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"The book examines ideas about the making and shaping of Greenland's society, environment, and resource spaces. It discusses how Greenland's resources have been extracted at different points in its history, shows how acquiring knowledge of subsurface environments has been crucial for matters of securitisation, and explores how the country is being imagined as an emerging frontier with vast mineral reserves. The book delves into the history and contemporary practice of geological exploration and considers the politics and corporate activities that frame discussion about extractive industries and resource zones. It touches upon resource policies, the nature of social and environmental assessments, and permitting processes, while the environmental and social effects of extractive industries are considered, alongside an assessment of the status of current and planned resource projects. In its exploration of the nature and place of territory and the subterranean in political and economic narratives, the book shows how the making of Greenland has and continues to be bound up with the shaping of resource spaces and with ambitions to extract resources from them. Yet the books shows that plans for extractive industries remain controversial. It concludes by considering the prospects for future development and debates on conservation and Indigenous rights, with reflections on how and where Greenland is positioned in the geopolitics of environmental governance and geo-security in the Arctic. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental anthropology, geography, resource management, extractive industries, environmental governance, international relations, geopolitics, Arctic studies, and sustainable development"--

Research on labour/management negotiation traditionally has focused on the 'instrumental' elements of negotiating, including the likelihood of bargaining success based on a series of structural factors. The ' expressive' dimension of negotiating, i.e., the interactional strategies employed by negotiators, has been less emphasized. This study is an attempt to address this imbalance. It investigates and describes labour/management negotiation using Goffman's Dramaturgy Model. The primary objectives of this study are to determine whether labour/management negotiations are dramaturgical in nature and to describe the dramaturgy employed by negotiators. In-depth interviews, primarily consisting of open-ended questions, were conducted with ten labour/management negotiators. Chief negotiators, five from labour and five from management, were selected to ensure an interview group with maximum interactional experience and expertise. The interview group was diverse, included both male and female negotiators, and was drawn from multiple sectors, including the health care, education, government, not-for-profit and private sectors. The interviews were transcribed and then coded for instances of the dramaturgical principles delineated by Goffman. Additionally, data gathered through the open-ended questions yielded elements of the dramaturgy of labour/management negotiations beyond those expressly indicated as principles. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

"In this third edition of Anthropology and Climate Change, Susan Crate and Mark Nuttall offer a collection of chapters that examine how anthropologists work on climate change issues with their collaborators, both in academic research and practicing contexts, and discuss new developments in contributions to policy and adaptation at different scales. Building on the first edition's pioneering focus on anthropology's burgeoning contribution to climate change research, policy, and action, as well as the second edition's focus on transformations and new directions for anthropological work on climate change, this new edition reveals the extent to which anthropologists' contributions are considered to be critical by climate scientists, policymakers, affected communities and other rights-holders. Drawing on a range of ethnographic and policy issues, this book highlights the work of anthropologists in the full range of contexts - as scholars, educators, and practitioners, from academic institutions to government bodies, international science agencies and foundations, working in interdisciplinary research teams, and with community research partners. The contributions to this new edition showcase important new academic research, as well as applied and practicing approaches. They emphasize human agency in the archaeological record, the rapid development in the last decade of community-based and community-driven research, and disaster research, provide rich ethnographic insight into worldmaking practices, interventions and collaborations, and discuss how, and in what ways, anthropologists work in policy areas and engage with regional and global assessments. This new edition is essential for established scholars and for students in anthropology and a range of other disciplines, including environmental studies, as well as for practitioners who engage with anthropological studies of climate change in their work"--