Erika De Vivo

• PostDoc Position at University of Edinburgh

This chapter addresses the relationship between the Márku-Sámi and the Márku (an inland area on the Norwegian side of Sápmi) through the lenses of the Márkomeannu festival, an annual event held at Gállogieddi (Stuornjárga, Norwegian side of Sápmi) since the early 2000s. Unlike previous festival editions, Márkomeannu-2018 was organized around a “fes...

Sámi artefacts are today exhibited in numerous European museums. Since the Renaissance, members of the educated elites were fascinated by the North and acquired Sámi items for their private cabinets of curiosities. Over the centuries most of these collections were dispersed. In a few cases though, some of the items once in these modern collections...

The 2018 edition of the Sámi festival Márkomeannu elaborated a narrative about the future of both the environment and society by articulating fears of an oncoming apocalypse and hopes for Indigenous Sámi futures through a concept presented to festivalgoers via site-specific scenography, visual narratives, and performances. This essay, addressing th...

The Sámi people share their ancestral homeland (Sápmi, sub/Arctic Europe) not only with animals, plants, trees, rocks, colonial-settlers and more recent immigrants but also with other-than-human beings. For centuries, the Sámi have co-constructed Sápmi’s landscape with these entities through respect and reciprocity. Despite enforced conversion, ele...