There are concerns that the unfolding "green energy transitions" can - and already do - reproduce extractivist and colonialist forms of development. In this webinar, two internationally renowned scholars share their perspectives on this issue. Markus Kröger presents historic perspectives on extractivisms in North/South contexts, followed by Rauna Kuokkanen who talks about the legitimacy crisis of the Nordic energy transition vis-a-vis the Sámi and the democratic deficit observed in the Nordic countries in the participation of the Sami people in resource development projects and legislative measures.

Markus Kröger is Professor of Global Development Studies, University of Helsinki. He is a member of the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science and one of the founding members of The Global Extractivisms and Alternatives research initiative (EXALT). He has written extensively on global natural resource politics, conflicts, and social resistance movements and their economic outcomes, especially in relation to iron ore mining and forestry.

Rauna Kuokkanen is Professor of Arctic Indigenous Politics at the University of Lapland (Finland) and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on comparative Indigenous politics and law, Indigenous feminism and gender, Arctic governance, and settler colonialism in the Nordic countries. She is the editor of the Settler Colonial Studies journal.