Political Arctic/Arctic Political

The 7th symposium will address this year political aspects
of life in the Arctic as well as the Arctic life as an object of politics, even in
the academia. Life in the Arctic has become politicized in many ways due to the
effects and challenges posed by climate change, industrialization, urbanization and
globalization to local communities and inhabitants. Across the region, conflicts
over land use and natural resources accompanied by insecurity and uncertainty about
the future are part of everyday life in the Arctic. Such conflicts are political,
and occur without respect to the borders of states or boundaries of politically
constructed regions. In contrast to much publicized and debated threats of an open,
international, direct and even military conflict over Arctic resources, these often
small-scale, local conflicts relate to unequal social arrangements, benefit sharing
and risk distribution in connection to megaprojects and infrastructural development
around the region, and they could also be called “structural violence”. Living in
the Arctic, for both humans and non-humans, is nowadays a political question of
coping with, adapting to and transforming changing conditions and circumstances, but
also a starting point and object of political interventions of different scales,
institutional arrangements and by a broad range of political actors. Papers and
presentations covering different aspects of Arctic life as a political phenomenon
are welcome.

NORTHERN POLITICAL ECONOMY SYMPOSIUM 2017

Loma-Vietonen, Ylitornio, 26-27 September, 2017
Second call for papers
1.6.2017

Keynote speakers

Mikko Lehtonen: Arctic
and/as Alternative Modernity. 

Mikko Lehtonen is professor of Media
Culture at the University of Tampere, Finland. In his latest book (in Finnish
Maa-ilma) Lehtonen develops an alternative way of understanding culture, based on
human bodies and their skillful actions. He is interested in the changing relations
and conceptualizations of economy, politics and culture in the current conjuncture.

A
second key note speaker will confirmed as soon as possible. 

Deadline
for proposals

Please send your abstract (max. 250-words) with
your name, title, affiliation and contact information before July 31, 2017 by email
to Monica Tennberg (monica.tennberg@ulapland.fi).

Programme

The programme will include keynote talks, presentations by the participants and
discussions on the basis of presentations. A symposium dinner will be organized.

The accepted papers and programme will be announced by August 15, 2017.

Deadline
for registration

If you prefer to participate to the symposium
without presenting a paper, please register your participation before September 15,
2017 by email to Susanna Pirnes (susanna.pirnes@ulapland.fi).

Travel
and accommodation

The event will be held in Loma-Vietonen
(Yli-Tornio), 65 kilometres northwest from Rovaniemi. There is no fee for
participation. The organizers cover the costs of travel, accommodation and meals
during the seminar. Please note that the symposium participants are expected to
cover their own travel costs to and from Rovaniemi, from where a bus transportation
is arranged to the symposium site. Let us know if you have any wishes about the
diet. 

More information

Symposium
organizer, research professor Monica Tennberg, research professor, Northern
political economy/Sustainable development research group, Arctic Centre, University
of Lapland (monica.tennberg@ulapland.fi) and the symposium organizing team Tanja
Joona (tanja.joona@ulapland.fi), Susanna Pirnes (susanna.pirnes@ulapland.fi), and
Hanna Lempinen (hanna.lempinen@ulapland.fi)

WELCOME!