No mine in Gállok: Ecocide and colonialism in Swedish occupied Sápmi

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Description

In March 2022 the Swedish government granted a British enterprise by the name of Beowulf Mining permission to pursue an open-cast mining operation in Gállok, in the heartland of Swedish-occupied Sápmi - an important development in a long and contested procedure towards a colonial land grab of historical significance. ... Through a series of articles and interviews, light is shed upon a range of interrelated topics covering Gállok case, the history of the region, colonial and racist treatment of its Sámi inhabitants, the conversion of boreal forests into coniferous cash crop plantations, the increasing burdens upon the reindeer herding culture, the questionable promises of the so-called Green Transition based on colonial land grabbing and environmental degradation, and issues related to the nature of capitalist civilization underlying all of the above ...
Period2023