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Book SynopsisPostcolonialism, Multitude, and the Politics of Nature offers an overview of the latest developments of Nordic human geography and relates it to parallel Anglo-American and Continental European debates. The case studies focus on the Finnish-Russian Greenbelt, also known as the Fennoscandian Greenbelt, located at the long north-south border between the two countries. The Greenbelt is a geopolitical and socioenvironmental hybrid, or anomaly, that contains an array of cultural, economic, environmental, political, and epistemic interfaces. The drama and the dynamics of the border challenge the analytical and interpretative capabilities of human geography. Postcolonialism, Multitude, and the Politics of Nature describes in detail the lands and lives of the Greenbelt inhabitants who settled down in a multicultural meeting place of Finno-Ugric, Scandinavian, and Slavic cultures, as well as Orthodox and Lutheran faiths. The Greenbelt is also studied in relation to contemporary pressures of globalization, ranging from geopolitical reformulation of the relations between the European Union and Russia to transcontinental reorganizations in trade and environmental concerns.
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface and Acknowledgements Part 2 I. Introduction: Chapter 1. Postcolonial North?; Chapter 2. Under German and British Influence: Nordic Socioenvironmentalism; Chapter 3. Samhällsgeografi and the Politics of Nature Part 3 II. A Greenbelt Travelogue: Chapter 4. Layered Landscapes: Taming of the Land in the Finnish Northwoods; Chapter 5. Politics of the Margin: Contested Mirescapes; Chapter 6. Raubwirtshaft in the North?: Branding the Northern Forests; Chapter 7. Part 4 III: Conclusions: Chapter 14. Respecting the Difference: Geographies of the Multitude
