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SUMMARY: Making connections in a recently collapsed empire: when Nenets re
 indeer herders meet with Soviet-era settlers and mobile oil workers above 
 oil deposits - Rémy Rouillard\, Post-doctoral Researcher\, Scott Polar Re
 search Institute
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DESCRIPTION:Abstract: What connects the post-Soviet Chechnyan wars to indi
 genous Nenets reindeer herders living in the Nenets Autonomous District (N
 AD) in northwestern Russia? What effect have French documentary makers had
  on interactions between these herders and Russian oil workers\, extractin
 g oil from an island in the Barents Sea since the late Soviet era? Conside
 ring that these patriotic workers have spent most of their lives extractin
 g oil in the Arctic for a state-owned company\, how do they view the poten
 tial privatisation of their company and their transfer to extraction sites
  situated off the shores of Vietnam? Based on a year's doctoral field rese
 arch in the NAD\, this presentation will discuss ways in which Nenets herd
 ers\, Russian settlers and current oil workers engage with the land in the
  district\, and with each other\, in the context of an oil-thirsty global 
 economy and of a Russian state "addicted to oil-revenues". I will show how
  the interactions between these different groups are marked by the co-pres
 ence of different codes of conduct: the Nenets "law of the tundra"\, Sovie
 t-inherited patriotism and reindeer herding management practices\, as well
  as values inherited from the global market economy.
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