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Category Archives: Extractive Industries
People and Gold in Finnish Lapland
As a part of our advanced course on the anthropological study of resources in the North we screen a rare film tomorrow Thursday, 18 April at 16:30 in the Arctic Centre in Rovaniemi, in the POLARIUM room. Kultajoki – Gold … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Extractive Industries, Fennoscandia
Tagged Gold, human-environment relations, Lapland, mining
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RAIPON indigenous peoples association new president
For those interested, the Russian Indigenous Peoples Association (RAIPON) got a new president a week ago, at a very important time in the organisation’s biography, because it had been closed down for formal reasons by Russian authorities late last year. … Continue reading
Posted in All, Extractive Industries, Indigenous Peoples, Russian North
Tagged Nenets, RAIPON, Yamal
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Effects of Mining on Reindeer Herding Grounds in Jokkmokk in Sweden
Prospecting for minerals and stones has exploded in Sweden. Many foreign prospecting and/or mining companies come to Sweden in search for a new Klondike - even though in a more modern “suit” than the historical one at Dawson City in Canada at … Continue reading
Posted in All, Extractive Industries, Fennoscandia, Indigenous Peoples, Sámi
Tagged Sweden
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Mining and local people in the North
Some of our team were recently at the Jokkmokk winter conference, which is held in connection to the famous Jokkmokk winter market, an important event in the Sámi yearly cycle for the last 400 years. The Jokkmokk winter market has … Continue reading
Posted in All, conferences, Extractive Industries, Fennoscandia, Indigenous Peoples, Sámi
Tagged activism, Lapland, mining
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Adventure Siberia, 90 minutes documentary
TV channel ZDF (second German state channel) screened over the holiday a two-part documentary on Siberia and the fascination that this huge land mass has had on researchers, business people and other adventurers. The programme can be watched online via … Continue reading
Posted in All, Announcements, Extractive Industries, Fieldwork, Indigenous Peoples, Russian North
Tagged media outreach, TV programme
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Reflections on a Visit to the ‘Tree of Memory’: Gail Fondahl, 13 Nov 2012, Arctic Centre
You are all welcome to this event:
Human agents or resources in Arctic extractive industries?
Human Resources in Arctic extractive industries – a PhD course under the Uarctic Thematic Network “People and the Extractive Industries” It was a small but extremely diverse group that we got together between September 10-16 in St John’s, the capital … Continue reading
Posted in All, Announcements, Extractive Industries, North American North, Russian North, teaching
Tagged Uarctic
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Determining the wellness of Arctic Communities
Colleague Stephanie Irbacher-Fox from Yellowknife, NWT, Canada, sent around this call for papers for an interesting conference. Basically all topics relating to the wellbeing and viability of livelihoods in the North are welcome. They also invite contributions from the non-Canadian … Continue reading
News on Arctic extractive Industries
Some news on extractive industries, indigenous people and impact studies in the Arctic have piled up recently, which I would like to share here. Most of these works are related to members of our Extractive Industries Working Group (EIWG) of … Continue reading
New gas and old worries in the Arctic – BBC radio Crossing continents
Florian Stammler took a group of the BBC to his field site in Yamal, West Siberia, for a programme on herders and the gas industry. It was a challenging trip where we had planned much more than could be achieved … Continue reading
Posted in All, Extractive Industries, Fieldwork, Indigenous Peoples, Russian North
Tagged gas, media outreach, reindeer herding, Yamal
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