Publications

Explore MultiBEING’s most recent publications, as well as projects and publications that provide background to and are related to our research.

Publications by the Centre of Excellence

Here you can find our most recent publications.

Därpo, J., Fauchald, K. L., Koivurova, T. & Hansen, L. (2026). Land rights of the Sámi people and access to justice. In G. Winter, R. Macrory & L. Krämer (Eds.), EU Environmental Policy and Law: Reflections at Fifty (pp. 543-564). Europa Law Publishing.
Hansen, L., Alakorva, S. & Sanila-Aikio, T. (2026). Rivttes vuohki, Olmâ vyehi, Õlmmvueʹkk – Oikea tapa, YK:n biodiversiteettisopimukseen pohjautuvat eettiset ohjeet neuvotteluihin ja yhteistyöhön saamelaispaliskuntien poronhoitajien kanssa. Ympäristöministeriö.
Hansen, L., Alakorva, S. & Sanila-Aikio, T. (2026). Rivttes vuohki, Olmâ vyehi, Õlmmvueʹkk – The Right Way: Ethical Guidelines based on the UN Convention on Biological Diversity for negotiations and cooperation with reindeer herders in Sámi reindeer herding cooperatives. Ministry of Environment.
Hansen, L. (2026). International Legal Framework for Safeguarding Sámi Cultural Heritage: Toward a Holistic Intergenerational Indigenous Rights-Based Approach. University of Lapland.
Peemot, V. S. (2026). Objects as knowledgeable elders: Lessons from the reindeer calf halter Mȯnggu̇i. Museum Anthropology, 49(1), e70021.
Peemot, V. S. (2026). Indigenizing archives: Remembering homeland with stories, maps, and photographs. Errant Journal, special issue Companions 9(2026): 45-56.
Peemot, V. S. (Guest Ed.) (2026). Tyvan Khöömei: Transmission, circulation, and relational epistemology. Sibirica: Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies, a special issue, 25(2), forthcoming.
Peemot, V. S. (2026). Songs of Tyva. A Guide to Tyvan Culture and Language. 2. ed. Radebeul: Suomen Kurkkulaulajat.
Peemot, V. S. (2026). Photographs of museum objects: Knowledge co-production between a museum, a Tyva researcher, and source communities in Tyva and Mongolia. The Proceedings of the 39th International Abashiri Symposium Visuals and Northern Indigenous Culture, 2, 1-7.
Peemot, V. S. (2026). In the Hoofbeats’ rhythm. te magazine 4: 45-55.
Virtanen, P. K. & Opas, M. (Eds.) (2026). (Un)relating and (un)learning with more-than-humans during ethnographic practice. Suomen Antropologi: Journal of Finnish Anthropological Society, 50(1).
Virtanen, P. K. & Opas, M. (2026). Introduction: (Un)relating and (un)learning with more-than-humans during ethnographic practice. Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 50(1), 9-19.
Virtanen, P. K. (2026). Speaking and singing firmly: Beings (un)related and (in)activated by language in Amazonian academic research. Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 50(1), 43-66.

Related projects

Our research builds on many previous projects. Here you can find a few of the most relevant ones.

EDGES: Entangling Indigenous Knowledges in Universities
Máhtut – Sámi Knowledge and Practices In the Era of the Green Transition
Sámipolity – Sámi Political Traditions and Thought in Co-Becoming with the Environment (link to be added)
Biocultural Heritage and Non-Linear Time
Conceptualizing Biodiversity in Amazonia
Deatnu – Bringing Institutional Virtues into Governance: Integrating the Scientific, Indigenous, and Local Knowing in Teno River Salmon Policy and Administration

Our research builds on many publications. Here you can find a few of the most relevant ones.

Aikio, Á. (2023). Saamelainen museo? Tutkimus saamelaisen kulttuuriperinnön ontologisesta politiikasta. Doctoral dissertation, University of Lapland. Kustannus-Puntsi.  
Alakorva, S. (2025). Kertomuksia Saamen kansasta: Saamelaisen kansatyön ja -ajattelun jäljillä. Doctoral dissertation, University of Lapland.
Fedina, M. (2025). Place, language, and belonging: Being Komi in contemporary Syktyvkar, Komi Republic. Doctoral dissertation, University of Helsinki.
Heinämäki, L. (2023). Human rights and the environment. Yearbook of International Environmental Law, 33(1/2022), 29-36.
Heinämäki, L., Valkonen, S. & Valkonen, J. (2020). Legal (non) recognition of Sámi customary relationship with the land in Finland: Challenges so far and prospects in the modern human rights era. In D. Bunikowski & A. D. Hemmings (Eds.), Philosophies of Polar Law (1 ed., pp. 101-118). Routledge.
Hossain, K. (2025). How does International Human Rights Law respond to Indigenous peoples’ rights to culture? In I.-A. Linkola-Aikio, P. Keskitalo, R. Ballardini & M. Sarantou (Eds.), Digital Indigenous Cultural Heritage (pp. 249–264). Palgrave Macmillan.
Laiti, O. (2021). Old ways of knowing, new ways of playing—The potential of collaborative game design to empower Indigenous Sámi. Doctoral dissertation. University of Lapland.
Laiti, O. & Virtanen, P. (2024, September). Salmon grief in Sámi digital games. In Conference Proceedings of DiGRA 2024 Conference: Playgrounds.
Magga, A.-M. (2024). Siidan lait: Saamelaisen poronhoidon oikeusperiaatteet ja -teoria. Doctoral dissertation, University of Lapland. Vastapaino.  
Magnani, M. & Porsanger, J. (2025). The three-dimensional revolution in Sápmi: Decolonising emergent technological domains for sustainable museum futures. In I.-A. Linkola-Aikio, P. Keskitalo, R. Ballardini & M. Sarantou (Eds.), Digital Indigenous Cultural Heritage (pp. 23-42). Palgrave Macmillan.
Peemot, V. S. (2024). The Horse In My Blood: Multispecies Kinship in the Altai and Saian Mountains. Berghahn Books.
Peemot, V. S. (2024). The Tožu-Tyva skin-sewn garments in the Museum of Cultural History, Oslo: A guide into lifeworlds of reindeer herders. In F. Türker, M. Duranlı, Ş. Doğan Balcı & V. Koçoğlu Gündoğdu (Eds.), Sibirya Çalışmaları 2, Çanakkale: PA Paradigma Akademi, 193-230.
Peemot, V. S. (2024). Spiraea Söösken: Its status, names, and use among the Tyva pastoralists. Sociolinguistic Studies: Special Issue on Ethnobotany, 18(3-4), 467-487.
Peemot, V. S. (2024). An overview of the Tozhu Tyva Kham Paraphernalia in the Museum of Cultural History, Oslo. Shaman, 32(1-2), 5-34.
Peemot, V. S. (2023). Storying with homelands: Emplaced (hi)stories and resilience-in-making. Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Association, 47(3), 74-89.
Peemot, V. S. (2023). What do images on drumheads tell? Stories of two Khakas drums brought to Finland in 1917. Shaman, 31(1-2), 87-116.
Peemot, V. S. (2023). Their dogs are of an alert and intelligent breed: An ethnocynology of Tyvan pastoralists in Inner Asia. Ethnobiology Letters, 13(1), 58-67, with Svanberg, I., U. of Uppsala.
Porsanger, J. & Seurujärvi-Kari, I. (2021). Sámi dutkama máttut: The forerunners of Sámi methodological thinking. In P. Keskitalo, T. Olsen & P. K. Virtanen (Eds.), Indigenous Research Methodologies in Sámi and Global Contexts (pp. 33–64). Brill.
Valkonen, S., Aikio, Á., Magga, S.-M., Alakorva, S. & Aikio, S. A. (2025). Gulahallat: Discussing community-based co-acting, co-knowing and co-thinking among Sámi research, museum and art. In A. Edmundson & M. Havilland (Eds.), Collaboration and Co-Creation in Museums, Heritage, and the Arts (pp. 111-124). Routledge.
Valkonen, S., Aikio, Á., Alakorva, S. & Magga, S.-M. (Eds.) (2022). The Sámi World. Routledge.
Valkonen, J., & Äijälä, M. (2025). Tenon lohenkalastuskielto tiedollisena menettämisenä. In R. Norum, V. Kinnunen & N. Hämäläinen (Eds.), Käänteet ja kierrot: kulttuuriset ympäristömuutokset pohjoisessa (pp. 25-48). Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden seura.
Viikari, L. (2022). International Whaling Commission as a natural resource management regime: Quest for balance between Western science, state governance and Indigenous self-determination. International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, 30(2), 274-300.
Äijälä, M. & Valkonen, J. (2024). Luossafanas. Digital or Visual Products, Lapin yliopisto.