Supradisciplinary conversations on security, safety and resilience in the river valleys of Sábme – land of the Sámi

• Main Author: Öhman, May-Britt
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Centrum för genusvetenskap 2015
• Subjects: Arctic; Sámi; Saami; Indigenous peoples; Feminist technoscience; Indigenous studies; Natural resource exploitation; Decolonization; Human rights; Human security; saami
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-248673

Video link of presentation January 31st, 2015. Photos and videos are approved of those that are on the images/videos. All rights reserved! For any kind of publishing beyond this link, please contact [e-mail]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsLK6Avr0FY Conference link: http://newkirkcenter.uci.edu/2015/01/ Supradisciplinary conversations on security, safety and resilience in the river valleys of Sábme – land of the Sámi Since 2008 I combine the study of the (perceived) control of rivers through hydropower and the impacts of the hydropower exploitations during the 20th century within Sábme, the land of the indigenous Sámi people. I apply a methodology which I refer to as supradisciplinarity. My own academic field being History of Science and Technology, the method involves collaboration with different academic disciplines, inviting co-researchers from other academic disciplines; amongst other water resource management, political science, and archeology. Furthermore, I integrate knowledges and people outside academia. This approach goes along with the argument by scholar Haraway, about “situated knowledges” and “partial perspectives” in regard to the production of scientific knowledge.[1] In my interpretation, it also includes the necessity for me as a researcher, and Sámi, to take a stance and not pretend to be “neutral” in front of colonial destructive natural resource exploitation of Indigenous Peoples water- and landscapes. I will describe parts of this work, and the challenges it involves, along with the important work of healing that I find equally important. [1] Donna Haraway, ”Situated knowledges: The Science question in Feminism and the privilege of partial perspective”, Haraway Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The reinvention of Nature (New York, Routledge, 1991), 183-201. Video link of presentation January 31 st , 2015. Photos and videos are approved of those that are on the images/videos. All rights reserved! For any kind of publishing beyond this link, please contact ...