1st Edition
The Sámi World
This book provides a comprehensive and multifaceted analysis of the Sámi society and its histories and people, offering valuable insights into how they live and see the world.
The chapters examine a variety of social and cultural practices, and consideration is given to environment, legal and political conditions and power relations. The contributions by a range of experts of Sámi studies and Indigenous scholars are drawn from across the Sápmi region, which spans from central Norway and central Sweden across Finnish Lapland to the Kola Peninsula in Russia. Sámi perspectives, concepts and ways of knowing are foregrounded throughout the volume. The material connects with wider discussions within Indigenous studies and engages with current concerns relating to globalization, environmental and cultural change, Arctic politics, multiculturalism, postcolonialism and neoliberalism.
The Sámi World will be of interest to scholars from a number of disciplines, including Indigenous studies, anthropology, sociology, geography, history and political science.
Introduction: Introduction to the Sámi world
Sanna Valkonen, Saara Alakorva, Áile Aikio and Sigga-Marja Magga
PART I GUOÐOHIT LIVING WITH/IN NATURE
1 A window into vanishing Sámi culture? Visual representations of Sáminess in the shared Siida exhibition by Sámi Museum Siida and Northern Lapland’s Nature Centre
Áile Aikio
2 Gákti on the pulse of time: The double perspective of the traditional Sámi dress
Sigga-Marja Magga
3 Skolt Saami Leuʹdd: Tradition as a medium of individual and collective remembrance
Marko Jouste
4 Trickster blurring expectations and values of Sámi community: Author Jovnna-Ánde Vest reshaping Sámi muittašangirjjálašvuohta (reminiscence literature)
Hanna Helander and Veli-Pekka Lehtola
5 The river breaks – and freezes: Sámi women in Laestadianism Torjer A. Olsen
6 From History to Herstory of the Sámi world: Proposing a feminist approach to the settlement history of Finnish Lapland
Saara Alakorva, Ritva Kylli and Jarno Valkonen
7 Caught in the state’s net? Ecologies of care in Deanuleahki, Sápmi
Annikki Herranen-Tabibi
8 Defi ning the Sámi cultural environment: New perspectives for fieldwork
Päivi Magga
9 Frustrated caretakers: Sámi egg gatherers and cloudberry pickers
Solveig Joks
10 Sámi food culture: Traditional practices and contemporary challenges
Lena Maria Nilsson
11 Understanding Sámi reindeer herders’ knowledge systems of snow and ice
Inger Marie Gaup Eira
12 Issues of Sámi representation in Finnish tourism: A quest for authenticity Nuccio Mazzullo
PART II GIERDAT – LIVING THROUGH/IN SOCIETAL RUPTURES
13 The futures of Sami languages
Leena Huss and Anna-Riitta Lindgren
14 Residential schooling of the Sámi in the Soviet Union: Historical development and impacts
Anna Andersen
15 The Sámi in the spiral of negative social developments of the Soviet North
Lukas Allemann
16 Changing states, changing Sámi? Framing the state and the Sámi in studies of history in Finland and Norway 1923–1954
Jukka Nyyssönen
17 The Sámi fl ag(s): From a revolutionary sign to an institutional symbol
Saara Alakorva
18 Who are ‘We, the People’? A comparative analysis of the right to register in the Sámi electoral roll in Finland, Norway and Sweden
Ulf Mörkenstam, Per Selle and Sanna Valkonen
19 Toxic speech, political self-Indigenization and the ethics and politics of critique: Notes from Finland
Laura Junka-Aikio
20 The history and current situation of discrimination against the Sámi
Ketil Lenert Hansen
21 Municipal politics in the Sámi homeland in Finland
Vesa Puuronen
22 The Stockholm Sámi administrative area and Indigenous resurgence
Karin Eriksson
23 The role of the Sámi media in democratic processes: The Arctic Railway in Yle Sápmi and NRK Sápmi
Inker-Anni Sara, Torkel Rasmussen and Roy Krovel
24 The Áltá and Deatnu confl icts and the articulations of nature
Tapio Nykänen
PART III DUOSTAT – ENVISIONING SÁMI FUTURES
25 The history of the hybrid Sámi media system
Torkel Rasmussen, Inker-Anni Sara and Roy Krovel
26 ‘It should be her language’: New speakers of Sámi languages transmitting the language to the next generation
Annika Pasanen
27 Ládjogahpir rematriated: Decolonization of the Sámi women’s hat of pride
Eeva-Kristiina Nylander
28 Sámi research ethics under construction
Anna-Lill Drugge
29 Driving around with Aunt Máret: Historical consciousness of the Sámi in transition
Veli-Pekka Lehtola
30 The characteristics and legal status of Sámi legal tradition and law
Kristina Labba
31 Commemorating continuity: Reconciling material representations in Sääʹm land
Natalia Magnani
32 Sá mi storytelling through design
Britt Kramvig and Trine Kvidal-Rovik
33 Sámi feminist conversations
Ina Knobblock
34 Queer Indigenous world-making in the Sámi TV comedy Njuoska bittut
Kata Kyrölä
35 The activism of having fun: Young Sámi in urban areas of Norway and Sweden
Astri Dankertsen
Epilogue: Ways of being in the world
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Biography
Sanna Valkonen is a Sámi scholar and Professor of Sámi Research at the University of Lapland, Finland. She is co-editor of Knowing from the Indigenous North: Sámi Approaches to History, Politics and Belonging (Routledge, 2018).
Áile Aikio is a Sámi scholar and doctoral candidate of sociology at the University of Lapland, Finland. In her PhD research, Aikio examines indigenization of the museum.
Saara Alakorva is a Sámi scholar, doctoral candidate of political sciences, and university teacher of Arctic world politics at the University of Lapland, Finland. In her PhD research, Alakorva studies Sámi political history and contemporary Sámi political thinking.
Sigga-Marja Magga is a Sámi scholar and post-doctoral researcher at the University of Lapland, Finland. Her work focuses on duodji handicraft and duodji epistemes.
