Teresa Komu
Biographic Data
| ID | 205609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Teresa Komu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Teresa |
| FAMILY NAME | Komu |
| SIGNATURE | KOMU T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oulu |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1127-8115 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reindeer husbandry is more than herding – Contemporary roles of women in reindeer husbandry in Finland
Women's role in reindeer husbandry has received little attention and women have been largely excluded from the public image and management of the livelihood in Finland. We adopted a mixed-methods approach to examine the role of women in reindeer husbandry, focusing on the practices and agency of female herders from the 1980s to the present. Although women have historically been underrepresented in official roles and decision-making related to rei…
Policy documents considering biodiversity, land use, and climate in the European Arctic reveal visible, hidden, and imagined nexus approaches
Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities: The New Extractivist Paradigm
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…
Radically Ordinary Lives: Young Rural Stayers and the Ingredients of the Good Life in Finnish Lapland
This article focuses on young people who, despite the general tendency towards youth outmigration in rural areas, have decided to stay in their home town. We explore the agency of young, conscious stayers, as well as the process of staying in the northern Finnish town of Kemijärvi. The stayers’ values and perceptions of the constituents of a good life could be taken as an alternative to the prevailing Western ideal that emphasizes mobility and am…
Manoeuvring Conflict: Industrial Land Use Projects and 'Refusal to Resist' Among Reindeer Herding Communities in Northern Fennoscandia
When local and indigenous communities are faced with industrial projects the situation is often dealt with in research using terms such as resistance or power relations. Such viewpoints and extreme polarisation have been commonplace in the context of mining and reindeer herding in northern Scandinavia. In this article, I take a different approach. I argue for potential in the concept of refusal for understanding complex local realities in the con…
Challenges in acquiring a social licence to mine in the globalising Arctic
In recent decades, the mining industry has expanded globally especially in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. Mines often boost rural economies, but may have also negative impacts on environment and local livelihoods, such as tourism and reindeer herding. That is why acceptability and undeniable right to operate – the social licence (SL) to mine has become more and more important in mining related discussions. We examine empirically issues relati…
Applying a synthetic approach to the resilience of Finnish reindeer herding as a changing livelihood
Sarkki, S., T. Komu, H. I. Heikkinen, N. Acosta García, É. Lépy, and V.-P. Herva. 2016. Applying a synthetic approach to the resilience of Finnish reindeer herding as a changing livelihood. Ecology and Society 21(4):14.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08819-210414
Radically Ordinary Lives: Young Rural Stayers and the Ingredients of the Good Life in Finnish Lapland
This article focuses on young people who, despite the general tendency towards youth outmigration in rural areas, have decided to stay in their home town. We explore the agency of young, conscious stayers, as well as the process of staying in the northern Finnish town of Kemijärvi. The stayers’ values and perceptions of the constituents of a good life could be taken as an alternative to the prevailing Western ideal that emphasizes mobility and am…
Manoeuvring Conflict: Industrial Land Use Projects and 'Refusal to Resist' Among Reindeer Herding Communities in Northern Fennoscandia
When local and indigenous communities are faced with industrial projects the situation is often dealt with in research using terms such as resistance or power relations. Such viewpoints and extreme polarisation have been commonplace in the context of mining and reindeer herding in northern Scandinavia. In this article, I take a different approach. I argue for potential in the concept of refusal for understanding complex local realities in the con…
Challenges in acquiring a social licence to mine in the globalising Arctic
In recent decades, the mining industry has expanded globally especially in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. Mines often boost rural economies, but may have also negative impacts on environment and local livelihoods, such as tourism and reindeer herding. That is why acceptability and undeniable right to operate – the social licence (SL) to mine has become more and more important in mining related discussions. We examine empirically issues relati…
Applying a synthetic approach to the resilience of Finnish reindeer herding as a changing livelihood
Sarkki, S., T. Komu, H. I. Heikkinen, N. Acosta García, É. Lépy, and V.-P. Herva. 2016. Applying a synthetic approach to the resilience of Finnish reindeer herding as a changing livelihood. Ecology and Society 21(4):14.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08819-210414
Reindeer husbandry is more than herding – Contemporary roles of women in reindeer husbandry in Finland
Women's role in reindeer husbandry has received little attention and women have been largely excluded from the public image and management of the livelihood in Finland. We adopted a mixed-methods approach to examine the role of women in reindeer husbandry, focusing on the practices and agency of female herders from the 1980s to the present. Although women have historically been underrepresented in official roles and decision-making related to rei…
Challenges in acquiring a social licence to mine in the globalising Arctic
In recent decades, the mining industry has expanded globally especially in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. Mines often boost rural economies, but may have also negative impacts on environment and local livelihoods, such as tourism and reindeer herding. That is why acceptability and undeniable right to operate – the social licence (SL) to mine has become more and more important in mining related discussions. We examine empirically issues relati…
Applying a synthetic approach to the resilience of Finnish reindeer herding as a changing livelihood
Sarkki, S., T. Komu, H. I. Heikkinen, N. Acosta García, É. Lépy, and V.-P. Herva. 2016. Applying a synthetic approach to the resilience of Finnish reindeer herding as a changing livelihood. Ecology and Society 21(4):14.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08819-210414
Manoeuvring Conflict: Industrial Land Use Projects and 'Refusal to Resist' Among Reindeer Herding Communities in Northern Fennoscandia
When local and indigenous communities are faced with industrial projects the situation is often dealt with in research using terms such as resistance or power relations. Such viewpoints and extreme polarisation have been commonplace in the context of mining and reindeer herding in northern Scandinavia. In this article, I take a different approach. I argue for potential in the concept of refusal for understanding complex local realities in the con…
Radically Ordinary Lives: Young Rural Stayers and the Ingredients of the Good Life in Finnish Lapland
This article focuses on young people who, despite the general tendency towards youth outmigration in rural areas, have decided to stay in their home town. We explore the agency of young, conscious stayers, as well as the process of staying in the northern Finnish town of Kemijärvi. The stayers’ values and perceptions of the constituents of a good life could be taken as an alternative to the prevailing Western ideal that emphasizes mobility and am…
Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities: The New Extractivist Paradigm
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…
Policy documents considering biodiversity, land use, and climate in the European Arctic reveal visible, hidden, and imagined nexus approaches
Reindeer husbandry is more than herding – Contemporary roles of women in reindeer husbandry in Finland
Women's role in reindeer husbandry has received little attention and women have been largely excluded from the public image and management of the livelihood in Finland. We adopted a mixed-methods approach to examine the role of women in reindeer husbandry, focusing on the practices and agency of female herders from the 1980s to the present. Although women have historically been underrepresented in official roles and decision-making related to rei…
Geography (6 works) · Livelihood (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Environmental resource management (4 works) · Herding (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Arctic (3 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (3 works)