Fishing is the livelihood of many Arctic coastal communities in Northern Norway and Northern Russia. The workshop aims to bring together different groups of stakeholders who share common interests in the resources of the Arctic Ocean. The stakeholders from Northern Norway and Northern Russia will discuss the ongoing changes in the marine environment of the …
Month: February 2014
Celebrating the Sámi National Day in Murmansk
About the intrigues around this year’s celebration and why they reminded me of one of the darkest chapters of Sámi history. For this year’s Sámi National Day I happened to be in Murmansk and I witnessed the celebrations, which were preceded by some red hot intrigues. The day traditionally starts with the raising of the …
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Barents Stories: How do we see the sea?
Anybody passing by in Rovaniemi is welcome to the opening or later to watching an exhibition by Anna Stammler-Gossmann. Here you find the official press release and further details: The Arctic Centre library presents a new special exhibition on February 20, 2014. ‘Barents Stories – How Do We See the Sea?’ is based on materials …
New book on polar geopolitics
Narratives, bureaucracies and indigenous legal orders: Resource governance in Finnish Lapland is the title of our chapter in a volume titled “Polar Geopolitics? Knowledges, Resources and Legal Regimes”, which has been published end of January. The aim of our chapter is twofold: Firstly, to examine narratives of indigeneity and secondly to investigate how these are …
Arctic Anthropology 