May-Britt Öhman
Researcher at Centrum för mångvetenskaplig forskning om rasism (CFR)
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 21 93
- E-mail:
- may-britt.ohman@cemfor.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3C, vån 3 hus 22 - Postal address:
- Box 511
751 20 Uppsala
- ORCID:
- 0000-0003-2820-0584
More information is available to staff who log in.
Short presentation
Buoris! Hello!
Associate prof Environmental History ÅAU 2020
PhD History of Technology 2007 KTH
Lule/Forest Sámi, Tornedalian heritage
CEMFOR Jan 2018-
Centre f Gender Research 2008 - 18.
Areas: Gender, Science, Technology Studies; Safety, Risk, Resilience, Environment, Disasters; History of Science and Technology; History; Colonial history; Decolonizing/ Indigenous Studies/Meth/Theories; Arctic; Technoscience; Racial biology; Sustainable Development, Settler colonialism
Keywords
- citbui009
- climate change
- climet002
- coinri006
- dam safety
- disaster risk reduction
- disaster vulnerability
- ecbiwa001
- ego histoire
- environmental issues
- envmed008
- esdeve007
- feminist technoscience
- gender
- gopole004
- grinno011
- healing from colonial traumas
- historical traumas
- history of ideas and science
- human security
- indigenous peoples expertise
- indigenous peoples knowledges
- indigenous studies
- ipmihr010
- land based education
- land based knowledge
- phhith005
- philosophy of science
- racial biology
- resilience
- science studies
- settler colonial studies
- sociotechnical systems
- sustainable development
- technology studies
- technoscience
Biography
Associate professor (Docent in Swedish) in Environmental History, 2020, ÅAU.
PhD in History of Technology, Dissertation "Taming Exotic Beauties: Swedish Hydro Power Constructions in Tanzania in the Era of Development Assistance, 1960s - 1990s" 2007, Royal Institute of Technology
Other websites: www.maybrittohman.com and www.samelandsfriauniversitet.com - I don't update often but can be interesting as introductions to what I do.
Commissions (selected):
Expert in the Committee on Reindeer Lands - Renmarkskommittén (N 2021:02) 2023--- ongoing
Editorial board, NAIS Journal 2013-2016, 2020 - ongoing
Publications:
You can find my publications at
Academia.edu http://uppsala.academia.edu/MayBritt%C3%96hman
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.se/citations?user=NxHCRrkAAAAJ
Research gate
Research projects
2022-2027 Co-lead Pathway T5 - Decolonising Science and Education of ⴰⵔⵔⴰⵎⴰⵜ Ărramăt: Strengthening Health And Wellbeing Through Indigenous-Led Conservation and Sustainable Relationships With Biodiversity https://arramatproject.org/ Projektbudget 24 M CAD (184 MSEK)
Based at University of Alberta, Canada
2023-2024 SING Sábme - Indigenous-led place based research project funded within Ărramăt finansierat inom Arramat (ca 600 000 SEK)
2023-2027 Co-applicant of "Powering change with justice: Weaving Indigenous perspectives to uncover impacts of the wind energy transition", based at Stockholm Resilience Centre ( FORMAS, 10 MSEK)
2023-2027 Postdoctoral supervisor within "Militarised Indigenous Borderscapes: Reconfiguring geographies of war and borders", funded by the Research Council of Finland (formerly the Academy of Finland).
2022-2025 Main applicant. "Sijddaj máhttsat" means "coming home" in Lule Sámi
Swedish Research Council Vetenskapsrådet, Dnr 2021-03080 6 120 MSEK
2022-2024 Main applicant. Environmental Justice, Land Based Learning and Social Sustainability in Sábme
Swedish Research Council FORMAS Dnr 2021-01723 3 MSEK
2022-2025 Co-applicant. Indigenous perspectives on forest fires, drought and climate change: Sápmi
Swedish Research Council FORMAS Dnr 2021-01002 4 MSEK
Main Applicant: Dr Ignacio Acosta
2020-2021 Main applicant and project leader: "Pandemic in the (sub) Arctic North: A supra-disciplinary and interdisciplinary data collection on experiences, resilience and social mobilization during the Covid19 pandemic with a focus on Norrbotten County FORMAS emergency funding 3 089 MSEK
2019-2022 Main applicant. Living without oil?! Rethinking relations with lands and waters with Indigenous Land Based Expertise for a transition towards a fossil free welfare society, FORMAS Dnr 2019-01975, 7,5 MSEK within the Swedish National Research Programme on Climate
2017-2019 Main applicant and project leader. FORMAS dnr 2017-01923. Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenous Expertise meets Western Technological Design and Innovation 8,933 MSEK.
2017-2019 Main applicant and project leader. FORMAS dnr 2016-01039, future research leaders. Safe and Sustainable Energy Futures: Assumptions and Actions, Visions and Decisions) 2 997 MSEK
2017-2019 Co-applicant and scientific responsibility for Feminist and Indigenous methodologies/theories. Artistic research. Swedish Research Council, Vetenskapsrådet. Att ge mig mitt perspektiv: Rasbiologernas spår i det samiska folkhemmet, main applicant: Katarina Pirak Sikku. 5 MSEK
2016-2018 Science, validation, partial perspectives: Knowledge production beyond the norms” SEK 2,6 MSEK Faculty of Arts, Uppsala University http://www.histfilfak.uu.se/scival/
2012-2015 Main applicant and project leader. FORMAS. Rivers, resistance and resilience: Sustainable futures in Sápmi and in other indigenous peoples’ territories. 6 MSEK.
2010-2012 Main applicant and project leader - Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet): “DAMMED: Security, risk and resilience around the dams of Sub Arctica” (in total 4 participants, UMU, LTU, KTH and UU)
2012-2014 Co-applicant. Swedish Research Council, (Vetenskapsrådet) SEK 3 million (with Dr. Seema Arora Jonsson at Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, SLU, Uppsala) “Gender and Sustainable Development: Policy and Practice in Environmental Management”.
2012-2014 Senior researcher (part-time) and research co-ordinator for CfG, member of research council, to the Mind and Nature research project financed by Faculty of Arts, Uppsala Univ., 2012-2014, SEK 4,5 million.
2008-2010 PostDoc Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet)
PhD project “Swedish Energy Assistance in a Historical Perspective”, financed by Sida-Sarec and also part of the “Science, Technological Change, and Industrial Innovation” 1996-2008 financed by The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation.
Dissertation 2007: Taming Exotic Beauties: Swedish Hydro Power Constructions in Tanzania in the Era of Development Assistance, 1960s - 1990s http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4426
Media
Dálkke Indigenous Climate Changes Studies youtube
Dálkke Indigenous Climate Changes Studies youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEqrpKMADXlMVaVnrahC2Cg
Publications
Recent publications
- Documenting an Ongoing Pandemic (2024)
- Att undervisa (lärar)studenter i samisk historia, kultur och tradition vid svenska universitet – erfarenheter och reflektioner (2023)
- Indigenous Research Methodologies in Sámi and Global Contexts edited by Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Pigga Keskitalo, and Torjer Olsen, Brill, 2021 (2023)
- No magic wands/ Ungreen windpower (2023)
- Sámi Land Free University (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Indigenous Research Methodologies in Sámi and Global Contexts edited by Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Pigga Keskitalo, and Torjer Olsen, Brill, 2021 (2023)
- Samverkan och solidaritet i nya former (2021)
- Morfars farmors syster Brita Stina Larsdotter Rim (2021)
- Pandemitekniker och pandemivetenskaper (2021)
- Sveriges genusforskarförbund uppmärksammar urfolksperspektiv och urfolksrättigheter (2020)
- Tyst om markfrågan i Svenska kyrkans ”Vitbok” (2016)
- Public participation, Human Security and Public Safety around Dams in Sweden (2016)
- Designing Dam Safeties (2016)
- Human Bodies and the Forces of Nature (2016)
- ‘Sweden Helps’ (2010)
- "Grön el" och kolonisationen av Sápmi (2009)
- Turning water into power - Debates over the development of Tanzania's Rufiji River Basin, 1945-1985 (2008)
- "Sverige hjälper" (2008)
- Sapmi’s vita kol (2004)
Books
- Uppsala mitt i Sápmi – Sábme – Saepmie II (2017)
- Åvdåsvásstádus: Ansvar, avkolonialisering, helande (2015)
- Re: Mindings (2014)
- Uppsala mitt i Sápmi (2012)
- Travelling thoughtfulness (2010)
- Taming exotic beauties (2007)
- Kidatu vattenkraftverk i Tanzania (2003)
Chapters
- Documenting an Ongoing Pandemic (2024)
- Settler Colonialism in Ungreen, Climate-Unfriendly Disguise and As a Tool for Genocide (2022)
- The Ski or the Wheel? (2021)
- Subttsasa Biehtsevuomátjistema (2021)
- Gut la dån? Vem är du? Kukas sie olet? (2020)
- Gut la dån? Vem är du? Kukas sie olet? Who are you? (2020)
- Var dag en kamp för skogssamisk framtid (2017)
- Hög tid att rädda den samiska kulturhistorien från att skövlas och sprängas bort (2017)
- Samisk släktforskning som motstånd och verktyg (2017)
- Uppsala universitet och ärkebiskopens rikedomar (2017)
- ”Jag vill högt och ljudligt tala om tystnaden” (2017)
- Samiskt och nordiskt (2017)
- Kolonisationen, rasismen och intergenerationella trauman (2017)
- Places and peoples (2017)
- Embodied Vulnerability in Large-Scale Technical Systems (2016)
- TechnoVisions of a Sámi cyborg (2016)
- Julevädno ja mån (2015)
- Válkav (2015)
- Subjectivity of the Ainu People Described in the Book ‘Nibutani’, Edited by Kaizawa Tadashi (2014)
- Winds of Change (2014)
- Visions for a Future at the Source (2014)
- On Teachers’ Education in Sweden, School Curriculums, and the Sámi People (2014)
- Indigenous Bioscientists Constitute Knowledge across Cultures of Expertise and Tradition (2014)
- Investigating Bombshells Contaminations of the Waters of the Lule River Catchment Area (2014)
- Preface (2014)
- When the land became a testing range (2014)
- Lands of Fire and Ice (2014)
- Speaking Together from the Lands of Fire and the Lands of Ice (2014)
- Samer i syd i gången tid - till Uppland och Oslotrakten i söder (2012)
- Vattenregleringar på liv och död i Lule älv (2012)
- Being May-Britt Öhman (2010)
- On visible places and invisible peoples in Sweden and in Tanzania (2005)
- Kidatu vattenkraftverk i Tanzania (2004)
- The Lule River (2004)
- Suède (1998)
Conferences
- No magic wands/ Ungreen windpower (2023)
- Sámi Land Free University (2023)
- Nationella minoriteter och urfolket samerna inom historieämnet i allmänhet och lärarutbildningen i synnerhet (2023)
- Contemporary Colonialism and Marginalized Indigenous Practice in Sweden’s Northern Forests (2022)
- Buolvas buolvvaj - From generation to generation (2021)
- Land Based Knowledge and Indigenous Feminist Technoscience promoting actual innovative technical designs (2019)
- Flooding Luleå city (2019)
- Sámi Perspectives on Climate Change, Green Colonialism, Forest Firest, Industrial Exploitations and Food Sovereignty (2019)
- Berättelser, kunskap, jojkar och röster från Giron, Kieruna, Kiruna (2019)
- Supradisciplinary conversations on security, safety and resilience in the river valleys of Sábme – land of the Sámi (2015)
- Building a Sami Academy of Sciences (2015)
- Writing and teaching to re-claim and heal my own Sámi body and our Sámi history, culture, traditions and rights to live (2014)
- Kautokeino - Alta - Gállok (2014)
- Bortom gruvTäringen: (2014)
- Public participation, Human Security and Public Safety around Dams in Sweden (2014)
- Some perspectives from Sápmi as a Sámi and a scholar (2013)
- Desires, obedient and disobedient bodies in conflict (2013)
- Dammsäkerhet (2013)
- Designing dam safeties (2013)
- Parki och Randi och gruvor i vattenkraftreglerad älv: (2013)
- Challenging Genocide (2013)
- Decolonizing Sápmi – supradisciplinarily (2013)
- Techno fantasies of a Sámi cyborg (2012)
- Re-voicing Sámi resistance against hydropower exploitation in early 20th century: (2012)
- Human Bodies and the Forces of Nature (2012)
- Supradisciplinary conversations on Security, Risk and Resilience around Dams in Sub Arctica (2010)
Reports
- Tánnak – här och nu (2020)
- Yttrande (2017)
- När det brister (2012)
- Verksamheten vid Centrum för Genusvetenskap (2009)
Other
- Att undervisa (lärar)studenter i samisk historia, kultur och tradition vid svenska universitet – erfarenheter och reflektioner (2023)
- UPPSAM vårsymposium 2023 (2023)
- Gulldal sielov, mihá ja gievrra (2022)
- Minnesdag 100 år i skuggan av rasbiologiska institutet (2022)
- Ungreen windpower (2021)
- Ogrön vindkraft (2021)
- Ungreen wind energy (2021)
- When the climate apocalypse comes I’ll make it (2020)
- May-Britt Öhman (2020)
- Winds of destruction (2019)
- The Talvivaara Mine (2019)
- Erinran angående Jokkmokk Iron Mines AB:s Miljökonsekvensbeskrivning Umeå 2013-04-24 revidering 2014-04-15 (2016)
- DRAFT for Sámi research policy on Swedish side of Sábme (2016)
- Samisk forskningspolicy riktlinjer och rekommendationer – underlag för diskussion (2016)
- Rasbiologiskt språkbruk i statens rättsprocess mot sameby (2015)
- Samer talar för sig själva -behovet av strategiska satsningar för inkludering av och satsning på samiska röster, erfarenheter och vetenskaplig kompetens (2015)
- Káfastallat (2015)
- Remissvar avseende Vattenverksamhetsutredningens slutbetänkande”I vått och torrt – förslag till ändrade vattenrättsliga regler” SOU 2014:35, Remiss 2014-06-16, M2014/1451/Nm (2014)
- Gállok: (2014)
- Om gruvan kommer: (2014)
- RE-Claimings, Empowerings, Inspirings (2013)
- Dist-urbances (2011)