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Indigenous peoples right to self-determination: Perceptions of self-determination among the Sámi electorate in Swede
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science.
2021 (English)In: Routledge handbook of indigenous peoples in the Arctic / [ed] Timo Koivurova; Else Grete Broderstad; Dorothée Cambou; Florian Stammler, Routledge, 2021, p. 284-303Chapter in book (Refereed)
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On an international level, we have the last decades witnessed a remarkable development of Indigenous rights, mainly as a result of Indigenous peoples’ political struggle and mobilisation on a local, national and international level. Paramount in this context is the third article of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) recognising Indigenous peoples as peoples with a right to self-determination. The Nordic countries had a common response to rights-claims from their Indigenous people, the Sámi, in establishing representative institutions – Sámediggis (Sámi Parliaments in Northern Sámi) – consisting of popularly elected Sámi representatives. Today, the Sámediggis are considered the main vehicles to safeguard Sámi self-determination. What the right to self- determination implies in political practice – that is, for domestic constitutional, legal and institutional reforms – is, however, still most controversial. How Sámi self-determination ought to be implemented in the Nordic countries has also been recurrently debated, especially the role of the Sámediggis. There are, however, few systematic studies analysing how persons belonging to Indigenous peoples perceive the right to self-determination: On what matters are self-determination of importance to Indigenous persons? Are there differences between persons identifying with the same Indigenous group? And how are Indigenous persons’ understanding of self-determination related to international law and contemporary national policies? The aim of this chapter is to analyse Sámi self-determination from the perspective of the Sámi electorate in Sweden based on data from the second Swedish Sámi Election Study in 2017.

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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-224079DOI: 10.4324/9780429270451-18ISBN: 9780367220396 (print)ISBN: 9780429270451 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-224079DiVA, id: diva2:1815214
Available from: 2023-11-28 Created: 2023-11-28 Last updated: 2023-11-29Bibliographically approved

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