Looking forward to presenting next week on digital & #transport infrastructures in remote 🇨🇦 at the InfraNorth: Building Arctic Futures workshop "Ethnographies of #Infrastructure" Universität Wien! There are still places left on-site & online: ➡️ infranorth.eu/news/may-22-20… #ethnography #anthropology

Happy to share our article about social impacts of permafrost thaw on a fishing Indigenous village in Sakha, Russia just published in Ambio rdcu.be/ddf09 😇😊 #environment #permafrost #climatechangeperceptions #socialimpacts #Infrastructure #Sakha

📢 📝 What’s the link between #ClimateChange and destroyed graves of Stalinist victims in #Siberia? Astounding findings by Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer from recent field work in the Russian #Arctic are now public! ➡️ Read here: buff.ly/3OHCbx3

Arctic Coastal Communities: Global Connectivity and Ethnography of Maritime Infrastructure polarresearch.at/arctic-coastal…

#Impressions from the field: Olga Povoroznyuk just finished her field work in #Nome, #Alaska where she spoke to local residents about how #infrastructure affects their well-being 🧘‍♀️🚢🛫

🤩Next stop Kirkenes! After a successful future scenario workshop in 🇨🇦Churchill we are now heading to 🇳🇴Norway to discuss #Arctic futures. In Kirkenes, Alexandra Meyer, Olga Povoroznyuk & Peter Schweitzer will be hosting our 2nd workshop: ➡️More infos: infranorth.eu/news/september…

❄️🏗️ It was a pleasure to take part in today’s open session of the IASC Social and Human Working Group at #ASSW_2024 and to present social science projects on #Arctic #infrastructure carried out at Universität Wien University of Vienna Social Sciences #InfraNorth

📚 Check out the new Journal of Northern Studies issue with Olga Povoroznyuk’s review of “Risky Futures: Climate, Geopolitics & Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North” by Olga Ulturgasheva & B. Bodenhorn (eds.) Berghahn Books Universität Wien Austrian Polar Research Institute buff.ly/3VxuGMm

#CallForPapers: Olga Povoroznyuk and Mia Landauer (Arctic_Centre) are organizing the roundtable “#Arctic #Sustainability Revisited: Mixing Methods to Study Communities in Transition” Vienna Anthropology Days University of Vienna Social Sciences Universität Wien #anthropology

Yesterday, we had the privilege of meeting with Marlène Laruelle (The Elliott School) at Universität Wien. We exchanged insights on research practices related to (urban) #sustainability and #infrastructure development in the #Arctic with a comparative lens. #ArcticResearch #InfraNorth

📣 New blog post! Olga Povoroznyuk, Alexandra Meyer & Peter Schweitzer reflect on the #InfraNorth future scenario workshops held in #Kirkenes 🇳🇴 last September: buff.ly/3UhSLEC IIASA UiT Norges arktiske universitet #Arctic #Transport #Infrastructure Universität Wien Austrian Polar Research Institute

⚓🚢 Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer recently shared online the findings from their #InfraNorth fieldwork in #Nome #Alaska at an NCRC workshop on Nome’s future: infrastructure, mining, tourism & climate change. buff.ly/3Qpm0Vb Universität Wien University of Vienna Social Sciences Austrian Polar Research Institute

Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk open the first #InfraNorth session at the #ArcticCongressBodø2024 on #Arctic futures, between global challenges and local needs. More details here: buff.ly/3yqaORS University of Vienna Social Sciences Universität Wien Austrian Polar Research Institute

Three intense and exsiting days at the Arctic Congress in Bodø with old and new colleagues and friends!😇Arctic InfraNorth: Building Arctic Futures

🛤️“We build a railroad and the railroad builds us.” Don’t miss (and register for) Olga Povoroznyuk’s talk next June 13 at 5:00 pm about her case study of the #BaikalAmurMainline #BAM in East Siberia as part of the celebration of the sowi:doc Awards 2023 University of Vienna Social Sciences #InfraNorth

Our colleague Ria Adams is back in #Kiruna and reports from the field about the rapid #infrastructure transformations undergoing this mining town in northernmost Sweden #Arctic #InfraNorth

Check out this thread by #InfraNorth team member Ria Adams, sharing insights from the field about transport infrastructure disruptions along the Iron Ore Line #Malmbanan 🇸🇪🇳🇴

Last week, Olga Povoroznyuk received the sowi:doc Award from the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences for her case study of the Baikal-Amur Mainline railway as an embodiment of state modernization and identity construction processes in East Siberia. University of Vienna Social Sciences #InfraNorth

Thank you for everyone who supported me on the way to this award! 😊🙏

📢 Check out the program for the “Ethnography Beyond the Case Study: Possibilities and Limitations of Comparison” #workshop hosted by #InfraNorth in collaboration with #Nordregio! 📅 Tuesday 10 September in Stockholm and online. 👉 Learn more and join us! buff.ly/3LDT6hk