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In the shadow of geopolitics: Notes from fieldwork in southern Greenland
As we returned to Narsarsuaq after a week of fieldwork in communities of southern Greenland, the outer world came charging in: Planes arriving with tourists on their…
Getting ready for the 7-day REXSAC field trip in South Greenland
In August, REXSAC researchers will depart for their field trip to South Greenland. The trip will include different forms of scientific field work such as…
Travelling workshop and PhD student course in Canada – building interdisciplinary collaboration
Between May 26 and June 4, PhD students and researchers from REXSAC and MinErAL carried out a travelling workshop and PhD student course entitled Northern…
Latest Publications
REXSAC PhD student, Jasmiini Pylkkäne, interviewed for Women in the Arctic and Antarctic
REXSAC Phd student at the Cultural Anthropology research unit at the University of Oulu in Finland was interviewed about her REXSAC fieldwork in Rankin Inlet…
New Report: Towards improved participatory scenario methodologies in the Arctic
Participatory scenario methodologies are increasingly used for studying possible future developments in the Arctic. They have the potential to contribute to several high-priority tasks for…
New report: The anthropocenic imaginary: political ecologies of tourism in a geological epoch
This article pushes forward emerging approaches in the political ecology of tourism that recognize the Anthropocene as both a geological epoch and conceptual regime. In…