Category Archives: Fennoscandia

Турбулентные периоды истории ямальского оленеводства в рассказах тундровиков /Turbulent periods in the history of Yamal reindeer husbandry in stories of tundra dwellers

Posted on November 14, 2016 by

This speech was given in November, 10, 2016 in Salekhard (Yamal, Western Siberia) during International Symposium “Preventing the dissemination of infectious animal diseases on climate change”. Among all presentations in this presentation discusses different aspects of work with reindeer, it … Continue reading →

Posted in All, conferences, Fennoscandia, Indigenous Peoples, Russian North

Who closed the border between Finland and Russia? A reply to The Independent Barents Observer

Posted on May 26, 2016 by

The saga about the Northern migrant route for asylum seekers wishing to reach a European country recently got a new turn: Since April 2016 the Russian-Finnish border in Lapland is closed for third-country citizens. The international staff of researchers at … Continue reading →

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Historical Decision as to Mining in Sweden

Posted on May 2, 2016 by

A – what I would like to call a historical – decision was taken by the Supreme Administrative Court in Sweden at the end of February this year (source: The Supreme Administrative Court (SAC), case 2047-14). It is a decision made … Continue reading →

Posted in All, Extractive Industries, Fennoscandia

Arctic Voices: Expectations, Narratives and the Realities of Living with Extractive industries: new publication

Posted on March 8, 2016 by

Arctic Voices: Expectations, Narratives and the Realities of Living with Extractive industries in the Far North (Edited by Emma Wilson and Florian Stammler ) is the name of a new special issue. It has been ages ago that we ran … Continue reading →

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Arctic refugee lived experience: Northern Sea Route? Walking route? Cycling route? Motor (Lada) route instead?

Posted on October 9, 2015 by

Please also see the comments to this post, interesting! Surely most of us have followed the terrible news about drowning refugees desperate to reach Europe – and many may have thought that “well all that’s what the poor people have … Continue reading →

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Arctic Ark: new project on animal breeds, species and human practices in the Arctic

Posted on February 9, 2015 by

We are very happy to announce that we started working on a new project funded within the Finnish Academy’s Arctic programme, called Arctic Ark. Human-animal adaptations to the Arctic environment: natural and folk selection practices (Arc-Ark) The Arctic is often … Continue reading →

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