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ICE LAW meeting ’Climate, fish and fisheries sector: Local and indigenous perspectives’

Posted on April 17, 2019 by

On April 16-17, 2019, Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland. (For more information please contact Anna Stammler-Gossamann) AGENDA: April 16, Thule room Session 1: 9:00 – 12.00 Prof. Koivurova Timo, Director of the Arctic Centre. Coordinator of ICE LAW sub-project: Legal perspective … Continue reading →

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Domestication revisited?

Posted on February 23, 2019 by

Domestication is by most used as a term for the biologically traceable subordination of animals under human control. But anthropologists have for long argued that there are also social definitions of domestication. Very influential was the one by Tim Ingold … Continue reading →

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Arctic Youth well-being project participating in circumpolar comparison

Posted on November 17, 2018 by

The team of the joint Finnish-Russian project studying well-being among youth in Arctic industrial cities (WOLLIE) was invited to participate in the circumpolar study on Arctic Youth and sustainable futures, headed Joan Nymard Larsen, and the Arctic Human Development Report … Continue reading →

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extractivism conference, November 2018

Posted on September 28, 2018 by

Our colleagues from the peace studies institute in Tromso share the announcement to this conference, which sounds interesting. https://uit.no/tavla/artikkel/564387/resisting_extractivism_in_border_zones  

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International conference on “Local horse breeding in Russia in the past, present and future”, June 22-24, 2018

Posted on June 29, 2018 by

It is worth travelling north in mid June to experience one of the wonders of the Arctic. It is polar day when the sun disappears only for a very short time under the horizon and the sunset is fading into … Continue reading →

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Vienna anthropology days

Posted on May 5, 2018 by

VANDA is an international conference, first to be held in Vienna in fall 2018, aimed at bringing together scholars from various fields of anthropology and ethnology, as well as other social sciences and humanities. While there is a certain regional … Continue reading →

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How do non-Arctic actors’ interests matter the Arctic? – debates around Arctic Circle assembly

Posted on November 8, 2017 by

From October 13 to October 19, 2017, the Uarctic Thematic network “Arctic Extractive Industries” held a masters/Phd course on the topic of Security, Governance and Geopolitics in relation to Arctic Extractive Industries. This time the organizers invited participants to Iceland. … Continue reading →

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