May-Britt Öhman
Researcher at Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism
- 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
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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
- climate change
- disaster risk reduction
- disaster vulnerability
- science studies
- technology studies
- history of ideas and science
- human security
- environmental issues
- sociotechnical systems
- philosophy of science
- gender
- technoscience
- resilience
- sustainable development
- racial biology
- feminist technoscience
- healing from colonial traumas
- land based education
- land based knowledge
- settler colonial studies
- indigenous studies
- historical traumas
- ego histoire
- dam safety
- indigenous peoples knowledges
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Biography
Associate professor (Docent in Swedish) in Environmental History, 2020, Åbo Akademi University, Luleå Univ of Technology, 2022.
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---
Member of ICARP 4 - International Conference on Arctic Research Planning, Research Priority Team 5: Co-Production and Indigenous-led methodologies
Editorial board, NAIS Journal 2013-2016, 2020 - 2024
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. Give me my perspective: Traces of the race biologists into the Sámi people´s home , 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

Publications
Recent publications
Both right nearby and far away: Rural Sámi entrepreneurs' engagement with spatial contexts
Part of International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, p. 1-22, 2025
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Part of Antirasismer och antirasister, p. 390-415, Bokförlaget Atlas, 2024
- DOI for Morfars farmors syster, mamma och jag: Återtagande och synliggörande av lulesamisk och skogssamisk historia och identitet som antikolonial och antirasistisk praktik
- Download full text (pdf) of Morfars farmors syster, mamma och jag: Återtagande och synliggörande av lulesamisk och skogssamisk historia och identitet som antikolonial och antirasistisk praktik
Documenting an Ongoing Pandemic: A Sámi Reindeer Herders' Diary during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Part of Minorities in Global History, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024
Decolonial Blackness and Indigeneity in Sweden: An Email Conversation
Part of Decolonial Sweden, Routledge, 2024
Part of Revista de Estudios Globales y Arte Contemporáneo, p. 34-63, 2024
- DOI for Indigenous Perspectives on Forest Fires, Drought, and Climate Change in Sábme: A Collaborative Arts-led Research Project
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All publications
Articles in journal
Both right nearby and far away: Rural Sámi entrepreneurs' engagement with spatial contexts
Part of International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, p. 1-22, 2025
- DOI for Both right nearby and far away: Rural Sámi entrepreneurs' engagement with spatial contexts
- Download full text (pdf) of Both right nearby and far away: Rural Sámi entrepreneurs' engagement with spatial contexts
Part of Revista de Estudios Globales y Arte Contemporáneo, p. 34-63, 2024
- DOI for Indigenous Perspectives on Forest Fires, Drought, and Climate Change in Sábme: A Collaborative Arts-led Research Project
- Download full text (pdf) of Indigenous Perspectives on Forest Fires, Drought, and Climate Change in Sábme: A Collaborative Arts-led Research Project
Part of Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning, p. 197-214, 2021
- DOI for Morfars farmors syster Brita Stina Larsdotter Rim: Återtagande av lulesamisk och skogssamisk historia och identitet i ett bosättarkolonialt Sverige
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Part of Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, p. 196-201, 2021
Samverkan och solidaritet i nya former
Part of Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, 2021
Sveriges genusforskarförbund uppmärksammar urfolksperspektiv och urfolksrättigheter
Part of Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, p. 177-181, 2020
Part of International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2016
Part of International Journal of Technoscience and Development, p. 1-14, 2016
Part of Safety Science Monitor, 2016
‘Sweden Helps’: Efforts to Formulate the White Man’s Burden for the Wealthy and Modern Swede
Part of Kult, p. 122-142, 2010
"Grön el" och kolonisationen av Sápmi
Part of Genus i norrsken, p. 3-8, 2009
Turning water into power - Debates over the development of Tanzania's Rufiji River Basin, 1945-1985
Part of Technology and culture, p. 624-651, 2008
Part of Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, 2008
Part of Kvinnoforskningsnytt, p. 14-20, 2004
Books
Kidatu vattenkraftverk i Tanzania: vatten och elektricitet från kolonialtid till biståndsepok
Teknikhistoria, KTH, 2003
Chapters in book
Part of Antirasismer och antirasister, p. 390-415, Bokförlaget Atlas, 2024
- DOI for Morfars farmors syster, mamma och jag: Återtagande och synliggörande av lulesamisk och skogssamisk historia och identitet som antikolonial och antirasistisk praktik
- Download full text (pdf) of Morfars farmors syster, mamma och jag: Återtagande och synliggörande av lulesamisk och skogssamisk historia och identitet som antikolonial och antirasistisk praktik
Documenting an Ongoing Pandemic: A Sámi Reindeer Herders' Diary during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Part of Minorities in Global History, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024
Decolonial Blackness and Indigeneity in Sweden: An Email Conversation
Part of Decolonial Sweden, Routledge, 2024
Settler Colonialism in Ungreen, Climate-Unfriendly Disguise and As a Tool for Genocide
Part of Climate, p. 88-103, K. Verlag, 2022
Subttsasa Biehtsevuomátjistema: Recalling the memories and stories from our little pine forest
Part of The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History, Routledge, 2021
Part of Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies, p. 658-681, Routledge, 2021
Gut la dån? Vem är du? Kukas sie olet? Who are you?
Part of Kiruna Forever, Statens centrum för arkitektur och design, ArkDes Förlag, 2020
Gut la dån? Vem är du? Kukas sie olet?
Part of Kiruna Forever, Statens centrum för arkitektur och design, ArkDes Förlag, 2020
Places and peoples: Sámi feminist technoscience and supradisciplinary research methods
Part of Sources and Methods inIndigenous Studies, p. 152-159, Routledge, 2017
Part of Uppsala mitt i Sápmi – Sábme – Saepmie II, p. 99-113, Uppsam - föreningen för samiskrelaterad forskning i Uppsala, 2017
”Jag vill högt och ljudligt tala om tystnaden”: JORINDAS RESA, stormarna och vägarna vidare
Part of Uppsala mitt i Sápmi – Sábme – Saepmie II, p. 89-98, Uppsam - föreningen för samiskrelaterad forskning i Uppsala, 2017
Part of Uppsala mitt i Sápmi – Sábme – Saepmie II, p. 63-68, Uppsam - föreningen för samiskrelaterad forskning i Uppsala, 2017
Part of Uppsala mitt i Sápmi – Sábme – Saepmie II, p. 37-50, Uppsam/VulkanMedia, 2017
Part of Uppsala mitt i Sápmi – Sábme – Saepmie II, p. 16-24, Uppsam - föreningen för samiskrelaterad forskning i Uppsala, 2017
Uppsala universitet och ärkebiskopens rikedomar: Laxfisket vid Luossamuorkke, Edeforsen
Part of Uppsala mitt i Sápmi – Sábme – Saepmie, p. 120-130, Vulkanmedia, 2017
Part of Uppsala mitt i Sápmi – Sábme – Saepmie II., p. 51-62, Uppsam - föreningen för samiskrelaterad forskning i Uppsala, 2017
Part of Illdisciplined Gender, p. 63-98, Springer, 2016
Part of Bodies, Boundaries and Vulnerabilities, p. 47-79, Springer, 2016
Part of Med varm hand, p. 105-137, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, 2015
Válkav: Färdvägar för att vända blicken och skapa alternativ
Part of Vardagens antirasism , p. 61-72, Antirasistiska akademin, 2015
Visions for a Future at the Source: The Battle against the Rönnbäck Nickel Mining Project
Part of Re: Mindings, p. 103-119, The Hugo Valentin Centre, 2014
Part of RE: Mindings , p. 9-16, Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University, 2014
When the land became a testing range: Nausta, Udtja and NEAT
Part of Re: Mindings, p. 245-254, The Hugo Valentin Centre, 2014
Part of Re: Mindings, p. 193-199, Uppsala University, 2014
Winds of Change: The Role and Potential of Sámi Parliamentarians
Part of Re: Mindings, p. 79-87, Uppsala University, 2014
On Teachers’ Education in Sweden, School Curriculums, and the Sámi People
Part of Re: Mindings, p. 153-171, The Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University, 2014
Part of Re:Mindings, p. 173-191, The Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University, 2014
Part of Re: Mindings, p. 17-25, The Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University, 2014
Part of RE: Mindings:, p. 229-244, The Hugo Valentin Centre, 2014
Part of Ngapartji Ngapartji / In turn, in turn, p. 241-257, ANU Press, 2014
Part of Uppsala mitt i Sápmi, p. 28-34, Naptek, Centrum för biologisk mångfald, 2012
Samer i syd i gången tid - till Uppland och Oslotrakten i söder: Ny forskning från Norge och Sverige
Part of Uppsala mitt i Sápmi, p. 8-12, Centrum för biologisk mångfald, CBM, 2012
Part of Travelling thoughtfulness, p. 269-292, Umeå University Department of Informatics, 2010
On visible places and invisible peoples in Sweden and in Tanzania
Part of African water histories, p. 185-224, Vaal Triangle Faculty, North-West University, 2005
Kidatu vattenkraftverk i Tanzania: vatten och elektricitet från kolonialtid till biståndsepok
Part of Artefakter, p. 61-116, Gidlunds förlag, 2004
The Lule River: Hydro power exploitation in the Northern parts of Sweden
Part of Women and Natural Resource Management in the Rural North, p. 129-148, Forlaget Nora Kvinneuniversitetet Nord, 2004
Part of Les Partis Politiques En Europe de L'Ouest, p. 427-445, Economica, 1998
Collections (editor)
Uppsam - föreningen för samiskrelaterad forskning i Uppsala, 2017
Re: Mindings: Co-Constituting Indigenous, Academic, Artistic Knowledges
Uppsala University, The Hugo Valentin Centre, 2014
Naptek, Centrum för biologisk mångfald, 2012
Travelling thoughtfulness: feminist technoscience stories
Department of Informatics, Umeå University, 2010
Conference papers
Part of Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting, 2024, Båddådjo, 2024
2024
Experiences from Sirges Sámi Village - Sweden's largest Sámi village
Part of Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting, 2024, Båddådjo, 2024
Part of NAISA Båddådjo 2024, 2024
Repatriation of sacred objects, sieidis – where is the sieidi’s home?
Part of Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting, 2024, Båddådjo, 2024
Part of Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting, 2024, Båddådjo, 2024
Part of Reclaiming Forest Sámi - Land Rights, Identity and Culture in Sábme, 2024
Part of Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting, 2024, Båddådjo, 2024
Part of NAISA 2024 Båddådjo, 2024
2023
Part of Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting, Tkaronto, 2023, 2023
Part of New Performance Turku Biennale 5.-10.9.2023, 2023
2023
2023
2022
2021
2019
Part of Teknik- och vetenskapshistoriska dagar 2019, 2019
Flooding Luleå city: Perspectives on hydropower, mining, dam safety and flood risk governance
2019
Part of NORA conference 2019, May 22-24, 2019
Building a Sami Academy of Sciences: Science, Research, and Education for Decolonization
Part of Indigenous Knowledge Sovereignties and Scientific Research, 2015
Part of Community-based Science in the Arctic, 2015
2014
2014
2014
2014
Gruvor i Lule älv?: Visioner och visualiseringar för hållbara framtider i Lule älvda
2013
Part of International Commission of Large Dams, ICOLD, Seattle, 2013, 2013
2013
Decolonizing Sápmi – supradisciplinarily
2013
2013
Dammsäkerhet: Hur länge lever en damm och vad får den att brista?
2013
Some perspectives from Sápmi as a Sámi and a scholar: Opening Plenary Panel Session at COCE 2013
2013
2013
Re-voicing Sámi resistance against hydropower exploitation in early 20th century: Erik Olofsson Rim
2012
Human Bodies and the Forces of Nature: Regulated Rivers, Safety and Embodied Knowledge
Part of International Commission of Large Dams, Kyoto, 2012, 2012
2012
Supradisciplinary conversations on Security, Risk and Resilience around Dams in Sub Arctica
Part of International Commission for Large Dams International Symposium, 2010
Conference proceedings (editor)
2015
Monograph doctoral thesis
Reports
Other
Minnesdagen 2024 - Försvenskningspolitik - När samerna skulle bli "riktiga" svenskar
2024
Tal vid Minnesdag 2023 – svensk samepolitik får inte glömmas eller gömmas
2023
Minnesdag 2023 – svensk samepolitik får inte glömmas eller gömmas
2023
Part of NAIS Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, p. 157-158, 2023
2023
2023
2022
Minnesdag 100 år i skuggan av rasbiologiska institutet
2022
Minnesdag - svensk samepolitik får inte glömmas
2022
Dialogseminarium HUNDRA ÅR I RASBIOLOGISKA INSTITUTETS SKUGGA 1: Seminarium 1 av 4
2021
Dialogseminarier 1-4 HUNDRA ÅR I RASBIOLOGISKA INSTITUTETS SKUGGA
2021
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2021
2021
2021
When the climate apocalypse comes I’ll make it: 16 yr old Hampus' survival month in the forest
2020
May-Britt Öhman: Sveriges koloniala teknik och återvinnande av samisk identitet
2020
Den koloniala och ohållbara vindkraften
2019
Winds of destruction: Indigenous perspectives on "green" energy production in Sámi territories
2019
The Talvivaara Mine: Water consequences
2019
2019
2016
DRAFT for Sámi research policy on Swedish side of Sábme: for discussion within the Sámi community
2016
Tyst om markfrågan i Svenska kyrkans ”Vitbok”
Part of Feministiskt perspektiv, 2016
2016
Workshop om gruv- och mineralpolitik 12-14 mars: SweMineTechNet - gruvrealistiska forskarnätverket
2015
2015
2015
Rasbiologiskt språkbruk i statens rättsprocess mot sameby: DN Debatt 2015-06-11
2015
Gállok - om gruvan kommer: En fråga om framtiden i Lule älvdal
2014
2014
Om gruvan kommer: Rönnbäck – Gállok – Ojnare
2014
Gállok: Om gruvan kommer. En fråga om framtiden i Lule älvdal
2014
2013
2011