Knowing from the Indigenous North: Sámi Approaches to History, Politics and Belonging

ISBN-13: 9780367585778 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 176 str.

Thomas Hylland Eriksen; Sanna Valkonen; Jarno Valkonen

Opis

Focusing on the Sápmi region of Northern Europe as a point of departure, this book enriches and sharpens the concept of ‘the North’. It combines detailed empirical research on the Sámi people and their life-worlds with theoretical contributions from leading scholars. The authors consider the European North not only as a geographical site or an o

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. On local Knowledge  3. Evasive strategies of defiance – everyday resistance histories among the Sámi  4. Returning home – the different ontologies of the Sámi collections  5. The paradox of autonomy  6. Belonging to Sápmi – the Sámi conceptions of home and home region  7. Reindeer herding, snowmobiles and social change – and a word on identity  8. The North is everywhere  9. 'I’ll show you the tundra' – the Sámi as an Indigenous people in the political thought of Nils-Aslak Valkeapää  10. Conceptual governance on defining indigeneity – the Sámi debate in Finland  11. The politics of belonging in the Indigenous North

O autorze

Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Sanna Valkonen is a Sámi scholar and Associate Professor of Sámi Research at the University of Lapland, Finland.

Jarno Valkonen is a Sámi scholar and Professor of Sociology at the University of Lapland, Finland.