Communitification and emotional capital: Producing, shaping and re-shaping communities before and after mining in Norbotten and Disko Bay
Abstract Mining activities in the Arctic often have a strong impact on people living here and the sustainability of their communities. The article takes as its point of departure two widely different cases relating to Arctic communities: the former mining city of Qullissat in the Greenlandic Disko B...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247419000548 2024-06-16T07:37:43+00:00 Communitification and emotional capital: Producing, shaping and re-shaping communities before and after mining in Norbotten and Disko Bay Jørgensen, Anne Mette 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247419000548 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247419000548 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 56 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 journal-article 2019 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247419000548 2024-05-22T12:55:33Z Abstract Mining activities in the Arctic often have a strong impact on people living here and the sustainability of their communities. The article takes as its point of departure two widely different cases relating to Arctic communities: the former mining city of Qullissat in the Greenlandic Disko Bay area and the rural village of Sakajärvi, which is threatened by expansions of the Aitik copper mine in the Norbotten County, Sweden. The cases differ in terms of time span, the number of people affected and the intensity of the affective economies, but they go through comparable processes of giving rise to emotional communities as a result of the termination or expansion of mining activities. Based on field observations and social and web-based media, the author argues that various actors with diverging purposes here compete to install their respective temporalities and narratives in the processes of communitification , i.e., by articulating borders or performing as community. In both cases, the communities employ narrative strategies of uchronotopia : aiming towards better futures by narratively breaking with the past. The agency of these communities depends to a high extent on the intensity of their affective economies, a symbolic capital that may hold considerable potential for creating desirable futures. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Disko Bay greenlandic Polar Record Cambridge University Press Arctic Copper Mine ENVELOPE(-59.667,-59.667,-62.383,-62.383) Qullissat ENVELOPE(-53.017,-53.017,70.083,70.083) Sakajärvi ENVELOPE(20.983,20.983,67.083,67.083) Polar Record 56 |
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Abstract Mining activities in the Arctic often have a strong impact on people living here and the sustainability of their communities. The article takes as its point of departure two widely different cases relating to Arctic communities: the former mining city of Qullissat in the Greenlandic Disko Bay area and the rural village of Sakajärvi, which is threatened by expansions of the Aitik copper mine in the Norbotten County, Sweden. The cases differ in terms of time span, the number of people affected and the intensity of the affective economies, but they go through comparable processes of giving rise to emotional communities as a result of the termination or expansion of mining activities. Based on field observations and social and web-based media, the author argues that various actors with diverging purposes here compete to install their respective temporalities and narratives in the processes of communitification , i.e., by articulating borders or performing as community. In both cases, the communities employ narrative strategies of uchronotopia : aiming towards better futures by narratively breaking with the past. The agency of these communities depends to a high extent on the intensity of their affective economies, a symbolic capital that may hold considerable potential for creating desirable futures. |
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Communitification and emotional capital: Producing, shaping and re-shaping communities before and after mining in Norbotten and Disko Bay |
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Communitification and emotional capital: Producing, shaping and re-shaping communities before and after mining in Norbotten and Disko Bay |
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Communitification and emotional capital: Producing, shaping and re-shaping communities before and after mining in Norbotten and Disko Bay |
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Communitification and emotional capital: Producing, shaping and re-shaping communities before and after mining in Norbotten and Disko Bay |
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Communitification and emotional capital: Producing, shaping and re-shaping communities before and after mining in Norbotten and Disko Bay |
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communitification and emotional capital: producing, shaping and re-shaping communities before and after mining in norbotten and disko bay |
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