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Porträtt Tobias Olofsson. Foto.

Tobias Olofsson

Forskare

Porträtt Tobias Olofsson. Foto.

Entangled disasters : Relations and vulnerabilities in the transformation and dissolution of Kiruna and Malmberget

Författare

  • Tobias Olofsson

Redaktör

  • Reidar Staupe
  • Monika Gabriella Bartoszewicz

Summary, in Swedish

This chapter discusses the role of placed-based relational entanglements in disasters and argues that relations play an important part in shaping how disasters unfold. Exploring the case of mining induced displacement in Sweden’s Malmfälten region – where two cities, Kiruna and Malmberget, and several villages are being moved or razed to make way for expanding mines – the chapter demonstrates how a strong geosymbiotic entanglement between the mines and cities in the region contributes to the normalization of the suffering and vulnerability experienced by displaced residents. Drawing on documentary films, newspaper articles, scholarly work, and other accounts of the move and dissolution of Kiruna and Malmberget, the chapter argues that phenomena and events with disastrous outcomes may escape being labeled as disasters if the relations they affect are made to be less important than the relations that harbor the disaster. Based on these findings, the chapter highlights how disaster research, by centering relations rather than hazards, can gain new insights into how disastrous events and phenomena produce suffering and vulnerability that cannot easily be accommodated or explained through classical conceptualizations of disasters. Moreover, the chapter argues that an expansion of disasters to include slow-moving man-made disaster-like phenomena, such as those unfolding in Malmfälten, would open the door for further investigations into other creeping phenomena of human origin that threaten disastrous consequences, such as pollution, biodiversity loss, or global heating.

Avdelning/ar

  • Sociologiska institutionen

Publiceringsår

2025-06-11

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

144-163

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Time of Disastrous Anticipations : Essays on life in the shadow of catastrophe

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

Routledge

Ämne

  • War, Crisis, and Security Studies
  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Anthropology, Demography and Criminology)
  • Human Geography

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 9781032883441
  • ISBN: 9781003537311