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This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2019.
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© 2019 The Author. Antipode © 2019 Antipode Foundation Ltd. Arctic decision-making processes are often praised for including Indigenous peoples. Yet, state practices of “inclusion” may also inadvertently delimit what can be meaningfully said from a stage already set for a highly specific role as “Arctic voices”. This paper draws on reflections offered by Norwegian and Icelandic state personnel on the meanings of Arctic statehood and identity, showing how often well-meaning attempts to “include” may serve the includer more than the included—indeed, may serve to uphold the same power structures they seemingly seek to improve. In so doing, the paper contributes both to understandings of Arctic statecraft and to work seeking the “peopling” of geopolitical concepts such as the state. By focusing on the operation of dominant discourses, the paper argues that current prescribed performances of “inclusion” are not enough in a region marked by histories of dispossession, assimilation, and colonisation.
Author(s): Medby IA
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Antipode
Year: 2019
Volume: 51
Issue: 4
Pages: 1276-1295
Print publication date: 01/09/2019
Online publication date: 15/04/2019
Acceptance date: 02/04/2018
Date deposited: 11/08/2021
ISSN (print): 0066-4812
ISSN (electronic): 1467-8330
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12542
DOI: 10.1111/anti.12542
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