Postcolonial Gaslighting and Greenland: When Post-Truth Gets in the Way of Independence

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This is an excerpt from Global Politics in a Post-Truth Era. You can download the book free of charge from E-International Relations. When deciding what a colony is, it is often assumed that one can look to international law for a definitive answer. Others finds the definition directly measurable from the level of extracted natural resources determining the colonial status. The case of Greenland’s independence struggle shows that determining what a colony is much more complex and can take place in a realm where discourse is determined more by emotion, belief and distortion than by facts – to borrow the definition of post-truth given by the Oxford English Dictionary in 2016. After achieving ‘Home Rule’ in 1979, the Greenlandic government achieved ‘Self-Rule’ in 2009, allowing the island to declare independence from Denmark, should it want to. With an electoral majority for independence, and with Denmark concerned about its reputation as a ‘model citizen’ of international society (Sharma

Postcolonial Gaslighting and Greenland: When Post-Truth Gets in the Way of Independence Emil Sondaj Hansen Download PDF Oct 4 2022 • [post-views] views --> muratart/Shutterstock This is an excerpt from Global Politics in a Post-Truth Era . You can download the book free of charge from E-International Relations . When deciding what a colony is, it is often assumed that one can look to international law for a definitive answer. Others finds the definition directly measurable from the level of extracted natural resources determining the colonial status. The case of Greenland’s independence s

Postcolonial Gaslighting and Greenland: When Post-Truth Gets in the Way of Independence

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