Even if logistic is not your thing, like in my case, you cannot avoid this challenge if you have to move in this northern area between Finland (Lapland) and Norway (Finnmark). After hours and hours of surfing in internet you come to one result – there is no public transport between Kirkenes and Finnish border …
Category: Fennoscandia
ACCESS project – Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society
Greetings from stormy Bugøynes ‘Havet (‘ocean’ – norweg.) is giving and taking’. Many people in the coastal area refer to ‘giving and taking’ properties of seawater. The coastal village lives from the sea – cod/salmon/crab fishing, ‘Arctic’ tourism. The King crab, introduced to the Barents Sea from the North Pacific Ocean the 1960s by Soviet …
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Kings, predators and research on the northern top of Europe
Greetings from Bugøyfjord and Varanger fjord. I am now in Bugoynes (Pykeijä - fin.), in ‘pikku Suomi’ (little Finland). It is a fishing community with nearly 230 inhabitants. Almost everybody here speaks Finnish. The village is small, but several activities are going on here. There are actively operating factories (King crab farm, fish/reindeer meat processing …
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Travelling solo in the field isn’t being brave
The fieldwork is the most exciting part of our research. It is very challenging, everything is hard to plan, but it is adventurous, full of surprises, interesting meetings and conversations. For my field research on anthropology of seawater I meet, talk and listen, listen and talk to such a different people.Yesterday I was talking for …
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Greetings from the Arctic Ocean coast
Greetings from the Arctic Ocean coast and Gunnarsfjorden, Sandfjord, Skitten fjord, Sör fjord, Ifjord and all these beautiful places around Nordkinn peninsula. In the museum guide in Gamvik you can read that according to medieval scholars, Finnmark was considered as Ultima Thule – the End of the World. Around 100 people, mainly pensioners are living …
Terhi Vuojala-Magga and Stephan Dudeck breaching the image of the North as a home and as a field
Stephan Dudeck visited Terhi Vuojala-Magga in the Inari region of Finnish Sápmi (Sámi home area) two times during this year. The first visit was in January in Kuttura – a Sami reindeer herders´ forest village of six houses in the upper stream of Ivalo River - and the second visit was at the beginning of …
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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