Katrin Schmid presented a poster on her Nunavut case study at the ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting in Toronto, Dec. 5-9, 2022. In her research she asks how transport infrastructure can support territorial food sovereignty.
Philipp Budka will present on ownership and control in transport infrastructure projects in Northern Manitoba, Canada, in the session “The Politics of Open Infrastructures” at the STS Austria Conference 2023. The conference will take place at the Austrian Academy of Sciences from Nov 27-29, 2023. Program
Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer will give a guest lecture on “The Social Lives of Transport Infrastructures in the Arctic” at the Technical University of Vienna. The lecture includes insights from their InfraNorth research and will be part of the module “Emerging Fields in Architecture”, which seeks to put design into a broader social context. […]
Giuseppe Amatulli (Carlton University) & Philipp Budka (InfraNorth, University of Vienna) organize the session “Narratives and Temporalities of Infrastructure: The Canadian Experience” at the meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) & the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA). The conference will take place from November 15-19, 2023 in Toronto.
Peter Schweitzer and several other InfraNorth members will co-present their research at APRI’s Polar Talk N9 on November 8. Polar Talk Flyer Olga Povoroznyuk will give a presentation entitled “InfraNorth Future Scenarios for Arctic Communities” at the APRI Assembly Meeting on November 9. APRI Meeting Program Flyer
InfraNorth will have three paper presentations at the Meeting of the American Anthropological Association / Canadian Anthropology Society/Société canadienne d’anthropologie in Toronto, Canada, November 15-19, 2023: Olga Povoroznyuk & Peter Schweitzer with a paper entitled “Whose sovereignty? Promises and threats of a port expansion project in Nome, Alaska” Katrin Schmid with a paper titled “Gravel, […]
Philipp Budka wrote an article on transforming transport infrastructures in Canada for the booklet Arctic Sustainability Transformation: What Is It, What Can It Be, And What Does It Need To Be?, edited by J. Priebe, H. Lempinen & H. Vikström and published by Umeå University. Download Booklet