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- Konstantinov, Yulian, et al.
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Ambiguous Transition : Agrarian Reforms, Management, and Coping Practices in Murmansk Region Reindeer Herdin
- 2002
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Reforms in the Russian Federation have so far shown a significant degree of ambiguity. Taken as leading to a transition from a totalitarian state of command socialism to a democratic state with a market-oriented economy, the reforms tend to show only surface resemblances to such a process. Taken in an “oligarchic” sense, that is, as dispensing with social security and greatly expanding the sphere of the informal (“grey”) economy, the process seems to be fully completed.Against this background we ask how specifically agrarian reforms reflect on reindeer herding in the Russian North. Field research based data indicates that while local administrations continue to rule in a Soviet manner, in a mix with high orbit “grey” economic practices, agricultural workers rely on lower level informalities to cope with a continuing economic and social crisis. Searching for reliance on traditional or neo-traditional land-use is pronouncedly absent and in this context the Murmansk Region seems to stand apart from developments in many other parts of the Russian North and Siberia. Reasons may be found in the longest history of colonisation of this region (since the 10th century), in a traditionally non-nomadic herding, and in very strong local preferences for state socialist forms of management (“sovkhoism”). At the same time, there are signs of opposition to the current management practices of village cooperatives, fuelled by the appearance of new liberal agrarian legislation. This is the point at which agrarian reforms acquire real life significance locally. The article describes and discusses such a situation on the basis of recent material from six months of field work with reindeer herders and the administration of SKhPK “Tundra” in the settlement 1 Yulian Konstantinov, New Bulgarian University, Sofia; e-mail: bsrcs@mbox.cit.bg 2 Vladislava Vladimirova, Uppsala University 2of Lovozero, Murmansk Region. The field work was carried out in three consecutive periods in 2001
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- Konstantinov, Yulian, et al.
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The performative machine : Transfer of ownership in a northwest Russian reindeer herding community (Kola Peninsula)
- 2006
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Ingår i: Nomadic Peoples. - : Berghahn Journals. - 0822-7942 .- 1752-2366. ; 10:2, s. 166-186
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article is based on longitudinal fieldwork with reindeer herders in the Kola Peninsula, northwest Russia. Its main ethnographic focus is SKhPK 'Tundra' (sel'sko khoziastvennaia proizvoditel'naia kooperatsiia – agricultural producing cooperative) of Lovozero. The main argument is that a state of communal affairs under the dominance of the state farm (sovkhoz), during the Soviet period, privileged domestic economies of the farm workers to be supported by the collective assets of the farm. The authors see this state of 'private-in-the-collective' arrangement as 'sovkhoism' and view the present variety of rural organisational forms in Russia as greater or lesser departures from it.
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- López, Elisa Maria
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Transforming Kiruna : Producing Space, Society, and Legacies of Inequality in the Swedish Ore Fields
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Extractive resources industries are irreversibly transforming land, air, water, life and society around the world at an unprecedented rate, and Sweden is no exception. This anthropological study analyzes acute issues related to this transformation: the resettlement of six thousand residents of the city of Kiruna due to ground deformations caused by large-scale iron mining by the Swedish state-owned company LKAB (Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara AB). The thesis explains how mining, the dominant mode of production in the Ore Fields (Malmfälten) region, establishes particular social relations, structures of power, and conceptual models of space, nature, and society. I approach these relations and ideas through the perspective of space, and show how space in Kiruna is produced through social processes, material infrastructures, symbols and meaning-making in support of extractivism, the political and economic prioritization of resource extraction. The empirical basis of the work is fifteen months of ethnographic field research in Kiruna between 2012 and 2015. The analysis relies on theories of space in Anthropology and Geography, as well as ideas from settler colonial studies. A central argument in the study is that despite official representations of the city move as a “social transformation”, the physical, conceptual, and social production of space extends material and social inequalities integral to extractivism. While all city residents are affected by the insecurity and risks of extractivism, which the city move revealed, the Indigenous Sámi community is uniquely affected. Sámi from the Kiruna area have historically been subjected to colonial policy, limits on their subsistence economy, displacement from land, and harmful stereotypes. However, Sámi have also continually resisted such limitations and stereotypes, adopting diverse forms of work to support reindeer herding (including mine work), establishing urban community spaces, and documenting and preserving local cultural landscapes. The move of the city reveals that such legacies of social inequality, which have been a part of the establishment of mining, persevere in social relations, ideas, and material architectures that form space in and around Kiruna. Providing ethnographic detail and analysis of the reproduction of extractivism and its inherent inequalities in spatial practices, this study contributes to the anthropological literature on space, resource extraction, and social inequality.
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- Sätre, Ann-Mari, et al.
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Post-Soviet Women : New Challenges and Ways to Empowerment-Introduction
- 2023
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Ingår i: Post-Soviet Women. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783031380655 - 9783031380686 - 9783031380662 ; , s. 1-26
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This volume explores the challenges that women face, their positions in changing societies, the negotiation of their roles and their responses to change and ways to achieve women’s empowerment. The regional focus is on countries in the territory of the former Soviet Union. With this volume, we fill a gap in the published knowledge on recent politics, ideology, identity and activism in relation to gender and to women that have been seriously impacted by conservative politics and resurgent nationalism.
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- Vladimirova, Vladislava, 1975-
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Continuous Militarization as a Mode of Governance of Indigenous People in the Russian Arctic
- 2024
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Ingår i: Politics and Governance. - 2183-2463. ; 12
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyzes ethnographic data that shows long-term militarization forms a significant part of state governance of the population and environment in the Arctic. Kola Peninsula, the study region, is a borderland with the West and has since the 1950s been a heavily militarized area. Applying insights from research on militarization, subjectivities, materiality, borders, and regionalism in autocratic regimes, I show how militarization shapes the environment and the lives of Indigenous reindeer herders. Despite discourses of demilitarization in the 1990s, Kola Peninsula did not move away from militarization as part of governance. The article explores what I call continuous militarization by engaging with two phenomena: (a) fencing off territories for military use and infrastructure, and (b) nuclear pollution. It discusses the interrelations of materiality and knowledge in maintaining Indigenous subjectivities and culture in line with the objectives of militarization, and shows how Russia uses participation in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region to support the objectives of militarization and justify them to the local population. The article finds that militarization is employed by the authorities to solidify the current autocratic regime among residents in the Arctic.
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- Vladimirova, Vladislava, 1975-
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Flätor
- 2020
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Ingår i: Arctic Traces. - Stockholm : Nordiska Museets Förlag.
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Vladimirova, Vladislava, 1975-
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Indigenous People Living with Waste and Pollution in the Arctic
- 2023
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Ingår i: Ecological Concerns in Transition: A Comparative Study on Responses to Waste and Environmental Destruction in the Region. - Huddinge : Södertörns högskola. - 9789185139149 ; , s. 45-58
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This essay discusses how Indigenous peoplein the Arctic live with waste and pollution. Iexplore three signifcant aspects of waste thathelp reveal the overwhelming impact that ithas on Indigenous individuals and communities. Theseare waste’s materiality – its physical presence in theenvironment and homeland of many Indigenous groups.Second, I show how waste’s invisibility in some casescreates indeterminacy which transforms and controlsindividuals’ and communities’ lives. Third, I refect onwaste’s temporalities that intersect with the frst twoaspects to escalate their impacts and exacerbate inequality. I reveal how these aspects of waste and pollutiondetermine the lives of many Indigenous communities inthe Russian and European Arctic.I roughly identify two modes of co-existence withwaste: living with waste through everyday practices of accommodation, learning, and resistance; and more radicalopposition through civic activism. Those modes are notdichotomous and can overlap or evolve into each other.
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- Vladimirova, Vladislava, 1975-
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Indigenous Reindeer Herders Speak about Using Nature Sustainably in the Face of Increasing Militarization in the Arctic
- 2022
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Ingår i: Decolonizing Environmental Knowledge and Action: Sustainable Development, Human Rights, and Indigenous Alternatives.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The latest Foundations of State Policy of the Russian Federation in the Arctic until 2035, signed by President Putin on 5 March 2020, put in central focus national security, to which most activities of ‘mastering the Arctic’ are subjected. Human wellbeing in the Arctic, according to this legal document, seems to be grounded in expanding military security, extractive industry and infrastructure, and scientific exploration. Environmental protection and knowledge have been subsumed entirely under paragraphs about preventing climate change’s unpredictable impacts on economic development and infrastructure.The impact of military security on local societies and the natural environment in the Post-Soviet Arctic has received little attention. This is surprising in the context of the growing number of studies about the environmental and social impacts of industrialization, the impact of climate change on Russian Arctic security, and on human security in the region. In this presentation, I will address the topic through the perspective of indigenous reindeer herders in the Kola Peninsula, who describe their experiences and observations of the effects that the growing military sector in Russia has on their subsistence economy, on reindeer and the natural environment that they inhabit. A special focus of the study is on the combined effect that militarization and climate change in the Arctic have on the environment, and on indigenous sustainable nature use practices and ecological knowledge.
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- Vladimirova, Vladislava, 1975-, et al.
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Introduction : Feminist Approaches and the Study of Gender in Arctic Social Sciences
- 2018
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Ingår i: Polar Geography. - 1088-937X .- 1939-0513. ; 41:3, s. 145-163
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Notwithstanding the gradual intensification of contacts across the different parts of the circumpolar North, research on gender in the Arctic is still a fragmented field – not the least because of language barriers. The four cases presented here, all from the Far North of Russia, are intended to complement research on gender in North America and the Nordic countries. We also hope they will encourage wider use of feminist approaches in geography and social sciences. After a first overview of how gender emerged as a topic of study in the circumpolar North, the introduction will focus on gender-specific forms of mobility and immobility. Next, gender will be discussed in relation to identity and intersectionality under colonial and post-colonial conditions. Thereafter, Feminist Political Ecology and other theoretical directions are portrayed as theoretical approaches to studying gendered economies. Such contextualization of the study of gender in the Arctic prepares the ground for short summaries of the four papers in this special issue, to be concluded by a brief statement about future directions of research. Particularly the concept of intersectionality is favored as a useful basis for examining gender, indigeneity, and economic differences.
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- Vladimirova, Vladislava, 1975-
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Just Labor : Labor Ethic in a Post-Soviet Reindeer Herding Community
- 2006
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book explores the main ethical norms that influence labor in reindeer herding in the European part of the Russian North (Murmansk Region). It is based on the assumption that Soviet ideological discourse of labor has been reinterpreted in practice, and has shaped specific patterns of work that may seem contradictory to their official source. Post-Soviet political and socio-economic changes triggered a mobilization of familiar patterns for social security, including the sphere of labor. This reinforced the influence of Soviet patterns of social relations and put an imprint on post-Soviet work, which presents a specific way of continuation and reinterpretation of the previously dominant social norms and values.The empirical basis of this study comes from a one year and a half field investi-gation of reindeer herding in the Kola Peninsula. Specific interest is turned to current reindeer herding specifics at Tundra Cooperative, the successor of the Soviet state reindeer herding enterprise (sovkhoz) of the village of Lovozero, and in the controversial development of Sami attempts at private herding in the newly born obshchiny. Labor ethic is the field that most graphically features the contrast between the two models they embody: the ultimate reliance on the familiar Soviet pattern, on the one hand, and the holding to the potentially innovative imported discourse of traditional ethnic culture, on the other. In the final account, both groups of users stand on two differing economic platforms, but share a common set of cultural assumptions about economic patterns of profitability and work morality.
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- Vladimirova, Vladislava, 1975-
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‘Love for the Rich, Porn for the People’ : Popular Music in the Balkans as a Locus for Negotiation of Belonging and Social Distinction
- 2020
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Ingår i: Nätverket. - Uppsala. - 1651-0593. ; 22:Special Issue on The Social, Political and Cultural Meaning of Sound and Music, s. 69-86
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In contemporary scholarly discussions, similar styles of music that are popular in different parts of the Balkans, have been defined rhetorically as “porn-nationalism”, “deviant and violent activity”, “social ill”, and even sadism. This article discusses two such styles, the so called turbofolk in post-Yugoslavian spaces, and chalgain Bulgaria, which have similar genealogies and social contexts and kinship links, but have not been studied comparatively. I will briefly present the history of the two styles, respectively in the 1980s and the early 1990s, in order to contextualize their social roots and show the interplay of global and local music models and tastes. I find this important in order to make an argument for the analytical potentials of comparative research. Further, I briefly mention some of the dominant perspectives in existing research in order to point to aspects, perspec-tives, and factors that have received less scholarly attention. Finally, I suggest that event analysis, an evolving method in anthropology, can provide new analytical tools and help increase understanding of the popularity and social significance of turbofolk and chalga.
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- Vladimirova, Vladislava, 1975-
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Politics of the green economy in Russia's European North
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Ingår i: Journal of Political Ecology. - 1073-0451. ; 24, s. 297-323
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The global drive for a greener economy generates controversy in Russia, a country that is dependent on export of raw mineral resources. Debates are most heated in relation to the North, where resource extraction takes place. In an environment of high unemployment and low income ecological issues are priority for a few environmentalists. Russian politicians, who support the green economy in international fora, instead emphasize economic development at home and show little interest in environmental protection. This article focuses on the controversies over policies from the perspective of environmentalists and members of local communities in Murmansk Region who are struggling to establish a national park in the Khibiny Mountains. The initiative has been presented by some environmentalists as a contribution to the green economy, but it also demonstrates mechanisms of nature governance in Russia, as well as the limited possibilities for bottom-up participation of NGOs, scholars, and the indigenous community. The article also situates the green economy in Russia within critical analysis of the global green economy, which reveals common trends and problems. Russia replicates the common overemphasis on economic development and commoditization of nature rather than radical reformation of nature's value and use.
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- Vladimirova, Vladislava, 1975-
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Producers' cooperation within or against cooperative agricultural institutions? : The case of reindeer husbandry in Post-Soviet Russia
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Ingår i: Journal of Rural Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0743-0167 .- 1873-1392. ; 53, s. 247-258
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- With the advance of economic neoliberalization along with the green economy paradigm that aims to alleviate rapid climate change, discussions of the rationale of cooperative organization of food production have come to the fore. This paper contributes to the scholarly understanding of motivations for cooperative organization of production by taking up empirical illustrations from the European North of Russia, where despite expectations of privatization after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the cooperative organization of reindeer husbandry often persists, as a heritage of the Soviet state enterprises (sovkhozes). The paper aims at advancing the analysis of cooperative reindeer husbandry and its rationales employing ideas within the field of substantivist economic anthropology of postsocialism that started with Karl Polanyi's vision of the embedded economy (Polanyi, 1944). Further, I have employed the ideas of the renowned study by Caroline Humphrey of Soviet state farms as total social institutions (Humphrey, 1998) as well as Stephen Gudeman's dialectical approach to the economy (Gudeman, 2001). The analysis shows that the cooperative organization of reindeer husbandry reproduces the economic and social patterns that were developed in the Soviet period, perhaps also adapting and incorporating elements of traditional indigenous social orders. Such social arrangements and the accompanying moral values are embedded in the reindeer herding economy, and it is their persistence that indigenous people achieve through adhering to cooperative values.
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- Vladimirova, Vladislava, 1975-
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Regional environmental governance of protected natural territories in the European North : Russia, Finland, and Norway, and the case of Pasvik-Inari Trilateral Park
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Ingår i: Climatic Change. - : Springer Nature. - 0165-0009 .- 1573-1480. ; 176
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores how international organizations (IOs), national governments, and regional actors interact in the field of nature conservation in the European Arctic, focusing on Russia. I also reveal the unequal role of Indigenous communities, which are stakeholders in protected nature territories in the Arctic but receive limited attention in research.I present the case of the Pasvik-Inari Trilateral Park, which in 2008 received Europarc Certification as a result of long-term international cooperation dating back to the 1990s. The park consists of five protected natural areas: three in Norway, one in Russia and one in Finland. The areas have different organizational forms and restrictions on human activities, and the efforts of IOs such as the Europarc Federation to increase cooperation and coordination among them in conservation projects, research initiatives, and international travel for tourists, have had only partial success.I apply insights from regional analysis to discuss how governance at international, national, and local levels shape the practices and ideas of nature conservation in the different parts of Pasvik-Inari. The article also addresses the role of Indigenous environmental knowledge and nature use in protected natural territories in the Arctic. The paper contributes to the special issue on regional environmental governance by expanding the regional focus toward Russia and by stressing the significant relations between Indigenous communities and nature that should be taken into consideration in Arctic environmental governance.
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- Vladimirova, Vladislava, 1975-
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Reindeer Migrations
- 2022
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Ingår i: Annual Conference of the Swedish Anthropological Association (SANT).
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this presentation, I want to explore the relation between ‘domestic’ reindeer and the notion of ‘migration’. My regional perspective is the Kola Peninsula, which is the Russian border with the Nordic countries. I introduce three contexts in which reindeer are ‘migrants’. The first and most obvious context is the annual migratory cycle of this species, which can vary according to territory and landscape. In a mountainous terrain, reindeer can travel to open mountain tops some 20-50km in search of summer breezes that protect them from mosquitoes, and come down in the forest for the winter, where lichen, their winter fodder is abundant. In tundra areas, reindeer migrate thousands of kilometers in the summer to reach the sea cost, and back in the lichen-rich interior in the winter. The second context is the scale of tameness of domestic species, on which reindeer occupy a particular place. Reindeer can be tamed to a large degree and harnessed to sleds, and ridden like horses, if taught from a very early age. At the same time, if the connection with humans is not constantly reinforced, they quickly change their behavior and become fully independent. Feral is a category that captures this state when previously domestic reindeer left on their own live like wild reindeer despite their genetic differences from the latter. Can this be seen as another kind of migration, among domestic and wild (or at least feral) states of being? The third context are state borders, which can divide both humans and reindeer. Reindeer, in contrast to humans, however, have no concept of borders and do not voluntarily abide them. As a direct consequence of their migration between subjection to human will and freedom from it, reindeer sometimes escape human control and migrate across state borders. I discuss one example within the trilateral natural Europark Passvik-Inari, which includes one protected natural territory in Russia, two in Norway, and two in Finland. While on the Norwegian side, Indigenous Sami herders graze their reindeer within the Europark, Indigenous people had been excluded from the Russian nature reserve, where a fortress model of conservation has been the norm since Soviet time. Norwegian Sami reindeer, which occasionally cross the national border of Russia, are thus treated as migrants who destroy protected ecosystems and biodiversity in the reserve. In the final analysis, I will argue that migration is an important feature of reindeer ecology and reindeer can be an important species in problematizing and reworking dominant theories of migration and ecology.
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- Vladimirova, Vladislava, 1975-
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Security strategies of indigenous women in Nenets Autonomous Region, Russia
- 2018
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Ingår i: Polar Geography. - : TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC. - 1088-937X .- 1939-0513. ; 41:3, s. 164-181
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper discusses different strategies used by indigenous women seeking social security in Nenets Autonomous Region, Russia. Social security is understood as state provision as well as cultural institutions and efforts of individuals to overcome insecurity. One case describes the history of a woman who after the loss of her husband resorted to a traditional solution: she moved in to join the household of the deceased husband's brothers in the tundra. In the second case, a woman leaves her baby in a orphanage for a few months. This latter strategy shows how women are able to preserve a high birth-rate while sustaining a tundra-based life. Even though these choices are seen within the dichotomy of tradition and modernity, which is central to existing ethnographies, this paper attempts to take the analysis further. I apply anthropological insights about care as a process that reveals social bonds, group belonging and identity in different settings, from the more intimate ties within kin groups to large-scale social systems such as state institutions. My goal is to contribute to the study of the interconnectedness among bonds, relations and affective landscapes on different levels - from mother-children bonds, to the nuclear family to community and state institutions.
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- Vladimirova, Vladislava, 1975-
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Technologies of Modern Reindeer Breeding as Technologies of Power in Circumpolar Russia : a Study of Selective Breeding of Evenki Reindeer
- 2020
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Ingår i: Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 0802-7285 .- 1504-2898. ; 31:04, s. 249-267
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- This article explores how reindeer science in Circumpolar Russia is a field of constitutions of indigenous people and animal subjectivities. It is based on empirical research of selective breeding of the Evenki breed of reindeer in the specialised Soviet literature and in the Reindeer Herding Enterprise in the village of Surinda, Evenki Municipality. Reindeer herding has historically played a significant role for the majority indigenous Evenki people. Neat classification of reindeer into distinctive breeds was completed in Soviet time, when “proper” selective breeding technologies were established. This article looks into some of the basic assumptions about animals, humans, and society that such breed classification and selection methods reveal. I analyse the role of scientific knowledge in the Soviet era to better understand why selective reindeer breeding appears more attractive to state authorities than to support indigenous reindeer husbandry, which has been experiencing a serious crisis since the early 1990s. I explain the local politics of reindeer herding and agricultural science through the contextualisation of the field case within Soviet and contemporary Russian Arctic and indigenous governance, trying to contribute to the broader issue of post-Soviet perceptions of animal husbandry, selective breeding and reindeer.
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- Vladimirova, Vladislava, 1975-, et al.
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‘They Beat Us, We Fly’ : Indigenous Activism Among Women in the Russian North
- 2023
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Ingår i: Post-Soviet Women. - : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783031380662 ; , s. 247-269
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- This chapter describes how Indigenous Sami and Nenets women from the Russian North join in different kinds of civic activism in order to resist structures of state power. Such structures are the ground of both economic underprivilege and cultural marginalization. Soviet policy of forceful collectivization of Indigenous economy was justified with representations of Indigenous people of the North as occupying lower evolutionary stages of a linear historical development. In correspondence to this image, the emancipation of Soviet women condemned and criminalized a number of widely spread social practices where women were presented as suppressed and victims, like polygamy, bride kidnapping, and bride wealth. In its effects on indigenous population, Soviet emancipation policies have similarities to Western strands of feminism, despite USSR’s rejection of the latter. Indigenous feminist studies provide critical perspectives that illuminate these similarities and their long-standing destructive outcomes for indigenous communities. Nenets women from Yamal Peninsula and Sami women from Murmansk Region have played a significant role in the movement for Indigenous rights at regional and national levels. While Sami people also engage in women activism, Nenets still lack women’s organizations. The chapter analyzes this development within the context of Soviet gender policies applying perspectives offered by Indigenous feminist studies and critical social theory.
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- Vladimirova, Vladislava, 1975-
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“We are Reindeer People, We Come from Reindeer.” Reindeer Herding in Representations of the Sami in Russia
- 2011
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Ingår i: Acta Borealia. - : Routledge. - 0800-3831 .- 1503-111X. ; 28:1, s. 89-113
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Reindeer herding, a tourism emblem of the European North, is also part of a long-lasting tradition of objectification of Sami culture in Russia. Sustained in the popular imagination by Russian ethnography, the dominant order's agent for legitimization of Soviet ethnic policies, in the 1990s the tradition of exoticization and “othering” was strengthened by Western anthropological and political engagement with the indigenous debate in Russia, transposing on the Sami the imagery and ideals of the global indigenous movement. Business aspirations to utilize the persistent imagery of exotic otherness gave birth to ethnographic tourism in the Kola Peninsula, Northwest Russia, which markets indigenous culture as an attraction. In this paper, I analyze how these diverse discourses equally reify and exploit the concept of Sami reindeer herding and the effects that such representational economy has on the community.
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- Vladimirova, Vladislava, 1975-
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Women veterinaries in the Arctic?
- 2022
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Ingår i: Gender Studies Conference Feminist Matterings.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this presentation I like to explore how private archives can provide alternative source of knowledge for history and anthropology. As an example, I use the life story, photos and archival documents which an elderly woman, whom I call Larisa, from the village of Lovozero shared with me in 2003. Larisa moved to Lovozero, a relatively small village in the Kola Peninsula, Northern Russia, escaping from war-marauded St. Petersburg during the early 1940s, in search for a job and better life. Larisa was a trained veterinary doctor and was employed as a much-needed expert at the reindeer herding cooperative ‘Tundra’. Her life story, memories, and private archive provide a picture of veterinary work and the organization of Soviet reindeer breeding during WW2 and in the post-war years. While veterinary specialists have been given high status and place in the history of Russian development and modernization in the Arctic, meeting Larisa was the first occasion when I realized that some of these experts were actually female. After an early Soviet drive for women emancipation, veterinary science seems to have become a primarily male occupation, especially in the Arctic and in reindeer husbandry. Larisa’s archive and life story are then an important lens for critically analyzing this male dominance, its historical and social formation, and impact on knowledge practices in relation to reindeer herding.
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- Vladimirova, Vladislava, 1975-
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Work Ethic as a Challenge to the Anthropologist
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Ingår i: Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsalas Årsbok. - Uppsala : Uppsala universitet. ; , s. 79-95
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