Are Reindeer the New Buffalo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5161186 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Kuokkanen (0000-0002-6720-5962, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 11-33 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Meridians (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1536-6936 • E-ISSN: 1547-8424 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/15366936-10220458 |
| OpenAlex | W4379381735 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 25 |
In the nineteenth-century prairies, the buffalo was nearly exterminated as the result of the European economic and ecological invasion. Today in Scandinavia, reindeer are being threatened by the renewable energy transition, also known as the Green Shift. The Green Shift has led to an explosion of the wind industry in many countries, including Norway. Many of the onshore wind development projects have been built in areas central to reindeer herding. This article asks whether reindeer have become the new buffalo that are being sacrificed in the race to build green energies. It considers the view of reindeer herding as a vanishing livelihood and the pervasive colonial discourse of manifest destiny, which sees Indigenous peoples as disappearing in the process of natural selection and progress. The article also examines the Feminist Green New Deal (FGND) as an example of a policy framework calling for a broader intersectional approach that places race, unequal relations of power, and Indigenous rights at the heart of policy making. It considers whether the FGND is able to tackle and engage with the trajectories of settler colonialism, including manifest destiny and green colonialism. The article focuses specifically on Norway for its leading role in the energy transition and wind energy development in the Nordic countries
Agriculture · Archaeology · Colonialism · Development economics · Economics · Economy · Geography · Herding · Indigenous · Livelihood · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Gender Studies · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Ecology
Discursive dispossession in the green transition
Urban Sustainability in Arctic Cities
Knowledge Gaps about Mining Impacts on Sami Lands
Destroying the “Human” for the Survival of the World
Communication Strategies of the Fovse Activists
Towards co-governance
(Counter)productive hope
Wind Energy on Trial in Saepmie
A moment of rupture and regime destablisation
Understanding the Impacts of Arctic Climate Change Through the Lens of Political Ecology
The Case for a Sámi “Trail of Tears”
Response to Kuokkanen
The Deatnu Agreement
Localizing governance of systemic risks
The Green New Deal in the United States
Principles to gain a social licence to operate for green initiatives and biodiversity projects
Reconciliation as a Threat or Structural Change? The Truth and Reconciliation Process and Settler Colonial Policy Making in Finland
Environmental justice and the expanding geography of wind power conflicts
The ‘solution’ is now the ‘problem
Resources, Rights and Communities
Reindeer management during the colonization of Sami lands
Green colonialism in the Nordic context
What’s counted as a reindeer herder? Gender and the adaptive capacity of Sami reindeer herding communities in Sweden
Marx, Lemkin and the genocide–ecocide nexus
Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native
Internal Colonisation and Indigenous Resource Sovereignty
Sámi reindeer governance in Norway as competing knowledge systems
A Stranger Silence Still
Beyond Settler Time
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |