The University of Lapland will organize the sixth Northern Political Economy symposium in September 8th-9th 2016 in Rovaniemi, Finland. The symposium will discuss Arctic everyday life and various tactics of tackling changes in it.

There will be two high-level keynote speakers in the symposium.
Helena Ruotsala is a Nordic expert and a professor of ethnology at University of
Turku, Finland. She studies currently everyday transnational processes in Finland
and Sweden on the border in Haparanda-Tornio twin-city. She is interested in the
everyday life and the related social, economic and environmental aspects. Her past
research relate to environmental change, northern livelihoods, reindeer herding and
tourism as well as ethnic policies and identities.

Gérard
Duhaime, a professor at the Université Laval in Québec, Canada, is a widely known
specialist on Arctic living conditions and on the mechanisms for social change and
its consequences for local communities. A sociologist and political scientist by
training, he has specialized in the comparative analysis of the economic, social and
political living conditions in the Arctic.

Call for papers by 31st May
The symposium
welcomes contributions about change in everyday life in the Arctic and tactics of
tackling changes, and different ways to capture them in research through conceptual
and theoretical development, methodological innovations and presentations of
empirical case studies. We encourage contributions focusing on everyday life in
urban, multicultural, and non-traditional or mixed livelihoods from European Arctic
or Russia.

Please send your abstract (max. 250-words) with
your name, title, affiliation and contact information by May 31, 2016 to by email to
Paula Tulppo (pjoona@ulapland.fi). The accepted papers and programme will be
announced by June 17, 2016.

More
information:

More information about the
program and registration from the
event page.

Symposium organizer
research professor Monica Tennberg
Northern political
economy/Sustainable development,
Arctic Centre, University of Lapland

monica.tennberg(at)ulapland.fi

LaY/AK/JW & MT