Green colonialism in the Nordic context: Exploring Southern Saami representations of wind energy development
This paper explores social representations of wind energy development within reindeer herding lands among the Indigenous Southern Saami living within Norwegian borders. For this matter, the paper combines Social Representations Theory (SRT) with the analytical framework of “circuits of dispossession...
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ftoslouniv:oai:www.duo.uio.no:10852/81020 2023-05-15T18:08:13+02:00 Green colonialism in the Nordic context: Exploring Southern Saami representations of wind energy development Normann, Susanne 2020-08-14T10:46:17Z http://hdl.handle.net/10852/81020 http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-84107 https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22422 EN eng UIO/295704 http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-84107 Normann, Susanne . Green colonialism in the Nordic context: Exploring Southern Saami representations of wind energy development. Journal of Community Psychology. 2020 http://hdl.handle.net/10852/81020 1823308 info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.jtitle=Journal of Community Psychology&rft.volume=&rft.spage=&rft.date=2020 Journal of Community Psychology https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22422 URN:NBN:no-84107 Fulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/81020/1/jcop.22422.pdf Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY 0090-4392 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed PublishedVersion 2020 ftoslouniv https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22422 2020-11-18T23:30:32Z This paper explores social representations of wind energy development within reindeer herding lands among the Indigenous Southern Saami living within Norwegian borders. For this matter, the paper combines Social Representations Theory (SRT) with the analytical framework of “circuits of dispossession and privilege” and decolonial approaches within community psychology. Data consisted of seven individual semi‐structured open‐ended interviews, three collective interviews, and observation in three lawsuits, public meetings, protest actions, and reindeer herding activities. The findings suggest that for the subjects in this study, the onset of wind power represents the renewal of historical processes of dispossession through accumulation and colonialism, enabled by harmful knowledge gaps in Norwegian society and institutions, contrasting Southern Saami's values of responsibility and ecological practices. The implication of these findings suggests an urgent need of rethinking renewable energy and including indigenous knowledge in climate change agendas. Article in Journal/Newspaper saami Universitet i Oslo: Digitale utgivelser ved UiO (DUO) Journal of Community Psychology 49 1 77 94 |
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This paper explores social representations of wind energy development within reindeer herding lands among the Indigenous Southern Saami living within Norwegian borders. For this matter, the paper combines Social Representations Theory (SRT) with the analytical framework of “circuits of dispossession and privilege” and decolonial approaches within community psychology. Data consisted of seven individual semi‐structured open‐ended interviews, three collective interviews, and observation in three lawsuits, public meetings, protest actions, and reindeer herding activities. The findings suggest that for the subjects in this study, the onset of wind power represents the renewal of historical processes of dispossession through accumulation and colonialism, enabled by harmful knowledge gaps in Norwegian society and institutions, contrasting Southern Saami's values of responsibility and ecological practices. The implication of these findings suggests an urgent need of rethinking renewable energy and including indigenous knowledge in climate change agendas. |
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UIO/295704 http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-84107 Normann, Susanne . Green colonialism in the Nordic context: Exploring Southern Saami representations of wind energy development. Journal of Community Psychology. 2020 http://hdl.handle.net/10852/81020 1823308 info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.jtitle=Journal of Community Psychology&rft.volume=&rft.spage=&rft.date=2020 Journal of Community Psychology https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22422 URN:NBN:no-84107 Fulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/81020/1/jcop.22422.pdf |
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