Eva Maria Fjellheim

Critical reflection about ethics in a context where research has been used as a colonial tool to subjugate and dispossess ancestral lands, knowledges, and practices is a crucial decolonial endeavor, also for Indigenous scholars. From Eva Maria Fjellheim’s positionality as a Southern Saami researcher, this decolonial endeavor is guided by a relational accountability that is defined by sïjte, laahkoe and maadtoe––three Southern Saami concepts that are important to understand how we belong and are accountable to humans, other-than-humans, and the Saami homelands. Within this ethical and epistemological framework, Fjellheim explores methodologies that enable solidarity and care––a much-needed stance in settler-colonial bureaucracies and courts.