Nov, 2023: InfraNorth Presentations at AAA/CASCA 2023
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, asphalt and concrete. Canada’s northernmost runways: Temporality of infrastructure in Nunavut”
Philipp Budka with a paper entitled “Infrastructural disruption, entanglement, and change in Northern Manitoba, Canada”
Preliminary Program of the AAA/CASCA Meeting 2023 (PDF)
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