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2025
Wanted, More Than Human Intellectual Property: Animal Authors and Human Machine.
Journal article
2025
Colonization and colonialism.
Book chapter
2025
United Kingdom.
Book chapter
2025
Geoengineering Governance in the Arctic.
Book chapter
2025
Participation Trophy or Agency?
Book chapter
2024
International Law and Posthuman Theory.
Journal article
2024
Rethinking the exercise of sovereignty in the Anthropocene: From extraction to environmental protection in Arctic Svalbard.
Journal article
2024
Indigenous Sovereignty, Self-determination, and Rights: Normative Agency through the Rights-Based Approach in Multilevel Arctic Environmental Governance.
Dissertation
2023
Frozen Laws and Critical freeze for the Quasi-frozen sanctuary – critical legal conference 2023.
Journal article
2023
Old Sea, New Ice: sea ice geoengineering and indigenous rights in Arctic Ocean governance.
Journal article
2023
Environmental Impact Assessment in the Polar Regions.
Book chapter
2022
‘Hyperborean Legalities: critical approaches to Polar Law’, Critical Legal Conference 2022.
Journal article
2022
Dealing with insecurities and geopolitics: science diplomacy at the poles.
Journal article
2021
Our common arctic? A more sustainable EU-arctic nexus in light of the European green deal.
Journal article
2021
Svein Vigeland Rottem, The Arctic Council: Between environmental protection and geopolitics (London: Palgrave Pivot, 2020).
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2020
Assessing Japan’s Arctic Engagement during the ArCS Project (2015–2020).
Journal article
2020
A. Shibata et al. (eds.), Emerging Legal Orders in the Arctic: The role of non-Arctic actors (London: Routledge, 2019).
Journal article
2020
Elana Wilson Rowe, Arctic Governance: Power in cross-border cooperation (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018).
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2020
Simon Marsden, Protecting the Third Pole: Transplanting international law (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2019).
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2020
Sustainability as an integrative principle: The role of international law in Arctic resource development.
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2020
Ulrik Pram Gad and Jeppe Stransbjerg (eds.) The Politics of Sustainability: Reconfiguring identity, space and time (London: Routledge, 2019).
Journal article
2019
The EU and its Arctic spirit: Solving Arctic climate change from home?
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2019
Duncan Depledge, Britain and the Arctic (London: Palgrave Pivot, 2018).
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2019
G. Baruchello et al. (eds.), No One Is An Island: An Icelandic Perspective (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018).
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2019
Jordi Jaria i Manzano, Nathalie Chalifour and Louis J. Kotzé (eds.), Energy, Governance and Sustainability (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2017).
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2018
Speaking of Rights: Indigenous Linguistic Rights in the Arctic.
Journal article
2018
Collaboration across the Arctic: a tool of regionalization or simple pragmatism.
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2017
Geir Hønneland, Russia and the Arctic: Environment, Identity and Foreign Policy & Leif Christian Jensen, International Relations in the Arctic: Norway and the Struggle for Power in the New North (London/New York: IB Tauris, 2016).
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