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Rauna Kuokkanen

Rauna Kuokkanen is a Sami woman from the Finnish side of the Deatnu Valley. She has long been involved in the public life of Sami society. For example, she was the founding chair of the Sami Youth Organization in Finland, established in 1991 and served as the Vice-President of the Sami Council, NGO representing Sami organizations, for two years.

Rauna completed her PhD at the University of British Columbia, Canada, in July 2004. Her dissertation titled 'Toward the Hospitality of Academia: The (Im)Possible Gift of Indigenous Epistemes' received a recognition for excellence by the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee and it was nominated for the Governor General’s Gold Medal Award. She has MA in Sami Language and Literature (University of Oulu, Finland) and Comparative Literature (UBC).

Rauna has edited an anthology on contemporary Sami literature (_Juoga mii geasuha_, 2001) which was nominated for the Sami Council Literary Prize in 2002. She has also published articles on Sami literature, research and higher education, oral tradition and women.

Currently Rauna is a post-doctoral scholar with a collaborative research project on Globalization and Autonomy at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ont.). Her work in the project focuses on analyzing the relationship between indigenous women, economic globalization and violence, and envisioning an alternative paradigm based on the gift ethic.
 

Rauna Kuokkanen (Finland) Photo:Rauna Kuokkanen