This survey focuses on the role of transport infrastructures in Arctic and sub-Arctic communities. It is anonymous, consists of seven (7) questions, and takes about 10 minutes to complete.
The survey is available at https://sosci.univie.ac.at/InfraNorthQuestionnaire/
All residents in Northern communities aged 18 years or more are invited to participate in the survey!
The book chapter “Remote connections: Human entanglements with built and natural environments in the Arctic and elsewhere,” written by InfraNorth principal investigator Peter Schweitzer and published as part of Anthropology in Motion, edited by Andre Gingrich and published by Sean Kingston Publishing in 2021, is now available open access. In the chapter, Schweitzer revisits the […]
We invite paper proposals for our panel “High Altitudes, High Latitudes: Engaging with Cryospheric Livelihoods” at the Vienna Anthropology Days (VANDA) 2027, hosted by the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, 16-19 February 2027. The cryosphere, defined by frozen water in all its forms, has attracted considerable attention of late […]
We invite paper proposals for our panel “Infrastructuring Green Transitions” at the Vienna Anthropology Days (VANDA) 2027, hosted by the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, 16-19 February 2027. The green transition marks a shift away from fossil fuel-based, high-carbon economic activity toward more sustainable systems of production, consumption, and […]
We invite paper proposals for our panel “Whose Arctic Futures? Unsettling Northern Transport Infrastructures” at the Vienna Anthropology Days (VANDA) 2027, hosted by the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, 16-19 February 2027. The Arctic, which during the post-Cold War period at the turn of the last century seemed to […]
We invite paper proposals for our panel “Infrastructures: Questions, Debates, and Directions” at the Vienna Anthropology Days (VANDA) 2027, hosted by the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, 16-19 February 2027. The panel explores infrastructure as both an object of anthropological inquiry and an analytical lens. It welcomes empirical, conceptual, […]
The quarterly peer-reviewed journal Polar Geography has published the introduction to the forthcoming special issue “Transport infrastructure and population in the Arctic.” The introduction has been written by InfraNorth senior researcher Timothy Heleniak and principal investigator Peter Schweitzer. Published online in August 2026, the introduction presents the special issue emerging from the InfraNorth project. At […]