Chapter 19 Toxic speech, political self-Indigenization and the ethics and politics of critique Notes from Finland

Over the past decades, online hate speech against the Indigenous Sámi people has sharply proliferated, and in each Nordic country, it is now considered a problem requiring counter-measures and further study. This chapter employs Lynne Tirrell's notion of toxic speech to examine anti-Sámi hate...

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Main Author: Junka-Aikio, Laura (auth)
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Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis 2022
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