EAN: 9783319461571

COLONIALISM IN GREENLAND - SØREN RUD GEBUNDEN

This book explores how the Danish authorities governed the colonized population in Greenland in
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Two competing narratives of colonialism dominate in
Greenland as well as Denmark. One narrative portrays the Danish colonial project as ruthless
and brutal extraction of a vulnerable indigenousness people  the other narrative emphasizes
almost exclusively the benevolent aspects of Danish rule in Greenland. Rather than siding with
one of these narratives  this book investigates actual practices of colonial governance in
Greenland with an outlook to the extensive international scholarship on colonialism and
post-colonialism. The chapters address the intimate connections between the establishment of an
ethnographic discourse and the colonial techniques of governance in Greenland. Thereby the book
provides important nuances to the understanding of the historical relationship between Denmark
and Greenland and links this historical trajectory to the present negotiations of Greenlandic
identity.

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