Blar i forfatter "Spring, Ulrike"
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The Useless Arctic: Exploiting Nature in the Arctic in the 1870s
Spring, Ulrike; Schimanski, Johan Henrik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015)What is the discursive genealogy of an ecological approach to the Arctic? Building on distinctions suggested by Francis Spufford and Gísli Pálsson, this article examines a specific juncture in the history of European–Arctic interaction – the reception of the Austro-Hungarian Arctic Expedition in 1874 – and traces the potential for ecological and relational understandings in what seems to be an ...