Colonialism in Greenland: Tradition, Governance and Legacy (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies) - Hardcover

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Rud, Søren

 
9783319461571: Colonialism in Greenland: Tradition, Governance and Legacy (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies)
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ISBN 10: 3319461575 ISBN 13: 9783319461571
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

This book explores how the Danish authorities governed the colonized population in Greenland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Two competing narratives of colonialism dominate in Greenland as well as Denmark. One narrative portrays the Danish colonial project as ruthless and brutal extraction of a vulnerable indigenousness people; the other narrative emphasizes almost exclusively the benevolent aspects of Danish rule in Greenland. Rather than siding with one of these narratives, this book investigates actual practices of colonial governance in Greenland with an outlook to the extensive international scholarship on colonialism and post-colonialism. The chapters address the intimate connections between the establishment of an ethnographic discourse and the colonial techniques of governance in Greenland. Thereby the book provides important nuances to the understanding of the historical relationship between Denmark and Greenland and links this historical trajectory to thepresent negotiations of Greenlandic identity.

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Søren Rud is Associate Professor of History at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has published widely on Greenland, colonialism and techniques of governance. Recent publications include 'Policing and Governance in Greenland: Rationalities of police and colonial rule 1860-1953’ in  Policing in Colonial Empires: Cases, Connections, Boundaries (ca. 1850–1970).

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This book explores how the Danish authorities governed the colonized population in Greenland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Two competing narratives of colonialism dominate in Greenland as well as Denmark. One narrative portrays the Danish colonial project as ruthless and brutal extraction of a vulnerable indigenousness people; the other narrative emphasizes almost exclusively the benevolent aspects of Danish rule in Greenland. Rather than siding with one of these narratives, this book investigates actual practices of colonial governance in Greenland with an outlook to the extensive international scholarship on colonialism and post-colonialism. The chapters address the intimate connections between the establishment of an ethnographic discourse and the colonial techniques of governance in Greenland. Thereby the book provides important nuances to the understanding of the historical relationship between Denmark and Greenland and links this historical trajectory to thepresent negotiations of Greenlandic identity.

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Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3319461575
ISBN 13 
9783319461571
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1
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179
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