Social construction of the ‘tragedy of the commons’ and Saami reindeer pastoralism
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Acta Borealia
- Vol. 9 (2) , 3-20
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08003839208580413
Abstract
I want to raise for discussion questions that trouble me as an observer concerning the talk of a “tragedy of the commons” on the Finnmark tundra, and the consequent intrusion of the state as a very active ‘overseer’ (even in a moral capacity) of Saami reindeer pastoral praxis.1 This may sound as though I deny there is a crisis ‐ but such is not the case; my concern is with how it came to be and, thus, what it is.Keywords
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