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“Here we are just inside out gáktis”
(Master thesis, 2025)The Fovsen actions consisted of three events that influenced the Sámi society throughout 2023. In February/March, a week-long action began in the capital of Norway, where both Sámi and non-Sámi gathered to take actions against the Norwegian state. Among other things, gáktis turned inside out and civil disobedience was used as ways to show resistance to an ongoing human rights violation against the ... -
The Right to Mother Tongue Education for the San People in Botswana Examining Botswana’s Education and Training Sector Strategic Plan (2015–2020)
(Master thesis, 2025)This thesis set out to examine Botswana's Education and Training Sector Strategic Plan (ETSSP) for the period 2015-2020 through the specific lens of the right to Mother Tongue Education (MTE) for the Indigenous San people. Against a backdrop of documented educational disparities faced by the San, often linked to linguistic barriers within a system dominated by Setswana and English, this research ... -
Unveiling Colonial Narratives and Amplifying Indigenous Voices: The Role of Kanak Women in Resisting Settler Colonialism in Kanaky/New Caledonia
(Master thesis, 2025)This thesis explores gender dynamics in Kanaky/New Caledonia, highlighting colonialism's enduring impact on Kanak women's lived experiences. In response to the gaps in research on how Indigenous women actively negotiate the tensions between custom, modernity and colonialism, this study examines their narratives and practices in cultural education and media activism. Mobilizing a theoretical approach ... -
Examining the educational and cultural context of the Dukha people: The impacts and limitations of compulsory education for nomadic reindeer herders’ children in northern Mongolia
(Master thesis, 2025)This thesis examines the educational and cultural experiences of the Dukha people, sometimes referred to as the Tsaatan, nomadic reindeer herders in northern Mongolia. Classified as an ethnic minority by the Mongolian government, many scholars consider them to be Indigenous peoples. Children must travel from their homes, ortz, a type of teepee, in the taiga on horseback, or by reindeer, to attend ... -
Internal Community Engagement and Impact Benefit Agreements: Pathways to Community-Driven Outcomes
(Master thesis, 2025)Impact benefit agreements (IBAs) between Indigenous communities and mining companies have become a key instrument through which these communities engage with mineral development on their traditional lands. IBAs offer the potential to generate substantial benefits and improve quality of life for signatory communities; however, research has demonstrated that outcomes vary widely. Strong internal ... -
“They didn’t tell us. They only gave us one option”: Agreement making between Indigenous peoples and private enterprise on Indigenous lands
(Master thesis, 2025)On 24 May 2020, Rio Tinto triggered detonations at a mine located on the Native Title land of the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinkuru people (PKKP people) in Western Australia. The blast destroyed Juukan Gorge, a culturally and spiritually significant place to the PKKP people. To the PKKP people, the destruction came unexpectedly and as a devastating blow. The federal Parliamentary inquiry that followed ... -
Negotiating Sami Art: Mediation Practices and Representation in Nordic Art Museums
(Master thesis, 2025)This thesis examines the presence and presentation of contemporary Sámi art within Western art museums through the analysis of two exhibitions: Ingunn Utsi – MUN LEAN DAT MAID LEAN DAHKAN at the Northern Norwegian Art Museum (NNKM) in Romsa/Tromsø, Norway, and Guorrat násttiid luittaid – Britta Marakatt-Labba at the Kin Museum of Contemporary Art in Giron/Kiruna, Sweden. Both exhibitions are situated ... -
Managing Sámi culture-based tourist experiences in northern Fennoscandia: A case study about working in Indigenous tourism
(Master thesis, 2025)This exploratory research aims to understand what is needed to bring Sámi culture-based tourist experiences in northern Fennoscandia to a success, seen from a managerial point of view. It does so by identifying the different internal and external experience components that require management by the experience hosts to ensure goal attainment, how these components interact, as well as the context in ... -
Governing with Knowledge: User Knowledge, Epistemic Justice, and Marine Mammal Management in the Arctic
(Master thesis, 2025)This thesis investigates how user knowledge—place-based insights from hunters and local actors—is integrated into environmental governance, using the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO) as a case study. Drawing on Tengö et al.’s (2017) five-task framework for knowledge integration (mobilize, translate, negotiate, synthesize, and apply), the study analyzes NAMMCO documents and reports ... -
Going beyond colonialism? Historien om Grønland og Danmark (DR, 2022) – analysis of the docudrama series as a media text, compared with audience responses in Greenland
(Master thesis, 2025)In 2022, the Danish national public service broadcaster DR produced a television series commemorating the 300th anniversary of the arrival of the priest Hans Egede in Greenland in 1721, a traditional marker of the beginning of Danish colonisation. Called Historien om Grønland og Danmark (The history of Greenland and Denmark, DR 2022), the series traces the “felles historie” (shared history) of the ... -
“This is the Amazon, but do you hear the birds sing?” A study of Norwegian extractivism and its colonial echoes in Barcarena
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-11)This thesis explores the intersection of Norwegian extractivism and its colonial echoes in Barcarena, Pará, Brazil, with a focus on the impact of mining activities tied to Norsk Hydro’s Alunorte/Albras complex, specifically in the bauxite refining and aluminum production processes. Drawing on decolonial and activist research frameworks, this study critically examines the contradictions in Norway’s ... -
Exploring Three-Dimensional Technologies for Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage: The Case of the RUOKTOT Exhibition
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-05-13)This master’s thesis explores the integration of three-dimensional (3D) technologies in RUOKTOT exhibition production in Sápmi, focusing on the reciprocal relationship between museums, 3D technologies, community, and heritage—narrated through the repatriation process of the famous Sámi drum, the goavddis of Paul-Ánde, widely known as Anders Poulsen, and digitization of old Sámi drums. The RUOKTOT ... -
Intersectional identities and spaces: Queer T’boli and Maranao narratives
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2024-05-13)This thesis contributes to our understanding of queer lived experiences by exploring identity constraints influence on the creation and maintenance of safe and brave spaces of queer Indigenous Filipinos. The study investigates their complex relationship with ambivalence towards and their survivance with the spaces they create within themselves, their familial, Indigenous community, cultural and ... -
Singing the Song of Conservation; Influence of Biosecurity on the Indigenous Ngāi Tahu Land within the Mt Aspiring Region
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-15)This thesis is braiding the disciplines of Indigenous Studies, Social Sciences, and Environmental Studies by investigating the extent to which the currently implemented biosecurity measures interact with Indigenous peoples’ fundamental rights to self determination and rights to traditional lands. That is done in the context of Ngāi Tahu Tino rangatiratanga within Tititea area (Mt Aspiring ... -
‘ Ughą jesedǔdla k’e’ - We work together : The impact of modern treaty First Nations in the Yukon working together on the implementation of the Final and Self-government Agreements
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-12)This master’s thesis examines how modern treaty First Nations in the Yukon (MTFNYs) currently collaborate, and the potential impact of MTFNYs collaborating more on the implementation of the Final and Self-government agreements. It explores how MTFNYs, and non-Indigenous governments (Canada and Yukon) describe the implementation of the agreements; the benefits and obstacles to collaboration according ... -
“Saying You Will Help Is Not Enough” : Exploring Capacity-building Efforts Among San Community-Based Organizations in Botswana
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-14)The Indigenous San in Botswana, frequently encounter development projects aiming to alleviate socio-economic disparities, often through a conservation-focused framework called Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM). However, this framework imposes Western notions of conservation and governance, thereby neglecting the Indigenous knowledge system of the San and their traditional conservation ... -
Impact Assessments and Sámi Self-determination in the Násávárre case: a right or a privilege?
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-11)In 2004 the Chinese company Elkem proposed the construction of a quartz quarry on Násávárre in Rana Municipality, Norway. Their proposition entails severe implications for Norwegian and Swedish Sámi reindeer herding communities, who use the area of the mountain throughout the year. The conflicting interests required an evaluation of said implications. Commissioned by Elkem, Sweco Norway AS conducted ... -
Decolonising Indigenous-state democratic dialogue. An analysis of the Sámi consultation process on the Norwegian Education Act
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-13)This thesis examines the consultation process between the Sámediggi and the Norwegian government regarding the Education Act approved in 2023, adopting the Sámediggi’s perspective. Consultations are a central mechanism in international law for Indigenous peoples to influence decision-making processes and outcomes on matters that may affect their interests and cultures. However, there is a gap between ... -
State Protection and Promotion of the Sami and Frisian Languages in the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages Reports: A comparative study of Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-10-31)This thesis discusses the protection and promotion of Indigenous and minority languages by analyzing the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML). The study is comparative in nature and focuses on the Sami languages, in Norway and Sweden, and the Frisian languages, in Germany and the Netherlands. The ECRML and its explanatory report are analyzed as well as the latest ... -
Biocultural Storytelling Pedagogy in Indigenous Nagaland: The Relational Worlds of Easterine Kire’s Novels
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-11-01)In the quest for glocal solutions to glocal ecological breakdown, in which sustainability and biodiversity conservation have become powerful concepts at an international level, the causes of the ecological crises must be understood by their socio-economic ontological roots. Today, international fora increasingly recognise the contribution of Indigenous Peoples in safeguarding biodiversity, and attempt ...
