Indigenous peoples as political actors within the Arctic Council : A case study

• Main Author: Blåhed, Hanna
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2018
• Subjects: arctic council; indigenous peoples; political actors; framing; Political Science; Statsvetenskap; Arctic; Arctic Council
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-153956

Indigenous peoples as political actors in the Arctic Council is an understudied subject.Indigenous peoples have a unique status as Permanent Participants to the Arctic Council,enabling them to affect the policy-making and decisions made within the Council. There areconcerns, however, to the level of Indigenous peoples’ inclusion. Research shows that theworking relationships between the eight Arctic member states of the Council and thePermanent Participants creates dependency, among other things because the PermanentParticipants rely on funding from the member states. This in turn questions the status of thePermanent Participants, and whether they are included into the Arctic Council as independentpolitical actors. This paper aims to build upon research done by Michaela Louise Coote andMonica Tennberg, researchers whom both have contributed to this field of research.