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RE-Claimings, Empowerings, Inspirings:
Researching and exploring by, for, and with indigenous peoples, minorities and local communities
Uppsala 3rd Supradisciplinary Feminist Technoscience Symposium, October 14–18, 2013, Uppsala
Symposium information
1. Symposium introduction /Exhibition and participation information/Photographing 2. Symposium program (p.5) 3. Information on lunches and symposium dinner (p. 16) 4. Presentation of organizing departments/institutions/centers/associations/funders (p. 18) 5. Presentation of venues Uppsala University; University Main Building, Norrlands Nation (p. 21) 6. Map (p. 25) 7. Presentation of participants and abstracts of presentations/performances/film screenings (separate document)
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1. Symposium introduction /Exhibition and participation information/Photographing
Introduction Since research on Sámi people was initiated in the 17th century, the majority of research projects on Sámi related issues have been pursued by non-Sámi scholars. At the same time there are Sámi who are academic scholars, but who do not find it beneficial – or rather detrimental – to self-identify as Sámi within the current Swedish academic context, as well as in any other context outside of the Sámi cultural context. This is due to a colonial situation, which touches both territorial issues – detrimental to traditional and modern Sámi livelihood, economic and cultural activities as well as identity aspects.
The indigenous Sámi share these experiences and struggles with indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities, and local/tribal communities in other parts of the world. Although in some countries, including in the U.S. and Canada, ethnic and indigenous studies programs and scholars have grown in number and prominence since the late 1960s. This symposium will include scholars, activists, and artists who are indigenous themselves, as well as non-indigenous people who work in support of indigenous, and other minority and local community perspectives in the US, Canada, China, Japan, Australia, India, Peru, and other countries along with Sámi scholars, artists and activists from Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Russia. The aim of the symposium is to provide a platform for a comparative and critical analysis of the development of indigenous and other community- relevant scholarship, thus furthering both methodological and theoretical development of academic research and culture revitalization. Ultimately we intend to promote the re- claiming of indigenous/tribal/local communities identities, while striving at empowering and inspiring ourselves and each other in this important work.
This is a supra-disciplinary symposium, i.e. the symposium is open to scholars/students activists – artists, and an important focus is on the exchange in between, as well as for scholars/students who are activists and/or artists to work from that point of departure as well. The supra-disciplinarity also encompasses a wish to blur the boundaries between academic and other knowledge production, recognizing that knowledge produced outside of academia should be equally considered and criticized as academic knowledge production. To achieve this goal– we will create a safe space for indigenous/tribal/local community sharing of knowledge and with this in mind, amongst other, all participants will be asked to act as chairs and discussants within the sessions, or to contribute in some other function.
Symposium organizers
The symposium is organized by Dr. May-Britt Öhman, Technoscience, Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, within the research project “Rivers, resistance and resilience: Sustainable futures in Sápmi and in other Indigenous Peoples’ Territories” (FORMAS 2013-2016) in collaboration with:
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Swedish Biodiversity Centre at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Uppsala University (Dr. Håkan Tunón and Ms. Marie Kvarnström); the Hugo Valentin Centre (Professor Leena Huss); the Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies and Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology (Dr. Vladislava Vladimirova); the Research program ‘Mind and Nature’ at Uppsala University; the Centre for Historical Studies School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India (Dr. Jyoti Atwal, Ass. Prof.) and the Muroran Institute of Technology, Hokkaido, Japan(Prof. Hiroshi Maruyama); Dr. Anna Skarin, Reindeer Husbandry Unit, Department of Animal Nutri- tion and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala; UPSAM, the association for Sámi related studies in Uppsala; the Sámi association Silbonah Samesijdda (Ms Agneta Silversparf )
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Exhibition:
Gállok Protest Art
Katarina Pirak Sikku and other work as well as posters
Vernissage Monday Oct 14th at 18.00-20.30 University Main Building, Main hall and Lecture room I.
Exhibition is open to the public:
Tuesday 15th to Friday 18th October 11.00-17.30
Thursday 17th Oct. 11.00-19.15
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EXHIBITION/UTSTÄLLNING Universitetshuset /University Main Building 14-18e oktober ”Gállok Protest Art ”(konst och plakat från protesterna i Kallak 2013, konstnärer/aktivister) Katarina Pirak Sikku ”Spår” /”Traces”(från/from Gállok) Fia Kaddik (photo) Tor Lundberg Tuorda (photo) Marie Persson (Rönnbäck – Tärnaby) and others/mfl. Ti/Tue-To/Thu 11.00-18.00 Fre/Fri 11.00-14.00 (Exhibition open to public) Symposium folder final version 20131013
Participation in the Symposium sessions:
Participation in the symposium sessions is limited to preregistered participants. Drop in participation can be accepted if contact is made with symposium organisers.
Persons attending on a drop in basis need to duly register with name, affiliation, email and phone number. They also should wear name badges available at the registration desk.
Photographing
Photographing is to be made with discretion, please ask persons if they are willing to be on your photos in advance.
There will be a symposium photographer documenting the whole symposium, Tor Lundberg Tuorda. Also photos will be taken by other symposium organizers. Permission has been asked by participants in advance, if you have answered that you do not want to be photographed, we will do our utmost to respect your wish.
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2. Symposium program Monday Oct 14
09.00 Flying of the Sami flag. University Main Building/Universitetshuset
10.00-13.30 Setting of exhibition – all posters and exhibition. Venue: Universitetshuset, Main hall and Sal I.
13.00-15.00 Registration
14.00-14.30 Setting of the Sámi goathe/lavvu. (Lecture room I)
15.30-16.00 Opening (Venue, Lecture room IV, Universitetshuset) Opening yoik by Fia Kaddik
Words of welcome by: Dr. Anita Hussénius, Director of the Centre for Gender Research; and the symposium organisers. Dr. May-Britt Öhman, Technoscience, Centre for Gender Research; Prof. Swedish Biodiversity Centre at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Uppsala University (Dr. Håkan Tunón and Ms. Marie Kvarnström); the Hugo Valentin Centre (Professor Leena Huss); the Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies and Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology (Dr. Vladislava Vladimirova); the Research program ‘Mind and Nature’ at Uppsala University; the Centre for Historical Studies School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India (Dr. Jyoti Atwal, Ass. Prof.) and the Muroran Institute of Technology, Hokkaido, Japan(Prof. Hiroshi Maruyama); Dr. Anna Skarin, Reindeer Husbandry Unit, Department of Animal Nutrition and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala; UPPSAM, the association for Sámi related studies in Uppsala; the Sámi association Silbonah Samesijdda (Ms Agneta Silversparf )
16.00 -17.30 Focus Gállok – Kallak and other struggles to ensure safe grounds, clean waters and cultural heritage
Organisers: May-Britt Öhman and Liz-Marie Nilsen Chair: Tirso Gonzales Co-chair Marie Kvarnström 1. Mirja Palo, song (3 min) 2. Liz-Marie Nilsen, the Network Mining Free Jokkmokk/Urbergsgruppen Jokkmokk: background to the Gállok protest (5 min) 3. Mose, Participant in the Gállok and Ojnare struggles and Malin Norrby, Participant in the Gállok and Ojnare struggles. “The Gállok Rebellion” (FILM 30 min + talk 5 min)
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4. Gunilla Larsson, Revita Archaeology and History; Uppsala University, Member of Stockholm Sami Association “Reclaiming the Sámi History That Was Never Written (Gállok)” 7 min 5. Eva-Lotta Thunqvist, Centre for Health and Building, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Focus Water 7 min 6. Elina Ambjörnsson, Activist with experiences from Gállok, 7 min 7. Katarina Pirak Sikku, Sami artist from Jokkmokk, 7 min 8. Rune Olsson (Aktion Rädda Vättern) 7 min 9. Final words, Liz-Marie Nilsen, 2 min
17.30-18.00 Release of “RE: Mindings Co-Constituting Indigenous / Academic / Artistic Knowledges” papers from the Second Uppsala Supradisciplinary Feminist Technoscience Symposium, Uppsala, October 2012. Organisers: Johan Gärdebo with Hiroshi Maruyama and May-Britt Öhman. Chair: Johan Gärdebo Presentations by editors, authors and Hugo Valentin Centre.
18.00-20.30 Opening of symposium exhibition with amongst other Gállok Protest Art, Katarina Pirak Sikku, other work and posters. Vernissage and Mingle (University Building Main Hall and Lecture Room 1)
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Tuesday October 15th
Session: Re-Claiming Our Landscapes and Waterscapes Chair: Kim Tallbear Co-Chair Anna Skarin Description: Territories, water, livelihood, food, traumas, happiness, identity, (hi)stories, mentoring. This session focuses on stories about resistance against industrial exploitation of indigenous/tribal landscapes and waterscapes, and earlier as well as current activism to reclaim these. The session invites short presentations relevant to the theme.
Session Organizers: Anna Skarin and May-Britt Öhman 09.00-12.30 Venue: Lecture room IX (Universitetshuset)
09.15-10.15 Anna Skarin, Swedish University Agricultural Sciences, Dept. of Animal nutrition and management, Reindeer husbandry unit Reindeer and windpower Discussants: Elina Ambjörnsson and Anett Sasvari
Birgitta Åhman, Swedish University Agricultural Sciences, Dept. of Animal nutrition and management, Reindeer husbandry unit
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Reindeer herd in collapse –report from Njaarke Sameby (Sami village) Discussants: Inger Baer Omma and Fia Kaddik
Therese Sivertsen, Swedish University Agricultural Sciences, Dept. of Animal nutrition and management, Reindeer husbandry unit Non fatal effects of predators (bear and reindeer) Discussants: Fia Kaddik and Inger Baer Omma
10.15-10.30 Break
10.30-10.50 Markus Nyström, Master student, Mind and Nature research program Uppsala University The summer in Gállok – a participartory observation research study from the anti-mining protests in Jokkmokk Dicussants: Masumi Tanaka and Lilian Mikaelsson
10.50-11.10 Marie Persson, Member of the Sami Parliament in Sweden The mineral politics of Sweden – a violation of Indigenous rights and a continuing colonization of Sápmi and northern Sweden Discussants: Lilian Mikaelsson and Jyoti Atwal
11.10-12.10 Tor Lundberg Tuorda, Biebbmo: (Sámi) food, tradition, trend FILM PREMIERE, 40 min Discussants: Jyoti Atwal and Masumi Tanaka
12.10-12.30 Discussion
12.30 – 14.30 LUNCH BREAK
Attention: Venue Lecture room IV (Universitetshuset)
14.15-15.00 Shaila Desouza, Goa University, India, Indian Association for Women’s Studies Exploitation, Struggles & Lessons: Politics, Land & Women in Goa, India Discussants: Masumi Tanaka and Markus Nyström
15.00-15.15 Mirja Palo, Uppsala University, Center for Gender Research Research assistant in Rivers Resistance Resilience: Sustainable Futures in Sápmi and in other Indigenous Peoples’ Territories Public Safety around Dams – results from a study along the Lule River- Julevädno, Norrbotten, Sápmi – Sábme Discussants: Elina Ambjörnsson and Marie Persson
15.15-15.30 Break
15:30-18:45 Session: RE:vivings: empowerings, revitalization, linguistic and cultural emancipation, decolonization
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Description: This session invites papers that explore the emancipatory aspects of language maintenance and revitalization. Linguistic revitalization is here seen as reclamation of a cultural heritage that has been lost, or nearly lost, due to the forces of assimilatory policies and social pressure on the part of the surrounding society. In practice, revitaliza- tion can be understood as local efforts of increasing the number of speakers or domains of use of a threatened language, but also of enhancing the status of the language by official promotion and legislative measures, and, finally, of decolonizing the mind. Organizers: Leena Huss, Hiroshi Maruyama Chair: Robert Phillipson (Co-chair Leena Huss)
15:30-15:35 Opening of Session RE:vivings: Empowerings, Revitalization, Linguistic and Cultural Emancipation Welcome: Hiroshi Maruyama and Leena Huss
15:35-16:30 Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Åbo Akademi, Vasa, Dept of education From linguistic genocide to language revitalisation - Indigenous peoples' and minorities' agency or neoliberal deconstruction of "languages" Discussant: Kim TallBear
16:30-16:40 Break
16:40-17:10 Sigrid Sagka Stångberg, Sami Parliamentary Council, Saemest Dle! Revitalizing the Sami language through language immersion camps for school-age children Discussant: Masumi Tanaka
17:15-17:30 Gerald Roche, Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University Linguistic Rights for the Wrong Languages: Revitalization, Misrecognition, and the Procrustean Bed of Ethnicity on the Northeast Tibetan Plateau Discussant: Åsa Virdi Kroik
17:30-17:45 Discussion
17:45- 18.15 Break/refreshments
18.15-19.00 FILM THE ALTA DAMMING - A WATERSHED IN NORWEGIAN SAPMI-POLICY (FILM 30 min + introduction 15 min) Gunnar Gjengset Screening assistant Mirja Palo
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Wednesday October 16th
Venue: Lecture room IV (Universitetshuset)
Session RE:vivings: Empowerings, Revitalization, Linguistic and Cultural Emancipation Part 2.
09:00-09:10 Re-opening of Session RE:vivings: Empowerings, Revitalization, Linguistic and Cultural Emancipation; Welcome: Hiroshi Maruyama and Leena Huss Organizers: Leena Huss, Hiroshi Maruyama Chair: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (Co-chair Hiroshi Maruyama)
09:10-10:00 Chris Andersen, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta "A funny thing happened on our way to the city": Urban Indigenous Spaces as Cultural Hubs Discussant: Åsa Virdi Kroik
10:00-10:50 Ahmed Kabel, Al Akhawayn University, Revitalizing Amazigh or when the state and elites ‘do what they will and the weak suffer what they must’ Discussant: Aisa Kiyosue
10:50-11:00 Break
11:00-11:30 Hiroshi Maruyama, Uppsala University, Muroran Institute of Technology, An emancipatory approach to the revitalisation of the Ainu language Discussant: Marie Persson
11:35-12:05 Leena Huss, Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University, ”Success” and ”failure” in language revitalization: reflections on the basis of a recent South Sámi research project Discussant: Sigrid Sagka Stångberg
12:05-12:30 Discussion Discussants: Lilian Mikaelsson, Shaila Desouza, Gunnar Haul Gjengset
LUNCH BREAK
14.30 -17.30 Venue: Lecture room IV (Universitetshuset) Session: Re-claiming memories: Knowledge Repatriation and Culture Revitalization in Decolonization Part 1. Description: How can academic scholars contribute to the decolonization of indigenous and local communities? Repatriation in not only about bringing back artefacts and human remains to the country of origin, it is also a term that may be used to describe work done to strengthen and revive local culture and indigenous knowledge systems. To this session we have invited some of the leading names in the world in cultural revitalization and decolonization. Chair: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Dept. of Education, Åbo Akademi University, Åbo, Finland
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14.30–14.45 Introduction 14.45–15.10 Håkan Tunón, Swedish Biodiversity Centre, Uppsala, Sweden Repatriation and revitalization: reflections from the UN Convention on Biological Diversity Discussant: Anna Skarin
15.10–15.40 Lun Yin, Yunnan Academy of Social Science, China, Deputy Director, Center for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge (CBIK), China Community-led research, multi-stakeholder dialogue and indigenous ecological knowledge – experience from China Discussant: Jyoti Atwal
15.40 – 16.10 Break
16.10-16.45 Hugh Brody, the Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, BC. Canada Cultural mapping for building self-esteem Discussant: Kim Tallbear
16.45–17.05 Marie Kvarnström, Swedish Biodiversity Centre, Uppsala, Sweden Looking back, looking forward – seeing another Sweden through Dag Hammarskjöld Discussant: Gunnar Hauk Gjengset
17.05–17.30 Reflections
19.00 Symposium Dinner. venue: Norrlands Nation Artistic performances by Lovisa Negga, Fia Kaddik, Mirja Palo and also spontaneous individual contributions.
Toast masters: Mirja Palo and Fia Kaddik
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Thursday October 17th
Venue: Lecture room IV (Universitetshuset)
09.30-12.30 PANEL: Sami Institutions and Regulation of Resources in the Russian Space Description: This panel focuses on Sami institutions at different levels: from family and kinship units, to informal professional or common interest groups, to non-governmental organizations like Indigenous Ethnic Associations and Offices, Youth organization, and Cultural Centers, to the Sami Parliament, that is supposed to be the most representative Sami organization in Russia. The more general question that the panel aims to address is how indigenous Sami institutions are imbedded in and represented by Russian state institutions in relation to resource use and regulation. The Russian Sami Parliament as a relatively new institution with prospective to represent all Sami people improve their access to and control over resources, will receive special attention.
Chair: Chris Andersen Session organizer: Vladislava Vladimirova
09.30-09.40 Introduction (Vladislava Vladimirova) 09.40-10.25 Valentina Sovkina, Chair of “Sam-Sobbar”, Russian Sami Parliament, Instruments to Influence State Governance of Indigenous People in the North: The Case of the Russian Sami Parliament Discussants: Leena Huss, Shaila Desouza
10.30- 11.15 Tat’iana Viktorovna Sechko, Director of the Lovozero Municipal Ethnic Cultural Centre, “The Role of the Lovozero Municipal Ethnic Cultural Centre for the Sami Community” Discussants: Hilda Lilian Mikaelsson, Jyoti Atwal
11.15-11.45 Break
11.45-12.30 Vladislava Vladimirova, PhD,Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies,Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University, “Sami Institutions’ Role in the Regulation of Resources: the Case of the Russian Sami Parliament” Discussant: Hiroshi Maruyama
LUNCH BREAK
14.30-17.30 Session: RE-Claiming Memories: Knowledge Repatriation and Culture Re- vitalization in Decolonization Part 2. Venue Lecture room IV. Chair: Marie Kvarnström, Swedish Biodiversity Centre, Uppsala, Sweden
14.30–14.45 Introduction
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14.45–15.30 Jorge Ishizawa, Proyecto Andino de Tecnologías Campesinas (PRATEC), Lima, Péru Cultural affirmation as decolonisation in the Peruvian Andes Discussants: Aisa Kiyosue, (Inge Frisk)
15.30-16.00 Break
16.00–16.45 Tirso Gonzales, Indigenous Studies Program, the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada “Between indigeneity and Becoming native to this place “ Discussants: Frances Wyld (Inge Frisk)
16.45–17.30 Reflections from Session: Re-claiming memories
19.30- 21.00 Venue Lecture room IV.
FILM Screening by Hugh Brody, Tracks Across Sand (Film screening assistant Sebastian Hachmeyer)
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Friday October 18th
Venue Lecture room IV Session: Empowering and reclaiming Description: Empowering and Reclaiming: Identities, narratives, (genetic) genealogy, and ethics. This session will bring scholars, activists, and artists together who work on different aspects and through different disciplinary approaches of indigenous and minority identity formation and challenges to such identities and claims. The session invites short presentations relevant to the theme. Organisers: Jyoti Atwal and May-Britt Öhman
9:00- 12:30 Session: Empowering and reclaiming. Part 1.
Chair : Marie Kvarnström
09.00-09.10 Coffee 09.10-09.15 Opening of session Jyoti Atwal 09.15-10.00 Kimberly Tallbear, University of Texas at Austin “Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science” Discussants: Håkan Tunón, Mirja Palo
10.00-10.45 Frances Wyld and Bronwyn Fredericks Frances Wyld, Program Director, David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research, University of South Australia Earth Song as Storywork: Reclaiming Indigenous Knowledges Discussants: Mirja Palo, Katarina Pirak-Sikku
10.45-11.00 Break
11.00-11.40 Jyoti Atwal, Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi History, Identity and Empowerment: Experiences of Bhangi Caste in Modern India Discussants: Leena Huss, Frances Wyld
11.40-12.00 Inge Frisk , Sámi Association in Stockholm Genealogy as enabler of Sámi identity and promoting Sámi in your professional context Discussant: Aisa Kiyosue, Kim Tallbear
12.00-12.20 Katarina Pirak Sikku, Sami artist Tearing up old wounds to make them heal properly: An artistic perspective on racial biology and its effects on the Sámi Discussants: Kim Tallbear, Frances Wyld
12.20-12.30 Silbonah Samesijdda/Lilian Mikaelsson Presentation of the new website by Sami Association Silbonah Samesijdda
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Discussant: Håkan Tunón
12:30- 14.30: LUNCH BREAK
14.30- 17.30 Session: Empowering and reclaiming. Part 2.
Chair: Chris Andersen
14.30-15.10 Minako Sakata, Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Area Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo “Refiguring Indigenous History: Through Ainu Stories of Village Regeneration” Discussant: Shaila Desouza
15.10-15.50 Kaori Arai, Rikkyo University Graduate School, Sociology Department, PhD student. A battle between researchers and the Ainu people in the history of postwar Ainu research , and the change of the Ainu images brought by it Discussant: Jyoti Atwal
15.50-16.10 Break
16.10-16.30 Åsa Virdi Kroik, History of Religion, the Department of Theology, Uppsala University “Research on Indigenous Peoples: Challenges and threats” Discussant: Frances Wyld
16.30-17.00 Fia Kaddik, Sámi photographer and artist Performance: The Pite River – the free river. (Talk, photos and yoiking) Discussant: Kim Tallbear
16.50 – 17.15 Reflections
17.15 Closing of Symposium
Closing yoik by Fia Kaddik
19.30 Mingle at restaurant (location will be communicated)
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3. Information on lunches and symposium dinner
Lunches: Reservation of tables for lunch have been made at Café Alma, in the basement of the University Main Building, Tuesday to Friday from 12.45. All who wish are welcome to join for lunch. Participants who have received lunch coupons in your conference package may use these and select freely from the menu. The coupons are not valid elsewhere. Please see information on the coupons in your symposium file. There is a large amount of selection, of today’s special, salads, soups. If you have any allergy you are advised to consult the staff in the restaurant. http://www.cajsas-kok.se/butiker.aspx
Symposium Dinner Wednesday Oct. 16th
Welcome to the Symposium dinner at Norrlands Nation which is the student nation for students from the northern parts of Sweden – please see description of venues.
The Symposium dinner is available only if you are preregistered (latest by Monday 14th at 15.00. Dinner starts at 19.00.
Wine and beer tickets will be available to buy between 19.00-19.30.
Toast masters are Mirja Palo and Fia Kaddik. Please approach them if you wish to make a performance or talk of any kind. OR you are also free to just initiate this at the moment you feel appropriate during dinner.
Performance will be made by Lovisa Negga, French-Sámi electronica artist from Linköping See http://lovisanegga.com/om-lovisa-negga/ Singing/yoik contributions will be madea lso by Fia Kaddik and Mirja Palo. And by anyone else who wishes to perform something!
The menu is specific Sami specialities Suovas (reindeer meet) with small salad, pine vinaigrette, rye bread crisp and herb mayonnaise
Fried char, (röding) potato terrine with Västerbottens cheese, browned butter and beluga lentils
Parfaît with messmör, cloudberries and oat- and ginger cookie
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The non-alcoholic beverage served will be lingonberry juice.
Specific requests due to allergies and/ or vegetarian/vegan is communicated to Norrlands Nation and will be taken care of.
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4. Presentation of organizing departments/institutions/ centres/associations/funders
Centre for Gender Research (www.gender.uu.se) at Botaniska Trädgården, Villavägen 6, Uppsala University.
The Centre for Gender Research is a dynamic and productive research environment where transgressive encounters between cultural, social and biological understandings of sex and gender has become a characteristic. In 2006 the Centre as appointed as a Centre of Gender Excellence (Swedish Research Council).
Researchers at the Centre for Gender Research have their background in various disciplines in the faculties of the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Together we represent a great variety of competences and areas of specializations. Research conducted at the Centre for Gender Research can be divided into six currently strong profile areas: Body/Embodiment, Cultural Studies, Education, Masculinites, HumAnimal Studies and Physics.. We also run the excellence programme GenNa: Nature/Culture and Transgressive Encounters We provide a broad educational base with courses in both English and Swedish. In addition to Master's programmes, we give free-standing courses on both basic and advanced level. For English speaking students we offer courses on advanced level. Through trans-disciplinary efforts, events, and conversations, the Centre for Gender Research transgresses traditional organizational and knowledge boundaries and offers a unique and vibrant university wide meeting place for scholars and students in gender research. In 2012, the Centre celebrates 30 years as an independent unit with the Uppsala University.
The research project Rivers, resistance and resilience: Sustainable futures in Sápmi and in other indigenous peoples’ territories, led by Dr. May-Britt Öhman, financed by FORMAS (2013-2016) Overall aim of this supradisciplinary research project is to analyze the sociotechnical aspects of human security, sustainability for, resistance and resilience of indigenous peoples in (post)colonial settings in regard to industrial exploitations of riverscapes/ waterscapes. Apart from the analysis of the interactions between different groups of human beings, Sámi communities, individuals, associations, on the one hand and local and state authorities as well as industrial companies on the other, the project also departs from the understanding that the interaction between human society and the natural world goes beyond the control of one by the other and therefore aims at a broader understanding of agency, one in which both humans and nature act as agents of change. Geographical focus is on waterscapes in Swedish Sápmi ? the Lule, Ume, Kalix and Torne rivers. Wider comparisons will be made with other colonial settings, Japan, Norway, Finland, Australia, the US; The Great Ruaha and Rufiji in Tanzania, as well as rivers in India and Canada. Apart from the cross-disciplinary collaboration envisioned, the supradisciplinarity is based on decolonizing methodology where an important part is collaboration with indigenous and Sámi scholars and a close collaboration with Sámi associations, individuals, artists and filmmakers as well as representatives of authorities and industrial companies.
Silbonah Samesijdda http://www.silbonah.se/ Field Code Changed
The official name of the association is Rödingsträsk Intresseförening - The association of Rödingsträsk – was established in November 1997. The aim was to work with investigating the history of Rödingsträsk, an old forest Sámi village within the Norrbotten County, Sápmi The association focuses on Sámi genealogy work and general work in regard to Sámi culture – language, duodji, getting together - with specific focus
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on the area and the descendants of Rödingsträsk. A member’s newsletter edited by the President Agneta Silversparf is distributed with four numbers per year.
UPPSAM – The association for Sámi related research in Uppsala http://www.valentin.uu.se/forskning/Forskargrupperonatverk/uppsam/
Founded as a network in 2009, and as an association in 2011, UPPSAM assembles researchers from all disciplines working with Sámi related research, and who are somehow related to Uppsala University and/or the Swedish University of Agricultural sciences (SLU) in Uppsala.
The network/association has an email-list to keep in touch, where events and call for papers are announced. We get together for lunches about twice per semester. In 2011 we arranged our first symposium, from which a symposium report with popular scientific articles from the presenters was published. “Uppsala mitt I Sápmi” – “Uppsala in the midst of Sápmi”. The report all but one articles are in Swedish, has a translation of the preface into English is available via the link: http://www.slu.se/Global/externwebben/centrumbildningar-projekt/centrum-for- biologisk-mangfald/Dokument/publikationer-cbm/cbm-skriftserie/skrift55.pdf
Hugo Valentin Centre http://www.valentin.uu.se/ Field Code Changed
The Hugo Valentin Centre is an inter-disciplinary forum at Uppsala University with research as its prime task. Research is carried out within two prioritized areas: on the one hand cultural and social phenomena and processes of change related to the ethnic dimension in human life, on the other hand the Holocaust and other cases of genocide and severe crimes against human rights. To these subject fields belong minority studies and Holocaust and genocide studies as well as related and adjacent subjects where the Centre has a marked specialisation: Holocaust history, massive violence, discrimination, multilingualism, migration and integration. Conditions in the Nordic countries and in the Balkans have a special position, and culture, language, history and religion are natural points of departure for the Centre's work. The Hugo Valentin Centre was established at Uppsala University's Faculty of Arts in November 2009 through a merging of two previous units, the Centre for Multiethnic Research and The Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The new unit started its work under the new name on 1 January 2010.
Mind and Nature Node, Faculty of Arts, Uppsala University (funder) http://www.histfilfak.uu.se/mind-nature/
We are seven departments that collaborate across disciplines in Mind & Nature; Department of Archival Science, Library & Information Science, and Museum & Heritage Studies (ALM), Department of Archaeology & Ancient History, Centre for Gender Research, Department of Art History, Department of History of Science and ideas, The Hugo Valentin Centre and Department of Cultural Anthroplogy and Ethnology.
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We study the relationships between individuals, society & the environment in the form of spatial and temporal analyses. The aim is to understand and explain the interaction between humans and the environment in history and today.
Our research spans over three main themes:
• The tension between the agency, political andlegal systems & environmental change • The interplay between perceptions and visual representations of the relationship between man and nature & natural resource management • How art, public debate, media contributes to shape debates on environmental issues, social justice & sustainable development The research node consists of researchers and master students from different disciplines within the humanities. We work in research projects that span across four continents with cross-disciplinary studies of different temporal scales.
Vetenskapsrådet, Swedish Research Council www.vr.se
The Swedish Research Council is an authority within the Ministry of Education and Research. The council’s remit include:
• allocating funds for research • identifying research areas for strategic investment in consultation with other research funding agencies • working on analysis, assessment and strategic matters in connection with research and research funding from a national and international perspective • promoting communication between researchers and different academic areas, and between researchers and society otherwise • promoting multi- and interdisciplinary research • making research results accessible and making sure they reach the areas of society where they can be useful, for example within education, healthcare and within trade and industry • advising the government on research-political matters • striving for increased national and international collaboration and benefit within the research community • promoting gender perspectives in research • having overarching responsibility for matters relating to ethical requirements in research • working for equality between men and women in the research community • increasing understanding of the importance of basic research to society
FORMAS (www.formas.se)
The mission of Formas is to promote and support basic research and need-driven research in the areas Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning. The research that is funded should be of the highest scientific quality and relevance to the areas of responsibility of the Council. Formas may also fund development projects to a limited extent.
Formas' three primary areas are:
• Environment and Nature • Agricultural Sciences, Animals and Food • Spatial Planning
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Uppsala University
Information from the website of Uppsala University www.uu.se
“Uppsala University is the oldest university in the Nordic countries, with a living cultural environment and fantastic student life. There are 40,000 students here, and they are seen, heard, and noticed everywhere. World-class research and high quality education pursued here benefit society and business on a global level. The University is characterized by diversity and breadth, with international frontline research at nine faculties and limitless educational offerings at undergraduate and master levels.
Three Disciplinary Domains: Arts and Social Sciences, Medicine and Pharmacy, and Science and Technology.
Education and research in nine faculties: theology, law, arts, languages, social sciences, educational sciences, medicine, pharmacy, science and technology.
Turnover: about mSEK 5,300
Employees: about 6,000”
University Main Building (Universitetshuset) http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/discover-uppsala/cultural-settings/university-main- Field Code Changed building/
Webcam: http://webcam.uu.se
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Information from the website of the Uppsala University:
“The University Main Building is situated in the center of the town, close to the cathedral. It was built in the 1880s. Parliament had allocated funding, and King Oscar II laid the cornerstone in pouring rain on a spring day in 1879. The site was formerly occupied by a large academic riding building, which was torn down for the new edifice. On May 17, 1887 the building was inaugurated at a festive ceremony. The architect was Herman Teodor Holmgren.
What he created was a grand and stately structure in a sort of Romanesque Renaissance style. The strange thing is that, despite much modernising and functional changes, we still experience largely the same building that visitors encountered in the 1880s. Its magnificent and spacious foyer with its light cupolas and the Grand Auditorium, which seats about 1800, gives us a good idea of the best of 19th-century Swedish architecture. Above the entrance to the Aula we read the often-quoted words of the 18th-century philosopher Thomas Thorild: ‘It is a great thing to think freely, but it is greater still to think correctly.’
There are many other grand rooms in the building. On the ground floor, the University Board convenes in a room with portraits of all the Swedish kings from Gustavus Wasa to Gustavus VI Adolphus. On the upper level there is the so-called Chancellor’s Room, where the University’s rector receives prominent guests. This room, like a series of other connecting rooms, is adorned with numerous portraits depicting kings, cultural figures, and above all professors who have been active at the University over the centuries. In one of the rooms there is a famous group picture representing the Faculty of Theology in 1911, with Nathan Söderblom as dean. The artist was Emerik Stenberg. Uppsala University’s art collection is one of the largest in the country owned by the Swedish state.
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The erection of the building constituted a great step forward in terms of teaching. The building offered a number of classrooms, many of which are still in use. Previously teaching had been carried out in the Gustavianum, in two cold, unheated rooms.
The University Main Building is also the venue for many academic ceremonies. Each year between 15 and 25 new full professors are solemnly inaugurated in the Grand Auditorium. Another ceremony steeped in atmosphere and tradition is the conferring of degrees, when the year’s recipients of doctor’s degrees receive their doctor’s hat or wreath of laurels – a tradition harking back to the year 1600.”
Norrlands Nation (Dinner October 16th) http://www.norrlandsnation.se/
English translation (by May-Britt Öhman) of Swedish text on website of Norrlands Nation:
“A short history of Norrlands Nation:
The Norrlands Nation was established in 1827 as the Botnian and Medelpado-Jämtland nations merged. At this time Norrlands Nation had about 60 members. The Nation hired rooms in different houses in Uppsala. After several year of collecting money from the regions of the members of the Nation (the northern parts – Norrland (Sápmi [editors comment]) the Nation building could be inaugurated in 1889. This house named “the Old house” is undoubtedly the most grand nation house with its classical façade towards the creek Fyrisån. The growing numbers of students in the 1950s and 60s forced the construction of the New House, inaugurated in 1972. Norrlands Nation is today the largest student nation with more than 8 000 members”
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“Norrlands nation is a society of students mainly from the northern parts of Sweden, although all students are welcome to join. With about 7 500 members Norrlands is the biggest nation in Sweden, Uppsala and probably in the whole world. Norrlands nation was founded in 1827. The magnificent mansion located right next to Fyrisån, was built and inaugurated in 1889 and after some extensions now covers 5 500 square meters.
All members are allowed to work at the nation, just ask and you will most probably find something that will fit you. You can work in bar, serving, selling tickets, wardrobe staff, bake, cook and much more. There are plenty of opportunities to earn some extra money while at the same time making a lot new friends. However, there are also a lot of
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members who want to work so the positions are limited and the nation cannot guarantee employment.
At first sight Norrlands may seem huge, which might be true in one sense; the huge possibilities that the nation offers. But at the same time the nation includes a number of different smaller associations, where it’s very easy to fit in and be an important part, and whatever you are interested in you will find the association for you. The sports association, NNIF, organizes a wide range of sports activities. There are creative associations; such as the Photo association, NoNSens that do student farce, a chamber orchestra, a men’s choir, a chamber choir and two big jazz and show bands with their own dance groups. Many of the members at Norrlands are also members of province- based social associations, which arrange many different activities and parties.
Norrlands nation is fortunate to have its own receptionist who can help you with most questions. At Norrlands you can also find Majs café, which on weekdays offers breakfast and lunch, coffee, tea and a wide variety of cookies, all at student prices. For those who thirst for knowledge Norrlands offers several study places, including a number of quiet ones in our library. There is a computer room and the wireless network is accessible all over the building. Norrland’s pub, Orvar, is famous all over Uppsala and probably even beyond, and it is open every day of the week.”
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Map – Uppsala city Centre – and 6. Map important places for RE-Claimings Symposium Link to webmap: http://goo.gl/maps/vkmyK
A. Universitetshuset – University Main hall (all sessions, reception and film screening/mingle) B. Akademihotellet (Hotel for several participants) C. Hotell Kungsängstorg (Hotel for several participants) D. Norrlands Nation (Symposium dinner Wednesday) E. Uppsala Centralstation – trains and buses.
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Participants/Presenters – in alphabetical order by Member of Udtja Sameby. given name with [Version 20131009_0022 Still to be updated and *** organized!] Ahmed Kabel Name: Title: (if applicable) Affiliation: professor, School of Humanities and Abstract: (if applicable) Social Sciences. Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Affiliation: Morocco Bio: Email: Bio: Dr. Ahmed Kabel was born and raised in Website: multilingual Morocco and is of both Amazigh and Photo: Arab heritage. He teaches at the School of Presenting in session: Humanities and Social Sciences at Al Akhawayn Other tasks (chair, discussant, film screening, University in Ifrane, Morocco. He has published on organizing/volunteering, yoik, performance) the linguistic, cultural and professional racism of English language teaching and global cultural and epistemic hierarchies. He has also written on the *** challenges for linguistic and cultural autonomy posed by modern state structures and economic and political ideologies, vigorously promoted by intellectual and academic elites. His publications also inlcude a critique of state and elite-centered language and education policy and how the latter interlock with broad processes of social reproduction and exclusion. He keeps a keen eye on world politics with a special interest in neocolonial geopolitical designs and their impact Agneta Silversparf on ’unpeople’. He believes that only the latter can Title: Silbonah Samesijdda – Sami Genealogy reverse the tide of predatory neoliberal Abstract: Poster, images and papers from Silbonah globalization and lay the foundations for a more Samesijdda – genealogy work. equitable linguistic and cultural world order. Affiliation:/ Bio: I am Agneta Silversparf, born by ’Unpeoples’ of the world, unite! the Lule River in a small village called Bodträskfors Photo: - in a reindeer herding family. I went to secondary school in Piteå, where I took courses within the Title: Revitalizing Amazigh or when the state and Humanities.(Piteå högre allmänna läroverk, elites ‘do as they will and the weak suffer as they latinlinjens helklassiska gren). Some years later I must’. studied at the secondary school in Gislaved and Trollhättan, but this time Economy. The studies I Abstract: Dispossession has been the hallmark of did at universities were short courses, for example, the modern history of Amazighs. This presentation The Biology of the Reindeer, 10 credits. Through aims at examining the historical disempowerment the years I have worked at a number of different of Amazighs in Morocco and the numerous facets places all over Sweden and in all kinds of trades; of their linguistic and cultural dispossession from wood industries in Småland to Norrbotten resulting from a debilitating configuration of power and where I worked as a buyer of reindeer for the structures: colonialism, nationalism, state different slaughterhouses. Since the beginning of formation and elite politics. The paper will make a the early 1970s I have been engaged in Sami case for a politics of emancipation hinged on a associations in Stockholm, Umeå and Jokkmokk. In process of double decolonization, from within and 1981-88 I was the accountant in The Swedish from without. Sami Organization (SSR). For a numbers of years I I will begin by analyzing the heavy legacy of have been engaged in the Organization of Same French colonialism and its continuing relevance to Ätnam, where I was member of the board for some understanding the current linguistic and cultural years. I am the founder and chairwoman of the pauperization of Amazighs. These depredations, it Sami association Silbonah Sámesijdda, founded will be argued, were intensified with post- in1997, and editor of its newsletter (Medlemsnytt). independence state formation. With its heavy I work on Sami geneaology retracing Sami heritage. nationalistic and homogenizing tendencies, the 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts modern dogma of linguistic and cultural unity management, Reindeer husbandry unit embodied in Arabization espoused by bourgeois elites meant the effective condemnation of Bio: I received my doctoral degree in October Amazigh language and culture to the margins of 2006 in Animal Science after studies at the the state. I will discuss how Arabization was an Reindeer Husbandry Unit at the Swedish elitist discursive ploy promoted to garner University of Agricultural Sciences. The main legitimacy for the nascent state and is reflective of focus in my PhD-work was semi-domesticated a subtle elite project designed to maintain and reindeer habitat use in alpine summer habitats. reproduce a system of social apartheid whose My research topics mainly concern applied victims have invariably been the Arab/Amazigh ecology, animal and landscape ecology, and animal underclasses. Arabization was class warfare, with behavior, with special emphasize to hierarchical an ‘ethnic’ vengeance. foraging and theories of scaling in ecology. I study The paper will then examine the strategies of how the semi-domesticated reindeer (Rangifer officialization and co-option orchestrated by the tarandus tarandus) habitat use and behavior is state to neutralize the contestatory potential of affected by environmental factors such as, Amazigh linguistic and cultural demands. The vegetation type, topographic factors (altitude, establishment of the Royal Institute for Amazigh ruggedness, slope, and aspect), weather and Culture and the politics surrounding its predators as well as anthropogenic factors such as, functioning and policies will be analyzed. The linear features (roads and power grids), wind mills, Amazigh language revitalization and language-in- human activities (hiking, hunting etc). I use GPS- education projects represented the locus where the data to study reindeer movement and habitat macro-level technologies and logics of selection in relation to infrastructure and other governmentality and the micro-level cultural and anthropogenic factors. I'm also especially linguistic politics of the Berber planners converged. interested in developing the rather simple field This was the ‘entente cordiale’ between the state sampling method of pellet-group counting to map and elites, with grievous consequences for ordinary reindeer habitat selection Amazighs- hence the title of the presentation. The paper will conclude with a discussion of the Website: consequences for the voiceless, those whose http://www.slu.se/en/faculties/vh/departments/de tongues are being mutilated, whose cultural and partment-of-animal-nutrition-and- linguistic vitality severely impoverished and whose management/about-the-department/reindeer- futures hijacked. But there is hope. The husbandry/staff/anna-skarin/ revolutionary fervor and geopolitical thunderbolts sweeping the region may eventually pave the way for building a more culturally and linguistically Title: Reindeer large-scale avoidance of wind vibrant future—from below. power parks
*** Abstract: In Malå community in northern Sweden wind farms containing 8 and 10 wind turbines have been established on two mountains, Storliden and Jokkmokksliden, respectively. The area is characterized by undulating forest interspersed with mires, lakes and hills or smaller mountains and has a long history of forestry and mining. Reindeer use the area during their calving and summer seasons. Reindeer use and behavioral responses to existing infrastructure and the construction of new infrastructure associated with the wind power plants were determined using reindeer fecal pellet-group counts during four consecutive years as well as from data from 9–16 GPS-collars fitted on female reindeer during three consecutive years including pre- and post Anna Skarin development. To elucidate the activity of reindeer under different disturbance regimes, we further Affiliation: Swedish University Agricultural analyzed reindeer speed of movement in relation to Sciences, Dept. of Animal nutrition and the infrastructure and together with several 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts weather parameters to avoid confounding effects of (1996-2000), SUC, present position docent temperature as a proxy of insect harassment and pedagogy (2011) at SUC. subsequent aggregations of reindeer. Committee membership, 1994- 2013: National The results from the analyses also show that during Board for Teacher Education, National Committee the construction years the reindeer reduced use of for Pedagogy, Research Council of Norway, Storliden compared to pre-development. In 2010 National Committee for Research Ethics in the the reindeer avoided the construction area within Social Sciences, Steering committee for 3.5 km, before the construction started they only Revitalizing Language Programme (south Sámi), avoided Jokkmokksliden within 3 km distance. The National and Sámi Curriculum Reforms ( primary , pellet-group count alone showed that the reindeer pre-school) avoided the new power lines during the first year Research of construction but not during the second year. Concentrated on studies of the traditional Sámi The avoidance the first year most likely depends on childrearing and transmission of culture, the construction activity in the area and the developing a major foundation for Sámi schools, preference the second year might depend on the Sámi teacher-education and pedagogy. 2006: power grid not being switched on. These are 36 kV Traditional Sámi child-rearing in transition: Shaping power lines, which are far smaller than the 132- a new Pedagogical Platform. In: AlterNative 420 kV power lines that have been found to have a Published by University of Auckland. Conducted large negative effect on wild reindeer habitat use in action research in collaboration with teachers in Norway. The analysis of the GPS-data also showed primary Sámi schools, study on how that the reindeer, especially during the calving implementation of traditional Sámi pedagogy can period, avoided the larger roads and had a higher be transformed into practice. 2008: Vitalizing Sámi movement rate near the roads. Cultural Knowledge in Everyday School-Life. In: Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, Volume *** 11, Number 4, pp. 25-35. Anita Hussénius Sámi Self-determination in the education field, co- Director, Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala writer Vuokko Hirvonen: Sámi Self-Determination University in the Field of Education. Gáldu Cála/Journal of Indigenous Peoples Rights No 2/2008 *** Other R & D topics: School and curriculum development, Sámi/Indigenous traditional-, ecological knowledge, politics of knowledge, Sámi higher education & research, research ethics, multicultural issues and cultural sensitivity, colonizing and decolonizing processes, leadership, indigenous leadership, gender socialization. 2012 Co-writer Liv Østmo: Multicultural studies from a Sámi perspective. In: Issues in Educational Research, Australia. 22(1 International collaborations: WIPCE (World Indigenous Peoples Conferences on Education), in WINHEC (World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium). Norway’s representative in SIRF, Screening committee (Social Inclusive Research Fund) in Nepal.
Asta Mitkija Balto Website: samiskhs.no
Affiliation: Sami University College, 9520 Guovdageaidnu, Norway Title: north-Sami mother-tongue RE-EDUCATE - MÁHTTÁHIT THEM AND US! Bio: Leadership principles for Sámi Self-determination Engaged in Sámi education Writers: Balto, Asta Mitkijá & Kuhmunen, Gudrun Director of Sámi education Council, Norway Presenter: Asta M Balto (1989-1994), associate professor SUC, rector 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts
Sámi people are by national forces divided and educate and enable ourselves to create structures spread in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. based on our own traditional societies, teachings The future of the Sámi is dependent on how they and social relations in governance, politics, manage to keep the nation together and how they institutions and organizations. are able to unify their common interests for the mission of a sustainable future, regardless of the borders in between them. The unifying common *** political organization, Sámi Council declared the *** Sámi Charter in 1971: We are Sámi and we wish to be Sámi, without thereby being more or less Birgitta Åhman than other people of the world. Sámi are one Affiliation: Professor, Swedish University people and national boundaries shall not disrupt Agricultural Sciences, Dept. of Animal nutrition our people’s community. and management, Reindeer husbandry unit Sámi societies struggle for their maintenance and Bio:- need to keep attention to the charter and the Website: www.slu.se threat of continued assimilation. This paper Photo: unfolds the challenges Sámi face today, but even more it put efforts on the possibilities of Title: A collapsing reindeer herd - high loss of educational strategies in that respect. Re-education reindeer in Njaarke reindeer herding cooperative into own cultural values, teachings and knowledge can liberate thinking and understandings. We Abstract: Reindeer body condition, reproduction concentrate on re-education by decolonization of and survival was investigated in Njaarke reindeer minds and thinking and how this can strengthen herding cooperative in Sweden. The cooperative the Sámi sustainability; using own traditional has totally around 2000 reindeer (after slaughter in teachings in an up-dated form, new- the fall, but before new calves are born in the understandings and knowledge from a global spring). In summer, all reindeer graze together in indigenous and research society to rebuild the the mountain region. In winter they are divided nation. Self-determination among Sámi and other into two herds. Herd A is transported by lorry to a indigenous peoples is dependent on the degree of forest area further south and Herd B migrates by success in the decolonizing of thought and foot to forests close to the mountains. In 2007 practices. about 700 adult female reindeer, divided on the We attempt to create a pedagogical framework of two herds, where marked with numbered collars to concepts that can function as grounding for follow their individual performance over time. teachings to help create a pro-active mentality Body mass was registered in the fall in both herds, through awareness raising. Sámi traditional and in Herd A also in the spring. Calving success teachings and beliefs- the knowledge that Sámi (whether a female had calf or not) was recorded at themselves find necessary for their continuation calf marking in July, when the calves were marked and survival is a main issue and together with the and weighed. Survival of calves from summer until “proactive approach” for nation-building, inspired autumn gathering was also documented. The by Graham Hingangaroa Smith these frames the results showed that body weight varied between structure for the process. To illustrate how the years, but that it was still generally sufficient. concepts can be used to train our consciousness Judging from slaughter records, body condition and function as re-education, we present stories as was close to that of neighbouring herding cases from real happenings in Sámi society. The cooperatives. Frequency of calves (calf per adult aim is to uncover some of the challenges the Sámi female) varied between years, from around 50 up face in the struggle for their self-determination. to 76 per cent, indicating a substantial loss of Every story consists of parts that show the lessons calves from birth until calf marking. Additional we have to learn, so as to enable ourselves to self- calves were lost until autumn gathering. Not only determine. calves were lost, but also adult females. From 2007 To raise awareness, be resistant to continued until 2011, about 30 per cent of the marked assimilation, and to actively transform our cultural females in Herd A where lost (and they were not heritage into current situations are tools for found during 2012 either). In Herd B more than success, according Smith. Another Indigenous 60 per cent of the females had disappeared. The scholar Alfred Taiaiake underlines the holistic situation is detrimental for productivity in both approach in the nation-building process, the need herds, which is confirmed by low harvest to respecting all facets of traditions- cultural, compared to most other herding cooperatives. For spiritual and governmental. The challenge is to re- Herd B the situation is critical since there are not 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts enough female calves to replace the adult females and social demographic aspects of the Métis that disappear. Thus the herd is in an acute phase population and on the administrative classification of collapse. Since fitness (body condition) seems to of the Métis. He has two book length manuscripts be good, over-aged animals are intentionally coming out in 2013-2014: “Indigenous Statistics: a removed (slaughtered) and accidents and disease Quantitative Indigenous Methodology” (with are uncommon, we can find no other explanation Maggie Walter, Left Coast Press) and ““Métis”: for high loss than many reindeer being killed by Canada’s Misrecognition of an Indigenous People” predators. Lynx and wolverines are common in the (with UBC Press). He is currently the Director of area and known to cause high losses for reindeer the Rupertsland Centre for Métis Research and is husbandry. In order to rebuild the reindeer herd the editor of aboriginal policy studies, an online peer depredation probably needs to be reduced reviewed journal focused on off-reserve Aboriginal substantially. Management measures should be issues in Canada and abroad. followed up to see that the desired effects on reindeer herd production are achieved. Title: "A funny thing happened on our way to the - city": Urban Indigenous Spaces as Cultural Hubs
*** Abstract: Globally, Indigeneity is positioned in one of two ways. Policy makers tend to explore it in terms of what historian Coll Thrush has called "ghosting", in which it is positioned as inauthentic vestige of a more legitimate form of Indigeneity, usually located rurally, and in "the past". However, scholars have also begun to explore the manner in which urban spaces have also acted as a cultural hubs that have not only produced forms of Indigenous culture in their own right but have powerfully influenced the forms of Indigeneity in ostensibly more "authentic" space. This talk will demonstrate the crucial importance of possessing urban cultural hubs to the project of Indigenous justice more broadly. Chris Andersen *** Affiliation: Associate Professor Daniel Mossberg Faculty of Native Studies Affiliation: Director of Studies CSD/CEMUS, 2-31 Pembina Hall Acting Program Director CEMUS, Department of University of Alberta Earth Sciences, Uppsala University and SLU Edmonton, AB, Canada Bio: Background in Cultural Anthropology, T6G 2H8 Philosophy, Environmental Humanities and Métis Nation Sustainability, with focus on climate change, Director, Rupertsland Centre for Métis Research energy, history, interdisciplinary studies, norm University of Alberta critique, education, indigenous issues and more. Edmonton, AB, Canada Have worked at CEMUS, the Centre for T6G 2H8 Environment and Development Studies, since 2004, developing and working with two courses, Website: www.ualberta.ca/nativestudies Climate, Energy and Modern Society, and Life’s Philosophy. From 2006 working as educational Bio: coordinator and from 2008 director of studies at Chris Andersen is Indigenous (Michif), originally CEMUS and CSD Upppsala. from the parkland region of Saskatchewan (located in western Canada). He is currently Associate CEMUS is a unique student initiated and primarily Dean (Research) and is an Associate Professor in student-run university center with the explicit the Faculty of Native Studies, University of ambition to contribute to a better world. Since the Alberta. Dr. Andersen is an expert on sociological early 1990’s, CEMUS has offered interdisciplinary 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts higher education and been a creative meeting place environmental issues affecting them. His research for students, PhD Students, researchers and sheds light on those conflicts in favour of teachers from Uppsala University and the Swedish minorities from a supradisciplinary approach. In University of Agricultural Sciences. recent years, he published several papers on Ainu www.csduppsala.uu.se/cemus issues in international peer-reviewed journals including Polar Record of Cambridge University Website: - Press. He is pioneering the following fields: Japan’s Photo: - policy toward the Ainu, comparative studies between Sami and Ainu for their indigenous rights, human dimensions of bear/human conflicts in *** Hokkaido Japan, and environmental issues and local autonomy in Japan. In addition, he stays at the Hugo Valentin Centre of Uppsala University as a guest professor for several months from September 2013. It is aimed at collaborating with Prof. Leena Huss and Dr. May-Britt Öhman at Uppsala University for minority studies. Photo: -
Eva-Lotta Thunqvist Affiliation/ Bio: Associated professor in land and Title: Emancipatory approach to the revitalisation water resources management at KTH, Royal of Ainu language Institute of Technology, Sweden. Researcher on water and environmental related projects. Project Abstract: The Ainu had been deprived of their leader for both national and international projects. own language under the prolonged assimilation Water expert. policy of Japan toward them. In the 1970s and 80s, Website: www.chb.kth.se the Ainu themselves initiated their efforts to Title: Focus water reverse language shift in more than 10 cities in Abstract: Historically northern parts of Sweden Hokkaido. In 1997 the Act on Ainu Culture have been considered as an inexhaustible goldmine Promotion was promulgated against the for natural resources necessary for economic background of the growing pressure on the growth. People living in these areas have been Japanese government from the indigenous peoples’ subjected to the consequences of several waves of movements for human rights including the Ainu. industrialization; mining, forestry, hydropower and The Act represents Japan’s attempts to take off wind power. Lately the mining boom created by from the assimilation policy in the sense that it the Swedish government´s mineral strategy has led replaced the Hokkaido Former Aborigines to a massive increase of the scale and extent of the Protection Act of 1899. Nevertheless, the Act intrusion. does not recognize the indigenousness of the Ainu In this project the effects on water quality and and consequently does not guarantee their quantity from the industrial activities are examined indigenous rights at all. and the result is presented in GIS. In accordance with the Act on Ainu Culture Promotion, the Foundation of Research and *** Promotion of Ainu Culture (FRPAC) was designated as the sole corporation in the nation Hiroshi Maruyama with the authority to carry out the services provided in the Act. In regard to the Ainu Affiliation: Guest Professor of the Centre for language, the FRPAC has taken the lead in Gender Research and the Hugo Valentin Centre, revitalizing the Ainu language with the help of Uppsala University Japanese experts of Ainu language. The language Muroran Institute of Technology revitalization program mainly includes providing applicants with four regular courses including Bio: Hiroshi Maruyama is a professor of training instructors, holding speech contest in the environmental and minority studies at the Muroran Ainu language and broadcasting Ainu language Institute of Technology in Hokkaido Japan. He has courses on the radio. It has no intention to take a devoted himself to research for and with minorities step into bilingualism-oriented school education. who struggle against the authorities in search of This presentation examines Japan’s policy toward local autonomy and social justice over the Ainu in particular the revitalization of the 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts
Ainu language and the present situation of the people's fight for their land and cultural survival in Ainu language under the Act on Ainu Culture their own words. Promotion in terms of international human rights Hugh will be introducing the film before screening norms. Furthermore, it is explored the the section known as Overture (35 min), which emancipation aspects of revitalization of the Ainu explores the ‡Khomani San's visioning of and fight language on the basis of articles of Dr. Tove for their land rights. This will be followed by Skutnabb-Kangas and Professor Leena Huss. further discussion and a second screening, this time of a section called Aftermath (50 min), which reveals what came of the claim, and how the *** people have come to think of it some ten years on. There will be time for a short Q+A with Hugh after this cinematic journey.
*** Håkan Tunón
Affiliation: PhD, Senior Research Officer Uppsam – the Uppsala network for Sámi related
research Hugh Brody Bio: Håkan Tunón is working in the field of Affiliation: Professor Hugh Brody, the Canada traditional knowledge and biological diversity with Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies at the emphasize on ethnobiology, research ethics in University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, BC. relation to bioprospecting and the UN Convention Canada. on Biological Diversity. The work is focusing on the zone between research, policy and practice. He Bio: Hugh Brody is an author, filmmaker, lecturer is the head of Naptek – National Programme on and mediator who has been involved for the last 35 Local and Traditional Knowledge Related to years in Aboriginal issues in Canada and Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological internationally, seeking change and justice. He has Diversity, an initiative of the Swedish Government been a member of a World Bank Review of the situated at the Swedish Biodiversity Centre. He is Narmada Dam in India, the Director of the Snake at present also the Chair of Uppsam – Uppsala River Review in Idaho, and is currently the association for Sámi related research. designer and coordinator of projects in Botswana, Website: www.slu.se/cbm eller www.naptek.se Namibia and South Africa on land use and Photo: - economics of the Hai=kom Bushmen. His many publications include nine books, (including Maps Title: Repatriation and revitalization: reflections and Dreams and The Other Side of Eden), over fifty from the UN Convention on Biological Diversity essays and 12 documentary films (including The Washing of Tears, Time Immemorial and Inside Abstract: The Convention on Biological Diversity Australia). He has been involved in different (adopted 1992) is not only a process of relevance participatory research processes related to for biologists, it is much broader in it’s scope. repatriation and revitalisation (oral culture, Article 1 in the Convention declares that the cultural mapping, language recovery). objectives are: Tasks (film screening) the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components and the fair Title: Tracks across sand (Film) and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources ... Abstract: The anthropologist, author and Consequently the Convention stands on three legs: celebrated filmmaker Hugh Brody will be joining 1) conservation of biodiversity, 2) sustainable use us from London to introduce, screen and discuss of its components and 3) fair and equitable sharing two parts of his new film Tracks Across Sand. A of benefits. The first leg can be explained based on unique documentary, shot between 1996 and the contemporary awareness of the environmental 2010, it explores a decade of the ‡Khomani San problems with pollution and a decrease in biodiversity, the second in the light of the report 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts
Our Common Future (1987) from the Brundtland Naptek and the Sámi Parliament have performed a commission and the striving to achieve a knowledge integration project with the working sustainable development and the third as a name Reindeer as indicator (of a connective and counter-reaction against centuries of colonialism; a ecologically functioning landscape). This work can historical and on-going one-way transportation of be seen as a pilot study in relation to the IPBES- riches (biological and geological) from the colonies process (Intergovernmental science-policy platform to the colonial states. Countries in the South had on biodiversity and ecosystem services). until then been perceived as freely accessible In parallel we’ve also been working with other commons of biodiversity. Part of the work within local communities with traditional lifestyles in the Convention has consequently had a strong Sweden as well as different Governmental agencies focus on fair and equitable sharing, full and with the purpose to revitalise the role of traditional effective participation and prior informed consent. knowledge systems in issues regarding the It is therefore not to surprising that the work has governance and customary use of biological resulted in specific guidelines on how to perform diversity and the surrounding landscape. social, environmental and cultural impact assessment (the Akwé: Kon-guidelines), a specific Presenting in session: 1. Re-claiming memories code of ethical conduct to ensure respect of local Other tasks (discussant, film screening, organizing) cultures (the Tkarihwaié:ri code of conduct), etc. On its way is also a set of guidelines for best *** practice in repatriation of traditional knowledge in Inge Frisk order to strengthen indigenous peoples and local communities. Affiliation: Sámi Association in Stockholm, (Vice In 2005 we were assigned to work towards a President, member of the board) Profession: IT national implementation of these parts of the Security Manager Convention and the result became the National Programme on Local and Traditional Knowledge Bio: Inge Frisk is vice President of Stockholm Sámi relevant for the Conservation and Sustainable Use association. As a genealogist and through various of Biological Diversity (Naptek). The assignment board roles in the association since 10 years he has came from the Swedish Government, i.e. the acquired experience on what importance genealogy Ministry of Environment. Among others we’ve plays in the Swedish Sámi society. His day job conducted this work in close collaboration with the circles about herding 3,500 members of an IT Swedish Sámi Parliament when dealing with organization regarding correct Information Security knowledge, innovations and practices within the behavior. Sámi culture. This has been a joint-effort to raise Photo: - general awareness and value of Sámi traditional knowledge in the society today, both in the society Title: Genealogy as enabler of Sámi identity and as a whole and more specifically in the Sámi promoting Sámi in your professional context society within the Swedish borders. The initial step was a survey of the status and trends when it Abstract: If you practice a traditional Sámi comes to the past and on-going documentation profession full time there are opportunities all the projects concerning Sámi traditional knowledge time to respond to queries of interest and spread and Sámi culture. And of course this study was knowledge about the challenges for the indigenous performed with an internal Sámi perspective. This minority you belong to. In other professions social resulted in the second step with the Naptek interactions with your colleagues at coffee and together with the Sámi Parliament financing two lunch breaks are important opportunities for such sets of pilot projects and several workshops or knowledge sharing. But, how do you go about to seminars concerning the documentation of Sámi promote your minority in a work life where people traditional knowledge. Some of these projects were you work with are present in telephone also presented in a public-awareness-raising book conferences and screen sharing mostly? that was published in 2011. Meanwhile a The legal and social role of Genealogy within Sámi traditional knowledge policy was developed and society and the discourse the topic creates among the political part of the Sámi Parliament adopted Sámi society members: an Environmental Programme (Eallinbiras – The criteria for registration in the Sámi Iellembirás – Jielemen bijre) with strong focus on Parliament's voting registry is partly based on traditional knowledge and sustainable genealogy for the purpose of proving your development. A specific Sámi traditional belonging to Sámi cultural heritage. Because of knowledge action plan is also on the way. Together historical societal and family suppressions of the 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts
Sámi identity there are still Sámi today who among us. The plague has damaged the vitality of discover, thru Genealogy research only, they are our living world and it occurred because we had genetically linked to Sámi culture. Do they get a neglected the daily nurturance of the harmony that chance to reclaim their Sámi identity and get fits us best. Through our inattention to symptoms recognized as Sámi? that our world already showed, the alteration of Sámi Association in Stockholm use same criteria as harmony grew to become a great plague. “For us, it for Sámi Parliament's voting registry for approving is clear that we have it well deserved.” This is the membership applications. Experiences from 10 way we understand colonisation here in the Andes years of processing of membership applications are according to our mode of being. presented. Reactions, attitudes and criticism Grillo calls Andean cultural affirmation our received. manner of curing ourselves of the plague. It consists of the nurturance of the harmony that best *** suits to the plenitude of the living world that we Johan Gärdebo presently are. The plague will not go by wishing it away or fighting it off. It will only lose its deadly *** character when we have attained our health: the Jorge Ishizawa harmony of our whole living world. PRATEC was privileged to explore, in the period Affiliation: Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru 2002-2009, the implications of Grillo’s insight / Complex Thinking Institute / Research Fellow through the implementation of the Fund for Initiatives of Cultural Affirmation (FIAC). The Bio: Jorge Ishizawa has been a member of the program was based on the assumption of cultural Proyecto Andino de Tecnologias Campesinas continuity in the Andean countries on whose (PRATEC) since 1996. PRATEC is a Peruvian strength the viability of recovering pertinent non-governmental organization whose mission is ancestral values and practices was tested. It the cultural affirmation of the Andean Amazonian consisted of microprojects, limited in time and communities based on their own knowledge and scope, but oriented overall to recovering respect traditions. Since 2010 he is also a member of the among the human communities: towards deities, Complex Thought Institute of Ricardo Palma nature and among themselves. They ranged from University. He is based in Lima, Peru. forest regeneration, irrigation infrastructure, and Website: www.pratecnet.org handicraft to rituals and celebrations, anything that Photo: - in the elders’ memory made possible “living rightly”. The common feature of the communal initiatives was the restoration of the communal Title: Cultural affirmation as decolonisation in the web of affection and respect in the pacha or local Peruvian Andes world based on the communities’ own know-what and know-how, accompanied by the Nuclei for Abstract: In his last essay published in 1996, Andean Amazonian Cultural Affirmation, local Eduardo Grillo, PRATEC’s guiding spirit, NGOs that facilitate the endogenous processes of characterised colonialism as a plague. His insight cultural affirmation. was an emergence of his lifelong struggle to find the meaning of “living rightly” in the life world of *** the Andean peoples. He recognises its distinguishing features from inside. “We are our Andean world… We nurture harmony when each Kaori Arai and every one of us adjust with joy and goodwill to Affiliation: PhD student the circumstances of each moment, and harmony in its turn nurtures us, making us feel at ease and Bio: Born 1966 in Saitama Prefecture. After cared for in each moment, full of the joy of living graduating from the Chinese Language and in community.” Nurturing harmony is the Literature Department at Beijing University, overriding concern of the Andean world, which worked at a travel agency and secretary to Kayano includes not only the runa (human community) Shigeru of the House of Councillors. In the aim of but the waka (deities) and the sallqa (nature) as reevaluating the image of the Ainu outside the well. bounds of current Ainu research, entered Rikkyo As in the immanent Andean world everything that University Graduate School Sociology occurs develops from inside, we feel that five Department’s PhD program as a graduate student centuries ago colonisation emerged here from 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts and is researching documents pertaining to I am now doing my third year in Japanese Studies at Kaizawa Tadashi, her grandfather. Stockholm University. I speak Japanese fluently and Interests include Ainu research, lifehistory, have passed N1, the highest level of the Japanese- historical sociology, and issues pertaining to Language Proficiency Test. modern Ainu. Participating in the symposium as interpreter Photo: - Japanese-English.
Title: A battle between researchers and the Ainu people in the history of post-war Ainu research, *** and the change of the Ainu images brought by it Katarina Pirak Sikku Abstract: Because it has been said that the Ainu people still maintain the “old custom” of the Affilitation/Bio: Sami artist, from Jokkmokk. Japanese people even today, research on the Ainu Title : Tearing up old wounds to make them heal has been predominantly conducted in the fields of properly: An artistic perspective on racial biology archaeology, anthropology, and linguistics since the and its effects on the Sámi Meiji period. Abstract: The fact that the Ainu people are labeled by This is a presentation of an upcoming exhibition research as “still ancient” and not making any on the theme of racial biology, to be at shown progress is the same as being implicitly called a Bildmuseet, during UMEÅ 2014 European Capital barbarous race, which has often created prejudice of Culture. against the Ainu. In the late 19th and early 20th century research on The Ainu people began to speak up from the late Sámi was pursued with an outspoken racist 1960s, and expressed their view of the Ainu being ideological background, where the Sámi where “the race with the knowledge to live in harmony defined as the Other through skull measurements with nature,” which was a romantic way of and photographic documentation. In 1922 the interpreting the Ainu. Thus, they came in conflict Swedish Riksdag passed a law setting up the with researchers of the Ainu. National Institute of Racial Biology, the first This was a story told by the Ainu back then to national institute of its kind in the world. In 1958, prevent their identity from being lost. when the Swedish state race biological institute Researchers of the Ainu realized that it was no was closed down, its content and research was longer possible to continue their studies without transferred to the Department of Medical Genetics the intervention of the Ainu, and some of them at the Uppsala University. began to accept the romantic story told by the As an artist I want, with the exhibition “Bita Ainu. huvudet av skammen” (“Go past all sense of However, due to the Ainu Culture Promotion Act shame”), to shed light on how race biology affected enacted in 1997, this interpretation of the Ainu my ancestors in the early 20th century. We know became a dogma as a concept recognized by the some of consequences the racial biology had. We, country. Currently, both the Ainu and Wajin the Sámi people, were seen as second-class (ethnic Japanese) are in a situation tied to the citizens. I have interviewed several persons, mostly framework of this concept. women, who remember. I wish to highlight how In this presentation, I will present the images of these memories are dealt with, and also how we the Ainu portrayed in the history of Ainu research will deal with this in the future. What are the and the change of those images brought by the emotional consequences of these events? How do battle with the Ainu to facilitate understanding of we know how to handle it? the contemporary history of the Ainu. With the help of art as a tool I wish to open this infected scab to make it heal again properly. *** Karin Molin *** Email: [email protected]
Affiliation: Japanese Studies Student at Stockholm University Bio: I recently came back from Japan after one year studying abroad at Osaka University. Before that I also studied for three months at Nihon University and 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts
cultural, racial, ethnic, national, and even tribal Kim TallBear misinterpretations of the humans who study them. Affiliation: Associate Professor, University of Texas TallBear notes that ideas about racial science, at Austin. which informed white definitions of tribes in the Member, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate. nineteenth century, are unfortunately being Descended from the Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes revived in twenty-first-century laboratories. of Oklahoma Because today's science seems so compelling, increasing numbers of Native Americans have *The distinction between being an enrolled begun to believe their own metaphors: "in our member and descended from is important. Dual blood" is giving way to "in our DNA." This enrollment or dual citizenship in U.S. tribes is not rhetorical drift, she argues, has significant allowed. Therefore, I list myself as descended from consequences, and ultimately she shows how the Cheyenne & Arapaho tribes only. I am Native American claims to land, resources, and officially enrolled in another tribe from which I am sovereignty that have taken generations to ratify descended, the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate. Also, do may be seriously--and permanently--undermined. not add the word “Tribe” or “Nation” after Oyate. “Oyate” in our language means roughly “People” or Photo credit Jun Kamata. “Nation” in English. It would be redundant to add such terms. *** Kristina Berglund Bio: Kim TallBear is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. *** She studies how genomics is co-constituted with ideas of race and indigeneity. More recently, she is Leena Huss engaged in an ethnography of indigenous bio- scientists, examining how they navigate different Affiliation: The Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala cultures of expertise and tradition, both scientific University; professor, research director communities and tribal communities. She recently finished a three-year term as an elected Council Bio: Leena Huss is professor and research director Member of the Native American and Indigenous of minority studies at the Hugo Valentin Centre at Studies Association (NAISA). Uppsala University. Her current research interests Website: www.kimtallbear.com include language policies and language planning in Scandinavia, multilingualism, and linguistic revitalization in the South Sámi area in Sweden. Title: Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and During 2000-2004, she was the Swedish member the False Promise of Genetic Science of the Council of Europe expert committee monitoring the implementation of the Charter for Abstract: Who is a Native American? And who Regional or Minority Languages in Europe. gets to decide? From genealogists searching online Website: http://www.valentin.uu.se/om- for their ancestors to fortune hunters hoping for a oss/medarbetare/leena-huss/ slice of casino profits from wealthy tribes, the Photo:- answers to these seemingly straightforward questions have profound ramifications. The rise of Title: “Success” and “failure” in language DNA testing has further complicated the issues revitalization: reflections on the basis of a recent and raised the stakes. South Sámi research project Kim TallBear shows how DNA testing is a powerful--and problematic--scientific process that Abstract: The paper discusses various difficulties in is useful in determining close biological relatives. assessing the outcome of language revilization, here But tribal membership is a legal category that has understood as ”imparting new vigour to a language developed in dependence on certain social still in limited use, most commonly by increased understandings and historical contexts, a set of use through the expansion of domains” (Paulston concepts that entangles genetic information in a et al 1993) or ”through a new set of speakers and a web of family relations, reservation histories, tribal new function” (Spolsky 1991). On the basis of a rules, and government regulations. At a larger recent research project conducted in the traditional level, TallBear asserts, the "markers" that are South Sámi area in Sweden, factors such as how identified and applied to specific groups such as individuals and local communities define the aims Native American tribes bear the imprints of the of their revitalizations efforts, how they perceive 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts their possibilities to succeed and what ways they only a kind of livelihood，but also a culture to find to overcome obstacles on various levels, are local people. In recent years，the impact of presented. The results from the project would climate change becomes more and more obvious. It seem to strongly underline the importance of threats local livelihood and sustainable viewing language revitalization not only as a development of local community. Considering question of language restoration but a importance of agro-pastoralist to local people and phenomenon closely connected with ethnic revival, rich biodiversity of local resources, Center for minority emancipation and decolonisation. In the Tibetan Region Sustainable Development case studied, as in many other cases, too, (CTRSD) of Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences revitalization presupposes a conscious, individual (YASS) has carried out research on practice and revalorization of a previously strongly stigmatized activities of climate change in Hongpo Watershed language and identity which renders the task of Deqin County of Diqing Prefecture since 2007. complex in many ways. Through literature review and statistics from local government and based on field investigation *** carried out in 2005, this paper discusses the impact YIN Lun of climate change on local traditional livelihood. According to investigation, the climate change not Affiliation: Professor, Minzu University of China, only changes biodiversity of local resources and Beijing, China/Associate Professor, Yunnan livelihood environment of local people, but also Academy of Social Science, China. affects local knowledge and traditions of livelihood. Branch Director of the Chinese Society for At the same time, the paper also analyzes local Environmental Sciences – Ecology and Nature practice and adaption to climate change based on Conservation indigenous knowledge, in terms of how to alleviate degree of local climate change and how local Bio: During last ten years, I have implemented people adjust livelihood traditions to adapt to the several community-based climate change programs climate change. Local practice can not only reflect which for building synergies between indigenous value of local knowledge to adapt to the climate and scientific knowledge. I also work to promote change, but also provide importance information local and regional inter-sectorial and intercultural for local government to make policies on climate dialogue and communication among rural change in the future. communities, NGOs, academia and governmental agencies. For this purpose, it conducts *** interdisciplinary research, facilitation for Lilian Mikaelsson participatory development, consultation for *** cultural identity, networking for information Liz-Marie Nilsen sharing, and capacity building for climate change, Title: “Will send abstracts/photos separately” indigenous knowledge and livelihood development. Abstract: “Will send abstracts/photos separately” I enable local groups to strengthen their evolving Affiliation: Uppsala University, Centre for Gender cultural traditions and generate innovative ways to Research, Technoscience- research assistant. improve their livelihoods and enhance biodiversity Bio: Journalist and sociologist.. Co-ordinatior of through interdisciplinary research, capacity The Laponia Process 2007-2011, Municipality of building, and participatory approaches for Jokkmokk. Former board member of nurturing intercultural dialogue among people of Laponiatjuottjudus. Involved in the mining varying indigenous and scientific knowledge. I resistans in Jokkmokk since 2011. would like to share my experiences in the Research assistant to May-Britt Öhman , “Rivers, symposium. resistance and resilience: Sustainable futures in Website: Sápmi and in other Indigenous Peoples’ Photo:- Territories”. Website: - Title: Community-led research, indigenous Photo: - ecological knowledge and climate change – experience from China *** Abstract: Like many other ethnic people living in Lovisa Negga mountainous region of the Eastern Himalayas， agro-pastoralist is also important to Tibetan people *** living in North-West Yunnan Province. It is not Malin Norrby 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts
for decolonization, knowledge repatriation and re- Title: The Gállok Rebellion claiming memories in Swedish society by looking through the eyes of the late UN Secretary General Abstract: The Gállok Rebellion is the story about Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961). I will also raise the anti-mining struggle told by people making questions how cross-cultural exchange on needs for resistance. The film goes through the events in decolonization and knowledge repatriation in Gállok and touches the subject colonialism and different cultures might enrich future research. why resistance is our only chance for survival. (finns även en bild i registreringsblanketten) ***
Affiliation: Participant in the struggle of liberation for Mother Earth. Participant in the Gállok and Ojnare struggles.
Bio: Working for clean water, air, food and shelter. For bio-diversity and cultural diversity. For those who´s voices are silenced. For communities and connections beyond the computerscreens. For another view of the world and our place in it. For Mother Earth. Website: kolonierna.se Marie Persson Photo: Ja, finns en bild i registreringsblanketten Member of the Sami Parliament in Sweden Marie Persson has a Master’s Degree in Systems Science and is running her own business as a graphic designer. She lives in the mountains of *** Tärnaby/Dearna with Anders and their two children Ailo and Freja. Anders work at the Sami Language Centre and Marie at her own company Marie Kvarnström Kvanne. The latest four years Marie has been putting great work and effort into the mining Affiliation: Senior adviser, Swedish Biodiversity situation since the traditional Sami land in Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Tärnaby/Dearna are threatened by a huge nickel Sciences and Uppsala university mine that the mining company IGE/Nickel Omställningsgruppen i Knivsta (Transition group Mountain are planning. Marie is the founder of the Knivsta)(chair person) network “Stop Rönnbäck Nickel Mining Project in Tärnaby” and has been struggling to connect Bio: Marie works as adviser in the Swedish people and share information about the global National Program for Local and Traditional mining boom for the latest years and collaborate Knowledge related to Conservation and with others in the same situation. Marie was Sustainable Use of Biodiversity at the Swedish elected as the “citizen of the year” in the county of Biodiversity Centre. Main interests are cross- Västerbotten 2012. In 2013 she also was elected as cultural exchange and needs for societal change in a member of the Sami Parliament. directions of ways of life that fully respects lives of other people and other life forms, now and in the future. Title: “The mineral politics of Sweden – a violation Photo: - of Indigenous rights and a continuing colonization Title: Looking back, looking forward – seeing of Sápmi and northern Sweden” another Sweden through Dag Hammarskjöld Abstract Abstract: As a “non-indigenous” researcher studying other cultures, it is easy to keep one’s Sweden is internationally ranked as second best of all own culture taken for granted and hidden from the countries in the world to establish mining inspection. As a Swede of today, it is also easy to operations in. The mining prospecting boom has led to be blinded by the multitude of information in our a rising debate concerning the mineral politics in present society and forget our recent history - the Sweden and the consequences of it. The latest years Sweden that once was, with other values and we have been witnessing how the government is norms. In this talk, I will make a case for the need facilitating for mining companies, even though Sweden already have one of the most mining friendly mineral 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts politics in the world. Recently Sweden considered the primarily in literature, in which he holds a national interest of extraction of minerals as more bachelor degree. A conclusion he has reached from important than the national interest of reindeer his work and studies is the need to combine husbandry for the first time in history. This was made academic and intellectual work with activism. in the planned Rönnbäck Nickel Mining Project where Photo: - the company of IGE/Nickel Mountain wants to start a huge nickel mine in Ume river nearby the alpine ski Title: “The summer in Gállok – a participartory resorts Hemavan Tärnaby – a traditional Sami land. observation research study from the anti-mining protests in Jokkmokk” Sweden has been criticized of The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Abstract: This summer the mining company Discrimination (CERD) for the mineral politics JIMAB, subsiduary of British Beowulf Mining, impact on the Indigenous people in Sweden – the wanted to do a test mining for iron ore in Sami. The mineral law in Sweden is extremely strong Gállok/Kallak outside Jokkmokk. Environmental and old-fashioned. In combination with the mineral activists and Saami joined forces to try and stop strategy, the consequences of the mineral politics are this from happening, leading to several police vast and give several disastrous consequences for the interventions thrughout the summer. Eventually, environment, water-, air- and food resources, health, these claashes led to increased media attention the Sami people and long-term development of local surrounding the events and the mining issue in societies. Even from a strictly economically perspective general, and a rarely seen level of unity in the the ongoing mineral politics of Sweden is Saami Parliament. I was there throghout the impoverishing. It is impoverishing of rural areas, such summer, participated in activist activities, and as the northern parts of the country, but also for the wrote about my experiences in a participatory municipalities, regions and the Swedish state. In a observation study. global perspective the mineral politics and regulations of Sweden also are of great importance to the *** companies of the global mining industry as well as for local communities and Indigenous peoples around the world.
Sweden is the leading mining nation in Europe and aims to to keep this position. What responsibility does Sweden have as a strong mining nation and a role model?
Marie Persson, a member of the Sami Parliament and founder of the network “Stop Rönnbäck Nickel Mining Project in Ume river, Tärnaby”, talks about the May-Britt Öhman consequences and the not so known downsides of the Affiliation: Research fellow at PhD, Technoscience, mineral politics of a leading mining nation. Marie Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University was elected as “citizen of the year” in the county of Member of board, Silbonah Samesijdda, of Västerbotten in 2012 due to her commitment in the UPPSAM, deputy member of the National mining issue and struggle for future generations. Association of Swedish Saami (SSR) and alumni member of Norrlands Nation. *** May-Britt Öhman, PhD in History of Science and Markus Nyström Technology (2007, Royal Institute of Technology, Affiliation: Mind and Nature research program Stockholm, Sweden) Since 2009 research fellow at Uppsala University the Centre for Gender Research at Uppsala Bio: Markus Nyström is a masters student in University and member of the Body/Embodiment environmental history at Uppsala university, group at the Centre. Research project (Swedish Sweden. He has for several years worked as a Research Council 2009-2010) title "Situated course coordinator and editor at the Center for perspectives on the hydropower exploitation in Environment and Development Studies (CEMUS) Sapmi: Swedish technological expansion in the 20th at Uppsala university, organizing several courses on century and its impact on the indigenous different topics relating to sustainable population”. Currently co-ordinating and researching development. His academic background is within the research project (financed by the Swedish 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts
Research Council 2010-2012) "DAMMED: Security, constructed dominantly based on Japanese Risk and Resilience around the Dams of Sub- archives, and they hardly represent the Ainu’s Arctica". The research project is conducted in experience in Ainu way. The Ainu history should collaboration with researchers from Centre for be rewritten based on materials which Ainu Health and Buildings, Royal Institute of Technology, ancestors left for their descendants. Stockholm; Division of Gender and Innovation, Throughout the 20th century, Ainu story Luleå University of Technology; Department of tellers recorded massive collection of Ainu oral Political Science, Umeå University. narratives in Ainu language. Among them, there are many stories of village regeneration. Ainu village suffered small pox or assaults by people from another village, and died out. However, there *** is a boy or girl who survived, and he or she Minako Sakata regenerates the village. Among such narratives, I pick up small pox stories to consider topics such as Affiliation: Research Associate, Department of Ainu historical consciousness and how to refigure Area Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Ainu history. For these purposes, I will consider Sciences, The University of Tokyo Ainu traditional culture also in comparison with Japanese traditional customs over small pox. Bio: Minako Sakata is a research associate of the Department of Area Studies, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo. She *** also teaches undergraduate courses as a part time Mirja Palo lecturer at Hosei University, Wako University and Atomi University in Tokyo. She studies on the Affiliation: Uppsala University, Center for Gender Ainu in Japan in the field of ethnohistory and oral Research Research assistant in Rivers Resistance tradition studies. She received a doctorate in Area Resilience: Sustainable Futures in Sápmi and in Studies from the University of Tokyo in 2007. Her other Indigenous Peoples’ Territories (M-B Ph.D. dissertation was published as Ainu Kosho Öhman) Bungaku no Episutemoroji: Rekishi no Hoho toshiteno Ainu Sanbun Setsuwa from Ochanomizushobo, Bio: - Tokyo in 2011. Analyzing Ainu oral literature, she explores historical consciousness based on Ainu Title: Public Safety around dams epistemology. Current interests include comparative oral tradition studies among Abstract: In this Presentation I will announce my indigenous peoples in the arctic circle, especially results from a performed study on Public safety on representation of others or contact narratives. around dams, where main focus is pointed towards Photo: - the Lule River in Sápmi. Being the most regulated river in Sápmi area located in Sweden, Vattenfall Title: Refiguring Indigenous History: Through Vattenkraft AB are in charge of 15 hydro power Ainu Stories of Village Regeneration. plants that has been built to use Lule River as a resource in the production of electricity for the Abstract: The modern and contemporary Ainu is customers of Vattenfall Waterhydropower. Public Japanese speakers and the most of them do not Safety around Dams is not a known concept in inherit their ancestors’ language and culture. This Sweden and is not covered by the Swedish is a result of assimilation policy by Japanese definition of Dam Safety. The study wants to find a government, as well as detriment and way to define the hazards and risks that the discrimination they suffered in everyday life by physical presence of an operating dam causes on reason of being Ainu language speakers. Without Swedish and Sámi land, how the water visible ethnic markers, the Ainu is now seeking hydropower affect the environmental conditions ways to reclaim their identity as the Ainu and and how locals manage their work and sustenance relations with their ancestors. in an area affected by waterhydropower. The study In this presentation, I demonstrate to refigure is based firstly on the results of the statistic data Ainu history based on the framework of Ainu oral that has been available the last ten years from narratives. The basis of the Ainu identity is not appropriate authorities and interest organizations. succession of language and culture, but their From the conclusion that it’s no record of accidents historical experiences. However, historical that have happened from hazards caused by the accounts about the Ainu hitherto have been operation of a dam and the fact that there is no 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts part in Swedish law that deals with how profit- Bio: Member and spokesman for the Actiongroup driven organizations should work with Public Save lake Vättern (Aktion Rädda Vättern). In the Safety around dams in Sweden, I have studied The beginning physicists who turned to team building Canadian Dam Association’s Guidelines for Public and leadership. Consulting to companies in safety around dams from 2011 including their leadership and project management. definition of Public Safety Around dams and how Website: www.pulsro.se, their work is organized. I have used material such http://www.iei.liu.se/pie/olsson-rune?l=sv and as statistic data, incident reports, news reports, www.alvastrazen.se actual publications and literature. I’ve also Photo: - compiled results firstly from interviews with appropriate actors and secondly with locals. I hope the results from this study will make Public safety Title: Pressure on decision-makers - Actiongroup around dams become a more significant question Save lake Vättern (Aktion Rädda Vättern). and be an important part of the safety work that is made by actors such as the dam owner, public Abstract: We will describe how the protest group rescue, municipalitys etc . has been working so far and how we plan to work in the future. We want to meet experts on water, mining and other groups with similar problems Photo: - with authorities and laws that favor companies. The lake Vättern is the second largest lake in *** Sweden and the water is used for drinking by Name: Mose 250 000 people now and in the next 30 years will add to 2 000 000. The lake is threatened mainly Title: The Gállok Rebellion (FILM) from three activities: 1) military shooting in the water; 2) a planned mine 1,5 km from the lake; 3) Abstract: The Gállok Rebellion is the story about planned gas search (fracking) and uranium mine. the anti-mining struggle told by people making Military wants to use the lake for shooting practice resistance. The film goes through the events in and they claim that the extra pollution (mainly Gállok and touches the subject colonialism and lead) made by them is much lower than from the why resistance is our only chance for survival. air. Their own limnologist supports this by saying that the water is so clean so humans can tolerate Affiliation: Participant in the struggle of liberation the extra. for mother earth. Participant in the Gállok and The mine is for rare earth elements used in high Ojnare struggles. tech tools like computer, wind mills and cars. The mine has top priority in the EU. Other REE-mines Bio: Resister against colonialism, videographer, anti have caused great pollutions. The mining company civ agit-prop producer. Engaged in the struggle says the can make the mine safe. They even talk against the system that is devastating livable about an “environmental safe” mine. The habitats all over the world. For the wild and free, politicians believe (actually want to believe) the for the growing strength of people and other beings miners. We need to open their eyes for what has to dismantle power and survive culturally, happened around other mines. psychologically and physically on mother earth. The gas deposit is in a thin alum shale layer. The Website: kolonierna.se Swedish laws allows test drilling in nature reserves. Photo: - We want to change this law. We have contact with several other similar protest groups in Sweden. We need to deepen these *** contacts and make more contacts outside Sweden. Märit Frändén We need to find experts on water, mining and *** environmental law that can help us. Rune Olsson Affiliation: *** Dept for Projects, Innovation and Shaila Desouza Entrepreneurship, IEI, Linköping University. Affiliation: Goa University, India Retired univ lector. Indian Association for Women’s Studies Aktion Rädda Vättern Bio: Dr Shaila Desouza has a PhD from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and has been 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts working in Women’s Studies at Goa University for ratio, the alarming anaemia in women, inflated cost the past 21 years. She is involved in research and of living for resident population, the declining sex teaching Women’s Studies at the PhD and Post ratio, family disputes over property, increasing graduate level and has been actively involved violence against women, suicides and the through her research, writing and activism with the displacement of vulnerable communities are rarely women’s movement in Goa, India even discussed. Shaila has been the recipient of the Women and This presentation will discuss some urgent issues in Development Award to the Simone de Beauvoir Goa related to land, politics and the exploitation of Institute in Montreal Canada, Fellow at the local communities particularly those marginalised Salzburg Seminar, Austria, presented her research and underprivileged. I will focus particularly on the at the Asian Connections Conference at University women’s struggles. I will draw from an incident of British Columbia, Vancouver, the South Asian that took place in 2004, when approximately 1500 Women’s Studies Conference at University of Los homes in a slum community were demolished on Angeles, USA and the International Congress of the pretext of ‘ridding Goa of the evil of Asian Association of Women’s Studies (CAAWS) prostitution’. I will discuss the political strategies at Penang, Malaysia. She has several international used, the level of exploitation of the most and national publications to her credit on women’s vulnerable, the community’s responses and the issues particularly relating to health, development, present day scenario where even after 9 years the violence and empowerment. Shaila is the editor of victims still await ‘rehabilitation’. This presentation a book titled Women’s Health in Goa: A Holistic will highlight some of the lessons learnt from this Approach and was responsible for the Situational struggle that while exploring ways to reclaim Analysis of Women in Goa, a report for the people’s rights to land and resources. National Commission for Women. She has served on the advisory boards of several Government initiatives for women as well as NGO working for *** women and children and was a member of the Goa State Commission for Women from 2006 –2009. She is currently an Executive Committee Member of the Indian Association for Women’s Studies. Photo: -
Title: Exploitation, Struggles & Lessons: Politics, Land & Women in Goa, India
Abstract: Goa, currently the smallest Indian State since 1987, was a Portuguese colony for four centuries right up to 1961 and was a Union Sigrid Sagka Stångberg Territory in the intermediary period between 1961 and 1987. The colonisers had a two pronged Affiliation: agenda for Goa, one was trade and the other Vadtejen Saemiej Sïjte (VSS) missionary. As conversion to Christianity came Åarjelhsaemien Teatere (ÅST-S) with not only privileges but also strict bans on following earlier traditions, what resulted was a Bio: Sigrid Sagka Stångberg is of Sámi heritage, semblance of a ‘different culture’ from that of born and raised in Tärna och Björkvattsdalen other Indian States. Goa was reputed to be more where she has lived and worked most of her life. ‘westernised’. This aspect of Goa’s culture, as well She is a teacher and she has studied South Sámi at as its geographical location with a long palm- Umeå University. During many years she worked fringed coastline, the warm Arabian sea, and green as the principal at the Sámi school in Tärnaby. hills made Goa an ideal tourist destination ever During 2008-2011 she led a project financed by since the 80’s. With the large inflow of visitors and the European Union and aimed at revitalizing the the need for accommodation for them, Sámi language. This was a joint project between construction activity began to boom thus inflating the Swedish Sámi School Board and the County land prices. In the hinterland, the hills rich in iron- Governor in the Nordland County, Norway. The ore and bauxite became sites for mining. It is often project targeted Sámi youngsters between 11-15 claimed that the high per capita income in Goa is years and the method was language immersion. For owing to these industries: Tourism, Construction ten years, Sigrid Stångberg was a member of the and Mining. The realities of the rising poverty language council of the Nordic Sámi Board, and since 1993 she has been a member of the Swedish 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts
Sámi Parliament, mostly as a board member. She Website: has also a member of the Sámi Parliamentary http://www.slu.se/en/faculties/vh/departments/de Council where all the Nordic Sámi Parliaments partment-of-animal-nutrition-and- cooperate. During 1995-2005, the United Nations management/about-the-department/reindeer- Decade of Indigenous Peoples, she was the husbandry/staff/therese-sivertsen/ representative of Sámi Parliament in the Photo: - Indigenous Peoples’ Delegation of the Swedish Government. As the Chair for Vadtejen Saemiej Title: Reindeer and brown bear interactions and Sijte (VSS) and a member of Åarjelhsaemien space use in the boreal forest Teatere (ÅST) she has worked across the Swedish- Norwegian border and for six years she was Abstract: Reindeer herding forms a basis for the responsible for organizing the Day of Indigenous Sámi cultural heritage and is an essential economic Peoples, August 9. income to many people within the Sámi society in Fennoscandia. Although reindeer are domesticated they are freely ranged within the borders of the Title: Revitalizing the Sami language through herding districts, and their behavior and habitat language immersion camps for school-age children selection are comparable to wild reindeer and Abstract: caribou. Increasing infrastructure development and From 2008 to 2011, Sigrid Sagka Stångberg led growing predator populations are causing a joint Swedish-Norwegian project called "Saemest challenges to reindeer husbandry in Fennoscandia. Dle! - Let's speak Sámi!" financed by the European In order to manage conflicting interests of reindeer Union and aimed at revitalizing the South Sámi husbandry, carnivore conservation, and human language. This was a joint project between the development, one important task is to document Swedish Sámi School Board and the County reindeer and predator interactions and habitat Governor in the Nordland County, Norway. The requirements, and the influence of human project targeted Sámi youths between 12-15 years, development and activity. This include to and employed language immersion methods. In her document habitat preferences of reindeer and their paper, Sigrid Stångberg will present the results predators, how environmental factors, of this very successful project, and she will infrastructure development and human activity also show a film depicting the everyday work at affects animal movements and resource availability, the language immersion camp. and the influence of landscape features and human modifications on reindeer-predator interactions. In the present study we use GPS location data from *** forest-living reindeer and brown bears in northern Sweden to document and compare patterns of Therese Sivertsen resource selection and the impact of infrastructure Affiliation: PhD student, Reindeer Husbandry and forestry in an area where brown bear predation Unit, Department for Animal Nutrition and on reindeer calves have been documented. Further, Management, SLU we use brown bear kill location data to study how the risk of brown bear predation on reindeer are Bio: I am a PhD student at the Reindeer influenced by landscape features, human Husbandry Unit in Uppsala. I obtained my development and animal behavioural interactions. Master`s degree in Biology at the University of Oslo and have mainly worked with applied ecolgy, wildlife and landscape ecology. In this project I am *** working with interactions of semi-domestic reindeer and brown bear in the boreal forest of Northern Sweden. In the current project we are *** co-operating with two Sámi forest herding communities in Norrbotten county. I am mainly interested in documenting habitat preferences of the two species and patterns of brown bear predation on reindeer. Hopefully this research can lead to a better understanding of management of brown bears and landscapes in areas with reindeer husbandry, and further how human activity may influence these communities. 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts
Indigenous Peoples continues. Within the above span of time Indigeneity-the indigenous Worldview, the foundation that informs to, and on which, Indigenous knowledge systems and ways of life unfold has been eroded, in different degrees though. The indigenous ways of seeking balance and harmony has been impaired significantly the indigenous ways of reciprocal nurturance among the human community, the nature community and the spiritual community. The latitude and depth of such erosive process is not just related to the genocide and ecocide related to Indigenous Peoples, their lands and territories. In the midst of an environmental, ecological, economic, moral, Tirso Gonzales ethical and spiritual crisis, this time the challenge Affiliation: The University of British Columbia of regaining respect, balance and harmony among Okanagan. Indigenous Studies Program. Assistant all the components of life is posed to all of us. In Professor. words of Wes Jackson, we have the last Peruvian Aymara opportunity to become natives to this place (our Member: Terralingua. Partnership for Linguistic community, our country, and this earth). I will try Biological and Cultural Diversity, Canada, Jan to reflect on this situation by highlighting key 2003 – to date. issues related to the South American Andean
region. Bio: Assistant Professor. Indigenous Studies. The
University of British Columbia Okanagan. Canada *** Ph.D. Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin,
Madison. Postdoctoral Studies (UC Berkeley, UC
Davis). Peruvian Aymara activist and scholar. Former member of the “Peruvian National Commission for Amazon, Andean and Afro- Peruvian Peoples.” His scholarly international and hemispheric--Abya Yala- the Americas-- work includes indigenous autonomous development, biocultural diversity, food security, climate change, international agriculture, indigenous epistemologies/ methodologies, intercultural dialogue, indigenous peoples and the United Nations. Currently he is working on his upcoming Tor Lundberg Tuorda book “Positioning Indigenous Peoples’ Agri-cultures Affiliation: Uppsala university/researcher – Rivers in the Latin American Andes”. Currently is co- Resistance Resilience: Sustainable Futures in Sápmi editing a Special Issue on Indigenous Autonomies and in other Indigenous Peoples’ Territories (M-B in Latin America, for the Latin American and Öhman) Caribbean Ethnic Studies, LACES, Journal. JulevSámega, Jokkmokks sameförening Website: http://ccgs.ok.ubc.ca/faculty/gonzales.html Bio: Sami photographer, filmmaker and writer
based in the municipality of Jokkmokk. Work Title: From Indigeneity to Becoming Native to this especially with nature and culture. Current project Place is a film about the World Heritage of Laponia and Abstract: The most important contributor to a text to newspaper Samefolket about the cultural diversity, measured by language, is the colonization of the sami and the old forest sami Indigenous Peoples. For the last 500 years, from culture in Sjávnjá. the global to the local, colonization and later neo- Website: http//:www.kvikkjokk.nu colonization, have not been truly able to contribute to respectful co-existence, among Title: Biebbmo – food, tradition, trend. (Film, 40 humans, nor to fruitful dialogue on equitable min) footing among the rich diversity of cultures on earth. Fundamentally, the clash between the dominant Euro-american(ized) societies and 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts
Abstract: The Sami culinary traditions have centurie-old roots. Anything that could be eaten is Abstract: Education and mass media are the most utilized - herbs, bark, fish, wildlife and of course important direct causal factors in the disappearance meat from their own reindeer herd. The Swedish of languages; structural, political, economic and government has been able to eliminate much of military (often imperialist and/or nationalistic) the Sami culture, but food traditions have been factors are behind them. The education of retained. This film describes some of the Indigenous /tribal, minority and minoritised (ITM) ingredients in the Sami cuisine. children (including immigrant minorities) through the medium of dominant languages (instead of *** mainly using their mother tongues/first languages) in most countries today violates the right to education (Magga et al., 2005, Skutnabb-Kangas & Dunbar Tove Skutnabb-Kangas 2010). Most of this education has been and still is organised against solid research evidence of how it Affiliation: retired/Åbo Akademi, Vasa, Dept of should be conducted. It can sociologically, education, docent i minoritetsutbildning och psychologically, linguistically and educationally be språkliga mänskliga rättigheter termed genocide, according to definitions of genocide in the Unites Nations 1948 Convention on Bio: Dr. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, bilingual from the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of birth in Finnish and Swedish, actively involved Genocide. When recent legal interpretations of with struggles for language rights for five decades. “intent” become norms, it can probably also legally Research interests: linguistic human rights; be seen as genocide. It can probably already also be linguistic genocide and crimes against humanity in seen as a crime against humanity (Dunbar & the education of Indigenous/ tribal/ minority/ Skutnabb-Kangas, 2008, Skutnabb-Kangas & minoritised children; linguicism; mother-tongue- Dunbar, 2010). In many African and Asian countries based multilingual education; linguistic even the education of dominant linguistic groups in a imperialism, subtractive spread of English; foreign language (e.g. English) often shows similar endangered languages and their revitalisation. subtractive trends. Many children lack in practice Some books in English (for more, see www.tove- several of the most important rights needed for skutnabb-kangas.org): Bilingualism or Not: the them to maintain and develop their languages, Education of Minorities (1984); Linguistic Human cultures and ways of life. Rights. Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination, ed. Genocide is one end of a continuum; the other end with Robert Phillipson (1994); Linguistic Genocide is a situation where full linguistic human rights in Education - or Worldwide Diversity and Human (here especially in education) are implemented Rights? (2000); Sharing a World of Difference. The (i.e. they exist not only on paper, in laws and Earth's Linguistic, Cultural, and Biological Diversity regulations; this is only a first step). The right to (with Luisa Maffi and David Harmon, 2003); mainly mother- tongue-medium multilingual Imagining Multilingual Schools: Language in education (MLE) is one of the most vital of these Education and Glocalization, ed. with Ofelia García rights, as Indigenous peoples acknowledge. An and María Torres-Guzmán (2006); Social Justice important question is what legal rights forcibly through Multilingual Education (2009), ed. with assimilated people(s) have to revitalisation of their Ajit Mohanty, Minati Panda, and Robert languages. Claiming that a language of one’s Phillipson; Indigenous Children’s Education as forcibly assimilated ancestors that one does not Linguistic Genocide and a Crime Against Humanity? know, at all or “fully”, can still be one’s mother A Global View (2010, with Robert Dunbar; tongue by identification (even if it is not one’s Multilingual Education Works: from the Periphery to mother tongye by origin, competence, or function) the Centre, ed. with Kathleen Heugh (2010); is a starting point. Revitalising Indigenous languages. How to recreate a Many Indigenous people(s) claim the ancestors’ lost generation, with Marja-Liisa Olthuis & Suvi language/s, and act to get them back through Kivelä (2013). Lives on organic small-holding with various types of revitalisation (“it has not been husband Robert Phillipson. dead; it has only been sleeping”, as has been said Website: www.Tove-Skutnabb-Kangas.org about Kaurna in Australia). In contrast to this, Photo: - some neoliberal researchers have claimed that named languages do not exist; they want to Title: From linguistic genocide to language deconstruct languages (e.g. Blommert, Mufwene, revitalisation - Indigenous peoples' and minorities' Pennycook). These claims can be seen as agency or neoliberal deconstruction of "languages" intellectual games, with no knowledge of or 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts respect for how most Indigenous peoples and academia (Denzin & Lincoln, 2005), the earth minorities see their languages. The claims of these song is a vital part of Indigenous knowing. As researchers will be briefly deconstructed. Indigenous Peoples we know the earth sings to us In addition to elaborating on the issues above, the and we sing to it and all its creatures and environs. presentation will exemplify a few positive MLE It is a sensory phenomenon now recognised by projects in some parts of the world (India, Nepal, non-Indigenous scholars (such as Merleau-Ponty, Ethiopia, Hawai’i– see Skutnabb-Kangas, 1962) and which we now reclaim. This Phillipson, Mohanty & Panda, eds. 2009, presentation discusses this sensory way of knowing Skutnabb-Kangas & Heugh, eds, 2012, Wilson & as a Storyworker (Archibald, 2008) and the songs and Kamanā (2009). A very successful that can once again be heard and understood as revitalisation project with Aanaar Saami (some 350 Indigenous philosophy. We sing to show our speakers altogether) in Finland will also be connection to the earth, to each other and to mentioned (Olthuis, Kivelä and Skutnabb-Kangas, ourselves. When we cannot sing we listen to others 2013). who sing for us until our voices return. We sing for All references mentioned can be found in the past, the present and for the next generation, http://www.tove-skutnabb-kangas.org/en/Tove- bringing a harmony to their own knowing until Skutnabb-Kangas-Bibliography.html. they learn to sing for themselves. It may be a song that breaks into Yoik (Wyld & Őhman, forthcomming), or one that gives us knowledge *** (Black Elk & Lyon, 1991), or the connecting of song to story to know spirit. Song is the heartbeat Frances Wyld of the Earth; it creates a rhythm for us to dance to, Affiliation: to celebrate. To know this song as Indigenous Program Director: David Unaipon College of Peoples is to know that song is a harmony with the Indigenous Education and Research Earth that must be brought back to balance for a Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences harmonious future. University of South Australia Martu, the Peoples of the Pilbara region of Australia Prof. Bronwyn Fredericks, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement) and BMA Chair in Bio: Frances Wyld is a Martu woman. She is a Indigenous Engagement at CQUniversity Australia. lecturer and program director at the David President of CQUniversity’s Academic Board Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and (not attending the symposium) Research at the University of South Australia. *** Frances is currently a Doctor of Communications candidate at the University of South Australia. Frances teaches in cultural studies, Indigenous *** research methods and philosophy. Her research uses the methods of Storywork and auto- ethnography to story an Aboriginal identity. Frances lives in Adelaide with her son. Website: http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/staff/Homepage .asp?Name=Frances.Wyld Photo: -
Title: Earth Song as Storywork: Reclaiming Indigenous Knowledges (with Bronwyn Fredericks) Vladislava Vladimirova
Abstract: The Earth has a song that Indigenous Affiliation: Research fellow at Uppsala Centre for People listen to as story, and in return we ‘sing the Russian and Euroasian Studies and at the world’ (Battise & Henderson, 2003). Whether it is Department of Cultural Anthropology and listening to a bird’s song in a garden or connecting Ethnology, Uppsala University to the harmony and melody of the song of Bio: Vladislava Vladimirova, PhD, is a researcher difference that is an Indigenous worldview with in cultural anthropology at the Centre for Russian 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts and Eurasian Studies and the Department of Affiliation: Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology of Uppsala chair of Kuellnegk neark Sam’ Sobbar, the Russian University. She has done long-term research among Saami Parliament. indigenous people in the Russian North and Siberia the Working Group BEAR with focus on ethnicity, traditional economy, “Sami Women Forum, (Sami Nisson Forum) morality, resource use and the Sub-Arctic “the Congress of the Women in the Kola environment, and post-Soviet transformations. Peninsula,” “Kola Sami Association.”
Title: Sami Institutions’ Role in the Regulation of Bio: Valentina Viacheslavovna Sovkina is the chair Resources: the Case of the Russian Sami of Kuellnegk neark Sam’ Sobbar, the Russian Sami Parliament Parliament. She has worked for the Information Office for Indigenous People in Barents Region, as Abstract: This presentation will focus on the Sami an elected member of the Council of Lovozero, Parliament, a relatively new institution in the and as a leader of Kola Sami Radio. She is a Russian North that has been created with the member of the Working Group BEAR, and of the ambition to become the most representative Sami organizations “Sami Women Forum, ” “the political organization. I will first follow the process Congress of the Women in the Kola Peninsula,” of its institutionalization in different realms of life and “Kola Sami Association.” (social, political economic, and cultural) and on different levels of representation (the indigenous community, the regional administration, and Title: Instruments to Influence State Governance internationally). The organization has been very of Indigenous People in the North: The Case of active in leading a public discussion and finding the Russian Sami Parliament solutions in a few conflicts between members of the indigenous community and local Abstract: This presentation will explore the administrations over the use of natural resources question how the Russian Sami Parliament, an and mature protection. What is the Russian Sami indigenous institution with relatively short history, Parliament’s role in the development of such can enhance the cooperation between state conflicts and how its participation in them affected authorities and indigenous state residents in the the establishment of the organization itself, are government of the Russian Northern Province of specific questions to be tackled. The answers to Murmansk. Recent experiences of indigenous these questions can help us predict to what an people point out to inadequate level of such extent the Parliament can fulfill its essential role of cooperation, with province government being slow mediator between the Government and the in addressing indigenous people problems by either indigenous community, or even between ignoring indigenous claims, or not realizing its indigenous organizations within the community. promised help and policies in accordance with international norms and standards of human rights protection. *** ***
Tatiana Sechko
Valentina Viacheslavovna Sovkina Affiliation:
3. Presentation of participants – abstracts director of the Municipal Centre for Ethnic power at the expense of the underprivileged. I Cultures in the village of Lovozero, Northwestern have been deeply inspired by scholars from the Russia, a member of the Council of Indian sub-continent (with whom Tove and I have Representatives of Indigenous People at the edited books), many parts of Africa, and elsewhere. Government of Murmansk Region, and a leader of My efforts are mostly aimed at influencing my own the Sami Territory-Based Community “Luemman” group (British, male, dominant), who continue to Bio: Tatiana Viktorovna Sechko is a director of the try to silence me. Municipal Centre for Ethnic Cultures in the village Photo: - of Lovozero, Northwestern Russia. She is a member of the Council of Representatives of *** Indigenous People at the Government of Gerald Roche Murmansk Region, and a leader of the Sami Affiliation: Post-doctoral researcher, Hugo Territory-Based Community “Luemman.” Valentin Centre, Uppsala University Bio: Title: Gerald Roche (PhD, Asian Studies, Griffith The Role of the Lovozero Municipal Ethnic University, 2011) is an anthropologist and educator. Cultural Centre for the Sami Community He is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at Uppsala University's Hugo Valentin Centre. He is Abstract: The Lovozero Municipal Ethnic Cultural founder and co-editor of the journal Asian Highlands Centre has established itself as a cultural Perspectives, and also founded and now advises the institution with wider importance than simply a Plateau Cultural Heritage Protection Group, a fora for cultural activity for indigenous ethnic participatory initiative to digitally document and groups. It is a basis for creativity and cultural revitalize endangered oral traditions on the Tibetan activity that enhances social communication and Plateau. His research interests include cultural creates basis for cultural interaction, that has the diversity, resilience theory, human-environment potential to smooth political and economic relations, and oral traditions within the context of the conflict. This presentation will explore the wider Tibetan Plateau. role of this social institution in the Municipality of Website: Lovozero, Murmansk Region. http://uppsala.academia.edu/GeraldRoche Photo:
*** Title: Linguistic Rights for the Wrong Languages: Revitalization, Misrecognition, and the Procrustean *** Bed of Ethnicity on the Northeast Tibetan Plateau Robert Phillipson Abstract: The constitution of the People's Republic of China Affiliation: Emeritus Professor, Copenhagen guarantees certain linguistic rights for its minority Business School, Denmark populations, including, for example, the right to mother-tongue education. Minority communities have Bio: I am best known in the academic world for (1) openly and actively pursued these rights since the publishing extensively with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas Open and Reform policies initiated in 1978 restored on linguistic human rights, language policy, and linguistic and cultural freedoms across China. multilingual education; (2) writing Linguistic However, due to the damage wrought over the imperialism (Oxford University Press, 1992, also previous decades, pursuing linguistic rights has often published in China and India, and in translation entailed language revitalization. These revitalization into Arabic and Japanese) and Linguistic efforts have often proved to be extremely complex imperialism continued (Routledge 2013). I have also affairs, particularly at the interface of language and written a book on European Union language ethnicity. Here, I examine two cases where ethnicity policies, pleading for more diversity. I was awarded has trumped language in localized revitalization the UNESCO Linguapax prize in 2010. The main efforts. In the first case, local state elites imposed the thrust of my efforts is analysing how English has 'revitalization' of a Mongolian language in a region been promoted worldwide by the UK and USA, where it had never previously been spoken. In the why English is even stronger in former colonies second case, local Tibetan Buddhist elites imposed the now than earlier, how ’aid’ policies strengthen 'revitalization' of Tibetan upon a non-Tibetan- English and not other languages, and the role of speaking linguistic minority in a predominantly the global English teaching profession. It sees itself Tibetan-speaking area. In both these cases of as apolitical despite English consolidating elite 'revitalization', local elites, whether state or Tibetan 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts
Buddhist, employed what I call the Procrustean Bed training and knowledge regarding Sámi cultural of ethnicity, a rubric that collapses cultural and heritage. She has also made research in this field in linguistic diversity into discrete and numerically collaboration with renowned researchers and limited ethnic categories. From the perspective of the practicioners and linked to important institutions populations subject to these simplifications, such working with Sámi culture. Gunilla’s work has interventions are typically interpreted through a both been within field studies, investigations and process Bourdieu calls misrecognition – "the process also teaching. whereby power relations are perceived not for what they objectively are but in a form which renders them Title: Reclaiming the Sámi History That Was legitimate in the eyes of the beholder." This paper Never Written (Gállok) therefore emphasizes how language revitalization can, in some cases, work against emancipation rather than Abstract: The Sámi history is absent in the national for it. Swedish history writing, in history education at primary school, secondary school, high school and *** university teaching and only very limited in research. Also archaeological research has traditionally been very nationalistic. In the last years of the National Survey for Ancient Monuments by the Swedish Board of Antiquities though, there became an increased awareness of the Sámi cultural heritage and research was initiated, a possibility opened up to find the remains of the history that was never written in the archaeological remains. Here lies the silent proof of Sámi history, existence and presence where there is a lack of historical documents, important especially in areas where Sámi traditional rights to land and reindeer pasture grounds are continuously being questioned. This would be a valuable contribution if the survey was performed on the basis of Gunilla Larsson knowledge of Sámi cultural remains, and these remains would also be protected by the Swedish Affiliation: national law for protection of the cultural Revita Archaeology and History; Uppsala environments. None of the registered sites would University, Member of Stockholm Sami be possible to destroy without investigation and Association documentation. But 1996 the National Survey for Ancient Monuments ended and today lack of Bio: Gunilla Larsson is a trained and experienced knowledge means that Sámi heritage and Sámi archeologist with a focus on cultural heritage, history preserved in the ground is threatened to be especially Sámi and maritime cultural heritage. She eradicated by mining enterprises, dams and other is also of Forest Sámi background from exploitation projects. the Lule River Valley region. She published her PhD thesis in 2007; Ship and Society. Maritime Photo credit Tor Lundberg Tuorda. Ideology in Late Iron AgeSweden. Aun 37. Dept. *** of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University. Uppsala. In her PhD thesis Gunilla also analysed the historical distribution of Sámi boatbuilding in Scandinavia and documented finds of Sámi boats from central Sweden and northwards in the Viking Age and Medieval period, sewn with the very typical Sámi sewing technique, indications of early Sámi presence also in central and coastal Sweden. Gunilla has worked in her capacity as archaeologist since 1988, with nine years participation in the Swedish national survey for ancient monuments in the north, and with special
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Gunnar Hauk Gjengset policy towards its Sami minority in a permanent Affiliation: way: Although the Alta river was dammed, an University College of Sogn and Fjordane, Norway, opening for institutional equality of Sami language Professor emeritus and culture was granted. The main reason for this Norka Sámi Riikasærvi, local branch, Oslo was of course the manifold of implications this Member, Norwegian Organization of Non-Fiction particular development did have. The question of Authors and Translaters power supply was superior only as platitudes, while true political power haunted those same Bio: Gunnar Hauk Gjengset (10/5-1946) is a politicians' heads. And the question of power was Norwegian researcher and author. Gjengset got no longer an easy one in times of grassroots worldwide attention when in January 1970 he was demands for increased transparency and arrested in the Soviet Union when demonstrating participation; requirements that were promoted against the Breznjev regime. Gjengset appeared in with increasing strength by the oppressed Leningrad, former St. Petersburg, to hand out indigenous groups. leaflets demanding the release of the author Yoli The Alta damming had become a case with Galanskov and war hero general Pyotr Grigorenko, extremely wide ramifications. But no matter from both well-known dissidents. In the trial that what angle one approached the case, one would followed, Gjengset was sentenced to one year in a inevitably encounter the indigenous people. Given criminal camp, but was released from his detention the erecting of lthe lavvo in front of the Parliament in a criminal asylum, after international pressure. in the autumn of 1979, the sámi people started to Gjengset is a Doctor of Philosophy in the science seriously make themselves visible in the Norwegian of literature from the University of Umea in society. The protesters insisted that the damming Sweden. He has been a researcher on both the contradicted Sámi interests, and that the sámi medias, children's upbringing, and on indigenous people at least had to be granted the right to define cultures. His doctoral assertation is about the what they perceived as their obvious privileges. authorship of the Sami writer Matti Aikio (Matti The Sámi people took a definitive step out of the Aikio - Works and Writings, Umea 2011). myth of non-resistance, causing the Norwegians to http://umu.diva- re-consider their attitude towards Sapmi. From the portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:407907. midst of January 1981 one could gather this Gjengset has written several books, including a development from all the country's newspapers. biography of Gustav Vigeland, the world famous During this process, the majority of the press Norwegian sculptor assumed a pose reminiscent to onliners from http://ask.bibsys.no/ask/action/show?pid=1120979 today's news on the net: they were inundated with 79&kid=biblio. He is also the nation's only negative statements that swung from deep reknown aforistic, having his own daily column in ignorance to pure racism. Examples include the one of the major Norwegian newspapers. His wisecrack that originated in Oslo: "Dam(n) the latest book, Avoid the Void, was released in New Sámis", and the latent hatred that was displayed in York in March 2013, describing a journey from a North-Norwegian newspapers. Soviet asylum to paradise forgotten. The author And this is the starting point for this revisiting the questions the reigning regime of genetic Alta battle: Attitudes bordering on racism did explanations, that alcoholism is a hereditary illness. appear in the wake of the Alta demonstrations. The author claims that addiction is behavorial, and The overriding theme was briefly society's that by investing one year of total temperance, you attitudes and the government's treatment of the can have whatever you like forever after. The book Sami minority until today. We saw the same comes with a manual. Available here: pattern as Tromsø's new City Council in 2011 http://amzn.to/12iTXLr refused to take office as a Sami administrative area: Website: Pure racism affected all channels of https://plus.google.com/104239290817097672921 communication. Later, the Conservative mayor /posts lamented his initiative. In this cinematic production the attempt was to elucidate aspects of the Alta case that could not be Title: THE ALTA DAMMING - A WATERSHED settled by democratic means - because it affected a IN NORWEGIAN SAPMI-POLICY (FILM 30 minority's interests and unresolved claims: Despite min) forthcoming parliamentary decisions, we will still experience the oppression of a lot of people. The Abstract: In various ways the fight over the Alta core of the case was the rights of the First Nation, damming has changed the Norwegian society's and the parallels to the current conflict in Gallok is 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts obvious, here from a leaflet dated August19th this amongst Bhangis remains very low till today as year : "Save Lapland from more mining" they continue their age old profession which (kolonierna.se, here): involves cleaning up toilets manually. Caste http://kolonierna.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/skyd barriers mark their social life as they do not attain a da-sapmi-fran-fler-gruvor-join-the-struggle-kallak- degree of economic stability and therefore almost gallok/). In Kiruna they are planning to reopen the rarely can they intermarry into more prosperous mine, with the revolting result that the entire city groups. This limits their social and cultural world. has to be moved! And the Norwegian prime The paper will also involve author’s own and her minister Stoltenberg in a press release of March ancestral experience as a member of this caste; 13th this year vowed that if minerals were detected This personal narrative will enable the Western in Sami areas, the government would guarantee a world to understand colonialism and post "mineral offensive strategy." colonialism in certain unique ways. The struggle (http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/nhd/pressesen involved in obtaining education in colonial India ter/pressemeldinger/2013/offensiv- was particularly pathbreaking and changed the mineralstrategi.html?id=717090) course of certain families. So the battle over Alta is never over! The present and the past of Bhangis is generally unwritten and undocumented and any account has to be preserved and invested in future activism against caste system.
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Affiliation: Assistant Professor at Centre for *** Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Bio: Assistant Professor, Modern Indian History, Centre for Historical Studies School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. Teaches modern Indian history at JNU. She is member of a Dalit caste in India and has just begun research on her late grandfather from the North Western region of Punjab.
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Title: History, Identity and Empowerment: Experiences of Bhangi Caste in Modern India Abstract: History, Identity and Empowerment: Inger Baer-Omma Experiences of Bhangi Caste in Modern India Affiliation: Historically classified as a caste of scavengers, the Member and reindeer herding member of Vapsten Bhangis are a minority group amongst the large Sameby population of India. Even within the umbrella Member and member of board of category of dalits, Bhangis further constitute a Renägarförbundet (the Swedish Association for minority. Reindeer owners) As caste continues to be the main vertebrae of the Indian society, this paper will seek to explore how despite the economic, technical and cultural *** refinement of a huge nation and a fairly liberal constitution, benefits have not accrued to all. The backward groups not only need affirmative action, they need encouragement and motivation to organize themselves to free themselves of the mental slavish ness. The level of education 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts
Traditionen har företrädare som maoriske Linda Tuhiwai-Smith, ShawnWilson (Opaskwayak Cree) och Jorunn Jernsletten (same). Traditionen är ny och kontroversiell men kommer direkt ur ursprungsfolks egna led och har fått insteg i den akademiska världen. Hur ser Sverige och svenska forskare på denna metodologi och hur kan man arbeta med den bland samer?
Åsa Virdi Kroik
Affiliation: PhD candidate, History of Religion, the Participants Department of Theology **** Bio: South Sami PhD student at the department of history of religion, author. I grew up with reindeer- herding in a small village in northern Sweden. In Anna Dahlström school I studied music and continued my career working with various things while continuing Affiliation: PhD, assistant researcher writing poetry, lyrics, artikcles and so on. After studies in the university at Stockholm for the Bio: Anna Dahlström works with land use history, Saami professor Louise Bäckman .I held contact biocultural heritage, traditional knowledge and with the university while writing and editing biodiversity in traditional land use systems in books,and working with saamirelated issues in Sweden and Romania. Anna is working within Norway and Sweden. I started as a graduate Naptek– National Programme on Local and student in September 2010 working with a project Traditional Knowledge Related to Conservation about attitudes to gievrie (the traditional Saami and Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity, an drum) during 300 years in the area of initiative of the Swedish Government situated at Frostviken/Namdalen in Sweden/Norway. This the Swedish Biodiversity Centre. includes analyzing the discussions about the Website: www.slu.se/cbm recently found gievrie in Röyrvik which objectify Bilder: - the traditional thoughts among some Saami that do not correspond with the Norwegian laws. *** Looking back in the history this attitude can be traced and explained. Weronika Axelsson Linkowski Affiliation: “PhD- student” Uppsam – the Uppsala network for Sámi related Title: Urfolksforskning – utmaning och hot research
Abstract: I ursprungsbefolkningars egna led har det Bio: Weronika Axelsson Linkowski is working in vuxit fram en forskningstradition, främst i de the field of traditional knowledge and biological länder med ett något sånärt välstånd (USA, diversity with emphasize on outfield grazing, Canada, Australien, Nya Zeeland) och gemensamt biodiversity and the UN Convention on Biological språk, som gjort att även ursprungsfolksgrupper Diversity. Weronika is working within Naptek– kunnat ta högre utbildningar. Även om det är glest National Programme on Local and Traditional mellan akademiker med ursprungsbakgrund och Knowledge Related to Conservation and dessa oftast arbetar ensamma på sina respektive Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity, an institutioner och lärosäten har nätverk, konferanser initiative of the Swedish Government situated at och deras respektive publikationer gjort att man the Swedish Biodiversity Centre. funnit varandra och kunnat samarbeta och Website: www.slu.se/cbm erfarenheterna har visat hur mycket man trots olika Photo: - traditioner, historia, språk och avstånd sinsemellan, har gemensamt. Den forskningstradition som *** uppstått går under olika benämningar som Indigenous research paradigm , Indigenous methodologies eller Indigenist research. 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts
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Anett Sasvari
Affiliation: Uppsala University, Inst. Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
Bio: My research looks at the effect of large scale Elina Ambjörnsson wind power development on Saami reindeer herding pastures in Sweden. I am specifically Affiliation: interested in issues concerning the contestation of Have participated as research-assistant within the resource sovereignty and how Saami land rights are project “Rivers, resistance and resilience: Sustainable disputed and negotiated in the courts and in futures in Sápmi and in other Indigenous Peoples’ participation and consultation processes in light of Territories”. issues such as self-determination, sustainable Works at the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society. development, and climate change. Bilder: - Bio: Elina Ambjörnsson has been active in the camp in Kallak, Jokkmokk, as an activist. For some *** weeks Elina participated in the blockade of the road leading into the mining-area. Elina has also participated in the research of the project “Rivers, A resistance and resilience: Sustainable futures in Sápmi and in other Indigenous Peoples’ *** Territories”. Sebastian Welling
Photo: yes (but I can’t get it in position for some Affiliation: reason) Course Coordinator – Actors and Strategies for Change – Towards Global Sustainabilities, Centre for Environment and Development Studies *** (CEMUS), Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development, Uppsala University and Swedish Masumi Tanaka University of Agricultural Sciences, Villavägen 16, 752 36 Uppsala Affiliation: Ph.D student, Faculty of Social Sciences, Bio: Master of Science in Sustainable University of Lapland Development; Course Coordinator for Actors and ARKTIS Doctoral Programme, Arctic Centre, Strategies for Change – Towards Global University of Lapland Sustainabilities at the Centre for Environment and Development Studies (CEMUS) Bio: Masumi Tanaka is a Ph.D student at the Bilder: - University of Lapland, Finland. She graduated from Muroran Institute of Technology, Hokkaido Japan. She has been affiliating with the Arctic Doctoral Programme at the Arctic Centre in the recent past. *** Her current research interests are in the field of traditional ecological knowledge particularly of *** Sami people for her dissertation project. She has done six times of fieldworks in Utsjoki village in Finland. Between 2010 and 2011 she worked as a local coordinator in Finland and a translator for the book, Restoration of the Ainu as an Indigenous People-Building a Japanese Society in Solidarity 3. Presentation of participants – abstracts
Jorunn Nilsson Affiliation: Master student, Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies, Stockholm University Bio: I am attending this symposium as an interpreter to and from the Japanese. With a BA in Japanese, I am currently studying for my Master’s degree at the Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies at Stockholm University. As an undergraduate student I spent two years in Japan, at Kyoto University and at Nanzan University in Nagoya, studying Japanese, Linguistics and Translation. I have also recently finished a five months’ internship at the Embassy of Sweden in Tokyo. (If you are interested in receiving help with translation or interpretation, please feel free to contact me at [email protected].) Website: -
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Report from RE-Claimings, Empowerings, Inspirings: Researching and exploring by, for, and with indigenous peoples, minorities and local communities, Uppsala 3rd Supradisciplinary Feminist Technoscience Symposium, October 14–18, 2013, Uppsala University Main Building. The symposium assembled in total 70 persons, both indigenous and non-indigenous from the US, Canada, China, Japan, Australia, India, Peru, and other countries along with Sámi scholars, artists and activists from Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Russia. The presentations consisted of research presentations, movies, art work, yoik and song. The conference dinner took place at Norrlands Nation, where the Sámi artist Lovisa Negga performed. The aim of the symposium was to provide a platform for a comparative and critical analysis of the development of indigenous and other community-relevant scholarship, thus further ing both methodological and theoretical development of academic research and culture revitalization. Ultimately the intention was to promote the re-claiming of indigenous/tribal/local communities identities, while striving at empowering and inspiring ourselves and each other in this important work. Since research on Sámi people was initiated in the 17th century, the majority of research projects on Sámi related issues have been pursued by non-Sámi scholars. At the same time there are Sámi who are academic scholars, but who do not find it beneficial – or actually rather detrimental – to self-identify as Sámi within the current Swedish academic context, as well as in any other context outside of the Sámi cultural context. Whereas there are since early 20th century Sámi scholars, the most of the research and teaching about Sámi related issues, culture, tradition, language, is still mainly conducted by non-Sámi. Where as these experiences of the indigenous Sámi are shared with indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities, and local/tribal communities in other parts of the world, in some countries, including in the U.S. and Canada, ethnic and indigenous studies programs and scholars have grown in number and prominence since the late 1960s. It was the hope that the symposium would contribute to the establishment of such a research environment in Sweden. This was a supra-disciplinary symposium, which meant that the symposium was open to scholars/students activists – artists, and also that an important part of the symposium was to promote the exchange in between, as well as for schol ars/students who are activists and/or artists to work from that point of departure as well. To achieve the objective of supradisciplinarity– we aimed at creating a culturally safe space for indigenous/tribal/ local community sharing of knowledge and experiences. Creating this safe space took place on different levels, cultural framing as well as the program setting. For instance, the symposium opened and closed with Sámi traditional yoik, performed by Fia Kaddik. Opening and closing with Sámi yoik is an important Sámi tradition, and re-claiming this tradition. The Sámi flag was hoisted outside the University building throughout the week. Also the way that the sessions were organized, was a means to the end of creating a safe space for Indigenous and Tribal scholars. Finally, an important part, was to communicate this intention to all participants, for us all to contribute to a welcoming, inclusive and mutually supportive environment for sharing experiences which in some cases are closely connected to the personal life of an Indigenous/Tribal scholar.
The symposium was organized by Dr. May-Britt Öhman, Technoscience, Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, within the research project “Rivers, resistance and resilience: Sustainable futures in Sápmi and in other Indigenous Peoples’ Territories” (FORMAS 2013-2016) in collaboration with: Swedish Biodiversity Centre (CBM) at SLU and Uppsala University; Hugo Valentin Centre; Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies; the Research program ‘Mind and Nature’ at Uppsala University; Centre for Historical Studies School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India; Muroran Institute of Technology, Hokkaido, Japan; Reindeer Husbandry Unit, Department of Animal Nutri tion and Management, SLU, Uppsala; UPPSAM, the association for Sámi related studies in Uppsala and the Sámi association Silbonah Samesijdda.
The symposium was funded by a conference grant by Vetenskapsrådet.
Parallel to the symposium an exhibition was organized, with the following parts; ”Gállok Protest Art ”(art and banderols from the Gállok protests in 2013, by artists and activists) och plakat från protesterna i Kallak 2013, Katarina Pirak Sikku ”Spår” /”Traces”( from Gállok) and photography by Fia Kaddik. . Photos by May-Britt Öhman Marie Persson. Photo: Tor L Tuorda Eva-Lotta Thunqvist Photo: Tor L Tuorda
Chris Andersen Photo: Tor L Tuorda Fia Kaddik opening yoik. Photo: Tor L Exhibition Photo Tor L Tuorda Tuorda