Many of us who have worked in Russia, but also in many other places, have experienced how easy it is to get trapped in a role that we get ascribed by people in the field. What is the consequence of this perceived roles for our fieldwork, the participant aspect in the live of our friends …
Continue reading Spy or Kin? Stephan Dudeck’s lecture at Arctic Centre
The 2011 Arctic Science Summit Week (www.ASSW2011.org) seems to be a real 'no brainer' for not only for us Arctic anthropologists, but for social sciences in general. There are many nice words among some science politicians about acknowledging that social sciences can importantly contribute to understanding Arctic change, but the hard sciences are still largely …
Continue reading Arctic Science Summit week March/April 2011, Seoul
We would like to invite you to a presentation by Jodie Asselin (University of Alberta, Canada) that will take place on Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 10pm in Thule room. Jodie Asselin is an anthropologist who is working on perception and use of forest by different interest groups in the Yukon Territory, Canada. Talk Title: …
At the upcoming major Arctic Science event, the Arctic Science Summit Week in Seoul, South Korea, 27th March-1st April. The theme of the summit is "The Arctic: New Frontier For Global Science" and Florian will co-lead a session on "Societal changes in the Arctic and North-South relations", with prominent participants from all over the world. …
Continue reading “Human Dimension”: time to emancipate Arctic anthropology
Arctic Anthropology 