Essays about: "Saminess"

Found 3 essays containing the word Saminess.

  1. 1. Representation Construction of Indigeneity by State vs Sámi Governments : Communicating Indigeneity through Official Government Discourse in Norway and Sweden

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Elisabeth Hasselström; [2022]
    Keywords : Critical Discourse Analysis; Indigenous peoples; Official Documents; Political Discourse; Representation; Communication; Government; Sweden Norway;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to examine the representation of the Sámi population as constructed in the official political discourses of the Swedish and Norwegian Governments and the Sámi Parliaments. As Sámi policies and Sámi political action have historically been limited by the dominating postcolonial conception of the Sámi by the nation-state, this thesis evaluates how the Governments of Sweden and Norway construct a representation of the Sámi in comparison to the representation offered by elected Sámi representatives to ascertain how the sociohistorical perspectives of the majority population reflect the conception of the Sámi population today. READ MORE

  3. 2. Gendering Ethnicity : Colonialism and Structural Violence in the Swedish 1928 Reindeer Grazing Act

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Author : Alva Blomkvist; [2022]
    Keywords : Swedish colonialism; Reindeer Grazing Act; Sámi; Sápmi; gender; violence;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how the gendering of ethnicity in the Swedish Reindeer Grazing Act of 1928 (RBL 1928) was part of a colonial structure of violence. The research context in which this thesis places itself is in the intersection of previous scholarship on the colonial interest in controlling Indigenous marriage, and scholarship on Swedish colonial history in Sápmi. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Reclamation of Sami identity and the traces of Swedish colonialism : A qualitative study about the formation of Saminess and Sami identity

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbete

    Author : Frida Olofsson; [2020-11-20]
    Keywords : Sami identity; Saminess; Sami people; Indigenous People; identity; Samisk identitet; Samiskhet; Samer; Urfolk; Identitet;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study was to study identity formation among Sami people. The aim was therefore to investigate how Saminess and Sami identity is formed and specifically the way the Sami community transfers the identity. Semi structured interviews were conducted and the material was analyzed by the use of a thematic analysis. READ MORE