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People and Ice – the case of the Ilulissat Icefjord

People and Ice – the case of the Ilulissat Icefjord. Lill Rastad Bjørst, ph.d.–fellow Cand. mag i Eskimologi og Kultur og Formidling Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier. ’The Greenlandic case’.

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People and Ice – the case of the Ilulissat Icefjord

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  1. Navn på enhed (Indsæt --> Diasnummer) People and Ice – the case of the Ilulissat Icefjord Lill Rastad Bjørst, ph.d.–fellow Cand. mag i Eskimologi og Kultur og Formidling Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier

  2. Navn på enhed (Indsæt --> Diasnummer) ’The Greenlandic case’ • “It helps to show the Greenlandic case. Greenland has become a symbol of climate change, and it affects you when you see the terrible consequences of the global warming with your own eyes as it is possible in Ilulissat” • (The former Danish Minister for Climate and Energy Connie Hedegaard) • (Holmsgaard 2007:15, translated by the author)

  3. Navn på enhed (Indsæt --> Diasnummer) Ilulissat Icefjord as an icon • American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) has induced • Three categories: • firstness (Icon) • secondness (Index) • thirdness (Symbol)

  4. Navn på enhed (Indsæt --> Diasnummer) Ilulissat Icefjord in the semiotic framework of an index • Fishermen and hunters working in the Ilulissat Icefjord • Scientists doing field studies in the Ilulissat Icefjord

  5. Navn på enhed (Indsæt --> Diasnummer) The Ilulissat Icefjord as a climate symbol • “Every time we have had guests with us to Greenland - in my first four years as minister I visited Greenland five times – we have had scientists with us to “entertain” our guests. If you only see the greatness and beauty, you will not understand anything. Then it is only a nice trip to some outstanding nature. No, you need to have the mechanism explained and the whole meaning with the visit is to make the visitors more informed on the climate. You have to be quite unintelligent not to get smarter from such a trip; fortunately in Denmark we have some extraordinary insightful scientists… “ • (Hedegaard 2008: 89, translated by the author)

  6. Navn på enhed (Indsæt --> Diasnummer) ’The Danish case’ Anders Fogh Rasmussen was interviewed by the magazine Time, where he stated the good example from Denmark: “We try to make Denmark a show room. You can reduce energy use and carbon emissions, and achieve economic growth” Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Walsh 2009: 31). www.geus.dk

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  8. Navn på enhed (Indsæt --> Diasnummer) Greenland parallel event at COP15

  9. Navn på enhed (Indsæt --> Diasnummer) • Lillbj@hum.ku.dk

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