ in need of a good explanation. However, attempts to explain Greenland’s continued reliance on outside help in its development towards independence continuously risk infantilizing …
From flip-flopping stereotypes to desecuritizing hybridity: Muslims as threats and security providers in Danish broadcast drama series
Muslims are making their way into filmed entertainment in Hollywood and Europe. Critical reception has uniformly acclaimed the quantitative progress, however, disagreeing on the quality of the representation. One position laments how the increased representation of diversity is structured by negative stereotypes; another is encouraged by how the very same stereotypes are ironically taken to extremes. Bearing in mind the intimate relation between …
Introduction: Postimperial sovereignty games in the Nordic region
Benevolence, homogeneity and peace has never been the full story of the Nordic region. Building on a critical review of myths of ‘ Norden’ in international relations theory and beyond (international political economy, security studies, regional and European integration theory and postcolonialism), we develop the framework of postimperial sovereignty games for understanding contemporary Nordic foreign policy and regional dynamics. We shift focus f…
Greenland: A post-Danish sovereign nation state in the making
The relationship between Greenland and the European Union (EU) can best be understood by exploring the development from Danish colonialism to a future independent Greenlandic state. In 1985, Greenland became the first territory ever to leave the European Economic Community (EEC) when it opted for status as an ‘overseas country or territory’. The manner in which Greenland had to follow Denmark into the EEC in 1973 – whereby Greenlanders saw contro…
Samtaler om Københavnerskolen – Begreper om politikk i studier av sikkerhetisering
Concepts of dialogue as counterterrorism: Narrating the self-reform of the Muslim Other
Since 9/11, the terrorist is often awarded the position of the radical Other: the personified existential threat to the West. The counterterrorism strategy presented by the Danish government describes itself as covering a ‘broad spectrum’ of efforts. It includes an ‘active foreign policy’ in relation to the Muslim world and an ‘active integration policy’ in relation to Muslim migrants. Both inside and outside the nation-state, efforts range from …
Preventing radicalisation through dialogue? Self-securitising narratives versus reflexive conflict dynamics
Critical scholarship has warned against basing the prevention of terrorism on a concept of ‘radicalisation’ which implies that violence is inherent to Islam, but various approaches disagree on how to base the critique. This article argues for reading counter-radicalisation policies as narratives in order to identify their potential in terms of conflict escalation. Analysis of the official Danish counter-radicalisation action plan, reactions to it…
Concepts of politics in securitization studies
The article argues that there are a number of concepts of politics in play in the current debates on securitization theory and that greater awareness regarding these conceptual differences helps clarify not only theoretical differences but also the possibilities for new theoretical development and reflection. The article identifies three conversations on politics: first, a conversation on how politics concerns action and intentionality; second, a…
Post-colonial identity in Greenland: When the empire dichotomizes back — bring politics back in
In the gradual unravelling of Greenland’s colonial relationship to Denmark, an essentialist conceptualization of Greenlandic identity has played a significant role. However, both our scholarly understanding of post-colonial Greenlandic identity and the process towards independence for Greenland could be furthered by bringing politics back in. Based on a discourse analysis of the Greenlandic debate on language, this paper makes three claims: First…
Concepts of politics in securitization studies
The article argues that there are a number of concepts of politics in play in the current debates on securitization theory and that greater awareness regarding these conceptual differences helps clarify not only theoretical differences but also the possibilities for new theoretical development and reflection. The article identifies three conversations on politics: first, a conversation on how politics concerns action and intentionality; second, a…
Introduction: Postimperial sovereignty games in the Nordic region
Benevolence, homogeneity and peace has never been the full story of the Nordic region. Building on a critical review of myths of ‘ Norden’ in international relations theory and beyond (international political economy, security studies, regional and European integration theory and postcolonialism), we develop the framework of postimperial sovereignty games for understanding contemporary Nordic foreign policy and regional dynamics. We shift focus f…
Post-colonial identity in Greenland: When the empire dichotomizes back — bring politics back in
In the gradual unravelling of Greenland’s colonial relationship to Denmark, an essentialist conceptualization of Greenlandic identity has played a significant role. However, both our scholarly understanding of post-colonial Greenlandic identity and the process towards independence for Greenland could be furthered by bringing politics back in. Based on a discourse analysis of the Greenlandic debate on language, this paper makes three claims: First…
Greenland: A post-Danish sovereign nation state in the making
The relationship between Greenland and the European Union (EU) can best be understood by exploring the development from Danish colonialism to a future independent Greenlandic state. In 1985, Greenland became the first territory ever to leave the European Economic Community (EEC) when it opted for status as an ‘overseas country or territory’. The manner in which Greenland had to follow Denmark into the EEC in 1973 – whereby Greenlanders saw contro…
Liminal Strategies in the Margins of International Politics: The State-Like Power of Non-State Greenland
A growing body of literature builds on the observation that power is relational and directs attention to the diplomacy of marginal and liminal subjects, implying that they harbor a potential to change the structures undergirding international politics. However, performances of state power routinely find other loci than diplomacy, and all states are more or less marginalized from the conceptual core of statehood. This article therefore offers a re…
From flip-flopping stereotypes to desecuritizing hybridity: Muslims as threats and security providers in Danish broadcast drama series
Muslims are making their way into filmed entertainment in Hollywood and Europe. Critical reception has uniformly acclaimed the quantitative progress, however, disagreeing on the quality of the representation. One position laments how the increased representation of diversity is structured by negative stereotypes; another is encouraged by how the very same stereotypes are ironically taken to extremes. Bearing in mind the intimate relation between …
Concepts of dialogue as counterterrorism: Narrating the self-reform of the Muslim Other
Since 9/11, the terrorist is often awarded the position of the radical Other: the personified existential threat to the West. The counterterrorism strategy presented by the Danish government describes itself as covering a ‘broad spectrum’ of efforts. It includes an ‘active foreign policy’ in relation to the Muslim world and an ‘active integration policy’ in relation to Muslim migrants. Both inside and outside the nation-state, efforts range from …
Post-colonial identity in Greenland: When the empire dichotomizes back — bring politics back in
In the gradual unravelling of Greenland’s colonial relationship to Denmark, an essentialist conceptualization of Greenlandic identity has played a significant role. However, both our scholarly understanding of post-colonial Greenlandic identity and the process towards independence for Greenland could be furthered by bringing politics back in. Based on a discourse analysis of the Greenlandic debate on language, this paper makes three claims: First…
Concepts of politics in securitization studies
The article argues that there are a number of concepts of politics in play in the current debates on securitization theory and that greater awareness regarding these conceptual differences helps clarify not only theoretical differences but also the possibilities for new theoretical development and reflection. The article identifies three conversations on politics: first, a conversation on how politics concerns action and intentionality; second, a…
Samtaler om Københavnerskolen – Begreper om politikk i studier av sikkerhetisering
Concepts of dialogue as counterterrorism: Narrating the self-reform of the Muslim Other
Since 9/11, the terrorist is often awarded the position of the radical Other: the personified existential threat to the West. The counterterrorism strategy presented by the Danish government describes itself as covering a ‘broad spectrum’ of efforts. It includes an ‘active foreign policy’ in relation to the Muslim world and an ‘active integration policy’ in relation to Muslim migrants. Both inside and outside the nation-state, efforts range from …
Preventing radicalisation through dialogue? Self-securitising narratives versus reflexive conflict dynamics
Critical scholarship has warned against basing the prevention of terrorism on a concept of ‘radicalisation’ which implies that violence is inherent to Islam, but various approaches disagree on how to base the critique. This article argues for reading counter-radicalisation policies as narratives in order to identify their potential in terms of conflict escalation. Analysis of the official Danish counter-radicalisation action plan, reactions to it…
Greenland: A post-Danish sovereign nation state in the making
The relationship between Greenland and the European Union (EU) can best be understood by exploring the development from Danish colonialism to a future independent Greenlandic state. In 1985, Greenland became the first territory ever to leave the European Economic Community (EEC) when it opted for status as an ‘overseas country or territory’. The manner in which Greenland had to follow Denmark into the EEC in 1973 – whereby Greenlanders saw contro…
Introduction: Postimperial sovereignty games in the Nordic region
Benevolence, homogeneity and peace has never been the full story of the Nordic region. Building on a critical review of myths of ‘ Norden’ in international relations theory and beyond (international political economy, security studies, regional and European integration theory and postcolonialism), we develop the framework of postimperial sovereignty games for understanding contemporary Nordic foreign policy and regional dynamics. We shift focus f…
From flip-flopping stereotypes to desecuritizing hybridity: Muslims as threats and security providers in Danish broadcast drama series
Muslims are making their way into filmed entertainment in Hollywood and Europe. Critical reception has uniformly acclaimed the quantitative progress, however, disagreeing on the quality of the representation. One position laments how the increased representation of diversity is structured by negative stereotypes; another is encouraged by how the very same stereotypes are ironically taken to extremes. Bearing in mind the intimate relation between …
In the post-colonial waiting room
Greenland, New Caledonia and Mayotte have one thing in common. They have so far opted not to decolonize formally from their European metropoles. This chapter investigates this puzzle of choosing non-sovereignty in a postcolonial setting. It explores a number of European overseas countries and territories. The chapter focuses on French dependencies in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and North Atlantic Greenland constitutionally connected to Denmark…
National identity politics and postcolonial sovereignty games: Greenland, Denmark, and the European Union
The relationship between Greenland and the EU is to a great degree influenced by the image of Greenland being on the path towards independence from Denmark. In both countries, identity discourse idealizes the homogenous nation state, leaving the ‘community of the realm’ in need of a good explanation. However, attempts to explain Greenland’s continued reliance on outside help in its development towards independence continuously risk infantilizing …
The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic: Reconfiguring Identity, Space, and Time
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Translations of Security: A Framework for the Study of Unwanted Futures
This book scrutinizes how contemporary practices of security have come to rely on many different translations of security, risk, and danger.\nInstitutions of national security policies are currently undergoing radical conceptual and organizational changes, and this book presents a novel approach for how to study and politically address the new situation. Complex and uncertain threat environments, such as terrorism, climate change, and the global …
Translations of Security
This book scrutinizes how contemporary practices of security have come to rely on many different translations of security, risk, and danger. Institutions of national security policies are currently undergoing radical conceptual and organizational changes, and this book presents a novel approach for how to study and politically address the new situation. Complex and uncertain threat environments, such as terrorism, climate change, and the global f…
Greenland in Arctic Security: (De)securitization Dynamics under Climatic Thaw and Geopolitical Freeze
Greenland has increasingly captivated imaginations around the globe. Yet, while it is central to the Arctic region, its role has been poorly understood. Greenland in Arctic Security delivers a comprehensive overview of how security dynamics unfold in and in relation to Greenland. Each individual chapter analyzes specific discourses and dynamics pertaining to hard or soft security questions. These span from great power interests in geostrategic in…
Liminal Strategies in the Margins of International Politics: The State-Like Power of Non-State Greenland
A growing body of literature builds on the observation that power is relational and directs attention to the diplomacy of marginal and liminal subjects, implying that they harbor a potential to change the structures undergirding international politics. However, performances of state power routinely find other loci than diplomacy, and all states are more or less marginalized from the conceptual core of statehood. This article therefore offers a re…
The Politics of Connections in Greenland: A Typology of Imperial and Post-colonial Infrastructure Logics
The sum of built infrastructure shapes societies, just as attempts at re-shaping social order involve restructuring infrastructure. Understanding infrastructure is therefore essential to understanding colonisation and decolonisation. Nevertheless, despite an ‘infrastructural turn’, studies in geopolitics routinely proceed without thinking through the concept of infrastructure. To understand the span of infrastructures related to both colonialism …
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Global Security and Public Health (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (4 works)