"When we talked to the communities about their research priorities, climate change wasn't mentioned a single time" Chris Southcott, ReSDA project leader In November Yellowknife is a nice fairy-tale winter town, the administrative centre of the North West Territories in Canada's North, with around 20 000 inhabitants smaller than Rovaniemi. It hosted the …
Exhibition: Art, the North, people and the state
Northern art exhibition, Rovaniemi "Flying Stories" Rovaniemi Art Museum, 4.11.2011-29.1.2012 We went to watch an exhibition by three painters on Arctic topics, from three different regions: Greenland, Lapland and the Russian North-West. It's called "Flying Stories" and exhibits paintings by Tyko Vylko, Andreas Alariesto and Johan Markussen. According to the museum, the exhibition is targeted …
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Arctic Centre Reports 55; Resettlement from the Russian North
Arctic Centre Reports 55 Resettlement from the Russian North: an analysis of state-induced relocation policy Written by Elena Nuykina, edited and with a preface by Florian Stammler The anthropology research team is happy to announce the available download of a new study on relocation, mobility and locality in the Russian North. Arctic Centre Report …
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Nature special, Arctic: discussion
The top-journal "nature" recently published a special issue on the Arctic, yet another proof on how important our field region is. I liked Henry Huntington's piece on Arctic residents' knowledge and how important this is for understanding the changes happening in the North. A good overview, and touching on the crucial issues for the future. …
Report from the Field: Looking for Alaska…in Mexico
Hello everybody, this is Sara Komarnisky, phD student from British Columbia, Canada. I would like to share some impressions from the field here, comments are welcome, particularly concerning "the North in the South", and vice versa, as well as migration in the North This summer I began fieldwork for my PhD dissertation in a town …
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Land use and indigenous rights in the Arctic
The anthropology research team was happy to be invited to the North Eastern Federal University of Yakutsk in Eastern Siberia, held on 28th and 29th of September. Yakutsk is the capital of the Sakha Republic, Russia's biggest administrative unit with the coldest winter temperatures and a population of just under 1 million inhabitants. The faculty …
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Greetings from Ust Nera, Russia
Dr. Florian Stammler has been studying Sakha spirituality along the Gulag Kolyma Road. Pictures and a more detailed description are to follow! Ust Nera:
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