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

ISBN-13: 9780415790734 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 176 str.

Thomas Hylland Eriksen; Sanna Valkonen; Jarno Valkonen

Opis

Discourse around the North has become increasingly focused on environmental and societal changes, as global scientific, political and economic interests assert increasing influence on the landscape. Issues including environmental change, human adaptation, and post-colonial governance and strategies have all played a part in the changing paradigm that is our cultural understanding of 'the North'. In research, however, the North has so far been approached mainly as a region, the environment, inhabitants and cultures of which are seen as natural variables. In a strong departure from conventional discussions of the North, the editors of this volume have drawn together a collection of chapters that present the North as a unique way of knowing, with its own needs, practices, concepts and worldviews. This Northern, epistemic gaze positions the North's own conceptions of politics, human agency, history, and social relations as pivotal to its understanding, relationships and interaction with the world. The chapters are empirically focused around particular questions of Finnish Sami history, politics and being, and include contributions from internationally known scholars of the North (Tim Ingold and Thomas Hylland Eriksen), citizenship, gender and belonging (Nira Yuval-Davis), and nationalism (Michael Skey). Providing a key indigenous perspective on current Artic issues of global relevance, the book aims to offer alternative ways of theorizing questions of being and belonging. Essential reading for scholars of the Arctic, Sami culture, Indigenous Studies, Post-colonial Studies and Indigenous Methodology.

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