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The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic - Reconfiguring Identity, Space, and Time (Paperback)
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The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic - Reconfiguring Identity, Space, and Time (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability
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The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic argues that
sustainability is a political concept because it defines and shapes
competing visions of the future. In current Arctic affairs,
prominent stakeholders agree that development needs to be
sustainable, but there is no agreement over what it is that needs
to be sustained. In original conservationist discourse, the
environment was the sole referent object of sustainability;
however, as sustainability discourses have expanded, the concept
has been linked to an increasing number of referent objects, such
as society, economy, culture, and identity. This book sets out a
theoretical framework for understanding and analysing
sustainability as a political concept, and provides a comprehensive
empirical investigation of Arctic sustainability discourses.
Presenting a range of case studies from Greenland, Norway, Canada,
Russia, Iceland, and Alaska, the chapters in this volume analyse
the concept of sustainability and how actors are employing and
contesting this concept in specific regions within the Arctic. In
doing so, the book demonstrates how sustainability is being given
new meanings in the postcolonial Arctic and what the political
implications are for postcoloniality, nature, and development more
broadly. Beyond those interested in the Arctic, this book will also
be of great value to students and scholars of sustainability,
sustainable development, and identity and environmental politics.
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