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ERC Advanced Grant “Building Arctic Futures: Transport Infrastructures & Sustainable Northern Communities” - http://infranorth.eu Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna - @univie.ac.at
📰✨ The introduction to the “Ethnographies of Infrastructure” special issue of the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘌𝘵𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺 is out #openaccess, situating contributions within developments in the #anthropology of #infrastructure.
➡️ The print edition is due Feb 2026.
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✈️ New #openaccess article in the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘌𝘵𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺!
📦 “Amazon in the Arctic: E-Commerce, Infrastructure, and Alimentary Assemblages in #Nunavut, Canada” by #InfraNorth researcher Katrin Schmid.
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📣 We are excited to announce that Peter Schweitzer, Principal Investigator of #InfraNorth and APRI board member, has been appointed to the Executive Committee of the European Polar Board.
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Symbolic recognition isn’t enough. Indigenous communities in Canada face unresolved issues in water, energy & transport #infrastructure and demand real say in decisions that meet their long-term needs. #InfraNorth researcher Philipp Budka highlighted this issue at the “GAME ON!” press conference.
09.12.2025 12:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📰 New article by #InfraNorth researcher Olga Povoroznyuk in the Journal of Contemporary #Ethnography!
“Toward a Comparative Ethnography of #Arctic Seaports Projects: Local Impacts of Expanding Maritime #Infrastructure in Alaska, Norway, and Russia”
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🗞️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....
Davydova, Elena, and Povoroznyuk, Olga. Temporality of Arctic Transport Infrastructure: Bridging Seasonal Supply in Egvekinot, Chukotka. In Polar Geography, 2025 (in print). https://doi.org/10.1080/1088937X.2025.2592137
View of Zaliv Kresta and Evgekinot. Photo by Elena Davydova. Published in Polar Journal: https://doi.org/10.1080/1088937X.2025.2592137
📢 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...
“In northern Canada, transport is essential for daily life. My research focused on Churchill, Manitoba, which has no road connection and is the only place in the North American Arctic with a deep-sea port linked to a railway system.” – Philipp Budka (University of Vienna/InfraNorth).
“In 2017, flooding damaged the railway and cut the town off for 18 months, revealing how transport sustains northern communities and how vulnerable that lifeline can be.” – Philipp Budka (University of Vienna/InfraNorth)
“After the 2017 railway disruption, local and Indigenous communities in northern Manitoba took ownership of the railway and port. This gave them more control over transport and local development. Churchill’s experience shows that community-led decision-making can make infrastructure more reliable and fairer.” – Philipp Budka (University of Vienna/InfraNorth)
“When the railway stopped working, Churchill became isolated. Instead of giving up, local and Indigenous communities worked together to buy and manage the railway and port. It is now one of the few community-owned transport systems of its kind in Canada and a strong example of local cooperation and resilience.” – Philipp Budka (University of Vienna/InfraNorth)
💡 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.
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📄 Katrin Schmid’s “Flying into Frictioned Futures” examines Canada’s northernmost runways, how materiality shapes access & mobility in #Nunavut, frictions between residents’ aspirations and infrastructural realities, and advocates Nunavummi-centered solutions. @anthropologica.bsky.social #InfraNorth
17.11.2025 11:19 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1In 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.
17.11.2025 10:43 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0📄 An introductory essay by Budka & Amatulli frames the contributions on #Canadian #infrastructures and invites critical reflection on how they can be reimagined as vital sites for more just, relational, and sustainable futures.
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🆕 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.
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🏗️❄️🛳️ #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
07.11.2025 11:04 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
05.11.2025 13:08 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Alexandra Meyer (University of Vienna/InfraNorth) and Julia Olsen (Nord University) present a poster on their collective paper, “Building transdisciplinary bridges and learning from the Svalbard context,” at the Svalbard Science Conference 2025, representing a team of co-authors.
Recommendations for transdisciplinary research in Svalbard. Figure from Olsen, Julia, Alexandra Meyer, Lisbeth Iversen, Ulrich Schildberg, Ragnhild Holmen Bjørnsen, Grete K. Hovelsrud, James Badu, et al. 2025. “Building Transdisciplinary Bridges and Learning from the Svalbard Context.” The Polar Journal, October, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2025.2569950
#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!
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📚 #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.
16.10.2025 09:14 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
📚 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.
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Port of Churchill, MB, Canada. Photo by Philipp Budka.
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.
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Tim Heleniak (Nordregio) presents on panarctic infrastructures.
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.
25.09.2025 10:33 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Really 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 💫
25.09.2025 14:47 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0It was such a pleasure having you at the conference, @materialbarlow.bsky.social! Thank you for your fantastic presentation! ✨
25.09.2025 17:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It was a pleasure having you with us, @zalifung.bsky.social! Thank you for your wonderful contribution to the #BeyondInfrastructure conference! 🙌
25.09.2025 17:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Street sign in Churchill, MB, Canada. Photo by Philipp Budka.
Looking forward to my presentation tomorrow @infranortherc.bsky.social conference, where I show how #transport #infrastructures enable northern #sovereignty in 🇨🇦.
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Alessandro Rippa gives the keynote lecture of the Beyond Infrastructure conference at the University of Vienna, September 22. 2025.
In his keynote lecture, Alessandro Rippa takes us on a journey across the China-Burma borderlands to examine #Anthropocene landscapes as extended #infrastructure space.
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