Luossa and Laks

• Main Authors: Law, John, Joks, Solveig
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Société d'Anthropologie des Connaissances 2020
• Subjects: sámi; salmon; policy; fisheries policy; local ecological knowledge (LEK); indigenous ecological knowledge (IEK); technoscience; postcolonialism; nature/culture dualism; ontological singularity; metaphysics; practice; science and technology studies (STS); Norway; Tana River; North Norway
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/rac/2198

When technoscience and state policy interact with indigenous knowledges and practices they usually do so asymmetrically. Within relations of domination indigenous knowledges are treated as ‘beliefs’ or ‘culture’ whereas technoscience qualifies as ‘knowledge’ or truth. This paper explores one such in...