The town of Tiksi came into being in the 1930s, when the Soviet Union intensified its efforts to industrialize the Arctic. A critical element of that policy was to make the Northern Sea Route a viable Arctic shipping lane and Tiksi, located where the Lena River meets the Arctic Ocean, became an important transportation hub […]
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 (AAG) 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
Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer will be talking about the anthropology of transport infrastructures in the North at the 2021 Convention of the American Society of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) in New Orleans, USA. The roundtable discussion “Searching for Siberia: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Transnational Perspectives” will take place on Saturday, November 20, […]
PI Peter Schweitzer is co-author of a recently published article in Environmental Research Letters about “Expanding infrastructure and growing anthropogenic impacts along Arctic coasts”. The article was prominently featured by the European Space Agency. The article is available for open acess at this link. (Copyright Picture: Bartsch et al. (2021), permafrost in background (light grey area) – year […]
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 […]
InfraNorth will organize the workshop “The Global Economics and Geopolitics of Arctic Transport Infrastructures” at the University of Vienna, September 23, 2021. Program and registration details to be found here.
The launch event included presentations by project lead Peter Schweitzer and InfraNorth team members, as well as the introduction of project affiliates and partners. The event started with an opening address by the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna, Hajo Boomgaarden, at the premises of the new project office […]
InfraNorth members hosted the conference panel “The Promise of Arctic Infrastructural Development: Connectivity, Mobility, Prosperity” at the 10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences, which took place online from June 15–20, 2021. Panel presentations were based on research on transport infrastructures in the North conducted within the recently finished CoRe project and the new InfraNorth […]
Co-edited by Peter Schweitzer, Olga Povoroznyuk and Stephanie McCallum, the special section “Precarious Connections: On the Promise and Menace of Railroad Projects” was published in the interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal Transfers. The introduction by Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk is openly available. The collection of articles is the result of panels on the anthropology of railroads […]
Peter Schweitzer and the InfraNorth team gave an online presentation about the InfraNorth project at an internal seminar of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna.
The InfraNorth team held a workshop on data management, where external experts on ethical issues related to ethnographic data gathering, usage, and transfer gave presentations.