Mistra Arctic Futures Annual Report 2011 (pdf)

COMMUNICATION
Programme-level communication efforts primarily target stakeholders
interested in information about the ongoing research. In 2011 the programme
website arcticfutures.se was launched. It is updated continuously with new
content. A folder describing the programme and its projects was also printed in
2011, with a new version produced in early 2012.
The Mistra Arctic Futures in a Global Context research programme
was well represented at the Seventh International Congress of Arctic Sciences
(ICASS VII), with the theme Circumpolar Perspectives in Global Dialogue: Social
Sciences beyond the International Polar Year in June 2011, in Akureyri, Iceland.
The Programme Director was in attendance and researchers from four of the
five projects presented their work.
The programme was also presented at the meeting for Senior Arctic
Officials of the Arctic Council, in Luleå in November 2011. In December 2011
planning started for a programme symposium at the Canadian Embassy, held in
Stockholm during Stockholm Polar Week in March 2012. Stakeholders including
indigenous Arctic people and industry, as well as Arctic researchers and
international policymakers and diplomats, were in the audience or represented
on the panel. All five projects were also represented at the yearly Polarforum;
an event to which the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat invites all Swedish
polar researchers and polar-affiliated organizations. Researchers from two of
the research projects presented their work with well-attended sessions and
posters at the International Polar Year conference in Montreal, Canada,in April
2012. The Programme Director also participated in this conference.
Additional joint outreach events are planned for 2012, including a session
dedicated to the programme at a conference in Umeå for all Swedish socialscience
and humanities researchers studying polar issues.
Arctic Games: Interactive development and application of
a transdisciplinary framework for sustainable governance
options of Arctic natural resources
Publications
Fabritius, M. K. and Sandberg, A. (2012) “Lofoten tourism futures: Actors and
strategies” UiN Report No. 3-2012, University of Nordland, Bodø, Norway.
Presentations
Noring, M. and E. Sjöberg (25 June 2011) “A framework for sustainable
governance of Arctic natural resources” presented at the Seventh
International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VII), Akureyri, Iceland.
Sandberg, A. (14 November 2011) “Arctic Games” presented at the
Workshop of Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, USA.
Cole, S. (11 January 2012) “Valuing marine ecosystem services affected by
oil spills in the Baltic Sea & the Northeast Atlantic” presented at a working
group meeting for the Norwegian Coast Guard, Oslo, Norway.
Izmalkov, S. (13 March 2012) “Arctic Games” presented at a brown bag
seminar, New Economic School, Moscow, Russia.
Fabritius, M.K. (16 March 2012) “Arctic Games Lofoten case study”
presented at the Network Meeting of Women in Salten for Enterprise
Development (GLØD), Norway.
Söderqvist, T. (27 March 2012) “Arctic Games” presented at the Mistra
Arctic Futures in a Global Context Stakeholder Meeting, Canadian Embassy,
Stockholm, Sweden.
Hasselström, L., Noring, M., Håkansson, C., Khaleeva, Y., Cole, S. and
Soutukorva, Å. (16-19 June 2012) “The economic value of ecosystem services
at risk from oil spills in the Barents Sea” Accepted for presentation at the
International Society of Ecological Economics Conference, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil.
Assessing Arctic Futures: Voices, Resources and Governance
Publications
Nilsson, A.E. (2011) ”Från is till vatten – en ny tid för Norra ishavet och
Arktis” Framtider 3, pp. 8-10. http://www.framtidsstudier.se/wp-content/
uploads/2011/10/Framtider-3_Hav_final_110916l%C3%A5guppl%C3%B6st.pdf
Nilsson, A.E. (2011) ”Varmare klimat skärper kampen om Arktis framtid”
Världspolitikens Dagsfrågor 3. http://www.ui.se/butik/varldspolitikensdagsfragor/2011/varmare-klimat-skarper-kampen-om-arktis-framtid.aspx
Sörlin, S. (2011) “Sverige – landet utan polarpolitik” Ottar 5, pp. 12-18.
In press
Avango, D. (2012) “Heritage in action: Historical remains in polar conflicts”
in Sörlin, S. (ed.), Science, geopolitics, and culture in the polar regions:
Norden beyond borders. Ashgate: London, UK.
Avango, D., and Hacquebord, L. (2012) “Polar industrial heritage sites
as resources for historical research” in Munroe, D. (ed.), Industrial and
cultural heritage: South Georgia in context, Dundee.
Lajus, J. (2012) “Linking people through fish: Science and Barents Sea fish
resources in the context of Russian-Scandinavian relations” in Sörlin, S. (ed.),
Science, geopolitics, and culture in the polar regions: Norden beyond
borders. Ashgate: London, UK.
Nilsson, A. (2012) “Knowing the Arctic: the Arctic Council as a cognitive
forerunner” in The Arctic Council: Its place in the future of Arctic governance
(Gordon Foundation, online publication).
Roberts, P. (2012) “Nordic or national: Post-war visions of conflict and
co-operation” in S. Sörlin (ed.), Science, geopolitics and culture in the
polar regions: Norden beyond borders, Ashgate: London, UK.
Roberts, P., van der Watt, L.M. and Dodds, K. (2012) ““But why do you
go there”: Norway, South Africa, and the Antarctic in the 1950s” in Sörlin,
S. (ed.), Science, geopolitics and culture in the polar regions: Norden
beyond borders, Ashgate: London, UK.
Roberts, P. (2012) “The expeditions of Gino Watkins: Arctic travel in a
disenchanted age” in Federhofer, M.T., Aspaas, P.P. and Gaupseth, S. (eds.),
Travels in the North, Berghahn: Oxford, UK.
Sörlin, S. (ed.) (2012) Science, geopolitics and culture in the polar
regions: Norden beyond borders, Ashgate: London, UK.
Sörlin, S. “Introduction: northern nations and polar states: Arctic strategies
in the Nordic countries” in Sörlin, S. (ed.) (2012), Science, geopolitics and
culture in the polar regions: Norden beyond borders, Ashgate: London,
UK.
Sörlin, S. (2012) “Ice diplomacy and climate change: Hans Ahlmann
between moraines and morals” in Sörlin, S. (ed.), Science, geopolitics and
culture in the polar regions: Norden beyond borders, Ashgate: London,
UK.
Works in review
Avango, D., and Högselius, P. “Arctic sea ice and energy geopolitics” in
Christensen, M., Nilsson, A.E. and Wormbs, N. (eds.), When the ice breaks:
Media, science, and the politics of climate change (in review with
Palgrave Macmillan, New York).
Lajus, J. “In search for instructive models: The Russian state at a crossroads
to conquering the North” in Jørgensen, D. and Sörlin, S. (eds.), Northscapes:
history, technology, and the making of northern environments
(Vancouver).
Kalemeneva, E. ““Land of the future”: Projects of cities under the dome in
the Soviet North in the 1950s-1960s” in Konstruiruia Sovetskoe Politiheskoe
soznanie, povsednevnye praktiki, novye identichnosti [Constructing the Soviet
Political consciousness, everyday practices, and new identity], Proceedings of
a conference held at the European University at St. Petersburg, http://www.
eu.spb.ru/en/index/announcements/4291-constructing-soviet
Kuligina (Sidorova), E. “The Soviet north in the focus of the interests
of foreign scientists: Terence Armstrong, Soviet-British connections, and
circulation of knowledge in the 1960s” in Konstruiruia Sovetskoe Politiheskoe
soznanie, povsednevnye praktiki, novye identichnosti [Constructing the Soviet
Political consciousness, everyday practices, and new identity], Proceedings of
a conference held at the European University at St. Petersburg http://www.
eu.spb.ru/en/index/announcements/4291-constructing-soviet
Sörlin, S. “Circumpolar science: Scandinavian approaches to the Arctic and
the North Atlantic, ca 1930 to 1960” Science in Context.
Sörlin, S. and Lajus, J. “Proposing an ice free Arctic Sea: From Holocene
fact to Anthropocene future” in M. Christensen, A.E. Nilsson, and N. Wormbs
(eds.), When the ice breaks: Media, science, and the politics of
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