The Násávárre Indigenous–Industry Dialogue: Knowledges and Agency in the Permit Process
This paper offers an insight into a single case study, the permit process of the Nasa mountain – Násávárre mining case in Nordland County, Norway. At Násávárre, the Chinese-owned mining company Elkem plans to open a pit mine to extract quartz. The area in question has the highest reindeer density i...
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This paper offers an insight into a single case study, the permit process of the Nasa mountain – Násávárre mining case in Nordland County, Norway. At Násávárre, the Chinese-owned mining company Elkem plans to open a pit mine to extract quartz. The area in question has the highest reindeer density in Nordland County, and the proposed mining operation would affect five Indigenous Sámi reindeer herding districts on both the Norwegian and the Swedish side of Sápmi. Despite incentives aimed at improving corporate respect for Indigenous rights such as the OECD Due Diligence Guidance, Indigenous peoples often face asymmetric power relations and uneven playing fields, particularly in terms of costs and capacity to respond to corporate positions on and understandings of Indigenous knowledges and rights. The knowledge base of this encounter, as it is experienced by the reindeer herders, can be discussed in terms of structural and agential factors. Our analysis focuses on the extent to which the reindeer herders have been enabled to engage with Elkem, with a particular emphasis on the reindeer herders’ experience of how their knowledges have been assessed by the company. The work is based on a review of case documents.
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| spelling | doaj-art-96476a2f86a04daeb8e33b4b0af30a412025-01-12T15:12:27ZengCappelen Damm Akademisk NOASPArctic Review on Law and Politics2387-45622025-01-011610.23865/arctic.v16.6473The Násávárre Indigenous–Industry Dialogue: Knowledges and Agency in the Permit ProcessElse Grete Broderstad0Lena Gross1UiT The Arctic University of NorwayNorwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) and UiT The Arctic University of Norway This paper offers an insight into a single case study, the permit process of the Nasa mountain – Násávárre mining case in Nordland County, Norway. At Násávárre, the Chinese-owned mining company Elkem plans to open a pit mine to extract quartz. The area in question has the highest reindeer density in Nordland County, and the proposed mining operation would affect five Indigenous Sámi reindeer herding districts on both the Norwegian and the Swedish side of Sápmi. Despite incentives aimed at improving corporate respect for Indigenous rights such as the OECD Due Diligence Guidance, Indigenous peoples often face asymmetric power relations and uneven playing fields, particularly in terms of costs and capacity to respond to corporate positions on and understandings of Indigenous knowledges and rights. The knowledge base of this encounter, as it is experienced by the reindeer herders, can be discussed in terms of structural and agential factors. Our analysis focuses on the extent to which the reindeer herders have been enabled to engage with Elkem, with a particular emphasis on the reindeer herders’ experience of how their knowledges have been assessed by the company. The work is based on a review of case documents. https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/6473Násávárrereindeer herdingquartz miningpermit processdue diligencecorporate dialogue |
| spellingShingle | Else Grete Broderstad Lena Gross The Násávárre Indigenous–Industry Dialogue: Knowledges and Agency in the Permit Process Arctic Review on Law and Politics Násávárre reindeer herding quartz mining permit process due diligence corporate dialogue |
| title | The Násávárre Indigenous–Industry Dialogue: Knowledges and Agency in the Permit Process |
| title_full | The Násávárre Indigenous–Industry Dialogue: Knowledges and Agency in the Permit Process |
| title_fullStr | The Násávárre Indigenous–Industry Dialogue: Knowledges and Agency in the Permit Process |
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| title_short | The Násávárre Indigenous–Industry Dialogue: Knowledges and Agency in the Permit Process |
| title_sort | nasavarre indigenous industry dialogue knowledges and agency in the permit process |
| topic | Násávárre reindeer herding quartz mining permit process due diligence corporate dialogue |
| url | https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/6473 |
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