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Gérard Duhaime, Birger Poppel, MarieKathrine Poppel, Louis-Jacques Dorais
Beginning during the Second World War, the United States concluded a series of agreements with the Kingdom of Denmark that allowed the US considerable latitude to access Greenlandic territory for its own security. The claim of the current US Administration, that it requires control over Greenland for security reasons, is therefore specious. The US interest in annexing the country is more likely motivated by its substantial mineral reserves, especially of rare earth elements, in the face of competition not from China, as alleged, but from the European Union. Under the pretext that rare earths are needed for technologies to tackle the climate crisis, the drive for their extraction is part of a process of militarisation and digitisation set to concentrate shareholder value in unprecedented private fortunes. The annexation of Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) would amount to policide, reducing an Indigenous nation to an ethnic minority within the American melting pot. This article is published in the Thematic Collection ‘On Greenland’, edited by Tim Ingold.
29 September 2026
Davina Cooper, Lydia Morris, Shirin M. Rai, Mike Savage, Sylvia Walby
In these grim times, the potential for societies to advance social justice, address unequal access to rights, undo harms, and responsibly grow more sustainable ecologies, seems both challenging to find and ever more necessary. With dystopic developments coming increasingly to the fore, this collection of papers explores the concept of society’s potential to be otherwise and the methodological and evidentiary questions this raises. Such questions include: what is this otherwise and where is it found? How can we know? Is there evidence for any of these possibilities and what kind of evidence do we want or need? How are time and temporality addressed in thinking about futures? Is society’s potential part of its deep ontology, is it made, collectively and with effort, is it something imagined—that we can or should treat as if it existed—and what can we learn from dystopias both on the horizon and those present? These contributions address these themes through reflecting on the role of rights and civic stratification; utopias and the prefigurative; and through concepts of the moral economy.
29 September 2026
Rasmus Leander Nielsen, Jeppe Strandsbjerg
This article traces the recent development of security and defence policy in Greenland. Although constitutionally, questions of security and defence have been for Denmark to decide, Greenland has recently begun to formulate its own security and defence policies, as part of its quest to secure international recognition as an actor in its own right, and to play a part in shaping, and benefitting from, vast increases in defence investments. Traditionally, Greenland has cleaved to a pacifist position, and has sought to keep the military presence in the Arctic to a minimum. However, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the threat of annexation following President Trump’s return to the White House, have raised the stakes over matters of Arctic security. As Greenland has demanded a greater say in negotiations with the Danish government over investments in security, defence policy has come to the fore in the domestic politics of Greenland itself. This article is published in the Thematic Collection ‘On Greenland’, edited by Tim Ingold.
25 September 2026
Davina Cooper, Lydia Morris, Shirin M. Rai, Mike Savage, Sylvia Walby
In these grim times, the potential for societies to advance social justice, address unequal access to rights, undo harms, and responsibly grow more sustainable ecologies, seems both challenging to find and ever more necessary. With dystopic developments coming increasingly to the fore, this collection of papers explores the concept of society’s potential to be otherwise and the methodological and evidentiary questions this raises. Such questions include: what is this otherwise and where is it found? How can we know? Is there evidence for any of these possibilities and what kind of evidence do we want or need? How are time and temporality addressed in thinking about futures? Is society’s potential part of its deep ontology, is it made, collectively and with effort, is it something imagined—that we can or should treat as if it existed—and what can we learn from dystopias both on the horizon and those present? These contributions address these themes through reflecting on the role of rights and civic stratification; utopias and the prefigurative; and through concepts of the moral economy.
29 September 2026
Rasmus Leander Nielsen, Jeppe Strandsbjerg
This article traces the recent development of security and defence policy in Greenland. Although constitutionally, questions of security and defence have been for Denmark to decide, Greenland has recently begun to formulate its own security and defence policies, as part of its quest to secure international recognition as an actor in its own right, and to play a part in shaping, and benefitting from, vast increases in defence investments. Traditionally, Greenland has cleaved to a pacifist position, and has sought to keep the military presence in the Arctic to a minimum. However, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the threat of annexation following President Trump’s return to the White House, have raised the stakes over matters of Arctic security. As Greenland has demanded a greater say in negotiations with the Danish government over investments in security, defence policy has come to the fore in the domestic politics of Greenland itself. This article is published in the Thematic Collection ‘On Greenland’, edited by Tim Ingold.
25 September 2026
Lea Ypi, in conversation with Pablo Mukherjee
Can the memoir ask political questions that the academic monograph cannot? Can one research in archives and be mindful of the dignity of the lives being researched? Why do philosophers often turn to literature for answers? Lea Ypi looks back at her experience of writing two memoirs about her childhood and her family in Albania to offer her thoughts on these issues. Writing about her beloved grandmother, Ypi realises, allowed her to measure the tectonic movements of history that dramatically changed the shape of modern Albania. At the same time these memoirs are also a reckoning with herself—a diasporic academic weighing up the privileges and problems of being at home in the world. This article arises from a Lecture delivered on 17 September 2025.
25 September 2026
Oran R. Young
The geopolitical premises underlying recent arguments about the role of Greenland in world affairs do not align well with Arctic realities; some of the specific assertions appearing frequently in popular accounts are simply at odds with the facts. This does not mean that the place of the Arctic in international society is not changing or that Greenland is unimportant in the overall Arctic picture. But it does suggest that popular accounts of the role of Greenland are not helpful to those seeking to understand current developments in the Arctic and to address specific issues pertaining to Greenland. What is needed going forward is an effort to collaborate with Greenlandic leaders seeking to promote liberal values, rather than the promotion of outdated imperialistic practices bent upon the annexation of lands and peoples regardless of their desires. This article is published in the Thematic Collection ‘On Greenland’, edited by Tim Ingold.
25 September 2026