Kampen om Gállok

Abstract

Exploitations of Sámi land by the mining industry actualize articulations of the meaning of place and landscape in relation to identities. This article investigates processes of place-making with the example of Gállok, situated in traditional Sámi land where exploratory drillings have recently been conducted by a British prospecting mining company. In the context of the mining conflict in Sápmi 2013 and based on interviews with people involved in the resistance movement against new mines in Sápmi as well as ethnographical observations of Camp Gállok, this study underscores how strategies of place-making are more than about the land, but rather about the visibility of a people, a history and indigenous perspectives on nature.