| Summary: | This thesis combines theories on internal colonisation, justice and deliberation, and poststructuralism in order to analyse how Swedish state actors construct justice for the Sami people in deliberation. Analysing a government bill for a law on consultation between state, regional, and municipal actors, and Sami representatives as well as four interviews with municipal level officials and politicians who conduct consultation this thesis finds that the state view on justice for the Sami people is highly legalistic and grounded in a need to live up to international obligations rather than any moral claims. While municipal discourse is more varied the hegemony of the state-level discourse disallows for any other ideas of justice within the field of discursivity. The end result is a discourse which grants state actors complete decision-making rights while withholding that right from the Sami representatives. This study further contributes to usage of theory by proving the usefulness of combining theories on colonialism, just transition, and poststructuralism in order to gain a more complete picture in research.
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