On 20 October 2026, the European Commission and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, presented a new EU Strategy for the Arctic, at a time when accelerating climate change, rising geopolitical tensions and growing strategic competition are reshaping the region. Against this backdrop, journalist Vladimir Balzer interviewed Peter Schweitzer, […]
Food and Foodways, a refereed, interdisciplinary and international journal devoted to the history and culture of human nourishment, has recently published the article “Between food and refuse: Enacting (in)edibility in the Russian Arctic” by InfraNorth researcher Elena Davydova. In this article, Davydova interrogates the contingent boundaries between food and waste in the Russian Arctic, analyzing […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
An interview with InfraNorth principal investigator Peter Schweitzer has been featured in an article by journalist Nico Knappe for the Austrian media outlet JETZT, titled “All Eyes on Arktis: Wie Russland vom tauenden Eis profitiert” (“All Eyes on the Arctic: How Russia is benefiting from melting ice”). Taking the experiences of an Austrian resident of […]
An interview with InfraNorth researcher Philipp Budka has been featured in an article by journalist Jamie Voyles for Canada’s National Observer, titled “As Canada bets on Churchill to diversify trade away from US, climate disasters sideline its railway link.” The article explores Canada’s plans to strengthen Churchill, Manitoba, as an Arctic trade gateway and diversify […]
Philipp Budka will present new research at the STS Conference Graz 2026 examining how infrastructures are lived and governed in remote Canada. His presentation, titled “Infrastructural Sovereignty in Practice: Built Environment, Care, and Intervention in Remote Canada,” will be part of Session 32 on May 4, 2026, from 15:45 to 17:45 CEST at Das Weitzer […]
The international multidisciplinary journal Food, Culture & Society has recently published a new article by InfraNorth researcher Katrin Schmid, titled “Transporting Arctic foodways: the infrastructure of food sovereignty in Nunavut, Canada.” The conversation around sustainable food in Canada’s Arctic today is inherently connected to the logistics of transportation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork (2022–2025), this research […]
The quarterly peer-reviewed journal Polar Geography has published the article “Hyperconnected remoteness: the Svalbard airport and community transitions in Longyearbyen” by InfraNorth researcher Alexandra Meyer. The article examines the role of Svalbard Airport in shaping socio-economic transitions and everyday life in Longyearbyen, the largest settlement on the Svalbard archipelago. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, complemented […]