Current research project engage with sustainability, decolonication and indigenous/Sámi ways of knowing; in particular as expressed through land- and seascape as well as in artistic practices and festivals. The world that emerge from indigenous peoples’ experiences and practices can see the examples of the possibilities of other worlds that we need to learn from in order to address environmental issues. Ongoing publication effort engage with locally embedded practice of reconciliation, memories and landscape. Kramvig regularly contribute to the public debate in national and regional newspapers, through film documentary and as an active participator in many art/science project, among the latest Dark Ecology, BAT and OKTA.
Sessions in which Britt Kramvig participates
Sunday 20 June, 2021
Moderator: Prof. Britt Kramvig (UiT) and Dr. Bryan S.R. Grimwood (UWaterloo)In this panel, Scholars and PhD students from UiT The Arctic University of Norway address multiple engagements with sustainability, justice and a quest for a more responsible tourist development in the multiple landscapes and communities in Sápmi/ Arctic Norway. Tourism participates in the making of specific landscapes, at moments interrupting but also destructing indigenous and local landscape practi...
Sessions in which Britt Kramvig attends
Saturday 19 June, 2021
(In French with simultaneous translation)The increase in tourist numbers in certain places that have become "destinations" has recently brought to the forefront the old paradigm of destructive tourism. Here and there, people denounce not only the invasion of living environments and the transformation of urban functions according to tourist expectations, but also the destruction of heritage through the alteration of its authenticity. Such an assertion, based on the original purity of a true...