Theorising the Thaw
Geopolitics in a Changing Arctic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5696990 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Johanne M Bruun (0000-0001-9937-5467, corresponding author), Ingrid A Medby (0000-0002-3123-4614, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 915-929 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geography Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/gec3.12189 |
| OpenAlex | W1732242376 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 120 |
As the effects of climate change are becoming more and more pronounced, the Arctic region is attracting renewed attention from politicians, transnational corporations, and environmentalists alike, many of whom are based geographically far from the region itself. Interests span from the prospects of vast oil and mineral riches and shorter international shipping routes, to preserving what is often framed as a fragile, pristine environment. As a resource frontier and a wilderness, but also a homeland and a space of culture to its inhabitants, the Arctic is characterised by potentially conflicting geographical imaginaries and visions of both the present as well as the future of the region. Hence, the political geographies of the Arctic are both messy and complex. This paper examines some of the principal themes and issues of Arctic geopolitics and offers a discussion of how scholars of Political Geography have engaged the topic at a time when an increasing number of academics are directing their analytical gaze towards the North. Focusing on publications from the past decade, it aims to contextualise scholarly debates on Arctic geopolitics and illustrate the complexity and richness of the topic
Arctic · Economic geography · Environmental ethics · Frontier · Geography · Geopolitics · Homeland · Political economy · Political geography · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The arctic · Vision · Wilderness · Anthropology · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Polar Research and Ecology · Ecology · Oceanography
Securing Anticipatory Geographies
Conceptualizing the North
Social after pandemic distortion
What is Antarctica
Icy waters, hot tempers, and high stakes
Climate change, extractivist infrastructure and environmental conflicts at the Northern Sea-Polar Silk Road intersection
Multiscalar entanglements in the post-socialist city
Socio-ecological crises and global climate tipping points as difficulties for expanding extractivisms
Carbon footprint nationalism’
Peripheries within economic geography
The role of science diplomacy
Change will be the constant – future environmental policy and governance challenges in Svalbard
The construction, solidification and political implications of geographical scientific facts
Geographical Imaginaries”
State Discourses of Indigenous “Inclusion”
Disaster risk perceptions and multinational cooperation in Barentsburg, Svalbard
Anticipatory state identity
The European Union’s ‘geopolitical subjectivity’ in the Arctic in question
Technology and the construction of oceanic space
Articulating state identity
A 'peopled' account of political agency in the Arctic
Geopolitics and Ice Humanities
Killing Reindeer
Arctic Routes to Fabled Lands
Siku: Knowing Our Ice
Community collaboration and climate change research in the Canadian Arctic
Inuit and Scientific Perspectives on the Relationship Between Sea Ice and Climate Change
Negotiating the Arctic
Cruise Tourism in Polar Regions
The Politics of Arctic Sovereignty
Arctic Promise
Arctic Security in an Age of Climate Change
Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom
Who Speaks for the Climate
Contesting the Arctic
Ways to Help and Ways to Hinder
What we know, do not know, and need to know about climate change vulnerability in the western Canadian Arctic
Dangerous climate change and the importance of adaptation for the Arctic’s Inuit population
Making wilderness
Commercial Arctic shipping through the Northeast Passage
Linking local and global
The diversity of polar tourism. Some challenges facing the industry in Rovaniemi, Finland
Reindeer herders in the Timan-Pechora oil province of Northwest Russia
Arctic futures
Arctic state, Arctic nation? Arctic national identity among the post-Cold War generation in Norway
Coming into the cold
Covering Kiruna
Arctic Alaska's role in future United States energy independence
Socio-economic restructuring of a peripheral mining community in the Russian North
A dangerous space? Unpacking state and media discourses on the Arctic
Policies and practicalities of shipping in arctic waters
Observing trends and assessing data for Arctic mining
Counting what counts
Globalization, Culture, and Northern Identities
Neoliberalism in the North
Arctic observing network social indicators and northern commercial fisheries
Social indicators for arctic tourism
Local-level responses to sea ice change and cruise tourism in Arctic Canada's Northwest Passage
Policy Gaps in the Northern Dimension
Cold region hazards and risks
Next steps toward an Arctic human dimensions observing system
Arctic Governance - Pathways to the Future
Recontinentalizing Canada
North by Northeast
The Implications of Ice Melt on Arctic Security
Russia's Armed Forces and the Arctic
Governing the Arctic
Polar super seaways? Maritime transport in the Arctic
Climate change policy responses for Canada's Inuit population
Changes in weather persistence
Representing Traditional Knowledge
Cartography
Science, sovereignty and nation
Strategic Arctic science
Industrial extraction of Arctic natural resources since the sixteenth century
Science, Environment, and the New Arctic
Voices from the sea ice
Assault on the unknown
The Arctic in the middle ages
The New Problem of Arctic Stability
Contributions of traditional knowledge to understanding climate change in the Canadian Arctic
Of whales and oil
Human security, the Arctic Council and climate change
Anticipating the Arctic and the Arctic Council
The participation of indigenous peoples in international norm-making in the Arctic
The cruise tourism industry in the Canadian Arctic
The political order in the Arctic
Limits and possibilities of the Arctic Council in a rapidly changing scene of Arctic governance
The goals of the EU seal products trade regulation
Vocabularies for human development
Oil exploration and sea ice projections in the Arctic
The Arctic Council after Kiruna
Challenges in acquiring a social licence to mine in the globalising Arctic
Shifting perspectives on shifting ice
Frontier engineering
Contested Sovereignty in a Changing Arctic
The Geopolitics of Global Energy Security
Post-colonial identity in Greenland
From states to polities
Configuring an 'Arctic Commons
Securing Indigenous politics
Resource development and aboriginal culture in the Canadian north
Have you heard the one about the disappearing ice? Recasting Arctic geopolitics
Flag planting and finger pointing
You are (not) here
Reframing sovereignty
Breaking the ice
The geopolitics of climate change
Neoclassical geopolitics
Lines of possession? The anxious constitution of a polar geopolitics
Cartopolitics, Geopolitics and Boundaries in the Arctic
The (Arctic) Show Must Go On
Icy Geopolitics
The future of the Arctic
The Importance of Northern Dimension Foreign Policies in the Geopolitics of the Circumpolar North
From map to horizon; from trail to journey
The Scramble for the Arctic
Horizons of Sustainability in Greenland
| Unique citing works | 23 |
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| Citations per year | 2,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |