Many of us who have worked for years, decades or their entire professional life in the Russian Arctic started wondering in early 2022 what will happen of the circumpolarity in Arctic Anthropology if we exclude the Russian Arctic from our studies. Some of us re-align their research efforts to cover more prominently other areas of …
Continue reading Circumpolar Arctic Anthropology? Seminar Series addressing the pasts and prospects of an again-divided field
Congratulations to our research partners from the Sattasniemi Paliskunta in Lapland for their young empowering activism, which is now increasingly noticed also by journalists (see below). Having started working there this year in two projects funded by Canadian and US research foundations, I am impressed how seamlessly they integrate youngsters to working with reindeer and …
Continue reading Generation & gender change in reindeer herding – opportunities in Lapland
As part of our long term partnership with Japanese Arctic anthropologists, we are part of the ARCSII – funded Research Exchange Programme, led by Hiroki Takakura of CNEAS, Tohoku University. In the upcoming Finnish-Japanese seminar in Kobe “Well-being of Migrants in the Arctic and Asia”, our team member Ria Adams is going to talk about …
Continue reading Well-being of Migrants in the Arctic and Asia, online seminar 13 October
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