The Shaping of Greenlands Resource Spaces: Environment, Territory, Geo-Security [Paperback]

1. Enclosure and extraction
2. Transformation and design
3. Re-making and becoming
4. Geo-security and subterranean Greenland: a Cold War legacy
5. Extractive spaces and the reproduction of remoteness
6. Places of human and non-human encounters
7. Conservation and Indigenous rights

The book examines ideas about the making and shaping of Greenlands society, environment, and resource spaces.

The book examines ideas about the making and shaping of Greenlands society, environment, and resource spaces.

It discusses how Greenlands resources have been extracted at different points in its history, shows how acquiring knowledge of subsurface environments has been crucial for matters of securitisation, and explores how the country is being imagined as an emerging frontier with vast mineral reserves. The book delves into the history and contemporary practice of geological exploration and considers the politics and corporate activities that frame discussion about extractive industries and resource zones. It touches upon resource policies, the nature of social and environmental assessments, and permitting processes, while the environmental and social effects of extractive industries are considered, alongside an assessment of the status of current and planned resource projects. In its exploration of the nature and place of territory and the subterranean in political and economic narratives, the book shows how the making of Greenland has and continues to be bound up with the shaping of resource spaces and with ambitions to extract resources from them. Yet the book shows that plans for extractive industries remain controversial. It l/