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May-Britt Öhman. Fil.Dr, 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. 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.
Jag är med i Gruvrealistiska forskarnätverket och medlem i ArA Antirasistiska akademin. 2009 startades nätverket för samiskrelaterad forskning i Uppsala, som 2011 blev en förening UPPSAM, föreningen/nätverket för samiskrelaterad forskning i Uppsala. Jag var medlem av redaktionsrådet för NAIS, Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal, 2012-2015. Jag var ersättare i Sametinget (Mija Gäjnno) 2013-2017. 2011-2015 var jag styrelseledamot av SSR, Svenska Samernas Riksförbund. Jag är sedan 2011 styrelseledamot i den samiska kulturföreningen Silbonah Samesijdda.
Även medlem i NAISA, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Sveriges genusforskarförbund (styrelseledamot sedan 2016), Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).
Svensk text uppdaterad 2019-04-24
English short bio:
May-Britt Öhman, PhD History of Technology, Researcher.
Since 2018 Öhman is 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.
She is also guest researcher at Luleå University of Technology, Unit of history.
Öhman was affiliated to the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala university, December 2008 through December 2018 financed solely through successful research projects.
In 2013 Öhman 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.
Her 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. She also has research experience from West, East and North Africa, as well as India and the US. Her PhD thesis was on hydropower in Tanzania Taming Exotic Beauties: Swedish Hydro Power Constructions in Tanzania in the Era of Development Assistance, 1960s - 1990s
English long bio:
(in need of update)
I am Lule/Forest Sámi of the Jokkmokk – Lule River/Julevädno region, the Swedish side of Sábme, land of Sámi. I grew up in Luleå, by the mouth of the Lule River. This is my cultural home waterscapes and landscapes.
I also have heritage from the Torne River Valley and the language Meänkieli, from my maternal grandmother, as well as heritage from is Roslagen, north east of Stockholm, where my paternal grandmother came from.
I hold a PhD in History of Science and Technology, from the Division of History of Science and Technology, KTH. (Thesis available here: http://libris.kb.se/bib/10457359 ) and due to long time work in this field I refer to myself as an expert of dam safety- from sociotechnical perspectives. There is currently no other researcher - as far as I know - that has a similar broad take on water resources, dams and design. I collaborate with several specialists in their own fields, under the technoscience research umbrella.
In 2008 I received 24 months PostDoctoral funding from Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council) for studying hydropower exploitations on the Lule River "Situated perspectives on hydropower exploitation in Sápmi: Swedish technological expansion in the 20th century
and its impacts on indigenous peoples" . Since then I am a researcher at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala university. My second research project of which I was the initiator and leader is DAMMED: Security, Risk and Resilience around Dams in Sub Arctica (Vetenskapsrådet, 2010-2012, 4, 339 MSEK). Currently I am the leader of the research project “Rivers, Resistance, Resilience: Sustainable futures in Sápmi and in other Indigenous Peoples’ territories” (FORMAS, 2012-2015, 6 MSEK).
In 2013 I set up a Feminist Technoscience research group, the “Technoscience research group” with specific focus on Indigenous/Sámi perspectives and methodologies. The research group works with supradisciplinary collaborations academia-exacademia, involving scholars, activists, artists, film makers, reindeer herders. Collaboration includes scholars/indigenous scholars/activists/artists from Sábme, Scandinavia, Greenland, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, India, Chile, Morocco, Peru, the US and Canada.
I have organised several "supradisciplinary" feminist technoscience symposia, workshops and seminars in Uppsala, starting from 2010.
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 but also comparative studies and international exchanges.
My involvement in the Sámi society and Sámi /Indigenous studies:
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 am since 2013 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) and for Mijá Gäjnno in 2013. In the elections of 2013 I became a deputy member of the Sámi Parliament. I am not much involved in Sámi politics, but I consider my participation as a way to both learn more about the issues of importance to the Sámi society as well as to contribute with my own expertise to the Sámi society at large. I am available to provide support to any Sámi parliament party who so wishes on the research and teaching of my expertise. The same goes of course for Swedish politics, when asked questions on my topics I do my best to contribute.
Since 2013 I am member of the editorial board of NAIS, Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal.
I was co-founder of UPPSAM, the association for Sámi related research in Uppsala, established in 2011 as an association, and I have been member of the board since then. Since April 2014 I am president of the UPPSAM board.
May-Britt Öhman. Fil.Dr, 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. 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.
Jag är med i Gruvrealistiska forskarnätverket och medlem i ArA Antirasistiska akademin. 2009 startades nätverket för samiskrelaterad forskning i Uppsala, som 2011 blev en förening UPPSAM, föreningen/nätverket för samiskrelaterad forskning i Uppsala. Jag var medlem av redaktionsrådet för NAIS, Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal, 2012-2015. Jag var ersättare i Sametinget (Mija Gäjnno) 2013-2017. 2011-2015 var jag styrelseledamot av SSR, Svenska Samernas Riksförbund. Jag är sedan 2011 styrelseledamot i den samiska kulturföreningen Silbonah Samesijdda.
Även medlem i NAISA, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Sveriges genusforskarförbund (styrelseledamot sedan 2016), Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).
Svensk text uppdaterad 2019-04-24
English short bio:
May-Britt Öhman, PhD History of Technology, Researcher.
Since 2018 Öhman is 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.
She is also guest researcher at Luleå University of Technology, Unit of history.
Öhman was affiliated to the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala university, December 2008 through December 2018 financed solely through successful research projects.
In 2013 Öhman 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.
Her 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. She also has research experience from West, East and North Africa, as well as India and the US. Her PhD thesis was on hydropower in Tanzania Taming Exotic Beauties: Swedish Hydro Power Constructions in Tanzania in the Era of Development Assistance, 1960s - 1990s
English long bio:
(in need of update)
I am Lule/Forest Sámi of the Jokkmokk – Lule River/Julevädno region, the Swedish side of Sábme, land of Sámi. I grew up in Luleå, by the mouth of the Lule River. This is my cultural home waterscapes and landscapes.
I also have heritage from the Torne River Valley and the language Meänkieli, from my maternal grandmother, as well as heritage from is Roslagen, north east of Stockholm, where my paternal grandmother came from.
I hold a PhD in History of Science and Technology, from the Division of History of Science and Technology, KTH. (Thesis available here: http://libris.kb.se/bib/10457359 ) and due to long time work in this field I refer to myself as an expert of dam safety- from sociotechnical perspectives. There is currently no other researcher - as far as I know - that has a similar broad take on water resources, dams and design. I collaborate with several specialists in their own fields, under the technoscience research umbrella.
In 2008 I received 24 months PostDoctoral funding from Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council) for studying hydropower exploitations on the Lule River "Situated perspectives on hydropower exploitation in Sápmi: Swedish technological expansion in the 20th century
and its impacts on indigenous peoples" . Since then I am a researcher at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala university. My second research project of which I was the initiator and leader is DAMMED: Security, Risk and Resilience around Dams in Sub Arctica (Vetenskapsrådet, 2010-2012, 4, 339 MSEK). Currently I am the leader of the research project “Rivers, Resistance, Resilience: Sustainable futures in Sápmi and in other Indigenous Peoples’ territories” (FORMAS, 2012-2015, 6 MSEK).
In 2013 I set up a Feminist Technoscience research group, the “Technoscience research group” with specific focus on Indigenous/Sámi perspectives and methodologies. The research group works with supradisciplinary collaborations academia-exacademia, involving scholars, activists, artists, film makers, reindeer herders. Collaboration includes scholars/indigenous scholars/activists/artists from Sábme, Scandinavia, Greenland, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, India, Chile, Morocco, Peru, the US and Canada.
I have organised several "supradisciplinary" feminist technoscience symposia, workshops and seminars in Uppsala, starting from 2010.
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 but also comparative studies and international exchanges.
My involvement in the Sámi society and Sámi /Indigenous studies:
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 am since 2013 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) and for Mijá Gäjnno in 2013. In the elections of 2013 I became a deputy member of the Sámi Parliament. I am not much involved in Sámi politics, but I consider my participation as a way to both learn more about the issues of importance to the Sámi society as well as to contribute with my own expertise to the Sámi society at large. I am available to provide support to any Sámi parliament party who so wishes on the research and teaching of my expertise. The same goes of course for Swedish politics, when asked questions on my topics I do my best to contribute.
Since 2013 I am member of the editorial board of NAIS, Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal.
I was co-founder of UPPSAM, the association for Sámi related research in Uppsala, established in 2011 as an association, and I have been member of the board since then. Since April 2014 I am president of the UPPSAM board.
