Selected publications
Journal articles & book chapters:
Leona Sandmann, Maria Gunko, Irina Shirobokova, Ria-Maria Adams, et al.
2024 | ARTICLE
Local Initiatives in Shrinking Cities: On Normative Framings and Hidden Aspirations in Scholarly Work.
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, July 2024.
Ugo Nanni, Patricia DeRepentigny, Aapo Lundén, Virginija Popovaitė, Alexandra Meyer, et al.
2024 | ARTICLE
Redefining arctic boundaries in a changing climate: interdisciplinary perspectives on governance strategies.
Polar Geography, June 2024.
Katrin Großmann, Ria-Maria Adams, Alla Bolotova, et al.
2024 | ARTICLE
Self-responsibilization, the municipality, and the state: Peripheralization shaping local initiatives in shrinking small towns.
Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, Vol. 150.
Alexandra Meyer & Zdenka Sokolíčková
2024 | ARTICLE
“Melting worlds” and “climate myths”: Diverging stories of climate change in Longyearbyen, an Arctic “frontline community”.
Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 89(2).
Sophie Elixhauser, Zofia Boni, Nataša Gregorič Bon, Urša Kanjir, Alexandra Meyer, et al.
2024 | ARTICLE
Interdisciplinary, but how? Anthropological perspectives from collaborative research on climate and environmental change.
Environmental Science & Policy, Vol. 151.
Julie Michelle Klinger, Eleanor Sophie Armstrong, Ria-Maria Adams & Mia M. Bennett
2023 | BOOK CHAPTER
The crowded and empty Arctic: Examining spatial imaginaries and infrastructures in Kiruna, Sweden.
In: J. Priebe & N. Wormbs (Eds.), Thematic issue: Arctic dreams. Lychnos. Annual of the Swedish History of Science Society.
Philipp Budka
2023 | BOOK CHAPTER
Anthropological notes on transforming transport infrastructures in Canada.
In: J. Priebe, H. Lempinen & H. Vikström, (Eds.). Arctic sustainability transformation: What is it, what can it be, and what does it need to be? Umeå University.
Olga Povoroznyuk & Peter Schweitzer
2023 | ARTICLE
Ignoring environmental change? On fishing quotas and collapsing coastlines in Bykovskiy, Northern Sakha (Yakutiya).
Ambio. A Journal of Environment and Society., Vol. 52.
Olga Povoroznyuk & Peter Schweitzer
2023 | BOOK CHAPTER
What difference does a railroad make?: Transportation and settlement in the BAM region in historical perspective.
In: J. P. Ziker, J. Ferguson & V. Davydov (Eds.), The Siberian world. Routledge.
Ria-Maria Adams
2023 | ARTICLE
Hunting a “good life”: Young lifestyle migrants in Finnish Lapland.
Polar Geography, Vol. 46.
Peter Schweitzer
2022 | BOOK CHAPTER
Railroads and the north: Historic and ethnographic examples from Russia and North America.
In: D. Friedrich, M. Hirnsperger & S. Bauer (Eds.), More than “nature”: Research on infrastructure and settlements in the north. LIT Verlag.
Olga Povoroznyuk, Warwick F. Vincent, Peter Schweitzer, Rosa Laptander, Mia Bennett, et al.
2022 | ARTICLE
Arctic roads and railways: Social and environmental consequences of transport infrastructure in the circumpolar North.
Arctic Science, Vol. 9(2).
Ria-Maria Adams, Alla Bolotova & Ville Alasalmi
2022 | ARTICLE
Liveability under shrinkage: Initiatives in the “capital of pessimism” in Finland.
European Planning Studies, Vol. 31(1).
Peter Schweitzer & Olga Povoroznyuk
2022 | ARTICLE
Infrastructural legacies and post-Soviet transformations in Northern Sakha (Yakutiya), Russia.
Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, Vol. 24(3).
Peter Schweitzer, Annet Bartsch, Georg Pointner, et al.
2021 | ARTICLE
Expanding infrastructure and growing anthropogenic impacts along Arctic coasts.
Environmental Research Letters, Vol. 16.
Peter Schweitzer
2021 | Book chapter
Remote connections: Human entanglements with built and natural environments in the Arctic and elsewhere.
In: A: Gingrich (Ed.), Anthropology in motion: Encounters with current trajectories of scholarship from Austria. Sean Kingston Publishing.
Olga Povoroznyuk
2021 | ARTICLE
Ambiguous entanglements: Infrastructure, memory and identity in indigenous Evenki communities along the Baikal-Amur Mainline.
Social Anthropology, Vol. 29(2).
Olga Povoroznyuk
2020 (2021) | ARTICLE
(Re)constructing the Baikal-Amur Mainline: Continuity and change of post-socialist infrastructure.
Transfers, Vol. 10(2-3).
Peter Schweitzer & Olga Povoroznyuk
2020 (2021) | ARTICLE
Introduction to the special section “Precarious connections: On the promise and menace of railroad projects”.
Transfers, Vol. 10(2-3).
Special issues & edited volumes:
Peter Schweitzer, Olga Povoroznyuk & Stephany MacCallum
2020 (2021) | Special ISSUE
Precarious connections: On the promise and menace of railroad projects.
Transfers, Vol. 10 (2/3).
Other publications:
Olga Povoroznyuk
2024 | 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.
Journal of Northern Studies, Vol. 16 (1).
Alexandra Meyer & Tomas Salem
2023 | REPORT
Happiness in times of change: Friluftsliv on Svalbard.
Research report to the Svalbard Environmental Protection Fund (Svalbards Miljøvernfond), September 2023.
Activities
Panels. Round tables. Workshops:
2023 ▼
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association & Canadian Anthropology Society / Société canadienne d’anthropologie (Toronto, Nov 15 – 19, 2023)
Nov 17, 2023:
G. Amatuli & P. Budka: Session “Narratives and Temporalities of Infrastructure: The Canadian Experience.”
Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society (Rovaniemi, Mar 21 – 23, 2023)
Mar 23, 2023:
R.-M. Adams & P. Budka: Panel “Infrastructures as Relations.”
Arctic Science Summit Week (Vienna, Feb 17 – 24, 2023)
Feb 21, 2023:
V. Kuklina, O. Povoroznyuk & O. Zaslavskaia: Scientific session and round table “Arctic InfraScapes.”
Feb 20, 2023:
P. Budka & P. Schweitzer: Session “Introducing InfraNorth – An ERC Advanced Grant Project.”
Feb 19, 2023:
O. Povoroznyuk & H. Epstein: Workshop “Towards Sustainable Infrastructure: Environmental, Technological, and Societal Impacts of Development in the Arctic.”
2022 ▼
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (Seattle, November 9 – 13, 2022)
Nov 12, 2022:
P. Schweitzer, O. Povoroznyuk, M. Bennett, R.-M. Adams, A. Meyer, P. J. Griffin, and T. Holzlehner: Session “Unsettling Built Environments: Struggles Over Arctic Futures.”
Arctic Circle Assembly (Reykjavik, Oct 13 – 16, 2022)
Oct 15, 2022:
P. Schweitzer and O. Povoroznyuk: Session “Arctic Transport Infrastructures and Sustainable Communities.”
Vienna Anthropology Days – VANDA Conference (Vienna, Sep 26 – 29, 2022)
Sep 28, 2022:
O. Povoroznyuk and P. Schweitzer: Session “Infrastructure and Built Environment in the Anthropocene.”
September 27, 2022:
P. Schweitzer and O. Povoroznyuk: Round table “What is the Future of Anthropological Collaboration with Russia?”
Arctic Science Summit Week (Tromsø, Mar 26 – Apr 1, 2022)
Mar 26, 2022:
P. Schweitzer, O. Povoroznyuk, J. Pierce and D. Walker: Workshop “Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Advancing Sustainable Arctic Infrastructure.”
AAG Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers (online, Feb 25 – Apr 1, 2022)
Feb 25, 2022:
M. Bennett, P. Schweitzer and O. Povoroznyuk: Session “Undermining the Earth? Infrastructural Challenges to Sustainability.”
2021 ▼
ICASS X – 10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (online, Jun 15 – 20, 2021)
Jun 15, 2021:
P. Schweitzer, O. Povoroznyuk, G. Saxinger, S. Wentzel, G. Illmeier and A. Sancho-Reinoso: Panel “The Promise of Arctic Infrastructural Development: Connectivity, Mobility, Prosperity.”
2021 Arctic Science Summit Week (online, Mar 19 – 26, 2021)
Mar 25, 2021:
O. Povoroznyuk, W. Vincent, and F. Camels: Session “Northern Roads and Railways: Social and Environmental Effects of Northern Transport Infrastructure.”
Mar 21, 2021:
J. Pierce, S. Walker, P. Schweitzer, and O. Povoroznyuk: Workshop “Sharing Best Practices in Research on Infrastructure in the Arctic.”
Papers. Presentations:
2024 ▼
Arctic Frontiers (Tromsø, Jan 29 – Feb 1, 2024)
Jan 31, 2024:
R.-M. Adams: “Young, rural stayers in Finnish Lapland: Decision-making, infrastructures & wellbeing.”
2023 ▼
STS Austria Conference (Vienna, Nov 27 – 29, 2023)
Nov 28, 2023:
P. Budka: “Community transport infrastructures in Northern Manitoba, Canada.”
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association & Canadian Anthropology Society / Société canadienne d’anthropologie (Toronto, Nov 15 – 19, 2023)
Nov 17, 2023:
P. Budka: “Infrastructural disruption, entanglement, and change in Northern Manitoba, Canada.”
Nov 17, 2023:
O. Povoroznyuk and P. Schweitzer: “Whose Sovereignty? Promises and Threats of a Port Expansion Project in Nome, Alaska.”
RSA Winter Conference, Regional Studies Association (London, Nov 9 – 10, 2023)
Nov 9, 2023:
R.-M. Adams: “Arctic Tourism Infrastructures: Temporality, Imaginaries & Anticipation.”
APRI Annual Meeting, 10th Anniversary of the Austrian Polar Research Institute (Vienna, Nov 8 – 9, 2023)
Nov 9, 2023:
O. Povoroznyuk: “InfraNorth Future Scenarios for Arctic Communities.”
Kobe University, International Studies Department (Kobe, Oct 13, 2023)
Oct 13, 2023:
R.-M. Adams: “Perceptions of wellbeing among young lifestyle migrants in Finnish Lapland: Mobility, place & temporality.”
Tohoku University, Center for Northeast Asian Studies (Sendai, Oct 10, 2023)
Oct 10, 2023:
R.-M. Adams: “Beyond the ruins of infrastructure: Liveability & local initiatives in Finland’s fastest shrinking town.”
16th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (Brno, Jun 7 – 10, 2023)
Jun 10, 2023:
P. Budka: “Tourism and transport infrastructures in the “Polar Bear Capital of the World”.”
InfraNorth Workshop “Ethnographies of Infrastructure” (Vienna, May 22, 2023)
May 22, 2023:
P. Schweitzer: “InfraNorth and Ethnographies of Infrastructure: Introduction.”
May 22, 2023:
O. Povoroznyuk: “Arctic coastal communities and global connectivity: Towards an ethnography of maritime infrastructure.”
May 22, 2023:
P. Budka: “Digital and transport infrastructures in remote Canada: Notes on ownership and control.”
Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society (Rovaniemi, Mar 21-23, 2023)
Mar 23, 2023:
A. Sancho-Reinoso: “The politics and poetics of comparison: Exploring geographies of Arctic transport infrastructure.”
Mar 23, 2023:
P. Budka: “Relational infrastructures: Transportation and sustainability in the Subarctic town of Churchill, Canada.”
Workshop “Longyearbyen permafrost activities” at the University Center in Svalbard (UNIS), Longyearbyen (Mar 15 – 16, 2023)
Mar 16, 2023:
O. Povoroznyuk and P. Schweitzer: “Local Impacts and Perceptions of Environmental Change and Permafrost Thaw in Northern Sakha (Yakutiya), Russia.”
Arctic Science Summit Week (Vienna, Feb 17 – 24, 2023)
Feb 24, 2023:
R.-M. Adams: “Resurgence of Chinese Arctic tourism? Imaginations, infrastructures and anticipation in the context of Northern Finland.”
Feb 22, 2023:
A. Meyer, A. Sinitsyn, J. Aga, J. Lutz, and O. Landgren: “Towards a better management of cultural heritage in changing Polar regions: Introducing the project PCCH-Arctic.”
Feb 22, 2023:
P. Budka: “Sustainability transformation and transport infrastructures in Northern Manitoba, Canada.”
Feb 21, 2023:
A. Sancho-Reinoso and T. Heleniak: “Tunnels as double-edged sword? Transport infrastructure and demographic and spatial dynamics in the Faroe Islands.”
Feb 20, 2023:
O. Povoroznyuk, N. Strelkovskii, and P. Schweitzer: “Building arctic futures: Infrastructure projects and local scenarios.”
Mar 19, 2023:
O. Povoroznyuk and H. Epstein: Introduction to the workshop “Towards Sustainable Infrastructure: Environmental, Technological, and Societal Impacts of Development in the Arctic.”
2022 ▼
ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting (Toronto, Dec 5 – 8, 2022)
Dec 6, 2022:
K. Schmid: “The Nunavut case study in InfraNorth.”
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (Seattle, Nov 9 – 13, 2022)
Nov 12, 2022:
R.-M. Adams: “Liveability under shrinkage in unsettling landscapes: Initiatives in the “Capital of Pessimism” in Northern Finland.”
Workshop “Polar Silk Road,” Arctic University of Norway, UiT (Maine, Oct 7 – 8, 2022)
Oct 8, 2022:
P. Schweitzer and O. Povoroznyuk: “The promises and fears of infrastructure: A port expansion project in Nome in a pan-Arctic perspective.”
Oct 7, 2022:
R.-M. Adams & M. Bennett: “Polar silk worlding: Imagination, infrastructure, and anticipation in Chinese Arctic tourism.”
Vienna Anthropology Days – VANDA Conference (Vienna, Sep 26 – 29, 2022)
Sep 28, 2022:
A. Sancho-Reinoso and T. Heleniak: “Island hopping: infrastructure development in the Faroe Islands.”
Sep 28, 2022:
O. Povoroznyuk: “Transformative infrastructure: Engineering a railroad and communities along the Baikal-Amur Mainline in East Siberia.”
Sep 28, 2022:
R.-M. Adams: “Waiting for the northern lights: Young lifestyle migrants in Finnish Lapland.”
17th EASA Biennial Conference, European Association of Social Anthropologists (Belfast/online, Jul 26 – 29, 2022)
Jul 28, 2022:
O. Povoroznyuk: “Transformative infrastructure and modernization: Building a railroad and identity along the Baikal-Amur Mainline in East Siberia.”
Jul 28, 2022:
P. Budka: “The failures and promises of transport infrastructure in a remote Canadian town.”
Symposium “Experiencing Climate Change in Europe and Beyond” (Ljubljana, May 5 – 6, 2022)
May 5, 2022:
O. Povoroznyuk: “Ignoring climate change? Modernization ideologies, socio-economic concerns and perceptions of the environment in Northern Sakha (Yakutiya), Russia.”
BASEES Annual Conference, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (Cambridge/online, Apr 8 – 10, 2022)
Apr 9, 2022:
O. Povoroznyuk: “Transport infrastructures and transformations of the Russian North.”
Arctic Science Summit Week (Tromsø, 26 Mar – 1 Apr, 2022)
Mar 28, 2022:
O. Povoroznyuk: “Disseminating research on Arctic infrastructure: From CoRe to InfraNorth.”
AAG Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers (online, Feb 25 – Apr 1, 2022)
Feb 25, 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).”
Feb 25, 2022:
O. Povoroznyuk: “From the front lines of supply to the margins of the state: Reimagining infrastructure of the Northern Sea Route (NSR).”
2021 ▼
Aalborg University Research Seminar (online, Nov 3, 2021)
Nov 3, 2021:
O. Povoroznyuk and P. Schweitzer: “Social and cultural dimensions of transport infrastructures in the North (examples from CoRe, Nunataryk, and InfraNorth).”
ASEEES Annual Convention, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (New Orleans, Nov 18 – 21, 2021)
Nov 22, 2021:
O. Povoroznyuk: “Anthropology of infrastructure in Siberia and the North.”
Mar 21, 2021:
J. Pierce, S. Walker, P. Schweitzer, and O. Povoroznyuk: Workshop “Sharing Best Practices in Research on Infrastructure in the Arctic.”
Anthropology of Technology Conference, Aarhus University (Aarhus, Nov 4 – 5, 2021)
Nov 4, 2021:
P. Budka: “Anthropological notes on digital and transport infrastructures in remote communities.”
XIV Congress of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia (online, Jul 6 – 9, 2021)
Jul 8, 2021:
P. Schweitzer: “Arctic infrastructures, resource development, and community wellbeing” [in Russian].
Jul 8, 2021:
O. Povoroznyuk: “Transport infrastructures in territorial and resource exploration of the Russian North” [in Russian].
ICASS X – 10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (online, Jun 15 – 20, 2021)
Jun 20, 2021:
P. Schweitzer: “Arctic infrastructures for whom? Remarks about development and community Wellbeing.”
Jun 17, 2021:
O. Povoroznyuk and P. Schweitzer: “Living with environmental change: On fishing quotas and collapsing coastlines in Bykovskiy, Northern Yakutiya.”
Jun 15, 2021:
O. Povoroznyuk: “Ambiguous entanglements: Infrastructure and indigeneity in Evenki communities along the Baikal-Amur Mainline.”
International Conference “Global History of the Arctic,” University of Tyumen & National Research University St. Petersburg (online, May 20 – 21, 2021)
May 20, 2021:
P. Schweitzer: “The Arctic Ocean as transport corridor, or, when did the Arctic become global?”
May 20, 2021:
O. Povoroznyuk: “Transport infrastructures in territorial expansion and socio-cultural transformations in the Russian North” [in Russian].
UArctic Congress (online, May 15 – 18, 2021)
May 18, 2021:
O. Povoroznyuk & P. Schweitzer: “Benefits and challenges of transportation infrastructures in Arctic communities.”
Arctic Science Summit Week (online, Mar 19 – 26, 2021)
Mar 25, 2021:
P. Schweitzer: “Roads and railroads in the North: What do they do for local communities?”
Mar 25, 2021:
O. Povoroznyuk: “Roads and railroads of the Russian North: Social and cultural dimensions of infrastructure projects.”
Mar 21, 2021:
P. Schweitzer and O. Povoroznyuk: “Implementing InfraNorth: Engaging communities in research on transport infrastructures in the Arctic.”
IASC RATIC Seminar Series (online, Feb 18, 2021)
Feb 18, 2021:
O. Povoroznyuk: “Permafrost thaw, infrastructure, and community development: Navigating socio-economic and environmental change in Northern Yakutia, Russia.”
Talks. Guest lectures:
2023 ▼
Guest lecture at the Vienna University of Technology – TU Wien (Vienna, Nov 27, 2023)
Nov 27, 2023:
O. Povoroznyuk and P. Schweitzer: “The social lives of transport infrastructures in the Arctic.”
Guest presentation in a research seminar at the University of Ljubljana (Ljubljana, May 16, 2023)
May 16, 2023:
O. Povoroznyuk: “Arctic coastal communities and global connectivity: Towards an ethnography of maritime infrastructure.”
2022 ▼
APRI Polar Talk #7, Museum of Natural History Vienna (Vienna, Nov 16, 2022)
Nov 16, 2022:
P. Schweitzer: „Wie viel Infrastruktur brauchen die Menschen der Arktis? – Externe Interessen und lokale Nutzungen gebauter Umwelt im Hohen Norden.“ (in German).
Arctic Circle Assembly (Reykjavik, Oct 13 – 16, 2022)
Oct 15, 2022:
O. Povoroznyuk: “The Northern Sea Route and Arctic coastal communities.”
Nunataryuk General Assembly Meeting (Sesimbra, May 17 – 20, 2022)
May 17, 2022:
O. Povoroznyuk: “Infrastructural legacies, environmental change, and post-Soviet transformations in Northern Sakha (Yakutiya), Russia.”
2021 ▼
Guest lecture at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis – IIASA (Vienna, May 6, 2021)
May 6, 2021:
O. Povoroznyuk: “Social and cultural dimensions of transport infrastructures in the North: Towards community-based research.”
EGU General Assembly (online, April 19 – 30, 2021)
Apr 28, 2021:
P. Schweitzer and O. Povoroznyuk: “Ignoring environmental change in Bykovskiy, Yakutia? Thawing permafrost, Indigenous knowledge and modernization ideologies in Northern Russia.”
Exhibitions:
2023 ▼
Arctic Science Summit Week, (Vienna, Feb 17 – 24, 2023)
Feb 19 – 24, 2023:
O. Zaslavskaia, V. Kuklina, and O. Povoroznyuk: Art and science exhibition “Arctic InfraScapes.”