Month: November 2015

PhD / MA course extractive industires at the world’s biggest hole

On By fstammleIn All, Announcements, Extractive Industries, Russian North, teaching, Theoretical Issues1 Comment

The Uarctic Arctic Extractive Industries PhD programme organises its spring 2016 course, this time also open for M.A. students, eligibility for participation see below. The course is hosted by the North Eastern Federal University, Yakutia, Russia, February 16-22, 2016. Yakutia in Siberia is not a cheap, but fascinating place to go. Interested students can apply …

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Meeting the world’s youngest farmers of native cattle in the world’s coldest inhabited place

On By fstammleIn All, Fieldwork, Human-animal relations, Russian North

During fieldwork for our Arc Ark research project, I walk the street in Sakkyryr, the central village of the Eveno-Bytantay Ulus (District) of the Sakha Republic, Yakutia, East Siberia. I stop to take a picture of two beautiful white cows as they feed on something I can't quite identify, out on the street at minus …

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