”The SÁMIPOLITY project (2023–2027), funded by the Research Council of Finland, analyzes the political traditions and thought within diverse multispecies practices of the Sámi society. By bridging political theory, Indigenous research and posthuman studies, we ask how is Sámi collective life as a multispecies political community constituted in daily practice and governed in human-environment relationality? What kind of understanding of sovereignty it is based on and does it enact?
The key objective of the SÁMIPOLITY is to advance a relational and decolonial multispecies Sámi political theory based on Sámi knowledge and to rethink the central conceptions of western political theory from the Sámi and more-than-human standpoints. The main foci of research are Sámi political community, investigating multispecies political traditions, tracing more-than-human political agency, and challenging western political theory.
The project is conducted by an Indigenous Sámi research team and a multispecies research collective. In a methodologically innovative project, researchers trace Sámi political thought by studying and practicing following multispecies, land-based practices: reindeer herding, seasonal subsistence activities, making duodji and reindeer hide-tanning, and Sámi art.”
Project: 357544
1.9.-2023-31.08.2027
SÁMIPOLITY 