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- Evens, Siegfried
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Streams, Steams, and Steels : A Transnational History of Risk Regulation in Nuclear Power Plants (1850–1985)
- 2024
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Water is essential to produce nuclear energy and prevent nuclear disasters. As light water reactors are increasingly seen as a solution to achieving a sustainable energy transition and battling the climate crisis, it is more important than ever to investigate the risks of using water for nuclear power production. However, the reactor technologies that manage all that water and steam – pressure vessels, steam generators, pipes, valves, and pumps – have not received much attention from historians, STS scholars, and risk sociologists. Therefore, this dissertation aims to study the risk regulation of these crucial reactor components and materials by national and international actors from a historical perspective.Relying on archival sources from the US, France, Sweden, and multiple international organisations, as well as on interviews, this dissertation aims to write a new, longue durée history of nuclear safety, going back to the origins of water and steam risk management in the nineteenth century. Such a historical perspective on nuclear risk regulation reveals two important insights. Firstly, in the 1950s and 1960s, the usage of water and steam technologies in nuclear reactors revealed new types of risks. These ‘ambi-nuclear risks’ are a hybrid of older steam risks, such as leaks, breaks, and explosions, and new risks of radiation and contamination. Secondly, between the 1950s and 1980s, new regimes were created in the US, France, and Sweden to regulate these risks. Initially, during the 1950s, non-nuclear steam regulations were applied directly to the first nuclear power plants. Yet, as power plants increased in size, accidents occurred, and nuclear technologies became increasingly controversial, ‘ambi-nuclear risk regimes’ were created to adapt or ‘nuclearise’ the older regulations. They included new safety measures and methodologies that were directed toward preventing radiation releases, but at the same time they mobilised older technologies, institutions, knowledges, and ideas related to thermal hydraulics and metallurgy. Ambi-nuclear risk regimes were shaped by a wide variety of historical actors through negotiating boundaries between ‘nuclear’ and ‘non-nuclear’ knowledges, components, risks, and regulations. Private or semi-private engineering associations played a particularly vital role in this.This thesis thus shows how nuclear safety as we know it today became nuclear as the result of a transnational long-term process that was greatly determined by much older non-nuclear water and steam risks. The results of this dissertation contribute to ongoing scholarly debates on risk, nuclear technologies, and water in fields like History of Technology, Environmental3History, STS, and Risk Sociology. Most importantly, the thesis expands the time frame in which nuclear risk has traditionally been studied. It challenges dominant conceptions of nuclear power as innovative or exceptional, instead connecting questions of nuclear risk to longer historical developments in water management and industrialisation. This demonstrates the importance of historical contingency for understanding risk and preventing (nuclear) disasters.
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- Frame, Bob, et al.
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Tourism and heritage in Antarctica : exploring cultural, natural and subliminal experiences
- 2022
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Ingår i: Polar Geography. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1088-937X .- 1939-0513. ; 45:1, s. 37-57
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The guidelines on heritage management adopted by the 2018 Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting provide the most recent iteration for an Antarctic tourism sector which had, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, been projected to increase further with various risks and potential impacts requiring careful management. In this paper the role of cultural heritage for tourism prior to the COVID-19 pandemic is examined through three empirical perspectives. First, how the Antarctic cultural heritage is represented through the designation of Historic Sites and Monuments and Site Guidelines for Visitors; then how this is presented through tourism operators’ websites; and, finally, how it is experienced by visitors as narrated in open-source social media information. Each dataset suggests that, while cultural heritage is an important component of an increasingly commodified tourist offering, it is only part of an assemblage of elements which combine to create a subliminal and largely intangible Antarctic experience. In particular, a polarization of the heritage experience between cultural and natural does not appear productive. The paper proposes a more nuanced understanding of heritage tourism in Antarctica which accommodates the notion of a hybrid experience that integrates cultural heritage, the history and stories this heritage represents, and the natural environmental setting.
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- Gutting, Alicia, 1986-
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The Nuclear Rhine : Conflict and Cooperation in a Transnational River Basin
- 2024
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The water and nuclear energy sectors are intricately and interdependently entwined. In this thesis, the relationship between water and nuclear energy is being examined specifically in the Rhine River basin from the 1950s to the contemporary period. Through a series of four research articles, this work scrutinises the complex interaction between nuclear development and water management, emphasising the critical yet often undervalued role of water in the nuclear energy sector. This investigation gains particular relevance in the context of climate change, which heightens the environmental impact of nuclear power as well as the vulnerability of nuclear power plants to extreme weather events, such as heatwaves.A central thesis argument is the contemporary societal undervaluation of water for nuclear energy, contrasted with its more recognised value in the mid-20th century. This shift in perception is especially pertinent as extreme weather conditions underscore the need to reassess water's worth. Employing a transnational and interconnected approach, this research challenges conventional national narratives and underscores the significance of cooperative and shared resource management along the Rhine. This paradigm serves as a blueprint for future transnational collaborations, particularly within the European sphere.The analysis explores various facets of water-nuclear-interactions, including the selection of riverine sites for nuclear power plants, the challenges and conflicts arising from these decisions, and specific case studies on risk perception, water diplomacy, and the sustainability of nuclear power in the age of climate change. These discussions are not only rooted in historical analysis but also engage with contemporary debates about the environmental sustainability of nuclear energy and its role in a future marked by increasing climatic uncertainties.In summary, this thesis offers a novel perspective on the dynamic relationship between water and nuclear energy, advocating for a renewed appreciation of water as a crucial but limited resource. It highlights the necessity for sustainable, forward-thinking approaches to nuclear energy development. As we confront the challenges of climate change, the insights from this research present valuable lessons on the importance of transnational cooperation, comprehensive risk assessment, and the meticulous consideration of environmental impacts in shaping future energy policy. Thus, this work illuminates the past while providing guidance for navigating the complex interdependencies between water and nuclear energy in the future.
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- Hudson, Mark, et al.
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Global processes of anthropogenesis characterise the early Anthropocene in the Japanese Islands
- 2022
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Ingår i: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. - : Springer Nature. - 2662-9992. ; 9
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although many scholars date the onset of the Anthropocene to the Industrial Revolution or the post-1945 ‘Great Acceleration’, there is growing interest in understanding earlier human impacts on the earth system. Research on the ‘Palaeoanthropocene’ has investigated the role of fire, agriculture, trade, urbanisation and other anthropogenic impacts. While there is increasing consensus that such impacts were more important than previously realised, geographical variation during the Palaeoanthropocene remains poorly understood. Here, we present a preliminary comparative analysis of claims that pre-industrial anthropogenic impacts in Japan were significantly reduced by four factors: the late arrival of agriculture, an emphasis on wet-rice farming limited to alluvial plains, a reliance on seafood rather than domesticated animals as a primary source of dietary protein, and cultural ideologies of environmental stewardship. We find that none of these claims of Japanese exceptionalism can be supported by the archaeological and historical records. We make some suggestions for further research but conclude that the Japanese sequence appears consistent with global trends towards increased anthropogenic impacts over the course of the Palaeoanthropocene.
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- Klüppelberg, Achim, 1990-
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The Nuclear Waters of the Soviet Union : Hydro-Engineering and Technocratic Culture in the Nuclear Industry
- 2024
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- After the development of nuclear weapons, civil applications were seen as a way through which protagonists of Soviet modernity could embrace a new future, which Josephson called atomic-powered communism. Where hydro-powered communism had reached its boundaries, nuclear energy was to take over. Crucial parts of the Soviet nuclear industry were based on the use of water. The mantle of progressiveness, innovation, and status previously embodied by the hydropower industry was taken up by emerging nuclear technocrats. While scholars have readily engaged nuclear power as a topic, they have neglected its hydraulic roots and hydro-nuclear entanglements, especially for cooling and other technological purposes. An important but yet overlooked influence came from the creation of Soviet hydraulic-hydropower technological systems.This doctoral thesis fills a twofold gap in the existing literature. First, water is placed at the centre of an analysis of the Soviet nuclear programme. Pipes, valves, tanks, pumps, pressure mechanics and gravity approaches all use much older inventions and engineering mindsets, which are generally not considered in the existing historiography concerning nuclear energy. Aquatic systems, riverbeds, industrial improvements, watersheds, and fluid pathways of potential contamination have not sufficiently been linked to the rapid development of the nuclear industry, even though toxic radioisotopes were spread across the globe.Second, it analyses how technocratic culture influenced nuclear decision-making processes. Therefore, discourses of siting Soviet nuclear power plants in the period between 1954 and 1991 are analysed under a water and technocratic culture perspective to tap more accurately into the links between the nuclear industry, hydraulic engineering, economic imperatives, power and hierarchy, as well as state-communist ideology. The dominant culture present at the construction site of a nuclear power plant determines the circumstances, within which regimes of nuclear safety are defined and operated. If we want to understand the underlying reasons for why nuclear safety was mismanaged in the USSR, we need to investigate the details and everyday decision-making process made by people on the ground, also in order to see which mistakes should not be repeated in the future. Therefore, this work proposes an original technocratic culture analysis to explain these issues within a Soviet context, based on three subcategories designated as political, nuclear inner circle, and safety culture.Consequently, insights from these investigations shall serve to broaden our understanding of the phenomenon of the Soviet nuclear industry’s fast development, by answering the main research question of how technocratic culture influenced hydraulic engineering practices in the Soviet nuclear industry and how this affected safety. The two foci, water and technocratic culture, are interlinked and thus investigated together. By highlighting hydro-nuclear entanglements at crucial nuclear installations throughout the USSR, this thesis contributes to a more sophisticated understanding of the environmental consequences such a technological system entails, stressing the necessity for nuclear safety under the long shadow of the state-communist legacy that continues to influence how we live in Europe today.
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- Klüppelberg, Achim, 1990-, et al.
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The Wrong Water for a Right Purpose? : A Tale of the Estonian Nuclear Power Plant Never Built at Lake Võrtsjärv
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- For reasons yet unknown, Soviet nuclear planners wanted to build an NPP in Estonia, encompassing Leningrad, the Baltic Republics, Kaliningrad, Belarus and parts of Western Russia. On a planner’s map, Võrtsjärv looked like a promising location to host such a plant. Nevertheless, it became soon clear that Võrtsjärv had too little of the right water available. However, while Võrtsjärv had the wrong water for the NPP, it had the right for another important and in this case competing use of this liquid resource: the establishment of a high-value eel fishery. The act of blocking an NPP construction was part and parcel of a major shift in Soviet Estonia’s fisheries management – one that redefined water and fish as a resource to be protected and valued rather than exploited. Ultimately, no NPP was built at Võrtsjärv.
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- Klüppelberg, Achim, 1990-, et al.
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Võrtsjärv under Investigation : A Fishy Tale of the Nuclear Power Plant Never Built in Estonia
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- One of the most mysterious stories of Estonian energy history is that of the nuclear power plant (NPP) that was allegedly planned to be constructed at Lake Võrtsjärv during the 1960s, but ultimately never built. Thanks to the skilful negotiation by three Estonian academicians that participated in the secret planning committee, delegates from Moscow became convinced that the proposal was not feasible. The story has been well consolidated in the media but also in the oral narratives of the researchers working at Võrtsjärv’s limnology station during the 1960s.Yet, we have not been able so far to find any archival evidence hinting at this nuclear planning process. None of the central planning documents that we have seen, includes the Estonian nuclear power plant. Neither were we able to find the report that the limnology centre is said to have written concerning the environmental damage that would be caused by the proposed nuclear plant. Moreover, constructing an NPP at Võrtsjärv makes very little sense from the point of view of Soviet Estonian energetics, which predominantly relied on oil-shale and peat.While the story may sound fishy, it is real for those who remember it. In fact, blocking an NPP construction is part and parcel of a major shift in Soviet Estonia’s fisheries management – one that redefined water and fish as a resource to be protected and valued rather than exploited. Within the utilitarian view of nature as a resource and the framework of two important all-Soviet planning processes (water resources and inland fisheries), the scientists managed not only to deter an NPP, but also to reorganise the entire fishery system at Lake Võrtsjärv, recovering the numbers of valuable fish, and restoring the ecological balance at the aging lake. The planning process of the nuclear power plant roughly coincides with the development of a strong paradigm of ecosystemic nature protection in the late 1960s.
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- Kull, Kalevi, et al.
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A hundred introductions to semiotics, for a million students : Survey of semiotics textbooks and primers in the world
- 2015
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Ingår i: Sign Systems Studies. - Tartu : University of Tartu. - 1406-4243. ; 43:2-3, s. 281-346
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In order to estimate the current situation of teaching materials available in the field of semiotics, we are providing a comparative overview and a worldwide bibliography of introductions and textbooks on general semiotics published within last 50 years, i.e. since the beginning of institutionalization of semiotics. In this category, we have found over 130 original books in 22 languages. Together with the translations of more than 20 of these titles, our bibliography includes publications in 32 languages. Comparing the authors, their theoretical backgrounds and the general frames of the discipline of semiotics in diff erent decades since the 1960s makes it possible to describe a number of predominant tendencies. In the extensive bibliography thus compiled we also include separate lists for existing lexicons and readers of semiotics as additional material not covered in the main discussion. Th e publication frequency of new titles is growing, with a certain depression having occurred in the 1980s. A leading role of French, Russian and Italian works is demonstrated.
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- Lindström, Kati, 1977-
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Antarktika lummuses
- 2020
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Ingår i: GO REISIAJAKIRI. - 1736-3144. ; 84:3, s. 38-45
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- Lindström, Kati, 1977-
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Anthropos and its Scene: Anthropocene, heritage and long-term human history
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Heritage is the scene where the acts of the anthropos, the human being, are celebrated (sometimes condemned), commemorated, and enacted. As a central stage for remembrance of bygone human generations, it is pertinent to ask what is the relation of heritage to the concept of Anthropocene – the era of humans, and how does Anthropocene relate to the longer history of the places in question.When Stroemer and Crutzen first published the term Anthropocene in 2000, they proposed latter part of the 18th c as the border line between Holocene and Anthropocene, coinciding roughly with the invention of steam engine. Latter discussions have concentrated mostly on the European industrial revolution from 1800 onwards and the advent of the nuclear age as the borderlines. Archaeologists in their turn have argued against these Eurocentric definitions and maintain that Anthropocene is essentially co-extensive with Holocene, since early civilizations also engineered their landscapes extensively, having a considerable impact on the whole earth system. This definition would effectively blur the boundaries of the so-called natural heritage, acknowledging that most of our extant natural environment is as a matter of fact natureculture.Industrial heritage is the heritage type that most explicitly works to perpetuate the onset of Anthropocene in human memory. Most of its protected objects commemorate the moment when humans became drivers of the earth system change. Mining and burning of coal, long-haul transport and global movement, metalwork, harnessing water, military infrastructure, new ways of intensive resource use and production – all these and even more speak of human achievements in this new era of human dominance, often coupled with stories of oppression, environmental destruction and injustice.On the other hand, also the other heritage sites that commemorate more long-term histories, such as religious or agricultural heritage sites bear an inevitable trace of the Anthropocene. Their endangerment, the need to preserve these sites mostly surges from the huge socio-economic changes accompanying Modernization and the Great Acceleration. Were it not for intensification of agriculture, increasing urbanization, depopulation of marginal villages, growing resource use, increasing automobile use and whatever other indices of Industrial revolution and Great Acceleration you may think of, these places may have never become endangered. Be it Shirakawa and Gokayama villages of Hida, pilgrimage routes of Mt Fuji or Ōmi Hachiman channels of Lake Biwa, their today’s appearance bears a stamp of Anthropocene. Heritage policy where each site is preserved as it was at the moment of taking it under protection, perpetuates this face of Anthropocenic abandonment forever.Nuclear heritage – the heritage of the shorter Anthropocene definition, preferred by the Stratigraphic Commission – is a particularly challenging type where the difficulties arise from the invisibility of true nuclear legacy. In cultural heritage, this legacy is partly made visible, whereas designating nature protection areas on the nuclear sites, the invisible but present effects of the nuclear legacy are concealed. Once again, the essence of natural heritage becomes blurred in a new type of natureculture, a technoenvironment.
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- Lindström, Kati, 1977-, et al.
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Antropotseen : Inimeste ajastu
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- Lindström, Kati, 1977-, et al.
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Bodies between catastrophes and control
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Ingår i: Environment and History. - 0967-3407 .- 1752-7023. ; 21:1, s. 171-174
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- Lindström, Kati, 1977-
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Classic and cute: Framing biodiversity in Japan through rural landscapes and mascot characters
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Ingår i: Popular Communication. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1540-5702 .- 1540-5710.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Japan is an active player in international biodiversity politics and has ambitious domestic biodiversity targets. The government considers environmental communication crucial for reaching these. This article analyzes two major frames that state institutions employ for communicating biodiversity: traditional agricultural landscapes called satoyama and embodied mascot characters called yurukyara. Both frames attempt to reach the public by transcending the discursive reality. Employing well-established stylistic devices (court culture, Japanese cute), prestigious metanarratives (Japanese as nature people), and established institutional systems of tourism and governance, the frames have reached huge popularity. Yet awareness surveys indicate that people continue to consider biodiversity a matter of governmental policy rather than individual lifestyle. There has been a clear positive effect on the localities singled out for satoyama campaigns. However, it can be argued that the overall effect of celebratory framing coupled with pleasing aesthetics favors complacency and does not invite new forms of civic mobilization.
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- Lindström, Kati, 1977-
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Constructing agricultural and industrial heritage in Hida region, Japan
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The presentation analyses the tension between the construction of agricultural and industrial heritage in Japan. The nostalgic image of historical landscapes is increasingly penetrating into protection policies as a model of sustainability, focusing primarily on rice production landscapes. Yet Japan is an old industrial country. In a prevalent discourse of unique national harmony with nature, industrial heritage sites need to appeal to a different sense of uniqueness and value.This paper traces two UNESCO World Heritage sites, Tomioka Silk Mill (inscribed in 2014) and Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama (inscribed in 1995), and their reception and representation in relation to changing ideas on value, heritage and Japaneseness. Both of the sites are tightly related to silk industry, but while Tomioka is recognized as the cradle of industrial Japan, Hida region is increasingly interpreted as an isolated rural settlement and linked with traditional agricultural activities, including rice cultivation, which, however, is extremely recent for the area. In addition, both of the areas are tightly interconnected in 20th century Japanese literature and film through stories of serious exploitation of adolescent girls in early Japanese silk industry.
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- Lindström, Kati, 1977-, et al.
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Fuji as a European Mountain? Universal heritage value, local identities and changing landscapes at a new world heritage site.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Mt. Fuji is a mountain that is visible from the whole world – as a symbol of the Japanese state or the great Orient, its images are featured in virtually every Japan-related brochure and merchandize well beyond the geographical constraints of the Archipelago.The present paper asks several provocative questions: to what extent are the Western perceptions of Mt. Fuji embedded into the constructed „universal heritage value“ in its UNESCO World Heritage nomination process; how does the defined universal value relate to the local identity value of Mt Fuji cultural landscape; and how does the contemporary perception of both universal and local value of the place relate to the evidence of its long-term history of land use? To what extent can we claim that its nomination as a „sacred place and source of artistic inspiration“ casts the mountain in terms of European values and perception of the place, and how well does it accommodate different identities and uses on local level? And on the other hand, to what extent are the present local identities related to historical land use before the rapid modernization?To answer these and related questions, we will use a variety of sources from interviews with people involved in world heritage nomination process, nomination materials, media sources, but also historical evidence of past landscape use, such as maps, historical documents and archaeological data. While the people involved in the construction of „universal value“ lament the excessive pressure by the Western experts, the local inhabitants express bewilderment about the nomination as a site of worship and art. How and by whom was the mountain used is a key question in addressing these claims. An additional theoretical issue involved in the discussion is how much should the present local identities and evaluations be included in the construction of heritage value in case of a massive landscape change that completely changes millenia-long practices?
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- Lindström, Kati, 1977-
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Greening the History : Discourses of Nation, Ecology and Environmental Protection in contemporary Japan
- 2015
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Nation-building brings along the definition of new national landscapes, drawing of new lines of division, new peripheries and centres. Legal frameworks of ownership, use and protection among others inscribe these cultural concepts on real landscapes. The present paper follows the development of the Japanese rural rice cultivation landscapes from a landscape of production that has to support the nation’s colonial endeavour before the WWII, through the peripheral backyards of the modernizing industrial Japan after the WWII, to the embodiment of the ancient Japanese wisdom and harmony with nature from the late 20th century onwards. Inscribing new national landscapes on the state territories bundled together infrastructure development, nature protection and the promotion of tourism. From the second half of the 20th century, but especially from 1990s onwards, the reasoning of the values of national landscapes has become increasingly dominated by ecological discourse that – being by nature a systemic metalanguage – naturalizes the national value in scientific terms. In the context of raising nationalism and under the protective framework of ecology, the satoyama ecosystems that unite two basic national landscape ideals, the forests and rice paddies, become a symbol of sustainable resource use and superior moral character of the nation, manifested in the ancient wisdom of the traditional agricultural practice. Strong ideological stands have their inevitable consequences for the real life landscape management, and not only within Japan: afforestation and constantly growing forest reserve (and consequent large-scale timber import for sustaining traditional building techniques), expanding areas of protection for satoyama landscapes that are hardly sustainable in today’s rural settings, resuscitation of several lost landscape features and whitewashing Japan’s history of industrial disasters by claiming a special harmonious relationship with nature, unseen in the Western civilization.
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- Lindström, Kati, 1977-
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Landscape semiotics
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Ingår i: The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies. - London and New York : Taylor & Francis Group. - 9781138720312 ; , s. 74-90
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- Lindström, Kati, 1977-, et al.
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Mount Fuji’s Listing as a Cultural World Heritage Site: Challenges of Fragmented Governance
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Heritage management is often fragmented, and Japan is no exception with considerable horizontal fragmentation between municipal, prefectural and central government agencies. For example, the Ministry of Environment (MoE) is the legally-designated administrator of national parks but their institutional objectives are often inconsistent with those of other state agencies, such as the MAFF (a significant landowner) and MEXT (responsible for cultural heritage). This poses serious challenges for management of large mixed type heritage where objects are not easily classified as natural or cultural. Mount Fuji, UNESCO World Cultural Heritage since 2013, consists of a serial nomination of sites within Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park that overlaps with the administrative territory of 15 municipalities and two prefectures. This complex combination of multiple stakeholders can have the unintended side-effect of pitting government agencies against each other, and against private stakeholders such as mountain huts who maintain certain trails. The nomination process was challenged by the legislation and established procedures that struggle to accommodate natural landscapes functioning as cultural objects of worship and art. The fragmented management style was typified by subordination to business interests and avoidance of disrupting the status quo. One solution was to focus on sites that were already listed under national law. Site maintenance is typically split between several departments and institutions that are subjected to regular rotation of human resources. 13 However, the UNESCO listing process opened a window for greater cooperation. After tentative listing in 2007, a cross-cutting committee was formed in 2009 to standardize place names, and remove unnecessary or inferior trail signs. The simplified system of colour-coded, multi-lingual signs along 4 main trails symbolizes how the ‘carrot’ of UNESCO inscription provided an incentive to galvanize diverse stakeholders into collaborative action, but it is difficult to envisage how the momentum can maintain cross-cutting partnerships now that inscription has been achieved.
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- Lindström, Kati, 1977-
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On Dogs, Aurora and Ships: Bipolar Imagination in Japan
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Japan is a relative newcomer in the Arctic politics as it has no territorial claims in the Arctic, nor an early history of Arctic expeditions. Instead, modernizing Japan focused its attention to Antarctica from as early as 1910. Today, Japan is showing increasing interest in Arctic politics and management, insisting that important decisions should not be taken only by the Arctic States and the Arctic Ocean coastal States. The Japanese government view is that the Arctic “should be recognized as a part of the common heritage of mankind. The international community should protect this area and use it for peaceful purposes”. Japan explains its polar interests by being a maritime country and although the country’s main activities in the polar regions pertain to scientific research, many consider Japan’s real motivation to be in the potential Northern shipping routes. Accordingly, the Arctic figures in the government documents as empty fields of water, ice and hidden treasures, subjected to international scientific research and management – quite like the Antarctic. Indigenous people are almost invisible. I will present an ongoing research project into the commonalities in the Japanese imagination of the two poles. Through the analyses of museum exhibits and other cultural phenomena, I will discuss a variety of images where the perception of the two poles gets blurred, notably the Japanese obsession with Aurora borealis, snow fields, but also the moving bodies of icebreakers, whales – and dogs. A telling example is the story of 15 Japanese Karafuto breed dogs whose tragic fate after the first Japanese Antarctic overwinter camp has become the dominant cultural narrative of polar research. The block-buster movie of the expedition, “Tales of Antarctica”, is largely shot in the Canadian Arctic and it can be argued that the origin of the dogs in the former Northern territories of Japan (Sakhalin) helps to project Japan as a place with deep cultural ties to Arctic
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- Lindström, Kati, 1977-, et al.
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Phaedo or The death of Socrates at Forsmark
- 2021
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Ingår i: <em>In his own environment</em>: <em>En festskrift till Sverker Sörlin</em>. - Stockholm : KTH Royal Institute of Technology. ; , s. 102-110, s. 102-110
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- Lindström, Kati, 1977-
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Protection Policies through a Lens : The Role of Representations in the Environmental Protection of Japanese Agrarian Landscapes
- 2014
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Ingår i: Framing Nature: Signs, Stories and Ecologies of Meaning. Abstracts. - Tartu : University of Tartu. - 9789949325702 ; , s. 122-123
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Environmental discourse and natural imagery hold a special place in national self-descriptions, and different visual and verbal representations of nature, that is nature through a lens or a pen, play a crucial part in establishing which elements belong to the “desirable national environment” and what parts of landscape are rather negated or ignored. Without underestimating the emotional bonds of each individual with their home landscapes, the present paper will address the role of visual (both photo and cinematographic) and verbal representations of landscapes in shaping public discourse on nature and environmental protection policies.The discussion will focus on the representation of traditional rice agriculture landscapes at Lake Biwa, Japan, and their role in shaping local environmental consciousness and protection policies. Framing nature in beauty images has been crucial in Japanese environmental protection already from the establishment of early national parks that was carried out hand in hand with big publicity campaigns of major train companies. Well framed visual representations that cut off today’s industrial or urban everyday landscapes are central to the discourse on national landscapes in today’s Shiga Prefecture, where photographic and cinematographic works of Imamori Mitsuhiko have highlighted near-dissappeared traditional rice agriculture ecosystems. In a skillful montage, beautiful traditional villages are depicted as embodiments of traditional Japanese wisdom about co-existance with nature and have found ardent fans among middle-aged town people who happily immerse themselves in further “framing activities”: nature walks, food tasting, ecotourism etc. “The biggest challenge was to keep garbage out of the shot,” says the framer, Imamori Mitsuhiko himself about shooting “Satoyama”, the NHK and BBC co-produced film on water cycles in traditional rice farming villages at lake Shiga. For the consumer of framed images and experiences, it is the correspondence between the first-hand experience and neat images that matters most, appears from the interviews with participants at various tourist events in traditional agricultural villages. And even though the contact of these participants with the real Shiga prefecture remains largely on the level of framed nature, thus excluding the majority of the prefecture’s present reality, the conscious popularization activity of Imamori Mitsuhiko and subsequent satoyama boom has considerably increased the popular awareness about landscape heritage both on local and national level and has in fact helped to preserve several landscape elements that had already almost dissappeared.
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Taming the Lake: Modernization of Water at Lake Biwa
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Lake Biwa is the largest freshwater lake in Japan with the present surface of 670 square kilometers and a rich ecosystem that has merited its listing as Ramsar Wetland in 1993. On the other hand, it has had a remarkable historical and cultural importance as a major junction for land and water traffic to and from Kyoto but also as a major provider of fish and rice to the ancient capital. In water management, modernization has meant mostly three things. First, land reclamation that led to the disappearance of most satellite lakes and reed fields that acted as buffer zones and cleaning mechanism for wastewaters running in from the irrigation channels of the paddy fields. Second, the control of water level in the lake that has proved to be detrimental for the numerous endemic fish species that depended on the seasonal swelling of the lake. And third, establishing land transportation, replacing the older water-centred transport routes. All these three questions were closely related to the new modern economy of increasing industrialization, inter-regional division of labour, development of agribusiness, privatization of lake shores and tourism, bringing about profound changes in water quality, species composition and the locals’ perception of the lake.
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