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Multidisciplinary Research in the Arctic
- Reindeer Husbandry in a Multi-Cultural Context
PhD-Course
Time: May 3-5, 2004
Place: Room B 1004, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tromsø
Registration: To Per K. Hætta. Registration can be done until May 3.
The Centre of Sami Studies/SARVVIS is launching a comprehensive plan for promoting natural and social research on reindeer husbandry and resource management. The aims are a) exploring rangeland ecology and ecosystem changes in circumpolar areas, b) exploring the cultural landscapes, knowledge and cosmologies of nomadic reindeer herders who depend on these ecosystem, and c) exploring social, political, economic, legal and organizational issues associated with reindeer husbandry and the management of pastures as a common pool resource. The focal point will be on the situation, problems and challenges of reindeer herding indigenous peoples, with a particular, but not exclusive, emphasis on the Saami of the three Nordic countries and Russia. The research will be multidisciplinary, drawing on theories, concepts and methodologies from the natural and social sciences and the humanities.
The focus of this PhD-course is to offer a meeting place for PhD-students working directly with reindeer, reindeer husbandry, ecosystems and management regimes. The course will offer a multidisciplinary analysis of these regimes and try to pinpoint the latest research results.
Lectures will be given, and discussions conducted, in English. The course will give 5 point credit for PhD students in social sciences and 6 point credit for PhD students in natural sciences. Students must complete an essay by August 30, 2004. The board of SARVVIS will evaluate the essay.
PROGRAM:
Monday 3th of May 2004:
PART I INTRODUCTION
09.15-09.45:
Presentation of the SARVVIS-Programe
Head of administration Else Grete Broderstad, Centre for Sami Studies
09.45-10.00:
Coffee break
10.00-11.00:
Multidisciplinary Research on Pastoral System in the Arctic
Dr. David Anderson, University of Aberdeen/Research leader of the SARVVIS-Programe
1100-1200:
Lunch
PART II REINDEER HUSBANDRY, ECOSYSTEMS AND PASTURE AREAS
1200-1240:
Grazing and ecosystem shifts on arctic tundra Dr. Rene van der Wal, CHE, Scotland
12.50-13.30:
Reindeer ecosystem interaction in Fennoscandia Dr. Johan Olofson, Umeå University
13.40-14.00:
Coffee break
14.00-14.40:
Reindeer Ecosystem Interaction in Fennoscandia
Dr. Johan Olofson, Umeå University
14.50-16.00:
Working groups
20.00:
Dinner
Tuesday 4th of May 2004:
PART III REINDEER HUSBANDRY AND FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE
0900-0945:
Attempts to harmonize rational herding goals within ecological frames
Prof. Hugh Beach, , Uppsala University
0945-1000:
Coffee break
1000-1045:
Conseptualizing Resource Adaptations in Sámi Reindeer Management
Dr. Jan Åge Riseth, NORUT
1130-1230:
Lunch
PART IV METHODOLOGY APPROACHES
1230-1315:
Methodological Challenges in Connection with Multidisciplinary Research - the Case of Ecosystem Finnmark
Dr. Vera Hausner, University of Tromsø
1315-1400:
Theories and Models in Ecosystem Research
Prof. Rolf Anker Ims, University of Tromsø
1400-1415:
Coffee break
1415-1500:
Indigenous Perceptions of Rights as Source of Law
Dr. Ande Somby, University of Tromsø
1500-1545:
Methodological Challenges in multidisciplinary research in general - and history’s potentialities in ecological studies on reindeer husbandry
Prof. Einar Neimi, University of Tromsø.
1545-1700:
Working groups
Wednesday 5th of May 2004:
PART V REINDEER HUSBANDRY AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
1015-1100:
Reindeer Husbandry in Changing Environment
Dr. Timo Helle, METLA
1100-1200:
Lunch
1200-1245:
The Challenge of Incorporating Indigenous Knowledge in Management Systems.
Dr. Petter Holm, University of Tromsø
1300-1345:
The Modern Reindeer Industry Dilemma: Intensive Herding or Economic Profitability
Dr. Johan Klemet Kalstad, Nordic Saami Institute
1400-1600: Debate
Suggested reading:
Beach, Hugh (2000): “Reindeer-Pastoralism Politics in Sweden: Protecting the Environment and Designing the Herder”, in: (ed.): A. Hornborg, G. Pálsson: Negotiating Nature: Culture, Power and Environmental Argument, Lund University Press, Lund.
Beach, Hugh (2001): “World Heritage and Indigenous Peoples -- the Example of Laponia” in: (ed.) Bo Sundin: Upholders of Culture Past and Present. Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (Kungl. Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien-IVA), Elanders Gotab, Stockholm. ISBN 91-7082-673-0 symposium: Upholders of culture-past and present, Forsmark.
Beach, Hugh (2003) (in press): “Political Ecology in Swedish Saamiland” in: (eds.) David Anderson and Mark Nuttall: Cultivating Arctic Landscapes: Knowing and Managing Animals in the Circumpolar North. Berghahn Press, Oxford. ISBN 1-57181-754-0.
Holm, Petter (2003): “Crossing the Border: On the Relationship Between Science and Fishermen`s Knowledge in a Resource Management Context”, MAST, 2 (1): 5-33.
Jefferies R, Klein Dr, Shaver Gr. (1994): “Vertebrate Herbivores And Northern Plant-Communities - Reciprocal Influences And Responses”, Oikos 71 (2): 193-206.
Moen J, Danell Ö (2003): “Reindeer in the Swedish mountains: An assessment of grazing impacts” AMBIO 32 (6): 397-402.
Olofsson, J., Stark, S. and Oksanen, L. (2004): “Herbivore influence on ecosystem processes in the tundra”. Oikos, in press (trycks förmodligen i Mars)
Riseth, J.Å. (2002): ”A Theoretical and Methodological Approach towards the Study of Overgrazing in Sámi Reindeer Management of Norway; Interdisciplinarity and Comparative Method”, In: Soppela, P., W. Ruth, B. Åhman and J.Å. Riseth (eds.),:Reindeer as a keystone species in the North - Proceedings of the 1st CAES PhD course, 1-15 September 2000, northern Finland, Finnmark, Norway, and Kola Peninsula, Russia. CAES Network. Rovaniemi, Rovaniemien Painatuskeskus/ Arctic Centre University of Lapland. ISSN 1235-0583 ISBN 951-634-838-6.
Riseth, J.Å, (2003) Sámi Reindeer Management in Norway: Modernization Challenges and Conflicting Strategies. In: Jentoft, S., H. Minde and R. Nielsen (eds.), INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: Resource Management and Global Rights. Eburon, Delft, Netherlands., 229-247. ISBN 90 5166978 X
Riseth, J.Å., B.Johansen, and A.Vatn (In print) Aspects of a two-pasture-herbivore model. In Manderscheid, A. and A. Colpaert (2003). Proceedings from: Int. workshop. Natural Pastures and Mobile Animal Husbandry, Univ.of Oulo, Dept. of Geography, Finland 12-14 June, 2002. Rangifer, Special Issue 15. ISSN 0801-6399.
Riseth, J. Å (in print) Nature Protection and the Colonial Legacy- Sámi Reindeer Management vs. Urban recreation - The case of Junkerdal-Balvatn, Northern Norway. In: Peil, T. & M. Jones: Landscape, Law & Justice. International Conference Oslo 15-19 June 2003. Proceedings.
Scoones, I. (1999): “New Ecology And The Social Sciences: What Prospects for a Fruitful Engagement?”, Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 28:479-507
Van der Wal R & Brooker R (2004): “Herbivore impact on soil temperature and the abundance of grasses in arctic ecosystems”, Functional Ecology 18: 77-86.
Zimov S, Chuprynin V, Oreshko A, Chapin F, Reynolds J, Chapin M (1995): “Steppe-tundra transition: A herbivore driven biome shift at the end of the Pleistocene” American Naturalist 146:765-794.
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