Transforming Kiruna : Producing Space, Society, and Legacies of Inequality in the Swedish Ore Fields

• Main Author: López, Elisa Maria
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi 2021
• Subjects: Space; nature; inequality; Sweden; Kiruna; mining; Sámi; reindeer herding; urban planning; displacement; Social Anthropology; Socialantropologi; Luossavaara
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-457024

Extractive resources industries are irreversibly transforming land, air, water, life and society around the world at an unprecedented rate, and Sweden is no exception. This anthropological study analyzes acute issues related to this transformation: the resettlement of six thousand residents of the c...