ARCTIC Ethnopolitics among the Siimi in Scandinavia: A Basic Strategy toward Local Autonomy
ABSTRACT. Communities in the far north face severe difficulties in trying to function as autonomous units due to the north-south axis in w ich northern resources are sought by southern industrial powers. Ethnopolitics as practiced by the Sami in Scandinavia represent a political solution to those di...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.518.2726 2023-05-15T14:19:36+02:00 ARCTIC Ethnopolitics among the Siimi in Scandinavia: A Basic Strategy toward Local Autonomy Tom G Svensson The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 1985 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.518.2726 http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic39-3-208.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.518.2726 http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic39-3-208.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic39-3-208.pdf text 1985 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T09:58:11Z ABSTRACT. Communities in the far north face severe difficulties in trying to function as autonomous units due to the north-south axis in w ich northern resources are sought by southern industrial powers. Ethnopolitics as practiced by the Sami in Scandinavia represent a political solution to those difficulties. For ethnopolitical processes to work to the advantage of the minority people, the communities must have a power base leading to local autonomy. Such autonomy is based typically on land and water ights. The entire ethnic minority is dependent on viable local communities leading to cultural pluralism, an effective defense against assimilation by the majority society. Cultural viability, firm land rights and institutionalized ethnopolitics provide the basis for strengthening local autonomies to such ends. Key words: Sami, ethnopolitics, local autonomy, land rights, cultural viability RÉSUMÉ. Les communautés du grand nord font face àde graves difficultés dans leurs tentatives de fonctionnement àtitre de corps autonomes en raison de l’axe nord-sud que suivent les ressources du nord recherchées par les puissances industrielles plus au sud. L’ethnopolitique telle que pratiquée par le peuple Sami en Scandinavie pr6sente une solution politique à ces difficult & Afin d’assurer le succts des peuples minoritaires par l’entremise de ces processus ethnopolitiques, les communautés doivent établir une base de pouvoir menant à l’autonomie locale. Une telle autonomie se fonde ordinairement sur les droits territoriaux et les droits d’usage de l’eau. La totalité de la minorité ethnique dépend de communautés locales viables conduisant au pluralisme culturel, en sorte une défense officace contre l’assimilation par une sociét.4 majoritaire. La viabilité culturelle, la fermeté des droits territoriaux et I’ethnopolitique institutionnalisée permettent de consolider les autonomies locales à de telles fins. Mots clés: Sami, ethnopolitique, autonomie locale, droits territoriaux, viabilité culturelle Text Arctic Arctic peuple sami sami sami Unknown Arctic |
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ABSTRACT. Communities in the far north face severe difficulties in trying to function as autonomous units due to the north-south axis in w ich northern resources are sought by southern industrial powers. Ethnopolitics as practiced by the Sami in Scandinavia represent a political solution to those difficulties. For ethnopolitical processes to work to the advantage of the minority people, the communities must have a power base leading to local autonomy. Such autonomy is based typically on land and water ights. The entire ethnic minority is dependent on viable local communities leading to cultural pluralism, an effective defense against assimilation by the majority society. Cultural viability, firm land rights and institutionalized ethnopolitics provide the basis for strengthening local autonomies to such ends. Key words: Sami, ethnopolitics, local autonomy, land rights, cultural viability RÉSUMÉ. Les communautés du grand nord font face àde graves difficultés dans leurs tentatives de fonctionnement àtitre de corps autonomes en raison de l’axe nord-sud que suivent les ressources du nord recherchées par les puissances industrielles plus au sud. L’ethnopolitique telle que pratiquée par le peuple Sami en Scandinavie pr6sente une solution politique à ces difficult & Afin d’assurer le succts des peuples minoritaires par l’entremise de ces processus ethnopolitiques, les communautés doivent établir une base de pouvoir menant à l’autonomie locale. Une telle autonomie se fonde ordinairement sur les droits territoriaux et les droits d’usage de l’eau. La totalité de la minorité ethnique dépend de communautés locales viables conduisant au pluralisme culturel, en sorte une défense officace contre l’assimilation par une sociét.4 majoritaire. La viabilité culturelle, la fermeté des droits territoriaux et I’ethnopolitique institutionnalisée permettent de consolider les autonomies locales à de telles fins. Mots clés: Sami, ethnopolitique, autonomie locale, droits territoriaux, viabilité culturelle |
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