NORTHERN POLITICAL ECONOMY SYMPOSIUM 2017
26-27 Sept
ember, 2017, Loma-Vietonen, Finland
The 7th symp
osium will address this year political aspects of life in the Arctic as wel
l as the Arctic life as an object of politics, even in the academia. Life i
n the Arctic has become politicized in many ways due to the effects and cha
llenges posed by climate change, industrialization, urbanization and global
ization to local communities and inhabitants. Across the region, conflicts
over land use and natural resources accompanied by insecurity and uncertain
ty about the future are part of everyday life in the Arctic. Such conflicts
are political, and occur without respect to the borders of states or bound
aries of politically constructed regions. In contrast to much publicized an
d debated threats of an open, international, direct and even military confl
ict over Arctic resources, these often small-scale, local conflicts relate
to unequal social arrangements, benefit sharing and risk distribution in co
nnection to megaprojects and infrastructural development around the region,
and they could also be called “structural violence”. Living in the Arctic,
for both humans and non-humans, is nowadays a political question of coping
with, adapting to and transforming changing conditions and circumstances,
but also a starting point and object of political interventions of differen
t scales, institutional arrangements and by a broad range of political acto
rs. Papers and presentations covering different aspects of Arctic life as a
political phenomenon are welcome.
Program draft 8.8.2017
26.9.2017
10.00-11.00 Travel to Loma-Vietonen by
bus
11.00-12.00 Lunch
12.00-13.00 Mikko Lehtonen, University of T
ampere: Arctic and/as Alternative Modernity
13.00-13.40 Joonas Vola, U
niversity of Lapland: UN/IN/ANT/ARCTIC – Poles of the political dual-machin
e
13.40-14.20 Monica Tennberg, University of Lapland: Arctic heterotop
ias
14.20-14.50 Coffee
14.50-15.30 Marjo Lindroth & Heidi Sin
evaara-Niskanen, University of Lapland: The Arctic and the colonial inclusi
on of indigeneity
15.30-16.10 Kari Alenius, University of Oulu: A mixt
ure of facts and politicized narratives: The Sami people in European social
media (Wikipedia)
16.10-16.50 Giuseppe Amatulli, University of Laplan
d: The role of the EU in promoting sustainable development, cross border co
operation and indigenous peoples’ rights in the Arctic
16.50-17.00 Gen
eral discussion
19.00 Dinner and sauna
27.9.2017<
br />9.00-10.00 Iulie Aslaksen, Statistics Norway: ECONOR – “The Economy of
the North 2015”
10.00-10.40 Lovisa Solbär, University of Umeå: Extrac
tive Violence in Kiistala? Mine and windfarm establishment in the sphere of
everyday life and local landed interests
10.40-11.00 Coffee
11.0
0-11.40 Maiju Strömmer & Sari Pietikäinen, University of Jyväskylä: Val
ue of work in the transforming political economy of Arctic: Biographical Na
rratives of work histories and aspirations
11.40-12.20 Marileine Barib
eau, Laval University: Social Housing and Public Action Transformation: The
Changing Relations between State and Inuit Tenants in Nunavik (Canada)
12.20-13.00 Lunch
13.00-13.40 Tanja Joona, University of Lapland: Oh
, what an exotic Arctic! Women leave, men stay or kill themselves
13.4
0-14.20 Aileen Espiritu, The Arctic University of Norway: Futuring the Past
: Arctic sustainability in Vardø and Teriberka
14.20-14.35 Coffee
14.35-15.15 Elena Klyuchnikova & Vladimir Masloboev, Kola Science Cent
er of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Influence of corporations sustainabl
e development policy on Arctic local communities
15.15-15.55 Olesya Ko
tiyar, MARKHI, Moscow Institute of Architecture (State Academy): Alternativ
e sources of energy in the Russian Arctic as a driver for the development o
f the region
15.55-16.35 Susanna Pirnes, University of Lapland: Percep
tion of Russia’s Arctic in the Finnish media
16.35-16.45 Hanna Lempine
n, University of Lapland: Concluding thoughts
16.45 Return to Rovaniem
i by bus
NPE symposium 2017 Political Arctic/Arctic Political
If you prefer to par
ticipate to the symposium without presenting a paper, please register your
participation before September 15, 2017 by email to Susann
a Pirnes (This email addre
ss is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
.).
Travel and accommodation
The event will be held in
Loma-Vietonen, 65 kilometres northwest from Rovaniemi. The organizers will
arrange transportation for participants from Rovaniemi to Loma-Vietonen an
d back. There is no fee for participation, but participants (except present
ers) will cover their own travel and accommodation costs. Information about
travel and accommodation arrangements will be sent to the participants. Le
t us know if you have any wishes about the diet.
More inf
ormation
Symposium organizer, research professor Monica
Tennberg, research professor, Northern political economy/Sustainable develo
pment research group, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland (This email address is being protected fro
m spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and the symposium organizing team
Tanja Joona (This email ad
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WELCOME!
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