Med kroppen som vapen : en studie av aktivism, mobilisering och motstånd mot en gruva i Gállok

• Main Author: Engblom, Rikard
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Etnologiska avdelningen 2015
• Subjects: Activism; social movements; mobilization; phenomenology; social interaction; Jokkmokk; Kroppen; Northern Sweden; saami
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-254180

This study departs from Gállok, an area 40 kilometres northwest of the city Jokkmokk, in northern Sweden. This is a place to which local people and Saami reindeer herders have material interests and emotional bonds. The mining company JIMAB wants to prospect for extracting minerals from this area. I...