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dc.contributor.authorIvsett Johnsen, Kathrine
dc.contributor.authorMathiesen, Svein Disch
dc.contributor.authorEira, Inger Marie Gaup
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-13T11:36:12Z
dc.date.available2022-04-13T11:36:12Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractUsing a participatory research approach, we assess the knowledge systems and political ontology of reindeer husbandry. The study was conducted by a mixed team of scientists and Sámi reindeer herders who practiced reindeer husbandry in West Finnmark, northern Norway, both prior to and during the state-led “rationalization” of Sámi reindeer husbandry since the late 1970s. The analysis is based on the participants’ reindeer herding knowledge and their assessment of the governance of Sámi pastoralism. Two future narratives (scenarios) were used to stimulate reflection and discussion. Based on these discussions and by studying secondary sources, we examined how herders and government officials explained what reindeer husbandry is and ought to be and their conceptions about “proper” management of reindeer, herders, and the land on which reindeer pastoralism depends. We find that the state governance of reindeer husbandry since the end of the 1970s promoted, through a combination of economic incentives and sanctions, herding practices primarily based on Western knowledge and way of understanding the world. This knowledge system and the management techniques it promotes was, and still is, in conflict with and undermines reindeer herding knowledge and worldviews. However, despite 40 years of policies attempting to transform reindeer husbandry according to the state’s perception of proper pastoralism, a Sámi worldview continues to influence the herders’ understanding of the relationship between humans, reindeer, and nature and how this relationship should be governed. Nonetheless, the conflicting, asymmetrical knowledge systems and competing worldviews of what reindeer husbandry is and ought to be compromise the identity and rights of the pastoralists.en_US
dc.identifier.citationIvsett Johnsen, Mathiesen SD, Eira IMGE. Sámi reindeer governance in Norway as competing knowledge-systems: A participatory study. Ecology & society. 2017;22(4)en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1498080
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09786-220433
dc.identifier.issn1708-3087
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/24781
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherResilience Allianceen_US
dc.relation.journalEcology & society
dc.relation.projectIDNorges forskningsråd: 238326en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderResilience Allianceen_US
dc.titleSámi reindeer governance in Norway as competing knowledge-systems: A participatory studyen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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