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Abstract
What is Arctic airport infrastructure for and for whom? How does this change over time and what do these changes say about how we make sense of and value the places where it is developed? In this paper, we discuss these questions through the telling case of Kangerlussuaq. ‘Born’ as Bluie West Eight, an American airbase during the World War II, known as well under a third (Danish) name as Sønder Strømfjord, it is today Greenland’s main international airport and air transportation hub. As two international and one regional airport are set to open elsewhere in Greenland in years to come, Kangerlussuaq’s place in Greenland’s airport infrastructure appears to slip. At the same time, planners are finding already-established connections difficult to sever. Diving into archives, drawing on exhibition prospects and bringing forth conversations in and about Kangerlussuaq, we analyse how many versions of the airport – past, present, and future - have and do co-exist. We end up by arguing that much can be learnt about the prospecting, construction and becoming undone of Arctic infrastructures from how Kangerlussuaq has been imagined and performed through almost a century.
Translated title of the contribution | Den arktiske lufthavn: Infrastrukturelle fortider, nutider og fremtider |
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Original language | English |
Publication date | 21 Feb 2023 |
Publication status | Published - 21 Feb 2023 |
Event | Arctic Science Summit Week Vienna 2023: The Arctic in the Anthropocene - UNIVIE - University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Duration: 21 Feb 2023 → 24 Feb 2023 https://assw.info |
Conference
Conference | Arctic Science Summit Week Vienna 2023 |
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Location | UNIVIE - University of Vienna |
Country/Territory | Austria |
City | Vienna |
Period | 21/02/2023 → 24/02/2023 |
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IMAGINE PoCo: Imagining Independence - Greenland's Postcolonial Politics of Comparison
Gad, U. P., Bjørst, L. R., Ren, C., Abildgaard, M. S., Jacobsen, R. B., Rud, S., Strandsbjerg, J. & Hansen, K. G.
01/02/2020 → 31/12/2023
Project: Research