Sebastiani and Parigi's 'Groenlandia/Nuuk' Examines Greenland's Geopolitical Imaginary

Luca Sebastiani and Leonardo Parigi's book 'Groenlandia/Nuuk – chi vuole rompere il ghiaccio' critically engages with Greenland as a territory saturated with preconceptions in the contemporary imagination. Published by Paesi Edizioni as part of its Città geopolitiche series, the volume approaches Greenland as a sensitive node within global processes. The work navigates the tension between information, narrative, and interpretation, avoiding ready-made conclusions about a place often reduced to clichés of melting ice, contested resources, and shifting power dynamics. Greenland is presented as a location that precedes direct experience, already loaded with expectations, alarms, and projections before being visited or narrated. The book's careful methodology seeks equilibrium within this overdetermined scenario, where the primary risk is not stating falsehoods but reiterating pre-recognized ideas. This publication aligns with the series' ambition to read specific places through a geopolitical lens.