Peer reviewed articles discuss how ideas about sustainable development and neoliberal governance meet in community development.

The current issue of the international peer-reviewed
journal Barents Studies is based on the results of the NEO-BEAR project –
“Neoliberal governance and sustainable development in the Barents Euro-Arctic
Region”. The issue features four peer-reviewed scientific articles, two book
reviews, and self-presentations of young scholars of the region.

The first article is written by Thomas Ejdemo
who discusses sustainable local development in the context of a short-lived mining
boom in Pajala, Sweden. In the second article, Elena
Tonkova and Tatyana Nosova examine the
cultural policies and practices in Ust-Tsilma municipality (Komi Republic, Russia)
from neo-liberalism and sustainability perspectives. In the third article,
Larissa Riabova addresses sustainable development of
small Arctic communities through the lens of community capitals, based on a study
from Teriberka, a village in the Murmansk region, Russia. In the fourth article
Ritva Kylli and Juha
Saunavaara investigate transport infrastructure in the Sámi area of
Finnish Lapland of 1920–1930. 

– This issue is dated
2017, as it was initially planned. Despite the lag in publication caused by a number
of reasons, we believe that this issue has value today and gives insights about how
small remote communities can develop under pressing circumstances, says editor of
the issue Larissa Riabova. 

The first book review of
“The Barents Region – A Transnational History of Subarctic Northern Europe” (chief
editor – L. Elenius) is written by Adrian Braun. The
second book review of “Society, Environment and Human security in the Arctic Barents
Region” (co-edited by K. Hossain and D. Cambou) is offered by Yulia
Zaika. The journal also features young scholars of the Barents
Region: Tatiana Ageeva, Alix Varnajot and
Anastasia Gasnikova.

Barents Studies
is an international journal that publishes peer-reviewed articles. The journal is
published by the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland (Finland), the Luzin
Institute for Economic Studies of the Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of
Sciences (Russia), and the Barents Institute at the University of Tromsø
(Norway).

Barents Studies: Peoples,
Economies and Politics
Special Issue Vol 4, Issue 1 (2017)
Neo-liberalism and sustainable development in the Barents Region: A community
perspective

The journal is an open access
publication on
http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe202103157414

More
information:

Barents Studies: www.barentsinfo.org/barentsstudies 

Larissa Riabova
Institute for Economic Studies, Kola
Science Center, Russian Academy of Sciences 
+7 921 288 4202,
larissar(at)iep.kolasc.net.ru