New Blogpost on Arctic mobility and disruptions 🔧⚙️🧰

🛫 Arctic Airports as Lifelines and Gateways? Shaped by geopolitical agendas and external economic interests, Arctic airports are essential lifelines for communities across remote regions.Our @infranortherc.bsky.social article explores these relational affordances journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

So happy to see our recent visit to #Vardø featured in @cryopolitics.com fresh-from-the-press blog post! 📡🦀🎣

Interesting article on the co-existence of tourism and military in Finnish Lapland 🎅🏼🪖 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

🎅🏼🥶Nice article on winter wonderland disasters - perhaps reason enough for some to look at Arctic destinations to have a different kind of experience www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

🗞️Within @infranortherc.bsky.social, Katrin Schmid and I examine very different #Arctic communities to show how capitalist logics drive #housing scarcity — and how “infrastructure’s failed relations” become visible in diverse local contexts. 🏚️🏗️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📚 We highly recommend 𝗨𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗼𝘇𝗲𝗻: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰, by Mia Bennett (Univ. Washington; InfraNorth associate researcher) & Klaus Dodds (Royal Holloway) — an insightful look at the rapid climate and geopolitical shifts shaping the #Arctic. @cryopolitics.com @klausdodds.bsky.social

📚 #InfraNorth researchers contribute two chapters to 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗸 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱𝘀: 𝗔𝗻 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 (Berghahn Books, eds. N. & M. Magnani, Jan 2026). 🚢 The forthcoming book traces how melting sea ice fuels global imaginaries of #Arctic routes and #infrastructure visions shaping local agency.

Bildeserie: I en historisk prosess flyttes Kiruna i Nord-Sverige for å gi plass til gruvedrift under byen, som har ført til at bakken synker og danner sprekker. Bli med High North News inn i den gamle og nå forlatte gruvebyen. #Kiruna #LKAB #Arktis #Nordområdene

🌾 Last week’s #Edgenet workshop at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social spotlighted the #periphery 🫶🏼 Discussing industrial booms & busts, the (lack of) infrastructure, and the role of mining in shaping remote regions. Inspired by this amazing group‘s take on local #initiatives ✨ @infranortherc.bsky.social

🔋Visited #Northvolt’s huge 5,000-employee site during the #Edgenet seminar in #Skellefteå. Once Europe’s best hope to rival Chinese #battery giants, the company filed for bankruptcy in March 2025 - one of Sweden’s largest corporate collapses. @infranortherc.bsky.social @umeauniversitet.bsky.social

📯 Interested in #tourism #imaginaries across the poles? Our new paper with Jolynna #Sinanan and @philbu.bsky.social compares Everest, Churchill, and Rovaniemi - discussing how these places are imagined and experienced. 🏔️🐻‍❄️🌌 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In our #infrastructure panel,we discussed from German museums to Chinese NGOs to #Arctic airports - how comparison isn’t about ranking or simplifying but rather about opening up understanding, challenging assumptions, and making differences analytically visible🔍🌍 #FAC2025 @infranortherc.bsky.social

🌀Two days into the Finnish #Anthropology Conference. Been diving into different takes on #comparison and how colleagues use it in their work.Still untangling how to make it work best in our @infranortherc.bsky.social research, but there are still a few sessions left to spark ideas ✨ #FAC2025 #UHel

📅 Next week, on June 17, #InfraNorth researcher Ria-Maria Adams will present a paper and chair the session “Rethinking #Infrastructure through Comparative Lenses: Climate, Environment, and Cultures in Transformation” at the #Finnish #Anthropological Society Conference 2025! @riaadams.bsky.social

Our new blogpost on Arctic housing is out 🏠🏘️👷🏽🧱🏗️ infranorth.eu/blog/plenty-... @infranortherc.bsky.social

While road #infrastructure is important for #remote towns, air connectivity is vital for #Arctic communities like #Vardø. #Widerøe’s small planes operate on ‘milk run’ routes—making short, essential stops at multiple towns. Four of us got off last week from a full flight. @infranortherc.bsky.social

Impressed by the amount of street art in #Vardø — highlighting the importance of local fishing and expressing concern about how big corporations threaten the livelihoods of local fishers who have relied on the sea for generations 🎣🦀

📡🐠 This 2017 @arctictoday.bsky.social article by Andrew Higgins from #Vardø still is relevant today. Residents seem more concerned about shuttered fish factories, dwindling fish stocks, and disappearing whales than about American satellites on their remote island. www.arctictoday.com/on-a-tiny-no...

Rovaniemi, Kittilä, Ivalo, Kirkenes, Alta, Tromsø and Bodø are all destinations inside the Arctic Circle for the Finnish flag carrier the coming winter. The airport next to Santa Claus Village in Lapland gets as many as 72 weekly flights.

🗞️Great column by Anna Ruohalainen in #LapinKansa on shifting #youth perceptions of their #rural hometowns - after years of pessimistic views dominating the discourse, a more hopeful view is emerging. Honoured to see results of my dissertation mentioned too 🫶🏼 www.lapinkansa.fi/tapasin-kemi...

🍿🎬📽️ Ethnographic documentary film festival @ethnocineca.bsky.social starting tomorrow in #Vienna. Great program: www.ethnocineca.at/en/home/

▶️ Don’t miss this video interview with Peter Schweitzer, principal investigator of #InfraNorth, as he reflects on his journey of anthropological research with Arctic communities, focusing on issues related to the built environment, mobility, remoteness, and the social impacts of climate change 👇

🙌🏼Yesterday was so special - first, teaching a class together with amazing 💫 @gretegans.bsky.social, followed by an invited talk about our @infranortherc.bsky.social research results on #Arctic tourism #infrastructures at the department brown bag session at the #UniversityofWyoming 🏫

Had a great weekend with @gretegans.bsky.social exploring rural #Wyoming and driving through Niobrara County 🇺🇸🐎The vast open spaces, small villages, the harsh weather, endless cargo trains, and oil fields reminded me of many of the issues we face in the #Arctic too. @infranortherc.bsky.social

💫 🇺🇸Two memorable days of getting to know the #rural areas of #Wyoming with @gretegans.bsky.social

Leaving #ASSW2025 with fresh insights on #Arctic infrastructure issues. @colorado.edu provided a great venue to foster collaboration and rethink our work with local communities 🏞️🏗️ Our work must be even more grounded in local knowledge and easily accessible to make a real difference. @infranorth

❄️🏗️ The #RATIC workshop at #ICARPIV Summit reviewed a decade of progress and set research priorities for the next 10 years on #Arctic #infrastructure and its interactions with natural and social systems. #ASSW2025 #InfraNorth 🔗 infranorth.eu/news/mar-20-...

#ASSW2025 starting this week in Boulder, CO 🇺🇸 Come and meet us @infranortherc.bsky.social in person and online 💫 More Infos where to find us in the link below 👇🏼

New Article is out!❄️ How is snow changing in the Arctic & Alps? The #Snow2School project connects scientists & students to track snow changes & their impacts on climate & daily life in GL and AUT. 🏔️✨ Read more👇 🔗 www.polarresearch.at/snow2school-... #PolarResearch #Arctic #Alps #ClimateChange

🏗️We as @infranortherc.bsky.social team are organizing a infrastructure conference! Come and join us in Vienna from Sept. 22-24 and submit a paper! More details here:

After 30 years, trains are once again crossing the border between Tornio 🇫🇮 and Haparanda 🇸🇪! This isn’t just great news for locals and travelers, it’s a strategic decision for national security too 🚂 www.lapinkansa.fi/raidetta-pit...

The CfP for the Finish 🇫🇮 #Anthropology Conference this June has been extended: blogs.helsinki.fi/fasconferenc...

The #Norwegian Ministry of Defense has decided to acquire options in Avinor's construction project so that the new #airport in #Bodø, Northern #Norway, could potentially have a future military role.

Gotta love #postnord for having two mailboxes to choose from 🎅🏼📮 #Swedishlapland

🚍Tested the local bus in #Kiruna to the conference venue: 7-min drive or 40min walk was 29 min by bus. Routes try to cover a wider area for accessibility, but it’s not the most efficient mode to commute in #Arctic towns.🔍Spot the truck bringing piles of snow to the snow-dump🚛

🔍🏗️Curious whether #Scandic Kiruna’s rates will drop or keep climbing once the new #Elite Hotel Frost opens (expected June 2025). Hotel prices in #Kiruna are soaring, driven by demand from workers, tourists, visitors, researchers and other professionals alike. 📈

Feeling the snow crunching under my feet as I walk through #Kiruna to the Nordic Conference of #Rural Reseach at #AuroraKiruna. I love visiting this place time and time again, especially to see the city’s transformation. Some of the old wooden houses were relocated since summer🏗️

Andreas Trügler, Leiter der Sermilik Station in Ostgrönland, erzählt von seiner Arbeit an Österreichs erster Forschungsstation in der Arktis. Montag, 25. November 2024, um 18:00 Uhr Ort: Heinrichstraße 36, HS 1103 Online-Teilnahme per E-Mail an [email protected]

Planting trees 🌲🌳 is not the solution to tackle #climatechange in high latitudes of the #Arctic. Very interesting article by #HighNorthNews based on Aagard Kristensen & colleagues research. 👉🏼 www.highnorthnews.com/en/tree-plan...

Intending to slowly move from X to Bluesky…🐌 I will try post here about Arctic related topics, especially during my times in the field. Next trip will be to Kiruna in a few weeks ❄️