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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…

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Film 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…

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Meet 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…

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Meet 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…

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Meet 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…

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Meet 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.…

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Meet 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…

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Meet 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…

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Meet 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…

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Meet 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.…

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Sámi 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…

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Meet 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,…

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Meet 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…

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Meet 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,…

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Notes 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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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BLOG: 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…

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REXSAC 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…

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REXSAC 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…

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Guest 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…

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New 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…

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Poison 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…

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Amidst 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…

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Workshop 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…

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Mining 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…

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Blog 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…

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How 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…

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Reflection 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…

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Looking 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…

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Nautanen 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…

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Abandoned 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…

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Reflections 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…

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Mining 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…

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Resources 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…

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What 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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