About Attila Paksi

”Haluamme lisätä seuramme jäsenmäärää ja julkaisuja” kertoo seuran tulevaisuuden
suunnitelmista uusi puheenjohtaja Meri Mononen-Matias. ”Dutkansearvi on tärkeä
tieteellinen tietolähde ja Suomen ainoa saameksikin julkaiseva tieteellinen julkaisu.

Kutsumme mukaan erityisesti saamen ja muiden alkuperäiskansojen kielen ja
kulttuurintutkimuksesta tieteellisiä artikkeleja kirjoittavia tutkijoita tulemaan jäseniksemme,
kirjoittamaan ja ehdottamaan mielenkiintoisia teemoja tuleviin julkaisuihimme.

Tulevana vuonna houkuttelemme kirjoittamaan myös kirjoitusretriitissämme Inarissa 21.-
25.1.2025. Suunnitteilla on myös hybriditilaisuuksia, joissa julkaisut esitellään ja niistä
keskustellaan.”, Mononen-Matias jatkaa.

Meri Mononen-Matiaksen oma tutkimus käsittelee Lounais-Meksikon Oaxacan
alkuperäiskansoja, heidän konfliktiansa valtion kanssa ja heidän koulutustansa. Hänen
suuntautumisensa lisänä ovat myös alkuperäiskansat ja rauha, erityisesti planetaarinen
rauha. Tämä näkökulma, jota ei olla tarkasteltu riittävästi, tuli esille Helsingin yliopiston
kasvatustieteellisen tiedekunnan rauhankasvatuskurssilla, jota Mononen-Matias oli
rakentamassa ja jossa hän oli kouluttamassa 2023-2024. Se oli täydennyskoulutus
opettajille, jossa yksi viidestä moduulista käsitteli aihetta.

”Rauha tarkoittaa joillekin alkuperäiskansoille tasapainoa, mm. Amatsoniassa Tuyuka ja
Bará -kansat näkevät paljon vaivaa sitä tavoitellessaan. Hienot ja monipuoliset
saamelaiset kurssin asiantuntijamme Dutkansearvin hallituksen jäsen emerita luennoitsija
Irja Seurujärvi-Kari ja Oulun yliopiston Giellagas instituutin johtaja Sigga-Marja Magga
kuvasivat kurssilla mm. yhteisöllisyyttä, moniaistista havainnointia ja luontoyhteyttä osana
olemista.

Kurssin muistaminen innostaa minua vieläkin.”, Mononen-Matias toteaa. ”Olen ylpeä ja
kiitollinen tästä arvokkaasta asemasta, johon Dutkansearvin vuosikokous minut valitsi
10.9.2024”, hän jatkaa.

Muut uuden hallituksen jäsenet ovat varapuheenjohtaja Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Jelena
Porsanger, Trond Trosterud, Irja Seurujärvi-Kari ja Pigga Keskitalo. Varajäsenet ovat
Kimberli Mäkäräinen, Miika Lehtinen ja Petter Morottaja.

Hallituksen tiedot päivittyvät sivulle https://www.dutkansearvi.fi/seurahallitus/
Kirjoitusideoista voi olla yhteydessä puheenjohtajaan Meri Mononen-
Matiakseen meri.mononen@helsinki.fi tai hallituksen muihin jäseniin.

Kirjoittaja: 03.10.2024 Dutkansearvin hallitus

Čuovvovaš Dutkansearvvi áigečala lea fáddánummir, mii guoská sohkabealdutkamussii sápmelaš oktavuođas. Jurdda dásá šattai mannan čávčča bargobajis, mii ordnejuvvui Oulus Feminist Matterings -sohkabealdutkamusa konferánssas 1.12.2022.

Dál mii bovdet dutkiid ja áššedovdiid čállit artihkkaliid sámi sohkabealdutkamusa fáddánummirii. Sádde abstrávtta mas lea bajilčála ja 100–200 sáni. dan áigemearri lea 30.6.2023. Ollis artihkkaliid áigemearri lea 30.8.2023 ja dat galget leat jo giellabassan. Moai vuoruhetne sámegiel artihkkaliid. Buot artihkkalat leat fágaguoibmeárvvoštallojuvvon ovdal almmusteami. Ulbmil lea almmustahttit áigečállaga dán jagi loahpas.

Sádde abstrávtta ja artihkkala doaimmaheaddjiide: marko.jouste(ät)oulu.fi ja/dahje ilona.kivinen(ät)helsinki.fi

Váldodoaimmaheaddjit
Marko Jouste
Ilona Kivinen

In recent years Sámi art and aesthetics have been invited into majority contexts in hitherto unprecedented ways – from international exhibitions such as documenta 14 in Kassel in 2017 to the Sámi Pavilion at the forthcoming Venice Biennial in 2022. While Sámi art has gained new visibility internationally, this has not necessarily meant that the conditions for making, producing and exhibiting Sámi art and aesthetics in Sápmi on Sámi premises have been strengthened. There are still few Sami-oriented art institutions, and there is still no Sámi art museum. Yet, while formal art institutions are scarce, cultural festivals in Sápmi have long functioned as an important artistic, social and economic infrastructure for the development of the transnational field of Sámi art.

This special issue of Dutkansearvi invites contributions that examine and engage with the conditions for artistic practice and aesthetic engagement in Sápmi, with a special focus on how Sámi art and making practices take part in the creation and production of new communities and publics. The title of the special issue takes its starting point in the Northern Sámi term searvedoaibma as an analytical framework. This North Sami term has no direct Norwegian or Nordic equivalent. In Northern Sami, searvi refers to something one participates in (such as an association or community), while doaibma describe practices of doing or enacting something. Searvedoaibma is in short, an active concept that shifts the focus from understanding community as a noun (as something that already exists), to examine the creation, enactment, and negotiation of communities. By using searvedoaibma as a starting point for this special issue, we seek to emphasize our interest in understanding how art and social communities are made and enacted in dynamic and relational ways, and how art and aesthetic performances might contribute to and challenge these processes (Danbolt, Kramvig, Guttorm & Hætta 2022). Inviting approaches to art and social communities in Sápmi through the concept of searvedoibma is also a way to highlight the importance of working with and developing new Indigenous concepts and tools.

We invite contributions that engage with art and social communities in Sápmi in a variety of forms and formats – from peer-reviewed academic articles (5000-6000 words), shorter essays, commentaries, interviews, dialogues, and reviews – in Sámi languages, English, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, or Danish. (For general guidelines for submissions to Dutkansearvi, see https://www.dutkansearvi.fi/for-authors)

Please send abstracts (ca. 100 words) before January 15 2022 to the special issue editors Britt Kramvig (britt.kramvig@uit.no), Hanna E. Guttorm (hanna.guttorm@helsinki.fi), and Mathias Danbolt (danbolt@hum.ku.dk). The deadline for submission for full articles will be April 1 2022.

The special issue is part of the research project “Okta: Kunst og friksjonsfylte felleskap i Sápmi” (2019-2022) [Okta: Art and Communities in Friction], supported by Arts Council Norway and Danish Arts Council. We plan to organize a writing and feedback seminar with the accepted contributors in late February in Romsa/Tromsø on the Norwegian side of Sápmi.

DUTKANSEARVI invites researchers and other experts to write articles in a special issue on Indigenous peoples’ cultural heritage, which will be published in Dutkansearvvi Dieđalaš Áigečála in the beginning of next year. From the perspective of Indigenous peoples, cultural heritage is a holistic concept, which is founded on the material, cultural, and spiritual values and includes the collective, over generationally accumulated knowledge and practices, which are expressed, shared, and (re)lived in language, livelihoods, literature and arts, ceremonies, cosmos, and nature, as well as human and non-human blessings among other things. Cultural heritage is related to the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples and their near relations to the land, territories, and natural resources. The articles can deal e. g. with intellectual property and cultural heritage, repatriation and revitalization of the cultural heritage, possible abuse or misinterpretation of cultural heritage, sacred places, clothing and cultural heritage, cultural heritage in connection to traditional livelihoods and the representations of them, cultural heritage in connection to language and representations.
Please send your abstract (100-150 words, preferably in some Sámi language) latest 15.10.2021 and we’ll answer you in couple of days. Manuscript submission by 17.12.2021, after that it will be sent to peer review. This time we prefer articles in Sámi languages as so many earlier issues have been published in English. Issue will be edited by Hanna Guttorm and Irja Seurujärvi-Kari. Please send your abstract and articles to hanna.guttorm@helsinki.fi and irja.seurujarvi@gmail.com.

Ongoing writing invitation for a thematic issue focusing on didactics and teaching in Sápmi from different perspectives. Particular emphasis is placed on language and culture teaching, models, case studies, ongoing projects in schools, teaching materials and other issues related to didactics. In this context, didactics refers to a broader concept of teaching that addresses the questions WHAT, WHY and HOW. The thematic issue will include articles on both language teaching and cultural education as well as the teaching of other related content. The texts may focus on the Sámi language and its teaching, teaching in the Sámi language or teaching that deals with Sámi related content in, for example, majority schools, kindergartens, higher education institutions or, for example, vocational schools. The research association invites scientific articles for peer-review, as well as freelance blog posts that are more free-form and do not need to be peer-reviewed. The articles in the thematic issue will be published as they are completed. Possible topics are:

• models and practices of language teaching
• models and practices of cultural education
• case study in schools (e.g. language immersion and distance learning)
• teachers’ experiences
• students’ experiences
• good and worse ways of working
• new models
• indigenous didactics in Sámi schools / Sámi didactics in majority schools
• or other current topics in the field of didactics

Hanna Outakoski is responsible for the special issue. Abstracts (100-150 words) should be sent to hanna.outakoski@umu.se as soon as possible. Please write “Dutkansearvi” as the subject line of the email. We also ask you to write your contact information at the top of the abstract: author (s), institution / department / university / department, and your own email address.

You will be notified of abstract approval within a few weeks. The abstract can be written in any Sámi language, Finnish, English, Swedish or Norwegian. It would be ideal if the final version of your article would be written in Sámi, but if necessary, we also accept texts in other languages. Publications written in Sámi language about didactics are still very few, and so we encourage the articles to be written in Sámi. The authors should take care of the correcting the spelling before the article goes for peer review or the blog is published. The editor-in-chief of the journal checks the spelling of scientific articles before peer review to ensure that it corresponds to the language level of the scientific publication. For more information on formal style issues, visit the research association’s website. Completed articles and blogs should be sent to the address above.