Essays about: "Reindeer herding"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 78 essays containing the words Reindeer herding.

  1. 16. Gendering Ethnicity : Colonialism and Structural Violence in the Swedish 1928 Reindeer Grazing Act

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Author : Alva Blomkvist; [2022]
    Keywords : Swedish colonialism; Reindeer Grazing Act; Sámi; Sápmi; gender; violence;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how the gendering of ethnicity in the Swedish Reindeer Grazing Act of 1928 (RBL 1928) was part of a colonial structure of violence. The research context in which this thesis places itself is in the intersection of previous scholarship on the colonial interest in controlling Indigenous marriage, and scholarship on Swedish colonial history in Sápmi. READ MORE

  3. 17. The challenge of a just transition in northern Sweden : uncovering environmental justice related frames of actors actively involved in wind energy development in northern Sweden

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Rebecca Kneifel; [2022]
    Keywords : environmental justice; wind farming; northern Sweden; reindeer herding; just transition;

    Abstract : The Swedish government has set the goal of taking a pioneer role and targeting a transition towards 100% renewable energy use until 2040. To reach this goal, the focus in energy production is shifting towards solar, hydro as well as wind power. READ MORE

  4. 18. Co-existence and conflict in a changing forest landscape: A case study of Maskaure reindeer herding district

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Tove Berg; [2022]
    Keywords : Reindeer husbandry; Forestry; Political Economy; Resource production; Landscape; Access; Maskaure; Sweden; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Land use for reindeer husbandry and forestry are overlapping in large areas of northern Sweden. This co-location is characterized by dynamics in which the forest industry owns the land and the power to transform it, and the reindeer industry possesses a user-right for reindeer grazing and herding. READ MORE

  5. 19. Vinterbetesområdets förändring för Flakabergsgruppen i Gällivare skogssameby över två renskötande generationer : hur betesresursen har nyttjats för renskötsel och påverkats av skogsbruk

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

    Author : Elle Eriksson; [2022]
    Keywords : skogsbruk; renskötsel; vinterbetesområde; traditionell kunskap; Flakabergsgruppen; Gällivare skogssameby; RenGIS;

    Abstract : The Sámi is an indigenous people in Sweden, and they have the right to carry out reindeer herding. The knowledge that exists within reindeer herding is included in traditional Sámi knowledge, which is centred around the relationship between nature, animal and human. Today the situation between reindeer herding and forestry is relevant. READ MORE

  6. 20. Environmental Conservation Conflicts in Swedish Sapmi: Sami Ethnoecology and the Struggle for an Indigenous Conservation Paradigm

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Alexandra McFadden; [2022]
    Keywords : Environmental conservation; land use; Sami ethnoecology; human ecology; environmentalism; Sweden; Sapmi.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Given a backdrop of industrial land use fractures in Northern Sweden, the kind of human-environmental relations cultivated in Sapmi has consequences for Sami indigenous sovereignty and ecological sustainability. Critically investigating different nature relations is of significance to Human Ecology fields in order to deepen knowledge on both unintended and intended consequences of how we understand and engage with environments. READ MORE