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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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Post-Soviet Women : New Challenges and Ways to Empowerment
- 2023
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This volume explores how different post-Soviet countries have reinterpreted and diverged from the Soviet gender roles and values. It synthesizes results from multiple empirical studies that attend to increasingly conservative features of political governance in the region, particularly the authoritarian regime in Russia. The authors consider diverse enactments of ideologies, policies and practices of gender equality and women’s rights in crucial areas, such as legislative institutions, media, and social activism. The volume contributes to understanding post-Soviet societal dynamics relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5, which emphasizes gender equality as part of fundamental human rights.
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- Sätre, Ann-Mari, 1957-, 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. - Huddinge : Södertörns högskola. - 9789185139149 ; , s. 45-58
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This essay discusses how Indigenous people in the Arctic live with waste and pollution. I explore three signifcant aspects of waste that help reveal the overwhelming impact that it has on Indigenous individuals and communities. These are waste’s materiality – its physical presence in the environment and homeland of many Indigenous groups. Second, I show how waste’s invisibility in some cases creates indeterminacy which transforms and controls individuals’ and communities’ lives. Third, I reflect on waste’s temporalities that intersect with the frst two aspects to escalate their impacts and exacerbate inequality. I reveal how these aspects of waste and pollution determine the lives of many Indigenous communities in the Russian and European Arctic. I roughly identify two modes of co-existence with waste: living with waste through everyday practices of accommodation, learning, and resistance; and more radical opposition through civic activism. Those modes are not dichotomous 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-
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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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Regional environmental governance of protected natural territories in the European North : Russia, Finland, and Norway, and the case of Pasvik-Inari Trilateral Park
- 2023
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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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Sami Women in the Context of the Russian War on Ukraine
- 2024
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Ingår i: A Fractured North – Journeys on Hold. - Norderstedt : Verlag der Kulturstiftung Sibirien/SEC Publications. - 9783942883429 ; , s. 91-110
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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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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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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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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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