Siida Conflicts

From Duodji to see the commons

Different Scales of Action Situations

The Commons.

The Ruler of the Common Landscape

Mapping of claims to rights as recieved by the FEFO commission

Please note that none of the claims mapped within have been considered by the commission. This is merely a mapping of interest/expressions of claims and should in no way be taken as a validation or establishment of rights.

seminar: positions

Åsa Sonjasdotter, artist and professor at the Tromsø Art Academy organized the highly interesting and inspirational seminar on positions within art. Invited speakers:

Hanna Horsberg Hansen:
On the essay A Story About Sámi Traditions in Transition about the mural decorations for a new school in Láhpoluoppal by artists Synnøve Persen, Aage Gaup, Josef Halse, Ingunn Utsi and Maja Dunfjeld. This artistic collaboration paved the way for vastly important changes in Sámi art. New stories of Sámi art began, stories that exceed the methods and discourses of Art History.

Matti Aikio:
On topics concerning reindeer herding and art production in Finnmark. Aikio is a visual artist who works with photography, video, installations and sculpture. Aikio is interested in the concept of nomadism as a philosophy, culture and way of life.

Fernando García-Dory: On his practice as artist and agro-ecologist, a work which engages specifically with issues affecting the relation between culture-nature, embodied within the contexts of landscape, the rural, desires and expectations related with identity aspects, crisis, utopia and social change. Interested in the harmonic complexity of biological forms and processes, his work addresses connections and cooperation, from microorganisms to social systems, and from traditional art languages such as drawing to collaborative agroecological projects, actions, and cooperatives.

weekplan update #2 - the commons

See you all Monday morning at 9.00 for a discussion on your commons assignment so far (part I) - and how to proceed (part II)!

Weekplan #2 - the commons as pdf.

the commons and the sami

The Ostrom workshop has a great pooled library of various articles and works. I see there are lots of work already done on applying the commons theory to the rights of land and resources in the sami territories. Check it out. You can search for relevant articles here: http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/search

Social Ecological Framework Analysis

I spoke to Professor Audun Sandberg at the Faculty of Social Science, University of Nordland today. He has worked closely with the Ostrom workshop over the past few decades and suggested we read up on the Social Ecological Framework Analysis. The SEFA is, according to prof Sandberg, an evolution of Ostroms earlier work on the Commons (still written by Ostrom I understand). Should you be interested you can find more information here: http://www.pnas.org/content/104/39/15181.full.pdf+html http://vw.slis.indiana.edu/talks-fall09/Lin.pdf

assignment: #2 - the commons

Use your knowledge about the commons and the complexity of CPR management to:

Find the action arena, locate the action situation and define the participants/actors.

Define the actors’ role(s), and put them in context.

Add narratives of both human and non-human caractere - and expand the perspective beyond the horizon.

reminder: #2 - the commons

A reminder of the design principles derived from case studies of long-lasting systems of common-pool resource governance:

Clearly defined boundaries. The boundaries of the resource system and the individuals or households with rights to harvest resource units are clearly defined.

Proportional equivalence between benefits and costs. Rules specifying the amount of resource products that a user is allocated are related to local conditions and to rules requiring labor, materials, and/or money inputs.

Collective-choice arrangements. Many of the individuals affected by harvesting and protection rules are included in the group that can modify these rules.

Monitoring. Monitors, who actively audit biophysical conditions and user behavior, are at least partially accountable to the users and/or are the users themselves.

Graduated sanctions. Users who violate rules-in-use are likely to receive graduated sanctions (depending on the seriousness and context of the offense) from other users, from officials accountable to these users, or from both.

Conflict-resolution mechanisms. Users and their officials have rapid access to low-cost, local action situations to resolve conflict among users or between users and officials.

Minimal recognition of rights to organize. The rights of users to devise their own institutions are not challenged by external governmental authorities, and users have long-term tenure rights to the resource

Nested enterprises. Appropriation, provision, monitoring, enforcement, conflict resolution, and governance activities are organized in multiple layers of nested enterprises.

(Ostrom 1990, 2005)

Weekplan #2 - the commons as pdf.

Finnmarksvidda as an action area - Jan Åge Riseth

In addition to the text, Sustaining the commons, you here have the slides from Jan Åge Riseth to prepare for the lecture and seminar Friday:

slides

Jan Åge suggests you also bring a print of the handouts as support during the lecture and discussion:

handouts

Enter Biedjovággi

Welcome to the TACL winter studio, Focal Point Biedjovággi!

Sun, Joanna, Bowen, Vlad, Eimear, Victoria, Kristján, Ronald & Ona Katrina - we are happy to enter the landscape together with you, starting Monday..

Here is the preliminary studio timeline (NB! updated January 6):

Timeline as pdf.

best
/M+G