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Title Denmark and the new North Atlantic : narratives and memories in a former empire / editors, Kirsten Thisted and Ann-Sofie N. Gremaud
Published Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (illustrations (colour), maps (some colour))
Contents Vol. 1. Section 1. Envisioning the North Atlantic: Current narratives and official discourses -- Section 2. The specter of an empire -- Section 3. The blue Atlantic: North Atlantic imagined geographies -- Section 4. Emotional landscapes: narratives of purity and authenticity -- vol. 2. Section 5. National (gender) trouble: race, bodies, and sexualities -- Section 6. Let the pasts begin: memory, history and heritage -- Section 7. Sovereignty, constitutions and natural resources
Summary The book investigates how the emergence of the Arctic as a new geopolitical arena affects and reshapes the area known as the North Atlantic: Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and coastal Norway. With climate change a whole new reality is emerging in the Arctic and sub-Arctic areas. Power is moving north, and new connections and partnerships are being developed. The North Atlantic countries share a history as being part of a Danish empire, and some of the hierarchies and mindsets inherited from the past still affect the present. This calls for an in-depth understanding of the cultural history of the North Atlantic. What narratives make up the foundation for contemporary cooperation? How are historical relations and narratives being reinterpreted today? How do postcolonial relations affect decision-making concerning natural resources? How do North Atlantic communities envision the future? A team of historians, literary theorists, art historians, ethnographers and culture and communication scholars with profound insight into the histories, languages and cultures of the North Atlantic have collaborated on this study of the North Atlantic countries as an emerging new center in the North. -- Provided by publisher
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 18, 2022)
Subject Postcolonialism -- Arctic regions
Postcolonialism -- Atlantic Ocean Region
HISTORY / General
Diplomatic relations
Politics and government
Postcolonialism
SUBJECT Arctic regions -- Foreign relations -- Denmark
Denmark -- Foreign relations -- Arctic regions
Denmark -- Foreign relations -- Atlantic Ocean Region
Atlantic Ocean Region -- Foreign relations -- Denmark
Arctic regions -- Politics and government
Atlantic Ocean Region -- Politics and government
Subject Arctic Regions
Atlantic Ocean Region
Denmark
Form Electronic book
Author Thisted, Kirsten, editor
Gremaud, Ann-Sofie N., 1981- editor.
ISBN 9788772193649
8772193646