The crowded and empty Arctic

Autor(en)

Julie Klinger, Mia Bennett, Ria-Maria Adams, Eleanor Armstrong

Abstrakt

We, as four foreign researchers with research commitments in Kiruna, Sweden, reflexively examine the imaginaries of Kiruna as either empty or crowded while prob-lematizing the Arctic as a homogenous region. While our scholarly interests (mining, space, education, transport infrastructure) and disciplines are distinct, we reflect on how their convergence in the city indicates broader historical shifts in Arctic imagi-naries and the political economies of research, which follow and shape climate geo-politics, development, and cultural practices. In the interstices of these currents, the Arctic-imagined as empty and remote from global metropoles-becomes crowded and connected through mobility to and from as well as within the Arctic, which shapes processes of knowledge production.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Externe Organisation(en)

University of Delaware, University of Washington, Stockholm University

Journal

Lychnos

Seiten

57-72

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48202/25085

Publikationsdatum

11-2023

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504009 Ethnologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Social Sciences(all)

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 11 – Nachhaltige Städte und Gemeinden, SDG 13 – Maßnahmen zum Klimaschutz

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/the-crowded-and-empty-arctic(2c848e97-f10c-451f-b520-f7f2157076be).html