Welfare Frontiers? Resource Practices in the Nordic Arctic Anthropocene

Hastrup, Frida; Lien, Marianne Elisabeth

doi:10.3167/ajec.2020.290101

Cited by 12 publications

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“…Much can be and has been said about the notion of the Anthropocene (see, e.g., Crutzen & Stoermer, 2000;Lewis & Maslin, 2015;Haraway, 2015;Hastrup & Lien, 2020). These debates are interesting and highly important across a number of disciplines, most notably for pointing out that the current era is the result of unevenly distributed resource practices, rather than caused by an undifferentiated human species.…”

Section: The Anthropocene As 'De-soilization'mentioning

confidence: 99%

Mining for Greenlandic self-government: Fractal islands in the Anthropocene

Hastrup¹,

Brichet²

2022

ISJ

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This article explores the emergence of Greenland as an Anthropocene island through anthropological fieldwork in and around the decommissioned Nalunaq goldmine in the south of the country. The article takes off from the idea that Anthropocene activities are characterized by the invention, movement, and marketing of seemingly mobile resource units that can be identified and invested in regardless of landscape specificities, and explores how the production of Greenlandic gold complicates this idea of extraction. In particular, the article discusses how Greenlandic post-colonial independence and ambitions for mining both go together and undermine each other, creating new dependencies and relationalities along the way. Through analyzing parts of Nalunaq’s political context, infrastructural challenges, the gold that came out, and eventual closure, the article presents Greenlandic gold mining as a set of partly congruous, partly contradictory practices and ideas. The article thus specifies an extractive project that both is and is not possible on the world’s biggest island, and brings this to bear on how we might understand the Anthropocene.

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Section: The Anthropocene As 'De-soilization'mentioning

confidence: 99%

Mining for Greenlandic self-government: Fractal islands in the Anthropocene

Hastrup¹,

Brichet²

2022

ISJ

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“…Sápmi people are shrouded by images of the exploitation and expression of the resource frontier [19] [20] in the Arctic region. The uncertainty will appear when they are connected to global issues involving many actors, both across countries and the private sectors.…”

Section: Indigenous Respond Againts Arctic Railways Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

Fear of Livelihood Disruption: Sapmi Indigenous People Respons to Arctic Infrastructure in Finland

Ismanto¹

2022

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language, Literature, Education and Culture, ICOLLEC 2021, 9-10 October 2021

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This study focuses on the encounter between the indigenous Sápmi movement and the Northern Sea Route development project in the Arctic region of Finland. In 2018, the governments of Finland and Norway proposed an Arctic railway to connect the two countries with European and Asian markets via the northern sea shipping line. With strong global support from governments and multinational companies, the plan will practically become a challenge for Sápmi's struggle to win over natural resources in Finland, especially those related to their livelihoods. This research aims to see how local communities respond to this narrative and its praxis based on experiences in dealing with large-scale infrastructure development.

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“…Greenland extractivism has constantly been promoted as a pathway to welfare (Hastrup & Lien, 2020;Sejersen, 2020), and many assessments and consultations have been pursued. Public consultation processes in Greenland have been analyzed and described, for example, from the perspective of social science (Aaen, 2012;Hansen, 2014;Sejersen, 2015;Ackrén, 2016;Heinämäki, 2020;Johnson, 2020;Nuttall, 2013Nuttall, , 2015, law (Basse, 2014), and planning and engineering (Hansen & Kørnøv, 2010;Olsen & Hansen, 2014;Hansen & Johnson 2019).…”

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Bjørst¹,

Sejersen²,

Thisted³

2022

Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities

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Affective ApproachesRethinking Emotions in Resource Extraction lill rastad bjørst, frank sejersen, kirsten thisted What Counts as Facts?so there is a factual story about a project that has huge potential and can be developed without having major impacts and to bring about many benefits to Greenland's society. Then there are rumors, there are myths that are designed to cause people to be scared and concerned and they are two different things. We want to continue to be able to educate people so that they can be able to understand the project in a factual sense and not in a sense that is removed from science and the facts (Mair, Narsaq 2021). 1With these words John Mair, CEO of Greenland Minerals, at the hearing on the Kuannersuit project in South Greenland, Narsaq on 9 February 2021, answered a question about whether the town of Narsaq will end up having to be evacuated if the mine is launched. The questioner found that two very different stories about the mining project were dividing the population: a story where uranium plays a big role and where there is talk of the town being evacuated, and another story where uranium plays no role, and the mine will have no environmental consequences. In other words, the questioner from Narsaq wanted to know which story to believe. To the citizens of Narsaq the two storylines about saving or destroying the local community were conflicting (Bjørst, 2017). In Mair's response, one of these narratives was equated with rumors, myths, scare campaigns, and non-factual information (see quote), the other with scientific facts. The part of the population that believed in rumors needed to be educateda task that the CEO argued the company had taken on. Thus, Mair constructed and mobilized an opposition that worked as an organizing mechanism for producing, categorizing, and understanding voices.Mair himself was clearly affected by emotion when he made the above statement at the end of a two-and-a-half-hour-long consultation meeting. It was not the first time he answered these kinds of questions. Since the beginning of the 145

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Welfare Frontiers? Resource Practices in the Nordic Arctic Anthropocene

Cited by 12 publications

References 23 publications

Mining for Greenlandic self-government: Fractal islands in the Anthropocene

Mining for Greenlandic self-government: Fractal islands in the Anthropocene

Fear of Livelihood Disruption: Sapmi Indigenous People Respons to Arctic Infrastructure in Finland

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