Dear CAS friends & colleagues, As part of the 2025 CAS autumn symposium, we would like to compile a special issue on Caring for Life in the Arctic. You are cordially invited to submit a manuscript that explores how care is enacted, disrupted, or mobilised across scales—from local infrastructures and Indigenous knowledge systems to globalContinueContinue reading “Call for papers- SI on Caring for Life in the Arctic”
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Fresh off the press: Svalbard Global Seed Vault evokes epic imagery and controversy because of the symbolic value of seeds
CAS member Professor Adriana Craciun recently wrote about her research on the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway. Read the full article published in The Conversation here. Photo attribution: Entrance to the Seed Vault by Subiet, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entrance_to_the_Seed_Vault_(cropped).jpg
Call for papers – NOS-HS exploratory workshop: Resilience and Militarisation
University of Lapland, 12 – 13 November 2024 The network Politics and Power of Resilience (POWERS 2023-2024) aims at developing interdisciplinary and critical discussions around resilience and its power effects in the Nordic context. The project is funded by The Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS) and itsContinueContinue reading “Call for papers – NOS-HS exploratory workshop: Resilience and Militarisation”
New book: Critical Studies of the Arctic. Unravelling the North
A new book Critical studies of the Arctic. Unravelling the North edited by Marjo Lindrooth, Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen and Monica Tennberg is now published by Springer. The book identifies and investigates some of the blind spots in human development in the Arctic that research in the social sciences had yet to broach. It offers a comprehensiveContinueContinue reading “New book: Critical Studies of the Arctic. Unravelling the North”
New book: The Colonial Politics of Hope. Critical Junctures of Indigenous-State Relations
In their new book published with Routledge, CAS members Marjo Lindroth and Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen examine the entanglements between hope and politics and the ways in which hope has become a tool for the exercise of power. The book brings together studies on indigenous–state relations, social scientific discussions on hope, and critical postcolonial, feminist and governmentalityContinueContinue reading “New book: The Colonial Politics of Hope. Critical Junctures of Indigenous-State Relations”
Call for Panelists: CAS early career scholars panel at the Arctic Circle
The Arctic Studies department of the University of Iceland is looking for doctoral students wishing to participate to the Arctic Circle Assembly this year (Oct 13-16). The aim is to organise a public panel gathering PhD students who would discuss their work and the significance of Critical Arctic Studies within their projects. If that isContinueContinue reading “Call for Panelists: CAS early career scholars panel at the Arctic Circle”
Thematic Network on Critical Arctic Studies 
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