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Markku Lehmuskallio in Rovaniemi – Pre-screening meeting with the film maker

On By FstammleIn All, Announcements, Guests, Indigenous Peoples, Spirituality2 Comments

for many of our readers Markku Lehmuskallio won’t need an introduction. He is a world acclaimed film maker, and a friend of our team. Some of you may remember their previous visit, when we hosted them with some reindeer meat. See here https://arcticanthropology.org/2012/08/31/anastasia-lapsui-and-markku-lehmusskallio-guests-of-the-team-in-rovaniemi/ This time Markku continues his loyalty to us in the North and …

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Future of circumpolar youth in a changing climate

On By FstammleIn All, Indigenous Peoples, North American North, youth wellbeing

just wanted to share this, have a look. A nice project, idea to have very short clips of young people talking about life. But as worrying as it is - did they really tell something new? Probably not. But that wasn't the point maybe. It seems to be more that they think not enough is …

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Future of Arctic Youth in Rural Areas

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This initiative sounds very promising. I think we would need a publication that explores anthropologically the specifics of gender organisation in Arctic societies, not only in villages but also the tundra / taiga as well as towns and cities. The podium discussion "Current Challenges and Future Perspectives of Arctic Youth: Rural Areas and LGBTQI+ Communities" will take …

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Urban Anthropology job, research in Nuuk

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This comes pretty late, but who knows, maybe they extend the deadline? Colleagues want us to spread the news of PhD jobs funded at Tromso and Oslo and with a focus on the Greenlandic capital of Nuuk. The project “Urban transformation in a warming Arctic” (UrbTrans) is currently seeking two PhD fellows. If you would …

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Professorship in California

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Our colleagues would like us to widely announce these two job adverts in indigenous studies The Global Studies Department at the University of California, Irvine will be hiring two assistant professors in July 2021. One position is in Global Racial Studies, and the other in Global Indigenous Studies."We are interested in outstanding interdisciplinary scholars trained …

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Job opportunity in Manchester

On By Anna Stammler-GossmannIn All

Shared by Francis Joy: an employment position in Manchester. A job opportunity for Russian speaking social anthropologists interested in animism and environment - research associate for a 6 year project called “Cosmological Visionaries: Shamans, Scientists and Climate Change at the Ethnic Borderlands of China and Russia”. A Manchester-based ‘Russia team’ will conduct qualitative interview-based research …

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Arctic view on Russia’s changed constitution

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The population of Russia officially supported the suggested changes in the world's largest country's constitution, with almost 78% of those who voted. Half of the circumpolar Arctic, including most of its indigenous peoples, will be governed by a different constitution from now on. Looking at the results of the vote, it is, however, noticeable how …

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