From ‘Norwegian citizens’ via ‘citizens plus’ to ‘dual political membership’? Status, aspirations, and challenges ahead

Semb, Anne Julie

doi:10.1080/01419870.2011.604131

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“…On reflections on the case of the Norwegian Sámi, see e.g. Semb (2012); Selle, Semb, and Strømsnes (2013). 15.…”

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Indigenous citizenship, shared fate, and non-ideal circumstances

Vitikainen

2020

Citizenship Studies

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This paper discusses the notion of 'citizenship as shared fate' as a potentially inclusive and real-world responsive way of understanding Indigenous citizenship in a non-ideal world. The paper draws on Melissa Williams' work on 'citizenship as shared fate,' and assesses some of the benefits and drawbacks of using this notion to understand citizenship in Indigenous and modern state contexts. In particular, the paper focuses on the challenges that existing nonideal circumstances-past and enduring injustices and unequal power relations-bring to the understanding of 'citizenship as shared fate', and the normative constraints for realizing such citizenship in our contemporary world. By developing this notion in light of Indigenous claims for justice, the paper proposes three side constraints to the notion of 'citizenship as shared fate,' including its openness to different views of history, the role of history in shaping the future, and acknowledging-and countering-prevailing power relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. The paper concludes by looking at some of the implications of the reconceptualized notion of 'citizenship as shared fate' for the shaping of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations in the Nordic/Sápmi context.

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“…On reflections on the case of the Norwegian Sámi, see e.g. Semb (2012); Selle, Semb, and Strømsnes (2013). 15.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Indigenous citizenship, shared fate, and non-ideal circumstances

Vitikainen

2020

Citizenship Studies

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“…These negotiations were of a “nation to nation” character, making them unprecedented in Norway (Josefsen et al, 2016). They produced the 2005 Finnmark Act , a constitutionally binding “pragmatic compromise” (Semb, 2012), incorporating, and aiming to reconcile, the interests and obligations of Norway, the Sami, and Finnmarkers at large 1…”

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A Sami land‐claims settlement? Assessing Norway's Finnmark Act in a comparative perspective

Spitzer

Selle

2023

Scand Pol Stud

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The Sami, the Indigenous peoples of Fennoscandia, assert ownership‐, use‐, and management‐rights to their traditional lands. Norway's 2005 Finnmark Act is the only legislation so far to broadly respond to those assertions. How to interpret the act has long been contested, and is now the subject of a legal case before Norway's Supreme Court. Despite parallels between the land‐rights assertions of Sami and those of Indigenous peoples elsewhere, and despite abundant legislation responding to Indigenous land‐rights assertions elsewhere, the Finnmark Act has seldom been analyzed comparatively. In this article, we study the act against the backdrop of Indigenous land‐claims settlements in Canada—the state where such legislation is most institutionalized. We find the Finnmark Act features many of the same institutional and procedural elements as Canadian settlements. However, we also find that in Norway those elements have been legally integrated, and practically implemented, in a different and less coherent way, rendering the act dysfunctional. We conclude by drawing lessons from the Canadian example to prescribe adjustments to the understanding and ongoing implementation of the Finnmark Act, to potentially put the accommodation of Sami land‐rights on a smoother path.

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“…Samenes sterke velferdsintegrering innebaerer at skolen på avgjørende vis er koblet til den norske offentligheten. Den samiske kulturelle standardiseringen handler derfor først og fremst om å innlemme en bevissthet om samisk kultur som internasjonal rettslig anerkjent urfolkskultur i den norske fellesskolen og mindre om å bryte ut i autonome samiske skoler koblet til en egen samisk offentlighet (Cairns, 2000;Semb, 2012).…”

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Et rettighetsfellesskap: samisk systembygging i den norske enhetsstaten

Falch¹,

Selle²

2022

TfS

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Artikkelen er inspirert av Stein Rokkans «impossibility theorem», som sier at integreringsmekanismene i den enkelte nasjonalstat er så omfattende at betingelsene for en sterk felles europeisk identitet med et institusjonelt politisk tillitsfellesskap ikke er mulig. Artikkelen snur blikket fra forholdet mellom den enkelte nasjonalstat og et overnasjonalt EU til betingelsene for nasjonsbygging på et samisk subnasjonalt nivå i en enhetsstat som Norge. Den samiske politiske systembyggingen har likheter med Rokkans nasjonsbyggingsmodell, men kjennetegnes også av grunnleggende ulikheter som gjør at det som vokser fram, må karakteriseres som noe annet. Vi argumenterer for at den systembyggingen som skjer, ikke er et tillitsfellesskap i Rokkans forstand (medborgerskap), men et samisk rettighetsfellesskap.Internasjonaliseringen og den forsterkede rettsliggjøringen, som den økte sammenkoblingen mellom overnasjonale og subnasjonale institusjoner innebaerer, er en annen type politisk ressurs enn de Rokkan var opptatt av. Dette gir et kollektivt samisk politisk mulighetsrom som er av en helt saeregen karakter som spiller med og mot staten. Mens nasjonalstaten sikrer brei fordeling for velferd, sikrer det samiske politiske systemet at dette kommer med retten til og anerkjennelse av kulturell forskjellighet.

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From ‘Norwegian citizens’ via ‘citizens plus’ to ‘dual political membership’? Status, aspirations, and challenges ahead

Cited by 11 publications

References 9 publications

Indigenous citizenship, shared fate, and non-ideal circumstances

Indigenous citizenship, shared fate, and non-ideal circumstances

A Sami land‐claims settlement? Assessing Norway's Finnmark Act in a comparative perspective

Et rettighetsfellesskap: samisk systembygging i den norske enhetsstaten

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