Building Arctic Futures: Transport Infrastructures and Sustainable Northern Communities

Información del proyecto

INFRANORTH

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 885646

DOI

10.3030/885646

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 7 Octubre 2020

Fecha de inicio 1 Enero 2021

Fecha de finalización 31 Diciembre 2025

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Coste total

€ 2 499 998,75

Aportación de la UE

€ 2 499 998,00

Coordinado por

UNIVERSITAT WIEN
Austria

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Publicaciones

Book chapters (10)

Remote Connections: Human Entanglements with Built and Natural Environments in the Arctic and Elsewhere

Autores: Peter Schweitzer
Publicado en: Anthropology in Motion: Encounters with Current Trajectories of Scholarship from Austria, 2021, Página(s) 40-63, ISBN 978-1-912385-32-4
Editor: Sean Kingston Publishing

Openings and Closures: The Anthropology of Siberia and the Politics of Field Access

Autores: Peter Schweitzer
Publicado en: A Fractured North -- Journeys on Hold, 2024, Página(s) 263-281, ISBN 978-3-942883-42-9
Editor: Kulturstiftung Sibirien

Transformations of cooking technologies, spatial displacement, and food nostalgia in Chukotka

Autores: Elena Davydova
Publicado en: The Siberian World, 2023, Página(s) 110-120, ISBN 978-0-367-37457-4
Editor: Routledge

Railroads and the North: Historic and Ethnographic Examples from Russia and North America

Autores: Peter Schweitzer
Publicado en: More than ‘Nature’: Research on Infrastructure and Settlements in the North, Edición 3, 2022, Página(s) 29-44, ISBN 978-3-643-91218-3
Editor: LIT Verlag

Seasons and Seasonality in the (Alaskan) Arctic: Human and More-than-human Cycles of Engagement

Autores: Peter Schweitzer
Publicado en: The Seasonal and the Material, 2024, Página(s) 171-182, ISBN 978-3-98572-189-4
Editor: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
DOI: 10.5771/9783985721894-171

Polar Silk Worlding:

Autores: Ria-Maria Adams, Mia M. Bennett
Publicado en: Arctic Silk Roads, 2025, Página(s) 95-121
Editor: Berghahn Books
DOI: 10.2307/jj.31732223.9

Reconceptualizing Siberia: A Personal Account of a Changing Field

Autores: Olga Povoroznyuk
Publicado en: A Fractured North -- Maintaining Connections, 2025, Página(s) 89-105, ISBN 978-3-942883-43-6
Editor: Kulturstiftung Sibirien

The Promises and Fears of Infrastructure:

Autores: Olga Povoroznyuk, Peter Schweitzer
Publicado en: Arctic Silk Roads, Edición Arctic Silk Roads: An Anthropology of the Unbuilt, 2025, Página(s) 175-195, ISBN 978-1-83695-308-1
Editor: Berghahn Books
DOI: 10.2307/jj.31732223.12

Chapter 25 What Difference Does a Railroad Make?: Transportation and Settlement in the BAM Region in Historical Perspective

Autores: Povoroznyuk, Olga; Schweitzer, Peter
Publicado en: The Siberian World, 2023, Página(s) 364-377, ISBN 978-0-367-37475-4
Editor: Routledge

Population Change in the Arctic

Autores: Timothy Heleniak
Publicado en: The Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics, 2026, Página(s) 49-69, ISBN 978-3-032-03030-6
Editor: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-03031-3_4

Peer reviewed articles (40)

Infrastructural Disruption, Entanglement and Change in Northern Manitoba

Autores: Philipp Budka
Publicado en: Anthropologica, Edición 67, 2025, Página(s) 1-25, ISSN 0003-5459
Editor: Canadian Research Centre For Anthropology
DOI: 10.18357/anthropologica67120252709

Framing Multipolar Tourism: Imaginaries, Visualities and Futures

Autores: Jolynna Sinanan, Ria-Maria Adams, Philipp Budka
Publicado en: Visual Anthropology, Edición 38, 2025, Página(s) 30-48, ISSN 0894-9468
Editor: Taylor and Francis Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/08949468.2025.2510817

Making and Unmaking Airports in Tunu (East Greenland): The Socio-Material Dynamics of Hope and Connectivity

Autores: Sophie Elixhauser
Publicado en: Études Inuit Studies, Edición 47, 2024, Página(s) 275-309, ISSN 0701-1008
Editor: Association Inuksiutiit Katimajiit
DOI: 10.7202/1113393ar

A transdisciplinary, comparative analysis reveals key risks from Arctic permafrost thaw

Autores: Susanna Gartler, Johanna Scheer, Alexandra Meyer, Khaled Abass, Annett Bartsch, Natalia Doloisio, Jade Falardeau, Gustaf Hugelius, Anna Irrgang, Jón Haukur Ingimundarson, Leneisja Jungsberg, Hugues Lantuit, Joan Nymand Larsen, Rachele Lodi, Victoria Sophie Martin, Louise Mercer, David Nielsen, Paul Overduin, Olga Povoroznyuk, Arja Rautio, Peter Schweitzer, Niek Jesse Speetjens, Soňa Tomaškovič
Publicado en: Communications Earth & Environment, Edición 6, 2025, Página(s) 1-20, ISSN 2662-4435
Editor: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01883-w

Infrastructural legacies and post-Soviet transformations in Northern Sakha (Yakutiya), Russia

Autores: Peter Schweitzer; Olga Povoroznyuk
Publicado en: Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, Edición 24, 3, 2022, Página(s) 297-308, ISSN 1523-908X
Editor: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/1523908x.2022.2051455

Multi-scale scenario building for community development: Exploring transport infrastructure futures in the Circumpolar North

Autores: Nikita Strelkovskii, Philipp Budka, Dmitry Erokhin, Nadejda Komendantova, Alexandra Meyer, Olga Povoroznyuk, Elena Rovenskaya, Alexis Sancho-Reinoso, Katrin Schmid, Peter Schweitzer
Publicado en: Futures, Edición 180, 2026, Página(s) 103834, ISSN 0016-3287
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2026.103834

Redefining Arctic boundaries in a changing climate: interdisciplinary perspectives on governance strategies

Autores: Ugo Nanni, Patricia DeRepentigny, Aapo Lundén, Virginija Popovaitė, Yiyi Shen, Ilker K. Basaran, Natália Duarte Neubern, Llucia Mascorda-Cabre, Alec Bennett, Tiril Vold Hansen, Felicity A. Holmes, Eleni Kavvatha, Alexandra Meyer, Abhay Prakash, Aleksandra Wołoszyn
Publicado en: Polar Geography, Edición 47, 2024, Página(s) 127-155, ISSN 1088-937X
Editor: V.H. Winston and Sons, Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/1088937x.2024.2359926

No room in the North: housing scarcity as infrastructure’s failed relations in the Arctic

Autores: Katrin Schmid, Ria-Maria Adams
Publicado en: Polar Geography, Edición Online first, 2025, Página(s) 1-19, ISSN 1088-937X
Editor: V.H. Winston and Sons, Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/1088937x.2025.2592134

(Re)Constructing the Baikal-Amur Mainline: Continuity and Change of Post-Socialist Infrastructure

Autores: Olga Povoroznyuk
Publicado en: Transfers, Edición 10, 2-3, 2021, Página(s) 250-269, ISSN 2045-4813
Editor: Berghahn
DOI: 10.3167/trans.2020.10020317

Iceland’s demographic transition: from turf houses to too many tourists

Autores: Timothy Heleniak
Publicado en: Polar Record, Edición 61, 2025, Página(s) 1-14, ISSN 0032-2474
Editor: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s003224742400038x

The crowded and empty Arctic

Autores: Julie Klinger, Mia Bennett, Ria-Maria Adams, Eleanor Armstrong
Publicado en: Lychnos: Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria, 2024, Página(s) 57-72, ISSN 2004-4852
Editor: Lychnos, Lund University
DOI: 10.48202/25085

Transporting Arctic foodways: the infrastructure of food sovereignty in Nunavut, Canada

Autores: Katrin Schmid
Publicado en: Food, Culture & Society, Edición Online first, 2026, Página(s) 1-19, ISSN 1552-8014
Editor: Association for the Study of Food and Society
DOI: 10.1080/15528014.2026.2651494

Navigating local relevance in transdisciplinary research: Exploring climate and environmental change in the Tasiilaq region, East Greenland

Autores: Sophie Elixhauser, Jorrit van der Schot
Publicado en: Ambio, Edición 55, 2025, Página(s) 189-202, ISSN 0044-7447
Editor: Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien/Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02198-6

Hunting a ‘good life’: young lifestyle migrants in Finnish Lapland

Autores: Adams Ria-Maria
Publicado en: Polar Geography, Edición 46, 2026, Página(s) 139-156, ISSN 1088-937X
Editor: V.H. Winston and Sons, Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/1088937x.2023.2182383

Lifelines and Gateways: The Relational Affordances of Arctic Airports

Autores: Alexandra Meyer, Ria-Maria Adams, Sophie Elixhauser
Publicado en: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Edición 55, 2026, Página(s) 37-62, ISSN 0891-2416
Editor: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/08912416251398478

Hyperconnected remoteness: the Svalbard airport and community transitions in Longyearbyen

Autores: Alexandra Meyer
Publicado en: Polar Geography, Edición Online first, 2026, Página(s) 1-23, ISSN 1088-937X
Editor: V.H. Winston and Sons, Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/1088937x.2026.2620755

Flying into Frictioned Futures: Development of Canada’s Northernmost Runways

Autores: Katrin Schmid
Publicado en: Anthropologica, Edición 67, 2025, Página(s) 1-25, ISSN 0003-5459
Editor: Canadian Research Centre For Anthropology
DOI: 10.18357/anthropologica67120252702

Interdisciplinary, but how? Anthropological Perspectives from Collaborative Research on Climate and Environmental Change

Autores: Sophie Elixhauser, Zofia Boni, Nataša Gregorič Bon, Urša Kanjir, Alexandra Meyer, Frank Muttenzer, Mareike Pampus, Zdenka Sokolíčková
Publicado en: Environmental Science & Policy, Edición 151, 2025, Página(s) 103586, ISSN 1462-9011
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2023.103586

‘Melting Worlds’ and ‘Climate Myths’: Diverging Stories of Climate Change in Longyearbyen, an Arctic ‘Frontline Community’

Autores: Alexandra Meyer, Zdenka Sokolíčková
Publicado en: Ethnos, Edición 90, 2025, Página(s) 714-731, ISSN 0014-1844
Editor: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2024.2329690

Introduction: Narratives and Temporalities of Infrastructure in Canada

Autores: Philipp Budka, Giuseppe Amatulli
Publicado en: Anthropologica, Edición 67, 2025, Página(s) 1-20, ISSN 0003-5459
Editor: Canadian Research Centre For Anthropology
DOI: 10.18357/anthropologica67120252794

Temporality of Arctic transport infrastructure: bridging seasonal supply in Egvekinot, Chukotka

Autores: Elena Davydova, Olga Povoroznyuk
Publicado en: Polar Geography, Edición Online first, 2025, Página(s) 1-20, ISSN 1088-937X
Editor: V.H. Winston and Sons, Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/1088937x.2025.2592137

Ambiguous entanglements: infrastructure, memory and identity in indigenous Evenki communities along the Baikal–Amur Mainline

Autores: Olga Povoroznyuk
Publicado en: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale, Edición 29, 4, 2021, Página(s) 1064-1080, ISSN 0964-0282
Editor: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1111/1469-8676.13032

<scp>LOCAL INITIATIVES IN SHRINKING CITIES</scp>: On Normative Framings and Hidden Aspirations in Scholarly Work

Autores: Leona Sandmann, Maria Gunko, Irina Shirobokova, Ria‐Maria Adams, Johanna Lilius, Katrin Grossmann
Publicado en: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Edición 49, 2025, Página(s) 214-223, ISSN 0309-1317
Editor: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13252

Affective politics and neoliberal subjectivities in ‘left behind’ places: Counter-narrating regional decline within/from Finland’s ‘Capital of Pessimism’

Autores: Grete Gansauer, Johanna Lilius, Ria-Maria Adams
Publicado en: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, Edición 43, 2026, Página(s) 1140-1157, ISSN 2399-6544
Editor: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/23996544251317099

Introduction: Precarious Connections: On the Promise and Menace of Railroad Projects

Autores: Peter Schweitzer; Olga Povoroznyuk
Publicado en: Transfers, Edición 10, 2-3, 2021, Página(s) 137-151, ISSN 2045-4813
Editor: Berghahn
DOI: 10.3167/trans.2020.10020311

Amazon in the Arctic: E-Commerce, Infrastructure, and Alimentary Assemblages in Nunavut, Canada

Autores: Katrin Schmid
Publicado en: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Edición 55, 2026, Página(s) 110-131, ISSN 0891-2416
Editor: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/08912416251398435

Building transdisciplinary bridges and learning from the Svalbard context

Autores: Julia Olsen, Alexandra Meyer, Lisbeth Iversen, Ulrich Schildberg, Ragnhild Holmen Bjørnsen, Grete K. Hovelsrud, James Badu, Dina Brode-Roger, Adriana Craciun, Hanne H. Christiansen, Lena Cappelen Endresen, Tiril V. Hansen, Simon Jungblut, Eystein Markusson, Aga Nowak, Ulla Timlin, Stein Sandven, Zdenka Sokolíčková, Janne Søreide
Publicado en: The Polar Journal, Edición 15, 2025, Página(s) 299-323, ISSN 2154-896X
Editor: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/2154896x.2025.2569950

Beyond Genetics: Exploring Aspects of Non-Biological Kinship in Prehistoric Times

Autores: Cveček Sabina, Herrero-Corral Ana, Rebay-Salisbury Katharina, Banffy Eszter, Brami Maxime, Chaix Raphaëlle, Hrnčíř Václav, Johnson Kent, F. Lancy David, Le Roy Mélie, Mace Ruth, Schweitzer Peter, Sear Rebecca, Seguin-Orlando Andaine, Shankland David, Somel Mehmet, Souvatzi Stella, Whiteley Peter, Žegarac Aleksandra
Publicado en: Nature Anthropology, Edición 3, 2025, Página(s) 10016-10016, ISSN 2959-7641
Editor: SCIE Publishing Limited
DOI: 10.70322/natanthropol.2025.10016

Self-responsibilization, the municipality, and the state: Peripheralization shaping local initiatives in shrinking small towns

Autores: Katrin Großmann, Ria-Maria Adams, Alla Bolotova, Maria Gunko, Johanna Lilius, Sven Messerschmidt, Leona Sandmann
Publicado en: Cities, Edición 150, 2024, Página(s) 105067, ISSN 0264-2751
Editor: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105067

2200 meters: infrastructure, the future, and the politics of belonging in Greenland and the Arctic

Autores: S. B. Vanek
Publicado en: Polar Geography, Edición Online first, 2026, Página(s) 1-19, ISSN 1088-937X
Editor: V.H. Winston and Sons, Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/1088937x.2025.2603990

Ignoring environmental change? On fishing quotas and collapsing coastlines in Bykovskiy, Northern Sakha (Yakutiya)

Autores: Olga Povoroznyuk, Peter Schweitzer
Publicado en: Ambio, Edición 52, 2023, Página(s) 1211-1220, ISSN 0044-7447
Editor: Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien/Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-023-01874-9

Liveability under shrinkage: initiatives in the ‘capital of pessimism’ in Finland

Autores: Ria-Maria Adams, Alla Bolotova, Ville Alasalmi
Publicado en: European Planning Studies, Edición 31, 2023, Página(s) 212-229, ISSN 0965-4313
Editor: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2022.2126721

Expanding infrastructure and growing anthropogenic impacts along Arctic coasts

Autores: Annett Bartsch; Georg Pointner; Ingmar Nitze; Aleksandra Efimova; Dan Jakober; Sarah Ley; Elin Högström; Guido Grosse; Peter Schweitzer
Publicado en: Environmental Research Letters, 2021, ISSN 1748-9326
Editor: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac3176

Turning the Faroes Into One City. Demographic and Spatial Impacts of 60 Years of Transport Infrastructure Expansion.

Autores: Alexis Sancho Reinoso, Timothy Heleniak
Publicado en: Island Studies Journal, Edición 19, 2025, Página(s) 6-28, ISSN 1715-2593
Editor: University of Prince Edward Island
DOI: 10.24043/001c.123786

Toward a Comparative Ethnography of Arctic Seaports Projects: Local Impacts of Expanding Maritime Infrastructure in Alaska, Norway, and Russia

Autores: Olga Povoroznyuk
Publicado en: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Edición 55, 2026, Página(s) 86-109, ISSN 0891-2416
Editor: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/08912416251398479

Arctic roads and railways: social and environmental consequences of transport infrastructure in the circumpolar North

Autores: Olga Povoroznyuk, Warwick F. Vincent, Peter Schweitzer, Roza Laptander, Mia Bennett, Fabrice Calmels, Dmitrii Sergeev, Christopher Arp, Bruce C. Forbes, Pascale Roy-Léveillée, Donald A. Walker
Publicado en: Arctic Science, Edición 9, 2025, Página(s) 297-330, ISSN 2368-7460
Editor: Canadian Science Publishing
DOI: 10.1139/as-2021-0033

How to board an aircraft in Chukotka

Autores: Elena, Davydova
Publicado en: Mobility Humanities, Edición 3, 2, 2024, Página(s) 111-133, ISSN 2799-8509
Editor: Academy of Mobility Humanities

The Mining Road That Sustains People

Autores: Elena Davydova
Publicado en: Arctic Anthropology, Edición 60, 2026, Página(s) 184-202, ISSN 0066-6939
Editor: University of Wisconsin Press
DOI: 10.3368/aa.60.2.184

Scenarios and Ethnography: Infrastructural Futures as Windows into the Present

Autores: Peter Schweitzer, Olga Povoroznyuk, Philipp Budka, Alexandra Meyer, Katrin Schmid, Nikita Strelkovskii
Publicado en: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Edición 55, 2026, Página(s) 14-36, ISSN 0891-2416
Editor: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/08912416251398488

Introduction to the Special Issue “Ethnographies of Infrastructure”

Autores: Peter Schweitzer, Olga Povoroznyuk, Philipp Budka
Publicado en: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Edición 55, 2026, Página(s) 3-13, ISSN 0891-2416
Editor: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/08912416251398433

Thesis and dissertations (2)

Arctic change: an ethnography of entangled climatic and societal transformations in Longyearbyen, Svalbard

Autores: Meyer, Alexandra
Publicado en: 2023
Editor: University of Vienna

Soviet infrastructure in the post-Soviet era?

Autores: Povoroznyuk, Olga
Publicado en: 2022
Editor: University of Vienna