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LUND UNIVERSITY PO Box 117 221 00 Lund +46 46-222 00 00 HELENA GONZALESLINDBERG HELENA This thesis contends that maps have constitutive power. As such they mediate political meaning-making and frame the conditions for political alternatives to emerge or to be silenced. To illustrate the constitutive power of maps, three contemporary maps are analysed with emphasis on how they limit and enable certain conceptualisations of Arctic the in maps of power constitutive The the Arctic and politics within that region. The thesis, moreover, is an attempt to further conversations between visual politics and critical cartography in investigating the constitutive power of maps in international politics. Helena Gonzales Lindberg has a background in Political Science, Human Geography, and Environmental Studies, having studied at the universities of The constitutive Lund, Oslo, and Reykjavik. power of maps in the Arctic HELENA GONZALES LINDBERG POLITICAL SCIENCE LUND UNIVERSITY Lund University Faculty of Social Science Department of Political Science ISBN 978-91-7753-988-9 2019 ISSN 0460-0037 The constitutive power of maps in the Arctic The constitutive power of maps in the Arctic Helena Gonzales Lindberg DOCTORAL DISSERTATION by due permission of the Faculty Social Science, Lund University, Sweden. To be defended at the Eden Auditorium, Department of Political Science, 25 October 2019 at 10:15 am FACULTY OPPONENT Professor Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv University of Tromsø / The Arctic University of Norway Helena Gonzales Lindberg Vestsidevegen 96 2636 Øyer OrganizationE-post : [email protected] name: LUND UNIVERSITYTelefon: 414 44616 DOCTORAL DISSERTATION 7. juni 2012 Date of disputation: 25 October 2019 Author: Helena Gonzales Lindberg Sponsoring organization: - Title: The constitutive power of maps in the Arctic Caritas Norge As maps areStorgata widely 38 used, circulated, and recognised, they have consequences for how people0182 view Oslo and understand the world. They mediate political meaning-making and frame the conditions for political alternatives to emerge or to be silenced. In contrast to dominant approaches to the study of the power of maps that consider their political influence on the basis of the intentions of the map-maker, this thesis emphasises the constitutive power of maps and the visual representations prevalent within them. Moreover, it attempts to further conversations between the fields of visual politicsSøknad and om critical stilling cartography som kommunikasjons by investigatingrådgiver the power i Caritas of Norgemaps in international politics. It does so by developing three theoretical assumptions about the constitutiveJeg er eipower 27 år effecgammelts of jente maps: fra cartographicGudbrandsdalen truth som-claiming, for tiden cartographic er trainee hos EU-delegasjonen til naturalisation,Norge, and med cartographic ansvar for blantmaterialisation. annet oppdatering To illustrate av delegasjonens and examine nettside, these skrive korte artikler og effects, a twoutsending-step analytical av nyhetsbrev. framework Masterprogrammet for interpreting mittand deconstructingvar internasjonalt maps og istverrfaglig, så jeg har lært presented myeand appliedom flerkulturell to the study kommunikasjon of three contemporary og gruppearbeid, maps: ai tilleggworld tilmap god using engelsk. the Web Mercator projection, a map of the changes in Arctic sea ice, and a set of two maps Samfunnsgeografidepicting the oil andstudiet gas potentialsga meg kunnskap in the Arctic. om klima The oganalysis utvikling focuses i et onsør/nord perspektiv, samt the ways inbyutvikling which maps i utviklingsland limit and enable. Som cer norsktain conceptualisationskatolikk kjenner jeg of godt ‘the til Arctic’ Caritas, men mest som giver. and politicsJeg withinbrenner the for region. en mer Therettferdig thesis og concludes god verden by, samtidigcontending som thatjeg ermaps klar over at det ikke bare er perform theå sende political penger, by shaping men også generally hvordan held de assumptions brukes og at about de går the til ‘reality’dem som of faktiskthe behøver dem. Arctic, both in terms of its ‘challenges’ and ‘opportunities’, and therefore serving particular interestsJeg mener as welljeg er as godtgiving rustet rise to for ideas arbeid and medvisions kommunikasjon about the region’s og informasjon future. utad, og jeg synes dette er en spennende oppgave. I tillegg til arbeidet ved EU-delegasjonen har jeg erfaring fra Key wordsrepresentasjon: maps, power, i politics,Norges representation,delegasjon til UN visual-Habitat politics og, somcritical aktiv blogger for Changemaker under cartography,COP15. the Arctic Fra kurs i markedskommunikasjon har jeg lært det å nå ut til en målgruppe, og jeg trives Classificationgodt system med and/or å skrive index ogterms formidle (if any) : informasjon.- Jeg har fått ros for forståelig og engasjerende framstilling, både muntlig og skriftlig. Jeg kunne tenkt meg mer journalistisk erfaring og derfor Supplementarypasser bibliographical det perfekt information å skulle skrive: - artikler for dere.Language Med arbeidserfari: English ng fra flere forskjellige hold er ISSN and keyjeg title fleksibel: 0460- 0037,og arbeidsvillig. Lund Political Studies 199 ISBN 978-91-7753-988-9 Price - Recipient’s CVnotes og: - karakterutskriftNumber vedlegges. of pages Referanser: 228 og attester kan ettersendes. 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Signature Date 2019-09-22 The constitutive power of maps in the Arctic Helena Gonzales Lindberg Cover image by Helena Gonzales Lindberg Copyright: Helena Gonzales Lindberg Lund University Faculty of Social Science Department of Political Science ISBN 978-91-7753-988-9 (print) ISBN 978-91-7753-989-6 (pdf) ISSN 0460-0037 Lund Political Studies 199 Printed in Sweden by All-Media Öresund Malmö 2019 Table of contents Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................... 9 CHAPTER 1 Introduction ............................................................... 13 Overarching aim ................................................................................. 19 Introducing maps ............................................................................... 22 Why the Arctic? .................................................................................. 29 Contributions ...................................................................................... 34 Overview of the chapters .................................................................. 37 CHAPTER 2 Theorising the constitutive power of maps .............. 39 The visual politics field ...................................................................... 40 The critical cartography field ............................................................ 48 The constitutive power of maps ...................................................... 57 Concluding this chapter ..................................................................... 67 CHAPTER 3 Interpreting and deconstructing the map ................. 69 Interpreting the map (1) .................................................................... 73 Deconstructing the map (2) .............................................................. 77 The material: three maps ................................................................... 83 Concluding this chapter ..................................................................... 91 CHAPTER 4 Google Maps and the making of ‘the Arctic’ ............ 93 Interpreting Google Maps ................................................................. 95 Deconstructing Google Maps ....................................................... 107 Concluding this chapter .................................................................. 120 CHAPTER 5 The NSIDC map and the making of Arctic sea ice . 121 Interpreting the NSIDC map ........................................................ 124 Deconstructing the NSIDC map .................................................. 131 Concluding