Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Susan Vanek: The Cost of Independence: National Identity and Economic Autonomy in Greenland

博士论文改进补助金：Susan Vanek：独立的成本：格陵兰岛的民族认同和经济自治

• 批准号: 1313762
• 负责人: Thomas Wilson
• 金额: $ 2.08万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Binghamton
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-08-01 至 2016-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1313762&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Susan

This project examines Greenland's independence movement through its nation-building efforts, particularly its Branding Greenland initiative, a process that strives to reconfigure an ethnic identity into a national identity. The Greenlandic Nation is a new phenomenon in world affairs as it is composed and led by an indigenous Inuit population, poised to become the first independent Inuit nation-state. As such it is one of the few contemporary examples of nation-building in the Arctic. This transition is reconfiguring the face of governance in the region, with Greenland?s role in its own governance increasing as Denmark's wanes. Nation-branding in Greenland draws attention to the increasing role of culture and identity as tools for economic development and political recognition by indigenous and minority groups. Building on and contributing to scholarship on indigenous movements in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the proposed project explores the transition from a primarily ethnic, Inuit identity to a national identity and the contention between various understandings of Greenland as a place and Greenlanders as a people embedded in this process. It examines how culture and identity have been configured and reconfigured through policy with the goal of attaining political and economic autonomy, and how they have increasingly been objectified and essentialized as tools for development by various interests in politics, business, and NGOs. This project also contributes to a more situated understanding of government and governance, moving it from a straight-forward top-down process focused solely on political actors to one characterized by multiple and intersecting social, cultural, political and economic interests and contested meanings. This project employs the notion of "bordering" to examine contemporary nation-building as an internally and externally focused process, highlighting the changing role of the nation-state in an increasingly global Arctic, facing climate change accompanied by growing international attention and increasing resource development.

该项目通过格陵兰的国家建设努力，特别是其品牌格陵兰倡议，审查了格陵兰的独立运动，这是一个努力将种族认同重新配置为国家认同的过程。格陵兰民族是世界事务中的一个新现象，因为它是由土著因纽特人组成和领导的，即将成为第一个独立的因纽特民族国家。因此，它是当代为数不多的北极国家建设的例子之一。这一转变正在重新配置该地区的治理面貌，随着丹麦的衰落，格陵兰？S在其自身治理中的作用越来越大。格陵兰的国家品牌提请注意文化和特性作为促进经济发展和土著和少数群体的政治承认的工具的作用日益增强。在南北半球土著运动学术研究的基础上，该拟议项目探讨了从主要是因纽特人的族裔身份向国家身份的过渡，以及对格陵兰作为一个地方的不同理解和作为一个民族融入这一进程的格陵兰人之间的争论。它审查了文化和特性如何通过政策进行配置和重新配置，以实现政治和经济自治的目标，以及它们如何越来越多地被政治、商业和非政府组织的各种利益集团作为发展工具而对象化和必不可少。该项目还有助于更好地了解政府和治理，使其从单纯侧重于政治行为者的直截了当的自上而下的过程转变为以多重和交叉的社会、文化、政治和经济利益和有争议的意义为特征的过程。该项目采用了“边界”的概念，将当代国家建设作为一个以内部和外部为重点的过程，突出了民族国家在日益全球化的北极中不断变化的角色，面临着伴随着越来越多的国际关注和资源开发的气候变化。