Astri Dankertsen
Professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Areas of expertise
Gender, Youth studies, Sociology, Cultural and social activities, Internationalisation, International cooperation, Sami, High North, Postcolonial theory, Feminist theory, Gender equality, Urbanity Indigenous, Decolonization, Social inclusion, Social inequality, Cultural diversity, Indigenous methodology, Indigeneity, Emotions, Affect, gender, Colonization, Arctic
Astri Dankertsen is a sociologist specializing in Arctic and Indigenous studies, with a focus on Sámi perspectives, decolonial theory, and feminist approaches. She holds a PhD in Sociology and leads major Research Council-funded projects such as INDHOME and SOTRUST, which explore Indigenous homemaking, reconciliation, and survivance. Her interdisciplinary research addresses colonial legacies, governance, and social vulnerability in Arctic contexts, contributing to socially transformative knowledge production. She has been at the university since 2010.
Teach primarily in topics related to gender, ethnicity, gender equality and Indigeneity. Member of commitee for PhD Program in Sociologi, and responsible for the specialization in Arctic Vulnerabilities in the new PhD programme in Social Sciences.
Her research is grounded in decolonial and feminist theory, with a strong emphasis on Indigenous-led approaches. She has led nationally funded projects and contributed to shaping Arctic research agendas through board memberships and academic leadership. Her work engages with the complexity of Arctic transformations and supports the development of contextually embedded, interdisciplinary scholarship.
Dankertsen leads two major Research Council-funded projects:
- INDHOME – Indigenous Homemaking as Survivance, exploring cultural resilience in response to colonization and assimilation.
- SOTRUST – (Mis)trust: The Norwegianization of language, people and land in South Saepmie, investigating reconciliation and governance in Indigenous contexts.
Her interdisciplinary research contributes to the development of contextually embedded, socially grounded Arctic scholarship.
2025
Towards a desire-based research approach in Arctic Norway. Sámi homemaking as survivance 2025 The Polar Journal - Astri Dankertsen, Majken Paulsen
På sporet av kjønn
Debatter og dialog i en nordisk kontekst 2025 - Astri Dankertsen, Ann-Torill Tørrisplass
2024
Sikkerhet sett fra unge i nord - fra lokal velferd til krigen i Ukraina Norsk småby-urbanitet. Nordlige perspektiver 2024 - Elisabeth Pettersen, Astri Dankertsen, Jill Beth Otterlei
Samisk medvirkning i en norsk fylkeskommune etter 40 år med rettighetskamp 2024 Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift (NNT) - Ingvill Bjørnstad Åberg, Astri Dankertsen, Majken Paulsen
Complexity and interdependence in local mineral extraction planning: The Nasa Mountain Quartz Case in Northern Norway 2024 The Extractive Industries and Society - Olof Andreas Stjernström, Tanja Ellingsen, Astri Dankertsen, Håkan Torleif Sandersen
2023
The End of Norwegian Egalitarianism? Limits and Challenges to a Cherished Idea 2023 - Astri Dankertsen, Christian Lo
2022
Avkolonisering av akademia fra et samisk perspektiv 2022 Slagmark - Astri Dankertsen
Indigenousness and Urbanization An urban future for Sápmi? Indigenous urbanization in the Nordic states and Russia 2022 - Mikkel Berg-Nordlie, Astri Dankertsen, Marte Slagsvold Winsvold
Langsom karriereutvikling. Mot en livsløpsstandard for kvinner i akademia Kjønn og akademia: På vei mot BALANSE? 2022 - Gry Cathrin Brandser, Trude Karine Olaug Gjernes, Bente Vibecke Lunde, Astri Dankertsen
An Urban Future for Sápmi? An urban future for Sápmi? Indigenous urbanization in the Nordic states and Russia 2022 - Mikkel Berg-Nordlie, Astri Dankertsen, Marte Slagsvold Winsvold
Urban Indigenous Organizing and Institution-Building in Norway and Russia: By and For Whom? An urban future for Sápmi? Indigenous urbanization in the Nordic states and Russia 2022 - Mikkel Berg-Nordlie, Anna Andersen, Astri Dankertsen
An urban future for Sápmi? Indigenous urbanization in the Nordic states and Russia 2022 - Mikkel Berg-Nordlie, Astri Dankertsen, Marte Slagsvold Winsvold
2021
“Whiteness Isn’t about Skin Color.” Challenges to Analyzing Racial Practices in a Norwegian Context 2021 Societies - Astri Dankertsen, Tone Gunn Stene Kristiansen
“If we want to have a good future, we need to do something about it”. Youth, security and imagined horizons in the intercultural Arctic Norway 2021 Acta Borealia - Astri Dankertsen, Elisabeth Pettersen, Jill Beth Otterlei
2018
Er en bysamisk fremtid mulig? Møter, moro og ubehag i en bysamisk ungdomshverdag 2018 Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift - Astri Dankertsen, Christina Åhrén
2016
Fragments of the Future. Decolonization in Sami Everyday Life. 2016 Kult - Astri Dankertsen
2014
2013
Samisk arbeid og samisk kultur - fra tradisjon til modernitet Hvor går Nord-Norge? Bind 3. Politiske tidslinjer 2013 - Asle Magnus Høgmo, Astri Dankertsen
2011
2025
Why a Nordic Feminist Theory Workshop Now? Reactionary Politics from Within and Without. Complexities and Tensions in Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies in the Current Moment. 2025 Engaging Gender Research(ers) in Reactionary Times – The Inaugural Nordic Feminist Theory Workshop - Astri Dankertsen, Ramona Dima, Daria Krivonos, Maja Sager, Svati Shah, Tuuli Kurki
Hvordan skal vi møte presset mot kjønnsforskning som fagfelt? 2025 Kjønnsforskning NÅ! - Astri Dankertsen, Siri Øyslebø Sørensen, Michael Nebeling Petersen, Janne C. Haugnes Bromseth, Lilli Mittner
Hvordan underviser vi kjønnsstudier? En samtale om lærebøker i kjønnsforskningsfeltet. 2025 Kjønnsforskning NÅ! - Astri Dankertsen, Ann-Torill Tørrisplass, Jennifer Elise Branlat, Ingvil Hellstrand, Sara Elisabeth Sellevold Orning
Fornorskningens spor i identitet og hverdagsliv 2025 Hattfjelldalkonferansen - Astri Dankertsen
Kjønnsforskning – et politisert fagfelt under press 2025 - Astri Dankertsen, Ann-Torill Tørrisplass
Trump-retorikken mot LHBTQI vokser raskt i Norge 2025 - Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen, Maja Brandt Andreassen, My Rafstedt, Hande Eslen-Ziya, Astri Dankertsen, Jenny Andrine Madsen Evang, Lene Løvdal, Ole-Petter R. Hamnvik
"Hvordan underviser vi kjønnsstudier? En samtale om lærebøker i kjønnsforskningsfeltet. Keynote panel med Astri Dankertsen, Ann-Torill Tørrisplass, Jennifer Branlat, Ingvil Hellstrand, Sara E. S. Orning 2025 Kjønnsforskning NÅ! - Sara Elisabeth Sellevold Orning, Jennifer Elise Branlat, Ingvil Hellstrand, Ann-Torill Tørrisplass, Astri Dankertsen, Kristin Engh Førde
Trussel mot kjønnsforskningen er en trussel mot demokratiske verdier 2025 - Astri Dankertsen, Kari Jegerstedt, Ann Therese Lotherington, Rebecca Waters Boldsen Lund, Lene Myong, Lee Michael Shults, Siri Øyslebø Sørensen
Leder 2025 Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning - Astri Dankertsen, Ann-Torill Tørrisplass
2024
Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning kommer til Nord universitet 2024 - Hanne Skogvang Stork, Ann-Torill Tørrisplass, Astri Dankertsen
Nordic Colonial Legacies, historical records, and Indigenous self-determination. 2024 Arctic Circle - Berlin Forum - Astri Dankertsen, Rachael Lorna Johnstone, Maria Press, Malin Arvidsson, Romain Francois R Chuffart
Gender in Sápmi: Sámi Feminist Ways of Knowing, Being, and Doing 2024 Insight and outlook – Conference on Sábmie related research - Astri Dankertsen, Torjer Andreas Olsen, Ina Knobblock
The Beginning of Norway's Reconciliation Process 2024 - Astri Dankertsen, Astrid Nonbo Andersen, Amalie Drage Habbestad
2023
Sámi Homemaking- Creating a Place to Belong. 2023 NAISA Conference - Astri Dankertsen, Majken Paulsen
The importance of wood. Materiality, colonialism and Sámi homemaking in transition 2023 Nordic STS Conference - Astri Dankertsen, Majken Paulsen
2022
Kick-off seminar for prosjektet «Indigenous homemaking as survivance: Homemaking as cultural resilience to the effects of colonization and assimilation» (INDHOME). 2022 Kick-off seminar for prosjektet «Indigenous homemaking as survivance: Homemaking as cultural resilience to the effects of colonization and assimilation» (INDHOME). - Astri Dankertsen, Krister Stoor, Majken Paulsen, Asta Mønsted, Britt Kramvig, Arnstein Brekke
Preface 2022 - Astri Dankertsen
2021
Creating space for gender perspectives in Sámi studies in Norway: Panel conversation 2021 NAISA 2021 Virtual - Astri Dankertsen, Anna-Lill Drügge, Majken Paulsen, Mikkel Eskil Mikkelsen, Torjer Andreas Olsen
Truth commissions in the Nordic states: Who is to be reconciled with whom? 2021 - Astri Dankertsen, Malin Arvidsson
Dekolonisering av universitetet 2021 Båskoes-seminarium - Astri Dankertsen
Sámi Feminism(s) in Nordic and Global Indigenous Contexts 2021 Kjønnsforskning NÅ! - Ellen Marie Jensen, Ina Knobblock, Stine Helena Bang Svendsen, Liisa-Ravna Finbog, Siri Broch Johansen, Astri Dankertsen, Elisabeth Stubberud
2020
Är en samisk framtid möjlig i staden? 2020 Forelesning - Astri Dankertsen
Nord Universitet har ikke råd til å si nei til samisk satsning 2020 Avisa Nordland - Astri Dankertsen, Larsen Anette Langås
Det samiske Narvik- ny kommune, nye muligheter 2020 Fremover - Astri Dankertsen, Randi Inger Johanne Nymo, Erica Restoften
Brekkes ignorante lesning 2020 Morgenbladet - Stine H. Bang Svendsen, Kristin Gregers Eriksen, Astri Dankertsen, Yael Harlap, Merethe Giertsen, Elisabeth Stubberud, Lene Myong, Sandra Fylkesnes, Ronald Mayora Synnes
2019
Time and the Dynamics of Gender Bias on Academic Work 2019 Neon-dagene 2019 - Gry Cathrin Brandser, Trude Karine Olaug Gjernes, Astri Dankertsen
Samtale med utgangspunkt i temaet "samisk urbanisering" 2019 Faglig oppvarming dagen før dagen - Markering i forbindelse med samenes nasjonaldag - Astri Dankertsen, Cato Christensen, Mikkel Berg-Nordlie
2018
Samisk identitet i byer 2018 Samisk nasjonaldag - Astri Dankertsen
Deltakelse i Torsdagspanelet 2018 - Astri Dankertsen
2017
Niqab eller ikke niqab? 2017 - Tanja Ellingsen, Gry Agnete Alsos, Yan Zhao, Johanne Hansen Kobberstad, Astri Dankertsen, Tone Gunn Stene Kristiansen, Elisabet Carine Ljunggren, Bishnu Maya Adhikari, Ann-Torill Tørrisplass
Samisk ungdomskultur 2017 Nordland musikkfestuke - Astri Dankertsen
Rasebegrepet i kritiske hvithetsstudier. En dialog om noen metodologiske utfordringer i nordiske empiriske hvithetsstudier 2017 Kjønnsforskning NÅ! - Astri Dankertsen, Tone Gunn Stene Kristiansen
Samisk ungdom og norske byer – kulturer i endring 2017 MIND paperseminar - Astri Dankertsen
2016
2015
2014