Description
Focusing on the Sapmi region of Northern Europe as a point of departure, this book enriches and sharpens the concept of 'the North.' It combines detailed empirical research on the Sami people and their life-worlds with theoretical contributions from leading scholars. The authors consider the European North not only as a geographical site or an object of academic research, but as a particular way of knowing and being, with its own needs, practices, concepts, and imaginings. The North, as an epistemic position, offers its own conceptions of politics, human agency, history, and social relations, which this book studies and describes. The volume challenges us to consider social scientific knowledge, its significance, and the practices of producing it in a new way.
About the Author
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Sanna Valkonen is a Sami scholar and Associate Professor of Sami Research at the University of Lapland, Finland.
Jarno Valkonen is a Sami scholar and Professor of Sociology at the University of Lapland, Finland.
Book Information
ISBN 9780415790734
Author Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Format Hardback
Page Count 184
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 403g