For those interested in oral history, heritage and archiving: Here are some impressions of the "Charting vanishing voices" workshop, held by the Cambridge World Oral Literature Project . The workshop is on recent developments all over the world preserving oral cultural heritage. people from academic projects, practitioners, and data archiving specialists working with advanced multimedia …
Continue reading Oral history – Mapping Endangered Oral Cultures Cambridge
Friday 22 June 2012 I participated to a workshop in Leipzig, at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, on the theme: “Identity, Politics, Place and Representation”. The workshop had been preceded the day before (21.06.2012) by a public lecture given by Oren Yiftachel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, with the title of - Urban Regimes …
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 …
Continue reading Determining the wellness of Arctic Communities
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 …
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 …
Continue reading ACCESS project – Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society
In many works on reindeer herding Komi people are considered as innovators who made reindeer herding not only a way of life but a profitable economy. One innovation that they did in the small village of Khongurei (see my fieldwork blog stephandudeck.wordpress.com) Nenets Autonomous Okrug, European Russian North, turned out to be rather counter-productive in …
Continue reading The cradle of fly-in/fly-out reindeer herding in Europe: greetings from Khongurei
Nina Meschtyb, postdoc research in our ORHELIA project, shares the following impressions from her fieldtrip Privet from Murmansk region. It is not very hot here – around 3-7 degree, but warm water was already switched off at houses for the summer period. I started my trip from Murmansk. The bus arrived late in the evening, …
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