Dag Avango
Biographic Data
| ID | 3949877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dag Avango |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dag |
| FAMILY NAME | Avango |
| SIGNATURE | AVANGO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Luleå University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6323-2966 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Historical challenges of mining on traditional Sámi lands
Driven by global demand, the expansion of Sweden’s mining sector has accelerated significantly since the early 2000s, bringing economic opportunities and challenges to Sámi lands. Amid ongoing debates about sustainability and Indigenous rights, this article examines the historical consequences of mining industrialization on Sámi livelihoods in Kiruna, using Large Technological Systems theory. Kiruna, Sweden’s most important mining town, has been …
Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities
For decades, a post-Cold War narrative heralded a 'new Arctic', with melting ice and snow and accessible resources that would build sustainable communities. Today, large parts of the Arctic are still trapped in the path dependencies of past resource extraction. At the same time, the impetus for green transitions and a 'new industrialism' spell opportunities to shift the development model and build new futures for Arctic residents and Indigenous p…
The making and re-making of high modernist towns in the Circumpolar North
Imprints on the Resource Landscape
For several years, public debates about the future of the Arctic have included the growing global needs in minerals and energy resources. To explain and manage this development, it is important to understand impacts of previous extractive industries in the north. Using theoretical approaches from economic geography and science and technology studies, the aim of this article is to describe and explain the growth of mining in the Arctic and its con…
Social-ecological-technological systems consequences of mining
Understanding the impacts of extractive industries on sustainable development requires analyzing them as part of dynamic social-ecological-technological systems. Building on insights from studies of social-ecological systems and socio-technical systems, as well as fieldwork on the impacts of mining in the Nordic Arctic, this article presents an analytical framework for co-production of knowledge about the role of industrial or infrastructure proj…
The multiple landscapes of Biedjovággi
In this article, we engage with environmental conflicts on indigenous land through a focus on an attempt to gain social licence to reopen and operate the Biedjovággi mine in Guovdageainnu/Kautokeino in Sápmi, Norway. We argue that mining prospects bring forth ontological conflicts concerning land use, as well as ways to know the landscape and the envisioned future that the land holds. It is a story of a conflict between two different ways of know…
Contrasting views on co-management of indigenous natural and cultural heritage – Case of Laponia World Heritage site, Sweden
This article discusses the evaluation of the management of the Laponia World Heritage site (Laponia WHS) in northern Sweden. After inscription on the World Heritage list in 1996, difficulties emerged in establishing a common understanding about the involvement of various stakeholders into the site’s management model, the key point of contention being the influence of the representatives from indigenous Sami people and how that should be organised…
Swedish steel and global resource colonialism
This article analyses Swedish industry’s attempts to secure strategic raw materials in an era of global resource colonialism. More precisely, it tells the story of how Sandvikens Jernverk – a leading Swedish steel producer – set out to secure its need for chromium ore during the Interwar Era. Up to the late 1920s, Sandviken sourced its chromium from British and French colonies. However, the company feared the British Empire’s growing dominance in…
Remains of industry in the polar regions
Remains of industry in the polar regions
Les impacts du changement climatique et la recherche croissante de ressources naturelles ont attiré l’attention sur les régions polaires. Les débats qui s’en sont suivis ont renforcé une erreur courante d’analyse qui voit les régions polaires comme des zones désertes et vides, que la société n’a pas affectées. Ce n’est pas du tout le cas. L’Arctique et l’Antarctique sont l’objet de booms de matières premières depuis plusieurs centaines d’années. …
Swedish Explorers, in-Situ Knowledge, and Resource-Based Business in the Age of Empire
The period from 1870 to 1914 plays a unique role in the history of natural resource exploration and extraction. This article analyses, from a Swedish viewpoint, the connections between two actor categories of special importance in this context: scientific-geographical explorers and industrial actors. The article examines their activities in three broadly defined regions: the Arctic, Russia, and Africa. We show that the Swedes generally had far-re…
Industrial extraction of Arctic natural resources since the sixteenth century
Three galleries of the Anthropocene
This paper considers three 'galleries' that explore the Anthropocene in cultural ways, and the implications of the Anthropocene idea for cultural institutions and heritage. The first gallery is the 2014-2016 exhibition Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands, [ Willkommen im Anthropozän: Unsere Verantwortung für die Zukunft der Erde] at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. The second 'gallery' of Anthropocene Posters sponsored by the Art M…
Under the Ice
One of the most striking aspects of media’s reporting on the retreating and thinning Arctic sea ice has been the insistence that an increasingly ice-free Arctic Ocean creates vast new opportunities for the world’s energy supply. The absence of sea ice in summertime is presumed to offer new possibilities for extracting oil and gas reserves, estimated to contain 25 percent of the not yet discovered deposits of those resources, according to the US g…
Between markets and geo-politics
What are the driving forces behind large scale natural resource exploitation in the polar regions and how should we understand the relations between these forces? New historical-archaeological research performed during the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007–2009 on whaling, hunting and mining in Spitsbergen (1600–present) show both economic and geopolitical factors driving the development of those industries, both the whaling industries in the 1…
Settlements in an Arctic Resource Frontier Region
In this article we use a core-periphery model in order to understand the general trends in the history of natural resource exploitation in the polar regions. The study focuses on whaling, hunting, and coal mining activities on the European High Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen, from the seventeenth century to the present. We show that some of the whaling and mining stations developed a regional position and a level of permanence that is not expe…
Industrial extraction of Arctic natural resources since the sixteenth century
Between markets and geo-politics
What are the driving forces behind large scale natural resource exploitation in the polar regions and how should we understand the relations between these forces? New historical-archaeological research performed during the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007–2009 on whaling, hunting and mining in Spitsbergen (1600–present) show both economic and geopolitical factors driving the development of those industries, both the whaling industries in the 1…
Settlements in an Arctic Resource Frontier Region
In this article we use a core-periphery model in order to understand the general trends in the history of natural resource exploitation in the polar regions. The study focuses on whaling, hunting, and coal mining activities on the European High Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen, from the seventeenth century to the present. We show that some of the whaling and mining stations developed a regional position and a level of permanence that is not expe…
Social-ecological-technological systems consequences of mining
Understanding the impacts of extractive industries on sustainable development requires analyzing them as part of dynamic social-ecological-technological systems. Building on insights from studies of social-ecological systems and socio-technical systems, as well as fieldwork on the impacts of mining in the Nordic Arctic, this article presents an analytical framework for co-production of knowledge about the role of industrial or infrastructure proj…
Three galleries of the Anthropocene
This paper considers three 'galleries' that explore the Anthropocene in cultural ways, and the implications of the Anthropocene idea for cultural institutions and heritage. The first gallery is the 2014-2016 exhibition Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands, [ Willkommen im Anthropozän: Unsere Verantwortung für die Zukunft der Erde] at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. The second 'gallery' of Anthropocene Posters sponsored by the Art M…
Remains of industry in the polar regions
Les impacts du changement climatique et la recherche croissante de ressources naturelles ont attiré l’attention sur les régions polaires. Les débats qui s’en sont suivis ont renforcé une erreur courante d’analyse qui voit les régions polaires comme des zones désertes et vides, que la société n’a pas affectées. Ce n’est pas du tout le cas. L’Arctique et l’Antarctique sont l’objet de booms de matières premières depuis plusieurs centaines d’années. …
Swedish Explorers, in-Situ Knowledge, and Resource-Based Business in the Age of Empire
The period from 1870 to 1914 plays a unique role in the history of natural resource exploration and extraction. This article analyses, from a Swedish viewpoint, the connections between two actor categories of special importance in this context: scientific-geographical explorers and industrial actors. The article examines their activities in three broadly defined regions: the Arctic, Russia, and Africa. We show that the Swedes generally had far-re…
The multiple landscapes of Biedjovággi
In this article, we engage with environmental conflicts on indigenous land through a focus on an attempt to gain social licence to reopen and operate the Biedjovággi mine in Guovdageainnu/Kautokeino in Sápmi, Norway. We argue that mining prospects bring forth ontological conflicts concerning land use, as well as ways to know the landscape and the envisioned future that the land holds. It is a story of a conflict between two different ways of know…
Contrasting views on co-management of indigenous natural and cultural heritage – Case of Laponia World Heritage site, Sweden
This article discusses the evaluation of the management of the Laponia World Heritage site (Laponia WHS) in northern Sweden. After inscription on the World Heritage list in 1996, difficulties emerged in establishing a common understanding about the involvement of various stakeholders into the site’s management model, the key point of contention being the influence of the representatives from indigenous Sami people and how that should be organised…
Settlements in an Arctic Resource Frontier Region
In this article we use a core-periphery model in order to understand the general trends in the history of natural resource exploitation in the polar regions. The study focuses on whaling, hunting, and coal mining activities on the European High Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen, from the seventeenth century to the present. We show that some of the whaling and mining stations developed a regional position and a level of permanence that is not expe…
Between markets and geo-politics
What are the driving forces behind large scale natural resource exploitation in the polar regions and how should we understand the relations between these forces? New historical-archaeological research performed during the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007–2009 on whaling, hunting and mining in Spitsbergen (1600–present) show both economic and geopolitical factors driving the development of those industries, both the whaling industries in the 1…
Under the Ice
One of the most striking aspects of media’s reporting on the retreating and thinning Arctic sea ice has been the insistence that an increasingly ice-free Arctic Ocean creates vast new opportunities for the world’s energy supply. The absence of sea ice in summertime is presumed to offer new possibilities for extracting oil and gas reserves, estimated to contain 25 percent of the not yet discovered deposits of those resources, according to the US g…
Industrial extraction of Arctic natural resources since the sixteenth century
Three galleries of the Anthropocene
This paper considers three 'galleries' that explore the Anthropocene in cultural ways, and the implications of the Anthropocene idea for cultural institutions and heritage. The first gallery is the 2014-2016 exhibition Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands, [ Willkommen im Anthropozän: Unsere Verantwortung für die Zukunft der Erde] at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. The second 'gallery' of Anthropocene Posters sponsored by the Art M…
Swedish steel and global resource colonialism
This article analyses Swedish industry’s attempts to secure strategic raw materials in an era of global resource colonialism. More precisely, it tells the story of how Sandvikens Jernverk – a leading Swedish steel producer – set out to secure its need for chromium ore during the Interwar Era. Up to the late 1920s, Sandviken sourced its chromium from British and French colonies. However, the company feared the British Empire’s growing dominance in…
Remains of industry in the polar regions
Remains of industry in the polar regions
Les impacts du changement climatique et la recherche croissante de ressources naturelles ont attiré l’attention sur les régions polaires. Les débats qui s’en sont suivis ont renforcé une erreur courante d’analyse qui voit les régions polaires comme des zones désertes et vides, que la société n’a pas affectées. Ce n’est pas du tout le cas. L’Arctique et l’Antarctique sont l’objet de booms de matières premières depuis plusieurs centaines d’années. …
Swedish Explorers, in-Situ Knowledge, and Resource-Based Business in the Age of Empire
The period from 1870 to 1914 plays a unique role in the history of natural resource exploration and extraction. This article analyses, from a Swedish viewpoint, the connections between two actor categories of special importance in this context: scientific-geographical explorers and industrial actors. The article examines their activities in three broadly defined regions: the Arctic, Russia, and Africa. We show that the Swedes generally had far-re…
Contrasting views on co-management of indigenous natural and cultural heritage – Case of Laponia World Heritage site, Sweden
This article discusses the evaluation of the management of the Laponia World Heritage site (Laponia WHS) in northern Sweden. After inscription on the World Heritage list in 1996, difficulties emerged in establishing a common understanding about the involvement of various stakeholders into the site’s management model, the key point of contention being the influence of the representatives from indigenous Sami people and how that should be organised…
Imprints on the Resource Landscape
For several years, public debates about the future of the Arctic have included the growing global needs in minerals and energy resources. To explain and manage this development, it is important to understand impacts of previous extractive industries in the north. Using theoretical approaches from economic geography and science and technology studies, the aim of this article is to describe and explain the growth of mining in the Arctic and its con…
Social-ecological-technological systems consequences of mining
Understanding the impacts of extractive industries on sustainable development requires analyzing them as part of dynamic social-ecological-technological systems. Building on insights from studies of social-ecological systems and socio-technical systems, as well as fieldwork on the impacts of mining in the Nordic Arctic, this article presents an analytical framework for co-production of knowledge about the role of industrial or infrastructure proj…
The multiple landscapes of Biedjovággi
In this article, we engage with environmental conflicts on indigenous land through a focus on an attempt to gain social licence to reopen and operate the Biedjovággi mine in Guovdageainnu/Kautokeino in Sápmi, Norway. We argue that mining prospects bring forth ontological conflicts concerning land use, as well as ways to know the landscape and the envisioned future that the land holds. It is a story of a conflict between two different ways of know…
Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities
For decades, a post-Cold War narrative heralded a 'new Arctic', with melting ice and snow and accessible resources that would build sustainable communities. Today, large parts of the Arctic are still trapped in the path dependencies of past resource extraction. At the same time, the impetus for green transitions and a 'new industrialism' spell opportunities to shift the development model and build new futures for Arctic residents and Indigenous p…
The making and re-making of high modernist towns in the Circumpolar North
Historical challenges of mining on traditional Sámi lands
Driven by global demand, the expansion of Sweden’s mining sector has accelerated significantly since the early 2000s, bringing economic opportunities and challenges to Sámi lands. Amid ongoing debates about sustainability and Indigenous rights, this article examines the historical consequences of mining industrialization on Sámi livelihoods in Kiruna, using Large Technological Systems theory. Kiruna, Sweden’s most important mining town, has been …
Political science (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (10 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (9 works) · Arctic (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Oceanography (6 works) · Business (5 works)