Protected areas and indigenous rights in Sapmi: an agonistic reading of conflict and collaboration in land use planning

Raitio, KaisaSwedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Institutionen för stad och land,Department of Urban and Rural Development (författare)

2023
Taylor and Francis (Routledge): STM, Behavioural Science and Public Health Titles / Wiley: No OnlineOpen,2024

The recognition of Indigenous Peoples' rights has sailed up as one of the most critical issues in land use planning, globally. In this paper, we use a recent planning process for a national park on traditional Sami territory in northern Sweden to demonstrate how state officials engaged in everyday conservation planning are pivotal in navigating colonial legislation and promoting policy change on Indigenous rights. The analysis contributes, among other, to scholarly debates about the role of conflict in land use planning and the practices of frontline bureaucrats in natural resource governance. Our contribution demonstrates the value of an agonistic lens that attends to the constructive role of conflict in democratic change in pluralistic societies. This concerns both how state officials approach disagreement as well as the way contestation can create novel spaces to promote structural changes towards sustainability and justice. By not assuming collaboration but respectfully seeking it, the state officials succeeded in re-designing a collapsed process to help actors explore larger structural issues around Indigenous rights and government policy. In our agnostic reading, then, contestation should be perceived not as oppositional to the establishment of collaboration but as a necessary, and productive, part of inclusive land use planning.

Sveriges lantbruksuniversitetInstitutionen för stad och land (creator_code:org_t)
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet

Ingår i:Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning25, s. 342-3541523-908X1522-7200

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