Articles

  • 2024 Alexandra Meyer & Zdenka Sokolíčková. ‘Melting Worlds’ and ‘Climate Myths’: Diverging Stories of Climate Change in Longyearbyen, an Arctic ‘Frontline Community’, In: Ethnos. Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 89 (2) 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2024.2329690
  • 2024 Elixhauser, Sophie, Zofia Boni, Nataša Gregorič Bon, Urša Kanjir, Alexandra Meyer, Frank Muttenzer, Mareike Pampus, and Zdenka Sokolíčková. Interdisciplinary, but how? Anthropological perspectives from collaborative research on climate and environmental change. Environmental Science & Policy 151 (January), 103586, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.103586
  • 2024 Olga Povoroznyuk. Book Review: Olga Ulturgasheva & Barbara Bodenhorn (eds.), “Risky Futures: Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North,” Studies in the Circumpolar North, Vol. 6, New York: Berghahn 2022. In: Journal of Northern Studies. Vol. 16 (1) 2024: 92-95. https://doi.org/10.36368/jns.v16i1.772
  • 2023 Dina Brode-Roger, Jasmine Zhang, Alexandra Meyer & Zdenka Sokolíčková. Caught in between and in transit: forced and encouraged (im)mobilities during the Covid-19 pandemic in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. In Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 105:4, 395-408. https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2022.2097937
  • 2023 Julie Michelle Klinger, Eleanor Sophie Armstrong, Ria-Maria Adams & Mia M. Bennett. The crowded and empty Arctic: Examining spatial imaginaries and infrastructures in Kiruna, Sweden. In: Priebe and Wormbs (2023) Thematic Issue: Arctic Dreams. Lychnos. Annual of the Swedish History of Science Society: 57-72. https://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/25085/22738
  • 2023 Philipp Budka. Anthropological notes on transforming transport infrastructures in Canada. In Arctic sustainability transformation: What is it, what can it be, and what does it need to be? J. Priebe, H. Lempinen, H. Vikström eds. P. 23. Umeå: Umeå University. https://www.umu.se/globalassets/organisation/fakulteter/humfak/ide-och-samhallsstudier/forskning/forskningsprojekt/blickar-fran-periferin/sept-19_arctic-sustainability-transformation_small.pdf
  • 2023 Olga Povoroznyuk, Peter Schweitzer. Ignoring environmental change? On fishing quotas and collapsing coastlines in Bykovskiy, Northern Sakha (Yakutiya). Ambio. A Journal of Environment and Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01874-9
  • 2023 Olga Povoroznyuk, Peter Schweitzer. What difference does a railroad make?: Transportation and settlement in the BAM region in historical perspective. In The Siberian World. J. P. Ziker, J. Ferguson, V. Davydov eds. pp. 364-377. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429354663
  • 2023 Ria-Maria Adams. Hunting a ‘good life’: young lifestyle migrants in Finnish Lapland. Polar Geography, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1088937X.2023.2182383
  • 2022 Peter Schweitzer. Railroads and the North: Historic and Ethnographic Examples from Russia and North America. In More than “Nature”: Research on Infrastructure and Settlements in the North. D. Friedrich, M. Hirnsperger, S. Bauer eds. Pp. 29-44. Vienna: LIT Verlag.
  • 2022 Olga Povoroznyuk, Warwick F. Vincent, Peter Schweitzer, Rosa Laptander, Mia Bennett, Fabrice Calmels, Dmitrir Sergeev, Christopher Arp, Bruce C. Forbes, Pascale Roy-Léveillée and Donald A. Walker. Arctic roads and railways: Social and environmental consequences of transport infrastructure in the circumpolar North. Arctic Science: 1-34. https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/as-2021-0033
  • 2022 Ria-Maria Adams, Alla Bolotova, Ville Alasalmi. Liveability under shrinkage: Initiatives in the “capital of pessimism” in Finland. European Planning Studies: 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2022.2126721
  • 2022 Peter Schweitzer, Olga Povoroznyuk. Infrastructural legacies and post-Soviet transformations in Northern Sakha (Yakutiya), Russia. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning: 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2022.2051455
  • 2021 Peter Schweitzer, Annet Bartsch, Georg Pointner, Ingmar Nitze, Aleksandra Efimova, Dan Jakober, Sarah Ley, Elin Högström, Guido Grosse. Expanding infrastructure and growing anthropogenic impacts along Arctic coasts. Environmental Research Letters 16, 115013. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac3176
  • 2021 Peter Schweitzer. Remote connections: Human entanglements with built and natural environments in the Arctic and elsewhere. In Anthropology in Motion: Encounters with Current Trajectories of Scholarship from Austria. A. Gingrich, ed. Pp. 40-63. The RAI Country Series; 4. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing.
  • 2021 Olga Povoroznyuk. Ambiguous entanglements: Infrastructure, memory and identity in indigenous Evenki communities along the Baikal-Amur Mainline. Social Anthropology: 29 (2): 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13032
  • 2020 (2021) Olga Povoroznyuk. (Re)constructing the Baikal-Amur Mainline: Continuity and change of post-socialist infrastructure. Transfers: 10 (2/3): 250-269. https://doi.org/10.3167/TRANS.2020.10020317
  • 2020 (2021) Peter Schweitzer, Olga Povoroznyuk. Introduction to the special section “Precarious connections: On the promise and menace of railroad projects”. Transfers: 10 (2/3): 137-151. https://doi.org/10.3167/TRANS.2020.10020311

Special Issues & Volumes

Papers, Presentations & Talks

  • R.-M. Adams. Young, rural stayers in Finnish Lapland: Decision-making, infrastructures & wellbeing. Arctic Frontiers, Tromsø , January 31, 2024
  • P. Budka. Community transport infrastructures in Northern Manitoba, Canada. STS Austria Conference 2023, Vienna, 28 November, 2023
  • O. Povoroznyuk, P. Schweitzer. The social lives of transport infrastructures in the Arctic. Guest lecture at the TU Wien, Vienna, November 27, 2023
  • P. Budka. Infrastructural disruption, entanglement, and change in Northern Manitoba, Canada. American Anthropological Association (AAA)/Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) Annual Meeting, Toronto, November 17, 2023.
  • O. Povoroznyuk, P. Schweitzer. Whose Sovereignty? Promises and Threats of a Port Expansion Project in Nome, Alaska. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Toronto, November 17, 2023
  • R.-M. Adams. Arctic Tourism Infrastructures: Temporality, Imaginaries & Anticipation. Regional Studies Association (RSA) Winter Conference, London, November 9, 2023
  • O. Povoroznyuk. InfraNorth Future Scenarios for Arctic. Austrian Polar Research Institute 10th Anniversary Annual Meeting, Vienna, November 9, 2023
  • R.-M. Adams. Perceptions of wellbeing among young lifestyle migrants in Finnish Lapland: Mobility, place & temporality. Kobe University, International Studies Department, Kobe, October 13, 2023
  • R.-M. Adams. Beyond the ruins of infrastructure: Liveability & local initiatives in Finland’s fastest shrinking town. Tohoku University, Center for Northeast Asian Studies (CNEAS), Sendai, October 10, 2023
  • P. Budka. Tourism and transport infrastructures in the “Polar Bear Capital of the World”. 16th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF2023), Brno, June 10, 2023.
  • O. Povoroznyuk. Arctic coastal communities and global connectivity: Towards an ethnography of maritime infrastructure. Workshop “Ethnographies of Infrastructure”, Vienna, May 22, 2023.
  • P. Budka. Digital and transport infrastructures in remote Canada: Notes on ownership and control. Workshop “Ethnographies of Infrastructure”, Vienna, May 22, 2023.
  • P. Schweitzer. InfraNorth and ethnographies of infrastructure: Introduction. Workshop “Ethnographies of Infrastructure”, Vienna, May 22, 2023.
  • O. Povoroznyuk. Arctic coastal communities and global connectivity: Towards an ethnography of maritime infrastructure (research project within InfraNorth). Guest presentation at the research seminar, Ljubljana University, May 16, 2023
  • A. Sancho Reinoso. The politics and poetics of comparison: Exploring geographies of Arctic transport infrastructure. Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, Rovaniemi, March 23, 2023.
  • P. Budka. Relational infrastructures: Transportation and sustainability in the Subarctic town of Churchill, Canada. Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, Rovaniemi, March 23, 2023.
  • O. Povoroznyuk,  P. Schweitzer. Local Impacts and Perceptions of Environmental Change and Permafrost Thaw in Northern Sakha (Yakutiya), Russia. Workshop on permafrost thaw, the University Center in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, March 16, 2023
  • R.-M. Adams. Resurgence of Chinese Arctic tourism? Imaginations, infrastructures and anticipation in the context of Northern Finland. Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW2023), Vienna, February 24, 2023.
  • A. Meyer. Towards a better management of cultural heritage in changing Polar regions: Introducing the project PCCH-Arctic. Together with A. Sinitsyn, J. Aga, J. Lutz, O. Landgren. Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW2023), Vienna, February 22, 2023.
  • P. Budka. Sustainability transformation and transport infrastructures in Northern Manitoba, Canada. Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW2023), Vienna, February 22, 2023.
  • A. Sancho Reinoso and T. Heleniak. Tunnels as double-edged sword? Transport infrastructure and demographic and spatial dynamics in the Faroe Islands. Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW2023), Vienna, February 21, 2023.
  • O. Povoroznyuk, N. Strelkovskii and P. Schweitzer. Building arctic futures: Infrastructure projects and local scenarios. Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW2023), Vienna, February 20, 2023
  • O. Povoroznyuk, H. Epstein. Introduction to the workshop “Towards Sustainable Infrastructure: Environmental, Technological, and Societal Impacts of Development in the Arctic. Arctic Science Summit Week”, Vienna, February 19, 2023
  • K. Schmid. The Nunavut case study in InfraNorth. ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting, Toronto, December 6, 2022.
  • P. Schweitzer. Wie viel Infrastruktur brauchen die Menschen der Arktis? – Externe Interessen und lokale Nutzungen gebauter Umwelt im Hohen Norden (in German). #7 Polar Talk by Austrian Polar Research Institute. Vienna, November 16, 2022.
  • R.-M. Adams. Liveability under shrinkage in unsettling landscapes: Initiatives in the “Capital of Pessimism” in Northern Finland. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Seattle, WA, November 12, 2022.
  • O. Povoroznyuk. The Northern Sea Route and Arctic coastal communities. Arctic Circle, Reykjavik, October 15, 2022.
  • P. Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk. The promises and fears of infrastructure: A port expansion project in Nome in a pan-Arctic perspective. Workshop “Polar Silk Road” UiT, Maine, October 8, 2022.
  • R.-M. Adams & M. Bennett. Polar silk worlding: Imagination, infrastructure, and anticipation in Chinese Arctic tourism. Workshop “Polar Silk Road” UiT, Maine, October 7, 2022
  • A. Sancho Reinoso and T. Heleniak. Island hopping: infrastructure development in the Faroe Islands. Vienna Anthropology Days, Vienna, September 28, 2022.
  • O. Povoroznyuk. Transformative infrastructure: Engineering a railroad and communities along the Baikal-Amur Mainline in East Siberia. Vienna Anthropology Days, Vienna, September 28, 2022.
  • R.-M. Adams. Waiting for the northern lights: Young lifestyle migrants in Finnish Lapland. Vienna Anthropology Days, Vienna, September 28, 2022.
  • O. Povoroznyuk. Transformative infrastructure and modernization: Building a railroad and identity along the Baikal-Amur Mainline in East Siberia. European Association of Social Anthropologists 17th Biennial Conference. Belfast, online, July 28, 2022.
  • P. Budka. The failures and promises of transport infrastructure in a remote Canadian town. European Association of Social Anthropologists 17th Biennial Conference. Belfast, online, July 28, 2022.
  • O. Povoroznyuk. Infrastructural legacies, environmental change, and post-Soviet transformations in Northern Sakha (Yakutiya), Russia. Nunataryuk General Assembly Meeting, Sesimbra, May 17, 2022.
  • O. Povoroznyuk. Ignoring climate change? Modernization ideologies, socio-economic concerns and perceptions of the environment in Northern Sakha (Yakutiya), Russia. Experiencing Climate Change in Europe and Beyond, Ljubljana, May 5, 2022.
  • O. Povoroznyuk. Transport infrastructures and transformations of the Russian North. Conference of British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies. Online, April 9, 2022.
  • O. Povoroznyuk. Disseminating research on Arctic infrastructure: From CoRe to InfraNorth. Arctic Science Summit Week. Tromsø, March 28, 2022.
  • R.-M. Adams. Local initiatives as a driver for sustainability and livability of shrinking towns: A case study from the “capital of pessimism” (Puolanka, Northern Finland). American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, online, February 25, 2022.
  • O. Povoroznyuk. From the front lines of supply to the margins of the state: Reimagining infrastructure of the Northern Sea Route (NSR). American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, online, February, 25, 2022.
  • O. Povoroznyuk & P. Schweitzer. Social and cultural dimensions of transport infrastructures in the North (examples from CoRe, Nunataryk and InfraNorth). Aalborg University Research Seminar, online, December 3, 2021.
  • O. Povoroznyuk. Anthropology of infrastructure in Siberia and the North. ASEEES Convention, New Orleans, USA, November 22, 2021
  • P. Budka. Anthropological notes on digital and transport infrastructures in remote communities. Anthropology of Technology Conference, Aarhus, November 4, 2021.
  • P. Schweitzer. Arctic infrastructures, resource development and community wellbeing [in Russian]. XIV Congress of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia, online, July 8, 2021.
  • O. Povoroznyuk. Transport infrastructures in territorial and resource exploration of the Russian North [in Russian]. XIV Congress of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia, online, July 8, 2021.
  • P. Schweitzer. Arctic infrastructures for whom? Remarks about development and community Wellbeing. X International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences, online, June 20, 2021.
  • O. Povoroznyuk. Ambiguous entanglements: Infrastructure and indigeneity in Evenki communities along the Baikal-Amur Mainline. X International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences, online, June 15, 2021.
  • O. Povoroznyuk & P. Schweitzer. Living with environmental change: On fishing quotas and collapsing coastlines in Bykovskiy, Northern Yakutiya. X International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences, online, June 17, 2021.
  • P. Schweitzer. The Arctic Ocean as transport corridor, or, when did the Arctic become global? Global History of the Arctic, online, May 20, 2021.
  • O. Povoroznyuk. Transport infrastructures in territorial expansion and socio-cultural transformations in the Russian North [in Russian]. Global History of the Artic, online, May 20, 2021.
  • O. Povoroznyuk & P. Schweitzer. Benefits and challenges of transportation infrastructures in Arctic communities. UArctic Congress, online, May 18, 2021.
  • O. Povoroznyuk. Social and cultural dimensions of transport infrastructures in the North: Towards community-based research. Invited lecture at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, May 6, 2021.
  • P. Schweitzer & O. Povoroznyuk. Ignoring environmental change in Bykovskiy, Yakutia? Thawing permafrost, Indigenous knowledge and modernization ideologies in Northern Russia. EGU General Assembly, online, April 28, 2021.
  • P. Schweitzer. Roads and railroads in the North: What do they do for local communities? Arctic Science Summit Week, online, March 25, 2021.
  • O. Povoroznyuk. Roads and railroads of the Russian North: Social and cultural dimensions of infrastructure projects. Arctic Science Summit Week, online, March 25, 2021.
  • P. Schweitzer & O. Povoroznyuk. Implementing InfraNorth: Engaging communities in research on transport infrastructures in the Arctic. Arctic Science Summit Week, online, March 21, 2021.
  • O. Povoroznyuk. Permafrost thaw, infrastructure and community development: Navigating socio-economic and environmental change in Northern Yakutia, Russia. IASC RATIC seminar Series, online, February 18, 2021.

Conference panels, workshops and exhibitions

  • G. Amatulli and P. Budka. Narratives and Temporalities of Infrastructure: The Canadian Experience. American Anthropological Association / Canadian Anthropology Society/Société canadienne d’anthropologie Annual Meeting, Toronto, November 17, 2023 (invited by Canadian Anthropology Society/Société canadienne d’anthropologie). https://annualmeeting.americananthro.org/program/
  • R.-M. Adams and P. Budka. Infrastructures as Relations. Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, Rovaniemi, March 23, 2023. https://www.arcticcentre.org/EN/events/anthro2023/Programme/Abstracts
  • P. Budka and P. Schweitzer. Community Meeting “Introducing InfraNorth – An ERC Advanced Grant Project”. Arctic Science Summit Week, Vienna, February 20, 2023.
  • V. Kuklina, O. Povoroznyuk and O. Zaslavskaia. Scientific session and the round table “Arctic InfraScapes”. Arctic Science Summit Week, Vienna, February 21, 2023.
  • O. Povoroznyuk and H. Epstein. Towards Sustainable Infrastructure: Environmental, Technological, and Societal Impacts of Development in the Arctic. Arctic Science Summit Week, Vienna, February 19, 2023.
  • O. Zaslavskaia, V. Kuklina, and O. Povoroznyuk. Art and science exhibition “Arctic InfraScapes“. Arctic Science Summit Week, Vienna, February 19-24, 2023.
  • P. Schweitzer, O. Povoroznyuk, M. Bennett, R.-M. Adams, A. Meyer, P. J. Griffin and T. Holzlehner. Unsettling Built Environments: Struggles Over Arctic Futures. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, November 12, 2022.
  • P. Schweitzer and O. Povoroznyuk. Arctic Transport Infrastructures and Sustainable Communities. Arctic Circle, Reykjavik, October 15, 2022.
  • O. Povoroznyuk and P. Schweitzer. Infrastructure and Built Environment in the Anthropocene. Vienna Anthropology Days, Vienna, September 28, 2022.
  • P. Schweitzer and O. Povoroznyuk. What is the Future of Anthropological Collaboration with Russia? Vienna Anthropology Days, Vienna, September 27, 2022.
  • P. Schweitzer, O. Povoroznyuk, J. Pierce and D. Walker. Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Advancing Sustainable Arctic Infrastructure. Arctic Science Summit Week, Tromsø, March 26, 2022. https://www.geobotany.uaf.edu/ratic/workshop2022.php
  • M. Bennett, P. Schweitzer and O. Povoroznyuk. Undermining the Earth? Infrastructural Challenges to Sustainability. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, online, February 25, 2022.
  • P. Schweitzer, O. Povoroznyuk, G. Saxinger, S. Wentzel, G. Illmeier and A. Sancho-Reinoso. The Promise of Arctic Infrastructural Development: Connectivity, Mobility, Prosperity. X International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences, online, June 15 and 20, 2021.
  • J. Pierce, S. Walker, P. Schweitzer and O. Povoroznyuk. Sharing Best Practices in Research on Infrastructure in the Arctic. X Arctic Science Summit Week, online, March 21, 2021. RATIC Website
  • O. Povoroznyuk, W. Vincent and F. Camels. Northern Roads and Railways: Social and Environmental Effects of Northern Transport Infrastructure. Arctic Science Summit Week, online, March 25, 2021.