This article outlines the thematic section’s main anthropological interventions and introduces the inherently ambiguous notion of welfare frontiers, implying allegedly benign practices of resource development. Through ethnographic analyses from Iceland, Norway, and Greenland, it shows that Nordic Arctic landscapes become resourceful through careful crafting, entangled with practices and ideals of nation-building, egalitarianism, sustainability, good governance, and a concern for liveability for legitimate citizens. Further, the authors suggest that seeing natural resource development as linked to specific welfare state projects, with attention to the sometimes colonizing aspects of such practices, specifies and captures the current era, bringing the Anthropocene back home.

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福利前沿？北欧北极人类世的资源实践

本文概述了主题部分的主要人类学干预措施，并介绍了福利前沿的固有模糊概念，暗示了资源开发的所谓良性实践。通过对冰岛、挪威和格陵兰岛的民族志分析，它表明北欧北极景观通过精心打造变得足智多谋，与国家建设、平等主义、可持续性、善政和对合法公民宜居性的实践和理想纠缠在一起。此外，作者建议将自然资源开发视为与特定的福利国家项目相关联，并注意这种做法有时具有殖民化的方面，从而指定并捕捉当前时代，将人类世带回家。