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Assessing damage to indigenous cultures by industrial development with maths?

On By FstammleIn All, Extractive Industries, Fieldwork, Indigenous Peoples, Russian North, Theoretical Issues4 Comments

I just read an interesting post by the Russian news agency TASS (in Russian) announcing proudly the launch of a new method for assessing damage to indigenous culture and livelihood during industrial development of the Arctic. Russian scholars in this field know that there has been long a discussion about how the only Russian law …

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Extractive Industries – mining anthropology positions

On By FstammleIn All, Announcements, Extractive Industries

Colleagues from Belgium advertise the following posts. The orientation is not Arctic but African - and not less fascinating for sure! Five new positions opening at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Liège (ULg), Belgium: 2 Ph.D. fellowships in anthropology (4 years, full time) and 3 postdoctoral fellowships in social sciences (3 …

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