As part of the bigger Rural Radicalism program, this project is looking at Swedish Sapmí. Focusing on Sámi activists, non-Sámi farmers, hunters as well as environmental movements, the study examines how competing forms of rural radicalism are articulated, contested and, occasionally, aligned within shared political space in Northern Sweden. It explores how these actors frame radical change, mobilise resistance and negotiate their relationship with the Swedish state (which acts both as a human-rights–oriented authority and as a focal point of political antagonism). Combining empirical analysis with an agonistic theoretical framework, the project assesses whether antagonistic relations under asymmetrical power conditions, as well as consensus-driven political stagnation, can be transformed into productive forms of “radical” engagement. Using qualitative methods, it analyses the formation of rural counter-publics and the conditions under which agonistic spaces emerge, endure, or collapse, contributing to broader debates on democracy, conflict, and coexistence in contested rural regions.