162 projects

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SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

GREENGROWTH - Green growth and Sami Stakeholders. Public debate on Green resource extraction in Sápmi

In the Global North, resource extraction is often portrayed as "green" and climate-friendly projects, but in reality, they maintain colonial relations between states and indigenous peoples. One example is "green mining" in Sápmi, where metals for lithium-ion batteries are extracted. Industry inte...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo

SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

Indigenous representation in majority-based parties and “the green shift”: Structures, strategies, and policy effects

Much of the literature on Indigenous representation concerns Indigenous organizations or representative bodies. IMPART, on the other hand, studies how Indigenous people attempt to influence policy through the political parties of the majority peoples of their states: How are the Sámi included - o...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo

SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

Indigenous language resilience: From learners to speakers

Across the world Indigenous and minority languages are disappearing at a rapid rate. Long-reaching effects of harsh assimilation policies, as well as effects of internalized stigma and shame among individuals, have led to significant language endangerment in many parts of the world. As a response...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo

SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

Indigenous homemaking as survivance: Homemaking as cultural resilience to the effects of colonization and assimilation.

Creating a home is one of the most important things we humans do. In this project, we will explore the importance of the home, both its architecture, interior, activities and people, for cultural survival among Sami and Inuit in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Greenland. We will examine how the housi...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

South Saami Memory Culture: The dynamics of indigenous and nation-state identities

The project aims at deepening our understanding of South Saami history and culture. This is an under-researched field, too often shadowed by the more populous North Saami culture. This project is an investigation of how South Saami memory culture is formed, articulated, and applied by various age...

Awarded: NOK 7.7 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

Governance of Land and Natural Resources in Sápmi, a legal approach.

The overall aim of the project is to analyze, investigate and propose models for the governance of land and natural resources in the traditional Sámi areas in Norway. Indigenous people's participation in the governance of natural resources and lands they traditionally use and occupy, are essentia...

Awarded: NOK 8.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

How can language technology make a difference? An investigation of the impact language-aware computer programs have upon Saami literacy

During the last decades, the Saami languages have to an increasing degree been put into use in school and the civil society. In parallel with this, keyboards, proofing tools and other computer programs for the Sami languages have been made, to an extent that the Saami languages are relatively wel...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

Arctic Silk Road: Imagining Global Infrastructures and Community Boundaries in Sápmi and the Russian North

The "Arctic Silk Road" project follows the social and material lives of global infrastructures across time and space. The "Silk Road" in the Arctic refers to an infrastructure network meant to facilitate the flow of goods between Asia and Europe through northern sea routes and melting sea ice. It...

Awarded: NOK 11.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SAMISKTEMA-SAMISKTEMA

Truth and Reconciliation in a Democratic Welfare State: The Indigenous Sami, the Kven/Norwegian Finns Minority and the majority in Norway

The TRUCOM project was concluded on October 1, 2024. The project researched how the Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Commission to Investigate the Policy of Norwegianization and Injustice towards the Sami, Kvens, and Norwegian Finns, which was established to investigate the stat...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Seminar on academic writing in Sami

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2019-2020

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Planning and Environmental Decision Making: The Role of Community-Based Impact Assessments

In 2022, we have continued the work of analyzing the Nasafjell case. Among others a review of the consultation processes and the knowledge basis for the impact assessment processes is ongoing. The report Avtal mellan samebyar och exploatörer: Hur påverkas renens välmående by Rasmus Kløcker Lars...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Epistemalas modalitehta máná ehtalas ja morálalas árvvostallamis Epistemic modality in expressions of ethics and morals in child language

The overall objective of this project is to explore possible relationships between children’s language learning and their ethical reflections. The project is interdisciplinary, including fields of research such as linguistics, philosophy, education and literature. We investigate how five- to se...

Awarded: NOK 5.6 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2022

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Making knowledges visible: Relational gathering practices and their linguistic and narrative expressions in coastal Sápmi.

This research project focuses on gathering practices in coastal Sámi areas in Norway and investigates how relationships between humans and non-humans constitute knowledges. Using a multidisciplinary approach, based on the social sciences and humanities, the project asks: How are cloudberry pick...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2022

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Coming of age in indigenous communities: Ageing, quality of life and home-based elderly care in Sápmi and Atayal region (Taiwan)

We live in a world with an ageing population. Too often we are taught to believe that ageing is something negative. Indeed, in economic and demographic research, it has been argued that a “silver tsunami is coming”, implying that older people are a burden on society. Within Indigenous worldviews,...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2022

Location: Vestland

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Public Workshop on Indigenous Internationalism in Context

The “Public Workshop on Indigenous Internationalism in Context” will gather international scholars who focus on Indigenous internationalism and its history. This may include research on global Indigenous organizations (like the World Council of Indigenous Peoples - WCIP), transnational Indigenous...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Igniting Knowledge Sharing: World Indigenous Research and Education Conference 2018

The conference Igniting Knowledge Sharing: World Indigenous Research and Education Conference 2018, is arranged to gather indigenous researchers in various disciplines in order to share their experiences and knowledge production with each other. This year's theme has been based on the subjects th...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Minority Names in Oral and Written Contexts in a Multi-Cultural World. - NORNA-symposium 2019 at the Sámi University of Applied Sciences.

The Sámi University of Applied Sciences will host the symposium, Minority Names in Oral and Written Contexts in a Multi-Cultural World, in April 2019 in Guovdageaidnu, Norway. The symposium will be the 49th in the series of symposia of the Nordic name research association NORNA. 2019 has been ch...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2018-2020

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Opportunities and Challenges for Integrating Sámi Reindeer Herding Traditional Environmental Knowledge in Environmental Governance

The Arctic areas are undergoing major changes in climate, land-use and socio-economic conditions. The rate of change implies need for improved governance systems capable of navigating society through these changes, based on best available knowledge, including traditional knowledge. However, inte...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2023

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

The Societal Dimensions of Sami Research: The Production and Implementation of Knowledge in the High North

SoDiSámi, The Societal Dimensions of Sámi Research, has studied ways in which different institutional and societal conditions and discourses have affected knowledge production of Sámi culture and history in Nordic countries. The project has also had the goal of studying ways in which academic kno...

Awarded: NOK 6.8 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2021

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Indigenous Citizenship and Education

This project is about Indigenous education and citizenship. Our center of attention is the politics of Indigenous education to be put into practice. In the project, we emphasise the processual aspects of both education and citizenship. We investigate how having both Indigenous and non-Indigenous ...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Sluttkonferanse: Photography and Indigeneity

Sluttkonferansen til prosjektet Negotiating History: Photography in Sámi Culture er planlagt som et større arrangement over 3 dager. Selv om prosjektet er Bergensbasert, vil vi legge sluttkonferansen til Tromsø med tanke på tilgjengelighet og målgrupper. Vil vil bruke Rica Ishavshotell som arena....

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Vestland

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Cultural, psychosocial and sociodemographic determinants of self-harm and suicidal behavior in Sami and Greenlandic adolescents;

Suicidal behaviour and self-harm are major health problems among adolescents. Rates of self- harm are high in adolescence and suicide is the second most common cause of death after accidental death in young people worldwide. Indigenous and Arctic populations are in a disadvantaged position partic...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2023

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Urfolksmatematikk i det 21. århundre-muligheter og utfordringer/Indigenous mathematics education in the 21st century-possibilities and chall

IndigMEC-Indigenous Mathematics Education conference is an international conference about Indigenous Mathematics education. The conference consisted of Plenary lectures, paper presentations, poster session, round table discussions and teacher presentations. Papers and posters went through a rev...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Samepolitikkens grenser: Innenfor- og utenforposisjoner i samisk samfunnsbygging

The project explores different degrees of attachment to the Sámi polity in Norway and Sweden: Who are inside and outside of the Sámi polity? To what extent are boundaries drawn between those who are included in the Sámi polity, and those who are not? One main theme is how boundaries are drawn,...

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2021

Location: Oslo

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

"Sámi skuvlahistorjádutkamis sámi oahpu ovddideapmái"- Sámi School History Conference at Sámi allaskuvla Guovdageaidnu 26.-27. October 2016

I have been editing Finnish Sami school history in 2014. I participated together with Otso Kortegangas in Uppsala to Nordic school history conference and we held Sami paper session. There we got an idea to hold a Sami school research conference at Sami allaskuvla Kautokeino Norway on October 2016...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

The Arctic governance triangle: government, indigenous peoples and industry in change

The TriArc project has contributed to illuminate how strengthened rights of Indigenous peoples worldwide the last decades, have committed the authorities. The research has also highlighted the responsibility of the companies towards indigenous groups in relation to large developments, which appli...

Awarded: NOK 6.8 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2022

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Anders Pedersen Bær ja Lars Jacobsen Hætta boares teavsttat odda konteavsttas (Anders Bær og Lars Hætta - gamle tekster i nye kontekster

The aim of the project is prepare the texts of Lars Hætta (1834-1897) and Anders Bær (1825-1882) for a new publication on North Sami language. In addition, the texts are translated into Norwegian. Together with the facilitation of a new publication of the texts in Sami and Norwegian, three schola...

Awarded: NOK 0.75 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Sami traditional livelihoods, competing land uses, competing legal sources (SaCC)

The project has had two aims where the first of them has been to study which provisions and norms that regulate the relationship between traditional Sami livelihoods (reindeer herding) and competing industrial activities, i.e. mining and windmills. The second aim has been to study the content and...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2022

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Engaging the voices of Sámi children: Sustaining traditional knowledge through kindergarten, school and community knowledge transfer

The project focuses on the use of Sámi traditional knowledge in Sámi kindergarten and school. Sámi content is included into the Sámi curriculum, but still each individual teacher must formulate teaching practice based on Sámi approaches to pedagogy and culture-based teaching. Earlier Sami school ...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

"Og opp steg en tøylesløs joik". Joik i bevegelse mellom tradisjon og modernitet

Yoik faces both challenges and possibilities in the modern society. The project wanted to explore this. During the last decades there have been a variety of Sami artists performing in a lot af different musical styles. Many of them are using yoik or yoik elements. The project wanted to investigat...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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