by Anna Stammler-Gossmann The third community meeting ‘People of the Changing Permafrost Land’ (June 18-19, 2019), which was organised by Anna Stammler-Gossmann (Arctic Centre) and local partners, took place in a remote northern village of Churapcha, administrative centre of the Churapcha District in the Republic of Sakha Yakutia (North East of Russia), one of the …
Month: August 2019
‘Norwegian fjords: Living with Changes’ (Bugøynes, Norway, June 7 – 8, 2019) ICE LAW subproject ‘Local and Indigenous Perspectives’
by Anna Stammler-Gossmann The second community meeting ‘Norwegian fjord: Living with Changes’, organized by the Arctic Centre (Anna Stammler-Gossmann) took place in the remote coastal fishing village of Bugøynes (Finnmark, Norway) on June 7-8, 2019. How is seawater perceived and used due to experienced changes, and how do coastal communities accommodate these changes? These questions …
Climate, Fish and Fisheries: Local and Indigenous Perspectives (Rovaniemi, Finland, April 16-17, 2019)
by Anna Stammler-Gossmann The first meeting ’Climate, Fish and Fisheries: Local and Indigenous Perspectives’ (organizer Anna Stammler-Gossmann) took place in April 16-17 in Lapland, at the Arctic Centre (Rovaniemi, Finland). Thematic issues of the community meeting were focused on different frameworks for valuing and experiencing changes around the waterscape from the perspective of the fisheries …
Community meetings: ICE LAW subproject ‘Local and Indigenous Perspectives’
by Anna Stammler-Gossmann The Indigenous and Local Perspectives subproject (ICE LAW: Indeterminate and Changing Environments) documents perspectives informed by understandings of land, water, and ice, and explores responses to changed geophysical and political environments (https://icelawproject.org/about/). Shifting water-ice-scape was discussed from local, indigenous and academic perspectives during three community meetings in Finland (Lapland), Norway (Finnmark) and Russia …
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Discussion: pros and cons of research cooperation between academia and military/security organisations
This month’s reading and discussion circle of our Arctic Anthropology team is open to all interested participants! Given the relevance of the topic for the entire academia, we explicitly welcome scholars and students also from other research groups and academic fields than ours. We will discuss the pros and cons of research cooperation between academia …
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