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Spirituality of abandoned Arctic Infrastructure

On By FstammleIn All, Announcements, Extractive Industries, Fieldwork, Russian North, Spirituality

So-called 'ghost towns' attract people in a certain sense, the ailing beauty of their ruins and the atmosphere of silence that is so different from the silence that you experience when you are somewhere out on the tundra in the Arctic in a snow-desert. But when I recently walked with a friend through an abandoned …

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The Northern Sea Route and waterway infrastructure in the Russian Arctic: a seminar on anthropological perspectives

On By Stephan DudeckIn All, Announcements, conferences, Russian North

The European University at Saint Petersburg will host a seminar on the Northern Sea Route at its research Center for Arctic Social Studies. The seminar will be held in Russian and English and is organized in collaboration with Tyumen State University. The seminar will take place in St. Petersburg 23-23 November 2021. Please apply with …

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