Publications

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

Here you can find our most recent publications.

Publications by the Centre of Excellence

Hansen, L., Alakorva, S., & Tiina Sanila-Aikio, T (2026). Rivttes vuohki, Olmâ vyehi, Õlmmvueʹkk – Oikea tapa, YK:n biodiversiteettisopimukseen pohjautuvat eettiset ohjeet neuvotteluihin ja yhteistyöhön saamelaispaliskuntien poronhoitajien kanssa. Helsinki: Ympäristöministeriö.
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 Traditionas 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 Thesis, University of Lapland]. Kustannus-Puntsi.  
Alakorva, S. (2025). Kertomuksia Saamen kansasta: Saamelaisen kansatyön ja -ajattelun jäljillä. [Doctoral Thesis, University of Lapland]. Lapin yliopisto.
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 Thesis, 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 Thesis, University of Lapland]. Vastapaino.  
Magnani, M. & J. Porsanger. (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.
Porsanger, J. & I. Seurujärvi-Kari. (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). Leiden: 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). Tenojoen 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.