ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|195 pages
Guođohit 1 – Living with/In Nature
chapter Chapter One|18 pages
A Window into Vanishing Sámi Culture?
chapter Chapter Two|14 pages
Gákti on the Pulse of Time
chapter Chapter Three|19 pages
Skolt Saami Leu'dd
chapter Chapter Four|14 pages
Trickster Blurring Expectations and Values of Sámi Community
chapter Chapter Six|15 pages
From History to Herstory of the Sámi World
chapter Chapter Eleven|16 pages
Understanding Sámi Reindeer Herders' Knowledge Systems of Snow and Ice
chapter Chapter Twelve|17 pages
Issues of Sámi Representation in Finnish Tourism
part II|197 pages
Gierdat 1 – Living through/In Societal Ruptures
chapter Chapter Fourteen|16 pages
Residential Schooling of the Sámi in the Soviet Union
chapter Chapter Fifteen|15 pages
The Sámi in the Spiral of Negative Social Developments of the Soviet North
chapter Chapter Sixteen|13 pages
Changing States, Changing Sámi?
chapter Chapter Seventeen|18 pages
The Sámi Flag(s)
chapter Chapter Eighteen|16 pages
Who are ‘We, the People’?
chapter Chapter Nineteen|18 pages
Toxic Speech, Political Self-Indigenization and the Ethics and Politics of Critique
chapter Chapter Twenty Three|15 pages
The Role of the Sámi Media in Democratic Processes
part III|166 pages
Duostat 1 – Envisioning Sámi Futures