Oct 31, 2024: Presentation by Ria-Maria Adams at the “Spirit of Inari” 2024 Seminar

InfraNorth researcher Ria-Maria Adams will present at the seminar “Spirit of Inari 2024: The Future of Regenerative Tourism” at the Sajos Sámi Cultural Center in Inari, Finland, on Thursday, October 31, at 13:10 EET.

Her presentation, titled “For Whom Do the Sleigh Bells Toll? Social Media’s Role in Shaping Expectations of Arctic Tourism Destinations” will examine the ways in which tourism practices are shaped and co-created by local entrepreneurs and tourists alike, who arrive in the Arctic with specific expectations and imaginaries. It will discuss how tourism significantly impacts all parties involved, including local communities, hosts, and guests who arrive in growing numbers at Arctic destinations.

The seminar will bring together stakeholders from the tourism industry and related fields to discuss how to promote socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable and regenerative tourism in Finnish Lapland, and how tourism could support the local community’s wellbeing.

Find out more here.

Sep 2026: Chapter by Peter Schweitzer in “Anthropology in Motion” (Andre Gingrich, Ed.) Now Open Access

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 […]

Vienna Anthropology Days - VANDA 2027 Call for Papers

Call for Papers on “High Altitudes, High Latitudes: Engaging with Cryospheric Livelihoods” for VANDA Conference 2027

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 […]

Vienna Anthropology Days - VANDA 2027 Call for Papers

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 […]

Vienna Anthropology Days - VANDA 2027 Call for Papers

Call for Papers on “Whose Arctic Futures? Unsettling Northern Transport Infrastructures” for VANDA Conference 2027

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 […]

Vienna Anthropology Days - VANDA 2027 Call for Papers

Call for Papers on “Infrastructures: Questions, Debates, and Directions” for VANDA 2027

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, […]

Cover of the Polar Geography journal.

Aug 2026: Introduction to InfraNorth Special Issue in Polar Geography

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 […]