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STV-3013 - Indigenous Rights, Politics, and Institution Building
Lectures: Friday 12.15-14.00, room C 1005 (Faculty of Social Science)
Coordinator: Associate professor Hans-Kristian Hernes, Department of Political Sience, office D 2023, Faculty of Social Science, phone 776 45602, e-mail hansh@sv.uit.no
Lecturers:
Associate professor Jarle Weigård, Department of Political Science, e-mail jarlew@sv.uit.no
Head of Administration Else Grete Broderstad, Centre for Sámi Studies, e-mail else.g.broderstad@sami.uit.no
Associate professor Hans-Kristian Hernes
Objectives
For the last two decades the debate over the situation for minorities and indigenous peoples has been rife in political science and philosophy, especially in the field of political theory. The tensions have been over questions like rights, recognition, citizenship, self-determination, and the role of international commitments versus national implementation. The aim with this course is to illuminate some of the key aspects in the debate over indigenous peoples in democracy and politics. The course will thus give an introduction to the debate on indigenous rights in philosohy and political science, give an presentation of political organization and indigenours political influence, and discuss different strategies for indigenous self-determination. The empirical emphasis will in particular be on Saami politics and Saami political institutions in Scandinavia.
Contents
The course is organized in three parts. As a point of departure the first part is an introduction to the theoretical debate on justification of indigenours rights and right to self-determination. The second part has an institutional focus as the Saami political influence in a Scandinavian context will be highligted and compared to other governernment and self-government structures in the circumpolar North. The third part of the course will look upon the implementation of indigenous self-determination by assessing the level of indigenous participation, the relationship between indigenous political organizatons and nation states, and the organization of decision making procedures.
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