New voices in the Arctic

A little under ten years ago, The Polar Journal published a collection of papers by a new generation of early career researchers from the humanities and social sciences writing on the geopolitics of the Polar Regions.1 This guest editor was fortunate to be among them. As a doctoral student, my contribution on Britain as an Arctic nation was one of my first single-authored journal articles. I remain grateful to Klaus Dodds and Richard Powell for providing me with a platform to begin developing my voice. Naturally, when I was asked to collate this Special Issue, I seized the opportunity to provide a similar platform for a new generation of Arctic researchers. [...]