Samebyarna Baste, Sirges, Unna tjerusj och Ran stämmer den svenska staten. Det skriver ordförandena för de fyra samebyarna ihop med ordföranden för Svenska Samernas Riksförbund på DN Debatt. Samebyn Ran är den första samebyn i Västerbottens län som valt att stämma staten.
https://blog.zaramis.se/2024/05/28/stammer-den-svenska-staten-fyra-samebyar-gor-gemensam-sak/
Just published!
"Cultural expertise in Sami land rights litigation: Epistemic strategies in the Girjas and Fosen cases" by Peter Johansson, Sara Johansson Lopez, Sofie Palm, Camille Parguel, Ina Sandin and yours truly. #openaccess in Jindal Global Law Review.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s41020-023-00211-1
#indigenousrights #fosen #girjas #culturalexpertise #sapmi #litigation #landrights #sami #saami
How do parties mobilise cultural expertise in Indigenous rights litigation in Scandinavia? Recently, Sami groups have litigated to claim Indigenous rights to land and natural resources, winning some remarkable victories in the Supreme Courts of Norway and Sweden. In this paper, we draw on socio-legal mobilisation theory to analyse the epistemic strategies of Sami litigants and their adversaries in two recent landmark Supreme Court cases on Indigenous rights to usage of land: the 2020 Girjas case in Sweden and the 2021 Fosen case in Norway. Conceptualising cultural expertise as a strategic framing contest, we analyse how the parties struggled over the epistemic basis of the respective case by legitimating their claims to cultural knowledge, drawing on academic research, and discrediting their opponents’ epistemic claims. Our findings suggest that in both cases, Sami claimants successfully established an epistemic basis where their traditional, experiential knowledge combined with independent academic expertise effectively challenged the knowledge claims of their adversaries. Yet, both cases also demonstrate how the linkage between Sami Indigeneity and reindeer husbandry in the national law of both countries excludes non-reindeer herding Sami persons from the Indigenous rights affirmed by the courts.
"Skulle man kunna gå emot det här som ni har kommit fram till i och med Girjasdomen, och stifta nya lagar?
– Ja, om vi ändrar grundlagen och går ur Europakonventionen och säger upp en del folkrättsliga traktat, så går det fint att göra det."
https://www.dn.se/sverige/utredaren-av-samers-rattigheter-vet-inte-om-han-kan-sitta-kvar/
#girjas
#renmarkskommitten
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