🗞️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....

📢 New paper alert! Polar Geography has just released the article “𝗧𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲: 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗴𝘃𝗲𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗼𝘁, 𝗖𝗵𝘂𝗸𝗼𝘁𝗸𝗮” by #InfraNorth researchers Elena Davydova and Olga Povoroznyuk. @univie.ac.at 🔗 Find out more: infranorth.eu/news/dec-202...

Arctic transportation futures are at a crossroads. ❄️🚛🚢 @infranortherc.bsky.social gathered experts and community voices to discuss how to make future #transport #planning more responsive to local needs. 💡See the recommendations: infranorth.eu/arctic-trans...

💡 As #InfraNorth enters its final stage, we spotlight the people behind the research, starting with Philipp Budka, who focused on #Churchill, Manitoba. His research shows how local ownership and community-led decisions can make #infrastructure more reliable & fair. @philbu.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

In the latest issue of @anthropologica.bsky.social, #InfraNorth researcher @philbu.bsky.social contributes the article “Infrastructural Disruption, Entanglement and Change in Northern #Manitoba,” where he examines how #Churchill residents live with, adapt to, and reimagine infrastructure.

🆕 The latest issue of #Anthropologica (Vol. 67, No. 1, 2025) features the thematic section “Narratives and Temporalities of #Infrastructure: The Canadian Experience,” co-edited by Giuseppe Amatulli & Philipp Budka. @anthropologica.bsky.social @gamatulli.bsky.social @philbu.bsky.social

🏗️❄️🛳️ #Arctic transport is at a crossroads. Reconciling global drivers with local needs is a major policy and planning challenge. The #InfraNorth workshop brought together diverse voices to support sustainable, inclusive Arctic #transportation futures. The dialogue continues – more soon! @univie.ac.at

Looking forward to my lecture on community #infrastructures, #sovereignty & futures in remote 🇨🇦 @ the Wednesday Seminar Series of the Dpt. of Social & Cultural #Anthropology @univie.ac.at.

#InfraNorth researcher Alexandra Meyer co-presented with Julia Olsen at the #Svalbard Science Conference, sharing insights from their collective article “Building transdisciplinary bridges and learning from the Svalbard context,” now open-access in The Polar Journal. 🔗 infranorth.eu/news/nov-202...

📅 Join us this Wednesday, Nov 5, at 5 pm CET, for a lecture by #InfraNorth researcher Philipp Budka, on infrastructural sovereignty in remote Canadian communities. 🌐 Hybrid at Uni Wien & Zoom, no registration needed. More details on the link below! @philbu.bsky.social @univie.ac.at #Infrastructure

📚 #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.

Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer are in #Alaska, where they presented #InfraNorth findings at the #ARCA workshop “Biocultural Heritage and Climate Adaptation in Arctic Cities,” linking their research on #Arctic transport infrastructures and biocultural heritage as a climate adaptation resource.

📚 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

I’m really looking forward to my talk tomorrow at #DGSKA2025 (@dgska.bsky.social) in #Cologne. I’ll be speaking about #sustainability & #infrastructure in 🇨🇦, drawing on my work with @infranortherc.bsky.social @univie.ac.at.

Next week, four #InfraNorth researchers will present at the 2025 GASCA/DGKSA conference, on how #infrastructures sustain & transform livelihoods; epistemologies & methodologies of accompanied research; and commoning practices in the #Arctic. @philbu.bsky.social @dgska.bsky.social #Anthropology

The conference "Beyond #Infrastructure?" @univie.ac.at is followed by a workshop on #Arctic #transport futures with various stakeholders & experts from Northern #Europe & Arctic #America.

Really enjoyed my last couple of days at the @infranortherc.bsky.social conference 'Beyond Infrastructure: Un-built environments of the anthropocene' in Vienna. My first time presenting research from my PhD in Europe 💫

Really enjoyed presenting my work on unbuilt “amorphous” dams and diversions in the Salween River Basin today at the ‘Beyond Infrastructure’ conference & vibrant discussions on infrastructural politics, thanks @infranortherc.bsky.social

Looking forward to my presentation tomorrow @infranortherc.bsky.social conference, where I show how #transport #infrastructures enable northern #sovereignty in 🇨🇦. #Arctic #anthropology

In his keynote lecture, Alessandro Rippa takes us on a journey across the China-Burma borderlands to examine #Anthropocene landscapes as extended #infrastructure space. 🔗 infranorth.eu/beyond-infrastructure-conference/ #BeyondInfrastructure #InfraNorth @alessandrorippa.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

🙌 Excited to kick off the #BeyondInfrastructure #conference today with a keynote lecture by Alessandro Rippa (University of Oslo)! 🏗️ Scholars from diverse fields will engage in interdisciplinary discussions on #infrastructure and beyond. @alessandrorippa.bsky.social @univie.ac.at #InfraNorth

The @infranortherc.bsky.social conference "Beyond #Infrastructure? (Un-)built Environments in the #Anthropocene" starts today @univie.ac.at bringing together researchers from multiple disciplines to rethink how built, unbuilt & imagined environments shape our world: infranorth.eu/beyond-infra...

🗣 Today at #EUGEO2025 Congress @oeaw.bsky.social, @alexissancho.bsky.social presents a paper coauthored with Timothy Heleniak, based on #InfraNorth research in the #FaroeIslands: 📄 “Turning the Faroes Into One City – Demographic & Spatial Impacts of 60 Years of Transport Infrastructure Expansion.”

❄️ What questions can travel across #Arctic communities that share little beyond snow and latitude, and still make sense in each place? 📝 The #InfraNorth survey set out to gather comparable data on #transport realities across the circumpolar North. ✍️ @alexissancho.bsky.social reflects:

⏳ Just over a week left to register for the #conference 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲? (𝗨𝗻-)𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗲, taking place Sept. 22–24 at @univie.ac.at! 🎫 Register by Sept. 1 to join in person, or anytime until the conference for online attendance. 🙌 Stay tuned—updated program soon!

🛻 After a two-day journey on wheels, the 113-year-old church of #Kiruna, which was at risk of being swallowed by the iron ore mine, arrives safely at the new city centre. #InfraNorth has been following the events from afar...

Excited to take part in workshop "Past Tense, #Future Imperfect" @unibonn.bsky.social’s Global Heritage Lab! Organized by @naohh-easa.bsky.social & @easainfo.bsky.social's FAN network. I’ll reflect on #time, #ethnography & #infrastructure in Manitoba 🇨🇦 @infranortherc.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

▶️ #InfraNorth researcher Philipp Budka delivered the social sciences keynote at the International Digital Security Forum #IDSF2025 in Vienna. He reflected on past and ongoing research, linking questions around #sovereignty and (digital) #infrastructure. The talk is now available to watch online! 👇

📢 We are excited to announce the preliminary program for the conference “𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲? (𝗨𝗻-)𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗲”! 🌍 Join us at the University of Vienna (@univie.ac.at), Sept 22–24, for an interdisciplinary dialogue on #infrastructure #research. 🎫 Early bird ends July 6!

✨ Ria-Maria Adams, #InfraNorth researcher at @univie.ac.at, reflects on (and shares impressions from) her experience at the #EdgeNet workshop on #peripheries research at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social 👇

🏗️✈️ What role can #comparison play in the #anthropology of #infrastructures? Some insights from the panel chaired by @riaadams.bsky.social at the #FAC2025 Finnish #Anthropology conference in Helsinki @helsinki.fi @univie.ac.at #InfraNorth

#InfraNorth researcher @riaadams.bsky.social is in Helsinki, taking part in the #FAC2025 Finnish Anthropology conference, where she presented a paper and chaired the panel “Rethinking #Infrastructure through Comparative Lenses.” @univie.ac.at #UHel 🔗 Learn more: infranorth.eu/news/jun-17-...

📸🌌 How do imaginaries of remote, climate-vulnerable places emerge through #tourism #infrastructures? 📝 Visual #Anthropology: “Framing Multipolar Tourism: Imaginaries, Visualities and Futures” by J. Sinanan (@manchester.ac.uk), @riaadams.bsky.social & @philbu.bsky.social of @univie.ac.at #InfraNorth

New publication: "Framing multipolar #tourism: Imaginaries, #visualities & #futures" by J. Sinanan, @riaadams.bsky.social & myself published in Visual #Anthropology doi.org/10.1080/0894... @infranortherc.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @manchester.ac.uk‬

#LeNunavoix, a French-language newspaper in #Nunavut, features Katrin Schmid’s research (based on 170 interviews in five Qikiqtani communities) on the link between #transport #infrastructure and #food #sovereignty, and how this relationship shapes Nunavut’s future. #FrCan #InfraNorth @univie.ac.at

📅 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

🛰️📡 Yesterday, #InfraNorth researcher Philipp Budka gave the keynote address for the Social Sciences Track at the #IDSF2025 Forum in Vienna! He reflected on past and current research connecting questions of #sovereignty with (digital) #infrastructure. @philbu.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

🏠 Plenty of land, but nowhere to live in the #Arctic? 📝 New #InfraNorth blog post! Ria-Maria Adams & Katrin Schmid explore #housing in Sweden’s #Malmfälten and Canada’s #Nunavut. Despite differences, shared challenges highlight the role of transport infrastructure—and more. @riaadams.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

#InfraNorth researcher Philipp Budka (@philbu.bsky.social) will be the keynote speaker of the Social Science Track at #IDSF2025! Don’t miss his talk: “Community-Led Digital Sovereignty: Insights and Lessons from an Indigenous Initiative in Remote Canada” 🗓️ June 5, 10:00 CEST 📍 MuseumsQuartier Wien

Philipp Budka (philbu.bsky.social) recently wrapped up his final field trip for #InfraNorth in northern #Manitoba. In #Churchill, residents highlighted key concerns: 🔹 Port of Churchill’s future & possible 2nd Hudson Bay port 🔹 Economic shifts due to climate change 🔹 Housing access & affordability

🗞️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...

✈️ Air travel in #Greenland reveals regional inequalities. In this #InfraNorth blog post, S. Elixhauser & S. Vanek explore how plans for a new airport in #Tasiilaq reflect the hopes and social trade-offs of infrastructure development in remote regions of the #Arctic. 🔗 infranorth.eu/blog/isolati...

📢 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹! The extended deadline to submit your proposals is next Monday April 21!

▶️ 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 👇

📰 How does transport infrastructure shape life in a changing #Arctic? Peter Schweitzer, principal investigator of #InfraNorth, shares his journey and insights from years of fieldwork in this interview with Rudolphina Magazine by @univie.ac.at. Check it out! 🔗 rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/do-arctic...

I'll be giving a public talk about my research on #transport #infrastructure in northern #Manitoba on April 16th, 12-1pm, @manitobamuseum.bsky.social. If you're in Winnipeg, stop by! Admission is free. manitobamuseum.ca/event/infras...

𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟭, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 In response to several requests, we have extended our #CfP deadline. Thanks to those who have already submitted and, if you haven’t done so yet, there’s still time—we look forward to your proposals! 🔗 infranorth.eu/news/call-fo... @univie.ac.at

🙌🏼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 🏫