TY - JOUR

T1 - Welfare Frontiers? Resource Practices in the Nordic Arctic Anthropocene

AU - Hastrup, Frida

AU - Lien, Marianne

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - This article outlines the thematic section's main anthropological interventions and introduces the inherently ambiguous notion of welfare frontiers, implying allegedly benign practices of resource development. Through ethnographic analyses from Iceland, Norway, and Greenland, it shows that Nordic Arctic landscapes become resourceful through careful crafting, entangled with practices and ideals of nation-building, egalitarianism, sustainability, good governance, and a concern for liveability for legitimate citizens. Further, the authors suggest that seeing natural resource development as linked to specific welfare state projects, with attention to the sometimes colonizing aspects of such practices, specifies and captures the current era, bringing the Anthropocene back home.

AB - This article outlines the thematic section's main anthropological interventions and introduces the inherently ambiguous notion of welfare frontiers, implying allegedly benign practices of resource development. Through ethnographic analyses from Iceland, Norway, and Greenland, it shows that Nordic Arctic landscapes become resourceful through careful crafting, entangled with practices and ideals of nation-building, egalitarianism, sustainability, good governance, and a concern for liveability for legitimate citizens. Further, the authors suggest that seeing natural resource development as linked to specific welfare state projects, with attention to the sometimes colonizing aspects of such practices, specifies and captures the current era, bringing the Anthropocene back home.

U2 - 10.3167/ajec.2020.290101

DO - 10.3167/ajec.2020.290101

M3 - Journal article

VL - 29

SP - v-xxi

JO - Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

JF - Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

SN - 1755-2923

IS - 1

ER -