Arctic Voices: Expectations, Narratives and the Realities of Living with Extractive industries in the Far North (Edited by Emma Wilson and Florian Stammler ) is the name of a new special issue. It has been ages ago that we ran a conference session "People and the Extractive Industries" and a doctoral course in Rovaniemi in …
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Extractive Industries, mobility and work in rural Russia
And another lecture on the extractive industries, this time looking at the sending regions of those people who work on the Russian Arctic's oil and gas fields. What's the importance of Arctic oil for a remote village in Russia's south 1000s of miles away from the Arctic? The starting point is that we need to …
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Arctic city-communities and the extractive industries: urbanisation, industrial livelihoods and sustainability-considerations
The extractive industries working group (EIWG) of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) and the Uarctic Thematic Network on Arctic Extractive Industries start their course in the Pan-Arctic PhD programme on Arctic Extractive industries next Monday until Friday. We have a very nice group of instructors and students alike, with participants from Canada, Norway, …
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