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May-Britt Öhman, docent i miljöhistoria, verksam vid Centrum för mångvetenskaplig forskning om rasism, CEMFOR, Uppsala universitet, samt gästforskare vid LTU, enheten för historia.
Jag är filosofie doktor, Fil Dr, i Teknikhistoria, docent i miljöhistoria. I mitt arbete kopplas teknik, naturvetenskap, historia, sociala relationer, genus, känslor, kropp och allt som påverkar - kontexterna - ihop.
Jag disputerade 2007 vid KTH, Stockholm på en avhandling där jag analyserar svenskt bistånd till vattenkraft i Tanzania ur ett postkolonialt feministiskt teknovetenskapligt perspektiv. Se länk http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4426
Jag forskar, föreläser och skriver om dammsäkerhet(er), risker, vattenkraft, energiproduktion och konsumtion, miljö, vattensäkerhet, mänsklig säkerhet, teknovetenskap i stort, postkolonial teori och metod, feministisk teknovetenskap, urfolksmetodologier, genus, avkolonisering, Sábme- Sápmi - Saepmie.
English short bio:
May-Britt Öhman, PhD History of Technology, Associate professor in Environmental history, Researcher.
Please see my website at Uppsala University, for research projects and publications. This page is very seldom updated.
Since 2018 I am at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism, CEMFOR, at Uppsala University, financed by research projects, Dálkke: Indigenous Climate Change Studies, FORMAS Dnr 2017-01923, within the Swedish National research programme on climate, and projects FORMAS future research leaders project Safe and sustainable energy futures in Sápmi FORMAS Dnr 2016-01039.
I was researcher at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala university, December 2008 through December 2018 financed solely through successful research projects.
In 2013 I set up a Feminist “Technoscience research group”, with specific focus on Indigenous/Sámi perspectives and methodologies. The research group does supradisciplinary collaborations academia-ex-academia, involving scholars, activists, artists, film makers, reindeer herders. Collaboration includes scholars/Indigenous scholars/ activists/artists from Sápmi, Scandinavia, Greenland, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, India, Chile, Morocco, Peru, Chile, the US and Canada.
My specific focus is on large scale technical systems, hydropower, energy production/consumption, water resources, environmental issues, decolonization and healing from traumas of colonization – mainly focusing on Sábme/Sápmi, land of the Sámi and also comparative studies and exchanges; human security; dam safety; water security. I have also research experience from West, East and North Africa, as well as India and the US. My PhD thesis was on hydropower in Tanzania Taming Exotic Beauties: Swedish Hydro Power Constructions in Tanzania in the Era of Development Assistance, 1960s - 1990s
In 2008, I embarked upon the research on my own region, my own river – the Lule River – which ultimately led me back to my Sámi heritage, which I had known very little about, and a history I had tried to avoid for a long time. (Please see my article describing this journey at the start “Being May-Britt Öhman : or, reflections on my own colonized mind regarding hydropower constructions in Sápmi” http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:685126 ) I have been active within the Sámi society since 2009, when I was invited to a first Sámi meeting by my relative and mentor Agneta Silversparf.
I was 2011-2019 member of board of the Sámi cultural association Silbonah Samesijdda. I was member of board of the National Association of Swedish Saami, SSR, 2011-2015. I was a candidate for the Sámi Parliament elections for Vuovdega (Forest Sámis) in 2009 and for Mijá Gäjnno in 2013. In the elections of 2013 I became a deputy member of the Sámi Parliament, and remained until the next election in 2017.
May-Britt Öhman, docent i miljöhistoria, verksam vid Centrum för mångvetenskaplig forskning om rasism, CEMFOR, Uppsala universitet, samt gästforskare vid LTU, enheten för historia.
Jag är filosofie doktor, Fil Dr, i Teknikhistoria, docent i miljöhistoria. I mitt arbete kopplas teknik, naturvetenskap, historia, sociala relationer, genus, känslor, kropp och allt som påverkar - kontexterna - ihop.
Jag disputerade 2007 vid KTH, Stockholm på en avhandling där jag analyserar svenskt bistånd till vattenkraft i Tanzania ur ett postkolonialt feministiskt teknovetenskapligt perspektiv. Se länk http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4426
Jag forskar, föreläser och skriver om dammsäkerhet(er), risker, vattenkraft, energiproduktion och konsumtion, miljö, vattensäkerhet, mänsklig säkerhet, teknovetenskap i stort, postkolonial teori och metod, feministisk teknovetenskap, urfolksmetodologier, genus, avkolonisering, Sábme- Sápmi - Saepmie.
English short bio:
May-Britt Öhman, PhD History of Technology, Associate professor in Environmental history, Researcher.
Please see my website at Uppsala University, for research projects and publications. This page is very seldom updated.
Since 2018 I am at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism, CEMFOR, at Uppsala University, financed by research projects, Dálkke: Indigenous Climate Change Studies, FORMAS Dnr 2017-01923, within the Swedish National research programme on climate, and projects FORMAS future research leaders project Safe and sustainable energy futures in Sápmi FORMAS Dnr 2016-01039.
I was researcher at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala university, December 2008 through December 2018 financed solely through successful research projects.
In 2013 I set up a Feminist “Technoscience research group”, with specific focus on Indigenous/Sámi perspectives and methodologies. The research group does supradisciplinary collaborations academia-ex-academia, involving scholars, activists, artists, film makers, reindeer herders. Collaboration includes scholars/Indigenous scholars/ activists/artists from Sápmi, Scandinavia, Greenland, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, India, Chile, Morocco, Peru, Chile, the US and Canada.
My specific focus is on large scale technical systems, hydropower, energy production/consumption, water resources, environmental issues, decolonization and healing from traumas of colonization – mainly focusing on Sábme/Sápmi, land of the Sámi and also comparative studies and exchanges; human security; dam safety; water security. I have also research experience from West, East and North Africa, as well as India and the US. My PhD thesis was on hydropower in Tanzania Taming Exotic Beauties: Swedish Hydro Power Constructions in Tanzania in the Era of Development Assistance, 1960s - 1990s
In 2008, I embarked upon the research on my own region, my own river – the Lule River – which ultimately led me back to my Sámi heritage, which I had known very little about, and a history I had tried to avoid for a long time. (Please see my article describing this journey at the start “Being May-Britt Öhman : or, reflections on my own colonized mind regarding hydropower constructions in Sápmi” http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:685126 ) I have been active within the Sámi society since 2009, when I was invited to a first Sámi meeting by my relative and mentor Agneta Silversparf.
I was 2011-2019 member of board of the Sámi cultural association Silbonah Samesijdda. I was member of board of the National Association of Swedish Saami, SSR, 2011-2015. I was a candidate for the Sámi Parliament elections for Vuovdega (Forest Sámis) in 2009 and for Mijá Gäjnno in 2013. In the elections of 2013 I became a deputy member of the Sámi Parliament, and remained until the next election in 2017.
