Oct 11, 2023: Article by Sophie Elixhauser, Alexandra Meyer, et al. in “Environmental Science & Policy”
Sophie Elixhauser, Alexandra Meyer and others wrote an article on collaborative research on climate and environmental change for the journal Environment Science & Policy. The article’s aim is to rethink how anthropology can be involved in interdisciplinary research on climate and environmental change, considering wide-spread obstacles for successful collaboration and recommending best practices.
S. Elixhauser, Z. Boni, N. Gregorič Bon, U. Kanjir, A. Meyer, F. Muttenzer, M. Pampus and Z. Sokolíčková. Ahead-of-press. “Interdisciplinary, but how? Anthropological Perspectives from Collaborative Research on Climate and Environmental Change,” Environmental Science & Policy, Vol. 151, 2024, 103586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.103586
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October 2026: Interview with Peter Schweitzer on Deutschlandfunk Kultur
On 20 October 2026, the European Commission and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, presented a new EU Strategy for the Arctic, at a time when accelerating climate change, rising geopolitical tensions and growing strategic competition are reshaping the region. Against this backdrop, journalist Vladimir Balzer interviewed Peter Schweitzer, […]
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Sep 2026: Article by Elena Davydova in Food and Foodways
Food and Foodways, a refereed, interdisciplinary and international journal devoted to the history and culture of human nourishment, has recently published the article “Between food and refuse: Enacting (in)edibility in the Russian Arctic” by InfraNorth researcher Elena Davydova. In this article, Davydova interrogates the contingent boundaries between food and waste in the Russian Arctic, analyzing […]
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Call for Papers on “Infrastructuring Green Transitions” for VANDA Conference 2027
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 […]
