About the project
The Sámi regions face two major challenges: an increasing need for minerals and energy to sustain their lifestyle and industrial growth, and a growing need to address climate change.
The project aims to shed light on how Sámi actors and interests are able to present their views and influence the debate on environmental protection, "green" industry, and indigenous politics, both historically and today.
GREENGROWTH will investigate how business, economic, and Sámi stakeholders position themselves in the debate on green growth. The project addresses the politics and commercialisation of nature and looks at how climate change affects Sámi actors and interests in the public sphere.
Project aims
GREENGROWTH will study and compare the positions taken by Sámi actors and stakeholders in the public debate on green transition and "green mining".
One of the aims of the project is to understand how stakeholder groups are formed and how Sámi interests are weighed against the interests of other actors in the debate.
Sámi actors will be analysed as interest-holders, rights-holders, and stakeholders, utilising stakeholder theory, settler colonial theorising, discourse analysis, and frame analysis.
The project highlights Sámi resistance to renewable projects and challenges stereotypes by examining the Sámi's dual role as both victims of land grabbing and environmentally conscious actors. GREENGROWTH focuses on Sámi framings and responses in this debate.
