Att skriva från gränslandet: dekoloniala berättelser från Sábme

Abstract

This article centres upon embodied and localised stories in Sábme. It suggests that such narratives may express diversity, difference, and complexity. As such, they may contribute to inclusive decolonial processes and knowledge production. Drawing upon Indigenous worldviews and ways of knowing, the article explores the author’s Sámi and Tornedalian family histories within a settler-colonial structure and assimilatory policies towards minorities. Specifically, the context is the interrelated mining towns of Gällivare and Malmberget. Analytical themes are loss, silences, and dispossession but also decolonial resistance and (re)imagination.