Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic

Jeppe Strandsbjerg is Editor-in-Chief for Social Science at Djøf Publishing. Previously, he was Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, DenmarkUlrik Pram Gad is Associate Professor of Arctic Culture and Politics at Aalborg University, Denmark

• Preface 1. Introduction: sustainability as a political concept in the Arctic Ulrik Pram Gad, Marc Jacobsen and Jeppe Strandsbjerg 2. The sustainability of what? Stocks, communities, the public purse? Rikke Becker-Jacobsen 3. Sustainability understandings of Arctic shipping Kathrin Keil 4. Digging sustainability: scaling and sectoring of sovereignty in Greenland and Nunavut mining discourses Marc Jacobsen 5. "Without seals, there are no Greenlanders": colonial and postcolonial narratives of sustainability and Inuit seal hunting Naja Dyrendom Graugaard 6. Scaling sustainability in the Arctic Frank Sejersen 7. Same word, same idea? Sustainable development talk and the Russian Arctic Elana Wilson Rowe 8. The right to "sustainable development" and Greenland’s lack of a climate policy Lill Rastad Bjørst 9. Building a Blue Economy in the Arctic Ocean: sustaining the sea or sustaining the state? Philip Steinberg and Berit Kristoffersen 10. Saving the Arctic: Green Peace or oil riot? Hannes Gerhardt, Berit Kristoffersen and Kirsti Stuvøy 11. Sustaining the Arctic nation state: The Case of Norway, Iceland, and Canada Ingrid Medby 12. ‘How we use our nature’: sustainability and indigeneity in Greenlandic discourse Kirsten Thisted 13. Sustaining Denmark, sustaining Greenland Johanne Bruun 14. A new path in the last frontier state? Transforming energy geogragrahies of agency, sovereignty, and sustainability in Alaska Victoria Herrmann 15. Geo-assembling narratives of sustainability in Greenland Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall 16. Conclusion: sustainability reconfiguring identity, space, and time Ulrik Pram Gad and Jeppe Strandsbjerg

"Gad and Strandsbjerg have succeeded in gathering an interdisciplinary group of scholars that share their insight into the many aspects, understandings, perceptions and applications of the politics of sustainability in the Arctic. The multifaceted approaches and answers to the editors’ key research questions: ‘What is to be sustained?’ ‘In relation to what?’ and ‘How?’ provide valuable reading for the academic community, politicians, indigenous peoples' organisations as well as other Arctic decision makers and stakeholders." — Birger Poppel, Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland"As the SDGs are being implemented as a tool for monitoring both human and planetary well-being, the essays in The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic: Reconfiguring Identity, Space, and Time serve as a crucial reminder that probing the reference object of sustainability, an historical gaze and empirical richness are necessary for understanding sustainability politics." - Annika E. Nilsson, Independent researcher, Sweden