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May-Britt Öhman, docent, 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.
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 am also guest associate professor and guest researcher at Luleå University of Technology, Unit of history.
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, 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.
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 am also guest associate professor and guest researcher at Luleå University of Technology, Unit of history.
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.
