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Postcolonial Perspectives on the European High North
Graham . Ed(S): Huggan
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Description for Postcolonial Perspectives on the European High North
Hardback. Editor(s): Huggan, Graham. Num Pages: 166 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 10 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; JFC; JFF; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 218 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
This book approaches the Arctic from a postcolonial perspective, taking into account both its historical status as a colonised region and new, economically driven forms of colonialism. One catchphrase currently being used to describe these new colonialisms is 'the scramble for the Arctic'. This cross-disciplinary study, featuring contributions from an international team of experts in the field, offers a set of broadly postcolonial perspectives on the European Arctic, which is taken here as ranging from Greenland and Iceland in the North Atlantic to the upper regions of Norway and Sweden in the European High North.
While the contributors acknowledge the renewed ... Read more
This book approaches the Arctic from a postcolonial perspective, taking into account both its historical status as a colonised region and new, economically driven forms of colonialism. One catchphrase currently being used to describe these new colonialisms is 'the scramble for the Arctic'. This cross-disciplinary study, featuring contributions from an international team of experts in the field, offers a set of broadly postcolonial perspectives on the European Arctic, which is taken here as ranging from Greenland and Iceland in the North Atlantic to the upper regions of Norway and Sweden in the European High North.
While the contributors acknowledge the renewed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
166
Condition
New
Number of Pages
155
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137588166
SKU
V9781137588166
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Graham . Ed(S): Huggan
Graham Huggan is Chair of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Leeds, UK, where he directs the EU-funded 'Arctic Encounters' project. His work cuts across three fields: postcolonial studies, environmental humanities, and tourism studies. His most recently published book is Nature's Saviours: Celebrity Conservationists in the Television Age (2013), and he is currently working on another on the ... Read more
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