If we think about the impacts of extractive industries in the Arctic, for us anthropologists this means first and foremost looking at what industry does on the ground with people for whom the places on top of the deposits are their homeland. As anthropologists, we don't need to be told that cultural, social effects and …
Continue reading Notes from the Arctic Dialogue conference 2011, Bodo, Norway
From the 11th until the 30th of March we have enjoyed the visit of Professor Hiroshi Maruyama and of Associate Professor Takashi Matsuna from the College of Liberal Arts at the Muroran Institute of Technology in Hokkaido, Japan. The purpose of their visit was to have meetings with Dr Elina Helander-Renvall and with members of …
Continue reading Visit of Prof. Maruyama and Prof. Matsuna, 11-30 March 2011
Anna Stammler-Gossmann has attended the kick-off meeting for the “ACCESS” project at the Sorbonne Universités, in Paris on the 8-10 of March 2011. ACCESS (Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society) is an European project of the 7th Framework Programme Research and Development started on March 1st, 2011. 27 partners from 8 European countries and from …
Continue reading ACCESS kick-off meeting (Sorbonne Universités, Paris), March 8-10.2011
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
Looking forward to a phD course on extractive industries in the Arctic. It's planned and implemented by several members of the IASSA (www.iassa.org) Extractive Industries Working Group members. There will be experts from all over the field, including industry representatives, NGO, indigenous people’s representatives, teaching about how to prevent damage from industry projects to …
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