
Dr Aslak-Antti Oksanen
BSc, MA, PhD
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Research interests
My research interests include decolonial and Marxist IR theories, the indigenous peoples' issues in global politics and indigenous peoples' nationalism. These interests overlap, as my efforts to innovate theoretically in the fields of IR and nationalism studies aim to incorporate the political agency of indigenous peoples in theoretically systematic ways. My contribution to decolonial IR and Marxist theory is to synthesise Enrique Dussel's liberation philosophy with the IR adaptation of Leon Trotsky's idea of uneven and combined development into an IR theory capable of illuminating stateless social formations like indigenous peoples as agents of global politics. My contribution to nationalism studies is to explain the emergence of indigenous peoples' nationalism as enabled by a combination of indigenous anti-colonial resistance modelled in part on modern nationalism and permissive structural conditions through international norms and laws affirming minority rights.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
AI against Academic Integrity? An investigation
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Description
What would teaching and learning be like in the coming age of AI? What would universities look like if educators were committed to supporting international students and putting their learning…Dates
28/06/2024 to 31/07/2025
Publications
Recent publications
21/02/2023Dimming the midnight sun?
Frontiers in Climate
Freeing uneven and combined development from the whip of external necessity
Cambridge Review of International Affairs
The Indigenous Dimension of the Intersocietal
Millennium
The Rise of Indigenous (Pluri-)Nationalism: The Case of the Sámi People
Sociology
From the international to the intersocietal
Teaching
My teaching expertise is in the areas of the practice and theory of global politics and International Relations. I am currently teaching the units Theories of International Relations at BSc and MSc levels and the BSc unit Investigating Society (Politics).