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Educated as a political scientist (international relations) Monica has studied Arctic politics since early 1990s. Currently, she focuses in her research to Foucaultian perspectives to the Arctic working with concepts such as heterotopia, environmentality and governmentality. 
Project: Post-anthropocentric water relations in the Bothnian Bay

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Auni holds an interdisciplinary master’s degree in climate change at the University of Copenhagen. Her ongoing doctoral research focuses on the roles of Arctic cities in the makings of global extractivism. Auni’s research combines feminist and urban studies with political ecology.

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Marjo holds a doctoral degree in social sciences (International Relations). Her research focuses on the entanglements between power and development in global and Arctic politics. Her work has investigated the dynamics between politics and rights and the question of resilience in contemporary colonial conditions. In her recent work she has explored the political purchase of hope. 

Project: Politics and Power of Resilience (POWERS)

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Hannah completed her PhD on public participation in large scale energy siting procedures at the University of Oulu in 2011. As an environmental sociologist with an interest in science policy and socio-legal studies she focuses on the Arctic region. Hannah teaches graduate and undergraduate courses at the University of Lapland.

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Heidi’s two Master of Arts degrees are from the fields of design and sustainability. Her transdisciplinary research interests include the plurality of sustainabilities in the Arctic, which she approaches with a decolonial lens. Heidi has completed the first year of her doctoral research on the Arctic seal hunt, crafts and trade in the University of Helsinki’s Indigenous Studies research group, which has a strong influence on her work.

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Nadezhda defended PhD in Historical Sciences at St.Petersburg University. Scientific interests are among others finding the foundations for rational choice of northerners, normative approaches of water management in the northern rivers of the Arctic, and world politics theories.

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E-mail: nkharlam@ulapland.fi

Assi Harkoma is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Lapland with a background in Political Science. Her multidisciplinary research focuses on structural inequality affecting Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic area. The research is influenced by her interest in human rights. Project: Gender-based structural inequality in Sami reindeer herding communities.

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Joonas is a doctor of social sciences and a scholar of political science. His work concentrates on a deconstructive reading of the Arctic, politics of aesthetics and post-human relations.

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Tom is pursuing his PhD in Space Law at the University of Lapland, examining space sustainability and commercial spaceports in the European North (Norway, Sweden, and Scotland). Tom holds degrees in Political and Social Sciences, Space Law, and Digital and IP Law.

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