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{"title":"The Northern sea route at the crossroads: what lies ahead after the war in Ukraine?","authors":"J. Solski","doi":"10.1080/2154896X.2022.2133389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2022.2133389","url":null,"abstract":"In June 2022","PeriodicalId":52117,"journal":{"name":"Polar Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"401 - 403"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47982640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The politics of Arctic scales","authors":"P. Pic","doi":"10.1080/2154896X.2022.2137089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2022.2137089","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Many representations and narratives about the Arctic and Arctic politics carry misconceptions and flawed generalisations. Usually, the term ‘Arctic’ is used as an unproblematized – by default – geographical frame, without considering why this particular ‘Arctic’ framing was chosen and what this choice entails. Yet, considering geographical framing is important as the very choice behind it already carries a political agenda. This paper argues that focussing on the interplay between the different ‘scales’ of the Arctic can shed light on the politics of Arctic scales and resulting discourses. To that end, I analysed every Arctic strategy published by both Arctic and non-Arctic actors. I concentrated on strategies that specifically focused on the Arctic region as a whole, to draw comparisons from these framings. Using thematic analysis, I examined how the Arctic is construed and how the scale at which Arctic issues are framed comes with political consequences. In doing so, I wish to underline the interplay scales and underlying political processes. I conclude by stressing that recognising and attending to the production of ‘scale’ as an inherently political process greatly improves our understanding of regional politics.","PeriodicalId":52117,"journal":{"name":"Polar Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"281 - 302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47681657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The future of Antarctica: scenarios from classical geopolitics","authors":"S. Chaturvedi","doi":"10.1080/2154896X.2022.2133383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2022.2133383","url":null,"abstract":"The Future of Antarctica: Scenarios from Classical Geopolitics , by Jeffrey","PeriodicalId":52117,"journal":{"name":"Polar Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"384 - 386"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48409092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New voices in the Arctic","authors":"D. Depledge","doi":"10.1080/2154896X.2022.2137083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2022.2137083","url":null,"abstract":"A little under ten years ago, The Polar Journal published a collection of papers by a new generation of early career researchers from the humanities and social sciences writing on the geopolitics of the Polar Regions. This guest editor was fortunate to be among them. As a doctoral student, my contribution on Britain as an Arctic nation was one of my first single-authored journal articles. I remain grateful to Klaus Dodds and Richard Powell for providing me with a platform to begin developing my voice. Naturally, when I was asked to collate this Special Issue, I seized the opportunity to provide a similar platform for a new generation of Arctic researchers. The sense of ‘unfolding polar drama’ that Dodds and Powell described has proceeded unabated, especially in the Arctic. Scholarly and practitioner interest in the high latitudes has if anything intensified. When Dodds and Powell put their collection together, Arctic geopolitics looked very different. An Arctic ‘hype machine’ was in overdrive regarding the prospect of an ‘armed rush’ to secure precious resources, sea lanes and territory. Despite this expected activity, many scholars and practitioners nevertheless remained sanguine about the region’s future. In retrospect, these were the heady days of ‘Arctic exceptionalism’: that is the idea, or belief, that whatever happened elsewhere in the world, circumpolar cooperation would be able to resolve the many challenges facing the region. This included concerns about sovereign rights and borders, the plight of indigenous peoples, the legacies of colonialism, the sustainability of development and the unfolding climate crisis. Regional geopolitics was defined by the primacy of the eight Arctic states and a consensus-based approach, institutionalised in the form of the Arctic Council (what I have elsewhere termed the principle of circumpolarity). At the point when Dodds and Powell’s issue went to press, China, Japan, India, South Korea and Singapore were yet to be welcomed as Arctic Council ‘observers’. No non-Arctic state had published a formal policy or strategy setting out an approach to regional interests. Circumpolar cooperation was even beginning to extend into military affairs, although that would prove short-lived.","PeriodicalId":52117,"journal":{"name":"Polar Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"193 - 197"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44500272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Arctic from the perspective of the English school of international relations: a novel research agenda","authors":"Sanna Kopra","doi":"10.1080/2154896X.2022.2137088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2022.2137088","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article adopts the theoretical lens of the English School of International Relations (IR) to outline a new Arctic research agenda. In contrast to the more mechanistic approaches used in North American IR, the English School draws from a wider range of scholarship including historical, legal, philosophical, and sociological thinking about international relations, especially around the concepts of ‘international system,’ ‘international society,’ and ‘world society.’ The article introduces the key concepts and debates within the English School, contemplates how insights from the Arctic could advance the development of the English School theory, and demonstrates how a rigorous application of the English School concepts could contribute to a better understanding of international relations in the Arctic.","PeriodicalId":52117,"journal":{"name":"Polar Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"261 - 280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41858379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Hyperborean Legalities: critical approaches to Polar Law’, Critical Legal Conference 2022","authors":"Romain Chuffart, Thaissa Almeida Meira, Apostolos Tsiouvalas","doi":"10.1080/2154896X.2022.2133387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2022.2133387","url":null,"abstract":"Since its first annual meeting in 1986, the Critical Legal Conference (CLC) has been a key site for the critical study of legal and political issues and attracts a wide range of radical legal and political approaches from across the globe. The Critical Legal Conference 2022 took place from August 31st to September 2nd in Tromsø, Norway, hosted by the Faculty of Law of UiT – The Arctic University of Tromsø. The theme of the CLC 2022 was ‘Liminalities’ and invited an array of topics organised in 15 streams – 14 thematic ones and 1 general stream. Part of this broader conference was the ‘Hyperborean Legalities: Critical Approaches to Polar Law’ stream that came to rethink the polar regions as liminal spheres and address emerging polar law issues through the lens of critical jurisprudence.","PeriodicalId":52117,"journal":{"name":"Polar Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"394 - 398"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47716920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Widows of the ice – The women that Scott’s Antarctic expedition left behind","authors":"Joanna Grochowicz","doi":"10.1080/2154896x.2022.2149085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896x.2022.2149085","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52117,"journal":{"name":"Polar Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"391 - 393"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46680880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Antarctic pioneer: the trailblazing life of Jackie Ronne","authors":"U. Rack","doi":"10.1080/2154896x.2022.2133385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896x.2022.2133385","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52117,"journal":{"name":"Polar Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"388 - 391"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47971715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multiple identities of an Antarctic station through the appropriation of the inhabited space","authors":"Susie Pottier","doi":"10.1080/2154896x.2022.2084914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896x.2022.2084914","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52117,"journal":{"name":"Polar Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44020365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The functional exclusion of Least Developed Countries from the Antarctic regime","authors":"A. Hemmings","doi":"10.1080/2154896X.2022.2058223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2022.2058223","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Antarctic regime makes bold claims for its general validity and open access to membership by any state which is a Member of the United Nations. However, the conditionalities around acquiring decision-making status in the regime – ‘conducting substantial scientific research activity there, such as the establishment of a scientific station or the despatch of a scientific expedition’ (Antarctic Treaty) or ‘research or harvesting activities’ (CCAMLR) – have installed a formidable glass ceiling subsequently reinforced by state practice. This has been fatal to the prospects for engagement in the ATS by most Global South states beyond the most powerful and emerging economies. The challenges facing poorer states are modelled through consideration of the most disadvantaged states, the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). This article explains the functional exclusion of the LDCs and explores why they should be given agency in the Antarctic regime. It examines the options for facilitating their participation and thus overcoming the present functional exclusion.","PeriodicalId":52117,"journal":{"name":"Polar Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"88 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46159139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}