Category: North American North

New Article on Extractive Industries in Indigenous Areas in Canada and Sweden

On By KGranqvistIn All, Extractive Industries, Fennoscandia, Fieldwork, Indigenous Peoples, North American North, Publications, Sámi, Theoretical Issues

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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Sacred Sites of Indigenous Peoples: conference and discussion

On By FstammleIn All, conferences, Fennoscandia, Indigenous Peoples, North American North, Russian North, Sámi1 Comment

Several colleagues at Arctic Centre Rovaniemi teamed up with our partners from Inari from the Sámi educational centre to organise a workshop on sacred sites in the Arctic. This was the second in a series of meetings on the topic, the first one having been a conference last September in Pyhätunturi and Rovaniemi. As participants …

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Extractive industries: Toxic Legacies and Northern Exposures Projects

On By FstammleIn All, Announcements, Extractive Industries, North American North, teaching

Happy new year to all arcticanthropology readers!!! We hope that 2014 brings us again interesting posts and discussions on this blog, and a growing inspiring academic exchange on topics of relevance for people and societies in the Arctic. Our first entry this year is an announcement from colleagues from the Extractive Industries Working Group (IASSA …

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Arctic city-communities and the extractive industries: urbanisation, industrial livelihoods and sustainability-considerations

On By FstammleIn All, Announcements, conferences, Extractive Industries, Guests, Indigenous Peoples, North American North, Russian North, teaching

The extractive industries working group (EIWG) of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) and the Uarctic Thematic Network on Arctic Extractive Industries start their  course in the Pan-Arctic PhD programme on Arctic Extractive industries next Monday until Friday. We have a very nice group of instructors and students alike, with participants from Canada, Norway, …

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“If research doesn’t surprise you, it’s not worth the research” Julie Cruikshank

On By Stephan DudeckIn Fieldwork, Guests, Indigenous Peoples, North American North, oral history, Spirituality, Theoretical Issues1 Comment

I would like to share with you some of the things we learned from Julie Cruikshank and other elders from the Yukon Territory to better understand oral history from the North. To search for surprising insights, to be open to challenges to our conventional perceptions, that was Julie's most important advice to us. Her talk …

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‘Are glaciers ‘good to think with? – Julie Cruikshank in Rovaniemi

On By FstammleIn All, Announcements, conferences, Guests, North American North, oral history, Theoretical Issues2 Comments

We are honoured and pleased to have Julie Cruikshank for the better part of the first week of April with us here in Rovaniemi. It won't pay enough respect to her fame to introduce her here briefly. There is enough good praise for her work in the net, most recently through the 2012 Clio award …

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Human agents or resources in Arctic extractive industries?

On By FstammleIn All, Announcements, Extractive Industries, North American North, Russian North, teaching2 Comments

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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