Mining activities in the Arctic often have a strong impact on people living here and the sustainability of their communities. The article takes as its point of departure two widely different cases relating to Arctic communities: the former mining city of Qullissat in the Greenlandic Disko Bay area and the rural village of Sakajärvi, which is threatened by expansions of the Aitik copper mine in the Norbotten County, Sweden. The cases differ in terms of time span, the number of people affected and the intensity of the affective economies, but they go through comparable processes of giving rise to emotional communities as a result of the termination or expansion of mining activities. Based on field observations and social and web-based media, the author argues that various actors with diverging purposes here compete to install their respective temporalities and narratives in the processes of communitification, i.e., by articulating borders or performing as community. In both cases, the communities employ narrative strategies of uchronotopia: aiming towards better futures by narratively breaking with the past. The agency of these communities depends to a high extent on the intensity of their affective economies, a symbolic capital that may hold considerable potential for creating desirable futures.

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社区化和情感资本：在诺博滕和迪斯科湾采矿前后生产、塑造和重塑社区

北极的采矿活动通常对居住在这里的人们及其社区的可持续性产生重大影响。本文以两个与北极社区有关的截然不同的案例为出发点：格陵兰迪斯科湾地区的前采矿城市 Qullissat 和受到 Norbotten 县 Aitik 铜矿扩建威胁的农村 Sakajärvi , 瑞典。这些案例在时间跨度、受影响的人数和情感经济的强度方面有所不同，但它们经历了由于采矿活动的终止或扩大而产生情感社区的类似过程。基于实地观察以及社交和网络媒体，沟通，即通过阐明边界或作为社区来执行。在这两种情况下，社区都采用叙事策略超乌时托邦: 以叙事方式打破过去，以迈向更美好的未来。这些社区的能动性在很大程度上取决于其情感经济的强度，这是一种象征性资本，可能具有创造理想未来的巨大潜力。