Territorial narratives: Talking claims in open moments

Stiernström, Arvid; Arora‐Jonsson, Seema

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.01.005

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“…This was not always the case. Since 2008, the Rönnbäcken project, then owned by the company Nickel Mountain Resources, was the cause of much controversy and led to the formation of the Stop the Mine resistance network in Rönnbäcken that took on international proportions (see Persson, 2015; Stiernström & Arora‐Jonsson, 2022). Storuman municipality is located in Sápmi, the traditional homeland of the Indigenous Sami people, whose livelihoods and culture are tightly connected to their access to land, and the resistance network organised a large part of the Sami population (ibid).…”

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“…When I later asked Peter why the protest was limited to the resistance network, he told me that the people living in the northern inland have long since learned that protests take you nowhere, so instead they assume a position of stoic endurance (cf., Stiernström & Arora‐Jonsson, 2022). The interviewees also shared a sense that it does not matter if they protest due to them being so few in comparison to the external interests exerting pressure on them.…”

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“…Meanwhile, as critics argue, extractivism implies that resources are removed from the region to generate profits elsewhere, causing local environmental degradation and the breakdown of rights and relations to land (for recent examples, see Dunlap & Jakobsen, 2020;Kirsch, 2014;Willow, 2018;Wilson & Stammler, 2016). Lately, research on mining and development has reiterated how mines bring uncertain and disruptive promises of 'development', as capitalist ventures acquire large land areas and transform environmental, social and economic aspects of the everyday lives of local communities (Bebbington & Humphreys Bebbington, 2018;Stiernström & Arora-Jonsson, 2022). These insights, and the tension between development and mining, provide a backdrop for this article.…”

Section: Sustainable Development Sacrifice and Depoliticisation In Lo...mentioning

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“…While they had plenty of ideas about which projects, they were in favour of (if any), influence over the extractive industries seemingly remained out of their grasp. This understanding can be contrasted with the heated and (to a certain degree) successful resistance movement that mobilised around the Rönnbäcken mine, where the mine became a matter for international debate (see Stiernström & Arora-Jonsson, 2022). This shows that outside of municipal politics, mining remains highly politicised.…”

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“…The term mining project is used to describe mines that have not yet begun operation but still exist in some form such as through an exploration permit, land claims, company projections or municipal policies. Thus, they are substantive enough for people to imagine them as a fully operational mine, which shapes how actors react to them, and at the same time, they are surrounded by a high degree of uncertainty as they might or might not be realised (see Stiernström & Arora‐Jonsson, 2022).…”

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Sustainable development and sacrifice in the rural North

Stiernström¹

2023

Sociologia Ruralis

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In this article, I examine how the grand narratives of sustainability, development and mining impact local governance in a Swedish municipality. I do this by studying three mining projects under implementation and relate them to notions of development and sacrifice to lend insights into what the new trends of mining in Europe outlined above mean for the rural North. I regard sustainable development as a political concept ascribed to activities (such as political programmes or investments). Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Storuman municipality, I show how politicians, political parties and government administrators position themselves in relation to the three mining projects. I provide a detailed account of perceptions, responses and practices in a local government that engage with three mining companies seeking to open mines within the municipal borders. I show how a tug of war between ideas of sustainable development or survival through sacrifice depoliticises and stabilises a dominant political line in favour of mining within local politics. While the respondents differed in what they thought that sacrifice might lead to, ranging from environmental disaster and social suffering to economic prosperity, I reveal a process wherein sustainable development becomes translated into ‘that which must be sacrificed’.

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Architectural Heritage and Digital Transition: Intangible Components as Regeneration Infrastructure for Inner Rural Areas

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Calvano

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Architectural heritage (AH) located in inner rural areas, hardly accessible and sparsely populated, requires specific preservation actions to enhance its systemic role as a development vector. The digital transition, promoted through global, European, and national strategies, represents, in this sense, an opportunity and a challenge. The fragile equilibrium between AH and its environmental and cultural context requires to deal both with its tangible and intangible components. The chapter tackles this problem, providing a methodological framework and a case study (Calascio, Italy) about the use of digital technologies to enhance accessibility and attractiveness of AH in inner rural areas, through a sustainable, participatory, and low-impact approach. GIS methods and tools permit integrating physical-spatial data with several intangible information levels (social, historical, cultural, etc.), building up a collaborative, multidisciplinary, and transcalar base of knowledge. Thus, intangible heritage recovery, in the form of digital narratives, is systematized with the design of AH access and fruition paths, emphasizing its connections (spatial and temporal) with the context and activating both attractive mechanisms for external temporary communities (tourists, students, researchers) and new awareness of the place's cultural value in the local community, with the aim of encouraging participatory processes of preservation and sustainable development.

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Place-belongingness in real-life contexts: A review of practical meanings, contributing factors, and evaluation methods

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Place-belongingness is conceptualized as the subjective aspect of geographical belonging. Drawing upon a review of empirical studies spanning over a decade, we clarify this concept in real-life contexts, where people assign practical meanings to their place-belongingness. Thematic categorization of these practical meanings yields an extended definition of the concept. We also reclassify the factors contributing to place-belongingness and examine how it emerges in real-life scenarios. This review provides insights into methods for evaluating place-belongingness, emphasizing the need for a validated measurement tool for assessing the impact of interventions. Our findings highlight the promising role of information technologies in enhancing place-belongingness, although it is an unmapped terrain. The review suggests intensified attention to sustainability, the politicization of resources, and non-belonging within place-belongingness research. Moreover, we accentuate place-belongingness as a point of departure for unveiling the underlying inclusion/exclusion structures.

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Territorial narratives: Talking claims in open moments

Cited by 7 publications

References 23 publications

Sustainable development and sacrifice in the rural North

Sustainable development and sacrifice in the rural North

Architectural Heritage and Digital Transition: Intangible Components as Regeneration Infrastructure for Inner Rural Areas

Place-belongingness in real-life contexts: A review of practical meanings, contributing factors, and evaluation methods

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