We would like to invite you to submit an abstract (by 15th of February) for the workshop of the DGV-RG Circumpolar Regions and Siberia at the Conference of the German Association of Anthropologists in Berlin 4-7th of October 2017.

Change, conformity and practices of resistance in the “cold world”
(workshop in English language)

Arctic and subarctic societies have been going through fundamental social and cultural transformations throughout the last centuries. Colonialism, state encroachment, new spatial orders, economic development and imported technologies heavily affected circumpolar societies, but similarly created opportunities for alternate forms of belonging and identity. Cultural change produced a diversity of novel everyday practices that enmeshed indigenous as well as non-indigenous (newcomers) people of the North in trans-regional and international networks.

This workshop invites to think about historic and contemporary cases, where socio-economic, infrastructural and cultural transformations evoked multiple forms of belonging in the interconnected and complex landscape of collective political and cultural identities. We aim to provide a thematically broad insight into the social realities of circumpolar societies, to theoretically address trans-regional commonalities and differences in the North.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to: colonial legacy, regional development, infrastructural change, informal networks, gender, art and cultural revitalization, indigenous and industrial economies, human-environment interaction, multiple identities, and global interconnections.

Keynote: Piers Vitebsky

https://dgv-zirkumpolar-sibirien.jimdo.com/dgv-tagung-2017/

Abstract max 1200 characters (incl) PLUS short abstract max 300 characters (incl) to the workshop organisers. Note that you can only have one paper at the conference. Deadline 15th of Feb. 2017

Submit your abstract to:
Gertrude Saxinger, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Otto Habeck, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tobias Holzlehner, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Verena Traeger, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.