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Online. What is happening in Sweden? Intensifying land claims, conflicts and the state of Sámi rights and rule of law
5 juni 2026 kl 12:00 - 13:30
What is happening in Sweden? A Nordic research conversation on intensifying land claims, conflicts and the state of Sámi rights and rule of law
Welcome to a webinar, bringing together leading Nordic scholars in a conversation about land claims, land use conflicts, the state of Sámi rights and rule of law in the Nordic countries.
Growing extractive land and natural resource use, driven largely by the energy transition, is deteriorating Sámi lands and eroding the conditions for traditional livelihoods across the Nordics. The issue is particularly urgent in Sweden, where the appropriation of Sámi lands is currently accompanied also by hardening political rhetoric.
In this research seminar, we place recent developments in Sweden within a broader Nordic comparative framework. The seminar brings together leading researchers in Sweden, Finland and Norway, to explore the origin of the growing anti-Sámi sentiments in the political and public debate, and to discuss how they may be understood, explained, and resisted. The objective is to examine the intensifying struggles over land and rights in Sápmi from legal, democratic, justice and sustainability scholarly perspectives, addressing for example:
- Why are these developments taking place right now? To what extent are they related to broader political, rhetorical and geopolitical changes that are taking place globally?
- What are the short- and long-term implications of these raising tensions and discursive shifts on Sámi lives and futures, and on Nordic societies at large? For instance, what implications do these developments have for hopes of greater rights protection and reconciliation in the context of the Nordic-Sámi Truth and Reconciliation Processes?
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What is the potential impact more generally on Nordic collaboration and the state of human and Indigenous rights in the Nordic countries?
Panelists include: prof. Laura Junka-Aikio (Univ. of Lapland), prof. Øyvind Ravna (UiT); Phd Malin Brännström (Director of INSARC) and Eirik Larsen (Head of the Human Rights Unit, Saami council). Moderator: Annette Löf (SEI)
Read more about the webinar and speakers here What is happening in Sweden? | SEI.
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This seminar is organized as part of two research projects, Radisam and Sápmidem, which both have as objective to contribute to Nordic scholarly conversations on the entangled matters of Sámi rights, democracy, green transition, colonialism, racism and discrimination. Funded by the Swedish Research Council and Nordforsk.
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