Gail Fondahl
Biographic Data
| ID | 1264181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gail Fondahl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gail |
| FAMILY NAME | Fondahl |
| SIGNATURE | FONDAHL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Northern British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4287-1288 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Difference Place Makes: Regional Legislative Approaches to Territories of Traditional Nature Use in the Russian North
Indigenous northerners’ rights in the Russian Federation are legally protected at a range of levels (federal, regional, municipal), and by a diversity of types of legal acts (laws, decrees, orders, provisions). Within the complex structure of Russian federalism, the country’s regional governments elaborate upon federal laws in diverse ways and at different times. This article explores regional approaches to legislating one law on Indigenous right…
The Evolution of Forming “Territories of Traditional Nature Use” in the Sakha Republic (Iakutiia)
In the struggle of Russia’s Indigenous northerners for greater control over their ancestral lands, the spatiolegal formations known as Territories of Traditional Nature Use (TTPs, using the Russian acronym) have become their most effective tool. TTPs have assumed diverse characteristics across Russian regions in response to the evolution of federal and sub-federal law and of center-periphery relations at national and regional scales. In the Sakha…
Evenki of River Basin Olyokma: Resettlement and Land Use in the XXI Century
The relevance of the study is due to the need to study the characteristics of the resettlement of the local Evenki group of the Olekma River Basin, which influenced the modern land use and economic and cultural relations of Evenki living now in the Olekminsky District of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Kalarsky and Tungiro-Olekminsky Districts of the Trans-Baikal Territory and the Tyndinsky District of Amur region. The article focuses on the…
Introducing a Registry of Indigenous Persons in Russia: Rationale and Challenges
Numerous Russian laws recognize rights of, and provide for benefits to, Indigenous peoples living within the Russian Federation. Yet in the past two decades, Indigenous persons have faced challenges in accessing these rights, having no way to prove that they are members of an Indigenous people. For almost two decades, Indigenous leaders have petitioned the Russian government to address this situation, and in January 2020, the Government of Russia…
Niches of agency: Managing state-region relations through law in Russia
State-region relations involve negotiations over the power to (re)-constitute local spaces. While in federal states, power-sharing ostensibly gives regions a role over many space-making decisions, power asymmetries affect this role. Where centralization trends may erode regional agency, law can provide an important tool by which regions can assert influence. We examine a case where, in response to a proposed Russian federal law highly unpopular w…
Visiting Memorial Tree. Micro-geopolitics of an Evenki place composed and performed
Dans cet article, j’explore la façon dont les Évenks du Sud-Est de la Sibérie résistent à l’anéantissement de leurs terres. Celui-ci est causé tant par les actions directes de l’exploitation des ressources que par les effets indirects de l’éducation formelle ayant pour conséquence le déclin des savoirs environnementaux autochtones. Je suggère que les Évenks de cette région résistent par l’intermédiaire de la production et de la présentation d’élé…
Northern Sustainabilities: Understanding and Addressing Change in the Circumpolar World
Arctic Sustainability Research: Past, Present and Future
The Arctic is one of the world’s regions most affected by cultural, socio-economic, environmental, and climatic changes. Over the last two decades, scholars, policymakers, extractive industries, governments, intergovernmental forums, and non-governmental organizations have turned their attention to the Arctic, its peoples, resources, and to the challenges and benefits of impending transformations. Arctic sustainability is an issue of increasing c…
Arctic sustainability research: Toward a new agenda
The Arctic is among the world’s regions most affected by ongoing and increasing cultural, socio-economic, environmental and climatic changes. Over the last two decades, scholars, policymakers, extractive industries, local, regional and national governments, intergovernmental forums, and non-governmental organizations have turned their attention to the Arctic, its peoples and resources, and to challenges and benefits of impending transformations. …
Overlapping claims” to territory confronting treaty‐making in British Columbia: Causes and implications
Key Messages Overlapping Aboriginal claims to territory often result from variously constituted indigenous political identities and the diverse spatialities they enact. Settling treaties in contested areas can privilege Aboriginal groups that settle treaties first, to the detriment of groups with overlapping claims. Ordinary courts have struggled to find a remedy; an Indigenous Territories Commission is suggested for addressing such disputes
Co-managed research: Non-Indigenous thoughts on an Indigenous toponymy project in northern British Columbia
This paper reflects on the methodological challenges of co-managed research as experienced from a non-Indigenous perspective. In 2003, Tl'azt'en Nation and the authors initiated a toponymy study that involved finding a curricular use for Dakelh place names. In this article, we chronicle our experiences with negotiating and managing this study with Tl'azt'en Nation. Some events are specific to the topic; others are characteristic of co-managed res…
The Social Life of the State in Subarctic Siberia, by Nikolai V. Ssorin-Chaikov
Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Russia
Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Russia." Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 42(2), p. 191
Rights and Risks: Evenki Concerns Regarding the Proposed Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean Pipeline
Indigenous peoples' rights to a healthy environment and to be able to participate in decisions affecting their environment are increasingly recognized in Russian law. In this article we explore the case of the Evenki living at the north end of Lake Baikal, who are faced with the construction of an oil pipeline through their home-land. The Evenki perceive significant potential risks to their livelihoods and lifeways due to potential environmental …
Aboriginal land rights in Russia at the beginning of the twenty-first century
During the last decade, aboriginal peoples in Russia have sought to improve their legal rights, including their rights to their homelands and the resources of these lands. The Russian government initially responded to an aboriginal lobby by including discrete articles addressing aboriginal rights in a number of its laws, including those on forests, sub-surface resources, and protected areas. More comprehensive laws, specifically addressing aborig…
Working borders and shifting identities in the Russian Far North
Negotiating the production of space in Tl'azt‘en territory, Northern British Columbia
Societies produce the space in which they operate through social practices that visualize, administer, and use lands and resources. Because Native peoples have held relatively little political power, their ability to influence the production of space has received little attention. Yet the superimposition of Euro‐Canadian social practices onto Native spaces rarely erased native spatiality, but rather created a territory made up of shared and hybri…
Native ‘land claims’, Russian style
In Russia, as in Canada, Native peoples are attempting to gain greater control over their homelands. In the last decade, legislation at both the federal and sub‐federal (provincial, republican, etc.) level has sanctioned the transfer of land to Native ‘possession’, though not ownership, for the pursuit of traditional activities. This paper surveys the legislative basis that authorizes the creation of Native ‘communes’ (obshchinas) and their terri…
Sami Potatoes: Living with Reindeer and Perestroika, by Michael P. Robinson and Karim-Aly S. Kassam
The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America Ca A. D. 1000-1500
Illustrations 1. Greenland and Vinland: North Atlantic exploration five hundred years before the Cabot voyages 2. Social and economic conditions in Norse Greenland before 1350 3. Church and trade in Norse Greenland 4. Ivar Bardarson's Greenland 5. The western settlement comes to an end 6. Rumors of trouble in the Eastern settlement 7. England and the Norwegian colonies 1400-1450 8. Sailing out of the Middle Ages, 1450-1500
Polar geography at 20 years
Legacies of territorial reorganization for indigenous land claims in Northern Russia 1
Territorial reorganization of indigenous society in Russia's North during the Soviet period included the disruption of indigenous land tenure mechanisms, sedentarization, and forced relocation. These historical processes now serve as a backdrop for current efforts toward land reform, one alleged goal of which is to increase the potential for indigenous self‐government. This article explores the effects of territorial reorganization on the scope (…
The disappearing Russian forest: A dilemma in soviet resource management
Reindeer dairying in the Soviet Union
Reindeer milk is used by native peoples throughout the Soviet North. This article describes how different groups use, or have in the past used, the milk in raw and processed form. After summarizing the properties of reindeer milk, it outlines a neglected chapter in the history of domesticated animals: the attempt in the 1930s to set up a commercial reindeer dairy industry in the USSR. Lastly, it analyzes the decline of reindeer milking among peop…
Niches of agency: Managing state-region relations through law in Russia
State-region relations involve negotiations over the power to (re)-constitute local spaces. While in federal states, power-sharing ostensibly gives regions a role over many space-making decisions, power asymmetries affect this role. Where centralization trends may erode regional agency, law can provide an important tool by which regions can assert influence. We examine a case where, in response to a proposed Russian federal law highly unpopular w…
Negotiating the production of space in Tl'azt‘en territory, Northern British Columbia
Societies produce the space in which they operate through social practices that visualize, administer, and use lands and resources. Because Native peoples have held relatively little political power, their ability to influence the production of space has received little attention. Yet the superimposition of Euro‐Canadian social practices onto Native spaces rarely erased native spatiality, but rather created a territory made up of shared and hybri…
The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America Ca A. D. 1000-1500
Illustrations 1. Greenland and Vinland: North Atlantic exploration five hundred years before the Cabot voyages 2. Social and economic conditions in Norse Greenland before 1350 3. Church and trade in Norse Greenland 4. Ivar Bardarson's Greenland 5. The western settlement comes to an end 6. Rumors of trouble in the Eastern settlement 7. England and the Norwegian colonies 1400-1450 8. Sailing out of the Middle Ages, 1450-1500
Working borders and shifting identities in the Russian Far North
Co-managed research: Non-Indigenous thoughts on an Indigenous toponymy project in northern British Columbia
This paper reflects on the methodological challenges of co-managed research as experienced from a non-Indigenous perspective. In 2003, Tl'azt'en Nation and the authors initiated a toponymy study that involved finding a curricular use for Dakelh place names. In this article, we chronicle our experiences with negotiating and managing this study with Tl'azt'en Nation. Some events are specific to the topic; others are characteristic of co-managed res…
Native ‘land claims’, Russian style
In Russia, as in Canada, Native peoples are attempting to gain greater control over their homelands. In the last decade, legislation at both the federal and sub‐federal (provincial, republican, etc.) level has sanctioned the transfer of land to Native ‘possession’, though not ownership, for the pursuit of traditional activities. This paper surveys the legislative basis that authorizes the creation of Native ‘communes’ (obshchinas) and their terri…
Aboriginal land rights in Russia at the beginning of the twenty-first century
During the last decade, aboriginal peoples in Russia have sought to improve their legal rights, including their rights to their homelands and the resources of these lands. The Russian government initially responded to an aboriginal lobby by including discrete articles addressing aboriginal rights in a number of its laws, including those on forests, sub-surface resources, and protected areas. More comprehensive laws, specifically addressing aborig…
Reindeer dairying in the Soviet Union
Reindeer milk is used by native peoples throughout the Soviet North. This article describes how different groups use, or have in the past used, the milk in raw and processed form. After summarizing the properties of reindeer milk, it outlines a neglected chapter in the history of domesticated animals: the attempt in the 1930s to set up a commercial reindeer dairy industry in the USSR. Lastly, it analyzes the decline of reindeer milking among peop…
Overlapping claims” to territory confronting treaty‐making in British Columbia: Causes and implications
Key Messages Overlapping Aboriginal claims to territory often result from variously constituted indigenous political identities and the diverse spatialities they enact. Settling treaties in contested areas can privilege Aboriginal groups that settle treaties first, to the detriment of groups with overlapping claims. Ordinary courts have struggled to find a remedy; an Indigenous Territories Commission is suggested for addressing such disputes
Rights and Risks: Evenki Concerns Regarding the Proposed Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean Pipeline
Indigenous peoples' rights to a healthy environment and to be able to participate in decisions affecting their environment are increasingly recognized in Russian law. In this article we explore the case of the Evenki living at the north end of Lake Baikal, who are faced with the construction of an oil pipeline through their home-land. The Evenki perceive significant potential risks to their livelihoods and lifeways due to potential environmental …
Reindeer dairying in the Soviet Union
Reindeer milk is used by native peoples throughout the Soviet North. This article describes how different groups use, or have in the past used, the milk in raw and processed form. After summarizing the properties of reindeer milk, it outlines a neglected chapter in the history of domesticated animals: the attempt in the 1930s to set up a commercial reindeer dairy industry in the USSR. Lastly, it analyzes the decline of reindeer milking among peop…
The disappearing Russian forest: A dilemma in soviet resource management
Legacies of territorial reorganization for indigenous land claims in Northern Russia 1
Territorial reorganization of indigenous society in Russia's North during the Soviet period included the disruption of indigenous land tenure mechanisms, sedentarization, and forced relocation. These historical processes now serve as a backdrop for current efforts toward land reform, one alleged goal of which is to increase the potential for indigenous self‐government. This article explores the effects of territorial reorganization on the scope (…
Polar geography at 20 years
The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America Ca A. D. 1000-1500
Illustrations 1. Greenland and Vinland: North Atlantic exploration five hundred years before the Cabot voyages 2. Social and economic conditions in Norse Greenland before 1350 3. Church and trade in Norse Greenland 4. Ivar Bardarson's Greenland 5. The western settlement comes to an end 6. Rumors of trouble in the Eastern settlement 7. England and the Norwegian colonies 1400-1450 8. Sailing out of the Middle Ages, 1450-1500
Sami Potatoes: Living with Reindeer and Perestroika, by Michael P. Robinson and Karim-Aly S. Kassam
Native ‘land claims’, Russian style
In Russia, as in Canada, Native peoples are attempting to gain greater control over their homelands. In the last decade, legislation at both the federal and sub‐federal (provincial, republican, etc.) level has sanctioned the transfer of land to Native ‘possession’, though not ownership, for the pursuit of traditional activities. This paper surveys the legislative basis that authorizes the creation of Native ‘communes’ (obshchinas) and their terri…
Negotiating the production of space in Tl'azt‘en territory, Northern British Columbia
Societies produce the space in which they operate through social practices that visualize, administer, and use lands and resources. Because Native peoples have held relatively little political power, their ability to influence the production of space has received little attention. Yet the superimposition of Euro‐Canadian social practices onto Native spaces rarely erased native spatiality, but rather created a territory made up of shared and hybri…
Aboriginal land rights in Russia at the beginning of the twenty-first century
During the last decade, aboriginal peoples in Russia have sought to improve their legal rights, including their rights to their homelands and the resources of these lands. The Russian government initially responded to an aboriginal lobby by including discrete articles addressing aboriginal rights in a number of its laws, including those on forests, sub-surface resources, and protected areas. More comprehensive laws, specifically addressing aborig…
Working borders and shifting identities in the Russian Far North
Rights and Risks: Evenki Concerns Regarding the Proposed Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean Pipeline
Indigenous peoples' rights to a healthy environment and to be able to participate in decisions affecting their environment are increasingly recognized in Russian law. In this article we explore the case of the Evenki living at the north end of Lake Baikal, who are faced with the construction of an oil pipeline through their home-land. The Evenki perceive significant potential risks to their livelihoods and lifeways due to potential environmental …
Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Russia
Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Russia." Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 42(2), p. 191
The Social Life of the State in Subarctic Siberia, by Nikolai V. Ssorin-Chaikov
Co-managed research: Non-Indigenous thoughts on an Indigenous toponymy project in northern British Columbia
This paper reflects on the methodological challenges of co-managed research as experienced from a non-Indigenous perspective. In 2003, Tl'azt'en Nation and the authors initiated a toponymy study that involved finding a curricular use for Dakelh place names. In this article, we chronicle our experiences with negotiating and managing this study with Tl'azt'en Nation. Some events are specific to the topic; others are characteristic of co-managed res…
Overlapping claims” to territory confronting treaty‐making in British Columbia: Causes and implications
Key Messages Overlapping Aboriginal claims to territory often result from variously constituted indigenous political identities and the diverse spatialities they enact. Settling treaties in contested areas can privilege Aboriginal groups that settle treaties first, to the detriment of groups with overlapping claims. Ordinary courts have struggled to find a remedy; an Indigenous Territories Commission is suggested for addressing such disputes
Arctic sustainability research: Toward a new agenda
The Arctic is among the world’s regions most affected by ongoing and increasing cultural, socio-economic, environmental and climatic changes. Over the last two decades, scholars, policymakers, extractive industries, local, regional and national governments, intergovernmental forums, and non-governmental organizations have turned their attention to the Arctic, its peoples and resources, and to challenges and benefits of impending transformations. …
Northern Sustainabilities: Understanding and Addressing Change in the Circumpolar World
Arctic Sustainability Research: Past, Present and Future
The Arctic is one of the world’s regions most affected by cultural, socio-economic, environmental, and climatic changes. Over the last two decades, scholars, policymakers, extractive industries, governments, intergovernmental forums, and non-governmental organizations have turned their attention to the Arctic, its peoples, resources, and to the challenges and benefits of impending transformations. Arctic sustainability is an issue of increasing c…
Visiting Memorial Tree. Micro-geopolitics of an Evenki place composed and performed
Dans cet article, j’explore la façon dont les Évenks du Sud-Est de la Sibérie résistent à l’anéantissement de leurs terres. Celui-ci est causé tant par les actions directes de l’exploitation des ressources que par les effets indirects de l’éducation formelle ayant pour conséquence le déclin des savoirs environnementaux autochtones. Je suggère que les Évenks de cette région résistent par l’intermédiaire de la production et de la présentation d’élé…
Niches of agency: Managing state-region relations through law in Russia
State-region relations involve negotiations over the power to (re)-constitute local spaces. While in federal states, power-sharing ostensibly gives regions a role over many space-making decisions, power asymmetries affect this role. Where centralization trends may erode regional agency, law can provide an important tool by which regions can assert influence. We examine a case where, in response to a proposed Russian federal law highly unpopular w…
Evenki of River Basin Olyokma: Resettlement and Land Use in the XXI Century
The relevance of the study is due to the need to study the characteristics of the resettlement of the local Evenki group of the Olekma River Basin, which influenced the modern land use and economic and cultural relations of Evenki living now in the Olekminsky District of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Kalarsky and Tungiro-Olekminsky Districts of the Trans-Baikal Territory and the Tyndinsky District of Amur region. The article focuses on the…
Introducing a Registry of Indigenous Persons in Russia: Rationale and Challenges
Numerous Russian laws recognize rights of, and provide for benefits to, Indigenous peoples living within the Russian Federation. Yet in the past two decades, Indigenous persons have faced challenges in accessing these rights, having no way to prove that they are members of an Indigenous people. For almost two decades, Indigenous leaders have petitioned the Russian government to address this situation, and in January 2020, the Government of Russia…
The Difference Place Makes: Regional Legislative Approaches to Territories of Traditional Nature Use in the Russian North
Indigenous northerners’ rights in the Russian Federation are legally protected at a range of levels (federal, regional, municipal), and by a diversity of types of legal acts (laws, decrees, orders, provisions). Within the complex structure of Russian federalism, the country’s regional governments elaborate upon federal laws in diverse ways and at different times. This article explores regional approaches to legislating one law on Indigenous right…
The Evolution of Forming “Territories of Traditional Nature Use” in the Sakha Republic (Iakutiia)
In the struggle of Russia’s Indigenous northerners for greater control over their ancestral lands, the spatiolegal formations known as Territories of Traditional Nature Use (TTPs, using the Russian acronym) have become their most effective tool. TTPs have assumed diverse characteristics across Russian regions in response to the evolution of federal and sub-federal law and of center-periphery relations at national and regional scales. In the Sakha…
Political science (19 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (17 works) · Geography (17 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (16 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Indigenous (7 works) · Law (7 works)