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Category: Extractive Industries
Human agents or resources in Arctic extractive industries?
Human Resources in Arctic extractive industries - a PhD course under the Uarctic Thematic Network "People and the Extractive Industries" It was a small but extremely diverse group that we got together between September 10-16 in St John's, the capital of Newfoundland, Canada. The participants to the course came from 5 different institutions and 7 …
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Determining the wellness of Arctic Communities
Colleague Stephanie Irbacher-Fox from Yellowknife, NWT, Canada, sent around this call for papers for an interesting conference. Basically all topics relating to the wellbeing and viability of livelihoods in the North are welcome. They also invite contributions from the non-Canadian North. If somebody has money to go there, I'm sure it would be a rewarding …
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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 …
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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Gas and reindeer herders at the source of the heat for Europe
I just watched a two part programme by the english language Tv channel of Russia, Russia Today. It has some very good footage and visual impression of the situation at the place where most of our European Gas comes from (which is also my number one field site since the mid 1990s). Lots has changed …
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Arctic Anthropology 