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- Allard, Christina, et al.
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Rasbiologiskt språkbruk i statens rättsprocess mot sameby
- 2015
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Ingår i: Dagens Nyheter. - 1101-2447.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Statens hantering av forskningsresultat i rättsprocessen med Girjas sameby utgör ett hot mot Sverige som rättsstat och kunskapsnation. Åratal av svensk och internationell forskning underkänns och man använder ett språkbruk som skulle kunna vara hämtat från rasbiologins tid. Nu måste staten ta sitt ansvar och börja agera som en demokratisk rättsstat, skriver 59 forskare.
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- Ens, Emilie, et al.
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Recognition of indigenous ecological knowledge systems in conservation and their role to narrow the knowledge-implementation gap
- 2021
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Ingår i: Closing the knowledge-implementation gap in conservation science. - Cham : Springer Nature. - 9783030810849 - 9783030810856 ; , s. 109-139
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Over recent decades, Indigenous knowledge (IK) systems, people, and territories have increasingly been recognized in mainstream conservation practice. However, recognition of the value of IK by governing bodies varies and is often a result of colonial and “development” history and the strength of hegemonic attitudes. Through regional case studies, this chapter explores the progress and challenges of integrating IK in conservation action which is key to narrowing the knowledge-implementation gap in this discipline. Key enabling factors allow IK integration into conservation action at national levels including: recognition of Indigenous land ownership; development and acceptance of cross-cultural or Indigenous methods; devolution of power to include Indigenous People in decision-making processes; acknowledgment of Indigenous groups and their rights; and acknowledgment of the benefits of using IK in biodiversity conservation. The regional case studies presented in this chapter suggest that the recognition of IK systems in conservation programs is greatly facilitated by adopting three pillars of Indigenous empowerment (Indigenous land ownership, acknowledgment of Indigenous peoples and their rights, and acknowledgment of the value of Indigenous knowledge systems) with concomitant benefit to narrow the knowledge-implementation gap in conservation science.
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- Flodén, Linn, et al.
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Conservation, collaboration, and claims : Saemie inclusion and influence in a Swedish national park process
- 2023
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Ingår i: Frontiers in Conservation Science. - Lausanne : Frontiers Media S.A.. - 2673-611X. ; 3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Sweden, environmental governance and management has historically been centralized, with low levels of local influence and control. Although a large proportion of the areas set aside for environmental protection in Sweden are located in Saepmie, the traditional lands of the Saemie people, Saemie influence in the governance and management of these areas has been limited. However, recent events and ongoing processes indicate a potential change in both discourse and policy practice. This paper critically examines the planning process for a proposed national park in the southern part of the Swedish mountain range. It was organized in a collaborative and participatory form, including Saemie representatives on both local and central levels. After several years of planning, local Saemie opposition to the park led to the termination of the process. We investigate discursive constructions of the local Saemie actors’ inclusion in the process and their effects on possible Saemie influence. Our results show that state and Saemie actors articulate inclusion in different ways, limiting and enabling varying forms of influence. The landscape and the state of nature were central constructions affecting the process, and the project’s aim transformed over time – with significant consequences for the process and, possibly, also its results.
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- Hallberg-Sramek, Isabella, et al.
(författare)
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Bringing “Climate-Smart Forestry” Down to the Local Level : Identifying Barriers, Pathways and Indicators for Its Implementation in Practice
- 2022
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Ingår i: Forests. - : MDPI. - 1999-4907. ; 13:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The theoretical concept of “climate-smart forestry” aims to integrate climate change mitigation and adaptation to maintain and enhance forests’ contributions to people and global agendas. We carried out two local transdisciplinary collaboration processes with the aim of developing local articulations of climate-smart forestry and to identify barriers, pathways and indicators to applying it in practice. During workshops in northern and southern Sweden, local stakeholders described how they would like forests to be managed, considering their past experiences, future visions and climate change. As a result, the stakeholders framed climate-smart forestry as active and diverse management towards multiple goals. They identified several conditions that could act both as barriers and pathways for its implementation in practice, such as value chains for forest products and services, local knowledge and experiences of different management alternatives, and the management of ungulates. Based on the workshop material, a total of 39 indicators for climate-smart forestry were identified, of which six were novel indicators adding to the existing literature. Our results emphasize the importance of understanding the local perspectives to promote climate-smart forestry practices across Europe. We also suggest how the concept of climate-smart forestry can be further developed, through the interplay between theory and practice.
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- Hallberg-Sramek, Isabella, et al.
(författare)
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Combining scientific and local knowledge improves evaluating future scenarios of forest ecosystem services
- 2023
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Ingår i: Ecosystem Services. - : Elsevier. - 2212-0416 .- 2212-0416. ; 60
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Forest scenario analysis can help tackle sustainability issues by generating insight into the potential long-term effects of present-day management. In northern Sweden, forests provide important benefits including climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, reindeer husbandry, local livelihoods, and recreation. Informed by local stakeholders’ views on how forests can be enabled to deliver these benefits, we created four forest management scenarios: the close-to-nature scenario (CTN) which emphasises biodiversity conservation, the classic management scenario (CLA) optimising the forests’ net present value, the intensified scenario (INT) maximising harvested wood from the forest, and the combined scenario (COM) applying a combination of measures from the CTN and INT. The scenarios were applied to the local forest landscape and modelled over a 100-year simulation period, and the results of the modelling were then evaluated by a diverse group of stakeholders. For most ecosystem services, there was a time lag of 10–50 years before noticeable effects and differences between the scenarios became evident, highlighting the need to consider both the short- and long-term effects of forest management. Evaluation by the stakeholders put the modelled results into a local context. They raised considerations relating to wildlife and hunting, climate change risks, social acceptability, and conflict, highlighting the value of evaluating the scenarios qualitatively as well as quantitatively. Overall, stakeholders thought that the CTN and CLA scenarios promoted more ecosystem services and posed fewer climate risks, while also creating less conflict among stakeholders. Our results emphasise the value of combining scientific and local knowledge when developing and evaluating future forest scenarios.
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- Hansson-Forman, Katarina, 1991-, et al.
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A view through the lens of policy formulation : the struggle to formulate Swedish moose policy
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. - London : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1523-908X .- 1522-7200. ; 23:4, s. 528-542
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Policy formulation refers to how problems identified in the agenda-setting phase transform into government programs. As the process of designing policy alternatives expresses and allocates power among different interests, policy formulation affects both implementation and outcomes. This paper examines the Swedish moose policy of 2010, revealing that the policy portrays the issue of moose as an ecological problem, while motivations for adopting policy measures are largely described in economic terms. Because of this incongruity, the policy may not achieve its goals. Furthermore, implementation principles stemming from different design strategies clash in the attempt to incorporate both local and ecosystem-based levels of management into a single system, leaving the policy implementation with many uncertainties and tensions. To deliver the policy’s goal, the government could consider clarifying the operationalization of the ecosystem-based management approach and identifying the prerequisites necessary for building capacity, dealing with strong stakeholders, and ensuring fair representation of key actors. Future research should further explore the consequences of policy imbalances in relation to intended goals, the importance of understanding the rationales and design strategies underpinning implementation principles, and the need to discuss operationalization of EBM in relation to different types of objects of management and to issues of scale.
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- Moberg, Karen R., et al.
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Mobility, food and housing: responsibility, individual consumption and demand-side policies in European deep decarbonisation pathways
- 2019
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Ingår i: Energy Efficiency. - : Springer Netherlands. - 1570-646X .- 1570-6478. ; 12:2, s. 497-519
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Brundtland Commission report ‘Our Common Future’ highlighted that residents in high-income countries lead lifestyles incompatible with planetary boundaries. Three decades later, consumption-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have continued to increase. To achieve ‘well below 2°C’ and 1.5 °C goals, consumption-related emissions must be substantially reduced in the coming decades. This paper provides insights on how to pursue 1.5 °C pathways through changes in household consumption. It draws on original data gathered in the project ‘HOusehold Preferences for reducing greenhouse gas Emissions in four European High Income Countries’ (HOPE) to analyse policies targeting and affecting direct and indirect GHG emissions in three household consumption categories (mobility, housing and food) in four countries (France, Germany, Norway and Sweden) and four medium-sized cities. This paper demonstrates discrepancies and similarities between current governmental policy approaches in the four countries and household perceptions of consumption changes with respect to policy mechanisms, responsibilities and space for acting on mitigation. Current demand-side policy strategies rely heavily on instruments of self-governance and nudging behaviour. Whilst some of our data suggests that households broadly accept this, it also suggests that governments could more actively lead and steer demand-side mitigation via adjusting and supplementing a comprehensive list of 20 climate policy measures currently in place in one or more of the case countries. The paper concludes by suggesting areas for more effective policy change and household-level climate change mitigation to feed the next update of climate pledges under the Paris Agreement.
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- Priebe, Janina, 1986-, et al.
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The spectrum of knowledge : Integrating knowledge dimensions in the context of forests and climate change
- 2023
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Ingår i: Sustainability Science. - : Springer. - 1862-4065 .- 1862-4057. ; 18, s. 1329-1341
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Integrated approaches to knowledge that recognize meaning, behavior, culture, and systems as domains of knowledge are increasingly employed in holistic views on sustainability transformation but often remain conceptually driven. In this study, we analyze empirical data from a collaborative process with local forest stakeholders in Sweden through the lens of individual, collective, interior, and exterior knowledge dimensions. We show that the participants’ understanding of knowledge about forests and climate change presents a nuanced picture of how knowledge and acting are connected. Meaning-making, cultural frames, and techno-scientific knowledge conceptions converge, interact, and, at times, replace or diminish each other. The connection and interplay of these dimensions, we suggest, can be understood as a knowledge spectrum. These insights into integrated knowledge, based on an empirical case, must be addressed in the production of knowledge, both to grasp the climate and sustainability issues that face us and to support action in response to them.
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- Priebe, Janina, 1986-, et al.
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Transformative change in context : stakeholders’ understandings of leverage at the forest–climate nexus
- 2022
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Ingår i: Sustainability Science. - : Springer. - 1862-4065 .- 1862-4057. ; 17:5, s. 1921-1938
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Transformation acquires its meaning within contexts and particular settings where transformative change is experienced, and where people engage in meaning-making. We used the forest–climate nexus in Sweden as an empirical case study, and the leverage-points perspective as an analytical lens. The aim was to investigate contextual leverage for transformative change, and how our use of context and relations shapes our understanding of transformation and leverage for change. The empirical basis was a whole-day workshop, held in both northern and southern Sweden, for local forest stakeholders. To detract from current conflict and barriers to change, we asked the stakeholders to reflect on transformative change in the past and in the future, and the spatio-temporal relations that form the forest–climate nexus. Our analysis suggests that leverage associated with a transformative change in the future is commonly seen as universal and detached from context, reflecting, for example, national and global discourses on forests and climate change. Regarding transformative changes in the past, however, contextual leverage is linked to the community values and pluralism that drove the change in particular situations. Focusing on the complex spatio-temporal relations and meaning-making helps identify how leverage emerges from context, and how leverage also acquires a richer meaning for people experiencing transformative change.
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- Reimerson, Elsa, 1982-
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Between nature and culture : exploring space for indigenous agency in the Convention on Biological Diversity
- 2013
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Ingår i: Environmental Politics. - : Routledge. - 0964-4016 .- 1743-8934. ; 22:6, s. 992-1009
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The goals of nature conservation have changed over the last decades, but setting aside areas for nature protection is still a major part of environmental efforts globally. Protected areas often include traditional lands of indigenous peoples, and although indigenous rights have been strengthened through international treaties, conflicts over land entitlement are still common. I analyse indigenous peoples' role in nature conservation, focusing on the discursive construction of indigenous subject position in the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and using post-colonial theory to situate the discussion in its historical and political context, discussing what subject positions are made available to indigenous people, and what political agency they can be assumed to entail. The analysis shows that limits to indigenous space for agency are embedded in the Convention on Biological Diversity discourse – the analysed texts present a narrow recognition of indigenous people's role in the context of the Convention on Biological Diversity, with a heavy focus on indigenous subjects as holders of traditional knowledge, and a clear influence from colonial notions and post-colonial power relations.
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- Reimerson, Elsa, 1982-
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International arenas, local space for agency and national discourse as mediator : protected areas in Swedish and Norwegian Sápmi
- 2017
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Ingår i: Indigenous rights in modern landscapes. - London : Routledge. - 9781472464927 - 9781315607559 ; , s. 167-184
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In an increasingly globalised world, discourses articulated in and through international arenas 1 shape and influence national and local protected area discourses, and the outcomes of international negotiations have substantial effects on the space for agency of individuals and groups on national and local levels. The number and scope of international institutions, organisations and knowledge systems aimed at solving environmental problems are growing, as is the influence of international conservation authorities. International law governs much national protected area legislation, and discourses of protected areas are intertwined within and across political and administrative levels. 2 International arenas for nature conservation and protected areas have also proved important for Indigenous advocacy, as part of Indigenous peoples’ strategies to legitimise and support their claims to land rights, participation and political influence. 3Discourses of area protection have traditionally been concentrated on preserving and maintaining (the idea of ) ‘untouched’ or ‘wilderness’ areas, and have largely ignored or suppressed Indigenous land and resource use. 4 In recent decades, the arguments and ideologies underpinning area protection have changed, introducing concepts such as biological diversity protection and sustainable development along with rights-based approaches, increased recognition of local and traditional knowledge and a growing focus on local participation. 5 International arenas for nature conservation and area protection increasingly focus on Indigenous peoples’ role in and contribution to conservation policies and have become important instruments through which they can gain protection for their natural resources, knowledge, traditions and lifestyles. 6 Indigenous peoples are visibleadvocacy and attempts to influence policy. International law can be an important tool for advancement of the political goals of Indigenous peoples, and international activism can be a way for them to bypass national levels where they are not sufficiently or accurately represented. 8However, both scholars and Indigenous representatives have also problematised the major international conventions for nature conservation and area protection. Critics argue that these texts are largely constructed and upheld by non-Indigenous people, that their organisations and decision-making bodies include representatives of nation-states where Indigenous peoples are still struggling for recognition of their rights and that they do not always provide adequate mechanisms for Indigenous influence and participation. They have also been criticised for upholding and reproducing colonial discourses and structures, and for failing to safeguard, or even violating, Indigenous rights.
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- Reimerson, Elsa, 1982-, et al.
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Local articulations of climate action in Swedish forest contexts
- 2024
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Ingår i: Environmental Science and Policy. - : Elsevier. - 1462-9011 .- 1873-6416. ; 151
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Local actors are recognized as key drivers for climate action. Making climate change relevant and possible to act on in local contexts is thus a critical undertaking for both researchers and society at large. Connecting climate change to people’s known surroundings and experiences, and framing climate action in relation to everyday practices in the local context, might then be crucial to making climate change relevant and actionable on the local level. In this paper, we explore the potential of forests to serve as such a connection. We have worked in close collaboration with a broad range of stakeholders in two case study locations in Sweden to explore potential courses of action for local climate action in relation to forests. We critically analyze these local articulations of climate action and examine the assumptions underlying them, with the aim to assess the effects and consequences of different problem representations. Our results illustrate the challenges of thinking and acting outside of the prevalent business-as-usual or more-of-everything discourses, of recognizing the importance of politics and choice, and of overcoming perceived barriers to action. We find tensions in the allocation of responsibility in both time and space – but also potential room for more local action in assumptions of un- or underused potential for political and civil action on the local level.
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- Reimerson, Elsa, 1982-
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Nature, culture, rights : exploring space for indigenous agency in protected area discourses
- 2015
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- There is considerable geographical overlap between areas set aside for nature conservation or protection and Indigenous peoples’ lands, and the social, economic, and political consequences of protected areas have often been extensive for Indigenous peoples. Discourses of conservation converge with discourses of Indigenous peoples, and both carry a legacy of colonial constructs and relationships. With these overlaps as a point of departure, the purpose of this thesis is to explore how the discourses that govern nature conservation and protected areas shape the conditions for Indigenous peoples’ influence and participation in the governance and management of protected areas on their lands. I pursue this aim by analyzing, and critically examining the consequences of, the construction of Indigenous subject positions and conditions for agency in discourses of nature conservation and protected areas. The empirical focus of the thesis lies with international discourses of protected areas and Indigenous peoples and on local and national discourses articulated in relation to two cases of protected areas in Sápmi. My analytical framework builds on postcolonial theory and discourse theory. I use space for agency as a concept to describe and analyze the effects of the discursive positionings and constructions that shape the ability or capacity of individuals or group to act or to be perceived as legitimate actors.My results show twomain articulations of Indigenous subject positions in protected area discourses, which enable and restrain the space for Indigenous agency in different ways. One articulation connects Indigenous peoples to conservation through the concept of traditional knowledge, thereby positioning Indigenous subjects mainly as holders of traditional knowledge and justifying Indigenous influence by its potential contribution to conservation objectives. The other articulation focuses on the rights pertaining to Indigenous peoples as peoples, including land rights and the right to selfdetermination. These articulations are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but they have potentially different consequences and indicate discursive tensions that can affect the space for Indigenous agency in relation to protected areas. Moreover, my results demonstrate the hegemony of discourses that takes conservation through area protection for granted and subordinates Indigenous land use to conservation objectives, structure Indigenous agency as “participation” in specific types of arrangement, and articulate Indigenous rights in relation to hegemonic constructions of sovereignty, self-determination, and rights. These hegemonic formations silence articulations that would challenge the authority of colonizing societies over Indigenous territories, suppress radical critique of the fundamental nature of arrangements for protected area governance and management, and subdue alternatives to discourses of contemporary liberal democracy and individual property rights.
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- Reimerson, Elsa, 1982-, et al.
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Navigating conservation currents : conditions for Sámi agency in collaborative governance and management models
- 2024
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Ingår i: The significance of Sámi rights. - Abingdon; New York : Routledge. - 9781032115986 - 9781032116006 - 9781003220640 ; , s. 116-132
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is considerable geographical overlap between areas set aside for nature conservation and Indigenous peoples’ lands, and the social, economic and political consequences of protected areas have often been extensive for Indigenous peoples. The same is true in Sápmi. In Norway, Sweden and Finland, environmental governance and management has historically been largely centralised, with low levels of local influence and control. In line with global trends, the countries’ environmental policies are moving towards collaborative models as a preferred arrangement for environmental management and are increasingly considering Sámi rights to influence over the governance and management of land and natural resources in Sápmi. However, mechanisms to ensure Sámi influence in conservation governance and management differ considerably between the countries. Moreover, collaborative conservation governance and management arrangements do not always deliver the positive social outcomes expected. In this chapter, we discuss the intersection of conservation and Sámi rights on the Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish sides of Sápmi, with a particular focus on collaborative arrangements and the ways in which discourses on conservation, collaboration and Indigenous peoples shape conditions for Sámi agency in relation to the governance and management of landscapes for environmental protection.
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- Reimerson, Elsa, 1982-
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Sami space for agency in the management of the Laponia World Heritage site
- 2016
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Ingår i: Local Environment. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1354-9839 .- 1469-6711. ; 21:7, s. 808-826
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates the space for agency of the Indigenous Sami in the management of the Laponia World Heritage site in northern Sweden. Analysing policy documents and interviews with key actors within a framework of post-colonial and discourse theory, I argue that discursive constructions of the management organisation, understandings of the relationships between the parties involved, and perceptions of challenges for the management organisation affect the Sami space for agency in the management of Laponia. Furthermore, there is a tension between the intrinsic value of Sami influence that follows an understanding of the Sami as an Indigenous people and the more instrumental value of Sami influence following a focus on the Sami reindeer-herding communities as important for the values of the World Heritage site. The positioning of the Sami in Laponia affects, and in some ways limits, the space for Sami political agency. It also connects to colonial discourses, historical and contemporary inequalities, and unequal power structures. Nevertheless, the management of Laponia is a unique example of increased Sami influence, resulting from Sami political struggle for recognition of their rights.
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- von Essen, Malin
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Ta ner himlen till jorden : skogen, klimatet och allt det andra
- 2022
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Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Alla vet att det är bråttom att göra en hållbar omställning. Det har aldrig tidigare funnits en så stor medvetenhet om detta med så mycket kunskap, teknik och styrmedel. Trots det står omställningen och stampar. Kanske hjälper det att vända på perspektivet och belysa hur förändring kan uppstå ur ett mänskligt och lokalt perspektiv? Hur kan förändring ske som är inkluderande och ger människor möjligheter att ta kontroll över sin situation?”Ta ner himlen till jorden” har undersökt hur skogen kan användas för att göra klimatfrågan konstruktivt angripbar i lokala sammanhang. I denna skrift presenteras resultat och lärdomar från forskningsprojektet. Dessutom presenteras hur forskarna försökt skapa ringar på vattnet genom sitt arbetssätt, bland annat med hjälp av studiecirklar.
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