Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Colonialism in Greenland
Book Subtitle: Tradition, Governance and Legacy
Authors: Søren Rud
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46158-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-46157-1Published: 18 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83455-9Published: 03 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-46158-8Published: 08 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 170
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: European History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Cultural History, Ethnography