Beskrivning
Beskrivning
‘Sámi feminist inquiry is like the rivers journeyingthrough Sábme, continuously shifting and moving. Attimes the rivers quiet and freeze over, yet they are neverstagnant or dead. And in the spring, as the snow melts,they flow abundantly, transferring new vitality through the land.’This study explores, illuminates, and analyses Sámi feminist knowledgesconceptualised as diverse and fluid feminist knowledges that botharise within and create Sámi realities. The study focuses on feministarticulations, enactments, and dialogues from Sámi locations. Particularattention is paid to analyses of gendered settler colonialism andgendered epistemicide in Sweden and Indigenous feminist contributionsto decolonisation and resurgence. By exploring the visions and strengthsof Sámi feminisms, this study emphasises their significance to Indigenoushealing, regeneration, and thriving. The author foregrounds ways of knowing and writing beyond colonialworld-making practices to move towards creating Sámi feministknowledges starting from Indigenous epistemes, conceptualised asrelational, interconnected, and response-able ways of knowing, being,and doing. By centring on Sámi perspectives, the study contributesto gender studies in Sweden and the broader scholarly project ofdeveloping an analysis of colonialisms in the Nordic region.Ina Knobblock (born in Jiellevárre, 1981) is a Sámi and Tornedalianfeminist scholar. Writing-weaving Sámi Feminisms: Stories andConversations is her doctoral dissertation in gender studies.
