From 15-22 February a group of roughly 20 people spent a week in the centre for Russian Diamond extraction, the city of Mirny. Students from circumpolar countries - and not only - had different topics in their social sciences research project, but all of them united around the overarching topic of the Social Sciences related …
Month: March 2016
Arctic Voices: Expectations, Narratives and the Realities of Living with Extractive industries: new publication
Arctic Voices: Expectations, Narratives and the Realities of Living with Extractive industries in the Far North (Edited by Emma Wilson and Florian Stammler ) is the name of a new special issue. It has been ages ago that we ran a conference session "People and the Extractive Industries" and a doctoral course in Rovaniemi in …
Post Doc ad, Rovaniemi, Arctic Indigenous Anthropology?
Dear friends, The unversty of Lapland advertises a 2 year postdoc in Arctic Indigenous studies. It would be great to get as many as possible good applications from good anthropologists. The candidate could then work together with our team here in Rovaniemi and thus increase the anthropological academic community at the Arctic Circle significantly!!! Currently …
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