The Sámi World

1. A window into vanishing Sámi culture? Visual representations of Sáminess in the shared Siida exhibition by Sámi Museum Siida and Northern Lapland’s Nature Centre
2. Gákti on the pulse of time: The double perspective of the traditional Sámi dress
3. Skolt Saami Leuʹdd: Tradition as a medium of individual and collective remembrance
4. Trickster blurring expectations and values of Sámi community: Author Jovnna-Ánde Vest reshaping Sámi muittašangirjjálašvuohta (reminiscence literature)
5. The river breaks – and freezes: Sámi women in Laestadianism
6. From History to Herstory of the Sámi world: Proposing a feminist approach to the settlement history of Finnish Lapland
7. Caught in the state’s net? Ecologies of care in Deanuleahki, Sápmi
8. Defning the Sámi cultural environment: New perspectives for f eldwork
9. Frustrated caretakers: Sámi egg gatherers and cloudberry pickers
10. Sámi food culture: Traditional practices and contemporary challenges
11. Understanding Sámi reindeer herders’ knowledge systems of snow and ice
12. Issues of Sámi representation in Finnish tourism: A quest for authenticity
13. The futures of Sami languages
14. Residential schooling of the Sámi in the Soviet Union: Historical development and impacts
15. The Sámi in the spiral of negative social developments of the Soviet North
16. Changing states, changing Sámi? Framing the state and the Sámi in studies of history in Finland and Norway 1923–1954
17. The Sámi f ag(s): From a revolutionary sign to an institutional symbol
18. Who are ‘We, the People’? A comparative analysis of the right to register in the Sámi electoral roll in Finland, Norway and Sweden
19. Toxic speech, political self-Indigenization and the ethics and politics of critique: Notes from Finland
20. The history and current situation of discrimination against the Sámi
21. Municipal politics in the Sámi homeland in Finland
22. The Stockholm Sámi administrative area and Indigenous resurgence
23. The role of the Sámi media in democratic processes: The Arctic Railway in Yle Sápmi and NRK Sápmi
24. The Áltá and Deatnu conf icts and the articulations of nature
25. The history of the hybrid Sámi media system
26. ‘It should be her language’: New speakers of Sámi languages transmitting the language to the next generation
27. Ládjogahpir rematriated: Decolonization of the Sámi women’s hat of pride
28. Sámi research ethics under construction
29. Driving around with Aunt Máret: Historical consciousness of the Sámi in transition
30. The characteristics and legal status of Sámi legal tradition and law
31. Commemorating continuity: Reconciling material representations in Sääʹm land
32. Sámi storytelling through design
33. Sámi feminist conversations
34. Queer Indigenous world-making in the Sámi TV comedy
35. The activism of having fun: Young Sámi in urban areas of Norway and Sweden

This book provides a comprehensive and multifaceted analysis of the Sámi society and its histories and people, offering valuable insights into how they live and see the world. The chapters examine a variety of social and cultural practices, and consideration is given to environment, legal and political conditions and power relations. The contributions by a range of experts of Sámi studies and Indigenous scholars are drawn from across the Sápmi region, which spans from central Norway and central Sweden across Finnish Lapland to the Kola Peninsula in Russia. Sámi perspectives, concepts and ways of knowing are foregrounded throughout the volume. The material connects with wider discussions within Indigenous studies and engages with current concerns relating to globalization, environmental and cultural change, Arctic politics, multiculturalism, postcolonialism and neoliberalism. The Sámi World will be of interest to scholars from a number of disciplines, including Indigenous studies, anthropology, sociology, geography, history and political science.