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How extractive industries trigger multiple pressures on reindeer husbandry
I am happy to announce that another paper of my PhD work for REXSAC was published! Together with a great team of co-authors, I show…
Read moreFilm launch: Resource Extraction and Sustainable Arctic Communities
The Nordic Centre of Excellence REXSAC has conducted research with the overall aim of contributing with new knowledge needed to develop practices and processes that…
Read moreMeet REXSAC PhD students: Jasmiini Fransala
Discover the eleventh episode of our Q&A series with REXSAC PhD students. This time meet Jasmiini Fransala, a Cultural Anthropology PhD Candidate at the University of Oulu…
Read moreMeet REXSAC PhD students: Dmitry Arzyutov
Discover the tenth episode of our Q&A series with REXSAC PhD students. This time meet Dmitry Arzyutov, a doctoral candidate at the Division of History of…
Read moreMeet REXSAC PhD students: Christian Fohringer
Discover the ninth episode of our Q&A series with REXSAC PhD students. This time meet Christian Fohringer, a PhD student at the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental…
Read moreMeet REXSAC PhD students: Caitlynn Lindsay Beckett
Discover the eighth episode of our Q&A series with REXSAC PhD students. This time meet Caitlynn Lindsay Beckett, a PhD candidate in Geography at Memorial University in St.…
Read moreMeet REXSAC PhD students: Anna-Maria Fjellström
Discover the seventh episode of our Q&A series with REXSAC PhD students. This time meet Anna-Maria Fjellström, PhD student at the department of political science, Stockholm University. Her research explores…
Read moreMeet REXSAC PhD students: Patrik Andersson
Discover the sixth episode of our series of Q&A with REXSAC PhD Students. This time meet Patrik Andersson, industrial PhD student at the Department of Politics and…
Read moreMeet REXSAC PhD students: Camilla Winqvist
Discover the fifth episode of our series of Q&A with REXSAC PhD Students. This time meet Camilla Winqvist, PhD student at KTH. Her research is…
Read moreMeet REXSAC PhD students: Alix Varnajot
Discover the fourth episode of our series of Q&A with REXSAC PhD Students. This time meet Alix Varnajot, PhD student at the University of Oulu.…
Read moreSámi lands and hydroelectric power in Sweden – what’s the potential to redress harm and injustice?
A new legal study shows how new environmental requirements could offer the chance to address injustices that still surround hydro-projects on traditional Sámi lands. To…
Read moreMeet REXSAC PhD students: Calle Österlin
Discover the third episode of our series of Q&A with REXSAC PhD Students. This time meet Calle Österlin, PhD student at the Department of Physical Geography,…
Read moreMeet REXSAC PhD students: Teresa Komu
Discover the second episode of our series of Q&A with REXSAC PhD Students. This time meet Teresa Komu, PhD student at the University of Oulu. Her…
Read moreMeet REXSAC PhD students: Sandra Fischer
Discover the first episode of our series of Q&A with REXSAC PhD Students. This time meet Sandra Fischer, PhD student at the department of Physical Geography,…
Read moreNotes from the field – Jean-Sébastien Boutet
Tataskweyak (Split Lake), northern Manitoba, July 13, 2019: —Did I tell you the story of when I went to look for porcupine with my dad…
Read moreIn 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…
Read moreGetting 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…
Read moreTravelling 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…
Read moreBLOG: REXSAC students and researchers join MinErAL for an 8-day PhD course in northern Quebec and Labrador, Canada
The course began with a set of lectures on different mining communities, comparing contexts from Quebec and Labrador with northern Fennoscandinavia, with a particular focus on…
Read moreREXSAC mobility: Lill Rastad Bjørst’s research stay at SPRI
In the beginning of February, I was warmly welcomed to the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) at the University of Cambridge. The visit was a culmination…
Read moreREXSAC led discussions at the Annual Impact Assessment Conference (IAIA19) in Brisbane
There is an urgency to improve methods for assessment of cumulative impacts of future resource extraction activities, especially in the Arctic where the pressure from…
Read moreGuest Blog: Mapping different forms of knowledge to understand the impacts of mining
A new Formas-funded project aims to combine both indigenous and scientific knowledge in a synthesis of evidence on how Arctic and boreal landscapes and communities…
Read moreNew Blog for World Policy Institute: Why should we care about the Arctic?
REXSAC researcher, Annika E. Nilsson, kicks off new bi-monthly series about the Arctic as guest blogger with two other colleagues on the World Policy website. Answering…
Read morePoison and profit: mining on traditional lands
In the underground depths of northern Canada lies a monster. That’s how Mary Rose Sundberg of the Goyatiko Language Society describes the 237,000 tons of…
Read moreAmidst social and environmental dynamic in Ilulissat
We have seen the images of calving icebergs calling our attention to the impacts of climate change in the Arctic. The ground zero for such…
Read moreWorkshop on the shared experiences of supplementary feeding in reindeer husbandry – a collaborative approach across Fennoscandia
On 22-23 March 2018, the three Nordic Centres of Excellence CLINF, ReiGN and REXSAC organized a workshop on the ‘challenges and opportunities of supplementary feeding…
Read moreMining compressed. A PDAC 2018 experience
The annual convention by Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) was held in Toronto over four days in March and attracted more than 25.000…
Read moreBlog published in AntroBlogi: “Letters from the field: Searching for a sense of snow and ice”
Jasmiini Pylkkänen is a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology, based at the University of Oulu. In her blog post in the well-established web-publication, AntroBlogi, Jasmiini…
Read moreHow can research plans and findings be communicated to a diverse audience?
How can research plans and findings be communicated to a diverse audience? Jasmiini Pylkkänen For a while I thought that it was not very common…
Read moreReflection on methods and ethics in Arctic interdisciplinary research
Reflection on methods and ethics in Arctic interdisciplinary research Jean-Sébastien Boutet What does it mean to conduct ethical research with/in communities? Who are the communities…
Read moreLooking towards the future
Looking towards the future Annika E. Nilsson Scenarios have become a popular tool for trying to capture what the future of a rapidly changing Arctic…
Read moreNautanen field work
Nautanen field work: Confessions of a new PhD student Sandra Fischer, PhD student in Physical Geography, Stockholm University Nautanen is an old mining community in…
Read moreAbandoned infrastructures from Arctic science as cultural heritage – the Sorgfjorden project
In July 2017, researchers from REXSAC together with collaborators from other research environments at KTH, NTNU & UNIS, conducted historical-archaeological field work at Svalbard, funded…
Read moreReflections on dimensions and tensions
What happens when 30+ researchers from nine countries, representing a range of scientific disciplines, and at different stages in their career gather for two days…
Read moreMining settlements in transition – Reflections from Svalbard
“The road you see down there, that’s the most expensive road in Norway,” says one of the helicopter pilots as he takes us for a…
Read moreResources in times of transformation
Welcome to REXSAC! This is the website of the Nordforsk Center of Excellence for research on Resource Extraction and Sustainable Arctic Communities. Here you will…
Read moreWhat is in a logo?
What is in a logo? Designing a logo for a research project is about visual appearance but also raises issues about every single word that…
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