Rauna Kuokkanen

Rauna Kuokkanen (Sámi) is Research Professor of Arctic Indigenous Studies at the University of Lapland and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto. Her most recent book is the award-winning Restructuring Relations: Indigenous Self-Determination, Governance and Gender (Oxford UP, 2019), an Indigenous feminist investigation of Indigenous self-determination, governance and gender regimes in Indigenous political institutions. She is also the author of Boaris dego eana: Eamiálbmogiid diehtu, filosofiijat ja dutkan (in Sámi; translated title: As Old as the Earth. Indigenous Knowledge, Philosophies and Research, 2009). Her book Reshaping the University: Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes and the Logic of the Gift (2007) develops an Indigenous, poststructural critique of the contemporary university. Professor Kuokkanen has recently published on the energy transition, wind industry, and reindeer herding in Norway, truth and reconciliation process in Finland, and Nordic settler colonialism. She is from Ohcejohka/Utsjoki, Sápmi, but previously lived and worked in Canada for nearly 20 years.