Luossa and Laks : Salmon, science and LEK

• Main Authors: Law, John, Joks, Solveig
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: 2017
• 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); hist; phil; Norway; Tana River; North Norway
• Online Access: http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=RAC_035_0150

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...