News & Events

Aug 11, 2022: Article on Roads & Railways in “Arctic Science”

Interdisciplinary review article on social and environmental consequences of roads and railways led by Olga Povoroznyuk with contributions from W. Vincent, P. Schweitzer and a few other Arctic scholars is now accessible online in the Canadian journal Arctic Science https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/as-2021-0033 The article features six Arctic case studies and is a result of collaboration between social […]

July 28, 2022: Presentations at EASA 2022 Conference

Olga Povoroznyuk & Philipp Budka present individual papers on transport infrastructures at the European Association of Social Anthropologists’ 17th Biennial Conference (July 26-29, 2022) in the panel “Promising Growth: Anthropological Reflections on Sprawling Infrastructure and Inequality“.

June 23, 2022: Storymap “Iron Ore & Midnight Sun”

Alexis Sancho-Reinoso has created a story that combines maps, pictures, and text to tell his experiences while travelling to Luleå and Kiruna, in the Swedish northernmost region Norrbotten. The excursion took place after the InfraNorth workshop about the history of Arctic infrastructures. The storymap is available here.

June 14-15, 2022: InfraNorth Workshop “Arctic Infrastructures: Histories of Exploration, Colonization & Industrial Development”

The Arctic, which often has been recognized by residents of temperate climate zones for its supposed unspoiled nature, has a long history of colonization, urbanization and industrial exploitation. From the days of Arctic whaling to gold rushes and oil booms, the Arctic has a rich legacy of built environment serving as infrastructure mainly for non-arctic […]

June 6, 2022: The InfraNorth Online Survey Has Been Launched!

This survey focuses on the role of transport infrastructures in Arctic and sub-Arctic communities. It is anonymous, consists of seven (7) questions, and takes about 10 minutes to complete.The survey is available at https://sosci.univie.ac.at/InfraNorthQuestionnaire/All residents in Northern communities aged 18 years or more are invited to participate in the survey!

CfPs for InfraNorth Events at VANDA 2022 Conference

ERC project “InfraNorth” (“Building Arctic Futures: Transport Infrastructure and Sustainable Northern Communities”) https://www.infranorth.eu/ will hold two events at the conference Vienna Anthropology Days taking place in Vienna on September 26-30, 2022. Please, feel free to submit your papers to the panel “Infrastructure and the Built Environment in the Anthropocene” and your expressions of interest to […]

March 26, 2022: Workshop on Arctic Infrastructure & Climate Change

The community workshop on Arctic infrastructure and climate change “RATIC meets T-MOSAiC”, co-organized by Skip Walker, Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk at the Arctic Science Summit Week, from 14:00 – 18:00 CEST in Tromsø, Norway and online: https://www.assw.info/sessions/ratic-meets-t-mosaic Meeting Announcement PDF Please, join us – online participation is free!

Feb 26, 2022: Panel “Undermining the Earth? Infrastructural Challenges to Sustainability”

The paper panel “Undermining the Earth? Infrastructural challenges to sustainability”, co-organized by Mia Bennett, Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, three sessions starting from 8:00 – 12:40 Eastern Time, online Session 1 https://aag-annualmeeting.secure-platform.com/a/solicitations/19/sessiongallery/2922 Session 2 https://aag-annualmeeting.secure-platform.com/a/solicitations/19/sessiongallery/3105 Session 3 https://aag-annualmeeting.secure-platform.com/a/solicitations/19/sessiongallery/3144 Call for Papers: Sessions Abstract PDF