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Arctic state identity

Geography, history, and geopolitical relations

By Dr Ingrid A. Medby

Arctic state identity
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  • ISBN: 9781526153906
  • Publish Date: Jan 2025
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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    • Format: Hardcover
    • Pages: 240
    • Price: £80.00
    • Published Date: January 2025

    Description

    This book sets out to answer what it means to hold a formal title as one of the eight 'Arctic states'; is there such a thing as an Arctic state identity, and if so, what does this mean for state personnel? It charts the thoughtful reflections and stories of state personnel from three Arctic states: Norway, Iceland, and Canada, alongside analysis of documents and discourses. This book shows how state identities are narrated as both geographical and temporal - understood through environments, territories, pasts and futures - and that any identity is always relational and contextual. As such, demonstrating that to understand Arctic geopolitics we need to pay attention to the people whose job it is to represent the state on a daily basis. And more broadly, it offers a 'peopled' view of geopolitics, introducing the concept and framework of 'state identity'.

    Contents

    List of figures
    Foreword
    Preface
    Acknowledgements
    List of abbreviations
    Introduction: A conceptual framework of state identities
    1 - The Arctic: A contested region
    2 - State geographies: The spatiality of Arctic state identities
    3 - State temporalities: The past, present, and futures of Arctic state identities
    4 - An Arctic state among states: Positions and positionings in an international region
    5 - The Arctic state and the nation: Narrating identity in and as the north
    6 - Identities within the Arctic state: Domestic differences and diversity
    7 - The Arctic state as personal and professional: Identities of state personnel
    Conclusion: Pluralities of state identities and ongoing geopolitical practices
    Bibliography

    Author

    Ingrid Agnete Medby is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Newcastle University.

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    By Dr Ingrid A. Medby

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