Research Seminar: Reporting energy injustice: Indigenous land claims and the “green” shift in local news

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Reporting energy injustice: Indigenous land claims and the “green” shift in local news
Local journalism plays a consequential role in shaping public understandings of energy justice in the green transition. This talk is about a case study of media coverage of the Øyfjellet wind power conflict in Norway. The conflict concerns a wind power plant licensed by Norwegian state authorities, and its impacts on the Sámi reindeer herding district Jillen Njaarke Sijte, whose traditional pasturelands and migration routes were disrupted by the project. The study asks: How did the local newspaper Helgelendingen report the Øyfjellet conflict, and in what ways did its coverage articulate—or obscure—key dimensions of energy justice? It examines how questions of distributive, recognitional, and procedural justice were framed in local news reporting, and how Indigenous Sámi knowledge and land‑based expertise were positioned relative to industrial, legal, and economic rationales for wind power development.

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