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dc.contributor.advisorDrivenes, Einar-Arne
dc.contributor.authorJones, Mary Katherine
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-08T11:18:48Z
dc.date.available2017-09-08T11:18:48Z
dc.date.issued2017-06-21
dc.description.abstractScientific texts relating to Spitsbergen (Svalbard) published between 1895 and 1920, during the final quarter-century before Norway obtained sovereignty of this Arctic archipelago, relate their authors’ scientific findings, but in many instances their very existence, their language of publication, their author’s nationality and their country of publication also serve to illustrate their historical and geopolitical significance, both as individual texts and as a cumulative literary canon. A published history of the region during this period, as well as the compilation of Spitsbergen bibliographies in Britain, Norway, Sweden and Russia, signifies its increasing status in international terms. A number of individuals, including British explorer Sir William Martin Conway, French geographical journal editor Charles Rabot and Norwegian geologist Adolf Hoel, embodied power, influence and control in their persuasive attempts – along with many other authors who constituted what has been coined the Spitsbergen Literature Lobby – to influence the outcome of the Spitsbergen Question, determining the region’s future sovereignty in the aftermath of the Great War. Five thesis articles examine the textual shaping of Spitsbergen, both in terms of which texts were published and what the publications were intended to portray. This bibliometric approach to history has uncovered interesting patterns of publication previously unsuspected, but the potential also exists, now and in the future, to use this new historiographical approach as a means to (re)examine the historical, political and cultural perspectives of the region.en_US
dc.description.doctoraltypeph.d.en_US
dc.description.popularabstractTexts about Spitsbergen (Svalbard) published in European scientific journals between 1895 and 1920 – the final quarter-century of this Arctic region’s status as a no man’s land – sometimes served a political purpose as well, reflecting the national culture and territorial ambitions of their time. Creating a bibliographical database of these texts and examining their contents and form has helped to identify trends in the international communication of scientific findings and political developments in the region through the choice of language of publication and changes in the overall perception of this Arctic region. In some cases, texts became tools of persuasion in the pursuit of sovereignty, industrial power and national historical legitimacy, which over time would shape the region textually, both in terms of which texts were published and what the publications were intended to portray.en_US
dc.descriptionThe papers 1-4 of this thesis are not available in Munin. <br> Paper 1: Jones, M. K.: “European Perceptions of Spitsbergen, 1895-1900”. Available in (eds.) Kruse, A., Graves, P.: Images and Imaginations: Perspectives on Britain and Scandinavia. Lockharton Press, Edinburgh 2007: 89-110. ISBN: 1874665028. <br> Paper 2: Jones, M. K.: “From explorer to expert: Sir William Martin Conway’s ‘delightful sense of something accomplished”. Available in <a href= : https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247413000739> Polar Record 2014, 50(3): 319-329. </a> <br> Paper 3: Jones, M. K.: “Thematic and bibliometric analysis of articles about Spitsbergen (Svalbard) in science periodicals, 1905-1914”. (Manuscript). <br> Paper 4: Jones, M. K.: “Charles Rabot’s Arctic idée fixe: Spitsbergen coverage in La Géographie, 1900-1920”. Available in <a href=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2012.735040> The Polar Journal 2012, 2(2):274-290. </a>en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/11431
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten_US
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen_US
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::History: 070en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Historie: 070en_US
dc.titlePerceptions, Persuasion & Power. The textual shaping of Spitsbergen (Svalbard), 1895-1920: an international view.en_US
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen_US
dc.typeDoktorgradsavhandlingen_US


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