Key words
indigenous peoples, international politics, environmental politics, indigenous rights, Foucault, governmentality, biopolitics, neoliberalism, United Nations, Permanent Forum on Indigenous issues.


Current projects

• Northern Political Economy, Arctic Centre
  
• BIOS – The biopolitics of sustainable development in the Barents region
• LeCTra Doctoral Program

Publications

• Lindroth, Marjo and Sinevaara-Niskanen, Heidi (forthcoming) At the crossroads of autonomy and essentialism: Indigenous peoples in international environmental politics. International Political Sociology.
• Lindroth, Marjo (2011) Paradoxes of power: Indigenous peoples in the Permanen Forum. Cooperation and Conflict 46(4): 542 - 561.
• Lindroth, Marjo (2006) Indigenous-state relations in the UN: establishing the Indigenous Forum. Polar Record 42(3): 239-248.

Recent presentations in international conferences

• Adapt or die? Indigenous peoples – from the civilising mission to the need of adaptation (with Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen). Paper presented at the Earth System Governance Conference, 28-31 January 2013, Tokyo.
• Indigenous climate responsibility? Two readings of a debate. Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Feb 24-28 2012, New York.
• Arguing for Political Agencies and Creating Responsibilities: Indigenous Peoples in Environmental Politics (with Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen). Paper presented at the World international Studies Committee’s (WISC) 3rd Global international studies conference, August 17-20 2011, Porto, Portugal.