The politics of belonging in the Indigenous North

• Main Author: Michael Skey
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Language; Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified; Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified; Belonging; Sami; Arctic; Nils; sami
• Online Access: https://figshare.com/articles/chapter/The_politics_of_belonging_in_the_Indigenous_North/9476279

This chapter focuses on the politics of belonging. In the case of the Sami, it shows how a sense of belonging is expressed in relation to particular practices, material objects, temporal rhythms, forms of language and places. The language became the first 'official' marker of Sami culture...