Unruly Reindeer: Imagining and governing an Arctic animal in twentieth-century Sweden
This paper explores the imagined reindeer of the twentieth century. It examines the relationship between humans and the Arctic animal in a historical perspective and highlights five ways of imagining the reindeer. Over time, it was assigned the role of an exclusively Sámi animal and an unruly trespa...
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ftunivlundojs:oai:journals.lub.lu.se:article/25086 2024-02-04T09:57:31+01:00 Unruly Reindeer: Imagining and governing an Arctic animal in twentieth-century Sweden Röver, Corinna 2024-01-10 application/pdf https://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/25086 https://doi.org/10.48202/25086 swe swe Lärdomshistoriska samfundet https://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/25086/22739 https://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/25086 doi:10.48202/25086 Copyright (c) 2024 Corinna Röver https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Lychnos: Annual of the Swedish History of Science Society; 2023: Lychnos Lychnos: Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria; 2023: Lychnos 2004-4852 0076-1648 Reindeer Reindeer husbandry Animal Studies Chernobyl Slow Food Sápmi Food Sovereignty Sámi Cultivation border info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed article Sakkunniggranskad artikel 2024 ftunivlundojs https://doi.org/10.48202/25086 2024-01-10T23:29:58Z This paper explores the imagined reindeer of the twentieth century. It examines the relationship between humans and the Arctic animal in a historical perspective and highlights five ways of imagining the reindeer. Over time, it was assigned the role of an exclusively Sámi animal and an unruly trespasser, but also turned into a modernization project before it became a vulnerable victim of toxicity, only to be reinvented as a harbinger of Sámi food sovereignty. Drawing from animal studies and using a range of archival material, I argue that each way of imagining the reindeer was followed by extensive policy and legal efforts in order to make the reindeer compliant and predictable. These efforts did not necessarily lead to the intended results, and hence the reindeer remained “unruly”. Analyzing the shifting meanings contributes to a better understanding of the history of the European Arctic from the vantage point of animal history. This paper explores the imagined reindeer of the twentieth century. It examines the relationship between humans and the Arctic animal in a historical perspective and highlights five ways of imagining the reindeer. Over time, it was assigned the role of an exclusively Sámi animal and an unruly trespasser, but also turned into a modernization project before it became a vulnerable victim of toxicity, only to be reinvented as a harbinger of Sámi food sovereignty. Drawing from animal studies and using a range of archival material, I argue that each way of imagining the reindeer was followed by extensive policy and legal efforts in order to make the reindeer compliant and predictable. These efforts did not necessarily lead to the intended results, and hence the reindeer remained “unruly”. Analyzing the shifting meanings contributes to a better understanding of the history of the European Arctic from the vantage point of animal history. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic reindeer husbandry Open Journals at Lund University (OJLU) Arctic Lychnos: Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria |
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This paper explores the imagined reindeer of the twentieth century. It examines the relationship between humans and the Arctic animal in a historical perspective and highlights five ways of imagining the reindeer. Over time, it was assigned the role of an exclusively Sámi animal and an unruly trespasser, but also turned into a modernization project before it became a vulnerable victim of toxicity, only to be reinvented as a harbinger of Sámi food sovereignty. Drawing from animal studies and using a range of archival material, I argue that each way of imagining the reindeer was followed by extensive policy and legal efforts in order to make the reindeer compliant and predictable. These efforts did not necessarily lead to the intended results, and hence the reindeer remained “unruly”. Analyzing the shifting meanings contributes to a better understanding of the history of the European Arctic from the vantage point of animal history. This paper explores the imagined reindeer of the twentieth century. It examines the relationship between humans and the Arctic animal in a historical perspective and highlights five ways of imagining the reindeer. Over time, it was assigned the role of an exclusively Sámi animal and an unruly trespasser, but also turned into a modernization project before it became a vulnerable victim of toxicity, only to be reinvented as a harbinger of Sámi food sovereignty. Drawing from animal studies and using a range of archival material, I argue that each way of imagining the reindeer was followed by extensive policy and legal efforts in order to make the reindeer compliant and predictable. These efforts did not necessarily lead to the intended results, and hence the reindeer remained “unruly”. Analyzing the shifting meanings contributes to a better understanding of the history of the European Arctic from the vantage point of animal history. |
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Unruly Reindeer: Imagining and governing an Arctic animal in twentieth-century Sweden |
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Unruly Reindeer: Imagining and governing an Arctic animal in twentieth-century Sweden |
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Unruly Reindeer: Imagining and governing an Arctic animal in twentieth-century Sweden |
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Unruly Reindeer: Imagining and governing an Arctic animal in twentieth-century Sweden |
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Unruly Reindeer: Imagining and governing an Arctic animal in twentieth-century Sweden |
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unruly reindeer: imagining and governing an arctic animal in twentieth-century sweden |
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Arctic reindeer husbandry |
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Copyright (c) 2024 Corinna Röver https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
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