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Icelandic Resource Landscapes and the State: Experiments in Energy, Capital, and Aluminium

Icelandic Resource Landscapes and the State: Experiments in Energy, Capital, and Aluminium : 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. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Berghahn Books

Icelandic Resource Landscapes and the State: Experiments in Energy, Capital, and Aluminium

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Berghahn Books
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1755-2923
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1755-2931
DOI
10.3167/ajec.2020.290103
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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.

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Anthropological Journal of European Cultures – Berghahn Books

Published: Mar 1, 2020

Keywords: capital; energy; earthquakes; landscapes; resources; the state; Iceland

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