ARCTIC WORKSHOP OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TARTU: WORK IN THE ARCTIC 29 AND 30 MAY, 2015 The Department of Ethnology at the University of Tartu in Estonia is pleased to invite proposals for the international academic workshop “Arctic workshop of the University of Tartu: Work in the Arctic” that will take place on 29 and …
Category: Extractive Industries
Corporate Social Responsibility or Corporate Diplomacy
The abstract below to an event in London brings up the interesting question if we are in an age of extractive industry conversation where CSR is over, and being replaced by what Gilbert calls "corporate diplomacy", very restricted to few persons, who make the crucial decisions. What do you think about the idea that this …
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New Article on Extractive Industries in Indigenous Areas in Canada and Sweden
New article "Effects of mining on reindeer/caribou populations and indigenous livelihoods: community-based monitoring by Sami reindeer herders in Sweden and First Nations in Canada" in The Polar Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2014, by Thora Martina Herrmann, Per Sandström, Karin Granqvist, Natalie D'Astous, Jonas Vannar, Hugo Asselin, Nadia Saganash, John Mameamskum, George Guanish, Jean-Baptiste Loon & …
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Guide to Covering Extractive Industries
A guide to covering extractive industries by investigating journalists. Sadly enough it seems like only organisations and companies are listed members, not research groups or single researchers. http://gijn.org/resources/covering-the-extractive-industries/
Black Gold or black dirt in East Siberia? Arctic Extractive Industries PhD programme holds course in Neryungyi, Republic of Sakha Yakutia
It was a fascinating week that the Extractive Industries Group spent in Neryungryi, Yakutia, one of the Soviet Union's youngest single industry towns, established in 1975. The Uarctic Thematic Network "Arctic Extractive Industries" thank the North Eastern Federal University, Faculty of Law and department for Northern Studies, for organising of a great course in our …
Extractive Industries and Society : new journal now indexed
Those of our readers engaging with the anthropology of extractive industries such as oil, gas and mining in the Arctic will be pleased to see that a recently established journal is up, running and already indexed in the scopus citation database. The journal is interdisciplinary in scope, but rooted in social science for sure. This …
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Extractive Industries, mobility and work in rural Russia
And another lecture on the extractive industries, this time looking at the sending regions of those people who work on the Russian Arctic's oil and gas fields. What's the importance of Arctic oil for a remote village in Russia's south 1000s of miles away from the Arctic? The starting point is that we need to …
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