Cultiver la nordicité – communiquer la norditude. La rhétorique nordiciste
et la coopération euro-arctique

• Authors: Luc Ampleman

Title variants

EN

CULTIVATING NORDICITY, COMMUNICATING NORTHERNESS: HIGH NORTH RHETORIC AND EURO-ARCTIC COOPERATION

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, the intention of the author is to present how the idea of “North” and all its referents have been enriched in recent decades. It seems as though “Nordicity” has, especially over the last 60 years, been experiencing a double movement both of expansion/proliferation and delimitation/restriction in four specific spheres: geospatial, thematic, political and linguistic. The author considers that this dual movement of expansion and delimitation has provided the key elements to building the North as a “zone of distinction”, and consequently, has provided sufficient justification for political intervention in the circumpolar North. The paper presents the hypothesis that these key elements, away from purely manipulative purposes, have a constructive function and contribute to the emergence of the phenomenon of so-called “Circumpolar Cooperation.” The author therefore proposes at the end of the paper to open the discussion on the legitimacy of a field of research attached to the geopolitics of justification(s).

Keywords

EN

ARCTIC; NORDICITY; POLITICS; REGION-BUILDING; RHETORIC

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: Euro-Facta
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 2. Kultura a komunikacja
• Pages: 59-79

Contributors

author

Luc Ampleman

• Institute For European Studies, Faculty of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University, ul. Jodłowa 13, 30-252 Kraków, Poland