Decolonialisation in the Arctic? Nature Practices and Land Rights in Sub-arctic Norway
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Abstract
Drawing on current changes in nature practices in the County of Finnmark in Northern Norway we reflect upon the ways in which indigenous and non-indigenous locals, in a period of transition, engage with and relate to their environment in a place which is often described by outsiders as remote. Nature and nature activities here remain central to peoples' identity, their belonging and heritage. Nature is regularly cited as the reason for staying when so many people move away. Nature practices both unite and separate indigenous and non-indigenous locals. The products procured are kept, displayed, and circulated, as part of performances of identity and community. These nature products are invested with morale that protects their circulation from other economic spheres. As we will show, the establishment of the Finnmark property in 2005, cause changes in the relations between locals, land and natural resources. As part of the returning of the Finnmark commons to the people of Finnmark, user rights are to be claimed, documented and formalised. At the same time, the changes of legal structure have implied an opening up of the Finnmark Estate not only to other Norwegians, but also to new groups of tourists that are attracted by wilderness and the prospect of engaging in the same kinds of nature practices enjoyed by the population of Finnmark. In this article, different uses of nature, for identity and community, for health, as well as for the appreciation of history, memory, and heritage are seen in perspective of new nature-tourism opportunities. Nature tourism is both increasingly present as an opportunity to stay where one is, and live off the same resources in new ways. It is however also something that people are unable to avoid, as the Finnmark property opens the commons and its resources for all.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".