@riaadams.bsky.social
PostDoc Researcher | Fennoscandian Arctic Anthropology | Rural Communities | Transport Infrastructures
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
🏗️⛪️ Final steps before #Kiruna #kyrka reaches its new place. Would’ve loved to be there in person, but so grateful for the #SVT’s livestream for the past two days. Just incredible planning and precision at work.🎯Can’t wait to visit! @infranortherc.bsky.social #urbantransformation #kirunamove
20.08.2025 12:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
🌾 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
01.07.2025 12:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1💡Also learned at the #Edgenet workshop: battery production involves 120 precise steps - every single one must function for success. With cheaper #electricity than southern #Sweden and nearby raw materials, #Västerbotten is well-positioned for large-scale industry and investments.
01.07.2025 11:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🔋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
01.07.2025 10:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0📯 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
18.06.2025 10:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1✍🏻 In the #Westermarck Lecture, Tom #Boellstorff reminded us that the task of comparison is “not restricted to that of classifying the different phenomena of culture. Its ultimate object is to answer to the question: ‘why‘”
Our goal as #anthropologists should be to understand how people think 🌀💡
💎Soumhya Venkatesan’s keynote was a powerful reminder: comparison doesn’t have to be good to be productive.💡Her example on contrasting views of #freedom showed just how profoundly differently people can understand the same concept. It’s through comparison that these diverse meanings come into view.
18.06.2025 09:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🌀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
18.06.2025 09:23 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1
📅 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
10.06.2025 13:31 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Our new blogpost on Arctic housing is out 🏠🏘️👷🏽🧱🏗️
infranorth.eu/blog/plenty-...
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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
26.05.2025 08:33 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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 🎣🦀
24.05.2025 09:59 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📡🐠 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.
24.05.2025 09:23 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
🗞️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 👇
18.04.2025 09:16 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🙌🏼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 🏫
02.04.2025 00:43 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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
01.04.2025 03:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0💫 🇺🇸Two memorable days of getting to know the #rural areas of #Wyoming with @gretegans.bsky.social
31.03.2025 04:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
28.03.2025 20:33 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
RATIC Workshop “Planning for the Next Decade in Arctic Infrastructure Research: A Contribution to ICARP IV,” co-chaired by Olga Povorozkyuk (University of Vienna), Vera Kuklina (George Washington University), and Howard Epstein (University of Virginia). Arctic Science Summit Week 2025 at the University of Colorado Boulder. Photo by Olga Povoroznyuk.
RATIC Workshop “Planning for the Next Decade in Arctic Infrastructure Research: A Contribution to ICARP IV,” co-chaired by Olga Povorozkyuk (University of Vienna), Vera Kuklina (George Washington University), and Howard Epstein (University of Virginia). Arctic Science Summit Week 2025 at the University of Colorado Boulder. Photo by Olga Povoroznyuk.
RATIC Workshop “Planning for the Next Decade in Arctic Infrastructure Research: A Contribution to ICARP IV,” co-chaired by Olga Povorozkyuk (University of Vienna), Vera Kuklina (George Washington University), and Howard Epstein (University of Virginia). Arctic Science Summit Week 2025 at the University of Colorado Boulder. Photo by Olga Povoroznyuk.
RATIC Workshop “Planning for the Next Decade in Arctic Infrastructure Research: A Contribution to ICARP IV,” co-chaired by Olga Povorozkyuk (University of Vienna), Vera Kuklina (George Washington University), and Howard Epstein (University of Virginia). Arctic Science Summit Week 2025 at the University of Colorado Boulder. Photo by Olga Povoroznyuk.
❄️🏗️ 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 👇🏼
17.03.2025 19:42 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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:
18.02.2025 20:34 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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...
