ONLINE SEMINAR AND BOOK LAUNCH: Sámi Research in Transition

UiT The Artic University of Norway would like to welcome everyone to this open seminar which marks the publication of a new book,

SÀMI RESEARCH IN TRANSITION: KNOWLEDGE, POLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE (Junka-Aikio, Nyyssönen & Lehtola eds., 2021, Routledge).  

During the seminar day authors Àile Aikio, Veli-Pekka Lehtola, Sigrid Lien, Anni-Siiri Länsman, Sigga-Marja Magga, Lia Markelin,  Hilda Wallem Nielssen, Jukka Nyyssönen, Liv Inger Somby and Laura Junka-Aikio will present their contributions to the book, followed by a shared discussion of the research and the book’s main objectives and outcomes 

 

Please register for the zoom event and join us!

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SEMINAR PROGRAMME

(PLEASE NOTE: the program is presented here in Oslo time!)

12:00-12:15: Welcome words and introduction by Laura Junka-Aikio.

(Presentation based on the introductory chapter by Laura Junka-Aikio, Jukka Nyyssönen and Veli-Pekka Lehtola, presented by Laura Junka-Aikio)

 

SESSION 1:

12:15 –12:30 Jukka Nyyssönen (NIKU): Choices and omissions of knowledge and social impact in Finnish committee reports on Sami policies.

12:30 -12:45 Anni-Siiri Länsman and Terttu Kortelainen (University of Oulu): Mapping prerequisites for successful implementation of an academic concept to societal arenas, The case of the Non-Status Saami in Finland.

12:45 -13:00 Veli-Pekka Lehtola (University of Oulu): Contested Sámi Histories in Finland.

13:00-13:20 Discussion

 

13:20-13:30 COFFEE BREAK

 

SESSION 2:

13:30-13:45 Sigga-Marja Magga (University of Lapland): From research on Sámi handicraft to duodji research.

13:45 -14:00 Àile Aikio (University of Lapland): Sámification and Sámi museums.

4:00-14:15 Sigrid Lien  (University of Bergen) and Hilde Wallem Nielssen (NLA University College): Negotiating research: Studying Sámi Photographs as Norwegian Outsiders.

14:15 – 14:30 Lia Markelin (Magma) and Liv Inger Somby (Samediggi): Indigenous Journalism in Academia – Sámi Journalism Education Breaks New Ground.

 

14:30-15:00 Discussion.

 

Book Info:

 

SÁMI RESEARCH IN TRANSITION: KNOWLEDGE, POLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE. 

Editors: Laura Junka-Aikio, Jukka Nyyssönen, Veli-Pekka Lehtola

Routledge, 2021

 

For several decades, 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.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Laura Junka-Aikio, Jukka Nyyssönen and Veli-Pekka Lehtola: Sámi Research in Transition -Introduction.

PART I FROM LAPPOLOGY TO SÁMI RESEARCH

2. Ivar Bjørklund:

Society, ethnicity and knowledge production – Changing relations between Norwegians and Sámi.

3. Jukka Nyyssönen:

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

4. Veli-Pekka Lehtola:

Contested Sámi Histories in Finland

5. Laura Junka-Aikio:

Self-Indigenization, Sámi Research, and the Political Contexts of Knowledge Production

6. Sigga-Marja Magga:

From research on Sámi handicraft to duodji research

 

Part II NEGOTIATING THE SÀMI TURN

7. Áile Aikio:

Sámification and Sámi museums

8. Lia Markelin, Tom Moring, Charles Husband, Nils Johan Heatta, Nils Johan Päiviö and Liv Inger Somby:

Indigenous Journalism in Academia – Sámi Journalism Education Breaks New Ground

9. Coppélie Cocq

“We haven’t come so far yet”: Digital media, Sami research and dissemination practices.

10. Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen:

Negotiating research: Studying Sámi Photographs as Norwegian Outsiders

11. Anni-Siiri Länsman and Terttu Kortelainen:

Mapping prerequisites for successful implementation of an academic concept to societal arenas, The case of the Non-Status Saami in Finland.

12. Lydia Heikkilä:

Sámi Research Ethical Guidelines: Reflections on a Contact Zone of Sámi and Dominant Society.

13. Saara Alakorva:

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

 

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For questions and further info on the book or the online seminar, please contact Laura Junka-Aiko:

laura.o.junka-aikio (at) uit.no