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Jan 31, 2024: Timothy Heleniak on the “Borders & Belonging” Podcast

Timothy Heleniak has been featured on the “Borders & Belonging” podcast (Episode 6, Season 2), hosted by Maggie Perzyna, a researcher with the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University. During the podcast, he highlighted the InfraNorth project and talked about his fieldwork in the Faroe Islands, when asked about the interactions between (transport) infrastructure and demographic changes in the Arctic.

The “Borders & Belonging” podcast shares stories from around the world, spotlighting regional issues and uncovering the global forces that shape them. In this episode, titled “The Arctic: Climate, Resources, and Migration in Times of Change,” Heleniak and other experts discuss how global market forces and climate change are shaping migration to the Arctic in new and complex ways.

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Feb 2026: Article by Susan Vanek in Polar Geography Special Issue

The quarterly peer-reviewed journal Polar Geography has published the article “2200 meters: infrastructure, the future, and the politics of belonging in Greenland and the Arctic” by InfraNorth associate researcher Susan Vanek. The article examines Greenland’s airport expansion project, following its approval in 2015 by Naalakkersuisut (the Government of Greenland) as the largest investment in transportation […]

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Feb 9, 2026: Talk by Philipp Budka at the University of Manchester’s Social Anthropology Seminar Series

On Monday, February 9, 2026, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm (GMT), InfraNorth researcher Philipp Budka will deliver a guest talk as part of the seminar series of the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. The event will take place in room G20-21 of the Arthur Lewis Building. The departmental seminar series is […]

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Jan 2026: Chapter by Timothy Heleniak in The Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics

The second edition of The Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics, edited by Carin Holroyd and Ken Coates, has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. The book brings together a diverse group of international scholars and practitioners from North America and Northern Europe, spanning multiple academic disciplines, to contextualize the Arctic across fields of […]

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Jan 2026: InfraNorth Chapters Featured in “Arctic Silk Roads: An Anthropology of the Unbuilt” (Berghahn Books)

InfraNorth researchers have contributed two chapters to the book Arctic Silk Roads: An Anthropology of the Unbuilt, edited by Natalia Magnani and Matthew Magnani, and published by Berghahn Books as part of its Studies in the Circumpolar North series. As climate change accelerates, the melting of sea ice is fueling the global imagination and geopolitical […]

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Dec 2025: Article by Alexandra Meyer, Ria-Maria Adams and Sophie Elixhauser in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography has recently published the article “Lifelines and Gateways: The Relational Affordances of Arctic Airports” by InfraNorth researchers Alexandra Meyer, Ria-Maria Adams and Sophie Elixhauser. Airports are indispensable to life in the Arctic. Often shaped by geopolitical agendas and external economic interests, they provide vital links for local communities across remote […]

Dec 2025: Peter Schweitzer Interviewed on Austrian Public Radio Ö1

The Austrian public broadcaster Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) featured InfraNorth principal investigator Peter Schweitzer in an interview on its Ö1 weekend feuilleton “Diagonal” on December 6, 2025, which focused on the politics of infrastructure. Schweitzer appeared in a segment titled “A Silk Road Across the Arctic” (in German: Seidenstrasse über die Arktis), interviewed by Erich Klein […]