Britt Kramvig's and Tarja Tuulia Salmela's new article "When the land becomes the sea and the sea becomes the land: Disrupting processes of appropriation of Miärralándda" has been published in the Journal Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space.
Project member: Britt Kramvig
The article was born with the help of the Sámi artist Katarina Barruk and her brilliant performance of Miärralándda. Miärralándda (Miärra: ocean or sea; lándda: land) is an Ume Sámi term that embodies the porosity between land and sea—worlds that merge into one inseparable reality. In this paper, we approach Miärralándda as a figuration with the potential to disrupt the ongoing processes of land and sea extraction in the traditional territory of the Ume Sámi people, which are often masked as sustainable development. This land is simultaneously Sápmi and Helgeland, a region where colonisation has fragmented Ume Sámi settlements, language, legal frameworks, and practices on the Norwegian side of Sápmi.
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