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 of Newfoundland, Canada. The participants to the course came from 5 different institutions and 7 …

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Arctic Design: Field Thoughts and Questions

Hi everybody, this is my second appearance in this blog (see the first one https://arcticanthropology.org/2012/03/07/arctic-design-and-indigenous-knowledge/). I have just finished my summer fieldwork in Northern Lapland; so let me share my fresh thoughts. ...In 2006, in the beginning of August, I was sitting in a big bus, drowning in a blue soft seat, traveling from the …

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