The event will also be an opportunity to promote a proposal for a special issue under the theme “Care for life in the Arctic: Politics, economics, infrastructures and more-than-human relations”. We seek contributions critically engaging with the politics and practices of care for life in the Arctic.
We invite papers that explore how care is enacted, disrupted, or mobilized across scales—from local infrastructures and Indigenous knowledge systems to global investment flows and biopolitical regimes. Care is understood broadly: as a concept, a practice, a political strategy, and an ethical stance, shaped by social reproduction, interspecies relations, ecological thinking, and global inequalities.
We welcome empirical and conceptual papers examining issues related to care for life in the Arctic. A wide range of perspectives and topics are welcome, including, but not limited to, the following themes:
- Political economies of care and social reproduction in remote ageing communities
- (Imagining) intergenerational and interspecies care communities
- Biodiversity, rewilding, and land restoration for adaptation and resilience
- Care for life in the context of architecture, design, infrastructure, planning, and finance
- Different understandings and approaches to care, crises, and conflicts
Contact person: Dorothee Bohn (dorothee.bohn@ulapland.fi)