The Sami World 1st Edition by Sanna Valkonen 1000584232 9781000584233

Part I Guođohit – Living with/in Nature

1 A window into vanishing Sámi culture? Visual representations of Sáminess in the shared Siida exhibition by Sámi Museum Siida and Northern Lapland’s Nature Centre

2 Gákti on the pulse of time: The double perspective of the traditional Sámi dress

3 Skolt Saami Leu′dd: Tradition as a medium of individual and collective remembrance

4 Trickster blurring expectations and values of Sámi community: Author Jovnna-Ánde Vest reshaping Sámi muittašangirjjálašvuohta (reminiscence literature)

5 The river breaks – and freezes: Sámi women in Laestadianism

6 From History to Herstory of the Sámi world: Proposing a feminist approach to the settlement history of Finnish Lapland

7 Caught in the state’s net? Ecologies of care in Deanuleahki, Sápmi

8 Defining the Sámi cultural environment: New perspectives for fieldwork

9 Frustrated caretakers: Sámi egg gatherers and cloudberry pickers

10 Sámi food culture: Traditional practices and contemporary challenges

11 Understanding Sámi reindeer herders’ knowledge systems of snow and ice

12 Issues of Sámi representation in Finnish tourism: A quest for authenticity

Part II Gierdat – Living through/in Societal Ruptures

13 The futures of Sami languages

14 Residential schooling of the Sámi in the Soviet Union: Historical development and impacts

15 The Sámi in the spiral of negative social developments of the Soviet North

16 Changing states, changing Sámi? Framing the state and the Sámi in studies of history in Finland and Norway 1923–1954

17 The Sámi flag(s): From a revolutionary sign to an institutional symbol

18 Who are ‘We, the People’? A comparative analysis of the right to register in the Sámi electoral roll in Finland, Norway and Sweden

19 Toxic speech, political self-Indigenization and the ethics and politics of critique: Notes from Finland

20 The history and current situation of discrimination against the Sámi

21 Municipal politics in the Sámi homeland in Finland

22 The Stockholm Sámi administrative area and Indigenous resurgence

23 The role of the Sámi media in democratic processes: The Arctic Railway in Yle Sápmi and NRK Sápmi

24 The Áltá and Deatnu conflicts and the articulations of nature

Part III Duostat – Envisioning Sámi Futures

25 The history of the hybrid Sámi media system

26 ‘It should be her language’: New speakers of Sámi languages transmitting the language to the next generation

27 Ládjogahpir rematriated: Decolonization of the Sámi women’s hat of pride

28 Sámi research ethics under construction

29 Driving around with Aunt Máret: Historical consciousness of the Sámi in transition

30 The characteristics and legal status of Sámi legal tradition and law

31 Commemorating continuity: Reconciling material representations in Sää′m land

32 Sámi storytelling through design

33 Sámi feminist conversations

34 Queer Indigenous world-making in the Sámi TV comedy Njuoska bittut

35 The activism of having fun: Young Sámi in urban areas of Norway and Sweden

Epilogue: Ways of being in the world

Index