The role of sport organizations for local and national community – the case of Sámi sport organizations

Skille, Eivind Å.; Fahlén, Josef

doi:10.1080/16184742.2019.1610784

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“…Grensedragning mot det norske er enklere her enn innenfor andre samfunnsfelt, og kulturorganisasjonene blir dermed et slags friområde der integreringsmekanismene og presset inn i det norske er svakere. For andre organisasjonstyper, som for eksempel idrettslag, er grensedragning mot det norske vanskeligere, og her spiller også størrelse mer direkte inn (Skille & Fahlén, 2019). Selv om det finnes samiske idrettsorganisasjoner og lag, er det vanskelig å lage en egen serie i fotball, håndball eller andre idretter bare for samiske lag, og utøverne må dermed søke inn i den norske idrettsbevegelsen for å kunne delta .…”

Section: Individuell Samisk Deltakelse I Sivilsamfunnetunclassified

En valgordning til besvær? U30-regelens innvirkning på deltagelsen ved sametingsvalg

Owren¹

2021

Sametingsvalg: Tilhørighet, Deltakelse, Partipolitikk

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A particular electoral rule (U30) in Sámi parliamentary elections in Norway requires that registered Sámi voters in municipalities with fewer than thirty eligible voters cast their votes in advance. In this chapter, I explore the questions of whether, how and why this rule has a negative effect on voter turnout. In order to answer these questions, I conduct an analysis of quantitative data from the official tally sheets of the 2017 Sámi parliamentary election in Norway and aggregate data from the official electoral rolls. In addition, I analyse qualitative data from interviews I conducted with registered Sámi voters in Southern Norway from a rational choice theory viewpoint. These analyses suggest that even after three Sámi parliamentary elections across a span of eight years, the U30 rule still has significant negative effects on voter turnout in the municipalities where it applies. Furthermore, while voter turnout in Sámi parliamentary elections in Norway tends to decline the further away from the Sámi heartlands one comes, an opposite pattern seems to apply among the municipalities subject to the U30 rule. Based on my analyses, I discuss the roles that logistics, a lack of information, political cleavages, demographic variations among the registered voters, and the municipal authorities themselves may play in enabling this decline in voter turnout, and the regional variations therein.

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Section: Individuell Samisk Deltakelse I Sivilsamfunnetunclassified

En valgordning til besvær? U30-regelens innvirkning på deltagelsen ved sametingsvalg

Owren¹

2021

Sametingsvalg: Tilhørighet, Deltakelse, Partipolitikk

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“…Men idrotten är också mer än bara en återspegling av sociala relationer och identiteter. 109 I själva verket går, som antytts ovan, idrotten ofta i bräschen och formar nya, och förändrar redan befintliga, identiteter och relationer i samhället. 110 Jeremy MacClancy skriver: 56 Sports, in sum, may be used to fulfil a plethora of functions: to define more sharply the already established boundaries of moral and political communities; to assist in the creation of new social identities; to give physical expression to certain social values and to act as a means of reflecting on those values; to serve as potentially contested space by opposed groups.…”

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“…Det går inte att underskatta det stora inflytande som media, i detta fall dagspressen, utövade i denna produktion av hjältar och antihjältar. 109 Men under lagren av den koloniala sanningsregim, som uttrycktes på såväl sportsidor som i skidledares texter, framträder även motstridiga retoriker. Det framgår inte minst av de skiftande uppfattningar om vad och vem J.…”

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“…Ändamålet var snarare att, som Sjul-Axel Nejne formulerade det, "bättre lära känna varandra, från Idre till Karesuando, så att en starkare gemenskap knytes oss Samer emellan." 109 "Oss samer" avsåg alltså samer som var svenska medborgare. Frågan passerade emellertid inte obemärkt.…”

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“…This time, too, issues regarding visas and Soviet bureaucracy obstructed Kola S ami participation. 109 It was not until the Malå championship in 1993, after the fall of the Soviet Union that S ami from Russia participated in a Nordic S ami championship for the first time. 110 The result of the formation of S amiid Val a stallanlihttu was that football attained an increasingly prominent position in transnational S ami sporting life.…”

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På skidor i kulturella gränsland: Samiska spår i skidsportens historia

Lidström¹

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The aim of this compilation thesis is to shed light on the Sámi history of ski sport in Sweden from an organizational and cultural history perspective where concepts like nation and ethnicity fill an important function. The Sámi are an indigenous people living in Sápmi, a land area extending across the North Calotte region and including parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. The thesis contains six separate articles which together comprise a research period extending between 1879 and 1990. The articles have been studied from different points of view with the focus on how skis as sport equipment have been historically charged with cultural expressions created by the individual skiers as well as by the general public’s interest in skiing. These cultural expressions have also been internalized as collective identification objects positioning the mutual relations between groups and collectives. By historical links to kings, heroic myths and polar expeditions, the sport of skiing has, for example, become associated with a national Swedish identity. By pinpointing its Sámi origins in the light of history, the ski sport is in this thesis instead viewed as a culturally heterogeneous phenomenon. In three of the articles of the thesis, the Sámi history of Swedish ski sport is studied. The focus of these studies lies on how ”Sáminess” and ”Swedishness”, viewed as cultural identities, were constructed in connection with the early rise and development of ski sport from the late 19th century to the interwar period (Articles I and II) as well as with the sporting career of downhill skier Bengt-Erik Grahn in the 1960s (Article V). The studies illustrate that, at its rise and early development, cross-country skiing in Sweden was regarded as a Sámi sport. In the early 20th century, however, an ethnic borderline was created between what was Sámi and what was Swedish, which gradually invisibilized the Sámi link to ski sport. Instead, cross-country skiing acquired the inofficial character of being the Swedish national sport. The three remaining studies investigate the separately organized Sámi sport movement from its rise in 1948 through the year 1990 (Articles III, IV and VI). The origin of this movement derives from the Sámi Championships, a winter event whose original contests include skiing and other sports with a background in reindeer husbandry. The articles clarify the importance of ski sport in creating contrastive ethnic identities between Sáminess and Swedishness (Articles I–V). Similarly, these constructed cultural markers of Sáminess and Swedishness have been interwoven to symbolize an overarching ethnic national identity (Articles IV–V). In addition, the way ski sport has been operated within the separately organized Sámi sport movement has carried weight in the creation of Sápmi as a crossborder nation (Article VI).

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“He ringa raupā - Calloused hands”: Negotiating the intersections and responsibilities as sport practitioners and academics in Aotearoa

Palmer,

Leberman,

Erueti

2023

Sport Management Review

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The role of sport organizations for local and national community – the case of Sámi sport organizations

Cited by 13 publications

References 30 publications

En valgordning til besvær? U30-regelens innvirkning på deltagelsen ved sametingsvalg

En valgordning til besvær? U30-regelens innvirkning på deltagelsen ved sametingsvalg

På skidor i kulturella gränsland: Samiska spår i skidsportens historia

“He ringa raupā - Calloused hands”: Negotiating the intersections and responsibilities as sport practitioners and academics in Aotearoa

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