Mobilisation des imaginaires pour construire des natures autochtones nordiques

MARAUD, Simon; GUYOT, Sylvain

doi:10.1080/1088937x.2016.1184721

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MARAUD, Simon
Laboratoire de Géographie Physique et Environnementale [GEOLAB]
Université Laval [Québec] [ULaval]

GUYOT, Sylvain
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Polar Geography. 2016-07-21, vol. 39, n° 3, p. 196-216

Taylor & Francis

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This paper is about two Northern territories and peoples, the Sami in the Swedish Lapland and the Cree of James Bay (Quebec, Canada).This comparison aims to show how the North is commonly seen as a human desert – completely wild – and how this imaginative space isfull of political and poetic constructions. The colonial vision of the North omits the Indigenous dimension of such territories or includes it as the Ecological Indian of Shepard Krech III. This study shows how what was a patronizing colonial perspective became a tool for the Sami and the Cree to legitimate their involvement in the management of local resources and the protection of nature. Simultaneously, the empowerment of the Indigenous inhabitants of the two Nordic lands – via protected areas such as Laponia or Assinica – is a means of development in the communities. In particular, it supports the emergence of tourism and thus reduces the mental gap between the South and the North and their peoples. Moreover, even when Indigenous tourism is criticized for the promotion of folklore and exoticism, it also enables young generations to reconnect with a culture in oblivion.< Réduire

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Indigenousness

North

Quebec

Sweden

Nature

Geographical imaginaries

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