Rethinking Greenland and the Arctic in the Era of Climate Change

New Northern Horizons

Bibliographic Data

ID19940872
AuthorsFrank Sejersen (0000-0002-9229-7395, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author)
Year2015
Publication date2015-06-05
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueRethinking Greenland and the Arctic in the Era of Climate Change (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315728308
OpenAlexW4232690681
Open LibraryOL39594413M
ISBN9781315728308
LanguageEN
Citations received5

This ground-breaking book investigates how Arctic indigenous communities deal with the challenges of climate change and how they strive to develop self-determination. Adopting an anthropological focus on Greenland’s vision to boost extractive industries and transform society, the book examines how indigenous communities engage with climate change and development discourses. It applies a critical and comparative approach, integrating both local perspectives and adaptation research from Canada and Greenland to make the case for recasting the way the Arctic and Inuit are approached conceptually and politically. The emphasis on indigenous peoples as future-makers and right-holders paves the way for a new understanding of the concept of indigenous knowledge and a more sensitive appreciation of predicaments and dynamics in the Arctic. This book will be of interest to post-graduate students and researchers in environmental studies, development studies and area studies

Arctic · Climate change · Climatology · Geography · Physical geography · The arctic · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Environmental Science · Geological Studies and Exploration · Geology · Oceanography · Arctic regions · Changements · Climat · Climatic changes · Conditions environnementales · Discrimination & Race Relations · Ecology · environmental conditions · Ethnoécologie · Ethnoecology · Europe · greenland · History · Indigenous peoples · Inuit · Inuits · Minority Studies · Social aspects · Social Science

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