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.

该项目通过其国家建设努力，尤其是其品牌格陵兰倡议来研究格陵兰的独立运动，该过程旨在将种族认同重新配置为民族认同。格陵兰国家是世界事务中的一种新现象，因为它是由土著因纽特人的人口组成和领导的，该人民准备成为第一个独立的因纽特人民族国家。因此，这是北极中民族建设的少数当代例子之一。这种过渡正在重新配置该地区的治理，随着丹麦的衰落，格陵兰在其自身治理中的作用不断增加。格陵兰岛的民族烙印引起了人们对文化和身份作为经济发展和土著和少数群体政治认可的工具的不断增长的关注。拟议的项目以北半球和南半球的土著运动为基础并为奖学金做出了贡献，探讨了从主要的种族，因纽特人身份到民族认同的过渡，以及对格陵兰作为在此过程中嵌入的人们对格陵兰作为一个地方的各种理解和格陵兰人之间的争论。它研究了如何通过政策来配置和重新配置文化和身份，以实现政治和经济自主权，以及它们如何被政治，商业和非政府组织的各种利益的工具越来越被客观化和必不可少。该项目还有助于对政府和治理的更加理解，将其从专注于政治参与者的直截了当的自上而下的进程转移到以多重和相交的社会，文化，政治和经济利益以及有争议的含义的特征。该项目采用“接壤”的概念来研究当代国家建设作为内部和外部集中的过程，强调了民族国家在日益全球的北极地区的不断变化，面对气候变化，伴随着日益增长的国际关注和日益增长的资源发展。