Speaking: Dr. Rauna Kuokkanen, University of Lapland, and Fulbright Arctic Initiative Fellow
The Center for Arctic Policy Studies (CAPS) and the Arctic and Northern Studies Program present the first of an inaugural series of webinars on Human Security in the Arctic.
The organizers are pleased to coordinate with the Center for Cross-Cultural Studies to bring you a Visiting Arctic Fulbright Fellow Lecture with Rauna Kuokkanen on "Indigenous Self-Determination and Gender Justice in the Arctic".
Bio
Dr. Rauna Kuokkanen is Research Professor of Arctic Indigenous Studies at the University of Lapland, and Fulbright Arctic Initiative Fellow. Her research highlights the importance of human security and addresses it specifically in terms of justice in Indigenous political institutions. Dr. Kuokkanen's 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 has also authored a book on Indigenizing the university in Reshaping the University: Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes and the Logic of the Gift (2007) develops an Indigenous, post-structural critique of the contemporary university.