During the past week, the discussion around Finland's Sámi Parliament Act and especially the legal definition of who is Sámi has caught fire. The time to amend Finland's existing Sámi Parliament Act under this government is quickly running out (check out for instance the President of Saami Council Aslak Holmberg's illuminative blog text). While the … Continue reading Toxic speech, political self-indigenization and social media – or, are the Sámi finally being heard?
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End Sámi Parliament? On Finland’s Indigenous policy and online hate-speech
Supreme Administrative Court's rulings are exposing the Sámi to threats and cyberhate.
Protected: Happy in Gaza / the art of making life liveable under siege and military occupation (Gaza beach, 2003-2005)
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Why do white people portray as black?
Black identity appropriation has nothing to do with ending racism. Yesterday, I found a string of recent news stories and twitter entries which attacked the Black Lives Matter movement and Critical Race Theory, the academic discourse which underlies much of contemporary anti-racist thought. One of the stories focused on white Americans, who falsely pose as … Continue reading Why do white people portray as black?
“Race Shifting” in a Comparative Framework
Or, a Call for Papers for a panel at NAISA Conference, Toronto May 7-9, 2020.
A Settler Colonial Song Contest
The Palestinian BDS movement asked the world to boycott the Eurovision song contest held in Israel. Israel is a text-book example of a settler-colonial state, which wants the land but not its people. It is a state, which has occupied Palestinian lands since the 1948, and where the compulsion to “eliminate the native” (Wolfe 2006) takes … Continue reading A Settler Colonial Song Contest
CFP: Sámi Research in Transition
For the past two years, I have worked together with an international team of researchers on a research project titled The Social Dimensions of Sámi Research which is hosted by the Tromsø University Museum at the Arctic University of Norway (UiT) and funded by the Research Council of Norway. As part of the project, we … Continue reading CFP: Sámi Research in Transition