Uranium: The Road to “Economic Self-Sustainability for Greenland”? Changing Uranium-Positions in Greenlandic Politics

Bjørst, Lill Rastad

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46150-2_3

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“…Greenland and in Copenhagen. The findings from this work are already published in books and journals (Bjørst, 2016a(Bjørst, , 2016b(Bjørst, , 2017Ren, Bjørst & Dredge, 2016). Multi-sited ethnography is a method of data collection that follows a topic or a social problem through different geographic or social field sites.…”

Section: Lr Bjørstmentioning

confidence: 53%

Stories, emotions, partnerships and the quest for stable relationships in the Greenlandic mining sector

Bjørst

2020

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This study aims to understand the emotional labour and relationship building in connection to the expected mining industry in Greenland. Greenland mining is often portrayed as something that could create an economic basis for national independence which makes politicians curious about what a potential “partnership” could make possible. Envisioning future relationships (in debates about mining in Greenland) also set the framework for reinterpretation and redefinition of the past, to give meaning to promised new development; hence, this kind of future-making tends to be contested. The analysis centres around stories of what could be (if Greenland really was a place of mining), and the theoretical framework makes use of Ahmed’s and Wetherell’s interpretations of affective economies. Thus the study discusses emotional labour with a special focus on partnership, emotions and filtration, while visiting affective scenes and sites related to the mining of Greenland’s minerals. Greenland’s current position as a state in formation, while still reconciling with experiences from the past, affects relationship building, the openness to flirtation, and sometimes creates conflicts and hieratical structures between the potential partners to be.

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Section: Lr Bjørstmentioning

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Stories, emotions, partnerships and the quest for stable relationships in the Greenlandic mining sector

Bjørst

2020

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“…Large-scale natural resource development, and especially fossil-fuel exploration and iron-ore and uranium mining, has been of specific interest. Many Greenlanders have seen it as a possible way forward toward greater independence and a more self-reliant economy (Poppel, 2018;Bjørst, 2017;Wilson, 2016;Nielsen, 2013;Hansen et al, 2016;Trump et al, 2018;Andersen, 2015;Rasmussen et al, 2014;Larsen and Huskey, 2020).…”

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Arctic Justice

2023

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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Offering a unique introduction to the study of justice in the European, North American and Russian Arctic, this collection considers the responsibilities and failures of justice for environment and society in the region. Inspired by key thinkers in justice, this book highlights the real and practical consequences of postcolonial legacies, climate change and the regions’ incorporation into the international political economy. The chapters feature liberal, cosmopolitan, feminist, as well as critical justice perspectives from experts with decades of research experience in the Arctic. Moving from a critique of current failures, the collection champions a just and sustainable future for Arctic development and governance.

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“…Becoming a selfgoverning part of the Danish Kingdom in 2009, the large Arctic self-governing nation of only 55,000 inhabitants has explored ways of achieving greater economic independence from Denmark, and the possibility of future sovereignty (e.g., Nielsen, 2013;Hansen et al, 2016). Large-scale resource development, especially hydrocarbon exploration, rare earth, uranium, and iron ore mining may offer greater economic independence and a more self-reliant economy (Andersen, 2015;Wilson, 2016;Bjørst, 2017;Poppel, 2018;Trump, Kadenic, & Linkov, 2018). For Greenland, as for other parts of the Arctic, the benefits of resource production for residents depend on their participation as owners of capital or as labor and the share of government revenues flowing to the region.…”

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confidence: 99%