Greenpeace Inarin Paadarskaidissa - verkostopolitiikka lappilaisittain

Kirjoittajat

• Aini Linjakumpu
• Jarno Valkonen

Abstrakti

This article examines a forest dispute that has continued for several years in Inari, Lapland. For a long time, the representatives of reindeer economy and wood industry were the central parties of the disagreement. The disagreement also received a third party, the international environmental organization Greenpeace. Its operation was strongly criticized as interfering in local and national issues. In this article we examine this particular logging dispute in northern Lapland from the viewpoint of political activity and by utilizing the idea of network politics. A special object of interest is the formulation of political agency and political space as well as the significance of communication in networked politics. In this forest dispute in northern Lapland, a local contradiction was elevated from the local and national levels into an issue of international interest. The international dimension materialized through the new actors and the way in which the issues were emphasized using global themes. Thus, the structure of the political activities was reorganized: the traditional, hierarchical politics embedded in the clear structures of the nationstate were now placed in a network-like, somewhat shapeless structural environment