Phil Steinberg, the main Author of Contesting the Arctic: Politics and Imaginaries of the Circumpolar North, inviting interested researchers to participate." /> Phil Steinberg, the main Author of Contesting the Arctic: Politics and Imaginaries of the Circumpolar North, inviting interested researchers to participate." />

Phil Steinberg: Contesting the Arctic-seminar

The Arctic Governance research group holds a reading seminar with Phil Steinberg, the main Author of Contesting the Arctic: Politics and Imaginaries of the Circumpolar North, inviting interested researchers to participate.

We are happy to announce that political geographer Phil Steinberg is joining us for a seminar where we will discuss his most recent book which has been recognized as a 'must read' in the field of polar social sciences providing both a framework and an analysis of contemporary Arctic developments.

 

Philip E. Steinberg is Professor of Political Geography and Director of IBRU, the Centre for Borders Research, Durham University, UK.

About the book:

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.

 

If you want to take part in the Reading seminar, please sign up by e-mailing  berit.kristoffersen@uit.no Monday 28th at 10 am and we will provide you with lunch.

 

See Phil Steinberg's blog

 

Contesting the Arctic is a sophisticated analysis of how contemporary discourses and performances are caught up in older colonial and Cold War legacies of knowledge production and geopolitics. It is a reminder to us all that we need to be ever vigilant in terms of how vast and complex spaces such as the “Arctic” are constituted and reproduced in political and popular cultures. As global attention grows towards the Arctic, this book reminds us that the Arctic is also a homeland and not an “empty space” to be scrambled over.’
Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics, Royal Holloway, University of London

Når: 29.09.15 kl 11.00–13.00
Hvor: D0134, ISS, HSL-fak
Sted: Tromsø
Målgruppe: Ansatte
Telefon: +47 95702600
E-post: berit.kristoffersen@uit.no
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