The new issue of the international peer-reviewed journal Barents Studies covers topics around marginal phenomena. The issue 1/2018 features three peer-reviewed scientific articles, two research communications, a book review of the Encyclopedia of the Barents Region, and introductions of young scholars of the region.

The first peer-reviewed article is written by
Hanna Lempinen who examines the societal dimensions of
energy. In the second article, Frode Bjorgo
investigates how different policy areas are coordinated in two Nordic municipalities
affected by mining megaprojects. In the third article Heidi Rapp
Nilsen and Trond Nilsen tackle the
discharge of drilling waste from petroleum operations in the Barents Sea and present
suggestions for environmental improvements to the Norwegian regime for discharging
drilling waste.

The first research communication is
written by Pekka Iivari and it attempts to determine
how Russian media representations of migration are contextualized and what kind of
spatial practices are formed in the case of the arctic border with the European
Union. The second research communication, by Marit
Sundet, informs us about the challenges of being a participant
observer in a non-established culture, in No Man’s Land as she defines it.

Barents Studies: Peoples, Economies and Politics is published in
electronic form. The journal is an open access publication and is free of charge:
http://www.barentsinfo.org/barentsstudies/English/Issues/2018-vol5-1

More
information:

www.barentsinfo.org/barentsstudies

University Lecturer Tarja Orjasniemi
Faculty of
Social Sciences, University of Lapland
+358 40 742 2022,
tarja.orjasniemi(at)ulapland.fi

 

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