1st Edition
Human Security through the New Traditional Economy in the Arctic
The book creates an augmented knowledge about human security beyond the warfare concept in the Arctic It analyses international political analysis on security issues and their spillovers to the Arctic societies.
The multi contributed book helps to conceptualize and create knowledge on democratic businesses as a human security issue. Adopting a comparative approach, it provides detailed analysis of democratic business in Iceland, Greenland, Arctic Canada, and Alaska. In a comparative economic systems analysis, the aim of this book is to introduce the reader to the new traditional economy in an Arctic Context. The readers will get an overview of different security approaches and approaches to promoting the new traditional economy's emphasis on Aborigine traditions for commonhood, common or non-ownership, cooperation, and local community.
The book is multidisciplinary and will be of interest to scholars and students in the field of social sciences, security studies, human security, international political economy, international political science, ecological science, economics, organization theory, and sociology.
Foreword by Li Xing
Prologue
1. Introduction
Gorm Winther
Part I: Approaches to Security
2. Alternative Concepts of Security – The Inclusion of Environmental Issues
Lassi Heininen
3. The Arctic in the Greater Eurasian Partnership
Glenn Diesen
4. Russia and the West in The Arctic: Peaceful Cooperation Gives Way to Tension and Rearmament
Jens Jørgen Nielsen
5. Arctic Environmental Security: Complex Dynamics in a Region of Change
Douglas Causey and Nadezhda Filimonova
Part II: Human Security and Empowerment Through Co-determination, Participation in Ownership and Finance, Economic Self-management and Political Self-government in Arctic Regions
6. Conceptualizing Participatory and Democratic Economic Organizations
Gorm Winther
7.Cooperative Societies in the Arctic as a Heterodox Approach – the Case of Greenland
Gorm Winther and Jan Holm Ingemann
8. The Goal of Conventional Firms and Cooperative Societies in Arctic Regions
Gorm Winther
9. Cooperative Socialist Futures – The Icelandic: Third-way Experiment
Ívar Jónsson and Lilja Mósesdóttir
10. Cooperatives, Social Entrepreneurship, and the Social Economy in Arctic Canada: Opportunities and Challenges
Chris Southcott
11. Is There a Post-Colonialism - Colonialism, and Critical Realism in an Arctic Context
Gorm Winther
12. Community-based Resource Rights and Well-being of Arctic Indigenous Peoples The Western Alaska Community ‘Development Quota Program
Matthew Berman
Index
Biography
Gorm Winther, MSc in Economics, Ph.D., is a retired professor at Aalborg University and previously Greenland University, consultant to Østfold University College, Norway. Previously, in the Participation, Workers' Control, Workers Self-management, and Self-Government course, he was a Course Director and a resource person at the Interuniversity Centre of Postgraduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, and later Croatia from 1984 to 1999. He was a visiting researcher in the Participation and Labor-managed Systems program at the Department of Economics at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. From 1998 to 2015, he was a Board member of the European Federation of Employee Share Ownership, Brussels, where he is now an honorable member.
Ívar Jónsson, Dr. Phil. Social Implication of Technical Change, University of Sussex, M.A. History and Philosophy of Social and Political Science, University of Essex, B.A. Social Science with History, University of Iceland, Fil. Kand. in Theories of Science at Gothenburg University. He is a former Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and professor emeritus at Østfold University College. He has held Professor positions at Bifröst University, Iceland, as associate professor (docent) at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, and as associate professor at Reykjavik University, Iceland, and the University of Greenland. He is also a former professor of political science at NORD University, Norway.
