Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen
Biographic Data
| ID | 382345 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heidi |
| FAMILY NAME | Sinevaara-Niskanen |
| SIGNATURE | SINEVAARA-NISKANEN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lapland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0747-233X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Resilience in Finnish security and defence rhetoric
This paper examines Finland’s transformed security and defence policies. Following a broader European trend, Finland has begun emphasising resilience as a source of national security. Drawing on previous scholarship that has problematised the normalisation of resilience in security discussions, we examine Finland’s resilience rhetoric. Our focus is on two government reports from 2024 that represent the country’s new security vocabulary. Using Tou…
Racialised vocabularies of resilience
In a global era characterised by prolonged crises, the seemingly neutral concept of resilience has gained central importance across political, academic and public discourses. This special issue sheds light on the often-overlooked racialised underpinnings and articulations of resilience. Through diverse empirical case studies across what has been called the Western racialised assemblage — spanning security policy and military thinking, EU governan…
Hope and dispossession
This article investigates the dynamics between hope and dispossession in the relations between Indigenous peoples and states. These relations, historically marked by colonial interventions, boast hopeful developments ranging from the recognition of rights to truth and reconciliation processes. Drawing on critical hope scholarship and research on contemporary colonialism, this article delves into the question of reconciliation and the (allegedly) …
(Counter)productive hope
Critical Studies of the Arctic
The Colonial Politics of Hope
Through analyses of cases in Australia, Finland, Greenland and elsewhere, the book illuminates how states appropriate hope as a means to stall and circumscribe political processes of recognising the rights of indigenous peoples.The book examines hope in indigenous–state relations today. Engaging with hope both empirically and conceptually, the work analyses the dynamic between hope, politics and processes of rights and recognition. In particular,…
Colonial Politics of Hope
Battlefields of recognition
Subjects of difference within the designs of resilience
Politics of hope
Amid the clouds of unpredictable change, there always seems to be a sliver of light -of hope -on the horizon.In promising something new, something better and potential change, hope encourages and engenders faith in the future.The utility of hope has not gone unnoticed in politics.Even though, or perhaps precisely because, the environmental, social and economic insecurity we see in the world today could be better described in terms of hopelessness…
Conclusions
Vulnerable Yet Adaptive
Global Politics and Its Violent Care for Indigeneity
Vocabularies for human development
The Arctic Council (AC) has been accorded the status of knowledge holder and knowledge provider for the Arctic region. This paper probes the broader definition-making power of Arctic knowledge, challenging the common notion that this knowledge is value neutral. It argues that attention should be paid to the ways in which power is exercised in, and though, the various reports and assessments published under the auspices of the AC. The specific foc…
Adapt or Die? The Biopolitics of Indigeneity—From the Civilising Mission to the Need for Adaptation
Indigenous peoples and indigenous lives have historically been the targets of colonial practices. In current politics, the brutal actions these entailed have changed into more subtle forms of governing. Drawing on the context of international politics (the Arctic Council and the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues), we argue that the demand/need for adaptation is one of the rationalities by which power is exercised over indigenous…
At the Crossroads of Autonomy and Essentialism
Indigenous peoples are often perceived as custodians of nature owing to their close relationship with their environment and their nature-based livelihoods. This paper investigates the kinds of environmental agencies that are constructed for, and by, indigenous peoples within the United Nations (UN) Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (PF) and the Arctic Council. The particular focus of this research is the issue of responsibility. The article br…
Crossings of Indigenousness, Feminism, and Gender
Joyce Green (Ed.), Fernwood Publishing, Winnipeg & Zed Books, London, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84277-929-3, (254 pp.) One of the intriguing questions for feminist researchers and feminism has been, “who is
At the Crossroads of Autonomy and Essentialism
Indigenous peoples are often perceived as custodians of nature owing to their close relationship with their environment and their nature-based livelihoods. This paper investigates the kinds of environmental agencies that are constructed for, and by, indigenous peoples within the United Nations (UN) Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (PF) and the Arctic Council. The particular focus of this research is the issue of responsibility. The article br…
Politics of hope
Amid the clouds of unpredictable change, there always seems to be a sliver of light -of hope -on the horizon.In promising something new, something better and potential change, hope encourages and engenders faith in the future.The utility of hope has not gone unnoticed in politics.Even though, or perhaps precisely because, the environmental, social and economic insecurity we see in the world today could be better described in terms of hopelessness…
Adapt or Die? The Biopolitics of Indigeneity—From the Civilising Mission to the Need for Adaptation
Indigenous peoples and indigenous lives have historically been the targets of colonial practices. In current politics, the brutal actions these entailed have changed into more subtle forms of governing. Drawing on the context of international politics (the Arctic Council and the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues), we argue that the demand/need for adaptation is one of the rationalities by which power is exercised over indigenous…
Global Politics and Its Violent Care for Indigeneity
Vocabularies for human development
The Arctic Council (AC) has been accorded the status of knowledge holder and knowledge provider for the Arctic region. This paper probes the broader definition-making power of Arctic knowledge, challenging the common notion that this knowledge is value neutral. It argues that attention should be paid to the ways in which power is exercised in, and though, the various reports and assessments published under the auspices of the AC. The specific foc…
Resilience in Finnish security and defence rhetoric
This paper examines Finland’s transformed security and defence policies. Following a broader European trend, Finland has begun emphasising resilience as a source of national security. Drawing on previous scholarship that has problematised the normalisation of resilience in security discussions, we examine Finland’s resilience rhetoric. Our focus is on two government reports from 2024 that represent the country’s new security vocabulary. Using Tou…
Crossings of Indigenousness, Feminism, and Gender
Joyce Green (Ed.), Fernwood Publishing, Winnipeg & Zed Books, London, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84277-929-3, (254 pp.) One of the intriguing questions for feminist researchers and feminism has been, “who is
At the Crossroads of Autonomy and Essentialism
Indigenous peoples are often perceived as custodians of nature owing to their close relationship with their environment and their nature-based livelihoods. This paper investigates the kinds of environmental agencies that are constructed for, and by, indigenous peoples within the United Nations (UN) Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (PF) and the Arctic Council. The particular focus of this research is the issue of responsibility. The article br…
Adapt or Die? The Biopolitics of Indigeneity—From the Civilising Mission to the Need for Adaptation
Indigenous peoples and indigenous lives have historically been the targets of colonial practices. In current politics, the brutal actions these entailed have changed into more subtle forms of governing. Drawing on the context of international politics (the Arctic Council and the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues), we argue that the demand/need for adaptation is one of the rationalities by which power is exercised over indigenous…
Vocabularies for human development
The Arctic Council (AC) has been accorded the status of knowledge holder and knowledge provider for the Arctic region. This paper probes the broader definition-making power of Arctic knowledge, challenging the common notion that this knowledge is value neutral. It argues that attention should be paid to the ways in which power is exercised in, and though, the various reports and assessments published under the auspices of the AC. The specific foc…
Conclusions
Vulnerable Yet Adaptive
Global Politics and Its Violent Care for Indigeneity
Subjects of difference within the designs of resilience
Politics of hope
Amid the clouds of unpredictable change, there always seems to be a sliver of light -of hope -on the horizon.In promising something new, something better and potential change, hope encourages and engenders faith in the future.The utility of hope has not gone unnoticed in politics.Even though, or perhaps precisely because, the environmental, social and economic insecurity we see in the world today could be better described in terms of hopelessness…
Critical Studies of the Arctic
The Colonial Politics of Hope
Through analyses of cases in Australia, Finland, Greenland and elsewhere, the book illuminates how states appropriate hope as a means to stall and circumscribe political processes of recognising the rights of indigenous peoples.The book examines hope in indigenous–state relations today. Engaging with hope both empirically and conceptually, the work analyses the dynamic between hope, politics and processes of rights and recognition. In particular,…
Colonial Politics of Hope
Battlefields of recognition
Resilience in Finnish security and defence rhetoric
This paper examines Finland’s transformed security and defence policies. Following a broader European trend, Finland has begun emphasising resilience as a source of national security. Drawing on previous scholarship that has problematised the normalisation of resilience in security discussions, we examine Finland’s resilience rhetoric. Our focus is on two government reports from 2024 that represent the country’s new security vocabulary. Using Tou…
Racialised vocabularies of resilience
In a global era characterised by prolonged crises, the seemingly neutral concept of resilience has gained central importance across political, academic and public discourses. This special issue sheds light on the often-overlooked racialised underpinnings and articulations of resilience. Through diverse empirical case studies across what has been called the Western racialised assemblage — spanning security policy and military thinking, EU governan…
Hope and dispossession
This article investigates the dynamics between hope and dispossession in the relations between Indigenous peoples and states. These relations, historically marked by colonial interventions, boast hopeful developments ranging from the recognition of rights to truth and reconciliation processes. Drawing on critical hope scholarship and research on contemporary colonialism, this article delves into the question of reconciliation and the (allegedly) …
(Counter)productive hope
Politics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Indigenous (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Ecology (3 works)