Colonialism in Greenland
Tradition, Governance and Legacy
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Beschreibung
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.
Contributes to the on-going debate on the nature of the Danish colonization of Greenland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Investigates the practices of colonial governance and their impact on the formation, negotiation and contestation of identity in the present and the past
Provides important nuances to the understanding of the historical relationship between Denmark and Greenland
Contributes to the on-going debate on the nature of the Danish colonization of Greenland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Investigates the practices of colonial governance and their impact on the formation, negotiation and contestation of identity in the present and the past Provides important nuances to the understanding of the historical relationship between Denmark and Greenland
Autor*in
Søren Rud
Themen in »Colonialism in Greenland«
Greenland Colonialism Tradition Governance Legacy Identity Ethnography Denmark