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dc.contributor.advisorRagazzi, Rossella
dc.contributor.authorMankova, Petia
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-08T15:09:12Z
dc.date.available2018-02-08T15:09:12Z
dc.date.issued2018-02-09
dc.description.abstractIn remote geographical areas, state power and modernization processes often slow down, become subverted or fail. For the people who live there the everyday life usually brings other worries and concerns. Based on anthropological fieldwork in Krasnoshchelye, a remote tundra village in Murmansk region, the dissertation addresses questions of remoteness. Inspired by the spatial theories of Michel de Certeau and Doreen Massey, it describes the village as an open space where the trajectories of governmental strategies, popular representations, collective projects and individual undertakings exist simultaneously. They intersect in different ways through time. Such approach embosses the temporary and transient nature of all human agency and shows that the village is never isolated or backward. The thesis consists of an introductory essay and four articles. In the introductory essay I address the dynamic nature of the relationship between abstract ideas of remoteness and everyday life. The four articles show how this relationship affects ethnographic descriptions, educational institutions, mass media, local storytelling, and public events as the Festival of the North. At the same time, by focusing on the century old Izhma Komi diaspora in an area considered and recognized as traditional for the indigenous Sami people (Lovozero District), in a region (Murmansk region) where the majority today is constituted of Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians and many other nationalities, I also question ideas of home and belonging.en_US
dc.description.doctoraltypeph.d.en_US
dc.description.popularabstractIn remote geographical areas, state power and modernization processes often slow down, become subverted or fail. For the people who live there the everyday life usually brings other worries and concerns. Based on anthropological fieldwork in Krasnoshchelye, a remote tundra village in Murmansk region, the dissertation addresses questions of remoteness. At the same time, by focusing on the century old Izhma Komi diaspora in an area considered and recognized as traditional for the indigenous Sami people (Lovozero District), in a region (Murmansk region) where the majority today is constituted of Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians and many other nationalities, I also question ideas of home and belonging.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe project has received financial support within the research project "INPOINT Socioeconomic significance of developmental projects in Northwest Russia: the INsiders POINT of View" (The Research Council of Norway/ project number 213665)en_US
dc.descriptionThe papers of this thesis are not available in Munin. <br> Paper I: Mankova, P. (2017). The Komi of the Kola Peninsula within ethnographic descriptions and state policies. Available in <a href=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2017.1345882> Nationalities Papers, 46(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2017.1345882 </a> <br> Paper II: Mankova, P. (2017). A Safe Harbour in Stormy Winds: Educational Reforms and Social Poetics in a Russian Tundra Village. (Manuscript). <br> Paper III: Mankova, P. (2017). Making sense of the remote areas: films and stories from a tundra village. (Manuscript). <br> Paper IV: Mankova, P. (2017) Heterogeneity and Spontaneity: reindeer races, bureaucratic designs and indigenous transformations at The Festival of the North in Murmansk. Available in <a href=https://doi.org/10.1080/08003831.2017.1397440> Acta Borealia, 34(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/08003831.2017.1397440 </a>en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/12107
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten_US
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2018 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)en_US
dc.subjectNorthwestern Russiaen_US
dc.subjecteveryday lifeen_US
dc.subjectremotenessen_US
dc.subjectrural tundra villageen_US
dc.subjectKomi peopleen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Samfunnsgeografi: 290en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Human geography: 290en_US
dc.titleHomewarding Remoteness: Representations, agency and everyday life in a tundra village (NW Russia)en_US
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen_US
dc.typeDoktorgradsavhandlingen_US


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