Essays about: "indigenous land rights"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 62 essays containing the words indigenous land rights.

1. 11. Revealing power in a (de)politicized landscape - A case-study of how Indigenous Sámi rights are interpreted and applied within land management in Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Josefin Gustavsson; [2023]
   Keywords : Indigenous Peoples; Sámi; land management; land-use conflicts; consultation-duty; participation; Swedish Sápmi; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study is investigating the possibilities for the Indigenous Sámi People of Sweden to exercise their right to participate in, and influence, decision-making processes over land. The objective of the study is to investigate how Sámi rights are interpreted and applied within the institutional setting of municipalities, and within the planning process of land management. READ MORE

3. 12. The Impact of Environmental and Social Challenges ofLithium Extraction from the Lithium Triangle Countries : A Literature Review from a Political Ecology and Environmental JusticePerspective

   University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

   Author : Aoife Carlander-Reuterfelt Hegarty; [2023]
   Keywords : Political ecology; Environmental Justice; Lithium triangle; Lithium extraction; Indigenous communities; Water justice;

   Abstract : The extraction of lithium, a crucial mineral for the production of batteries in the rapidlyexpanding electric vehicle and renewable energy sectors, has gained significant attention due toits environmental and social implications. This thesis provides a comprehensive literature reviewon the environmental and social challenges associated with lithium extraction from the LithiumTriangle countries, namely Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile, through the lens of political ecology. READ MORE

4. 13. The responsibilities of LKAB to respect the rights of the Sami people - a Business and Human Rights perspective on access to remedy in the Swedish mining sector

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Author : Izabell Zaza; [2023]
   Keywords : public international law; state-owned-enterprises; business and human rights; indigenous peoples; Sweden; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : In 2023, the Swedish state-owned enterprise LKAB revealed that it had found Europe’s largest deposit of critical minerals, which are needed in green technology. Being located on indigenous territory, a mine would impact the migration of reindeers, a Sami practice which form the basis of their culture and status as indigenous peoples under international law. READ MORE

5. 14. Sápmi, Sweden's Smörgåsbord? On Human Rights, Rights of Nature and Extractivism

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Stella Terjung; [2022]
   Keywords : Rights of Nature – Extractivism – Human Rights – Decolonisation – Ontologies – Self-determination; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In North Sweden, Sámi activists are resisting the proposed Gállok mine, disapproving of their land being treated as a 'smörgåsbord' and countering the assumption of modernity that dichotomises the human and the nonhuman. Against this backdrop, this thesis looks at some of the unprecedented challenges the rapid extension of globalisation poses to the human and nonhuman world. READ MORE

6. 15. 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