Webinar series 2025-2027
The NOGVIS webinar series spotlights the issue of Gendered violence in Sámi and Inuit communities from different perspectives. The webinars are broadcasted digitally on zoom and are open to policymakers, professionals working with violence prevention, researchers and anyone interested in Indigenous health and equality.
Next webinar: Friday April 17th, 12.00-13.00 (UTC+1, Swedish time).
“Holding Ourselves Responsible: Dismantling the Binary between Violence Against Women and Self-Determination in Indigenous Communities”
Presenter: Rauna Kuokkanen, Research Professor, Arctic Indigenous Politics, University of Lapland.
Violence against Indigenous women is a global concern yet in many parts of the world it remains a little studied question. There is a lack of statistics, detailed reports, and disaggregated data on the extent of violence against Indigenous women especially in Africa, Asia, the South Pacific, Latin America and most of the Arctic. A long-standing major problem in all studies is that violence against Indigenous women has been categorically separated from questions of self-determination and treated as a social or criminal issue. Yet globally, for Indigenous women, self-determination (both individual and collective) and gendered violence are central and pressing issues and, as many argue, indivisible.
In this webinar, Kuokkanen presents her work with connecting violence against Indigenous women with the question of self-determination which shows that collective self-determination is not possible without upholding and ensuring individual self-determination, including bodily autonomy, of all community members.
