Sámi research in transition : knowledge, politics and social change / edited by Laura Junka-Aikio, Jukka Nyyssönen and Veli-Pekka Lehtola.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Junka-Aikio, Laura, editor.

Nyyssönen, Jukka, editor.

Lehtola, Veli-Pekka, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sami (European people).

Indigenous peoples--Research.

Indigenous peoples.

Social change--Europe.

Social change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, Florida ; London ; New York : CRC Press, [2022]

Summary:

For several decades now, there have been calls to decolonize research on the Indigenous Sámi people, and to make it accountable to the Sámi society. While this has contributed to the rise of a vibrant Sámi research community in the Nordic countries, less attention has been paid to what extent, and how the "Sámi turn" in research has been implemented in practice. Written by prominent Nordic and Sámi scholars anchored in the Sámi research communities in Finland, Norway and Sweden, this volume explores not only the meanings and implications of this turn across disciplines, but also some of the challenges that efforts to create space for Sámi voices, knowledges and perspectives still meet today. The book provides a timely, interdisciplinary engagement with the central themes that have framed the development of Sámi research, and a critical appraisal of the impact that efforts to decolonize research in the Sámi context have had upon Nordic societies and state policies so far. Sámi Research in Transition is valuable for scholars and students interested in Sámi history and society, Arctic and Circumpolar Indigenous studies and critical studies on the relationship between knowledge and social change.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Figures

Contributors

1. Sámi research in transition - an introduction

From Lappology to "new" Sámi research

Criticism and social change

Bibliography

Part I: From Lappology to Sámi research

2. Society, ethnicity and knowledge production - changing relations between Norwegians and Sámi

Introduction

The quest for knowledge

The pastoral threat and the coming of academic disciplines

New paradigms and changing relations

Identity management and governance

Notes

Internet-source

3. Choices and omissions of knowledge and social impact in Finnish committee reports on Sámi policies

The earliest committees - scientific knowledge in the service of nation-building

The Sámi join the committees

The era, and the Sámi, are ecologized

Conclusions

Official documents

Other source

4. Contested Sámi histories in Finland

Contesting history, part I: sharpening image of Lapland's history

Contesting history, part II: Sámi historical awareness

Contesting history, part III: the Lapps opposing the Sámi

Contested interpretations on institutional level

Note

5. Self-Indigenization, Sámi research and the political contexts of knowledge production

Political Self-Indigenization

Self Indigenization in Finland

Self-Indigenization and Sámi Research

Sámi research and the political contexts of knowledge production

Funding

6. From research on Sámi handicraft to duodji research1

The legacy of previous ethnographic research

The encounter between duodji and art

Duodji research as a reflection of identity politics and Sámi everyday life

Notes.

Bibliography

Part II: Negotiating the Sámi turn

7. Sámification and Sámi museums

Sámification and the Sámi museums

The Inari Sámi Museum

The Sámi and the Sámi Museum in the annual reports

Sámi indigeneity

The invisible Sámi customers of the Sámi Museum

Concluding remarks

Primary Data

References

8. Indigenous Journalism in Academia - Sámi Journalism Education Breaks New Ground

Journalism in an Indigenous context - a critical appraisal

The process of establishing the programme

The challenges and possibilities of international cooperation

A critical appraisal

9. "We haven't come so far yet": digital media, Sámi research and dissemination practices

Background

Digital media and research

Data and methods

Selected projects

Perspectives, applications and experiences

You have to be proactive

Reporting back: strategies for the dissemination of research

A shift

Looking forward

10. Negotiating research: studying Sámi photographs as Norwegian outsiders

A first step: approaching Sámi self-presentation

A second step: mapping multiple agencies while questioning our own

A third step: getting cold feet and acknowledging our limitations

A fourth step: "oops we did it again

Sámi research and decolonial relationality

11. Mapping prerequisites for successful implementation of an academic concept to societal arenas: The case of the non-status Sámi in Finland

Prerequisites for successful spreading and implementation of a concept

The Sámi

Research materials and methods

Analysis and results

Discussion in social media

Framing as problem definition and suggested solution.

Conclusions

12. Sámi research ethical guidelines: reflections on a contact zone of Sámi and dominant society

Indigenous research ethics

Research ethics governance and the arising sovereignty issues within nation-states

Three paths to designing Sámi research ethical guidelines

Collective consent and community participation

Personal privacy regulations and open-access policy

Laws and regulations

13. Ten problems faced by a Sámi who studies her own community

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-309083-4

1-000-46653-1

1-003-09083-4

9781003090830

OCLC:

1283846699