Category: Sámi

We are teaching again (September – December)

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Arctic Studies Program ASPB1104 Peoples, Culture and Identities of the Arctic http://www.uarctic.org/members.aspx?m=790 Anna Stammler-Gossmann (September – October) The concept of indigeneity: From definitions to norms and to identity (object of international law; between transnational and local; who is indigenous?) North as space (geographical, economic, legal and mental space; homeland and frontier) Human-nature relations and environmental …

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Workshops series on Identity, Politics and Place in relation to indigenous peoples in Leipzig.

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Friday 22 June 2012 I participated to a workshop in Leipzig, at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, on the theme: “Identity, Politics, Place and Representation”. The workshop had been preceded the day before (21.06.2012) by a public lecture given by Oren Yiftachel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, with the title of - Urban Regimes …

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Murmansk region fieldwork oral history

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Nina Meschtyb, postdoc research in our ORHELIA project, shares the following impressions from her fieldtrip Privet from Murmansk region. It is not very hot here – around 3-7 degree, but warm water was already switched off at houses for the summer period.  I started my trip from Murmansk. The bus arrived late in the evening, …

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Terhi Vuojala-Magga and Stephan Dudeck breaching the image of the North as a home and as a field

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Stephan Dudeck visited Terhi Vuojala-Magga in the Inari region of Finnish Sápmi (Sámi home area) two times during this year.  The first visit was in January in Kuttura – a Sami reindeer herders´ forest village of six houses in the upper stream of Ivalo River - and the second visit was at the beginning of …

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Sámi and Finnish people West of the Kola Peninsula

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Nina Meschtyb's reconnaissance field trip Jona and Jonskaya, February 2012 My departure was sudden, as well as the place where I decided to go. The destination of my first trip for the ORHELIA project was a little village west of the Kola Peninsula – Jona (Ёна). When we think of Russian Sámi, everybody has the …

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Arctic Design and Indigenous Knowledge

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My name is Svetlana Usenyuk, I am a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture, Helsinki. I completed my PhD last summer in Ekaterinburg, Russia, with the topic “Arctic Design: the Principle of Co-creation for Transport Vehicles”. My research experience is rooted in studying Western Siberian indigenous peoples, particularly Khanty and Nenets. …

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Sajos, Sámi Cultural Centre, Inari.

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Anthropology Research Team guest and Fulbright Grantee to Finland Paul R. Burgess writes an update from Inari. Sajos is the newly opened Sámi cultural centre and home to the Finnish Sámi Parliament Hall (Solju). Construction was completed in January, and the first Parliamentary session was held last Wednesday. Official opening ceremonies will take place in …

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