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Sustaining local practices: introductory remarks Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Pasi Heikkurinen, Johanna Hohenthal
Published in Acta Borealia: A Nordic Journal of Circumpolar Societies (Vol. 41, No. 1, 2024)
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Learning to relocalize: institutional entrepreneurs as transformative agents in public food services Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-14 Heini Salonen, Milla Suomalainen, Jarkko Pyysiäinen
We explore purposive institutional change and the role of institutional entrepreneurs in initiating and driving relational learning processes. Supplementing new institutionalist theory with an inst...
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Premodern handcraft skills foster a language which opens an experiential pathway to local nature Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-14 Pauli Pylkkö
Handcraft skills provide premodern cultures with an experiential channel to encounter nature both in humans and in their environment. This essay sketches a dialectical overview – the roots of which...
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Peripheral sustainability expertise on technology: an autoethnography amidst the polycrisis Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Pasi Takkinen, Pasi Heikkurinen
Professional expertise is a legitimate cornerstone of modern global culture. The unfolding of the polycrisis, however, arguably destabilizes expertise as a privileged and uniform position of knowle...
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Disclosing the sacred in technological practices for sustainability Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Johanna Hohenthal, Toni Ruuska
Owing to the claimed loss of meaning in modern societies, this article investigates how the experience of the sacred is disclosed in technological practices. The experience of the sacred is studied...
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How to imagine a sustainable world Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Tim Ingold
Sustainability is about carrying life on. If it is to mean anything, it must be for everyone and everything, and not for some to the exclusion of others. What kind of world, then, has a place for e...
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In the northern periphery of Russia abroad. The Norwegian destiny of Anatol Ye. Heintz (1898–1975), palaeontologist and native of St Petersburg Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Jens Petter Nielsen, Victoria V. Tevlina
This article provides an exposé of the life and work of Anatoliy Yevgenyevich Geynts, in Norway known as Anatol Heintz. Heintz was born and raised in St Petersburg, became a Russian refugee after t...
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Knowing a coastal Sámi landscape in Finnmark: transmission and regeneration of knowledge and identity across three generations Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Inger Pedersen, Randi Kaarhus
This article discusses the role of knowledge and practices related to the natural environment in constructing and regenerating identities as Coastal Sámi across generations. The discussion draws on...
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Folklore narratives on the toponymy of the Russian Far North (Based on the Yukaghir, Even, and Yakut languages) Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Samona Nikolaevna Kurilova, Irena Semenovna Khokholova, Boris Yakovlevich Osipov, Jessica Kantarovich
We examine the historical toponymic system of the Russian Far North in the context of folklore traditions of Indigenous peoples of the North. Our methodology is narrative analysis, aimed at identif...
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Versatility as a cultural niche: palynological evidence on Iron Age and medieval land use on the Åland Islands Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Petter I. Larsson, Teija Alenius, Kristin Ilves
The quantitative archaeological record of the Åland Islands (Finland) indicates a population boom in the mid-sixth century CE. Yet the number of palynological investigations on Åland is limited, re...
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Contextual sites of acknowledgement? Kven heritage and contemporary identity articulation processes Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Gyrid Øyen, Trine Kvidal-Røvik
ABSTRACT It is more than 20 years since Kvens were recognized as a national minority in Norway, yet there is still a need for acknowledgement of Kven culture and heritage. This article discusses contemporary processes of identity articulation related to Kven heritage. Based on interviews with people who relate to a key Kven place in Varanger, we discuss people’s identity articulation processes in different
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Technological organization and initial production stages of a maritime slate tradition: insights from the first investigated Stone Age slate source in Arctic Europe (the Djupvik slate formation, Norway) Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Erlend Kirkeng Jørgensen
ABSTRACT While ground slate technology is a trademark of maritime hunter-gatherers across the circumpolar region, we lack robust understanding of 1) the organization of slate tool production and 2) its initial production stages – maintained by the absence of formally investigated slate sourcing sites and the loss of diagnostic production features inherent to grinding techniques. This paper contributes
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Arctic science and politics in Fascist Italy. Italian polar expeditions and the International Polar Exhibition in the interwar years Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Fabio Ferrarini
ABSTRACT In 1928, the airship Italia, commanded by Umberto Nobile, crashed on the way back from the North Pole. The tragic outcome of his expedition interrupted the organization of significant Arctic explorations and generated a fracture between Mussolini’s regime and polar studies. The Fascist regime implicitly expressed its shame for its role in the whole unfortunate expedition and the subject became
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Round or square? Ethnic processes and Saami dwelling practices in Hallingdal, southern Norway Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Lisbeth Skogstrand
ABSTRACT In Hallingdal, southern Norway, a number of round dwelling structures have been documented. A contemporary parallel to these constructions is the stállo foundations in the mountains along the Norwegian-Swedish border, which are recognized as a Saami type of dwelling from the Viking Age and Early Middle Ages AD (800-1300). Based on analyses of the round structures in Hallingdal and stállo foundations
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Driftwood utilization and procurement in Norse Greenland Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Lísabet Guðmundsdóttir
ABSTRACT In largely treeless Arctic and subarctic environments driftwood is a key raw material, and this was no less so in Norse Greenlandic society (AD 985–1450). Driftwood was used for various purposes such as construction, transport, tools, utensils and for decoration. It has been argued that driftwood was a non-renewable resource which by the fourteenth century led to timber shortage in Norse Greenland
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Sámi tourism in marketing material: a multimodal discourse analysis Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Cecilia de Bernardi
ABSTRACT The study of tourism marketing communication is an important aspect that contributes to the understanding of how destinations and locals are portrayed. Through the so-called circle of representation, images can spread from tourism marketing to other media, such as tourism photography. Marketing material in the form of 118 brochures, 3000 Instagram posts and a guidebook portraying the Sámi
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Tourism appropriation of Sámi land and culture Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Arvid Viken
ABSTRACT This article addresses cultural and other forms of appropriation related to tourism in the Sámi areas of Norway (Sápmi). Tourists are chasing and consuming otherness – places, culture and nature different from their home environments. Thus, exposures of arts, culture, nature and places are vital parts of tourism production. Within this context, indigenous cultures are praised. When the use
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Introduction: human-muskox pathways through millennia Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Janne Flora, Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen
(2022). Introduction: human-muskox pathways through millennia. Acta Borealia: Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 1-5.
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The muskox world: human-animal histories in the Arctic Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Kirsten Hastrup
ABSTRACT This article follows the trail of muskoxen over many millennia and continents, focussing on their relations to humans – as their hunters and their protectors, itinerant partners and boundary makers. The human-animal histories referred to in the title began when the Pleistocene era was replaced by the Holocene and continued until the present. The article is not “historical” in the sense of
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First people and muskox hunting in northernmost Greenland Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Jens Fog Jensen, Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen
ABSTRACT Peary Land, and in particular the area of Jørgen Brønlund Fjord and Wandel Dal, is the only place in Greenland where prehistoric muskox hunting sites are plentiful and investigated, and it gives a unique insight into prehistoric muskox hunting. In the mid-1900s, Eigil Knuth discovered the 4400 years old muskox hunting sites, which he believed corroborated the idea of a so-called Muskox Way
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Muskox movements: human-animal entanglements in Northeast Greenland Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Janne Flora
ABSTRACT Human and muskox lives in Northeast Greenland are entangled in movement. These movements are mutual; sometimes humans move muskoxen, and other times muskoxen move humans. Showing how the movements are both spatial and conceptual, the article explores four human-muskox movements. “Arrivals and Disappearances” concerns the disappearance of humans and arrival of muskoxen in Northeast Greenland
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Muskox multiplications: the becoming of a resource, relations and place in Kangerlussuaq, West Greenland Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen
ABSTRACT In the mid-1960s, 27 muskoxen were translocated from Northeast Greenland to Tatsip Ataa near Kangerlussuaq in West Greenland. In just a few decades, these 27 individuals reproduced to become a population of many thousand – now the largest population of muskoxen in Greenland. This article examines human–muskox relations in present-day Kangerlussuaq and Greenland as biosocial multiplications
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The Sami cooperative herding group: the siida system from past to present Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Marius Warg Næss, Guro Lovise Hole Fisktjønmo, Bård-Jørgen Bårdsen
ABSTRACT The Sami siida has been described as an organizational institution tailored to meet the dynamic demands of reindeer herding. Historically, it has been characterized as a relatively small group based on kinship. It was formed around a core sibling group and distinguished by a norm of equality where herding partners were equals regardless of social status. Moreover, it was informally led by
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“Who would want to lay down into the permafrost?”: an attempt to explain differences in migration rates, strategies and attitudes in two Russian northern cities Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-09-19 Kirill V. Istomin
ABSTRACT The macro-level explanations for the massive outflux of the population from the Russian Arctic after 1991 mostly do not account for local differences in out-migration rates. At the same time, these differences can be exceptionally large. This paper uses ethnographic methods to explain significant differences in the rates of population outflux between the cities of Vorkuta and Ukhta, Komi Republic
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Between Denmark and Moscovia: the Kola Sámi in the border conflict of the second half of the sixteenth – first quarter of the seventeenth century Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-10-07 Sergey A. Nikonov, Mikhail V. Tolkachev
ABSTRACT We examine the problem of the double taxation of the Sámi of the Kola Peninsula, who were in the dual tax jurisdiction of Denmark and the Russian state in the sixteenth – early seventeenth centuries. The origin of double taxation is associated with the unestablished borders in the Far North of Europe: each country considered Finnmark and the Kola Peninsula as part of its sphere of influence
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“If we want to have a good future, we need to do something about it”. Youth, security and imagined horizons in the intercultural Arctic Norway Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-09-27 Astri Dankertsen, Elisabeth Pettersen, Jill-Beth Otterlei
ABSTRACT Security is an issue often raised when discussing the Arctic, a region where international relations and tensions between the great powers of the past and present often are taken-for-granted as the traditional scope of dialog. We have chosen to focus on youth in Arctic Norway, their perceived notion of security in their everyday lives, and how this influences their perceived possibilities
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Multilingual encounters in Northern Norway Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Florian Hiss, Anja Maria Pesch, Hilde Sollid
(2021). Multilingual encounters in Northern Norway. Acta Borealia: Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 1-4.
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Minority language learning in Kven through conversation Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-05-05 Leena Niiranen
ABSTRACT Language learners of Kven participated in informal learning settings using the Master Apprentice method, a method often used in language revitalization. The use of this method is studied in the light of sociocultural theory of language learning, which focuses on the relationship between collaborative learning and learner autonomy. The students of Kven improved their oral proficiency when using
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“They call me anneanne!” translanguaging as a theoretical and pedagogical challenge and opportunity in the kindergarten context in Norway Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Anja Maria Pesch
ABSTRACT Translanguaging has become a popular concept in educational contexts. However, it has not been discussed much in the kindergarten context of Norway. Many studies on translanguaging have been carried out in specific bilingual classrooms. In kindergartens in Norway, Norwegian is usually the common and majority language whilst a growing number of children attending kindergarten are multilingual
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“The working language is Norwegian. Not that this means anything, it seems”: when expectations meet the new multilingual reality Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-05-27 Florian Hiss, Anna Loppacher
ABSTRACT Linguistic and cultural diversity in Northern Norwegian working life has increased dramatically in the twenty-first century. Based on a series of telephone interviews with company representatives, this article presents an overview of the new multilingual reality in many workplaces and analyzes how managers and administrators position their expectations and experiences of it. Participants’
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Reported language attitudes among Norwegian speaking in-migrants in Tromsø Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Monica Sætermo, Hilde Sollid
ABSTRACT Today, in an era of increased mobility and migration, there is also increased in-migration within regions and countries. In the case of Norway, there is high tolerance for dialect use, and in this context, it is interesting to ask which kinds of sociolinguistic strategies in-migrants consider to be available given their current situation. This article explores the reported language attitudes
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Social resilience in practice: insights from Finnish Lapland Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Monica Tennberg, Terhi Vuojala-Magga, Joonas Vola
ABSTRACT National debate and planning for major structural reforms of the Finnish welfare state have been ongoing for years. The most recent government plans include ideas to centralize basic services in major population centres and transfer the responsibility of organization from municipalities to new “health and social services counties”. Such reforms may have considerable consequences for low-income
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Swedenization of the North – the early medieval Swedish northern expansion and the emergence of the Birkarls. Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2020-04-30 Risto Nurmi, Jari-Matti Kuusela, Ville Hakamäki
ABSTRACT The State of Sweden expanded its domains successfully towards the north during the medieval period – particularly during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This expansion north from Norrland over the Bothnian coast and further into Lapland has traditionally been discussed within the classical colonial framework. In this paper, however, we argue that the Swedish northern expansion was
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Stories of reconciliation enacted in the everyday lives of Sámi tourism entrepreneurs Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2020-04-23 Britt Kramvig, Anniken Førde
ABSTRACT Reconciliation has gained political interest in Norway, where a commission was established in 2018 to investigate the injustices committed in the past towards the Sámi and Kven. In this article, we argue that reconciliation can also be found in the small stories and events enacted in everyday life. Our analyses are based on a collaboration with a Sámi reindeer herding family who, through objects
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Industrial development in the North – Sámi interests squeezed between globalization and tradition Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2020-04-22 Elisabeth Angell, Vigdis Nygaard, Per Selle
ABSTRACT In this article, we analyse tensions in Sámi local communities meeting new industrial development. Indigenous communities experience outmigration and are in need of new business development and employment. Global extractive companies may offer new jobs, but the type and scale of these jobs put pressure on traditional indigenous livelihoods. The study underlines the importance of two core ideal
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Learning the Sámi language outside of the Sámi core area in Norway Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2020-04-20 Nina Hermansen, Kjell Olsen
ABSTRACT We analyze how the implementation of the Norwegian policy on the Sámi language in school has shaped some Norwegian-speaking Sámi youths’ experiences and challenges of language learning. The research was conducted in Alta, Finnmark county. The youths interviewed in this study have had education in the Sámi language for the larger part, or for the entirety, of their primary and secondary education
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Mastering the environment: frontier behaviour at an ocean Klondike during Greenland halibut fishery Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2020-04-16 Harald Beyer Broch
ABSTRACT The expression “mastering the environment” may inspire conflicting associations depending on whether we focus on the temporality of targeted fishers, marine biologists, or policymakers. This study presents an emic perspective on how natural and social environments are understood and managed during the short fishing season for Greenland halibut. In the context of this paper, mastering has to
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The Sámi, state subjugation and strategic interaction: individual mobility within multicultural networks Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Jonas Monié Nordin
It is with high expectations that I open the historian Lars Ivar Hansen’s new book. For the readers of Acta Borealia Hansen needs no further introduction, being one of the leading scholars speciali...
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Postcolonial polar cities? New indigenous and cosmopolitan urbanness in the Arctic Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Marlene Laruelle
ABSTRACT The arrival into geography, and especially urban geography, of a frame of questioning coming from postcolonial studies has contributed to a fascinating debate about what a “postcolonial” city is and how the urban duality between ethnically, socially, and spatially segregated “European” towns and “native” settlements is being reformulated and transformed. Obviously, Arctic cities are not postcolonial
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A. E. Nordenskiöld in Swedish memory: the origin and uses of Arctic heroism Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Urban Wråkberg
ABSTRACT For Nordic nations scientific activities in the Polar Regions proved significant in defining national identities and shaping scientific profiles. Starting in the nineteenth century and continuing throughout the next century, polar research proved instrumental in inculcating national honour and expressing small-state colonial aspirations. It provided a source of heroes for forging collective
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The dissolution of ancient Kvenland and the transformation of the Kvens as an ethnic group of people. On changing ethnic categorizations in communicative and collective memories Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Lars Elenius
ABSTRACT The aim is to trace how the ethnonym Kven and the interrelated imagination of Kvenland changed over time in Nordic political discourse from the Viking Age to the mid-eighteenth century. In the negotiations over fixed borders between Sweden, Denmark and Russia, recognition of ethnic groups played an important political role in legitimating the territorial claims of the states. It brought the
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Institutionalization, neo-politicization and the politics of defining Sámi research Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Laura Junka-Aikio
ABSTRACT This article critically examines recent changes in the social terrain of Sámi research in Finland, where the research field is subject to a new wave of academic institutionalization, and where questions regarding “Sáminess” have become particularly prominent. The article argues that in this conjuncture of institutionalization and neo-politicization, definitions of Sámi research which emphasize
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The settlement mounds in Divtasvuona/Tysfjord, North Norway. Traces of a Sami fisher-farmer economy Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Oddmund Andersen
ABSTRACT In Tysfjord Municipality, North Norway, written sources mention Sami farms in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The farms had a mixed economy, with an emphasis on agriculture, fishing, hunting and gathering. On some of these farms there are documented settlement mounds. Minor excavations have been carried out on several of these archaeological sites. A pollen sample has also been taken
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Caring for the dead? An alternative perspective on Sámi reburial Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Asgeir Svestad
ABSTRACT This article is an effort to critically discuss Sámi repatriation and reburial practice based on the analysis of five repatriation cases. Since the seminal repatriation (and burial) of the skulls of Somby and Hætta in Gávvuonna/Kåfjord in 1997, and the more recent reburial of 94 skeletons in Njauddâm/Neiden in 2011, a precedent seems established in Norway that allows the unconditional reburial
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Sovetskaya Arktika journal as a source for the history of the Northern Sea Route Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Nikolai Vakhtin
ABSTRACT This paper is about reading and using the Soviet texts published in the 1930s on the Northern sea route (NSR) and the Arctic in general. The history of the NSR exploration and exploitation and its current potential as a round-the-year transportation waterway connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic is outlined. Specific features of the 1930s’ sources for the study of the NSR are explored using
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Tourism as a livelihood diversification strategy among Sámi indigenous people in northern Sweden Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Traian C. Leu
ABSTRACT Tourism entrepreneurship is frequently promoted as a livelihood strategy for Sámi indigenous people living in northern Sweden. At the same time, tourism’s ability to fully take over struggling primary sectors has been brought into question, due perhaps to a mismatch of skills or to tourism’s seasonality and low pay. In spite of that, the role of tourism development might relate less to financial
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“Uncontrolled sovkhoism”: administering reindeer husbandry in the Russian far north (Kola Peninsula) Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Yulian Konstantinov, Kirill Istomin, Inna Ryzhkova, Yulia Mitina
ABSTRACT Sovkhoism is a world-view extolling the virtues of the Soviet Farm (sovkhoz) as the foundation of a grassroots-friendly socio-economy. We discuss the post-Soviet “uncontrolled” state of sovkhoism in Murmansk Region reindeer husbandry. We argue that the key descriptor of the state of reindeer husbandry: the head-count (pogolovye) is often an arbitrary figure in a subsidy-producing narrative
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Language maintenance through corpus planning – the case of Kven Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Mari Keränen
ABSTRACT The Kven language that is spoken in northernmost Norway was officially recognized as a language in 2005. The history of the language community dates back to the sixteenth century according to tax books. There is still an ongoing discussion among certain language users, whether Kven is in fact a language or one of the Finnish dialects. The language planning of Kven has started in 2007 by determining
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Were the “Kainulaiset” in the Kalix River valley Finnish or Swedish-speakers? Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Lars Elenius
ABSTRACT The Norwegian ethnonym Kven and the Finnish ethnonym Kainulainen occurred at latest in the first millennium AD. A tacit truth held today is that the ethnonyms represent the same ancient Finnish-speaking group, only named differently by Norwegians and Finns. The aim of the article is to find out whether the ethnonyms have been used to designate different groups of people. The Finnish-speakers
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“I do not know if Mum knew what was going on”: Social reproduction in boarding schools in Soviet Lapland Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Lukas Allemann
ABSTRACT This inquiry into the history of boarding schools for indigenous and quasi-indigenous, tundra-connected children in the Soviet part of Lapland tries to answer why children were sent to a boarding school despite their parents living in the same village, and also why an additional school for mentally disabled children, a school half as big as the boarding school for “regular” children, was opened
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Hunters of forests and waters: Late Iron Age and Medieval subsistence and social processes in coastal northern Sweden Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2018-01-02 Ingela Bergman, Per H. Ramqvist
ABSTRACT During the course of the 14th century the Swedish Crown and the Catholic Church made robust attempts to include the areas beside the Bothnian bay within their central fiscal and clerical organization. Salmon fishing in the productive river rapids became major targets for external commercial interests. Written records inform us about the situation from the perspective of the exploiters. However
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The governance of urban indigenous spaces: Norwegian Sámi examples Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2018-01-02 Mikkel Berg-Nordlie
ABSTRACT How do different ways of governing urban indigenous social spaces facilitate or frustrate local indigenous self-government? A major challenge in Norway is the absence of actors that represent the entire local indigenous population. The main Norwegian Sámi NGO is a driving force in establishing and governing indigenous spaces, but is now one of several and often competing organizations due
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Ethnic boundaries and boundary-making in handicrafts: examples from northern Norway, Sweden and Finland Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2018-01-02 Hannelene Schilar, E. Carina H. Keskitalo
ABSTRACT When ethnicity is said to be manifest and practised through handicrafts, these seemingly innocent objects become political. They raise questions concerning who can do what handicraft, who can use what symbols or what developments are “allowed”. They illustrate the continuous production of ethnic norms and boundaries, especially when global tourism enters into the equation. Taking a social
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Heterogeneity and spontaneity: reindeer races, bureaucratic designs and indigenous transformations at the Festival of the North in Murmansk Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2017-07-03 Petia Mankova
ABSTRACT This article seeks to understand the Festival of the North in Murmansk as an event incorporating different logics of design and political projects. It pays particular attention to the reindeer races and their changing historical significance, and puts forward the argument that the spontaneity of the reindeer races provides for the constant renewal of meanings attached to them and thus for
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Changing histories and ethnicities in a Sámi and Norse borderland Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2017-07-03 Hilde Rigmor Amundsen
ABSTRACT Hedmark County is a large inland district in southeast Norway that represents the southern part of the Sámi settlement area, and a Sámi–Norse borderland. Centred on the municipalities Rendalen and Engerdal, the study investigates the long-term cultural and social processes involved in the construction and maintenance of a borderland using theories of ethnicity and cultural tradition. Over
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Copper worlds: a historical archaeology of Abraham and Jakob Momma-Reenstierna and their industrial enterprise in the Torne River Valley, c. 1650–1680 Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2017-07-03 Jonas M. Nordin, Carl-Gösta Ojala
ABSTRACT This article analyses the industrial enterprise of the Dutch-born brothers Abraham and Jakob Momma-Reenstierna and their investments in Sápmi and the upper parts of the Torne River Valley, northern Sweden, during the second half of the seventeenth century. The aim is to explore the driving forces behind the industrial projects of the two brothers in a larger global and colonial context. With
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Farmer-fishermen: interior lake fishing and inter-cultural and intra-cultural relations among coastal and interior Sámi communities in northern Sweden AD 1200–1600 Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2017-07-03 Ingela Bergman, Per H. Ramqvist
ABSTRACT Although the productive fishing grounds had long attracted the Crown and the Church to northern Sweden, it was not until the sixteenth century that the judicial and fiscal powers of the Swedish Crown were exercised in full. Records show that the regular fishing in interior lakes formed a prominent enterprise among coastal farmer communities. This paper examines the social and economic context
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A review of theories on the Laestadian rørelse: on the academic construction of something extraordinary and exotic Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2017-01-02 Bengt-Ove Andreassen
ABSTRACT An ecstatic phenomenon usually labelled with the emic term rørelse (in English literally stirrings, motions or movement) has been central in the description and theoretical interpretation of the Laestadian Christian religious movement in northern Fennoscandia. The article considers two tendencies in the scholarly discussion. Firstly, how the discussion relies on descriptions of the rørelse
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The art of governing and everyday resistance: “rationalization” of Sámi reindeer husbandry in Norway since the 1970s Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2017-01-02 Kathrine I. Johnsen, Tor A. Benjaminsen
ABSTRACT Since the late 1970s, a policy objective in Norway has been to rationalize Sámi reindeer husbandry. Among the government officials, there is, however, a concern that this objective has not been successfully met in West Finnmark due to “too many reindeer” and “too many pastoralists” degrading the pastures and jeopardizing the economy of pastoralism. Engaging with the concepts of “the art of
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Mastering the Arctic marine environment: organizational practices of Pomor hunting expeditions to Svalbard (Spitsbergen) in the eighteenth century Acta Borealia (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2017-01-02 Margarita Dadykina, Alexei Kraikovski, Julia Lajus
ABSTRACT We consider the foundations of the widely recognized reputation of the Pomors as experts in dealing with the severe and unpredictable marine environment of the White and Barents Seas. Our research focuses on the history of Russian exploitation of Spitsbergen. Though these kinds of activities occupied only 1% of maritime shipping in the Russian North, the history of exploitation of this Arctic