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Substitution in Sápmi. Meta-Governance and Conflicts Over Representation in Regional Indigenous Governance

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Chapter eight sheds light on regional governance in the field of indigenous politics through a detailed study of reforms of official structures for indigenous political participation in Murmansk region 2006–2014. The chapter accounts for regional authorities’ attempts to meta-govern indigenous governance networks; activists’ attempts to escape meta-governance through the establishment of an independent representative organ; division in indigenous civil society over how to reform regional indigenous governance; networking between Russian indigenous activists and co-ethnics in the West; the securitisation of the conflict over how to organise regional indigenous governance; and the eventual substitution of the reformists’ self-organised representation council with one created by regional authorities and indigenous activists opposed to the reformist network.

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Berg-Nordlie, M. (2018). Substitution in Sápmi. Meta-Governance and Conflicts Over Representation in Regional Indigenous Governance. In: Kropp, S., Aasland, A., Berg-Nordlie, M., Holm-Hansen, J., Schuhmann, J. (eds) Governance in Russian Regions. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61702-2_8

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