Day: June 5, 2013

Mining or golfing? Or both? Or nothing? – A perspective to mining in the north of Sweden

On By KGranqvistIn All, Extractive Industries, Fennoscandia, Indigenous Peoples, Sámi2 Comments

In a small newspaper named LKAB Framtid Luleå [LKAB Future Luleå] with a special February issue this year published by the Swedish mining company Loussavaara Kirunavaara Aktiebolag (LKAB), can an article with the headline "Critics are wrong: 'We need more mines'" be found. That issue was a special one for the town of Luleå that is …

Continue reading Mining or golfing? Or both? Or nothing? – A perspective to mining in the north of Sweden

New book about the history of the Sámi from Russia during Soviet times – online open access

On By lukasallemannIn Announcements, Fieldwork, Indigenous Peoples, oral history, Publications, Russian North, Sámi, Theoretical Issues

My book “The Sámi of the Kola Peninsula: About the life of an ethnic minority in the Soviet Union” has been recently translated into English and published on the internet within the publication series of the Centre for Sámi Studies at the University of Tromsø. Using extensive biographical interviews as a primary source, this oral …

Continue reading New book about the history of the Sámi from Russia during Soviet times – online open access