240034 VO Introduction to Circumpolar North (2023W)
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Language: English
Examination dates
Monday
22.01.2024
13:15 - 14:45
Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
Thursday
07.03.2024
13:15 - 14:45
Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
Monday
13.05.2024
13:15 - 14:45
Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
N
Wednesday
04.09.2024
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Monday
02.10.
11:30 - 14:45
Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
Monday
23.10.
11:30 - 14:45
Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
Monday
13.11.
11:30 - 14:45
Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
Wednesday
13.12.
11:30 - 14:45
Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
Monday
08.01.
11:30 - 14:45
Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
Monday
22.01.
11:30 - 13:00
Hörsaal A, NIG 4.Stock
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
The Circumpolar North covering vast Arctic and Subarctic areas, represents a politically, ethnically, culturally and socially diverse region of the world. The common issues that characterize this region include remoteness and low population density (although, there are few cities in these areas too), a mix of indigenous and migrant groups who arrived to the region during the colonization process, and growing economic and political significance of the Arctic as a new resource frontier, an arena for geopolitical struggles and effects of environmental change.Thus, this course is designed as an introduction to the Circumpolar North and is based on a mixture of anthropological and social science literature and white papers. It will start with a brief history of exploration and colonization of the region, continue with the present-day communities and populations including their living conditions, socio-economic development, infrastructures and resource extraction projects, and climate change effects, and finish with cultural revitalization movements and identities. While exploring these topics, we will link the global and the national contexts to the local level, where our ethnographic attention will be focused. While many of examples will come from Siberia and the Russian North, where my empirical research is conducted, case studies from North America, Fennoscandia, and Greenland will also be included in the geographic scope of the seminar.The course will have primarily a lecture character with the elements of students’ work. The first session will serve as the general introduction to the aims, methods and assessment criteria applying to the course. Content-wise, it will provide the overview of the main topic and basic literature. The following sessions will address the specific key themes of the course in the form of a lecture accompanied by visual materials and interaction with the audience. After each lecture, mandatory and additional literature as well as some white papers and media sources on respective topics will be provided.
Assessment and permitted materials
Students are encouraged to regularly attend the course, contribute to discussions following the lectures and read recommended literature. The final class will be dedicated to wrapping up of the course and the written examination. To prepare to the examination, students will be provided with course slides and pdfs of the mandatory literature (accessible on the Moodle). During the examination, students will be allowed to use their own notes taken during the lectures and excerpts from the course literature (articles and chapters) that they have read. Regular attendance throughout the course and active participation in discussions accompanying the lectures will be counted towards the final grade.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
The course grade will be structured in the following way:1 (excellent) - 18-20 points
2 (good) – 16-17 points
3 (satisfactory) –14-15 points
4 (sufficient) – 12–13 points
5 (insufficient) – 0-11 pointsThus, in order to receive a passing grade, one needs to collect at least 10 points. The maximum points that can be allocated for the course is 20.The results of the written examination play the most significant role in the overall evaluation for the course. The written examination will consist of 4-6 questions, including fact-based or empirical questions and more general/theoretical topics. All questions will be based on the course materials that will be introduced and discussed in class. In order to receive a passing grade, one has to complete at least 50% of the whole examination assignment.
2 (good) – 16-17 points
3 (satisfactory) –14-15 points
4 (sufficient) – 12–13 points
5 (insufficient) – 0-11 pointsThus, in order to receive a passing grade, one needs to collect at least 10 points. The maximum points that can be allocated for the course is 20.The results of the written examination play the most significant role in the overall evaluation for the course. The written examination will consist of 4-6 questions, including fact-based or empirical questions and more general/theoretical topics. All questions will be based on the course materials that will be introduced and discussed in class. In order to receive a passing grade, one has to complete at least 50% of the whole examination assignment.
Examination topics
The topics addressed during the course and incorporated in the examination will include (but be not limited to) the following:
Exploration and colonization
Indigenous Peoples
Cultural diversity
Migration and population change
Urbanization and remote areas
Socio-economic development
Resource extraction
Infrastructure projects
Climate change
Exploration and colonization
Indigenous Peoples
Cultural diversity
Migration and population change
Urbanization and remote areas
Socio-economic development
Resource extraction
Infrastructure projects
Climate change
Reading list
Short reading list:Anderson, David G., and Mark Nuttall, eds. 2004. Cultivating Arctic Landscapes: Knowing and Managing Animals in the Circumpolar North. New York: Berghahn Books.
Armstrong, Terence, George Rogers, and Graham Rowley. 1978. The Circumpolar North: A Political and Economic Geography of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic. London: Methuen.
Chapin, F. S., et al. 2006. Building resilience and adaptation to manage Arctic change. Ambio 35(4):198-202.
Crate, Susan Alexandra, and Mark Nuttall, eds. 2009. Anthropology and Climate Change: from Encounters to Actions. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press.
Crate, Susan Alexandra, and Mark Nuttall, eds. 2016. Anthropology and Climate Change: from Actions to Transformations. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Cruikshank, Julie. 1997. Claiming Legitimacy: Shamanic Prophesy Narratives and Historical Understanding in the Western Subarctic. Pp. 30.
Doel, Ronald Edmund, Urban Wråkberg, and Suzanne Zeller. 2014. Science, Environment, and the New Arctic. Journal of Historical Geography 44:2-14.
Gad, U. P. and J. Strandsbjerg, eds. 2018. The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic: Reconfiguring Identity, Space, and Time. Routledge studies in sustainability. London, Routledge.
Hacquebord, Louwrens, and Dag Avango. 2009. Settlements in an Arctic Resource Frontier Region. Arctic Anthropology 46(1-2):25-39.
Huskey, Lee, and Chris Southcott, eds. 2010. Migration in the Circumpolar North: Issues and Contexts. Edmonton, Alberta: CCI Press in cooperation with the University of the Arctic.
Krech, Shepard, III, ed. 1984. The Subarctic Fur Trade: Native Social and Economic Adaptations. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
Laruelle, Marlene. 2017. New mobilities and social changes in Russia's Arctic regions. New York: Routledge.
McCannon, John. 2012. A History of the Arctic: Nature, Exploration and Exploitation. London: Reaktion Books.
Nuttall, Mark, and Terry V. Callaghan, eds. 2000. The Arctic: Environment, People, Policy. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Harwood Academic Publishers.
Nuttall, Mark. 2005. Encyclopedia of the Arctic. New York: Routledge.
Orttung, Robert W. 2020. Urban Sustainability in the Arctic: Measuring Progress in Circumpolar Cities. Volume 3: Berghahn Books.
Petrov, Andrey, et al. 2016. Arctic Sustainability Research: toward a New Agenda. Polar Geography 39(3):165-178.
Powell, Richard C. 2017. Studying Arctic Fields: Cultures, Practices, and Environmental Sciences Montreal Kingston London Chicago: McGill-Queen's University Press.
Schweitzer, Peter P., and Molly Lee. 1997. The Arctic Culture Area. In Native North Americans: An Ethnohistorical Approach. M.R. Mignon and D.L. Boxberger, eds. Pp. 29-83. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing.
Southcott, Chris, et al., eds. 2019. Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic. New York: Routledge.
Ulturgasheva, Olga. 2022. Risky Futures: Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North: Berghahn Books.
Wilson, Emma, and Florian Stammler. 2016. Beyond extractivism and alternative cosmologies: Arctic communities and extractive industries in uncertain times. The Extractive Industries and Society 3(1):1-8.
Young, Oran R. 1992. Arctic Politics: Conflict and Cooperation in the Circumpolar North. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
Armstrong, Terence, George Rogers, and Graham Rowley. 1978. The Circumpolar North: A Political and Economic Geography of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic. London: Methuen.
Chapin, F. S., et al. 2006. Building resilience and adaptation to manage Arctic change. Ambio 35(4):198-202.
Crate, Susan Alexandra, and Mark Nuttall, eds. 2009. Anthropology and Climate Change: from Encounters to Actions. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press.
Crate, Susan Alexandra, and Mark Nuttall, eds. 2016. Anthropology and Climate Change: from Actions to Transformations. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Cruikshank, Julie. 1997. Claiming Legitimacy: Shamanic Prophesy Narratives and Historical Understanding in the Western Subarctic. Pp. 30.
Doel, Ronald Edmund, Urban Wråkberg, and Suzanne Zeller. 2014. Science, Environment, and the New Arctic. Journal of Historical Geography 44:2-14.
Gad, U. P. and J. Strandsbjerg, eds. 2018. The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic: Reconfiguring Identity, Space, and Time. Routledge studies in sustainability. London, Routledge.
Hacquebord, Louwrens, and Dag Avango. 2009. Settlements in an Arctic Resource Frontier Region. Arctic Anthropology 46(1-2):25-39.
Huskey, Lee, and Chris Southcott, eds. 2010. Migration in the Circumpolar North: Issues and Contexts. Edmonton, Alberta: CCI Press in cooperation with the University of the Arctic.
Krech, Shepard, III, ed. 1984. The Subarctic Fur Trade: Native Social and Economic Adaptations. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
Laruelle, Marlene. 2017. New mobilities and social changes in Russia's Arctic regions. New York: Routledge.
McCannon, John. 2012. A History of the Arctic: Nature, Exploration and Exploitation. London: Reaktion Books.
Nuttall, Mark, and Terry V. Callaghan, eds. 2000. The Arctic: Environment, People, Policy. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Harwood Academic Publishers.
Nuttall, Mark. 2005. Encyclopedia of the Arctic. New York: Routledge.
Orttung, Robert W. 2020. Urban Sustainability in the Arctic: Measuring Progress in Circumpolar Cities. Volume 3: Berghahn Books.
Petrov, Andrey, et al. 2016. Arctic Sustainability Research: toward a New Agenda. Polar Geography 39(3):165-178.
Powell, Richard C. 2017. Studying Arctic Fields: Cultures, Practices, and Environmental Sciences Montreal Kingston London Chicago: McGill-Queen's University Press.
Schweitzer, Peter P., and Molly Lee. 1997. The Arctic Culture Area. In Native North Americans: An Ethnohistorical Approach. M.R. Mignon and D.L. Boxberger, eds. Pp. 29-83. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing.
Southcott, Chris, et al., eds. 2019. Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic. New York: Routledge.
Ulturgasheva, Olga. 2022. Risky Futures: Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North: Berghahn Books.
Wilson, Emma, and Florian Stammler. 2016. Beyond extractivism and alternative cosmologies: Arctic communities and extractive industries in uncertain times. The Extractive Industries and Society 3(1):1-8.
Young, Oran R. 1992. Arctic Politics: Conflict and Cooperation in the Circumpolar North. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
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