Extraction Cultures in Svalbard: From Mining Coal to Mining Knowledge and Memories

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18440%2F23%3A50019333" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18440/23:50019333 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/resource-extraction-and-arctic-communities/extraction-cultures-in-svalbard/FA60D03E4300EA693904E348889CC830" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/resource-extraction-and-arctic-communities/extraction-cultures-in-svalbard/FA60D03E4300EA693904E348889CC830</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009110044.006" target="_blank" >10.1017/9781009110044.006</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Extraction Cultures in Svalbard: From Mining Coal to Mining Knowledge and Memories
Original language description
The chapter provides a comparative perspective on resource extraction with an empirical basis in Svalbard. Is the Arctic comparable to tendencies seen elsewhere, or is it unique? Many regions dependent on extraction face pressures to shift away from unsustainable economies. Social tensions are refracted through this lens, resulting in political conflicts affecting extraction policies. How does resource extraction in the Arctic fit into this pattern? The case analysed is Longyearbyen, Svalbard, which is irreducibly linked to a century of coal mining. The history and possible future of Svalbard relies on taking something out from the environment. In the 1990s, tourism was chosen as the new economic backbone. Research and education were boosted to ensure a continued Norwegian presence. Extraction continues, now directed towards “mining” knowledge (research), experience and memories (tourism), accompanied by insufficient added value locally, growing social inequalities and exploitation of international workforce. Like other communities based on extraction, Longyearbyen is volatile and dependent on forces beyond local control, but it also reflects the fragility of the Arctic.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/EF18_070%2F0009476" target="_blank" >EF18_070/0009476: Overheating in the High Arctic - qualitative anthropological analysis</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities: The New Extractivist Paradigm
ISBN
978-1-00-910023-6
Number of pages of the result
21
Pages from-to
66-86
Number of pages of the book
284
Publisher name
Cambrdige University Press
Place of publication
Cambridge
UT code for WoS chapter
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