Contesting the Arctic: Politics and Imaginaries in the Circumpolar North

Philip E. Steinberg · Jeremy Tasch · Hannes Gerhardt · Adam Keul · Elizabeth A. Nyman

feb 2015 · Bloomsbury Publishing

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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.

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Philip E. Steinberg is Professor of Political Geography at the University of Durham, UK.

Jeremy Tasch is Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Planning, Towson University, Baltimore, USA.

Hannes Gerhardt is Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, University of West Georgia, USA.