ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses what perceptions of a territory emerge when one studies infrastructures in Greenland through the optic of place, alongside the more common lens of landscape. Drawing on the work of Doreen Massey and Kenneth Olwig, the chapter makes two key proposals. Firstly, it suggests that framing Greenlandic infrastructures through the optic of place encourages a more intimate, grounded, understanding that has a socio-cultural awareness, and that may counter long-standing tendencies towards distantiation. Secondly, it proposes that a study of Greenland’s informal, networked, microscale, and highly visible infrastructures unfolds new dimensions of both Massey and Olwig’s reconceptualisations of place, which are relevant beyond Greenland and the Arctic.
