Disputas Master Eva Maria Fjellheim
Master Eva Maria Fjellheim disputerer for ph.d.-graden i humaniora og samfunnsvitenskap og vil offentlig forsvare avhandlingen:
“Resisting unfinished colonial business in Southern Saami reindeer herding landscapes. Struggles over knowledges, worldviews, and values”
Avhandlingen er tilgjengelig her!
The doctoral thesis!
Prøveforelesning over oppgitt emne holdes kl. 11.15-12.00: “You discuss strategic ignorance as a key obstacle in Sami struggles against (green) colonialism. Can you expand on this concept and speculate on ways to resist/fight/counter strategic ignorance? Discuss with examples from your scholarship and other struggles that you are in solidarity with”
Prøveforelesningen vil også bli strømmet/the trail lecture will also be streamed.
Populærvitenskapelig sammendrag av avhandlingen:
Norway aspires to be in the forefront of both sustainability and Indigenous Peoples’ rights. However, Saami reindeer herding faces threats from the climate and ecological crisis, as well as measures said to mitigate them. In this thesis, I study how three Southern Saami reindeer herding communities resist unfinished colonial business to defend their ancestral landscapes, practices and rights. Through methodologies that mobilize solidarity and care, I analyse controversies that take place in and around academia, bureaucracies, and courts. My findings show that power asymmetries in knowledge and decision-making favour settler, capitalist, and (green) colonial interests. Notwithstanding, Southern Saami reindeer herders and knowledge holders continue to challenge racism, ignoranse, and colonial presumptions of what Saami reindeer herding was, is and ought to be in the future. The decolonial task, in my view, is to accompany them.
Hovedveileder
professor Else Grethe Broderstad- UiT Norges arktiske universitet
Biveiledere
professor Hans Kristian Hernes - UiT Norges arktiske universitet
professor Mariel Cristina Støen - Universitetet i Oslo
Bedømmelseskomité
professor DPhil. Gro Ween, University of Oslo - 1. Opponent
associate professor PhD Nicholas Copeland, Virginia Tech - 2. Opponent
associate professor PhD Kjerstin Uhre, UiT The Arctic University of Norway - Leder av komité
Disputasleder:
Instituttleder Torjer Andreas Olsen, Senter for samiske studier, UiT Norges arktiske universitet.
De som ønsker å opponere ex. auditorio, kan sende en e-post til leder av disputas innen kl. 14:00 disputasdagen: torjer.olsen@uit.no