Sámi Mobilities in Colonial Spaces and the Right to Make a Home

This article explores Sámi mobilities and immobilities within colonial power dynamics. Discussing voluntary and involuntary Sámi mobilities across borders, it also touches on Sámi early modern material objects in motion, as well as the collecting and exchange of Sámi ancestral remains. Recent homecomings of Sámi material culture and ancestral remains – as part of cultural revitalisation, repatriation and decolonisation processes – illustrate the development of new mobilities and power dynamics. Challenging colonial notions of Sámi people as being bound to the perceived traditional Sámi domains, as well as the nationalist cartographies projected in much of earlier research, this article aims to stimulate a rethinking of Sámi mobility and agency, and the right to make a home. Acknowledging and examining the mobility and the homemaking of Sámi individuals and groups contributes to a deeper understanding of the complexities and transformations of Nordic colonialism, and ideas of borders, identities and belonging.East and West in the North: Archaeology with and without borders in Northern Fennoscandi

Looking east in Swedish archaeology : Envisioning eastern contacts in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age

This paper explores how Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age contacts between Sweden and the Volga-Kama region in Russia have been discussed in Swedish archaeology, focusing on bronze axes of the Mälar (or Akozino-Mälar) type and Ananino type. We argue that research by Finnish archaeologists has played a central role for introducing and inspiring discussions in Sweden on interactions with areas in Russia. Furthermore, we stress the importance of including eastern perspectives in debates on the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in middle and northern Sweden.East and West in the North: Archaeology with and without borders in Northern FennoscandiaBronze Age Coast in the North: Eastern contacts and Bronze Age landscapes in Northern and Central Swede

Mines and missions : Early modern Swedish colonialism in Sápmi and its legacies today

This paper discusses issues relating to the contested colonial history and heritage in Sápmi, focusing on the situation in Sweden, as well as some of the challenges – but also possibilities – that archaeologists and other scholars are facing when dealing with this field of tension. In particular, the discussion focuses on early modern mining and collecting of Saami material objects in Sápmi, the collecting of Saami human remains in the 19th and early 20th centuries and current debates on repatriation and reburial. The paper takes its starting point in two interrelated research projects, funded by the Swedish Research Council, A Colonial Arena, dealing with early modern extractive industries in Sápmi, and Collecting Sápmi, dealing with early modern collecting of Saami material culture and its legacies today. In the paper it is argued that Swedish colonialism in Sápmi needs to be explored more in-depth, and that archaeologists need to deal with issues of Saami self-determination in heritage management and recognize and consider cultural rights movements and decolonization processes in Sápmi.Collecting Sápmi: Early modern globalization of Sámi material culture and Sámi cultural heritage todayUnderstanding the cultural impact and issues of Lapland mining: A long-term perspective on sustainable mining policies in the Nort

Looking east in Swedish archaeology : Envisioning eastern contacts in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age

This paper explores how Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age contacts between Sweden and the Volga-Kama region in Russia have been discussed in Swedish archaeology, focusing on bronze axes of the Mälar (or Akozino-Mälar) type and Ananino type. We argue that research by Finnish archaeologists has played a central role for introducing and inspiring discussions in Sweden on interactions with areas in Russia. Furthermore, we stress the importance of including eastern perspectives in debates on the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in middle and northern Sweden.East and West in the North: Archaeology with and without borders in Northern FennoscandiaBronze Age Coast in the North: Eastern contacts and Bronze Age landscapes in Northern and Central Swede

Mines and missions : Early modern Swedish colonialism in Sápmi and its legacies today

This paper discusses issues relating to the contested colonial history and heritage in Sápmi, focusing on the situation in Sweden, as well as some of the challenges – but also possibilities – that archaeologists and other scholars are facing when dealing with this field of tension. In particular, the discussion focuses on early modern mining and collecting of Saami material objects in Sápmi, the collecting of Saami human remains in the 19th and early 20th centuries and current debates on repatriation and reburial. The paper takes its starting point in two interrelated research projects, funded by the Swedish Research Council, A Colonial Arena, dealing with early modern extractive industries in Sápmi, and Collecting Sápmi, dealing with early modern collecting of Saami material culture and its legacies today. In the paper it is argued that Swedish colonialism in Sápmi needs to be explored more in-depth, and that archaeologists need to deal with issues of Saami self-determination in heritage management and recognize and consider cultural rights movements and decolonization processes in Sápmi.Collecting Sápmi: Early modern globalization of Sámi material culture and Sámi cultural heritage todayUnderstanding the cultural impact and issues of Lapland mining: A long-term perspective on sustainable mining policies in the Nort