Icelandic Resource Landscapes and the State
Autor: | James Maguire |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
060101 anthropology History Resource (biology) Natural resource economics Energy (esotericism) media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences chemistry.chemical_element 06 humanities and the arts 050905 science studies language.human_language State (polity) chemistry Aluminium Anthropology Capital (economics) language 0601 history and archaeology 0509 other social sciences Icelandic media_common |
Zdroj: | Anthropological Journal of European Cultures. 29:20-41 |
ISSN: | 1755-2931 1755-2923 |
Popis: | This paper offers an ethnographic perspective on the relationship between resource landscapes and the state in Iceland during a period of financial experimentation. In particular, it analyses a shift from the production of thermal water for local use to the production of electricity for the global aluminium market. This shift, the paper argues, is not merely a technocratic exercise in further resource extraction, it also indexes some of the tenuous connections between resource making and state making. The paper ends by offering a perspective on the recursive relationship between resource instabilities and instabilities within the state. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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