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dc.contributor.authorKristoffersen, Berit
dc.contributor.authorDale, Brigt
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-18T07:58:19Z
dc.date.available2023-09-18T07:58:19Z
dc.date.issued2017-10-26
dc.description.abstractBased on over 60 interviews and fieldwork in Lofoten, Norway, over a five-year period (2008 – 2013), this paper argues that local identity is a ‘missing link’ with significant explanatory value when analyzing the contested matter of whether to open for oil drilling in this region. Through a Giddensian approach to ontological security, we identify a major discrepancy between local and national discourses on ‘post-petroleum security’ concerns for the Lofoten region and its inhabitants – concerns that neither national political debates nor academic discourse have adequately included. Thus, we highlight time as a variable separating local and state-centered perspectives on what sustains (ontological) security. We show how an understanding of historically viable communities is of core concern for the re-establishment of an identity-based security. Further, environmental and societal risks associated with petroleum development influence the perceived balance between short-term needs for jobs, and long-term needs for continued production of local, practice-based knowledge upon which a specific coastal identity is built. We also discuss how Lofoten has been put on the petroleum map as one of the last petroleum frontiers, and conclude that an analysis including identity as a variable can inform international debates concerning the ‘opening’ of the circumpolar Arctic for extractive industries.en_US
dc.descriptionSource at <a href=https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/index>https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/index</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKristoffersen B, Dale B. Post-Petroleum Security in Lofoten: Why Identity Matters. Arctic Review on Law and Politics. 2014;5(2):201-226en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1154369
dc.identifier.issn1891-6252
dc.identifier.issn2387-4562
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/31045
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherCappelen Damm Akademisken_US
dc.relation.journalArctic Review on Law and Politics
dc.relation.projectIDNorges forskningsråd: 237681en_US
dc.relation.urihttps://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/1046
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2014 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)en_US
dc.titlePost-Petroleum Security in Lofoten: Why Identity Mattersen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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