Northern Norway
Northern Norway is the geographical region of Norway, consisting of the three northernmost counties Nordland, Troms and Finnmark, in total about 35% of the Norwegian mainland. Some of the largest towns in Northern Norway are Mo i Rana, Bodø, Narvik, Harstad, Tromsø and Alta. Northern Norway is often described as the land of the midnight sun and the land of the northern lights. Further north, halfway to the North Pole, is the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, traditionally not regarded as part of Northern Norway.
The region is multi-cultural, housing not just Norwegians but also the indigenous Sami people, Norwegian Finns and Russian populations. The Norwegian language dominates in most of the area; Sami speakers are mainly found inland and in some of the fjord areas of Nordland, Troms and particularly Finnmark – though ethnic Sámi who do not speak the language are found more or less everywhere in the region. Finnish is spoken in only a few communities in the east of Finnmark.
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Finnmark | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:18 1 Name
00:01:50 2 Coat of arms
00:02:17 3 Geography
00:06:25 4 Climate
00:10:14 4.1 Midnight sun
00:10:57 4.2 Northern lights
00:11:26 5 Economy
00:13:45 6 Administration
00:15:02 6.1 Municipalities
00:15:16 7 History
00:16:29 7.1 Sami
00:18:11 7.2 Norwegian
00:20:00 7.3 Kven
00:20:25 7.4 Brief summary
00:21:47 7.5 World War II
00:23:24 7.6 Cold War
00:24:27 8 Demographics
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Finnmark (Norwegian: [ˈfɪnnmɑrk] (listen), Northern Sami: Finnmárku, Finnish (at Kven dialects): Ruija) is a county in the eastern part of Norway. By land, it borders Troms county to the west, Finland (Lapland region) to the south, and Russia (Murmansk Oblast) to the east, and by water, the Norwegian Sea (Atlantic Ocean) to the northwest, and the Barents Sea (Arctic Ocean) to the north and northeast.
The county was formerly known as Finmarkens amt or Vardøhus amt. Since 2002, it has had two official names: Finnmark (Norwegian) and Finnmárku (Northern Sami). It is part of the Sápmi region, which spans four countries, as well as the Barents Region, and is the largest and least populated county of Norway.
Situated at the northernmost part of continental Europe, where the Norwegian coastline swings eastward, Finnmark is an area where East meets West, in culture as well as in nature and geography. Vardø, the easternmost municipality in Norway, is located farther east than the cities of St. Petersburg and Istanbul.
Sami people
The Sami people, also spelled Sámi or Saami, are the indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting the Arctic area of Sápmi, which today encompasses parts of far northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Kola Peninsula of Russia, and the border area between south and middle Sweden and Norway. The Sámi are the only indigenous people of Scandinavia recognized and protected under the international conventions of indigenous peoples, and are hence the northernmost indigenous people of Europe. Sami ancestral lands span an area of approximately 388,350 km2 , which is approximately the size of Norway, in the Nordic countries. Their traditional languages are the Sami languages and are classified as a branch of the Uralic language family.
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2017 AM: Executive Session: Anthropocene Landscapes, Infrastructures and Futures
Anthropologists and STS scholars have long been concerned with the production of scientific facts, and the kinds of mundane or charismatic objects that are enacted and stabilized in laboratories or factories. As we turn our curiosity to look at broader landscapes and earth systems in the Anthropocene, our conceptual models of what matters, how objects of concern come to stabilized, and what kinds of multiple knowledges we might need to entertain, have come increasingly into question. Landscapes, we suggest, require a rethinking of the conceptual and methodological apparatus of STS and anthropology, and a renewed attention to the relationship between storytelling, materiality, and the political. This panel explores the kinds of knowledges and politics which emerge when we look at particular landscapes, where we confront the possibility of multiple plausible accounts of pasts and futures, which, in the manner of historians, we entertain simultaneously with each other. We are particularly interested in exploring the kinds of theoretical and methodological innovations which emerge from studies of partially or multiply legible landscapes, whether of forest, agricultural or post-industrial landscapes, or through modelers’ practices of simulating disaster or environmental change. Further, we ask what kinds of stories or plotlines can help us make sense of the multiple temporal rhythms of landscape change, for example when longue durée soil transformation and geological processes must be somehow linked to rapidly changing weather and epidemic disease, the tempos of mining and energy politics with the times of species extinction. What kinds of contact zones emerge at the intersection of these multiple rhythms and temporalities, and how do these contact zones press us to come up with causal accounts of pasts and futures? Some of our presenters work under the heading of infrastructures, such as shipping pallets which impact forest landscapes through their movement of pathogens, with multiple infrastructures lying through each other, coexisting and partially connected. Others of us work on Patagonian, Norwegian arctic, or US post-industrial landscapes, which press upon us multiple landscape readings and perceptions of toxicity, or which follow traces of the loss of multispecies worlds that included people. Finally, one of us uses methods from natural history, historical ecology, and landscape ethnography to consider Italian forests as historically produced landscape infrastructures that multiply histories and futures. Once knowledge becomes multiple and distributed across the landscape or a complex system, we suggest, we must ask about the energies and tensions that emerge between multiple stories of past and future, whether in anthropological accounts of landscapes and infrastructures, or modelers’ accounts of possible futures. These are not the flat ontologies of STS, but rather, they are families of stories, perceptions, and causal accounts. What kinds of storytelling practices and genres can we use for recounting these families of stories about what matters?
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Finnmark | Wikipedia audio article
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Finnmark
00:01:08 1 Name
00:01:36 2 Coat of arms
00:02:01 3 Geography
00:05:38 4 Climate
00:08:59 4.1 Midnight sun
00:09:37 4.2 Northern lights
00:10:03 5 Economy
00:12:06 6 Administration
00:13:13 6.1 Municipalities
00:13:27 7 History
00:14:29 7.1 Sami
00:15:58 7.2 Norwegian
00:17:34 7.3 Kven
00:17:57 7.4 Brief summary
00:19:09 7.5 World War II
00:20:35 7.6 Cold War
00:21:31 8 Demographics
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- Socrates
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Finnmark [ˈfɪnmɑrk] (listen) or Finnmárku (Northern Sami) (Finnish: Finnmarkin lääni, Russian: Фи́ннмарк, Fínnmark) is a county (fylke) in the extreme northeastern part of Norway. By land, it borders Troms county to the west, Finland (Lapland region) to the south, and Russia (Murmansk Oblast) to the east, and by water, the Norwegian Sea (Atlantic Ocean) to the northwest, and the Barents Sea (Arctic Ocean) to the north and northeast.
The county was formerly known as Finmarkens amt or Vardøhus amt. Since 2002, it has had two official names: Finnmark (Norwegian) and Finnmárku (Northern Sami). It is part of the Sápmi region, which spans four countries, as well as the Barents Region, and is the largest and least populated county of Norway.
Situated at the northernmost part of continental Europe, where the Norwegian coastline swings eastward, Finnmark is an area where East meets West, in culture as well as in nature and geography. Vardø, the easternmost municipality in Norway, is located farther east than the cities of St. Petersburg and Istanbul.
Sápmi | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:00 1 Etymology
00:03:50 2 Geography
00:03:59 2.1 Landscape
00:05:10 2.2 Climate
00:05:56 2.3 Natural resources
00:06:59 3 Cultural subdivisions
00:07:10 3.1 East Sápmi
00:07:45 3.2 Central Sápmi
00:08:49 3.3 South Sápmi
00:09:29 3.4 Lapland
00:10:20 3.5 Sides
00:11:00 4 Languages
00:11:10 4.1 Sámi languages
00:13:07 4.2 East Slavic languages
00:13:59 4.3 North Germanic (Scandinavian) languages
00:15:13 4.4 Finnic languages
00:16:01 5 Demography
00:16:44 5.1 Sami
00:17:27 5.2 Russians
00:18:13 5.3 Norwegians
00:18:51 5.4 Swedes
00:19:23 5.5 Finns
00:19:45 5.6 Tornedalians and Kvens
00:20:08 6 Politics
00:20:18 6.1 Sami political structures
00:20:46 6.1.1 Sami Parliaments
00:23:21 6.1.2 Sami Parliamentary Council
00:24:09 6.1.3 Saami Council
00:24:54 6.2 Russian side
00:26:37 6.3 Norwegian side
00:29:26 6.4 Swedish side
00:31:49 6.5 Finnish side
00:32:48 6.6 Coats of Arms of Sami Communities
00:33:02 7 Sports
00:33:42 8 Notable places
00:34:08 8.1 North Sámi area
00:38:31 8.2 South Sápmi
00:39:10 8.3 East Sápmi
00:39:34 9 See also
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Sápmi (Northern Sami: [ˈsapmi]) is the cultural region traditionally inhabited by the Sámi people. Sápmi is located in Northern Europe and includes the northern parts of Fennoscandia. The region stretches over four countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. On the north it is bounded by the Barents Sea, on the west by the Norwegian Sea and on the east by the White Sea.Despite being the namesake of the region, the Sami people are estimated to only make up around 5% of its total population. No political organization advocates secession, although several groups desire more territorial autonomy and/or more self-determination for the region's indigenous population.
The area is often referred to in English as Lapland ().
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Finnmark [ˈfɪnmɑrk] (listen) or Finnmárkucode: sme promoted to code: se (Northern Sami) (Finnish: Finnmarkin lääni, Russian: Фи́ннмарк, Fínnmark) is a county (fylke) in the extreme northeastern part of Norway. By land, it borders Troms county to the west, Finland (Lapland region) to the south, and Russia (Murmansk Oblast) to the east, and by water, the Norwegian Sea (Atlantic Ocean) to the northwest, and the Barents Sea (Arctic Ocean) to the north and northeast.
The county was formerly known as Finmarkens amt or Vardøhus amt. Since 2002, it has had two official names: Finnmark (Norwegian) and Finnmárku (Northern Sami). It is part of the Sápmi region, which spans four countries, as well as the Barents Region, and is the largest and least populated county of Norway.
Situated at the northernmost part of continental Europe, where the Norwegian coastline swings eastward, Finnmark is an area where East meets West, in culture as well as in nature and geography. Vardø, the easternmost municipality in Norway, is located farther east than the cities of St. Petersburg and Istanbul.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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=======
Finnmark [ˈfɪnmɑrk] (listen) or Finnmárku (Northern Sami) (Finnish: Finnmarkin lääni, Russian: Фи́ннмарк, Fínnmark) is a county (fylke) in the extreme northeastern part of Norway. By land, it borders Troms county to the west, Finland (Lapland region) to the south, and Russia (Murmansk Oblast) to the east, and by water, the Norwegian Sea (Atlantic Ocean) to the northwest, and the Barents Sea (Arctic Ocean) to the north and northeast.
The county was formerly known as Finmarkens amt or Vardøhus amt. Since 2002, it has had two official names: Finnmark (Norwegian) and Finnmárku (Northern Sami). It is part of the Sápmi region, which spans four countries, as well as the Barents Region, and is the largest and least populated county of Norway.
Situated at the northernmost part of continental Europe, where the Norwegian coastline swings eastward, Finnmark is an area where East meets West, in culture as well as in nature and geography. Vardø, the easternmost municipality in Norway, is located farther east than the cities of St. Petersburg and Istanbul.
Sápmi | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Sápmi
00:01:07 1 Etymology
00:03:17 2 Geography
00:03:26 2.1 Landscape
00:04:22 2.2 Climate
00:04:58 2.3 Natural resources
00:05:47 3 Cultural subdivisions
00:05:57 3.1 East Sápmi
00:06:25 3.2 Central Sápmi
00:07:15 3.3 South Sápmi
00:07:47 3.4 Lapland
00:08:34 3.5 Sides
00:09:05 4 Languages
00:09:14 4.1 Sámi languages
00:10:41 4.2 East Slavic languages
00:11:22 4.3 North Germanic (Scandinavian) languages
00:12:20 4.4 Finnic languages
00:12:57 5 Demography
00:13:31 5.1 Sami
00:14:06 5.2 Russians
00:14:45 5.3 Norwegians
00:15:15 5.4 Swedes
00:15:41 5.5 Finns
00:15:58 5.6 Tornedalians and Kvens
00:16:17 6 Politics
00:16:26 6.1 Sami political structures
00:16:49 6.1.1 Sami Parliaments
00:18:47 6.1.2 Sami Parliamentary Council
00:19:24 6.1.3 Saami Council
00:20:00 6.2 Russian side
00:21:18 6.3 Norwegian side
00:23:27 6.4 Swedish side
00:25:15 6.5 Finnish side
00:26:02 7 Sports
00:26:34 8 Notable places
00:26:55 8.1 North Sámi area
00:30:12 8.2 South Sápmi
00:30:43 8.3 East Sápmi
00:31:04 9 See also
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Sápmi (Northern Sami: [ˈsapmi]) is the cultural region traditionally inhabited by the Sami people (previously known as Lapps in English, which is a derogatory term). Sápmi is located in Northern Europe and includes the northern parts of Fennoscandia. The region stretches over four countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. On the north it is bounded by the Barents Sea, on the west by the Norwegian Sea and on the east by the White Sea.Despite being the namesake of the region, the Sami people are estimated to only make up around 5% of its total population. No political organization advocates secession, although several groups desire more territorial autonomy and/or more self-determination for the region's indigenous population.
The area is often referred to in English as Lapland (), but this is erroneous since Lapland is more precisely the interior parts of Swedish Sápmi, and Finnish Sápmi. The Norwegian and Russian parts of Sápmi are not part of Lapland. Many Sámis oppose the use of the name Lapland, as it is considered derogatory and is not the name that Sámis have used.