Europe's ‘Others’ in the Polar Mediterranean

Steinberg, P.

doi:10.1111/tesg.12176

Europe's ‘Others’ in the Polar Mediterranean

Steinberg, P.

Authors

Professor Philip Steinberg philip.steinberg@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Abstract

A large body of literature problematises the role of the Mediterranean, as both civilisational hearth and liminal frontier, in both ancient and modern Europe. However, much less attention has been directed to the inland sea at Europe's northern edge: the Arctic. Increasingly, as the Arctic becomes attractive to non-Arctic European capitals as a potential site of investment and (in)security, European states, and perhaps the EU as a whole, are seeking to construct the Arctic, like the Mediterranean, as a space that is both marginal and central to the continent's future. This paper seeks to investigate the extent to which the Arctic is, to paraphrase Viljhalmur Stefansson, Europe's ‘Polar Mediterranean’ and what this means for Europe as it constructs institutions and identities that, as in the Mediterranean, use the concept of the inland sea to both incorporate and differentiate its internal and external ‘others.’

Citation

Steinberg, P. (2016). Europe's ‘Others’ in the Polar Mediterranean. Journal of Economic and Human Geography, 107(2), 177-188. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12176

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Mar 29, 2015
Online Publication Date	Mar 18, 2016
Publication Date	Apr 1, 2016
Deposit Date	Apr 22, 2015
Publicly Available Date	Mar 18, 2018
Journal	Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Print ISSN	0040-747X
Electronic ISSN	1467-9663
Publisher	Wiley
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	107
Issue	2
Pages	177-188
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12176

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This is the accepted version of the following article: Steinberg, P. E. (2016), Europe's ‘Others’ in the Polar Mediterranean. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 107(2): 177–188, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12176. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.