On the Shore: Thinking Water at a Prospective Mining Site in Northern Norway
Society & Natural Resources An International Journal ISSN: 0894-1920 (Print) 1521-0723 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/usnr20 On the Shore: Thinking Water at a Prospective Mining Site in Northern Norway Hugo Reinert To cite this article: Hugo Reinert (2016): On the Shore: Thinking Water at a Prospective Mining Site in Northern Norway, Society & Natural Resources, DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2015.1132352 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2015.1132352 Published online: 25 Feb 2016. Submit your article to this journal View related articles View Crossmark data Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=usnr20 Download by: [Hugo Reinert] Date: 25 February 2016, At: 23:38 SOCIETY & NATURAL RESOURCES 2016, VOL. 00, NO. 00, 1–14 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2015.1132352 On the Shore: Thinking Water at a Prospective Mining Site in Northern Norway Hugo Reinert School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY Drawing on material from a projected copper mine development in Received 6 November 2014 northern Norway, the text explores and contrasts several ways in which Accepted 20 October 2015 water functions as a local “theory machine” to model, reflect, organize, KEYWORDS intervene into, and think through relations. Working back from specific Capitalism; mining; examples, it identifies three locally important modes for thinking representation; water (with) water: water as a constitutive metaphor, structuring particular ontologies of the social; water as a normative diagram, organizing potential future formations; and water as a kind of boundary, antagonistic (potentially) to the spatial logics of the capitalist resource extraction project.
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