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  • Violent experiences, violent practices: caring and silence in anthropology 

    Gross, Lena (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)
    "Take care. This will be good data", I heard from a senior scholar after writing them about several violent and dangerous incidents that occurred during my PhD-fieldwork. At the time, I did not question it. Neither the words "take care" without further advice following how to do that, nor the statement that these incidents are good data. Are they, thougt? Does the ethnographer`s close experience of ...
  • The Arctic: last frontier for energy and mineral exploitation? 

    Gross, Lena; Dale, Ragnhild Freng (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)
    Historically, the Arctic has been imagined as the last frontier to conquer, tightly connected to ideas of manhood, adventure, and survival of the fittest. In the last decades, the Arctic has caught new interest as a resource frontier for tourism, trade, energy, and minerals. Climate change has both opened new waterways in the Arctic Ocean and altered living conditions drastically for Arctic communities. ...
  • Indigenous agency through normative contestation: defining the scope of free, prior and informed consent in the Russian North 

    Peeters, Marina Goloviznina (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2021)
    This chapter explores how obshchiny, the most numerous grassroots Indigenous peoples’ organizations in contemporary Russia, deal with the challenge of exercising their right to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC). The study nuances our understanding of the agency of obshchiny, drawing much-needed attention to their practices of making a difference in the governance of extractive activities at ...
  • “Not a Major or Complicated Task”: Activating Dugnad under COVID-19 and the Imagination of Equality in the Norwegian Welfare State 

    Gross, Lena (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-09-28)
    In Norway, the institution of the welfare state and trust in the government defined the country’s approach to tackling the pandemic. In particular, the government’s strategy to activate the cultural concept of dugnad (voluntary, reciprocal communal work), which relies on an equal standing of all participants, plays into the national imaginary of an egalitarian and just society. However, like in other ...
  • The Norwegian TRC: Truth, Reconciliation, and Public Engagement 

    Broderstad, Else Grete; Josefsen, Eva (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-07-19)
    In 2018, the Norwegian Parliament appointed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate the Norwegianisation policy and injustice against the Sámi and Kven/Norwegian Finns. We focus on the commission’s public engagement, and emphasise Sámi and Kven/Norwegian Finns’ perceptions and expectations in relation to these efforts. The mandate’s goal is to establish a common understanding of the ...
  • Å gjøre kjønn og etnisitet feil. Om læstadianisme, samer og skeivhet i Nord-Troms 

    Olsen, Torjer Andreas (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2022)
    «Kjærlighet. Rakkhaus. Ráhkisvuohta.» Disse tre orda står på forsida til nettstedet nordtromspride.no. I juni 2020 skulle en pridefestival etter planen bli arrangert i Nord-Troms for første gang. Dette blei gjort umulig av koronaviruset. De tre orda er det samme ordet på tre språk. For Nord-Troms er et flerspråklig og flerkulturelt område. Kjærlighet heter rakkhaus på kvensk og ráhkisvuohta på nordsamisk.
  • Dekolonisering som perspektiv på rasisme. Et samisk eksempel 

    Olsen, Torjer Andreas (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2022)
    Rasisme og andregjøring retta mot urfolk er et vedvarende problem. Det handler om ekskludering og inkludering, om trakassering og andregjøring, og noen ganger om dehumanisering. I dette kapitlet skriver jeg om hvordan urfolk i ulike sammenhenger er eller er blitt til de fremmede, til de som ikke hører til et sted. Mitt hovedargument er at rasisme er en grunnleggende del av koloniale relasjoner der ...
  • Comprehending the mandate and interactions of land tenure reform in Finnmark, Norway 

    Broderstad, Else Grete; Josefsen, Eva (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2020)
    The land management arrangement – the Finnmark Estate (FeFo) established in Finnmark County - the northernmost county of Norway, is built on indigenous right claims, which implies that particular values, norms and principles are constitutive for and underpin FeFo as an institution. Still, the involved actors - FeFo and the two appointing bodies of the FeFo board - the Sami Parliament and the Finnmark ...
  • Refusal – opening otherwise forms of research 

    Gross, Lena; Mashreghi, Sepandarmaz; Söderman, Emma (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-09-14)
    An increasing interest towards researching other forms of knowledges is taking place, expanding the boundaries of knowledge to include forms that have been historically marginalised, negated, and neglected by the Western academy. Parallel to this, we have identified a rising critique of how voices marginalized by colonial modes of academic knowledge production are included, through a single-sided ...
  • Historical and political perspectives on Sámi and inclusive school systems in Norway 

    Keskitalo, Pigga Päivi Kristiina; Olsen, Torjer Andreas (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2019-05)
    The aim of this chapter is to introduce Norway’s inclusive education policies for two separate school systems: the national Norwegian and the Sámi systems. This chapter is based on research done in Norway on its national and Sámi schools and their curricula. Norway is an interesting example when it comes to indigenous education and national schools, as state policies on diversity and minority and ...
  • Kolonial maskulinitet, kjønnet vold og nybyggerkolonialisme i Canada 

    Gross, Lena (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    10. mars 2022 ble Tytiana Janvier funnet død i et hjem i Lac La Biche i den canadiske provinsen Alberta etter å ha blitt meldt savnet av familien dagen før. Hun hadde gått til en bensinstasjon i byen for å ta en dusj. Bostedet hennes, en slags container utenfor byen som var opprettet som nødløsning for hjemløse, hadde ikke innlagt vann. Tytiana kom aldri tilbake. Hun ble 21 år.
  • Om departemental politisk spagat og folkerettens kulturvern 

    Broderstad, Else Grete (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Utgangspunktet for denne artikkelen er Kalvvatnan-saken i det sørsamiske området. I 2016 stoppet Olje- og energidepartementet planene om å bygge et vindkraftverk på et område brukt av reindriften. Folkerettslige bestemmelser av betydning for urfolk og særlig artikkel 27 i FNs konvensjon om sivile og politiske rettigheter spilte en avgjørende rolle for at departementet avslo å gi konsesjon til ...
  • The Agencies of the 'Co-Opted': Indigenous Peoples Organisations and Contestation of International Indigenous Rights Norms in Russia 

    Peeters, Marina (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-04-18)
    The article untangles the relationship between Indigenous Peoples organisations (ipo s) and the Russian government in domestic and international political forums over the 1990s-2020s. It links two debates on co-optation and Indigenous peoples’ rights norms contestation, offering a more nuanced view of them as complex, incremental, and dynamic processes in the Russian authoritarian regime. By proceeding ...
  • Inclusion as indigenisation? Sámi perspectives in teacher education 

    Somby, Hege Merete; Olsen, Torjer Andreas (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-02)
    The Norwegian educational system is in the process of recognising and incorporating the rights of the Sámi as an Indigenous people. This transition will place new and challenging demands on teacher education programmes. The international goal within the field of inclusive education has been to give all children and youth equal opportunities for education, as exemplified by the UN Sustainable ...
  • Undervisning om samiske temaer i skolen - betydninga av kompetanse og urfolksperspektiv for en inkluderende praksis 

    Evju, Kristin; Olsen, Torjer Andreas (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-26)
    Skolen legger føringer for undervisning om samisk historie, språk, kultur, samfunn og rettigheter. I denne artikkelen undersøker vi erfaringer med disse temaene gjennom intervjuer med lærere fra seks ulike skoler i Norge; tre i Nord-Norge og tre på Østlandet. Lærernes praksis påvirkes av samspillet mellom blant annet læreplaner, læremidler, stedstilhørighet og perspektivering. Disse kan forstås som ...
  • “I shut it out”: expectant mothers’ fear of childbirth after a traumatic birth—a phenomenological study 

    Nordsletta, Anne-Hedvig Salmi; Sommerseth, Eva; Røseth, Idun; Olsen, Barbo; Forgaard, Anikken (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-19)
    Purpose: To describe expectant mothers’ experiences of fear of childbirth after a previous traumatic birth.<p> <p>Method: Qualitative, individual, in-depth interviews were conducted with eight expectant mothers between September and November 2020. Data were analysed using a descriptive phenomenological approach. <p>Results: We identified four interconnected constituents: Suboptimal midwifery ...
  • Urfolk og nasjonale minoriteter som tema i samfunnsfag 

    Olsen, Torjer Andreas; Evju, Kristin (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2022)
    Gjennom Kunnskapsløftet 2020 (LK2020) er urfolk og nasjonale minoriteter blitt løfta som temaområde i skolen. I dette kapittelet ser vi på hvilken plass samene og de nasjonale minoritetene har i overordna del og i samfunnsfaglæreplanen, og diskuterer hva dette har å si for undervisninga i samfunnsfag. Kapittelet har to hoveddeler. For det første undersøker vi læreplanen ut fra hva den sier om ...
  • Learning to aspire, aspiring to subvert: Namibian San youths' narratives about the future as mimetic work of resistance 

    Ninkova, Velina; Paksi, Attila (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-06)
    This article examines Namibian San youths’ aspirations about the future. Based on 170 essays, the analysis shows that disadvantaged San students aspire for future lives radically different from the lives of their families. We argue that San students have acquired the repertoire of “the good Namibian citizen” as a form of resistance through mimesis. These assertions create an opening for the projection ...
  • Cryptic impact: Visual detection of corona light and avoidance of power lines by reindeer 

    Tyler, N. J. C.; Stokkan, Karl-Arne; Hogg, Christopher; Nellemann, C; Vistnes, Arnt Inge (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-02-06)
    Assessing the impact of human development on animals is complicated by the fact that overt effects may have covert causes. Cryptic impacts (sensu Raiter et al. 2014) can arise where sensory stimuli to which species respond fall outside the human sensory range. Ultraviolet (UV) light, which is detected by a range of nonprimate mammals, is a potential example. We review evidence that dark-adapted eyes ...

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