Orientalism or Cultural Encounters? Tourism Assemblages in Culture, Capital, and Identities

What challenges lie in the indigenous tourism project? What is the significance to consider when using culture as a basis for business development? What basic paradoxes and challenges will be met when one wants to achieve growth in Sami tourism and the creative cultural industries? It is believed that Sami culture has an unredeemed potential as a product and attraction in the new and major initiatives for tourism in the northern areas of the Nordic countries. The autonomy and participatory rights of the Sami people are provided through international conventions, and the national government’s recognition of the right to participation makes it difficult to develop the products of Sami tourism without doing so in collaboration with Sami actors and institutions

Historien om fembøring Grytir og moderniseringsprosesser i dagens Nord-Norge

Hovedfagseksamen, høsten 1993.Jeg har gjennom flere år innehatt studentpolitiske verv, og hadde gjennom disse deltatt i prinsippielle debatter som fikk konsekvenser for utformingen av mitt hovedfagsprosjekt. Disse debattene handlet først og fremst om universitetetsplassering i Nord-Norge, og dets forpliktelser overfor en landsdel som i 1990-91 var rammet av fiskerikrise, krise innenfor reindrifta og etterfølgende endringer innenfor næringsstrukturen for å erstatte de tapte arbeidsplasser. Disse landsdelsproblemene medførte et skrikende behov for nye typer kapitalinvesteringer, og dette førte til etter min oppfatning, en ukritisk satsing på reiseliv. Jeg så på det som nødvendig å reise en del problemstillinger som jeg mente manglet i denne utformingen av landsdelens fremtid

Stories of reconciliation enacted in the everyday lives of Sámi tourism entrepreneurs

Reconciliation has gained political interest in Norway, where a commission was established in 2018 to investigate the injustices committed in the past towards the Sámi and Kven. In this article, we argue that reconciliation can also be found in the small stories and events enacted in everyday life. Our analyses are based on a collaboration with a Sámi reindeer herding family who, through objects, food and tales, invite visitors to get “A taste of Sápmi”. Through storytelling events, they bring the colonial past into the present. In communicating that “nature is our culture”, these events have become a way to explore and express the interdependency between Sámi practices and landscape. We seek to explore how the act of telling locally embedded stories enables the Sámi entrepreneurs to reconcile with their colonial past. The storytelling events also offer a space for engagement in which visitors can reconcile with their own participation in these encounters

Pluriversal stories with Indigenous wor(l)ds creating paths to the other side of the mountain

Source at https://www.dutkansearvi.fi/home/.In this article we travel through theorizing towards what we think Indigenous knowledge does, and how it works and gets presented, by using the concept of the pluriverse. As three researchers concerned with Indigenous studies, we ask how we create and share stories that bring us together in communities and become possible to be shared in the inter-existence of multiple worlds. With locally embedded pluriversal stories, which are grounded in Indigenous ontologies and Indigenous words, we seek to expand the space for different ontologies and practices to become part of the contemporary public and academic discussion. We claim that pluriversal storytelling is a way of practising knowledge together with diverse ontologies, through which the present moments and worlds are being made. It involves making words stand for the world; it is a world-making practice

Veien videre for samisk reiseliv og kreative næringer

Hvordan kan en tettere sammenkobling mellom samiske kreative næringer og reiseliv bidra til nytenking om bærekraft, innovasjon og formidling av samisk kunnskap om natur og kultur – og slik bidra til utvikling av mat- og kulturopplevelser som gagner mangfoldet i Sápmi

Øvelser i sameksistens : Kunstneriske felleskaps(for)handlinger på kulturfestivaler i Sápmi

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Kraftfull, slumrende gjensidighet: Forhandlinger i og om samiske landskap

Hvordan lytter vi oss inn til glemte steder i det samiske landskapet? Hvilke kunstneriske og forskningsmessige praksiser kan sette oss i kontakt med de kraftfulle steder som generasjoner før oss har hatt stor respekt for? I prosjektet «Kraftfull slumrende gjensidighet – (glemte) steder i det samiske landskap» kommer kunstnere og forskere sammen i en pågående interesse for steder og fortellinger med en særegen kraft. Steder og hellige steiner, som (glemte) Sieidier, inviterer oss til å lære å lytte og handle på nye måter overfor det materielle. Lytte til den materielle tilstedeværelsen til steder av betydning for mennesker og dyr. Vi ønsker å undersøke hva som er glemt – og hva som kan huskes. Denne teksten skrev vi til utstillingen «Institutt for natur og kunst» som vi deltok på under festspillene i Nord-Norge i 2018. I dette kapitlet reflekterer vi over hvilke forskningspraksiser som åpner for å se det som ikke (lenger) er kjent, og undersøker hvordan vårt prosjekt kan bidra til dekolonialisering både av våre egne, men muligens også andres tillærte forestillinger om hva som er – og hva som ikke er – til stede og konstituerende av og i et samisk landskap

Improving the relationships between Indigenous rights holders and researchers in the Arctic: an invitation for change in funding and collaboration

Truly transdisciplinary approaches are needed to tackle the complex problems that the Arctic is facing at the moment. Collaboration between Indigenous rights holders and researchers through co-creative research approaches can result in high-quality research outcomes, but crucially also address colonial legacies and power imbalances, enhance mutual trust, and respect the rights of Indigenous Peoples. However, to be successful, collaborative research projects have specific requirements regarding research designs, timeframes, and dissemination of results, which often do not fit into the frameworks of academic calendars and funding guidelines. Funding agencies in particular play an important role in enabling (or disabling) meaningful collaboration between Indigenous rights holders and researchers. There is an urgent need to re-think existing funding-structures. This article will propose a new paradigm for the financing of Arctic research, which centres around the inclusion of Indigenous partners, researchers, and institutions from the initial planning stages of funding programmes to the final stages of research projects. These findings and recommendations have been contextualized based on critical reflections of the co-authors, a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners, who have practiced their own collaborative work process, the challenges encountered, and lessons learned

"The Future can only be Imagined" - Innovation in Farm Tourism from a Phenomenological Perspective

-This article relates to the fast growing research literature on innovation by adopting a phenomenological perspective of change and how change comes about. We visited nineteen farms in Norway in a project on farm-based tourism. Results show highly differentiated products but similar routes in transforming a farm no longer seen as economically viable, into a way of doing life and doing work that brings a complex of considerations together. The concept of imaginative horizons is used and seen as characteristic of the transformative process of turning the farm into a farm based tourist enterprise. The same transformation becomes a way of keeping the relationship and interdependence between the past and the present vivid and meaningful.Research Council of Norway, Agricultural Agreement, HANEN, Sparebank1 MS