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Abstract
This talk presents the methodological design and legal-historical foundations of the research project From the Margin to the Centre: Rights Development, Transitional Justice and Indigeneity in the Nordics (MARCEN). It explores how frame analysis can be used to critically and comparatively conceptualise developing state policies towards the Indigenous Sámi people and to trace the emergence of a culture of rights in the three Nordic settler states. The aim is to examine how the identity of the state - through the law, as its central instrument of governance - has evolved through successive phases of (ultra)nationalist movements, welfare state building, neoliberalisation, rights development and transitional justice.
Bio
Daniela Alaattinoğlu is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Turku. Her interdisciplinary research explores how societies and laws co-evolve, how groups mobilise to transform their positions, and how law intersectionally includes and excludes. She is the author of Grievance Formation, Rights and Remedies: Involuntary Sterilisation and Castration in the Nordics, 1930s–2020s (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and leads the ERC-funded project From the Margin to the Centre: Rights Development, Transitional Justice and Indigeneity in the Nordics (2025–2029). In 2025, she was awarded the Nils Klim Prize for her outstanding research as a young scholar.
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Date: 25.11.2025
Time: 15:00-16:30
Location: P673,
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