When?
August 11-15, 2025
Where?
Programming will take place in Julevu/Luleju/Luleå, and within the Gällivare Forest Sámi territories in Sweden
What?
Program details will be available closer to the workshop.
Cost?
Sponsorships are available for participants to attend the 2025 workshop (registration to open February 2025).
SING Sábme 2025 Workshop
Questioning “Green Energy” and its Impact on Indigenous Livelihoods in Sweden
SING Sábme and the 2025 workshop is a collaboration between Uppsala University’s Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (CEMFOR), the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta, the University of British Columbia’s Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, and local Sámi community members and experts. It builds on the SING Canada approach and is customized to fit Sábme’s unique cultural, educational and political contexts.
The inaugural SING Sábme 2025 workshop will serve as a trial for a potential ongoing series. It will be held from August 11 to 15, 2025, in Julevu/Luleju/Luleå, Sweden. We will travel to the Gällivare Forest Sámi territories, where Sámi livelihoods and the so-called ”green” industry intersect. A key concern for local reindeer herders is the impact of wind and hydroelectric power development on reindeer habitat – a habitat already impacted by forestry and mining activities. Using methods developed by the SING program, we will coach youth in the region to think critically and engage creatively with scientific approaches in genomics and environmental monitoring so that they can help the Sámi community understand their territory in even greater detail.
The 2025 workshop will provide hands-on, place-based education in Sámi cultural practices and practical and technical skill-building in environmental genomics approaches. It will be supplemented by learning sessions that introduce a critical and ethical framework for considering Indigenous science and educational approaches. Participants will be able to learn about and discuss genomics, ethics, feminist technoscience, water security, and colonization from Indigenous, feminist, and 2S/queer-inclusive perspectives.
