“To read is to empower. To empower is to write. To write is to influence. To
influence is to change. To change is to live.” – Jane Evershed
Dát lea Jovnna-Jon-Ánne-Kirstte Rávnná guovttegielat (sáme ja eangals) blog.
This is Rauna Kuokkanen’s bilingual – English and Sami – blog.
Rauna Kuokkanen is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science/ Aboriginal Studies Program at the University of Toronto. She holds a PhD on Education from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), an M.A. on Comparative Literature (UBC) and an M.A. on Sami Language and Literature (University of Oulu, Finland). She is the author of Reshaping the University: Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes and the Logic of the Gift (UBC Press, 2007) and editor of the anthology on Sami literature Juoga mii geasuha (2001). Her current research interests include indigenous peoples’ higher education, indigenous phil0sophies and the intersections of autonomy, violence and political economy in the context of indigenous women. She was the founding chair of the Sami Youth Organization in Finland, established in 1991, and served as the Vice-President of the Sami Council in 1997-98. Currently she is a member of the Board of the Sami Women’s Forum and a member of the International Feminist Network for the Gift Economy. She is from Ohcejohka/Utsjoki, Sápmi (Finland).
Rávdná lea professor Toronto Universitehta stáhtadiehtaga lágadusas ja eamiálbmotoahpuid prográmmas. Sus lea doavttirgráda (PhD) University of British Columbias Kanadas, MA veardádalli girjjálašvuođas (University of British Columbia) ja sámegielas ja girjjálašvuođas (Oulu universitehta). Son lea čállán girjji Reshaping the University: Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes and the Logic of the Gift (UBC Press, 2007), doaimmahan sámi girjjálašvuođa antologiija Juoga mii geasuha (2001) ja almmustahttán máŋga artihkkala eamiálbmogiid filosofiijas, girjjálašvuođas, dekoloniseremis ja akademalaš máilmmi ja eamiálbmogiid dieđu gaskavuođain. Su dálá dutkanfáddá lea eamiálbmotnissonat, autonomiija ja globalisašuvdna. Son lea Sámi NissonForuma stivrralahttu (www.saminissonforum.org) ja International Feminist Network for the Gift Economy fierpmádaga láhttu. Son lea Ohcejogas eret.
