Huuki, T;
Kyrölä, K;
(2022)
Show yourself’: Indigenous ethics, Sámi cosmologies and decolonial queer pedagogies of Frozen 2.
Gender and Education
10.1080/09540253.2021.2023112.
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Abstract
In this article, we examine the immensely popular animated Disney film Frozen 2 (2019) through its potential as decolonial queer pedagogy. Drawing on Indigenous educational studies, queer and feminist Indigenous theories, and research on affect and trauma, we ask how the film popularizes Sámi nature-based cosmologies, addresses and attempts to repair the cross-generational transmission of settler colonial trauma, and presents a complex view of gender and human and non-human relations. Unlike in its predecessor Frozen (2013), in Frozen 2 Disney involved Sámi consultants in the production process, and the film was dubbed in North Sámi language. We interrogate Frozen 2's production process as well as its narrative and aesthetics, proposing that it allows its viewers – children and adults, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike – to engage with and learn about Indigenous ethics, Sámi cosmologies, and more-than-human understandings of gender and sexuality in respectful and easily approachable ways.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Show yourself’: Indigenous ethics, Sámi cosmologies and decolonial queer pedagogies of Frozen 2 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09540253.2021.2023112 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2021.2023112 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Queer; Indigenous ethics; Sámi; Disney; children’s film; posthuman; trauma |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10142379 |
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