Green Growth and Sámi Stakeholders
Main funder
Funder's project number: 343360
Funds granted by main funder (€)
- 104 895,72
Funding program
Project timetable
Project start date: 01/04/2024
Project end date: 31/03/2027
Summary
The GREENGROWTH project will study and compare the positions the Sámi actors and stakeholders occupy and are
attributed in the public debate on the Green transition and Green mining. How are the stakeholder groups formed
and how are the Sámi stakes and interests weighted by other actors in the debate? The debate studied is concerned
with growth-driven Green projects, of which the Green transition is the most recent example. The Sámi actors are
analysed as interest-, rights- and stakeholders by utilizing stakeholder theory, settler colonial theorizing, discourse
analysis and frame analysis. The project focuses on Sámi framings and responses in this debate. The interdisciplinary
research group consists of senior and mid-career scholars with expertise on Sámi and Indigenous issues representing communication sciences, history of religion, economic history and environmental history. The project will contribute to a deeper understanding of the Sámi political space under swift transformation in conditions of Green transition and the encroachments of resource extraction.
Work Package 1 will study the conduct of mining companies and financial imperialism in the Nordic north by charting
the history of the transformation in mining adopting an environmental ideological foundation. WP 2 will analyse the
longer history of cooperation between the Sámi and the environmentalist movement, and the effects on the Sámi of
being immersed in environmental discourses, with a special focus on the ideologies and projects of Green growth
and nature conservation in Finland and in Norway. The Sámi religious actor discourses on Green growth will be
studied as well. WP3 will study the key Sámi organizations, the Sámi Parliaments of Finland and Norway, the frames
articulated in their social media accounts, and the Sámi media’s role and framings in the public debate on Green
growth.
attributed in the public debate on the Green transition and Green mining. How are the stakeholder groups formed
and how are the Sámi stakes and interests weighted by other actors in the debate? The debate studied is concerned
with growth-driven Green projects, of which the Green transition is the most recent example. The Sámi actors are
analysed as interest-, rights- and stakeholders by utilizing stakeholder theory, settler colonial theorizing, discourse
analysis and frame analysis. The project focuses on Sámi framings and responses in this debate. The interdisciplinary
research group consists of senior and mid-career scholars with expertise on Sámi and Indigenous issues representing communication sciences, history of religion, economic history and environmental history. The project will contribute to a deeper understanding of the Sámi political space under swift transformation in conditions of Green transition and the encroachments of resource extraction.
Work Package 1 will study the conduct of mining companies and financial imperialism in the Nordic north by charting
the history of the transformation in mining adopting an environmental ideological foundation. WP 2 will analyse the
longer history of cooperation between the Sámi and the environmentalist movement, and the effects on the Sámi of
being immersed in environmental discourses, with a special focus on the ideologies and projects of Green growth
and nature conservation in Finland and in Norway. The Sámi religious actor discourses on Green growth will be
studied as well. WP3 will study the key Sámi organizations, the Sámi Parliaments of Finland and Norway, the frames
articulated in their social media accounts, and the Sámi media’s role and framings in the public debate on Green
growth.
