New article on construction of the Far North used in printed sources of the Moravian Brethren in the 18th c. by Jun.-Prof. Joanna Kodzik has been published in Deshima, journal dedicated to global history, culture, arts and societies of the Nordic countries (University of Strasbourg press, PUS).
The paper proves that strategic use of selected narratives witnesses a process of justification of missionary activities and legitimization of the right to exist as a Moravian Church belonging to the Lutheran denomination. This contribution argues that the selection of published diaries and reports for print was determined by the missionaries’ constructions of the Arctic.
This issue of Deshima presents the proceedings of a conference held in 2022 in Strasbourg and looks at the political and intellectual uses of the concepts of ”North” and “South” in the history of modern nation-states.
See:
Joanna Kodzik: “From Justification to Inclusion “Using the North” in the Moravian official communication from Greenland in the 18th century” Deshima 17/ 2023, 7-25.
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