Interruptions: Affective futures and uncanny presences at<i>Giemaš</i>, Finnmark

Lien, Marianne Elisabeth

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“…"Inner colonization" is not just an archaic term discussed in the Norwegian parliament more than a hundred years ago. As pointed out in various ways across the present volume, it is a specific frame of mind, preceding the extractivist paradigm , see Chapter 1) but still visible today (Lien, 2021). It is a premise for policies that continuously seek "development" of a region seen as "lacking," and crucial in the making of Arctic minerals as resources ripe for extraction.…”

Section: Colonial Dispossessionmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…For example, government support for opening up new land for cultivation in the north of Sweden remained until the 1950s, but, in reality, it had not been very important for several decades prior to that point. The new regime was legitimized, just like the agro-colonial, by a "rhetoric of emptiness" (Stuhl, 2016;Lien, 2021), arguing for an opening for extractive industries in regions defined as "empty," as lacking people, whereas in the past colonialism was a way to put people there to fill the dangerous void.…”

Section: Extractivism and European Arctic Colonialismmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities

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For decades, a post-Cold War narrative heralded a 'new Arctic', with melting ice and snow and accessible resources that would build sustainable communities. Today, large parts of the Arctic are still trapped in the path dependencies of past resource extraction. At the same time, the impetus for green transitions and a 'new industrialism' spell opportunities to shift the development model and build new futures for Arctic residents and Indigenous peoples. This book examines the growing Arctic resource dilemma. It explores the 'new extractivist paradigm' that posits transitioning the region's long-standing role of delivering minerals, fossil energy, and marine resources to one providing rare earth elements, renewable power, wilderness tourism, and scientific knowledge about climate change. With chapters from a global, interdisciplinary team of researchers, new opportunities and their implications for Arctic communities and landscapes are discussed, alongside the pressures and uncertainties in a region under geopolitical and environmental stress.

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Section: Colonial Dispossessionmentioning

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Section: Extractivism and European Arctic Colonialismmentioning

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“…"Inner colonization" is not just an archaic term discussed in the Norwegian parliament more than a hundred years ago. As pointed out in various ways across the present volume, it is a specific frame of mind, preceding the extractivist paradigm (Sörlin, 2023, see Chapter 1) but still visible today (Lien, 2021). It is a premise for policies that continuously seek "development" of a region seen as "lacking," and crucial in the making of Arctic minerals as resources ripe for extraction.…”

Section: Colonial Dispossessionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Beyond Mining

Lien¹

2022

Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities

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Beyond Mining Repair and Reconciliation marianne elisabeth lienWhat questions still linger when mining turns silent? What persistent issues will remain in the wake of bulldozers, rock deposits, and obsolete construction roads leading nowhere? I drive south across Varanger mountain plateau along the road that connects north-facing fishing harbors on the Barents Sea with the bridge across the river Deatnu (Deanušaldi), which is also a junction for traffic from the Finnish border to the south, the Russian border to the east, and larger towns, like Hammerfest, Alta, and Tromsø to the west. I leave behind a coastal Arctic farmstead turned into a second home, near the Syltefjord nature reserve, where the limits of a cultivated field are still visible as a straight line painted with autumn colors, inscriptions of a state-launched agricultural program bound to falter (see Lien, 2020). I leave behind wind turbines towering on mountaintops, majestic monuments of a carbon neutral future, eating into reindeer pasture as giant scarecrows. I head toward yet another site where expansive mining operations scar an entire mountain and divide a local community, cutting friendship and kinship ties with surgical precision.The steep and rocky mountain ridge ahead is greyish white, and rich in quartzite (Figure 12.1). It contains "proven resources for more than fifty years production" according to Elkem, operators of the quartzite mine since 1983 (Mining in the Nordics, 2021). It is one of the world's largest quartzite operations but still not large enough for the company, which is now Chinese owned. The global demand for quartzite is insatiable, they say, as quartzite is necessary for the green shift to happen. Without a six-fold expansion the current quarry will run empty fairly soon, operations will no longer be profitable, and a handful of local people will lose their jobs. Such is the rhetoric of extractive expansion.The softer landscape behind me is rusty red and soft orange, and rich in nutrients. Reindeer, owned by the Rákkonjárga siidathe local reindeer herding communitypass through here twice on their annual migration from winter 251

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“…Informed by trends in new materialist ideas of human culture and non-human nature as inseparable entities (Povinelli, 2016), the figure of the guide becomes less concerned with transformation – even if “transformation” was a term used by many of the ANG’s students – than with the negotiation and investigation of what and how we know. To care for nature emerges as a concern that reflects a move towards a “rethinking of the role of research and researchers as co-creators” (Ren et al, 2021, p. 6); value-based guiding and teaching in Arctic Nature emerge as self-affective processes, based on somewhat contingent encounters (Lien, 2021, p. 1). The human geographer Samantha Saville (2021) writes thatshifts towards encountering “lively matter,” taking other than human, material thingness into account, distributing agency and value more widely, all destabilise our certainty.…”

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“…More explicitly, I have chosen to write with a strong emphasis on my participation in a one-week ski excursion with a group of ANGs in May 2018 in the context of an autoethnographic journey that began more than 10 years ago, when I visited Svalbard for the first time. This is part of a journey of personal experiences and observations which has allowed a process of long dwelling (Stewart, 1996) on various “somewhat contingent encounters” (Lien 2021, p. 1).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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The figure of the guide: arctic nature guiding as productive behaviour on Svalbard

Cour

2023

Polar Record

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Drawing from ethnographic participation in a ski excursion among a group of Arctic Nature Guide students on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, this paper explores guiding as a model of practice embedded in relations – material encounters, discursive frictions and collaborative efforts. The article pays attention to practical negotiations and navigations of these relations while making use of historical scholarship on the role of the guide as a basis for theoretical reflections on the role’s mediation activities. More precisely, the paper advocates a “creation-model of mediation” that challenges modernist representational discourse (and conceptualisations of nature) through a recognition of guiding as productive behaviour. Displaying agency in meaning-making and embodying Svalbard’s transient cosmopolitan population, the guide emerges as a figure on ground far from fixed and settled, and as a tool with which to appraise Svalbard as more geo-aesthetical condition than bounded place.

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Interruptions: Affective futures and uncanny presences atGiemaš, Finnmark

Cited by 10 publications

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Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities

Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities

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The figure of the guide: arctic nature guiding as productive behaviour on Svalbard

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