The Significance of Sámi Rights
The Significance of Sámi Rights

Author: Dorothée Cambou

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-11-27

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1003810802

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This book examines the significance of the rights of the Sámi people and analyses the issues raised by the recognition and implementation of these rights in the Nordic countries. Written together by Sámi and non-Sámi experts, the book adopts a human rights approach to examine the adequacy of law and policies that seek to protect the culture and livelihood of Sámi communities in their traditional lands and territories. The book discusses contemporary legal and jurisprudential developments in the field of Sámi rights. It examines the processes and challenges in the recognition and implementation of these rights, particularly in relation to the governance of their traditional land and resources. The book will be of particular interest to legal scholars, political scientists, experts in the field of Indigenous peoples’ rights, governmental authorities, and members of Indigenous communities.

Indigenous Rights in Scandinavia
Indigenous Rights in Scandinavia

Author: Christina Allard

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-23

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1317117271

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This book contributes to the international debate on Indigenous Peoples Law, containing both in-depth research of Scandinavian historical and legal contexts with respect to the Sami and demonstrating current stances in Sami Law research. In addition to chapters by well-known Scandinavian experts, the collection also comments on the legal situation in Norway, Sweden and Finland in relation to other jurisdictions and indigenous peoples, in particular with experiences and developments in Canada and New Zealand. The book displays the current research frontier among the Scandinavian countries, what the present-day issues are and how the nation states have responded so far to claims of Sami rights. The study sheds light on the contrasts between the three countries on the one hand, and between Scandinavia, Canada and New Zealand on the other, showing that although there are obvious differences, for instance related to colonisation and present legal solutions, there are also shared experiences among the indigenous peoples and the States. Filling a gap in an under-researched area of Sami rights, this book will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers with an interest in Indigenous Peoples Law and comparative research.

Restoring Indigenous Self-Determination
Restoring Indigenous Self-Determination

Author: Marc Woons

Publisher:

Published: 2015-09-30

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9781910814031

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The importance of Indigenous self-determination was enhanced when the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007. Yet, as this volume's contributors suggest, much more work is needed in terms of understanding what Indigenous self-determination means in theory and how it is to be achieved in practice.

The Indigenous Identity of the South Saami
The Indigenous Identity of the South Saami

Author: Håkon Hermanstrand

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-02-01

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 3030050297

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This open access book is a novel contribution in two ways: It is a multi-disciplinary examination of the indigenous South Saami people in Fennoscandia, a social and cultural group that often is overlooked as it is a minority within the Saami minority. Based on both historical material such as archaeological evidence, 20th century newspapers, and postcard motives as well as current sources such as ongoing land-right trials and recent works of historiography, the articles highlight the culture and living conditions of this indigenous group, mapping the negotiations of different identities through the interaction of Saami and non-Saami people through the ages. By illuminating this under-researched field, the volume also enriches the more general debate on global indigenous history, and sheds light on the construction of a Scandinavian identity and the limits of the welfare state and the myth of heterogeneity and equality.

Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Author: Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2010-08-03

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 0812200195

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Human rights violations are perpetrated in all parts of the world, and the universal reaction to such atrocities is overwhelmingly one of horror and sadness. Yet, as Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and his contributors attest, our viewpoint is clouded and biased by the expectations native to our own culture. How do other cultures view human rights issues? Can an analysis of these issues through multiple viewpoints, both cross-cultural and indigenous, help us reinterpret and reconstruct prevailing theories of human rights?

Indigenous Rights in Scandinavia
Indigenous Rights in Scandinavia

Author: Christina Allard

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-23

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 131711728X

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This book contributes to the international debate on Indigenous Peoples Law, containing both in-depth research of Scandinavian historical and legal contexts with respect to the Sami and demonstrating current stances in Sami Law research. In addition to chapters by well-known Scandinavian experts, the collection also comments on the legal situation in Norway, Sweden and Finland in relation to other jurisdictions and indigenous peoples, in particular with experiences and developments in Canada and New Zealand. The book displays the current research frontier among the Scandinavian countries, what the present-day issues are and how the nation states have responded so far to claims of Sami rights. The study sheds light on the contrasts between the three countries on the one hand, and between Scandinavia, Canada and New Zealand on the other, showing that although there are obvious differences, for instance related to colonisation and present legal solutions, there are also shared experiences among the indigenous peoples and the States. Filling a gap in an under-researched area of Sami rights, this book will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers with an interest in Indigenous Peoples Law and comparative research.

Human Rights in Cross-cultural Perspectives
Human Rights in Cross-cultural Perspectives

Author: ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad Naʻīm

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 9780812215687

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The book contains case studies that examine the coexistencw and clashes of different cultures as they impinge on human rights issues.

The Cultural Dimension of Human Rights
The Cultural Dimension of Human Rights

Author: Ana Vrdoljak

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2013-12-05

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0191004235

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The intersections between culture and human rights have engaged some of the most heated and controversial debates across international law and theory. As understandings of culture have evolved in recent decades to encompass culture as ways of life, there has been a shift in emphasis from national cultures to cultural diversity within and across states. This has entailed a push to more fully articulate cultural rights within human rights law. This volume analyses a range of responses by international law, and particularly human rights law, to some of the thorniest, perennial, and sometimes violent confrontations fuelled by culture in relations between individuals, groups and the state in international society. Across the different issues tackled, the contributions are tied by one unifying thread - that culture is understood, protected and promoted not only for its physical manifestations. Rather, it is the relationship of culture to people, individually or in groups, and the diversity of these relationships which is being protected and promoted; hence, the fundamental overlap between culture and human rights.

Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Peoples

Author: Svein Jentoft

Publisher: Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 905166978X

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"Since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, a legal process within the auspices of the UN has been underway that may help indigenous peoples to sustain their natural environment, industries, and cultures. This book addresses some of the legal, political and institutional implications of those processes." - Back cover.