Coppélie Cocq
Umeå University, HUMlab, Department Member
- Professor in Sámi Studies and Digital Humanities
Research area: folklore, digital humanities, Indigenous and minority studiesedit
Research Interests: Sociology and Ethnography
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This chapter problematizes the educational affordances of accessing indigenous storytelling practices in online environments. Focus lies on the use of storytelling for language revitalization in indigenous contexts of Sápmi (the... more
This chapter problematizes the educational affordances of accessing indigenous storytelling practices in online environments. Focus lies on the use of storytelling for language revitalization in indigenous contexts of Sápmi (the traditional Sámi settlement area) and Australia. By examining contemporary examples of digital storytelling projects, we investigate creation and production processes, including not only the role of institutions as a source of production, but also the role of various agents in order to make possible for community members to create and share their own productions. The production of digital stories that present indigenous languages and culture online can be seen as a voice for marginalized communities, but also as initiatives and efforts towards self-representation and revitalization, i.e. a "deliberate, organized, conscious effort by members of a society to construct a more satisfying culture" (Wallace, 1956, 265). As emphasized in previous research, successful revitalization requires changing community attitudes (Grenoble and Whaley, 2006.13). Consequently, any attempt to consider possibilities and challenges in revitalization should start in considering initiatives taken by the community itself in order to strengthen and promote their language. This study discusses some of the challenges and possibilities for education and language acquisition from selected examples. Further, we discuss some of the potentials and uses for digital literature and storytelling in relation to cultural revitalization and cultural practices in an indigenous context. This discussion is focused on several recent examples of digital media used to produce content that aims to revitalize indigenous languages and culture through education. Rather than overly give attention on such features as language acquisition and transmission, we are interested in the role of language in relation to traditions and identities. These relationships are especially powerful when expressed in relation to land, heritage and traditional cultural practices. Our examples include Sámi initiatives from Sweden and Norway, as well as digital works and a publishing initiative from Indigenous Australian communities. We choose to focus on education from the perspective of the Indigenous communities, which are often resisting the intrusion of power in the form of economic and political elites. This raises questions related to what is a meaningful education from an indigenous perspective and many of these struggles are played out via media.
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Traditionella kunskaper och forskningstraditioner : samisk folklore som politiskt verktyg och ideologiskt vapen
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Research Interests: History, Folklore, Media Studies, Social Media, Ethnology, and 4 moreFacebook, Folkloristics, Witch, and Etnologi
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This article examines the benefits of putting Indigenous perspectives and the digital humanities (DH) in conversation with each other in order to elaborate a DH approach that is suitable for Indigenous research and to suggest critical... more
This article examines the benefits of putting Indigenous perspectives and the digital humanities (DH) in conversation with each other in order to elaborate a DH approach that is suitable for Indigenous research and to suggest critical perspectives for a more sustainable DH. For this purpose, the article examines practices of data harvesting, categorizing, and sharing from the perspectives of groups in the margin, more specifically in relation to Sámi research. Previous research has emphasized the role of cultural and social contexts in the design, use, and adaptation of technologies in general, and digital technologies in particular (Douglas, 1987. Inventing American broadcasting; Nissenbaum, 2001. Computer, 34, 118–120; Powell & Aitken, 2011. The American literature scholar in the digital age) and several scholars have argued for how the application of critical studies make a fruitful contribution to the DH (Liu, 2012. Debates in the digital humanities; McPherson, 2012. Debates in the digital humanities). This article suggests an approach that addresses a need to acknowledge the diversity of technoscientific traditions. The perspectives of Indigenous groups bring this matter to a head. In order to make the DH more sustainable and inclusive, the development of the DH should be driven by cultural studies to a greater extent than it has been so far. A sustainable DH also means a better rendering of the plurality of the cultural values, perspectives, and ethics that characterize our fieldwork and research subjects.
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The stories we tell and are told, the images we see and share, the ways we communicate find new paths and come to expression in new forms of networks, other agoras (to borrow Foley’s terminology) and at a faster pace. Nonetheless, we... more
The stories we tell and are told, the images we see and share, the ways we communicate find new paths and come to expression in new forms of networks, other agoras (to borrow Foley’s terminology) and at a faster pace. Nonetheless, we ought to examine what the novelty of contemporary storytelling consists in when it conquers digital forms and environments. Likewise, the digital brings us new tools and possibilities of access to data – but how much have our disciplines, methods, approaches and concepts actually transformed and changed? And how much have we assessed the capacity of adaptation of our disciplines for embracing the study of what takes place online and in relation to the digital? From this vantage point, this paper gives particular attention to the footprints and the traceability of our doings and our data in order to highlight the flows, continuity and ruptures of what we do and tell. Based on examples from a variety of contexts, I illustrate how our quest for renewal, novelty and innovation is strongly anchored in, subjected to and depends upon our habits, old-fashioned ways and ability to observe the world around us. Further, I argue that in research like in storytelling, the value of vintage equals the value of novelty and originality.
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Examining categories created by Sami users on Twitter, this article investigates the advantages and limits of global social media for a small localized group. Folksonomies illustrate the empowering potential of Twitter as a site of... more
Examining categories created by Sami users on Twitter, this article investigates the advantages and limits of global social media for a small localized group. Folksonomies illustrate the empowering potential of Twitter as a site of performance for continuity of cultural practices, vernacular expressions, and "artistic communication in small groups" (Ben-Amos 1971).
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This special issue focuses on the Sami struggle for cultural survival. The articles deal with strategies and initiatives going on in Sapmi today during a time of threats and challenges - a time tha ...
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This article discusses the challenges of Indigenous research in relation to open science, more particularly in relation to Sámi research in Sweden. Based on interviews with active scholars in the multidisciplinary field of Sámi studies,... more
This article discusses the challenges of Indigenous research in relation to open science, more particularly in relation to Sámi research in Sweden. Based on interviews with active scholars in the multidisciplinary field of Sámi studies, and on policy documents by Sámi organizations, this article points at the challenges that can be identified, and the practices and strategies adopted or suggested by researchers. Topics addressed include ownership, control, sensitivity and accessibility of data, the consequences of experienced limitations, the role of the historical context, and community-groundedness. This article has the ambition to contribute with a discussion about the tensions between standards of data management/open science and data sovereignty in Indigenous contexts. This is done by bringing in perspectives from Indigenous methodologies (the 4 R) and by contextualizing research practices and forms of data colonialism in relation to our contemporary context of surveillance cul...
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This article examines the benefits of putting Indigenous perspectives and the digital humanities (DH) in conversation with each other in order to elaborate a DH approach that is suitable for Indigenous research and to suggest critical... more
This article examines the benefits of putting Indigenous perspectives and the digital humanities (DH) in conversation with each other in order to elaborate a DH approach that is suitable for Indigenous research and to suggest critical perspectives for a more sustainable DH. For this purpose, the article examines practices of data harvesting, categorizing, and sharing from the perspectives of groups in the margin, more specifically in relation to Sámi research. Previous research has emphasized the role of cultural and social contexts in the design, use, and adaptation of technologies in general, and digital technologies in particular (Douglas, 1987. Inventing American broadcasting; Nissenbaum, 2001. Computer, 34, 118–120; Powell & Aitken, 2011. The American literature scholar in the digital age) and several scholars have argued for how the application of critical studies make a fruitful contribution to the DH (Liu, 2012. Debates in the digital humanities; McPherson, 2012. Debates in the digital humanities). This article suggests an approach that addresses a need to acknowledge the diversity of technoscientific traditions. The perspectives of Indigenous groups bring this matter to a head. In order to make the DH more sustainable and inclusive, the development of the DH should be driven by cultural studies to a greater extent than it has been so far. A sustainable DH also means a better rendering of the plurality of the cultural values, perspectives, and ethics that characterize our fieldwork and research subjects
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In: Kulturella perspektiv. Årgång 25, Nr 1, 2016.
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This article analyses what happens on social media (Twitter) when a local issue specific to a certain Indigenous group spreads out to a wider network of actors. We look closer at the process where emic (inside) discourses are enabled,... more
This article analyses what happens on social media (Twitter) when a local issue specific to a certain Indigenous group spreads out to a wider network of actors. We look closer at the process where emic (inside) discourses are enabled, through social media, to reach a broader audience and become part of translocal debates. In a case study of information sharing, network building and support on Twitter in relation to a series of Sámi anti-mining protests in 2013, we address questions about the dynamics, flows and process of Indigenous communication on Twitter. First, we analyse in what ways and to what extent the posts are used for inreach communication or outreach communication. Second, we analyse the role of tweets that contain links to web resources for broadcasting Indigenous concerns to a wider, more diverse audience. Finally, we assess how different types of actors interact in order to shape the circulation of content. Our analysis shows even though communication went beyond the...
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Users of digital media leave traces that corporations and authorities can harvest, systematise, and analyse; on the societal level, an overall result is the emergence of a surveillance culture. In this study, we examine how people handle... more
Users of digital media leave traces that corporations and authorities can harvest, systematise, and analyse; on the societal level, an overall result is the emergence of a surveillance culture. In this study, we examine how people handle the dilemma of leaving digital footprints: what they say they do to protect their privacy and what could legitimise the collection and storing of their data. Through a survey of almost 1,000 students at Umeå University in Sweden, we find that most respondents know that their data are used and choose to adjust their own behaviour rather than adopting technical solutions. In order to understand contemporary forms of surveillance, we call for a humanistic approach – an approach where hermeneutic and qualitative methods are central.
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Chapter in the volume Nordens litteratur. Ed. Margareta Petersson & Rikard Schönström. Studentlitteratur, 2017.
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Debate article published in Dagens Nyheter on 11 June 2015 Translated from Swedish. Link to article is here: http://www.dn.se/debatt/rasbiologiskt-sprakbruk-i-statens-rattsprocess-mot-sameby/ Link to Umeå university and some about the... more
Debate article published in Dagens Nyheter on 11 June 2015
Translated from Swedish. Link to article is here: http://www.dn.se/debatt/rasbiologiskt-sprakbruk-i-statens-rattsprocess-mot-sameby/
Link to Umeå university and some about the context: http://www.umu.se/english/about-umu/news-events/news/newsdetailpage/debate-article-the-government-rejects-research-in-legal-process-against-a-sami-community.cid253341
The state rejects research in legal process against a Sami community
The state shows a problematic attitude towards modern research about Sami matters and questions the Sami people’s status as an Indigenous people. Furthermore, the state’s characterisation of Sami people uses a rhetoric that evokes an antiquated cultural hierarchy and racial biology. The individuals signing this debate article are researchers at Swedish universities and higher education institutions with sound knowledge of Sami related research. It is our strong opinion that the state’s standpoint and use of language poses a threat to Sweden as a state dedicated to the principle of justice and as a nation that respects research and knowledge.
59 researchers have signed.
Translated from Swedish. Link to article is here: http://www.dn.se/debatt/rasbiologiskt-sprakbruk-i-statens-rattsprocess-mot-sameby/
Link to Umeå university and some about the context: http://www.umu.se/english/about-umu/news-events/news/newsdetailpage/debate-article-the-government-rejects-research-in-legal-process-against-a-sami-community.cid253341
The state rejects research in legal process against a Sami community
The state shows a problematic attitude towards modern research about Sami matters and questions the Sami people’s status as an Indigenous people. Furthermore, the state’s characterisation of Sami people uses a rhetoric that evokes an antiquated cultural hierarchy and racial biology. The individuals signing this debate article are researchers at Swedish universities and higher education institutions with sound knowledge of Sami related research. It is our strong opinion that the state’s standpoint and use of language poses a threat to Sweden as a state dedicated to the principle of justice and as a nation that respects research and knowledge.
59 researchers have signed.