National Identity Politics and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games: Greenland, Denmark, and the European Union - Couverture souple

Gad, Ulrik Pram

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8763545020 ISBN 13 : 9788763545020

Editeur : Museum Tusculanum Press, 2017

Synopsis

Greenland views itself as being on the way to sovereignty. This image -- and the tensions involved in it -- structure the triangular relation between the EU, Greenland and Denmark. The central Other of Greenland has for a couple of centuries been Denmark, the colonial overlord. The national identity discourses of Greenland and Denmark both idealise national homogeneity. A central condition for a continuation of Rigsfællesskabet, the community of the realm including Greenland and Denmark, is the idea that Greenland still needs external assistance in its development towards independence -- and that this idea can be formulated in a way which does not infantilise Greenland metaphorically. As part of the post-colonial diversification of Greenlands dependency, the bilateral relation between Denmark and Greenland has gradually been opened up to involve other others. Meanwhile, a discourse prognosticates that climate change is opening up the Arctic to minerals extraction and commerce. In these circumstances, the triangular relation with the EU is played out as a series of rhetorical and practical sovereignty games, in Nuuk, Copenhagen and Brussels. Particularly, a number of strategies are employed to minimise the apparent role of Denmark for the Greenlandic relations to the EU.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ulrik Pram Gad is associate professor in the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Museum Tusculanum Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8763545020
• ISBN 13: 9788763545020
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 148
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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