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“Are Indigenous conceptions of sovereignty as non-interference patriarchal?” With Sheryl Lightfoot, Gina Starblanket & Matthew Wildcat. Review of International Studies (2025): 1-21.

“The Problem of Culturalizing Indigenous Self-Determination: Sámi Cultural Autonomy in Finland.” The Polar Journal (2024): 1-19.

“Reimagining Self-Determination: Relational, Decolonial, and Intersectional Perspectives.” With Costas M. Constantinou, Fiona McConnell, Dilar Dirik, Asebe Regassa and Shona Loong. Political Geography (2024).

“Self-determination, Sovereignty and Policy: How Does a Focus on Indigenous Rights Transform Policymaking?” Handbook of Indigenous Public Policy, Eds. Sarah Maddison and Sheryl Lightfoot. pp. 53-69. Edward Elgar, 2024.

“Muitalusaid mearkkašupmi otná servodagas: Sámi lágaid ozus narratiiva láhkametoda bokte.” Sámi dieđalaš áigečála 1 (2024): 121–144.

“Ovttastallan: mo duostut hástalusaid ja ovddidit buresveadjima sámeservodagas?” Ovttas Asta M. Baltoin. Sámi dieđalaš áigečála 1 (2024): 13–45.

“Borders, Covid-19 and Indigenous Self-Determination.” Indigenous Peoples and Borders, eds. Elsa Stamatopoulou and Sheryl Lightfoot, pp. 184-202. Duke University Press, 2024.

“Indigenous Energy Diplomacy in the Arctic: Probing the Complexity with Cases in Sápmi and the Inuvialuit Region.” International Competition in the High North, eds. Michael E. Lynch and Harold G. Coombs, pp. 203-218. United States Army War College Press, 2023.

“Are Reindeer the New Buffalo?: Climate Change, the Green Shift, and Manifest Destiny in Sápmi.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 22.1 (2023): 11-33.

“From Indigenous private property to full dispossession – the peculiar case of Sápmi.” Comparative Legal History (2023). DOI: 10.1080/2049677X.2023.2207380 

“All I See Is White. The Colonial Problem in Finland.” Finnishness, Whiteness and Coloniality, eds. Josephine Hoegaerts et al. pp. 291-314. Helsinki: University of Helsinki Press, 2022.

“Indigenous Westphalian Sovereignty? Decolonization, Secession and Indigenous Rights in Greenland.” The Inuit World, ed. Pamela Stern. pp. 307-320. Routledge, 2021.

“Ellos Deatnu and Post-State Indigenous Feminist Sovereignty.” Routledge Handbook on Critical Indigenous Studies, eds. Brendan Hokowhitu et al. pp. 310-323. Routledge, 2021.

“Indigenous Self-government in the Arctic: Assessing the Scope and Legitimacy in Nunavut, Greenland and Sápmi.” Routledge Handbook on Arctic Indigenous Peoples, eds. Timo Koivurova et al. pp. 253-266. Routledge, 2021.

“Holding Ourselves Responsible: Dismantling the Binary between Violence Against Women and Self-Determination in Indigenous Communities.” Violence and Indigenous Communities: Confronting the Past, Engaging the Present. Eds. Susan Sleeper-Smith et al. pp. 51-67. Northwestern University Press, 2020.

“Pohjoismainen asuttajakolonialismi ja vuoden 2017 Tenosopimus.” Historiallinen aikakauslehti 118.4 (2020): 534-539.

“The Deatnu Agreement: A Contemporary Wall of Settler Colonialism.” Settler Colonial Studies 10.4 (2020): 508-528. DOI 10.1080/2201473X.2020.1794211.

“Reconciliation as a Threat or Structural Change? The Truth and Reconciliation Process and Settler Colonial Policy Making in Finland.” Human Rights Review 21.3 (2020): 293–312.

“Indigenous Security Theory. Intersectional Analysis from the Bottom Up.” Co-authored with Victoria Sweet. Routledge Handbook of Arctic Security, ed. Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv et al., Routledge, 2020, pp. 80-90.

“Indigenous Governance of Cultural Heritage: Searching for Alternatives to Co-Management.” International Journal of Heritage Studies (2019). Co-authored with Sam Grey. DOI 10.1080/13527258.2019.1703202

“At the Intersection of Arctic Indigenous Governance and Extractive Industries: Survey of Three Case Studies.” The Extractive Industries and Society 6 (2019): 15–21.

“Gendered Environmental Assessments in the Canadian North.” Co-authored with Sheena Kennedy Dalseg, Suzanne Mills and Deborah Simmons. Northern Review 47 (2018): 135-166.

“The Pursuit of Inuit Sovereignty in Greenland.” Northern Public Affairs 5.2 (2017): 45-48.
 
“Indigenous Epistemes.” A Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory. Ed. I. Szeman, S. Blacker, and J. Sully. Wiley-Blackwell (2017). 313-326.
 
“‘To See What State We Are In’: First Years of the Greenland Self-Government Act and the Pursuit of Inuit Sovereignty.” Ethnopolitics 6.2 (2017): 179-95. DOI: 10.1080/17449057.2015.1074393.
 
“Indigenous Women’s Rights and International Law. Challenges of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.” Handbook on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights. Eds. Lennox, Corinne and Damien Short. London & New York: Routledge, 2016. 129-45.
 
“Decolonizing Feminism in the North: A Conversation with Rauna Kuokkanen.” NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research 23.4 (2015): 275-81.
 
“Gendered Violence and Politics in Indigenous Communities: The Cases of Aboriginal Women in Canada and Sámi Women in Scandinavia.” International Feminist Journal of Politics  17:2 (2015): 271-288.
 
“Gean jiena mii gullat Sámedikkis? Sámi iešmearrideami guorahallan.” Gába 1/2014. [Maiddái dárogillii/Også på norsk.]
 
“Violence Against Women, Indigenous Self-Determination and Autonomy in Sami Society.” L’Image du Sápmi 2. Ed. K. Anderson. pp. 436-452. Örebro University Press, 2013.
 
“Self-Determination and Indigenous Women’s Rights at the Intersection of International Human Rights.” Human Rights Quarterly 34.1 (2012): 225-50.
 
“From Indigenous Economies to Market-Based Self-Governance: A Feminist Political Economy Analysis.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 44.2 (2011): 275–97.
 
“Indigenous Economies, Theories of Subsistence and Women: Exploring the Social Economy Model for Indigenous Governance.” American Indian Quarterly 35.2 (2011): 215-240.
 
“Self-Determination and Indigenous Women – “Whose Voice Is It We Hear in the Sámi Parliament?”” International Journal of Minority and Group Rights 18.1 (2011): 39-62.
 
“Achievements of Indigenous Self-Determination. The Case of the Sami Parliaments in Finland and Norway.”  Indigenous Diplomacies. Ed. J. Marshall Beier. New York: Palgrave, 2009. pp. 97-114.
 
“Indigenous Women in Traditional Economies – The Case of Sami Reindeer Herding.” Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society 34.3 (2009): 499-503.
 
“Globalization as Racialized, Sexualized Violence – The Case of Indigenous Women.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 10.2 (June 2008): 216-233.
 
“Mitä on saamelaisten hyvinvointi? Tarkastelua kansainvälisessä alkuperäiskansojen kontekstissa.” SámiSoster -seuran 10-vuotisjuhlaseminaari, Inari 21.4.2008.
 
“Mii lea sámiid buresbirgejupmi? Geahčaduvvon riikkaidgaskasaš álgoálbmotkonteavsttas.” Sámi Soster-searvvi 10-jagi ávvuseminára, Anár 21.4.2008.
 
“Sami Higher Education and Research: Toward Building a Vision for Future.”  Indigenous Peoples: Self-Determination – Knowledge – Indigeneity. Ed. Henry Minde. Amsterdam: Eburon, 2008. 267-86.
 
“What is Hospitality in the Academy? Epistemic Ignorance and the (Im)Possible Gift.” Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 30.1 (2008): 60-82.
 
“From Research as Colonialism to Reclaiming Autonomy: Toward a Research Ethics Framework in Sápmi.” Ethics in Sámi and Indigenous Research. Report from a Seminar in Kárášjohka, Norway, Nov. 23-24, 2006. Kautokeino: Sami Institute, 2008. 48-63.
 
“Sámenissonat, “árbevierru” ja veahkaválddi hámit.” Sámi dieđalaš áigečála 1 (2008): 28-48.
 
“Politics of Form and Alternative Autonomies: Indigenous Women, Subsistence Economies and the Gift Paradigm.” The Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition Working Paper Series. Hamilton, ON: McMaster University, 2007.
 
“Myths and Realities of Sami Women: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis for the Decolonization and Transformation of Sami Society.”  Making Space for Aboriginal Feminism. Ed. Joyce Green. Halifax, N.S.: Fernwood Books, 2007. 72-92.
 
“The Gift Logic of Indigenous Philosophies in the Academy.”  Women and the Gift Economy. A Radically Different Worldview Is Possible. Ed. Genevieve Vaughan. Toronto: Inanna, 2007. 71-83.
 
“Saamelaiset ja kolonialismin vaikutukset nykypäivänä”. Kolonialismin jäljet: keskustat, periferiat ja Suomi. Toim. J. Kuortti, M. Lehtinen & O. Löytty. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 2007. 142-155.
 
“The Responsibility of the Academy: A Call for Doing Homework.” Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, special issue on audit culture and higher education (Summer 2007): 75-90.
 
 “Suttesája – from a Sacred Sami Site and Natural Spring to a Water Bottling Plant? The Effects of Globalization in Northern Europe.” Co-authored with Marja K. Bulmer. Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice. Eds. Sylvia Washington, Paul Rosier and Heather Goodall. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2006. 209-24.
 
“Sami Women, Autonomy and Decolonization in the Age of Globalization.” Keynote Speech at Rethinking Nordic Colonialism. A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts. Act 4: Beyond Subject and State? Indigenous Interests in the Age of Globalization. Arctic Center, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, June 17, 2006. [*On the website, click Act 4, Essays & Papers]
 
“The Logic of the Gift – Reclaiming Indigenous Peoples’ Philosophies.” Re-Ethnicizing the Mind? Cultural Revival in Contemporary Thought. Ed. T. Botz-Bornstein. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2006. 251-71.
 
“Indigenous Peoples on Two Continents: Self-Determination Processes in Sámi and First Nations Societies.” European Review of Native American Studies 20:2 (2006): 25-30.
 
“Láhi and Attáldat: The Philosophy of the Gift and Sami Education.” Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 34, special Issue on Indigenous Humanities. Eds. C. McConaghy & M. Battiste (2005): 20-32.
 
“Border Crossings, Pathfinders and New Visions: The Role of Sami Literature in Contemporary Society.” Nordlit, Special Issue on Northern Minorities 15 (2004): 91-104.
 
“Saamelaisnaiset, feministinen analyysi ja saamelaisyhteiskunnan dekolonisaatio”. Tasa-arvon haasteita globaalin ja lokaalin rajapinnoilla. Toim. K. Kailo, V. Sunnari & H. Vuori. University of Oulu. 2004. 143-160.
 
“The Gift as a Worldview in Indigenous Thought.” Il Dono/The Gift: A Feminist Analysis. Special edition in English of the Athanor Journal. Ed. G.Vaughan (2004): 81-96.
 
“’Survivance’ in Sami and First Nations Boarding School Narratives – Reading Novels by Kerttu Vuolab and Shirley Sterling.” American Indian Quarterly 27.3/4 (2003): 697-727.
 
“Toward a New Relation of Hospitality in the Academy.” American Indian Quarterly 27.1 & 2 (2003): 267-95.
 
 “Healing the Impact of Colonization, Genocide, Missionization, and Racism on Indigenous Populations.”  With Betty Bastien, Jürgen Kremer and Patricia Vickers. The Impact of War Trauma on Civilian Populations. Eds. S. Krippner and T. McIntyre. New York: Greenwood Press, 2003. 25-38.
 
“Knowing the Indigenous ‘Other’ Beyond the ‘Arrogance of Conscience’?” Proceedings of the Canadian Critical Race Conference 2003: Pedagogy and Practice.
 
“Alkuperäiskansojen diskurssi ja dekolonisaatio”. Kojootteja, Sulkapäähineitä, uraanikaivoksia. Pohjois-Amerikan intiaanien kirjallisuuksia ja kulttuureja. Toim. S. Lakomäki & M. Savolainen. University of Oulu, 2002. 240-64.
 
“Let’s Vote Who Is Most Authentic! Politics of Identity in Contemporary Sami Literature.”  (Ad)Dressing Our Words. Aboriginal Perspectives on Aboriginal Literatures. Ed. Armand Garnet Ruffo. Penticton: Theytus, 2001. 79-100.
 
“Towards an ‘Indigenous Paradigm’ from a Sami Perspective.” The Canadian Journal of Native Studies 20.2 (2000): 411-36.
 
“Etnostressistä sillanrakennukseen. Saamelaisen nykykirjallisuuden minäkuvat.”  Pohjoiset identiteetit ja mentaliteetit, osa I: Outamaalta tunturiin. Toim. Marja Tuominen, et al. Rovaniemi: University of Lapland, 1999. 95-112.
 
“From the Jungle Back to the Duottar.”  Awakened Voice. Sami Traditional Knowledge. Ed. Elina Helander. Guovdageaidnu: Sami Institute, 1996. 54-63.
 
Paltto, Kirsti (trans. & ed. Rauna Kuokkanen). “Publishing Sámi Literature—from Christian Translations to Sámi Publishing Houses.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 22.2 (2010): 42-58.