Fear and hoping in the Arctic: Charting the emotional fabric of resource extraction

Lempinen, Hanna; Lindroth, Marjo

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2021.01.007

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“…This 'dominant techno-scientific governmentality' (Dale 2016) of resource management and related cultures of argumentation constitute a 'truth' about resources, what should be done with them and why that leaves very little room for non-expert voices to participate in the processes of its definition -equally within the formal frameworks of public participation and in broader societal debates (also Strauss 2011;Desbiens 2013). Paradoxically, this remains the case even when those societal resource-debates deemed as 'objective' or 'rational' have been established as thoroughly penetrated by affective states and statements (see Weszkalnys 2016; Lempinen & Lindroth 2021;Sejersen & Thisted 2021;Kangasluoma & Lempinen 2022). The way in which Finnish water governance has been geared towards allocating the maximum amount of water for hydropower production (Albrecht et al 2023) is not any less dependent from hopes, fears and wants of different actors involved than resistance of hydropower is.…”

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Towards more locally aware resource governance? – commentary to Albrecht and colleagues

Lempinen¹

2023

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This text grew out as a commentary on the article “Hydropowering sustainability transformation: policy frames on river use and restoration in Finland” (Albrecht et al. 2023) during the manuscript review process. While the article itself is a timely contribution to expanding our understanding on how rivers are framed and related to in a national context where the history of coercive ‘modernization’ meets an urgent demand to decarbonize, the authors’ observations also invite discussion beyond the explicit scope of water governance. Considering the range of extractive and renewable resource projects that are expected to unfold across the country in response to the demands of the ‘green transition’, I make use of this text as an opportunity to discuss Albrecht and colleagues’ (2023, 58) conclusion that “more emphasis should be placed on […] governance that recognises the local dynamics and interactions within the social-ecological systems”. I take a focus on the inseparably political, affective and situated nature of all resource-related developments and debates, which all pose their unique challenges for translating the idea(l)s of locally aware environmental and resource governance frameworks into practice.

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