Contesting the Arctic

Philip E. Steinberg is Professor of Political Geography at the University of Durham. He was formerly Professor of Geography at Florida State University and Marie Curie Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. Jeremy Tasch is Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Planning, Towson University, Baltimore, USA. His research interests include resource development in Central Asia and the Russian Far East, Arctic sovereignty claims in the context of climate change, and the social theory of global environmental issues.Hannes Gerhardt is Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, University of West Georgia. His research interests include issues of sovereignty, territorialization, global governmentality, and the cultural dimensions of critical geopolitics. Adam Keul is Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Connecticut. He specialises in resource geography. Elizabeth Nyman is Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She specialises in international relations.

• Table of Contents*ContentsAcknowledgementsForeword by Rob ShieldsChapter 1: Imagining the ArcticChapter 2: Terra NulliusChapter 3: Frozen oceanChapter 4: Indigenous statehoodChapter 5: Resource frontierChapter 6: Transcendent nationhoodChapter 7: Nature reserveChapter 8: Normalizing the NorthBibliographic EssayIndex

'Contesting the Arctic is a sophistcated analysis of how contemporary discourses and prformances are caught up in older colonial and Cold War legacies of knowledge production and geopolitics. It is a reminder to us all that we need to be ever vigilant in terms of how vast and complex spaces such as the 'Arctic' are constituted and reproducd in political and popular cultures. As global attention grows towards the Arctic, this book reminds us that the Arctic is also a homeland and not an 'empty space' to be scrambled over.' - Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics, Royal Holloway, University of London