Abstract
This paper offers an ethnographic perspective on the relationship between resource landscapes and the state in Iceland during a period of financial experimentation. In particular, it analyses a shift from the production of thermal water for local use to the production of electricity for the global aluminium market. This shift, the paper argues, is not merely a technocratic exercise in further resource extraction, it also indexes some of the tenuous connections between resource making and state making. The paper ends by offering a perspective on the recursive relationship between resource instabilities and instabilities within the state.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Artikelnummer | 3 |
Tidsskrift | Anthropological Journal of European Cultures |
Vol/bind | 29 |
Udgave nummer | 1 |
Sider (fra-til) | 20-41 |
Antal sider | 22 |
ISSN | 1755-2923 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - mar. 2020 |
Emneord
- capital; energy; earthquakes; landscapes; resources; the state; Iceland