The collaborative project Nordic Arctic Colonization - A multidisciplinary, multispecies and multitemporal approach explored colonizing practices in the Nordic region through multidisciplinary approaches to landscape and archive. It brought together leading scholars with different expertise to develop multidisciplinary fieldwork practices of key importance for understanding colonizing practices in the Nordic context, as a platform for future projects.
The site of study was the Pasvik valley in Finnmark, North Norway, and studies were conducted at Svanhovd research station. The long-term research ambition was to explore Nordic Arctic colonization "through the soil", tracing Nordic state policy and geopolitical interests in the Arctic through agricultural, botanical and material remains. And in this way shed light on how colonization unfolds in the Nordic region under the banner of progress and the "common good".
