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dc.contributor.authorJunka-Aikio, Laura
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-17T06:37:33Z
dc.date.available2022-08-17T06:37:33Z
dc.date.issued2022-08-01
dc.description.abstractSettler colonial theory has effectively highlighted the continuity of colonial structures, but less attention has been paid on how also the settler state has transformed over time, and how such changes have affected the manifold relationships between the state, the settlers and the natives. This article addresses trajectories of settler colonial change in Finland, building on theories of state spatial transformation and taking the recurring plans to build a Railway across the Sámi homeland as its point of departure. The article suggests that central to the change is the destabilization of the relationship between the state and Northern Finland’s older, ‘endogenous’ settler communities. This has facilitated a popular turn to settler self-Indigenization, whereby settlers make new claims to being ‘Indigenous’, usually building on records of a distant (possibly) Indigenous ancestor. Since self-Indigenization directly challenges Indigenous self-determination, it articulates a new form of elimination of the native. The task for critical scholarship is not only to situate, contextualize and challenge such identity claims, but also to question the logic that continues to set especially older settler communities in opposition to Indigenous rights and self-determination, in the context of extractive and neoliberal development that ultimately may undermine both.en_US
dc.identifier.citationJunka-Aikio LO. Whose Settler Colonial State? Arctic Railway, Changing State Space and Settler Self-Indigenization in Northern Finland. Postcolonial Studies. 2022en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2017117
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2022.2096716
dc.identifier.issn1368-8790
dc.identifier.issn1466-1888
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/26226
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.relation.journalPostcolonial Studies
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020-EU.1.3.2./845232/EU/Indigenous Research, Institutionalisation and Neo-Politicisation: A Conjunctural Analysis of Sami Research in Finland/INREPOSA/en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2022 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titleWhose Settler Colonial State? Arctic Railway, Changing State Space and Settler Self-Indigenization in Northern Finlanden_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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