Cultural ‘improvement’, discipline and mining in early modern Sápmi

Bibliographic Data

ID10999647
AuthorsMagdalena Naum (0000-0003-1679-3861, Aarhus University, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume52
Issue1
Pages102-116
Publication date2018-01-02
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePost-Medieval Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0079-4236 • E-ISSN: 1745-8137
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00794236.2018.1461328
OpenAlexW2883083024
LanguageEN
References cited17

This paper explores overlapping of economy and politics with ideology in 17th-century northern Sweden. Focusing on silver mining conducted in Sápmi (Lapland), the paper investigates the rhetoric of mines as arenas of moral and cultural improvement, the ways this rhetoric was expressed and aided by material culture and the ways the civilizing projects were contested by the indigenous Sami, towards whom many of these policies were directed. The analysis is set in a wider context of the 17th-century concept of political economy, state policies aiming at a better incorporation of Sápmi into the mainstream economy and culture of Sweden and informed by Foucauldian perspectives on governmentality and its spatial dimensions

Context (archaeology · Economics · Economy · Governmentality · Ideology · Indigenous · Mainstream · Moral economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law