Different networks of interest and expertise emerge, dependent on the actors involved (including their status – e.g. We draw upon theories of relational materiality, and suggest different typologies of engagement with the material culture.
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Being regarded by peers and others as an expert is not necessarily the same thing as having professional authority and status, for example as a museum curator or university-affiliated scholar. Within this context, we deconstruct the notion of ‘expert’ as it relates to the local and historical knowledge. Furthermore it may be as important for some actors to leave material culture in situ – for example as testimony to the past conflict or trauma – as it is for others to exercise personal ownership. While some objects are transformed through musealisation, others remain ‘officially’ unknown and unrecognized (although known – even traded and exchanged – through private channels). These encounters have centred around the material remains of the Second World War, and the ways in which different actors perceive, value and otherwise understand those remains. We have conducted interviews with history hobbyists and museum professionals who engage with the WWII history of Lapland, and observed the treatment of ‘war material culture’, for example through exhibitions (both public and hidden) and through personal meaning-making practices. In this article we present and analyse data collected through ethnographic fieldwork in and around the Lapland village of Vuotso: primarily interviews and observations. These various processes represent transformations of material culture to take on various meanings and embodiments, depending on the different individuals and organizations involved. These material remains have variously been saved and cherished by survivors and their families, disregarded as ‘war junk’, ‘discovered’ by hobbyists exploring the landscape, amassed and exchanged by private collectors, and accessioned into official museum collections.
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The events of the Second World War left considerable material remains in Finnish Lapland, ranging from the remnants of structures that were destroyed in the 1944–45 Lapland War, through to small, portable objects connected to soldiers, prisoners of war and civilians. This chapter explores the transnational heritage work and the commemorative practices and rituals taking place in the ceded areas. In the area of Salla and across the border in the ceded territories, local volunteers have created a range of activities to cherish the WWII heritage. After the collapse of Soviet Union, Finnish people could again visit the former Finnish areas. For about 50 years, the ruined church and the surrounding cemeteries were not accessible to Finnish citizens and were left without maintenance.
The ceded parts which included the old village center and the Lutheran church of was located, were not accessible in Soviet times. As a result of the Moscow Peace Treaty, almost half of the territories of Salla were ceded to the Soviet Union. The borderlines between Finland and Soviet Union were redrawn twice in the 1940s: first after the Winter War (1939–1940) and again after the end of the Continuation War (1941–1944). Constituency associations may form joint lists with a maximum number of candidates equalling the number of councillors to be elected multiplied by one and a half.The Salla municipality, located in Eastern Lapland in the borderland between Finland and Russia, has a complex transnational history due to the events of the Second World War. By a decree of the Ministry of Justice in some small municpalities a constituency association may, however, be established by five or at least three persons entitled to vote.
Changes in these statistics Candidate Party:įor Peace and Socialism - Communist Workers Party (Finland)Ī constituency association for the nomination of one candidate may be established by at least ten people who are entitled to vote in the municipality.