Dreams of Prosperity - Enactments of Growth; The Rise and Fall of Farming in Varanger
An old tractor serves as an ethnographic entry point to shifting articulations of resources in coastal Finnmark, North Norway. Idle since the 1970s, the tractor is a relic of agricultural dreams, turned to rubble as novel layers of the Varanger landscape are conjured as resourceful. Farming in Finnm...
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ftoslouniv:oai:www.duo.uio.no:10852/79528 2023-05-15T15:01:38+02:00 Dreams of Prosperity - Enactments of Growth; The Rise and Fall of Farming in Varanger Lien, Marianne Elisabeth 2020-04-29T11:49:15Z http://hdl.handle.net/10852/79528 http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-82642 https://doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2020.290104 EN eng http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-82642 Lien, Marianne Elisabeth . Dreams of Prosperity - Enactments of Growth; The Rise and Fall of Farming in Varanger. Anthropological Journal on European Cultures. 2020, 29(1), 42-62 http://hdl.handle.net/10852/79528 1808611 info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.jtitle=Anthropological Journal on European Cultures&rft.volume=29&rft.spage=42&rft.date=2020 Anthropological Journal on European Cultures 29 1 42 62 https://doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2020.290104 URN:NBN:no-82642 Fulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/79528/1/AJEC%2BDreams%2Bof%2BProsperity.pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ CC-BY-NC-ND 1755-2923 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed PublishedVersion 2020 ftoslouniv https://doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2020.290104 2020-09-23T22:30:16Z An old tractor serves as an ethnographic entry point to shifting articulations of resources in coastal Finnmark, North Norway. Idle since the 1970s, the tractor is a relic of agricultural dreams, turned to rubble as novel layers of the Varanger landscape are conjured as resourceful. Farming in Finnmark was a geopolitical strategy to secure national borders and to expand a post-war welfare state, it was also a colonial effort to cultivate farmers in the far north. This article details the back-breaking practices required to make thin Arctic topsoil collaborate in realizing modernist dreams of agricultural growth, while state interventions sought to ensure national borders and national identity. The author highlights dialectic relations between mapping and forgetting, crucial in the making of resources and colonizing practices. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Finnmark North Norway Varanger Finnmark Universitet i Oslo: Digitale utgivelser ved UiO (DUO) Arctic Norway Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 29 1 42 62 |
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An old tractor serves as an ethnographic entry point to shifting articulations of resources in coastal Finnmark, North Norway. Idle since the 1970s, the tractor is a relic of agricultural dreams, turned to rubble as novel layers of the Varanger landscape are conjured as resourceful. Farming in Finnmark was a geopolitical strategy to secure national borders and to expand a post-war welfare state, it was also a colonial effort to cultivate farmers in the far north. This article details the back-breaking practices required to make thin Arctic topsoil collaborate in realizing modernist dreams of agricultural growth, while state interventions sought to ensure national borders and national identity. The author highlights dialectic relations between mapping and forgetting, crucial in the making of resources and colonizing practices. |
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Dreams of Prosperity - Enactments of Growth; The Rise and Fall of Farming in Varanger |
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http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-82642 Lien, Marianne Elisabeth . Dreams of Prosperity - Enactments of Growth; The Rise and Fall of Farming in Varanger. Anthropological Journal on European Cultures. 2020, 29(1), 42-62 http://hdl.handle.net/10852/79528 1808611 info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.jtitle=Anthropological Journal on European Cultures&rft.volume=29&rft.spage=42&rft.date=2020 Anthropological Journal on European Cultures 29 1 42 62 https://doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2020.290104 URN:NBN:no-82642 Fulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/79528/1/AJEC%2BDreams%2Bof%2BProsperity.pdf |
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