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SUMMARY:A tale of two price-lists: economic topography and colonial govern
 ance in the context of the Royal Greenland Trading Company - Dr. Nanna Kat
 rine Lüders Kaalund
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CONTACT:Emilie Canova
DESCRIPTION:Postdoctoral Research Associate\, Carlsberg Foundation Fellow 
 School of Culture and Society Aarhus University & Postdoctoral Research As
 sociate\, Darwin College University of Cambridge\n\nWhen the Royal Greenla
 ndic Trading Company (KGH) was founded in 1774\, it was granted control ov
 er both the monopoly trade and the colonial administration in Greenland. T
 he control over the monopoly trade allowed the KGH to set the purchase pri
 ce of local products and the value of imported goods from Denmark. The KGH
 ’s colonial administrative power meant that the company directed access 
 to salaried jobs and education. This continued to be the case until 1908\,
  when the Danish parliament passed a law that separated the governance of 
 the trade and colonial administration from each other. The legislative cha
 nge followed years of debate over the impact of KGH on the living conditio
 ns of Kalaallit Inuit. In this paper\, I examine what the KGH’s pricelis
 ts\, called the ‘General-takster’\, can reveal about the way the KGH s
 haped all aspects of life in Greenland. In turn\, a comparison between the
  KGH’s financial records and the General-takster’ illustrates how reso
 urce extraction functioned to uphold colonial governance. During the discu
 ssion\, I hope to engage a conversation on the relationships between geogr
 aphy and economy\, settler colonialism\, and resource extraction in Greenl
 and.
LOCATION:Zoom - email organiser for details
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