Will the Arctic be a new Mediterranean? Transformations in the polar geographies of power

• Authors: Marco Ghisetti

Title variants

PL

Czy Arktyka będzie nowym Śródziemnomorzem? Transformacje w polarnych geografiach władzy

Abstracts

PL

Niniejszy artykuł opiera się na niedawnych wypowiedziach badaczy Arktyki dotyczących potrzeby wyposażenia się we wrażliwe geograficznie narzędzia służące zrozumieniu przemian zachodzących w północnych obszarach polarnych w odniesieniu do polityki władzy. Argumentuje, że geopolityka jest heurystycznie zdolna do uchwycenia zarówno ról odgrywanych przez Arktykę, jak i konsekwencji jej otwarcia i transformacji. Jednak aby to zrobić, geopolityka jako podejście heurystyczne musi zostać udoskonalona, a dynamika przestrzenna współczesnej Arktyki musi zostać odpowiednio uchwycona. Pod wpływem twierdzeń, że przestrzeń Arktyki jako całość tworzy Morze Śródziemne, niniejszy artykuł najpierw stara się zrozumieć, czym z geopolitycznego punktu widzenia jest Morze Śródziemne, a następnie sprawdza, czy procesy zachodzące w Arktyce przekształcają ten obszar w nowe Śródziemnomorze. Stwierdzono, że chociaż niewłaściwe jest twierdzenie, że Arktyka jako jednolita przestrzeń stanowi nowe Morze Śródziemne, heurystyczne podejście geopolityki może jednak wyodrębnić i zrozumieć zjawiska i procesy przestrzenne i dynamikę o niewątpliwie rosnącym znaczeniu, które są realizowane w arktycznej przestrzeni i które ona sama realizuje.

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This paper draws upon recent statements by Arctic scholars concerning the need to equip ourselves with geographically sensitive tools in order to understand the transformations underway in the northern polar space in regard to power politics. It argues that Geopolitics is heuristically capable of grasping both the roles played by the Arctic as well as the consequences of its opening and transformation. However, in order to do so Geopolitics as an heuristic approach must be refined and the spatial dynamic the Arctic responds to must be properly grasped. Inspired by the analyses claiming that the Arctic space as a whole makes up a Mediterranean Sea, this paper first proceeds to understand what, from a geopolitical point of view, a Mediterranean is; secondly, it check whether or not the spatialization processes underway and emerging in the Arctic are turning this area into a Mediterranean. It is concluded that although it is improper to claim that the Arctic as a unitary space is a Mediterranean Sea, the heuristic approach of Geopolitics can nevertheless single out and understand several spatial aspects and dynamics of undoubtedly growing importance that are played (and at play) by (and in) the Arctic space.

Keywords

EN

geopolitics; geography; Arctic; mediterraneanization; accessibility

PL

geopolityka; geografia; Arktyka; śródziemnomorskość; dostępność

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Geopolityczne
• Journal: Przegląd Geopolityczny
• Year: 2024
• Issue: 50
• Pages: 68-89

Dates

published

2024

Contributors

author

Marco Ghisetti

• Association of the Italian Geographers, Italy

• https://orcid.org/000900051661313X

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