The recent announcement by the Yamal government to artificially reduce the number of reindeer in the Yamal-Nenets Okrug by a quarter of a million animals has caused a discussion in Russia that has now spilled over to the international arena. The Siberian Times has thoroughly reported about the plans both from the pro and the …
Continue reading Problems of gigantic reindeer slaughter plan for Yamal-Nenets nomads
Colleague Arthur Mason sent around a link to the collection of popular short essays that many anthropologists contributed to a theme around extractive industries in the Arctic, but also asking a bit more behind the scenes what are the principles behind such economies and livelihoods. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/945-arctic-abstractive-industry All of this should be open access.
The Siberian Times and other english language sites report about the recent anthrax outbreak among reindeer in West Siberia in a slight geographical confusion . Ignore the maps in this Siberian times article. We are actually witnessing this on the YAMAL PENINSULA close to the FAKTORIYA (trading post) Tarko Sale, which is close to the …
Continue reading Anthrax outbreak on Yamal PENINSULA, not Tarko Sale PUROVSKI Yamal Okrug!
Dear readers, belown seems to be a really promising job opening. For our community of Arctic Anthropologists, of course we would be most interested in getting as many good anthropologists among the applicants as possible. Because if one of 'our' people gets the post, we increase our anthropology professors' 'headcount' in the Finnish North by …
Continue reading Arctic Professorship, Finland, for an anthropologist?
This is the general topic of the next course in our PhD programme by the Uarctic Thematic Network "Arctic Extractive Industries. It's going to take place this time again in the wonderful town of St John's Newfoundland, Canada. PhD students who have an interest in participating (this time self-funded, I hope you find funds to …
Continue reading resource development versus other community sustainability options’?
This in an invitation to a seminar on adaptive law and governance in the Arctic. On August 17-18, 2016, Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland (http://www.arcticcentre.org/EN) will organize a seminar, which will look at research approaches to explore the role of law and other institutions in governance of natural resources in the Arctic. We …
Continue reading New Forms of Law and Governance for and from the Arctic
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 …
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