| Tittel: | Post Petroleum Security in Lofoten: How identity matters |
| Ansvar: | Berit Kristoffersen, Brigt Dale |
| Forfatter: | Kristoffersen, Berit  / Dale, Brigt |
| Materialtype: | Artikkel - elektronisk |
| Signatur: | Arctic review on law and politics |
| Utgitt: | Oslo : Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 2014 |
| Omfang: | S. 201-226 |
| Serie: | Arctic Review on Law and Politics ; 2/2014 |
| Note: | https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/1046 |
| Innhold: | Based on over 60 interviews and fieldwork in Lofoten, Norway, over a five-year period (2008 – 2013), this paper argues that local identity is a ‘missing link’ with significant explanatory value when analyzing the contested matter of whether to open for oil drilling in this region. Through a Giddensian approach to ontological security, we identify a major discrepancy between local and national discourses on ‘post-petroleum security’ concerns for the Lofoten region and its inhabitants – concerns that neither national political debates nor academic discourse have adequately included. Thus, we highlight time as a variable separating local and state-centered perspectives on what sustains (ontological) security. We show how an understanding of historically viable communities is of core concern for the re-establishment of an identity-based security. Further, environmental and societal risks associated with petroleum development influence the perceived balance between short-term needs for jobs, and long-term |
| Del av verk: | Arctic review on law and politics vol. 5 no 2 (2014) |