
Dr Aslak-Antti Oksanen
BSc, MA, PhD
Current positions
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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.
Publications
Recent publications
01/11/2021The Indigenous Dimension of the Intersocietal
Millennium
Freeing uneven and combined development from the whip of external necessity
Cambridge Review of International Affairs
The Rise of Indigenous (Pluri-)Nationalism: The Case of the Sámi People
Sociology
From the international to the intersocietal
Sámi Pastoralism under the Heel of ‘Development’
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 Issues in Global Politics, Global Justice and Theories of International Relations.