Nina Meschtyb, postdoc research in our ORHELIA project, shares the following impressions from her fieldtrip Privet from Murmansk region. It is not very hot here – around 3-7 degree, but warm water was already switched off at houses for the summer period. I started my trip from Murmansk. The bus arrived late in the evening, …
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News on Arctic extractive Industries
Some news on extractive industries, indigenous people and impact studies in the Arctic have piled up recently, which I would like to share here. Most of these works are related to members of our Extractive Industries Working Group (EIWG) of IASSA, which you are welcome to join if you work on such issues. 1) Mark …
Kings, predators and research on the northern top of Europe
Greetings from Bugøyfjord and Varanger fjord. I am now in Bugoynes (Pykeijä - fin.), in ‘pikku Suomi’ (little Finland). It is a fishing community with nearly 230 inhabitants. Almost everybody here speaks Finnish. The village is small, but several activities are going on here. There are actively operating factories (King crab farm, fish/reindeer meat processing …
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Ethnographic biography? What can oral history contribute?
I just read an interesting conference call for papers that centres on ethnography and biography, very much what we deal with in our oral history project work: In the ORHELIA project, we are all confronted as anthropologists with the methodological challenge of doing a sort of data collection based on interviews, be they audio, video …
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New gas and old worries in the Arctic – BBC radio Crossing continents
Florian Stammler took a group of the BBC to his field site in Yamal, West Siberia, for a programme on herders and the gas industry. It was a challenging trip where we had planned much more than could be achieved in the end, but the programme that you can listen here still highlights some of …
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Controversies in northern mining: Mika Flöjt’s book: ‘just’ Nickel, or Uranium?
According to the EU paper "Analysis of the competitiveness of the non-energy extractive industry in the EU" from 2007, Fennoscandia is planned to be a centre of mining in Europe, alongside other world centres in Australia and Eastern Canada. We just listened to a presentation here in Rovaniemi where Mika Flöjt tried to summarise …
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EU politicians talk to people in the Arctic
Yesterday we had a visit to the Arctic Centre by the chief of Foreign Affairs in the European Union Lady Ashton, together with Finnish Foreign Minister Tuomioja. They are on a journey through northern Europe to get inspired for further work on the EU's Arctic policy. Lady Ashton very clearly wanted to get the message …
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