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This chapter explores how popular culture can contribute to reconciliation and nation-building across borders and ethnicities. It focuses on Sápmi, the nation in which the Indigenous Sámi live, stretching across Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Its principal object of study is the musical television competition Sámi Grand Prix (SGP), which was broadcast for all audiences in Norway, Sweden and Finland for the first time in 2022. Discussing nation-building and spatial dynamics, the chapter argues that SGP is a ceremonial event which invites the majority to learn, participate and watch. It is argued that SGP, which is produced by public service broadcaster NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) in co-production with the Indigenous Sámi public service broadcaster NRK Sápmi, is an event in which representations of national identities and nation-building across ethnicities, borders and landscapes are performed and challenged, including ideas of Sáminess and Sápmi as an imagined community. It is contended that media and popular culture play an important role in on-going conversations of truth and reconciliation in the aftermath of assimilation policies. The show juggles between approaching its core, Sámi audience and the majority, but has developed from a Sámi/Norwegian collaboration towards a more ‘exclusively’ Sámi show where the majority is involved primarily as audience. This change has happened in parallel to discussions of increased self-determination, empowerment and nation-building within Sápmi.

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How to Represent a Nation Without Borders: Indigenous Public Service Broadcaster NRK Sápmi’s Role as a Nation-Builder in a Decolonial Context

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  • Stine Agnete Sand

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This chapter explores how popular culture can contribute to reconciliation and nation-building across borders and ethnicities. It focuses on Sápmi, the nation in which the Indigenous Sámi live, stretching across Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Its principal object of study is the musical television competition Sámi Grand Prix (SGP), which was broadcast for all audiences in Norway, Sweden and Finland for the first time in 2022. Discussing nation-building and spatial dynamics, the chapter argues that SGP is a ceremonial event which invites the majority to learn, participate and watch. It is argued that SGP, which is produced by public service broadcaster NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) in co-production with the Indigenous Sámi public service broadcaster NRK Sápmi, is an event in which representations of national identities and nation-building across ethnicities, borders and landscapes are performed and challenged, including ideas of Sáminess and Sápmi as an imagined community. It is contended that media and popular culture play an important role in on-going conversations of truth and reconciliation in the aftermath of assimilation policies. The show juggles between approaching its core, Sámi audience and the majority, but has developed from a Sámi/Norwegian collaboration towards a more ‘exclusively’ Sámi show where the majority is involved primarily as audience. This change has happened in parallel to discussions of increased self-determination, empowerment and nation-building within Sápmi.