Colonial Moments in Greenland: Mutable Tensions in the Contact Zone
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Colonial Moments in Greenland : Mutable Tensions in the Contact Zone. / Hastrup, Kirsten Blinkenberg.
I: Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction, Bind 43, Nr. 2, 2019, s. 243-261.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Colonial Moments in Greenland
T2 - Mutable Tensions in the Contact Zone
AU - Hastrup, Kirsten Blinkenberg
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - In 2009, Greenland obtained self-government, terminating Danish supremacy, which had taken many forms over the centuries. This article analyses significant moments in Greenlandic-Danish relations by unpacking distinct contact zones that have emerged through the many encounters between locals and newcomers. Contact zones are always emplaced and create their own logic, which is not always easily readable as “colonialism” in the sense of appropriating lands and extracting surplus. While wrongs may have been perpetrated and ill-informed actions towards the inhabitants taken, relations between Greenland and Denmark illustrate how “colonialism” is neither uniform nor scalable. The analytical focus on colonial moments stresses the nonlinearity of colonial relations and allows for a subtler understanding of the postcolonial remains.
AB - In 2009, Greenland obtained self-government, terminating Danish supremacy, which had taken many forms over the centuries. This article analyses significant moments in Greenlandic-Danish relations by unpacking distinct contact zones that have emerged through the many encounters between locals and newcomers. Contact zones are always emplaced and create their own logic, which is not always easily readable as “colonialism” in the sense of appropriating lands and extracting surplus. While wrongs may have been perpetrated and ill-informed actions towards the inhabitants taken, relations between Greenland and Denmark illustrate how “colonialism” is neither uniform nor scalable. The analytical focus on colonial moments stresses the nonlinearity of colonial relations and allows for a subtler understanding of the postcolonial remains.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Greenland
KW - contact zone
KW - scalability
KW - emerging citizenship
KW - cosmopolitanism
KW - Danish colonialism
U2 - 10.1017/S0165115319000251
DO - 10.1017/S0165115319000251
M3 - Journal article
VL - 43
SP - 243
EP - 261
JO - Itinerario
JF - Itinerario
SN - 0165-1153
IS - 2
ER -
ID: 225521890