Nov 4, 2021: Paper by Philipp Budka at Anthropology of Technology Conference
Philipp Budka, InfraNorth’s North American study region lead, is giving a talk on digital and transport infrastructures in remote communities in Canada at the Anthropology of Technology Conference in Aarhus, Denmark (Nov. 4-5, 2021).
His paper discusses aspects of the similarities and differences of digital and transport infrastructures by building on fieldwork on digital infrastructures in remote First Nation communities in Northwestern Ontario and by including preparatory work for investigations into the affordances of transport infrastructures in the Canadian North.
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Oct 8, 2024: Polar Journal Features Research by Olga Povoroznyuk
In a recent article published by the online information platform Polar Journal, titled “In shrinking Soviet towns, Northern Sea Route is keeping hope alive,” journalist Ole Ellekrog talked with Olga Povoroznyuk, InfraNorth’s research coordinator and lead of the Russian Arctic study region, about the difficulty of conducting anthropological research on Russia today and how InfraNorth […]
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Sep 2024: Article in “Études Inuit Studies” by Sophie Elixhauser
The latest issue of Études Inuit Studies (Vol. 47, No. 1-2, September 2024) features the article “Making and Unmaking Airports in Tunu (East Greenland): The Socio-Material Dynamics of Hope and Connectivity” by Sophie Elixhauser. Like many airports throughout the Arctic, Kulusuk Airport, the entrance to the sparsely populated East Coast of Greenland, is built on […]