Smi Research in Transition

For several decades now, there have been calls to decolonize research on the Indigenous Smi people, and to make it accountable to the Smi society. While this has contributed to the rise of a vibrant Smi research community in the Nordic countries, less attention has been paid to what extent, and how the "Smi turn" in research has been implemented in practice. Written by prominent Nordic and Smi scholars anchored in the Smi research communities in Finland, Norway and Sweden, this volume explores not only the meanings and implications of this turn across disciplines, but also some of the challenges that efforts to create space for Smi voices, knowledges and perspectives still meet today. The book provides a timely, interdisciplinary engagement with the central themes that have framed the development of Smi research, and a critical appraisal of the impact that efforts to decolonize research in the Smi context have had upon Nordic societies and state policies so far. Smi Research in Transition is valuable for scholars and students interested in Smi history and society, Arctic and Circumpolar Indigenous studies and critical studies on the relationship between knowledge and social change.