Northern Notes Issue 40 - Autumn / Winter 2013

A newsletter published by the International Arctic Social Sciences Association

Residences at UNBC - These will be available for accomodations during ICASS VIII (hopefully with less snow!)

Welcome from the President In This Issue . . . Secretariat’s Corner With less than six months before ICASS proposed revisions to our bylaws. These draft VIII convenes, this issue of Northern Notes revisions will be voted on at the IASSA Gen- ICASS VIII Updates largely focuses on our upcoming Congress. eral Assembly at ICASS VIII. Please read the Preliminary List of Sessions...... 3 The program is looking very rich, with over 90 article on page 18, on the bylaws and come Call for Papers & Posters ...... 11 sessions proposed. Indeed, the number is prepared to vote on this important issues! Keynote Speakers & Sustainability large enough that we are only including a The ICASS schedule is shaping up, with Research Project Panels ...... 12 thematic list of sessions in Northern Notes, but four keynote speakers, three plenary sustaina- remind you that you may find details on each bility panels, and a plenary ICARP-III IASSA Council Business session on our ICASS Website, at http:// (International Conference of Arctic Research ICARP-III Planning Meeting Report.. 13 resweb.res.unbc.ca/icass2014/index.htm. Planning) Townhall, organized by the Social Call for Rapporteurs ...... 14 Please remember that the due date for submit- and Human Sciences Working Group of IASC. On the Way to Sustainable Arctic ting paper and poster proposals is just a cou- This ICARP-III event will provide ICASS partic- Knowledge ...... 15 ple of weeks off, on 17 December. We don’t ipants an early opportunity to have input into Third International Arctic Forum . . . . 16 plan to extend this deadline (as sometimes the ICARP-III planning process, which will be ISSC Social Science Forum ...... 17 has been done), so send your abstracts in launched a month before ICASS VIII, at the Notice re: Upcoming Calls now! We will be working over the holidays, Arctic Science Summit Week 2014, and will IASSA Secretariat Bids...... 17 assigning papers to the various sessions. wrap up at ASSW 2015. IASSA Councilor Candidates for IASSA Council . . . . . 17 ICASS VIII of course involves our organiza- Florian Stammler represented IASSA at a fall

Features tion’s triennial General Assembly, with elec- ICARP-III planning meeting which I was una- IASSA Bylaws: Proposed tions and other business matters. A call will be ble to attend; please see his report on this Amendments...... 18 made in early 2014 for both IASSA Secretari- meeting on page 13. APECS Update...... 23 at bids for 2014-2017 (and hosting ICASS IX Other councilors have also attended meet- in 2017) and for nominations for IASSA ings this fall, to represent IASSA: Andrey Pe-

Calls for Papers...... 24 Councilors. Please see the notices on page trov offers his observations on the Third Inter- 17, in particular, please note that we will be national Arctic Forum (see page 16), and Tati- Upcoming Conferences ...... 26 conducting the vote for Councilors differently ana Vlasova remarks on her participation in a than in 2011. Belmont Forum event, “On the Way to Sus- Recent Conferences & Forums At our last meeting, several members tainable Arctic Knowledge” on page 15. Heritage and Change in the Arctic . . 28 brought up the need for revising the way in Fall has been busy with IASSA related Drinking and Driving which the next President and the venue for travel for me. In September I represented Is So Much Fun?...... 29 ICASS is chosen. Of course, this calls for a IASSA at two back-to-back workshops on the Announcements / Other News. . . 30 change in the IASSA bylaws. Thus, over the Arctic: a Canadian Polar Commission (CPC) past two years, we have been working at revi- workshop on the “State of Northern New Publications ...... 34 sions to the bylaws. Other issues needed Knowledge in Canada” and a US National addressing as well, to reflect practices of the Academy of Sciences Polar Research Board/ End Notes...... 40 Council over the past several year, which we CPC workshop on “Emerging Research Ques- feel are sound ones, but are not in coherence tions in the Arctic” in Ottawa. The trip also

 Please consider the environment, with the 1992 bylaws. In this issue of North- enabled me to meet with personnel from a ern Notes, we have included a draft of the before printing this newsletter continues on next page Northern Notes Issue 40 (Autumn / Winter 2013) - page 2 -

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Finally, I wish you all a happy and  Ts’uhoont’i whuzahdel*  Next year is the 20 Seasons’ greet- Coordinator, Northern Studies Program peaceful holiday season! And I look forward to seeing many of you in May From theFrom ICASS Co people, communities and region it serves. py you have come here. (*Translation from the Lheidli dialect of the Dakelh language Frederick, by Edie a Lheidli Elder.) meeting all of you in Prince George next May. The planning process for the Con- gress is moving along The quite session proposals that smoothly. were submitted earlier this year represented the di- versity and depth of research being done by social scientists and humanists in the Arctic and sub very excited to receive your paper posals. pro- opening of the Prince George campus of the University of Northern British Colum- bia, which is located on territory the of traditional the Lheidli T’enneh Both Gail and I are delighted to people.celebrate this anniversary with our friends and colleagues from IASSA and are show off eager this wonderful campus, to and the ings to all IASSA members and their families! theAs Co Convener of upcoming the ICASS VIII, let me how much I’m look- say ing forward to

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The previous expiry date system was At At the November 2013 IASSA Council As As we approach the end of another From the IASSA Secretary theFrom IASSA Welcome from theWelcome President continued Secretariat’s Corner continued Corner Secretariat’s for ICASS, made the IASSA Council a Congress for the over 600 and members, the fact that the glut of membership payments happen just prior to registration the time gap between quite being congresses every 3 years, along not with the additional workload of helping to organize memberships to IASSA prior to register- ing for the triennial and Congress therefore, (ICASS) prior to their participation in the Annual General meeting. However, will now expiredwill on December 24, 2016. adopted to ensure members paid for their 2013, then2013, your would membership still expire on December 31, 2015. However, if you paid for your membership on De- cember 25, 2013 then your membership IASSA memberships valid for 3 full years from the date of payment. So if you paid for your membership on January 1, Meeting, the IASSA Council took a vote and approved the practice of making (perhaps your institution paid for it as part of a Christmas bonus!) your IASSA membership would also expire on December no more! But 31, 2015. January 1, 2013 it would expire on cember 31, 2015. Likewise, De- ifyou paid for your membership on December 25, 2013 ing IASSA membership for the remainder of the year that you paid, plus two years. So if you paid for your membership on year, I want to remind all IASSA bers to mem- check to see if their membership will be or already have expired. Secretar- ies past had adopted the practice of issu- horse (though teaching kept me from staying on for SAO responsibilities see the short article on tails. The following week, I attended the Arctic Council’s Sustainable ment Working Group Develop- meeting in White- ence Council General then Assembly, chaired an IASSA and panel at ISSC’s World Social Science Forum states, to talk about ICASS VIII. I spent my (Canadian) Thanksgiving weekend in Montreal, at the International Social Sci- number of the embassies of Arctic Coun- cil states and Arctic Council observer Northern Notes Issue 40 (Autumn / Winter 2013) - page 3 -

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The Indigenous Arctic Language InitiativeVitality theRevisiting Eskimo ofBook Knowledge Religious Identities in the Arctic in the Past and in the Present Surviving or Living a Good Life? Critical A Approach to the Concepts of Survival in SocialArctic Sciences Sustainability and Language Measuring Proportionally Oral History Along the Arctic Shores: Memories, Representations, Disruptions Personal Autonomy and Sustaining Relations Among Human and Non Environments of the Circumpolar North Identity Governance, Ethnography and Local Knowledge in the Circumpolar North Is There a for Place Critical Arctic Studies? Facing the Monstrous North Humanities in the Circumpolar World Ideas of Arctic Exceptionality? Historical Understandings of the CulturesSpaces, and Arctic MobilitiesArctic SustainableArctic Knowledge: Integrating Arctic Science, Traditional/Local Knowledge and Socially Observations ARAN: Arctic Anthropology of Nights Movements and Ecologies of the Dark in Northern Spaces

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Based Based Approaches to Literacy and Skills University Centre of Mobility in -

- Ecosystem Sustainability Ecosystem Approaches to the Conservation and Management of the Environment and Resources in the Arctic Climate Change and the Cultural Foundations of Complacency Climate Change, Migration and Economic Transformations in the High Medieval to Early Modern North Circumpolar North VERDDE Indigenous Education Health Equity Begins with Accessible Health Education: Using Partnerships and Technology to Deliver Health Education in the North Teacher Education, Teaching and Sustainable Schools in the Education in the Arctic: Sustaining Our Communities Education in the North on the Example of West Siberia and Kamchatka Education Research by Northerners for Northerners: High School Case Studies, Social Studies Program Evaluation and Nurturing Indigenous Scholars in the Arctic Community Development as a Basis for Sustainability

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Chair(s) Chair(s) - - Co Co Session Chair / Session Chair / Jack Hicks & Allison Crawford Rhonda M. Johnson Rhonda M. Johnson Audrey R. Giles Ellen Ellen Avard CunsoloAshlee Willox Eleanor & Stephenson Lovecraft Amy & Grete Hovelsrud K. CunsoloAshlee Willox Birger Poppel & Catherine Turcotte Aileen Aileen Espiritu A. Frédéric Laugrand & Caroline Hervé KankaanpääPaula Annika Annika NilssonE. Ulrik Jørgensen & Birgitte Hoffmann Aileen Espiritu A. Christina Engström & Albina Pashkevish Gary N. Wilson Being -

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Arctic Arctic Region - Health Promotion and Population Health Participatory Methods for Health Health, Culture and Cultural Safety the Circumpolar World (Film) Living Conditions / Well Indigenous and Peoples Other Arctic Residents Unsettling “Historical Trauma” in the Arctic Climate Change and Health Adaptation in the Circumpolar North Climate Change, Gender and Well Lament for the Land: Climate Change and Mental Health in Alternative Food Security Strategies in the Circumpolar North The of Care Ethics in Inuit Leadership and Governance Assessments as Tools for Governance and Sustainable Development in the Arctic Tourism Development: Structures, Policies and Responses Inuit Regional Autonomy the in Canadian Arctic: Nunavik, Nunatsiavut and the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in Comparative Perspective Neoliberal Governance and Sustainable Communites in the Barents Euro Governance and Competence Building in Relation to Raw Material Extraction Communities, as well as to Global Companies Governance and Urban Sustainability: fromExamples Russia’s IndustrialArctic Centres Indigenous People of the andArctic Their Involvement in Assessing Arctic Futures: Voices, Resources and Governance

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MinistrySpanish of Education, Com- plutense University, Canadian Embassy in Madrid (Spain) IEEE, & InstituteSpanish of Strategic Studies (Ministry of Defense)

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Chair(s) - Co Session Chair / Olga Alexeeva & Marcin Gabryś & Michal Łuszczuk Monica Tennberg & Maria Lähteenmäki Jessica Shadian Rasmus Bertelsen, Lassi Heininen, Gunhild H. Gjørv, Jong Deog Kim, Marc Lanteigne, Silja Ómarsdóttir,B. Valur Ingimundarson, Frédéric Lasserre, Rob Huebert, Wonsang,Seo Zhang Pei Rob Huebert Natalia Loukacheva CondeElena Pérez ChaturvediSanjay

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Arctic Arctic Stakeholders and Their Sustainable Engagement - The Emerging Arctic RegimeSecurity The Nexus Arctic in the Relations Between CouncilArctic andStates Asian Powers The Council Arctic Permanent Participants: Past Reflections, Future Challenges New Geopolitics of the Arctic Council in the Era of Climate Change: The Factor” “Asian in Northern Sustainabilities Non with the North Rethinking Borders in the North Arctic SustainabilityArctic Through International Law: Is It Possible? Arctic GovernanceArctic and Law

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Research Methodologies & Approaches Based MonitoringBased of ChangeSocial in the Arctic - Political, Political, Governance and Environmental Issues Tourism as a Dimension of Northern Sustainability: CulturalSocial, and Economic Issues Marine Invasive Species in the ManagementArctic: Issues Sustainable Marine Resource Governance: Knowledge, Practices and Strategies Tourism as a Dimension of Northern Sustainability: Arctic AgricultureArctic and Farming Systems in Transitions in the European High North Bringing Northern Community Needs into the ICARP Process Through UArctic: The UCCARP Project The Role of Data Management in Enhancing Research and Policymaking for Sustainability in the Arctic Using Social Network Analysis to Understand SustainabilityArctic Encounters:Arctic Contemporary TravelWriting / Engaging Northerns Environmental Monitoring and Research in the Arctic Supporting Indigenous Knowledge and New Indigenous Paradigms in Science Building a Building North Pacific Biocultural Network to Promote Sustainabilities Community Decolonizing Methodologies in the Arctic: Capacity Building and Fostering Indigenous Participation in Research Analyzing IntegratedAnalyzing Social Joint Concepts and Methods

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hours to drive (assuming travel at 100 km/hr maximum highway limit in a lot of and BC Alberta) traffic) & hours (depends on construction 8 to 10 stop you through the Rockies) hours (depends if 8 to 10 stop you through the Rockies) hours (depends if 8 to 10 The Impact of

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Vancouver, BC Edmonton, AB Calgary, AB From Arctic andArctic Polar Regions -

Sustainable Energy Development in the Circum Resources, Sustainability and the Current Economy of Northern Regions Sustainability, People and Resource Extraction in the Arctic: Perspectives on the Notion of Corporate Responsibility Social Labour Mobility and Community Sustainability Extractive Industries in the Arctic Local Sustainability and ofPaths Resource Development in the Arctic Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic Extractive Extractive Industries in Areas of Indigenous and Local People: Comparing Strategies for Long Globalizing Northern Columbia:British Development, Agency and Contestation in a Resource Arctic ExtractiveArctic Industries: The of Politics Challenges and Opportunities

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Urban / Community Sustainability continued Towards Sustainability in the Urban Arctic: Capacity Building Strategies Sustainable Development of Arctic Communities The City Life of Northern Indigenous Peoples: In Search for New Forms of Economic and Cultural Resilience Roads and Development in the North Sustainability, Knowledge and Human Capital in the Arctic Isolation and Remoteness in the ofAge Sustainability No Island is an Island? Resource Development and Urban Sustainability Designing and Building Sustainable Northern Communities: New Approaches and Opportunities Internationalizing the Arctic Life at the Edges: Between TraditionBetween and Modernity: Sustainable Business and Community Development in Indigenous Regions of the Circumpolar North a Building New North: The Case of NorthernSaskatchewan Are We Adapting:Are Arctic Communities Under Stress or on the toPath Sustainability?

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to get the latest information on the sessions.

: Some sessions, due to special funding situations and programs, are invited papers only and are marked as

Eighth International Congress of Arctic Social SciencesEighth International Congress of ICASS ICASS website VIII . If you are a student or early career researcher, please also complete the ICASS VIII Student / Early Career Re-

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n o Please notePlease (these“closed” sessions are generally open to participation, though). organizers Session have been asked to provide certain Information about their proposed session, but this information has not all been gathered. Please consult the ICASS website VIII if the paper is already invited by a session leader, please also indicate this. To view a their descriptions, please visit the students, early career researchers, indigenous participants, and participants from Russia and countries who have limited means to attend. To apply for travel funding, please complete the appropriate sections of the

tal form searcher Travel Funding Application (this link will take you tothe APECS website). You willneed to provide a rough budget of your estimated travel expenses. We anticipate announcing the travel awards in late February 2014. t

• a maximum of two paper proposals per person please, although you may submit as many posters as you wish.

• name and contact details of author(s), • title of paper or poster, • 150 words (maximum) summary / abstract, and • for papers, an indication of which session(s) the paper should ideally be presented in (up to 3, in order of preference),

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u Submissions should contain: With overWith 90 sessions being proposed for delivery during ICASS VIII , we are putting out a call for papers and posters. Pleas submit all paper and/or poster proposals using the The above information should be e

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Royal Institute of Technology, and Stockholm Resilience Centre (Sweden) Henriette Rasmussen, Director, Greenlandic Broadcasting, and former Minister of Culture, Education, andScience Church (Greenland) SverkerDr. AlexanderDr. Pelyasov, Director, Centre of and Arctic Northern Economies, Council for Research of Productive Forces (Russian Federation) Chief Joe Linklater, Gwichin Council International (Canada) From Staples to Sustainability:Can Extractive Resource Development Lead to Sustainability the in Arctic? SakKijânginnatuk Nunalik Arctic Arctic Futures, Sustainabilities and Strategic Environmental Research

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that Icelandair travels from please visit their website at: Icelandair will begin service to Vancouver, BC commencing 13 May 2014. Flights will travel twice a week.. For a list of desti  website in late December for photos and biographies of our Keynote Speakers. keynote All addresses will be live nounce that our Keynote Speakers be: will On 22 November, with only six months before the start of the Eighth International Congress of Arctic Social (ICASSSciences V we announced ourkeynote speakerson the IASSA website, IASSA.net listserv and our Facebook page! are We pleased to an- ICASS VIII News continued News VIII ICASS ICASS VIII:

3) 2) 1) Three Sustainability Research Project Panels be presentedwill during the International Eighth Congress of Arctic Social Scie being held 22 scale sustainability research projects will be held in the same venue as the keynote speeches, and be scheduled,will like th ed, so that all conference participants may attend. ICASS VIII: Northern Notes Issue 40 (Autumn / Winter 2013) - page 13

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each of these themes, who would attend the sessions, and then report on the major themes would to provide a ICARP. direct channel the This research from community, in collaboration with Arctic residents, to the ICARP executives. However, the formation of oversight teams and rapporteurs would require funding that IASSA has not yet secured. The council will have to agree on strategies in this direction. plenaries without other parallel sions, and ses- will be organized around a number of crucial themes, which can be found on the The panel chairs will be asked to provide a summary/roadmap sustainability on research Arctic for ICARP out of which themes may evolve. cutting One of the exceptional IASSA strengths of is its Thus, ICASS bottom VIII will around a be number organized of crucial that themes evolved out of the of session proposals submitted for the Congress. There are 11 overarching themes, including: Concepts & Ideas of Sustainability, International Relations & Law, Culture & Knowledge, Renewable Resources, Education,Methodologies & Approaches, Environ- Research mental & Climate Change, Resource Development, Governance, Urban & Community Sustainability, and Health & Well Being. We propose person/team having a with oversight theme of and a couple of each rapporteurs for ICASS ICASS VIII will feature a small number of sustainability panels that will run as

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Each Each partner organization at the ICARP Rather than coming up with a new set III PlanningIII Meeting rapporteurs will report to ICARP about the results. Responsibility for this town hall meeting is with Peter Schweitzer. During ICASS VIII, the Social and Hu- man Sciences(S&HWG) of the International WorkingScience Arctic Committee (IASC), shall Group organize a townhall meeting, output with feeding into the ICARP

- ICARP SocialWork-Science and Human also IASC representing andChrispresent, Southcott Schweitzer Photo Volker Rachold credit: Arctic, and U respectively. Group ing coming out of the Congress Eighth International of (ICASS Arctic VIII), being held in May Social 2014 at the University Sciencesof Northern British Colum- bia. This concentration of Arcticscience social expertise can be input for ICARP. used as an 1. of topics, ICARP process where partners groups coordinate, review and plan future and working joint activities related to "science the plans" so (see called above) accepted during the last ICARP. that were ICARP planning meeting was invited to submit a list of proposals on would how they contribute to Stammler presented ICARP such a list on behalf of the IASSA council. The activities suggested are divided in two parts. specific Firstly, inputs from IASSA for ICARP basically now, having a first culmination point at the 2014 Arctic Science Summit week www.assw2014.fi/ in the 2015 Arctic Science Summit week in HelsinkiToyama, www.assw2015.org/ ( Japan (

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I report what was agreed at a meeting in Potsdam in September 2013. planning ICARP lished, for which IASSA, as an IASC partner, was invited to send a member. Here almost disappeared from the internet, but yet most ICARP participants agreed that these topics are far from outdated. topics here is that they have somehow 11. 10. 8. 9. 6. 7. 5. 3. 4. 2. us, those topic were: ICARP 1. resulted in a comprehensive list of topics about Arctic research, that needed to be addressed in a timely fashion. To remind our readers remember the big ICARP meeting in Copenhagen in 2005. It was a major meeting of Arctic Scientistsonly Social (not Scientists) that in the end, is organized by countries and their working group members are their respective appointed governments. by Some of IASSA and IASC are strategic partners with very different starting points: whileIASSA has individual membership, IASC Conference for Arctic Research Planning" and is an effort by IASC, the international Arctic Science Committee ( Report fromReport ICARP IASSA Council Business Council IASSA Northern Notes Issue 40 (Autumn / Winter 2013) - page 14

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ICASS VIII: A A suggestion on research ethics  development relates back to a topic from the last ICARP Plan 11, which did not yet materialize. Yet, given the increased and heightened attention activity to the Arctic, in most delegates agreed that the need for a common code of ethics for research in the Arctic more apparent. Existing guidelines by became even andIASSA the Association of Canadi- an Universities for Northern Studies are not exactly recent any more the Arctic. A researchers’ database, hosted for example on website, would the be a ICARP useful tool. The current International Directory of Arc- tic Socialarcticcentre.ulapland.fi/idass/ good Scientistsexample, but sorely out of date and would have to be ( updated and more importantly would require resources that IASSA alone currently does not have or control. III PlanningIII Meeting continued

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- ICARP . The rapporteurs’ responsibility will be to take notes during the ICARP III to consider. Further coordi- II, which involved many IASSA - - Please Please submit a one qualifications for serving as a rapporteur for this event to Cher Mazo ( “ICARP III Townhall Rapporteur” by travel costs to ICASS VIII be will provided. Applicants must be a member of IASSA and have excellent command of the English language. This call rectedis toward Early Career Scholars (graduate students andespecially scholars within 5 years of their terminal degree). di- Notes the notes, in the form of a summary report, to the IASC S&HWG Chair shortly after the end of ICASS InVIII. return for this service, the rapporteurs’ conference registration fee will be covered, and a stipend covering accommodations and [partial] The IASC Social Human& Sciences Working Group is accepting applications for two rapporteur positions for the ICARP Townhall, to be held at ICASS VIII. See information on ICARP expertise in a wide range of fields on in the Arctic, we are more and more approached by agents outside within academia and for contacts and A suggestionA with much support is the creation of an up sive database on Arctic expertise. At (research) times of rapid changes there something will be developed for ICARP nation is necessary with the ARR. (ARR), (ARR), IASSA supports the inclusion of the ARR in ICARP. The ARR Inter- im Report was delivered this May to the Arctic Council, and maybe from very useful resource for ICARP a member of the steering committee for the Arctic Resilience Report and identifies key trends in development in the human Arctic, as well as gaps in knowledge. This could be a organizations such Council as and the the Arctic AHDR wider community. members, will be released in 2014, Input of existing reports to ICARP IASSA plays providing input for an reports that go to important role

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http://resweb.res.unbc.ca/icass2014/  Most Vulnerable Societies; Food and Water Security, including natural foods, seafood and freshwa- ter; and Governance tions between actors and organizations that govern the Arctic, future of from the local scales. to international My participation in these two events As As far as I can see, very valuable links The main themes which were identi- For me as an IASSA councilor and Oriented Observations (ICASS VIII -

list of sessions and a full session descrip- tion: index.htm and my presentation was supported by IASSA, the RFBR project 13 as well as, the excellent organization by and support from the Research Council of Norway. North in Contemporary Nature and Socio 00186 A), it was not only of great interest to participate in discussions importance of about the above mentioned main the themes of great humanistic value, but to see among representatives RCN, the from NSF the and participation others, of the the RFBR, active even though the Russian Federation is not a member countries. IGFA of the may be created among different nations (including also non Japan, India, participating in the shop, as work- well as China) on Sustainable the way Arctic to Knowledge involving IASSA members, social researchers and Arctic people, both indigenous and non indigenous. For this purpose your we invite papers and ICASS contribution VIII Session for “Arctic Sustainable the Knowledge: Integrating Arctic Traditional Science, / Local Knowledge and Social- ly Session #: CULK3. ICASS VIII website to Please view a preliminary visit the knowledge, achieving better life, quality and enhancing of human capacities in the Arctic. fied to be of priority focus in future CRAs were:    one of the leaders of the RFBR “People’s project Quality of Life in the Russian

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Despite the environmental focus of the events will have an explicit focus on human development and Indigenous people in the Arctic. According to media reports, the ICC Chair, Aqqaluk Lynge, and former RAIPON head and current Speaker of the Yamal Assembly, Sergey Kharyuchi, suggested dedicating the next Forum (2014) to In- digenous peoples of the North. The location and timing of the Fourth Forum is yet to be determined, reportedly indicated interest in hosting it. although Murmask Third Forum, social science topics have made their appearance in the discussion of legal systems and resource ance, as well govern-as health issues. This said, Forum organizers could have made more effort to ensure the meaningful participation of Indigenous speakers in thematic sessions (although the ICC Chair Aqqal- uk Lynge gave opening remarks). Forum would have The also benefited from a stronger effort to integrate environmental security with human security, as well as resource development with human well being. Since International Arctic Forums under this format are poised to continue, one can hope that one of the future

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 of the Russian President cumbersome seemed in terms of security. Overall, less the organization of the positive meeting impression. IASSA left was a able to reach out to the Russian community Arctic of social ICASS VIII. scientists and promote handling ecological disasters. In his informal comments, touched upon Mr. the issue of Putin Greenpeace activists arrested candidly in the earlier Pechora in Sea September. Greenpeace should be engaging in meet- He noted ings that and discussions, like rather than this expressing its Forum, views by hos- tile actions around Russian offshore plat- forms. Unfortunately, the Forum participants were not given an opportunity ask questions of Mr. Putin or other Heads to of State. Unlike the previous Forum Archangelsk), (in however, this appearance who presented an update on polar law as it concerns resource extraction and environmental its impacts. most However, anticipated address was, as the in the past, delivered by Vladimir Russian Putin. In his formal President,remarks Mr. Putin highlighted the need economic to activity and balance nature conservation and ensure that companies working in the Arctic have contingency plans for

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The Forum consisted of plenary ses- The overarching theme of this year’s The Third International Arctic Forum Council’s Senior Arctic Officials Patrick Borbey (Canada). (Canada). Officials Arctic Council’s Borbey Senior Patrick Ragnar Grimsson and Chair of the Arctic Council’s Senior Arctic Officials Patrick Borbey Russia’s Vladimi President (Canada). Borbey the and Officials ArcticChair of Arctic Grimsson Council’s Senior Patrick Ragnar in 25 September Internationalon Forum Salekhard Third Arctic the Olafur of and Ragnar Grimsson Iceland FinlandSauli Shoigou, Niinistö, President Sergey President of Minister Defense Russian Russia’s President Vladimir Putin addresses the Third International Arctic Forum in Salekhard on September Internationalon Salekhard Arctic Third in 25 addresses the Forum Putin Vladimir Russia’s President MinisterSauli Finland Defense of Sergey President Russian Societyand Niinistö,sian Shoigou, Preside Geographical President members, including Natalia Loukacheva, rity of resource development. sions that featured three to five speakers each. A number of speakers were IASSA tal security and health in the Arctic, environmental law, climate change, pollution and biodiversity, and environmental secu- rum. meeting was Among key subthemes were environmen- ical Society and Yamal mous Okrug Government. I served as the official IASSA representative at the Fo- ences establishment. In total, mately 700 delegates were invited approxi- by the forum organizers: the Russian Geograph- Iceland and Sauli They Niinistö were joined of by governors Finland. of Rus- sia’s northern regions, ministers, government officials and the Russian polar sci- tions from all circumpolar countries, cluding in- three Presidents: Vladimir Putin of Russia, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson of September 24 staged in the expanding and boom ambitious “Arctic Third International Arctic Forum Third International “Arctic IASSA Council Business continued Business Council IASSA Northern Notes Issue 40 (Autumn / Winter 2013) - page 17 -

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Upcoming Call for Upcoming Call for   Northern Notes , Issue 35, pp. 4 IASSA SecretariatIASSA Bids for information on what information a bid should contain. )

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Northern Notes , we strongly encourage interested members to submit a statement of intent in Candidates Council for Members IASSA [email protected] substantial part of the General Assembly’s timeslot. Thus, we will not be having such presentations at the upcoming ICASS General Assembly. Late this winter we will call for candidates to provide a short introduction of themselves and their interest in serving IASSA as a Council member to the IASSA Secretariat. Please see published in the next VIII (April 2014). Candidates’ introductions/statements will also be made available in the ICASS VIII materials provided to each participant (on a USB stick), and electronically at the conference (on computers for participants to view). While we will also accept candidates to declare their intent during the VIII time for the next issue of send reminders via the IASSA webpage ( cebook page. We encourage IASSA members to consider if they would like to Council. Electionsrun will be conducted somewhat differentlyfor this year (though under IASSA the old by candidates necessitated that each candidate could only have a few state her/his interestminutes in being a Council member. toAt the same time, this took up a the next IASSA Secretariat( please contact IASSA Secretary, Cher Mazo ICASS ICASS will solicit bids for hosting the next IASSA Secretariat and ICASS IX (and thus serving as the next IASSA president) early in nounce due the dates newfor such year, bids via and the will IASSA webpage an- ( Listserv and Facebook page. If you are interested in submitting a bid for hosting

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ISSC’s goals of increasing the recog- As As you may remember from the previ- University of Northern British Columbia members will consider attending the Dur- ban WSSF. in Durban, South Africa. I Subarctic social sciences think and humanities Arctic/ have much to offer beyond our own region of interest, and hope some of our knowledge by decision makers and practitioners certainly resonates with IASSA. Please note that the 2014 WSSF will be the SakKijanginnatuk Nunalik Initiative”). nition of the need for social science Intensive Science”)Goldhar, and (“Digital Nunatsiavut Adaptations: Building Christina Sustaina- ble Communities in a Changing Climate Government (“Digital Technologies Sharing for and Enhancing Culture Knowledge nous Knowledge in the Context of Data porting Inuit priorities for research education and Strawhacker, in National Snow Nunavut”),Data and Center, Ice University Colleen of Colorado Digital Communication in the ment Develop- of Greenland”), Gita Ljubicic, Car- leton University (“Digital Media Arctic”, with papers presented by mus Ole Ras- Rasmussen, Nordregio (“Going Digital theme of which was mation “Social and the Transfor- Digital Age”. panel Thus, our was imaginatively Transformation titled:and the Digital Age in the “Social bly. I represented IASSA General at Assembly in Montreal, and orga- the ISSC nized an IASSA panel for the WSSF, the Social Social Sciences Council. ISSC hold a bi annual World Social (WSSF), along with Science its General Assem- Forum ous become a member of the International Science Forum IASSA at ISSC’s at ISSC’s IASSA Social World IASSA Council Business continued Business Council IASSA Northern Notes Issue 40 (Autumn / Winter 2013) - page 18 -

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We ask that members consider the I would like to thank Piotr Grazcyk and spirit of IASSA’s original bylaws, updating and clarifying, to reflect IASSA’s while development over the past 20+ years. ple’ (the term used on the IASSA site, web- but not in the original bylaws). The Council certainly does not mean to indicate any less interest in northern Indige- nous peoples by this edit, but a continuing commitment to inclusivity. changes carefully and prepare to vote on these at the upcoming General Assem- bly. In this issue you will find a draft of the proposed new bylaws. On website you will the find the same IASSA draft, but showing the original text, along with the modifications, and explanations (shaded in teal) of the changes and why they are being suggested ( images/stories/files/bylaws/proposed_amended_bylaws_notated.pdf Hannah Strauss for their work on an early version of the revisions, and my Councilors for fellow attending to countless e mails regarding these revisions, and for debating and refining the revisions. The process have been a long one, feel but we that the new by bylaws: at some point there editing. The was objectives on the website are slight more familiar to most members, as well as our sister organizations (IASC, U Arc- tic, APECS, ISSC). However, two points that we consider important were dropped from the web version. The original bylaws also use the term ‘Peoples of the North’ a term that was meant to be inclusive of both indigenous and other Northern people(s), but which we feel may be confus- ing (given the Russian term ‘numerically small Peoples of the North’ indigenous to Northern identify peoples). A check with Ludger Müller the original intent was inclusivity: the term was meant to refer to and both indigenous non we suggest using the term ‘northern peo-

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By Gail Fondahl,By IASSA President, University of Northern BritishColumbia http://www.iassa.org/index.php? ] differ slightly from those in the convener for ICASS, from the institu- A A third substantive change is the Among other benefits that the Council In terms of the other proposed revi- - requirements of ‘nationality’. wording of the objectives The objectives listed on our IASSA web page [ option=com_content&view=article&id=12&It emid=16 nous northerner. Aside from least having at one indigenous northernerCouncilor, the bylaws as have not a recently been followed on Councils have been comprised of nine (9) this count. Recent members, including the presidentpast president. and The proposed keep changes this (including at least practice one indigenous north- of erner), and require 9 that the Councilors majority members (5) of be from Arctic countries. While less restrictive than the current by laws, this is more restrictive than recent practices, which have not sought to apply feels this arraignment offers, it allows for ICASS to continue to meet in Arctic countries (which we feel many of bers our mem- prefer) while enabling who do candidates not reside in Arctic countries to run for president. sions, another substantive change is the size and composition of Council current bylaws stipulate and require 11membership from each Arctic members, country, as well as at least one indige- co tion identified as the ICASS. site This for may the be the next president’s candidate own institution The or person identified another. as a co can choose to run for council not but need does to do so. If s/he runs success- fully for council, she will be a voting member; if she does not run (or runs not and is successful) s/he will be involved Council meetings in that deal with ICASS, notbut will have a vote.

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recognizing these are not mutually exclusive groups; To promote the development of research and educational partnerships with Northern people; To facilitate culturally, developmentally, and linguistically appropriate education in the North, including training in socia sciences: To follow the IASSA Statement of To promote communication and coordination with other related organizations; To promote the active collection, exchange, dissemination, and archiving of scientific information in the social Arctic sciences; To increase public awareness of circumpolar issues and research results; To promote mutual respect, communication, and collaboration between social scientists and Northern people, while To promote and stimulate international cooperation and to increase the participation of social scientists in national and internationalresearch; Arctic

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2. 1. linguistic, historical, social, legal, economic, environmental and political subjects as well as health, education, the arts ties, and related subjects. Preamble The is defined Arctic as all Arctic and sub to these regions. The sciences social encompass disciplines relating to human behavioural, psychological, cultural, anthropol at ICASS at ICASS UniversityVIII, of Northern British Columbia, George,Prince British Columbia, Canada Amended and Adopted by IASSA Council 25 November 2013, and to be voted on at the GeneralIASSA Assembly, May 2014 IASSA IASSA Council, 27 October 1992 and GeneralIASSA Assembly, 29 October 1992 I, at UniversitéICASS Laval, Ste Adopted by

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 there are Graduate students and sufficient young scholars are encouraged to apply. submissions. place in Tampa, Florida, USA.    strategies of cultural conservation revival. and Possible sections include:         archaeological, folkloric research and as well as laying linguisticout directions for future study. of recent fieldwork, examples of productive interdisciplinary work, tially new perspectives on historical materials are of greater value than summaries of generally accessible published data. or previously understanding the present ceremonialism, the causes and quences conse- of present conditions, and the nature and consequences of different

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The conference received generous A A successful gathering, the confer- The conference was co The conference Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland, on a beautiful October day. beautiful a October day. on Greenland, of Ilisimatusarfik, University opened the conference and wonderful reception at Hans Egede’s hosted a political support: Nick Nielsen, for Minister Education, Church, Culture and Gen- der Equality, Naalakkersuisut, Greenland, in ecological, social and cultural sustainability. contemporary responses and future potential alternatives. A key focus was the political, economic, and cultural ments invest- of Arctic states and Arctic peoples ongoing change in the Arctic torical origins of key socio challenges facing Arctic communities to to Arctic research and policy by bringing together scholars from the human sciences social to discuss heritage and and ciation for Canadian Studies and Network in Canadian History and Environment. ence made new and unique contributions between Aalborg University’s new Arctic research center CIRCLA, the University of Greenland/Ilisimatusarfik, Nordic Asso- and Russia. land. This event attracted over 60 participants land, UK, Sweden, Denmark, Australia nary conference of the humanities social and sciences was held in Nuuk 11 October, 2013 at the University of Green- Change in the Arctic Heritage and Change in the Arctic, Arctic, the in Change and Heritage 11 Greenland, of University Lill By Rastad Bjørst, Assistant Professor, Department ofCulture and Global Studies, Aalborg University Recent Conferences & Workshops & Conferences Recent Northern Notes Issue 40 (Autumn / Winter 2013) - page 29 -

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Low during one of our - in Arctic studies alcohol is primarily The workshop started with a keynote The reasons for choosing the culture This workshop was the fourth in a talk was to give social scientists an introduction to how medical science views and psychopharmacologist who has stud- ied the impact of alcohol use on human organisms for decades. The idea of the song that relates drinking with fun. speech by (University Professor of Tartu), Jaanus a psychobiologist Harro size the informal atmosphere and unordi- nary focus, the title for was the deliberately lent conference from a British punk use or avoidance, and we thought these that experiences should be discussed in a broader circle of people. To empha- Arctic Arctic communities. It is true that very few anthropologists have conducted fieldwork on the topic, but every one of them have come across different forms of alcohol together and reflect on experiences about their the significance, personal and the social or cultural role of alcohol in demonstration of masculinity and religious even ceremony. Moreover, we wanted to give people the possibility to come associated with leisure, joy and celebration. Moreover, we know that alcohol is deeply embedded in several rituals, like the greeting of an honoured guest, the er, despite the scholarly alcohol use, people in the approach North still con- on tinue to drink, and is an activity that is discussed in the themes like context alcohol related violence of and negative suicide, the decline of indigenous traditions, culture shock and so forth. Howev- of alcohol consumption as a main theme of the workshop were manifold. First of all, countless discussions during the second World Routes workshop held in 2010. and were titled “ World Routes”. In fact, the idea for focusing sumption in the on Arctic was suggested alcohol by con- Tatiana Argounova University of Tartu, three Estonia. workshops The were dedicated first to ex- amining movement patterns in the Arctic, series of Arctic workshops held by the Recent Conferences & Workshops continued Workshops & Conferences Recent Drinking and Driving Is So Much Fun: Arctic Workshop, Arctic Workshop, Drinkingand Driving Is So Much Fun: 31 Estonia, May Tartu, Universityof Northern Notes Issue 40 (Autumn / Winter 2013) - page 30 - -

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