Negotiating (with) Fire: Contemporary Fire Domestication in Swedish Sápmi

In Sweden, fire management is driven by nature conservation objectives through both regeneration burning, used as a soil preparation method in forestry, and burning protected forests, aiming to reintroduce an ecological process necessary for the preservation of biodiversity. The strategy affects Indigenous Sami reindeer herders who use commercial forestlands pastures their reindeer. Fire can have ambivalent effects on pasture depending where it occurs. Yet, are currently not included planning but consultation forest owners occurring late process. this article, we interpret system domestication, understood continuous interactions between humans fire. To describe modalities contemporary our study draws semi-structured interviews carried out with herders, forestry planners, managers, practitioners different localities northernmost counties Västerbotten Norrbotten. We show how domestication involves dual negotiation process: during process, about managers. Burning conceive agent rather than tool, able produce unique forests increase naturalness, which they must steer order reach desired results. Through fire, stimulates new constitutes possible common ground from forms collaboration could emerge. Our reaffirms hybrid natural cultural, resulting negotiations human actors system.