Hugo Reinert

• Reinert, Hugo (2019). Les crânes et le cochon qui danse. Terrain.  ISSN 0760-5668.  (71), s 52- 67 . doi: 10.4000/terrain.18076
• Reinert, Hugo (2019). The Haunting Cliffs: Some notes on silence. Parallax.  ISSN 1353-4645.  24(4), s 501- 512 . doi: 10.1080/13534645.2018.1546726 Show summary

  The article is about a space defined by the absence of birds. It is an attempt to examine certain aspects of silence—both the idea of it, and the experience—in the context of catastrophic species collapse and, more broadly, the unfolding planetary processes that some call the Sixth Extinction. Specifically, I am interested in experiences of silence that follow the disappearance or extinction of a species in a landscape. What happens when species disappear? What is to be done in (and with) the silence that they leave behind? What is the shape of such a silence and how is it to be approached, conceptualised, described, analysed? What might it have to say (so to speak) about issues such as climate change, biospheric collapse or the epochal geological ruptures of the Anthropocene: phenomena that unfold on scales defying those of human life or the human body, making themselves available to experience primarily in fragmentary, mediated or speculative forms?

• Reinert, Hugo (2019). The Midwife and the Poet: Bioaccumulation and Retroactive Shock. Environmental Humanities.  ISSN 2201-1919.  11(1), s 137- 151 . doi: 10.1215/22011919-7349455
• Reinert, Hugo (2019). The Skulls and the Dancing Pig. Terrain.  ISSN 0760-5668.  (71) . doi: 10.4000/terrain.18051
• Reinert, Hugo (2018). Notes from a Projected Sacrifice Zone. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies.  ISSN 1492-9732.  17(2), s 597- 617 Full text in Research Archive.
• Benjaminsen, Tor A; Eira, Inger Marie Gaup; Johnsen, Kathrine Ivsett; Reinert, Erik; Reinert, Hugo; Sara, Mikkel Nils Mikkelsen; Sjaastad, Espen Olav & Svarstad, Hanne (2016). Samisk reindrift - norsk forvaltning, I: Tor A Benjaminsen; Inger Marie Gaup Eira & Mikkel Nils Mikkelsen Sara (red.),  Samisk reindrift - Norske myter.  Fagbokforlaget.  ISBN 9788245017519.  Chapter 11.  s 223 - 226
• Benjaminsen, Tor A; Eira, Inger Marie Gaup; Reinert, Erik S.; Reinert, Hugo; Sara, Mikkel Nils Mikkelsen & Svarstad, Hanne (2016). Reindrift, makt og myter, I: Tor A Benjaminsen; Inger Marie Gaup Eira & Mikkel Nils Mikkelsen Sara (red.),  Samisk reindrift - Norske myter.  Fagbokforlaget.  ISBN 9788245017519.  Chapter 1.  s 9 - 26
• Benjaminsen, Tor A; Reinert, Hugo; Sjaastad, Espen Olav & Sara, Mikkel Nils Mikkelsen (2015). Misreading the Arctic landscape: A political ecology of reindeer, carrying capacities, and overstocking in Finnmark, Norway. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift.  ISSN 0029-1951.  69(4), s 219- 229 . doi: 10.1080/00291951.2015.1031274 Show summary

  Sámi reindeer pastoralism in Norway is said to be in a state of crisis that has lasted for several decades and is due to excessive numbers of reindeer. A general overstocking of the range is believed to cause widespread pasture degradation, poor economic performance, and increasing land-use conflicts. These are the main assumptions of a dominant narrative shared by key government and non-governmental actors, most scientists, and the media. The resulting policy focuses on reducing reindeer numbers to set carrying capacities in order to promote ecological sustainability and improve economic performance through the means of increasing carcass weights. The article presents a critical review of the ecological evidence behind the dominant narrative. The authors conclude that the narrative and the associated policy lead to a misreading of the Arctic pastoral landscape that neglects both alternative scientific evidence and interpretations in line with non-equilibrium ecology as well as the indigenous knowledge of the reindeer herders. Hence, such alternative perspectives generally remain invisible to the government institutions that regulate the practice of reindeer management. Further, the authors’ study resonates with wider theoretical debates about state governance within political ecology and development studies in general.

• Reinert, Hugo & Benjaminsen, Tor A (2015). Conceptualising resilience in Norwegian Sámi reindeer pastoralism. Resilience - International Policies, Practices and Discourses.  ISSN 2169-3293.  3(2), s 95- 112 . doi: 10.1080/21693293.2014.988916 Show summary

  Resilience thinking has growing purchase in the context of Arctic policy, resource management and indigenous politics. The present text outlines and compares two conflicting versions of the resilience concept, both currently at work in the field of contemporary Norwegian Sa ́ mi reindeer pastoralism. First, while ecological resilience originally emerged as a challenge to mainstream equilibrium ecology in the 1970s, we identify and discuss here a strand of current research that links ‘resilience’ to the ability of reindeer populations – and ecosystems – to maintain themselves in a steady state. At the same time, another strand of resilience research – developed in large part with (and by) indigenous pastoralists – uses the term to conceptualise the pastoral ecology as a dynamic and unstable system, threatened by factors such as progressive pasture loss, competing land-use forms and the ongoing pressure to ‘modernise’ production. Contrasting these two versions of the resilience concept, we explore some of its potential implications and uses in the context of resistance against dominant political agendas.

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• Benjaminsen, Tor A; Eira, Inger Marie Gaup; Oskal, Anders; Reinert, Eirik; Reinert, Hugo; Sara, Mikkel Nils Mikkelsen & Svarstad, Hanne (2016). Mytene om reindrift. Dagbladet.  ISSN 0805-3766.

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