Mining in the European Arctic

Dam, Kim van; Scheepstra, Annette; Gille, Johan; Stępień, Adam; Koivurova, Timo

doi:10.1163/9789004303188_008

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“…i In parallell, Northland Resources planned to tap into the sister deposit in Kolari on the Finnish side of the border, by reopening the Hannukainen mine that had closed 1998 (see Heikkinen et al, 2016;Van Dam et al, 2014). The project was still in its planning phase when Northland Resources declared bankruptcy in 2014.…”

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“…The ideological shift in Swedish extractive industry governance must be understood as part of a global trend in national regulatory regimes towards neoliberalization, both as regards natural resources regulation in general (Bakker, 2010;Castree, 2008aCastree, , 2008bLevien, 2012;Sud, 2009;Wilshusen, 2010) and mining in particular (Bridge, 2004;World Bank, 2011; see Keeling & Sandlos, 2015;Sandlos & Keeling, 2016, Tennberg et al, 2014Van Dam et al, 2014;Wilson, 2015;Wilson & Stammler, 2016 for a discussion of neoliberalization of mining in the Arctic region specifically). Bridge (2008) describes this as a shift in emphasis from the extractive to the investment component, meaning that governmental regulatory efforts in the primary sector are directed towards making domestic natural resources attractive to foreign investment and venture capital, rather than towards creating a viable extractive industry.…”

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The making of mining expectations: mining romanticism and historical memory in a neoliberal political landscape

Anshelm

2017

Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper investigates a greenfield mining project in a peripheral region in northern Sweden through the analysis of how different actor groups formed their own 'horizons of expectations' that temporally became fused, only to crumble together with the mining company in a short period of time. By focusing on the co-evolvement of expectations, we show how expectations are differentiated along geographical and temporal scales, reflect upon how these differences relate to interests and historical memory, and finally what these differences mean for the development of large-scale, long-term, raw materials-based projects devoted to industrial production in depopulating areas in an economy otherwise orientated towards neoliberal governance and post-industrial development. By doing so, we make a theoretical contribution to the literature on expectations through the introduction of the concept 'horizon of expectations', and a contribution to the literature on neoliberalism and its cultural-geographical implications.

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