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Research project : Indigeneity in waiting Elusive Rights and the Power of Hope (2016-2020)
University of Lapland

Australia, Finland and Greenland
The issues to be studied will be the two-decade-long discussions on ratifying ILO Convention 169 in Finland, the planned constitutional changes that would finally recognise the indigenous peoples in Australia and the rights of indigenous peoples after gaining self-government in Greenland in 2009.

The project is led by Professor Julian Reid, Faculty of Social Sciences and it employs two postdoctoral researchers: Marjo Lindroth from the Arctic Centre and Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen from the Unit for Gender Studies, Faculty of Education. The research partners of the project are Professor David Chandler (University of Westminster, London), Professor Mitchell Dean (Copenhagen Business School), Senior Researcher Tanja Joona (University of Lapland), Professor Francesca Merlan (Australian National University, Canberra), Associate Professor Frank Sejersen (University of Copenhagen) and Associate Professor Jeffrey Sissons (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand).

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