Mapping mineral resources in a living land : Sami mining resistance in Ohcejohka, northern Finland
During the past decade, Finland has been the target of a global boom in the quest for untapped mineral resources. Based on the mapped information of mineral potential provided by the state, multinational mining corporations are making reservations for and conducting mineral explorations particularly...
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ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/239653 2024-01-07T09:45:28+01:00 Mapping mineral resources in a living land : Sami mining resistance in Ohcejohka, northern Finland Lassila, Maija M. Department of Social Research (2010-2017) 2018-08-27T07:44:01Z 9 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10138/239653 eng eng Elsevier Scientific Publ. Co 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.07.004 Lassila , M M 2018 , ' Mapping mineral resources in a living land : Sami mining resistance in Ohcejohka, northern Finland ' , Geoforum , vol. 96 , no. November 2018 , pp. 1-9 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.07.004 RIS: urn:C3E998FB9DCA99D4D466F2EA62212A7C ORCID: /0000-0001-6001-3194/work/68616434 85050539022 0c330a8f-c5e1-4cdd-b82f-1fa675283d0c http://hdl.handle.net/10138/239653 000449130800001 cc_by openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 519 Social and economic geography mining extractivism indigenous peoples counter-narrative counter-mapping ontological conflict political ecology maps narratives livelihood Article publishedVersion 2018 ftunivhelsihelda https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.07.004 2023-12-14T00:13:39Z During the past decade, Finland has been the target of a global boom in the quest for untapped mineral resources. Based on the mapped information of mineral potential provided by the state, multinational mining corporations are making reservations for and conducting mineral explorations particularly in Finland’s peripheral regions. This paper investigates the emergence of an anti-mining movement in Ohcejohka, in northernmost Finland, in 2014–2015, and the ontological conflict manifested in the outside mapping of the land as “mineral rich” as well as the local people's various knowledges of the land as a lived place. By producing a holistic counter-mapping of their social, ancestral and meaningful landscape, the movement questioned the state’s and the company’s homogenising knowledge in the production of land and resources. While the reality-making effects of modern maps have previously been studied, the entanglements of such mappings in environmental conflicts with local ontological realities and knowledge spheres have not been extensively studied. This paper argues that rather than imposing a “one world ontology”, maps and mappings of land and resources are culmination points in environmental conflicts, where they become renegotiated, challenged and redefined in the local and dynamic enactments of reality. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Finland sami HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository Geoforum 96 1 9 |
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During the past decade, Finland has been the target of a global boom in the quest for untapped mineral resources. Based on the mapped information of mineral potential provided by the state, multinational mining corporations are making reservations for and conducting mineral explorations particularly in Finland’s peripheral regions. This paper investigates the emergence of an anti-mining movement in Ohcejohka, in northernmost Finland, in 2014–2015, and the ontological conflict manifested in the outside mapping of the land as “mineral rich” as well as the local people's various knowledges of the land as a lived place. By producing a holistic counter-mapping of their social, ancestral and meaningful landscape, the movement questioned the state’s and the company’s homogenising knowledge in the production of land and resources. While the reality-making effects of modern maps have previously been studied, the entanglements of such mappings in environmental conflicts with local ontological realities and knowledge spheres have not been extensively studied. This paper argues that rather than imposing a “one world ontology”, maps and mappings of land and resources are culmination points in environmental conflicts, where they become renegotiated, challenged and redefined in the local and dynamic enactments of reality. Peer reviewed |
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Mapping mineral resources in a living land : Sami mining resistance in Ohcejohka, northern Finland |
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