An old tractor serves as an ethnographic entry point to shifting articulations of resources in coastal Finnmark, North Norway. Idle since the 1970s, the tractor is a relic of agricultural dreams, turned to rubble as novel layers of the Varanger landscape are conjured as resourceful. Farming in Finnmark was a geopolitical strategy to secure national borders and to expand a post-war welfare state, it was also a colonial effort to cultivate farmers in the far north. This article details the back-breaking practices required to make thin Arctic topsoil collaborate in realizing modernist dreams of agricultural growth, while state interventions sought to ensure national borders and national identity. The author highlights dialectic relations between mapping and forgetting, crucial in the making of resources and colonizing practices.

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繁荣的梦想——成长的法则

一台旧拖拉机是挪威北部芬马克海岸资源转移的人种学切入点。自 1970 年代以来一直处于闲置状态，拖拉机是农业梦想的遗物，随着 Varanger 景观的新层次被想象为足智多谋，它变成了瓦砾。在芬马克耕种是确保国界和扩大战后福利国家的地缘政治战略，也是在远北地区培养农民的殖民努力。本文详细介绍了使稀薄的北极表层土壤合作实现现代农业增长梦想所需的艰巨实践，而国家干预旨在确保国界和国家认同。作者强调了映射和遗忘之间的辩证关系，这对资源的制造和殖民实践至关重要。