Fall / Winter 2005/ 2006 ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… NNoortrthheerrnn NNootteess The Newsletter of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA)

Published by the IASSA Secretariat, Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland, PO Box 279, DK-3900 Nuuk, Greenland, tel.: +299 324 566; fax: +299 324 711; e-mail: [email protected]; Internet: www.iassa.gl; editors: Yvon Csonka ([email protected]), Inge Seiding ([email protected]) ISSN 1816-9767 (online), ISSN 1817-0404 (print)

In this issue: Features From the President...... 1 Report from UArctic Council Meeting…………15 Short report on the IASSA Council Meeting...... 3 ICASS VI First Announcement...... 5 Departments ICASS V Keynotes publication...... 6 Calls for submissions …………………………..17 IPY 2007-2008: The Clock is Ticking ...... 7 For students……………………………………. 18 ICARP II...... 11 Conferences & Meetings ……………………….19 Report from Arctic Council SDWG and SAO New books, dissertations & film…...…………...23 Meetings ...... 13 On the Web…………………………………….. 30

From the President

respected in all high circles dealing with Arctic “Why join IASSA?” Twelve years ago, the founding president of our association, Ludger research and, together with other institutions, it has Müller-Wille, was opening his editorial with this managed to impose the social sciences, and the question (IASSA Newsletter Fall/Winter 1993). The voices of indigenous and other Arctic residents, as answers he provided proved convincing, since our matters of course in the planning, funding and association has grown to a current membership of conduct of research. Let us consider the giant leap, 560 persons in 22 countries. But why become or under those aspects, between earlier International remain a member of IASSA today? Polar Years, and the one that is now imminent (see contribution by Igor Krupnik and Grete Hovelsrud, The tangible, direct benefits remain, such as this below as well as in past issues), or the “paradigm Newsletter, occasional publications (the shift” that has taken place between the first International Conference of Arctic Research Proceedings of ICASS V are on their way to you just now, see announcement page 6 below), the Planning (ICARP I, in 1995), and the very recent website, the electronic discussion list, and the right ICARP II (more below). For each of us, the to participate in the International Congresses of lobbying efforts carried out over the years by our Arctic Social Sciences (see the first announcement Association on behalf of the community of Arctic social scientists, which it can legitimately claim to of ICASS VI page 5 below). represent, are beginning to translate into increased Other benefits of IASSA membership have research opportunities, and easier access to and increased steadily since the foundation of the greater abundance of funding. This, as well as association. IASSA has become well known and increased acceptance by other stakeholders, among whom our colleagues from the natural sciences, represent very concrete enhancements of our of a secretariat—thus, intervening years are lean professional lives. Needless to say, such benefits ones. Furthermore, quite a few pay membership are indirect in the sense that they accrue to the dues in connection with their registration to entire community, not only to IASSA members. participate in an ICASS, but let their membership Being member of an Association and paying lapse when they don’t attend the next Congress. membership dues regularly is thus, here as in many We surmise that this “conference effect” explains other spheres of social life, also a matter of the current under-representation of Europe-based responsibility and solidarity towards the members (currently 14 % of all members, see community. graph below), and the corresponding over- representation of North America (USA 39 %, The financial situation of IASSA, precisely, is Canada 19 %), where the last two ICASS took modest but sound. We are however facing a place. Being located as they are at the juncture of strained treasury situation this year. This is due in Europe and America, the current IASSA secretariat great part to the fact that membership fees are paid and upcoming ICASS VI should contribute to every three years, usually in connection with restore balance in this regard. registration to the ICASS that concludes the term

IASSA membership by countries, as of December 2005 (N=568)

Rest of world United Kingdom 2% Canada 2% 19%

Norway Russia 2% 24%

Greenland 2%

Finland Europe 2% 14.1% Denmark 2% Estonia 1% Germany 1% Sweden 1% USA Rest of Europe 39% 3%

In order to avoid the high costs of printing and time be downloaded from the website mailing, and considering that access to internet is www.iassa.gl. Members are welcome to comment now very widespread, this very issue of the on the future form of Newsletter delivery, by Newsletter is published electronically only. IASSA sending an e-mail to [email protected] or by is thus following a trend set by other institutions letter to the postal address. comparable to ours. Those members for whom we have an e-mail address will receive this issue only The above were among the considerations and as an electronic file. A limited number of hard decisions taken at the first face to face IASSA copies will be mailed to the few members who did Council meeting of this term, that took place not provide an e-mail address, and to libraries. November 8-9, 2005, in Copenhagen (see This, and back issues of the Newsletter can at any summary report below). The Council also ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 2 Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006 considered that the limited financial means of high profile international and multi-disciplinary IASSA could be put to better use by introducing initiatives such as the Arctic Climate Impact new services to its members and to the community Assessment (ACIA), ICARP, and IPY. Multi- at large. It considered making available on its disciplinary projects within the human and social website a database of Arctic social scientists, a sciences themselves do not quite yet reach the project which might be realized in the near future. same high profile and expected level of funding. Monitoring Arctic human development (follow up The IASSA Council meeting was held, like quite a to the AHDR) remains actual, but it does not raise few other important meetings (ACIA and AHDR quite as much interest (and, presumably, funding) follow up, IPY Consultative Open Forum, etc.) in as climate induced (social) changes. In the conjunction with the second International meantime, the first program for internationally Conference on Arctic Research Planning, ICARP coordinated fundamental research in the II. Being among the sponsors of that important humanities and social sciences in the North, conference, in which human and social sciences BOREAS (see Vitebsky and Klein in the previous were represented on a par with the natural issue of the Newsletter), is about to begin in sciences, IASSA found it an optimal venue for its earnest: the results of the evaluation of full Councilors to meet—and thereafter participate in proposals for Collaborative Research Projects will the main conference and in other side meetings. be known in January, and projects will be carried We cannot fail to stress that the ICARP II out over the next three to four years. It remains Conference Statement (reproduced below) important to impose the evidence that investigating highlights a “paradigm shift to a […] holistic human affairs per se is as worthwhile and useful, perspective [that] integrally includes the human and therefore as worthy of funding, as researching dimension, Indigenous insights and a more full the natural world. integration of Arctic processes in the earth system” (italics in the original). I wish you pleasurable reading, and a year to the It becomes increasingly clear that Arctic social measure of your hopes and expectations! sciences have managed to become full partners in Yvon Csonka

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Short report on the IASSA Council meeting, Copenhagen, Nov. 8-9, 2005

The current IASSA Council held its first face to edited and printed in, and will be mailed out of face meeting recently, back to back with ICARP II. Fairbanks before the end of this year. Any IASSA Seven of the eight Council members participated. funds left will then be transferred to the current Inge Seiding, secretary of the association, and secretariat. At the Nuuk secretariat, Inge Seiding Klaus Georg Hansen, webmaster, were also in took over as secretary in September after Najâraq attendance. The meeting was funded, beside Paniula obtained a full time position with the participants’ own travel grants, by an ad hoc Greenland Home Rule. subsidy from KVUG, the Danish-Greenlandic Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland. Finances The Greenland Home Rule representation in As the fiscal year is not over yet, the current Copenhagen kindly allowed us to meet in its secretariat did not present a definitive financial premises. A number of discussions and decisions statement. Main income since the takeover from were prepared by preliminary discussions by e- Fairbanks are: leftover from Fairbanks term, a one- mail over the preceding months. time subsidy from the Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland to cover travel for Reports from the Secretariats representation at Arctic Council, and IASSA Both the Fairbanks office, which has carried out Council meeting, a 3-year subsidy from the IASSA-related activities until now, and the current Research unit of the Greenland Home Rule to secretariat in Nuuk, presented activity and cover ca. 400 hours a year of secretarial support. financial reports. The proceedings of ICASS V, The University of Greenland provides an office which took place in Fairbanks in 2004, have been and associated overhead as in kind.

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006 3 The financial situation of IASSA is sound, but Revision of IASSA bylaws modest. Ad hoc subsidies and in kind contributions This issue had been discussed by e-mail before the allow the running of the secretariat on a modest Council meeting. This term of Council gives itself scale. Due to the fact that membership renewals the task, after fifteen years of existence of IASSA, are for three years at a time, and that most to adapt the bylaws of the association to current renewals occur in connection with registration to and future situations. Revised bylaws can only be ICASS on the third and final year of each term of accepted at the next General Assembly which will secretariat, only limited entries can be expected take place at ICASS VI. Thus, Council will take during years 1 and 2 of each new term. The the time to prepare a thoroughly thought-out draft Fairbanks secretariat was able to transfer the over the next two years. substantial sum of 8000 USD, but expenses such as printing and mailing the Newsletter, and the IPY website, will exhaust it within a year. The Council recognizes that the “IASSA-IPY International Task Group”, which had been Newsletter mandated by the latest General Assembly, has After having carefully considered all pertinent accomplished its mission with full success. Igor arguments, Council agreed that the next issue of Krupnik points out that the preparation of IPY is the Newsletter (the one you are holding now) far from over, and that the social sciences must would only be published electronically. The high continue their action to ensure proper costs of printing and mailing the newsletter are not representation in the implementation of the Polar justified anymore in an age of almost universal Year. Upon his recommendation, Council agrees internet access. In a tight budgetary situation such that the current Task Group should be succeeded as that of IASSA today, Council deemed it better by a smaller group composed of representatives of a) to explore alternative services to members, such social sciences on national IPY committees and the as making a database of Arctic social scientists, IPY Joint Committee. Igor Krupnik will draft and other information, available online (see terms of reference for this group and submit them below), and b) to avoid giving cause for any to Council in the near future. further raise of membership fees. A limited number of copies of the Newsletter will be printed and ICASS VI mailed to members without internet access, The Council accepts the suggestion from Birger libraries, and partner institutions. Poppel that the next ICASS be held in 2008, so that it could be hosted in Ilimmarfik, a large Membership building under construction in Nuuk that will The distribution of members by countries is house the enlarged University of Greenland, and unbalanced (see graph above page 2). This may be other institutions such as Groenlandica (the partly explained by the fact that many renew their Greenland collection of the National Library), the membership only in conjunction with participation National Archives, Greenland Statistics, and in ICASS, where it is mandatory, and let it lapse in others. The building, to be inaugurated at the heart between congresses. The last time ICASS was in of the Polar Year, in early 2008, will be a symbol Europe was in 1998, thereafter it was held twice in of Arctic research capacity building. Local North America. The secretariat will endeavor to organizers will soon decide on dates for the conduct a recruitment drive. Congress, which will be either in May or in late August 2008. ICASS VI has recently received a So far, members in Russia have not been requested definitive endorsement as IPY activity by the IPY to pay membership fees, nor to renew their Joint Committee, but the congress will also be membership and update their personal data. A open, as usual, to research that is not related to consequence is that the roster of members in IPY. The exact wording of the theme of the Russia is unreliable. Council decided to consult Congress is still under consideration. key members in Russia a) about updating the roster of members in Russia and introducing regular re- Social scientists’ database registration, and b) about the opportunity and Yvon Csonka, after preliminary consultation with feasibility of introducing a (special rate) webmaster Klaus Georg Hansen, proposes a membership fee for IASSA members in Russia. project to make a database of Arctic social

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4 Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006 scientists available on the IASSA website, as a new service to the community. Since IASSA already has an up to date database of its members scope of the database and those who have access to at its disposal, it could rapidly and without great it (only IASSA members?), and issues of personal expense provide this service. As IASSA is more data protection. The Greenland team will present a and more often solicited to identify specialists, refined project in the near future. such a database would be very useful for IASSA itself. Council members support the project, some Yvon Csonka of them expressing reservations regarding the

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… First announcement ICASS VI is going to take place in Nuuk, Greenland, in 2008

The IASSA board has decided that the ICASS VI accommodation and the all together most cost- is going to be held in Nuuk, Greenland, in 2008. efficient arrangement. The exact dates will be announced before April 1 this year. The working title for ICASS VI is “Circumpolar

Social Changes: Opportunities and Challenges for ICASS VI has already been endorsed as an IPY Social Sciences in the International Polar Year project by the IPY joint Committee. Being an IPY 2007-2008.” project and taking place in the second half of the

Polar Year, ICASS VI will offer various venues for So far the International Congresses of Arctic IPY scholars, other northern researchers, and local Social Sciences have been held triennially, but for participants to analyze the progress of IPY 2007- two main reasons the 6th Congress is not following 2008 in social and human fields. This includes this scheme: special project sessions, discussion panels, plenary 1. To be meaningful in relation to the IPY presentations, invited talks by the leading IPY process – the Congress should be held not scientists and representatives of the indigenous earlier than half way through the IPY. peoples of the Arctic, public meetings. Sessions 2. The venue chosen: Ilimmarfik, Greenland’s and panels at the ICASS VI will be framed along contribution to Arctic social sciences in the major IPY research fields and initiatives, with the Polar Year, is planned to be ready to receive broad international and interdisciplinary the Congress at the earliest February/March participation. For many international network 2008. Ilimmarfik will be a centre for projects, ICASS sessions will offer the only chance education, research, documentation and for face-to-face discussions, as participants from communication. Ilimmarfik will be housing many countries and regions may have limited eight institutions: the University of Greenland contacts in the field and across the boundaries. (Ilisimatusarfik), the National School of Social Special efforts will be made to ensure presence of Work (Isumaginninnermik as many project collaborators from arctic Siunnersortinngorniat Ilinniarfiat), the School communities, as possible. Having ICASS VI held of Journalism (Tusagassiornermik Ilinniarfik), in Nuuk, the capital of the only indigenous self- the Centre for Teacher Development governing Arctic country, will give an (Inerisaavik), The National Library unprecedented voice to polar residents and (Groenlandica), Statistics Greenland (Kalaallit indigenous peoples. Nunaanni Naatsorsueqqissaartarfik), The National Archive (Nunatta Allagaateqarfik), and the Language Secretariat (Oqaasileriffik). Hence the Congress will be held either during the first half of May or very late August 2008. The final dates will depend on when it will be possible to attract most participants, to ensure best possible

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006 5 Despite the IPY focus it is important to stress that Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland and other all Arctic social scientists are most welcome to Greenland research institutions as well as from the present their research and participate in the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, ICC. discussions no matter their affiliation to IPY A secretary has been hired in the beginning of activities. 2005 to serve the IASSA constituency and, if needed more staff will be employed to support the So far it has been decided that the organisation of organising committee. Later in the preparatory ICASS VI will be made up as follows: process a Secretariat will be established to run the ICASS VI. The IASSA council (members from 5 Arctic countries) is responsible for organizing the Gradually, keynote speakers, session-chairpersons, International Congress of Artic Social Sciences, and presenters of papers and poster sessions will be ICASS, on behalf of IASSA. included in the preparatory process.

The council forms a research board that will be Birger Poppel, vice president of IASSA – in co- overall responsible for the ICASS VI. operation with the IASSA board, the local organising committee, the IASSA-secretariat as An ICASS VI local organising committee headed well as with the different working groups – is the by the IASSA vice-president - including both convener of ICASS VI. indigenous and non-indigenous researchers - will be established in Nuuk with members from Birger Poppel

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Connections: Local and Global Aspects of Arctic Social Systems Keynotes presented at the Fifth International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences

IASSA is pleased to announce the completion of Community-Based Focus in Times of Global Connections: Local and Global Aspects of Arctic Interactions?; Dalee Sambo Dorough (Inuit Social Systems, the publication from the 5th Circumpolar Conference Advisory Committee on International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences United Nation Issues): Pathways and Roadblocks (ICASS V), held in Fairbanks, Alaska in May to Securing Indigenous Human Rights; Tim Ingold 2004. (University of Aberdeen): A Manifesto for the ICASS V brought together some 400 researchers, Anthropology of the North; and Georgianna students and indigenous people from around the Lincoln (Senator, Alaska State Senate): Listen to world to share ideas about social science in the the People. Our sincerest thanks to the speakers for NorthThis volume, fifth in IASSA’s Topics in traveling to Fairbanks and honoring us with their Arctic Social Sciences series, highlights the many ideas. contributions ICASS V made to arctic social science. It begins with the opening remarks of The publication also includes session and special Reverend David Salmon’s blessing, in recognition panel abstracts, to provide an understanding of of and respect for the conference taking place in what the major research themes were and who was Athabascan country. It continues with the advancing them. conference’s keynote speeches from Larisa Abryutina (Russian Association of Indigenous All IASSA members will be receiving Connections Peoples of the North): Indigenous Peoples of the by mail. For other mailings, contact the IASSA Russian North: Sources of the Crisis and Ways to Secretariat in Greenland. Overcome It; Fikret Berkes (Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba): Why Keep a Anne Sudkamp Past IASSA Executive Officer Editor, Connections

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 6 Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006 IPY 2007 –2008: THE CLOCK IS TICKING

The year 2005 turned to be a busy time for the enthusiasm for IPY across nations and the polar International Polar Year 2007–2008 (IPY 2007– science community. Social and human scientists 2008) planners. It witnessed scores of major did fairly well in that first round; they submitted international meetings, three rounds of proposal about 130, or roughly 1/6 of the initial EoI’s. application, and an intensified communication Eventually, the number of EoI’s in the main IPY within a bustling IPY community of scholars and database grew over 1000, as more submissions activists. A permanent IPY program office (IPO) is kept arriving for several more months. now housed at the British Antarctic Service in Cambridge, UK. Headed by its energetic new Besides great enthusiasm, the EoI ‘census’ of Director, David Carlson, it has become a key early 2005 also exposed a substantial player in the IPY preparation. Several new national fragmentation and the lack of adequate IPY committees have been established, with communication within the IPY science community. Bulgaria becoming the 30th nation to join the IPY Many outlines for proposed IPY research program in late 2005. First IPY monies also began overlapped, without referring to, or even being to flow in. By the year’s end, the overall contours aware of each other. The sheer number of initial of the new initiative became quite visible, with proposals would have made funding IPY efforts more nations, agencies, and science groups signing hardly realistic if not unmanageable. Several EoIs in for the effort. all but ignored the much-desired interdisciplinary and international spirit of IPY 2007–2008; many To Arctic social and human scholars, the year 2005 did not venture beyond specific interests of sub- marked another substantial advance in their disciplines, even single scholars. Therefore, at the participation in IPY 2007–2008 (see our previous first full meeting of the Joint Committee for IPY reports in earlier issues of this Newsletter). Despite 2007–2008 in Paris in March 2005 (see our report our relatively small numbers and research budgets, in the Spring-Summer 2005 issue of this we are now regarded as respected players in many Newsletter), the committee agreed to appeal to IPY critical IPY fields. Our voice is clearly heard and scholars to re-submit their applications under a actively sought in many interdisciplinary revised ‘full proposal’ template. The JC introduced programs, in the planning for the IPY observation three timelines (rounds) for such new submissions: and data management systems, and, particularly, in June 30, 2005; September 30, 2005; and January its future education and outreach activities. There 30, 2006. Prospective IPY participants were is no doubt that IPY 2007–2008 will be the venture specifically asked to explore possibilities for with a highly visible ‘human face.’ This ‘human combining, or consolidating their efforts under face’ of IPY 2007–2008, as now broadly accepted, bigger umbrella initiatives. They were advised to may become its most distinguishing feature seek more interdisciplinary and international compared to its three predecessors of 1882–83, collaboration, and to offer more details on their 1932–33, and of 1957–58. To us, this is the most plans for education, outreach, data- and project rewarding outcome of the past year’s efforts to go management. They were also requested to address on record. some specific IPY goals, such as building IPY legacies, engaging scholars from nations that have 2005: The Year in the Making no tradition of polar research, developing next The year 2005 started with what may be called a generation of polar scientists, and the like. preliminary ‘census’ of the IPY community. Scholars aspiring to take part in IPY 2007–2008 The first round of ‘full proposal’ submission to the were asked to register their research outlines by IPY office in June 2005 has drawn some 120 submitting a standard 5-7-page ‘Expression of applications. Of those, 15 belonged to the social Intent’ (EoI) developed by the IPY Cambridge and human field: from northern economies to office. By January 14th, 2005, over 800 EoI’s community building to linguistics to polar arrived, far more than anyone expected. In a few prehistory to the history of scholarly research in weeks, those EoI’s have been sorted, reviewed by the polar areas. Social themes also featured highly the members of the Joint Committee (JC) for IPY in several interdisciplinary programs that were 2007–2008, and put into the web-accessible focused primarily on large-scale environmental database. This first census revealed a great change in polar regions. All proposals have been

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006 7 reviewed and evaluated by JC members (usually, day after the ICARP meeting in Copenhagen (see by 3-5 reviewers per proposal), according to the set short report on ICARP in this issue), after the first of 15 criteria outlined in the application template one in March, at the UNESCO headquarters in (see above). The first set of some 40 full proposals Paris. In October, the Canadian Government endorsed by JC by early August 2005 (or about 1/3 announced its pledge for major new IPY funding in of those submitted) was featured on a new ‘road- 2006-2009, in the amount of 150 millions CAD. map’ for IPY planning introduced by David To our delight, the Canadians advocated two fields Carlson, IPY office director. This chart called the to be the focal themes for Canadian IPY activities: ‘IPY honey-comb’ for its clusters of hexagonal (1) studies of recent climate change and its impacts cells with individual proposals grouping together in polar regions; and (2) research in adaptation, has quickly become the most visible image of the health, and well being of northern communities. IPY planning efforts. Another semi-annual meeting of the IPY Joint By the second submission deadline of September Committee took place in November, at the 30th, 2005, over 90 additional new proposals headquarters of the World Meteorological arrived to the IPY office. They were, again, Organization (WMO) in Geneva. At that last promptly evaluated by JC members, and put into meeting, the JC members reviewed the many facets the ‘honey-comb’ chart of the proposed IPY of the ongoing IPY preparations and set the new activities. Over 40 applications have scored very goals for the year 2006 (see below). The list goes highly and received a letter of endorsement from on and on. the JC. In this second round, the share of applications in social and human studies (including During the second half of the year 2005, the IPY some related efforts in education and outreach) themes have been featured at over 20 international was almost 1/3 (30 out of 92), that is, twice higher meetings. Those were being held across the world, than among the original EoI’s earlier this year. The in places as different as Sofia, Bulgaria (Scientific second round featured several new proposals on Committee on Antarctic Research, SCAR), the documentation of indigenous knowledge; Khanty-Mansiisk, Russia (Arctic Council Meeting, human health; northern community resilience and with a special symposium on Arctic Human Health viability; and on social change (see the list of Initiative), Seoul (International Geoscience and applications on the main IPY website at Remote Sensing Symposium on Remote Sensing www.ipy.org). It became obvious that the polar of Ice Sheets and Glaciers, IGARSS), Beijing social/human science community is very (Annual Meeting of the International Association enthusiastic about joining IPY 2007–2008 and that of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences), it is eager to invest its energy and resources to Venice (Third International Conference on develop a full-fledge social and human field for the Oceanography of the Ross Sea), Bremerhaven (2nd IPY effort. So, our earlier struggle to build a International Alfred Wegener Symposium), and special social/human ‘theme’ within the IPY 2007– Dunedin, New Zealand (International Symposium 2008 program proved to be worth undertaking. on Sea Ice). Following the IPY official Many other IPY-related activities during the endorsement by the Arctic Council at its latest second part of the year 2005 helped keep the meeting in Khanty-Mansiisk in October 2005, IPY momentum going. The IPY 2007–2008 has been was also featured at the Arctic Indigenous Leaders officially approved by the ICSU (International Summit at its subsequent meeting in Hay River, Council for Science) 28th General Assembly held NWT, Canada in December 2005. The summit in Suzhou, China in October. This is the highest featured a special panel on IPY 2007–2008 and an- level of endorsement and of public support that a hour long review of IPY activities delivered by major scholarly venture can get from the David Carlson, as Arctic indigenous leaders sought international science community and its key to understand both the opportunities and the governing bodies. The IPY 2007–2008 has been prospective impacts of IPY. also endorsed by the European Polar Board (in November), the Arctic Council (in October), the During 2005, IPY 2007–2008 was also discussed Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, the at the innumerable symposia, special panels, and Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research, national and/or agency gatherings. Two of those UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic sessions held in Boulder, CO in July 2005 were of Commission’ General Assembly (in June). The particular interest to the social and human science IPY community also held its second large town- community. One was an international workshop hall meetings called ‘Consultative Forum’ on the called “Community-Based Monitoring and ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 8 Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006 Observations in the Arctic: Creating a Circumpolar activities related to IPY was on the committee’s Network and Developing an Arctic People's agenda, next to similar presentations by major Observation Center” hosted at the National Snow polar science and policy players, such as IASC, and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado in Arctic Council, European Polar Board, WCRP Boulder. It eventually materialized in the ELOKA (World Climate Research Programme of the World proposal, “Exchange for Local Observations and Meteorological Organization), SCAR (Scientific Knowledge of the Arctic,” that was endorsed at the Committee on Antarctic Research), and other. Igor second round of IPY applications three months briefed the JC on IASSA role in marshaling polar later. Another meeting called “Poles Together: social and human science community for various Coordinating IPY Outreach and Education" was IPY-related efforts. organized as a three-day workshop on the IPY education and outreach planning. It brought IASSA will continue to be fully involved in the together over 100 educators, polar researchers, preparation and monitoring of the IPY 2007–2008 media specialists, agency representatives, and activities, particularly in social/human studies and NGO people at the Boulder NOAA office (US education and outreach fields. In order to improve National Atmospheric and Oceanic communication and information exchange, IASSA Administration). Council decided, at its last meeting in Copenhagen in November 2005, to adapt the membership and By the year’s end, the IPY community mustered its the tasks of the IASSA-IPY task group established latest mighty gathering at the annual meeting of the by the General Assembly in 2004. The new group American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San is to be made of social and human scientists who Francisco. It brought hundreds of IPY enthusiasts are serving as standing members on their from many fields, both scientists and agency respective national IPY committees, and on the JC. people, though, hardly any from social and human At least, twelve national IPY committees now have sciences. The AGU and its counterpart sessions of social and/or human scientists among their the European Geophysical Union (EGU) are members (Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, developing into the main IPY meeting places. The Greenland, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, next EGU General Assembly will take place in Russia, Sweden, UK, USA). Some have several; Vienna in April 2006; it would be worth for social most of them are IASSA members. The group will and human scientists to attend those AGU/EGU continue to serve as the main advisory body on meetings and to give papers at its sessions in the IPY-related issues to the IASSA Council and to the future. Arctic social/human science community at large.

IASSA and IPY 2007-2008 Last but not least, IASSA received the Joint IASSA has been very instrumental in designing the Committee’s approval to list its next International social and human science agenda for the IPY Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS-6) in 2007–2008. Thanks to its many actions, a special Greenland as an official IPY event. So far, this has theme for social and human studies has been added been the first announcement of a ‘disciplinary’ to the IPY provisional science plan in 2004 (see science association to dedicate its major meeting to Northern Notes, Spring-Summer 2005). We have the IPY issues. As preparations for ICASS-6 start presented an update of those efforts as well as our later this year, more IASSA members will be perspectives on the role of social sciences and involved in tuning up and disseminating their IPY humanities in IPY in a paper published in the research plans. Eventually, we hope to see several journal Arctic in early 2005 (Krupnik et al. 2005). IPY-related panels launched at ICASS-6 in Nuuk, with major updates on IPY efforts to be given in During the year 2005, IASSA maintained its close individual presentations and plenary sessions (see association with IPY 2007–2008. In fact, as the short report on Council meeting, and ICASS vigorous role of the arctic social science in IPY preliminary announcement, this issue.) became quite visible, the IPY will remain among the priorities for IASSA action for the next several 2006: What Lies Ahead? years. IASSA representatives, including its As of this writing (December 2005), the next major President and several Council members, were seen threshold for IPY 2007–2008 is the third round of in full force at the two IPY ‘open forums’ held in ‘full proposal’ submission from scientists and 2005 in Paris and Copenhagen. At the last JC groups eager to participate in IPY research and meeting in November 2005, a report on IASSA public activities. It is due January 31, 2006. The ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006 9 IPO tentatively expects another 100 proposals to requests for logistical support from respective be processed and reviewed by the JC members in national and international agencies. In fact, the next few weeks. If those deadlines hold, we ‘implementation’ is most likely to become the key may have a full, though by no means final picture term in IPY activities during most of the year of what is in preparation for IPY 2007–2008 by 2006. early March 2006, or exactly a year prior to its At its last meeting in Geneva, the JC has endorsed official launch. By that time, the clock literally several specific actions aimed at raising public starts ticking. visibility and science profile for IPY 2007–2008. It As the new proposals are screened, approved, and approved the establishment of three sub- added to the overall ‘honeycomb’ chart of the committees: on Observations; Data and Data planned IPY activities, the next key task will be to Management; and on Education, Outreach, and develop more linkages among existing groups and Communication. On each of those sub-committees, initiatives. All forms of collaboration and proposal there is going to be some representation from ‘clustering’ among the prospective IPY teams are social scientists and/or organizations representing to be encouraged, in order to improve polar residents and indigenous people. The sub- coordination, facilitate funding, and to minimize committees are going to start drafting their specific stomping of the more popular field grounds. For plans of action in early 2006. As soon as the social/human scholars, the latter task is rather membership in the new Sub-Committee on crucial. As the IPY planning accelerates, we may Education, Outreach and Communication is start registering fatigue and disengagement in finalized, this group will be tasked to prepare a many polar communities that may feel being ‘countdown’ public event in March 2006, one year overwhelmed by the scope of our scientific prior to the formal launch of IPY. It is to become a enthusiasm. Several outreach and balancing acts test model for prospective opening activities for will be needed to arrest those feelings by the time IPY in 2007. Reports and periodic updates on IPY the first IPY research projects hit the road in preparation will be disseminated in various public March 2007, or even earlier. formats to highlight the IPY goals and prospective The next JC meeting is scheduled to take place in outcomes. Other issues on the agenda for IPY April 2006 at the IPY office in Cambridge, UK. It 2007–2008 outreach plan are to develop a press is to approve the overall science plan for IPY strategy; explore the possibility for IPY ‘coffee 2007–2008—which has to be finalized by that table’ book; design an IPY science publication time, including all of its major research ‘clusters.’ series; and to exploit the new cutting edge Gaps in research efforts and in geographic technologies, such as Bloggs and PodCasting to coverage, as well as major disproportions between reach out to younger audiences. Sounds like the the Arctic and Antarctic activities are to be IPY train has finally moved from its staging identified and presented to the polar science platform, cleared off its first stations, and started to community, in writing, on the web, and in public. gain steam. See you in our next ‘travel report.’ The JC will disseminate the emerging vision of Reference: IPY 2007–2008 science plan in several papers in Krupnik, Igor, Michael Bravo, Yvon Csonka, major scholarly journals and in public Grete Hovelsrud-Broda, Ludger Müller-Wille, presentations during the rest of the year 2006. We Birger Poppel, Peter Schweitzer, and Sverker certainly intend to do so for our section of the IPY Sörlin. 2005. Social Sciences and Humanities in social and human studies, as well as for the International Polar Year 2007–2008: An observation, education, and outreach. Hopefully, Integrating Mission. Arctic 58(1): 91–97. more ‘state of the IPY field’ addresses will follow, like the one we did earlier for the Arctic journal Igor Krupnik is a research anthropologist at the (Krupnik et al. 2005). Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. He is a member of the The other major set of actions will be focused on IPY Joint Committee, as well as member of the advancing the IPY implementation plan. This will IASSA Council. include rapid launch of the main sub-committees on observation; data management; education, Grete K. Hovelsrud, a social anthropologist, is communication, and outreach. The JC and IPY Research Director at the Centre for International office also have to come up with a common Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO) in language and general guidelines for the IPY Oslo (Norway). She is a member of the IPY Joint scientists, to facilitate their search for funding and Committee. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 10 Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARCTIC RESEARCH PLANNING II The Arctic System in a Changing World COPENHAGEN, DENMARK November 10-12, 2005

As stated on the conference website, “the goal of It became clear during the work of the Conference ICARP is to prepare Arctic research plans to guide that the Arctic is a system that can no longer be international cooperation over the next 10-15 divided into traditional disciplines. The linkages to years.” (www.icarp.dk). The following statement is other disciplines and other knowledge systems and reproduced here with permission (IASSA being to the global system is critical and must be among the sponsors of the conference). addressed in the post-conference process. During the breakout sessions and in the concluding CONFERENCE STATEMENT plenary session, it was repeatedly stated that education and outreach are critical components of The second International Conference on Arctic successfully tackling the issues of the next decade Research Planning (ICARP II) brought together as well as critical to creating the next generation of over 450 scientists, policy makers, research scientists. The integration of education and managers, Indigenous Peoples and others outreach is another element which must be interested in and concerned about the future of addressed in each working group report and in the Arctic research. Conference participants concluded post-conference process. that: Conference participants also raised continued Since the first Conference on Arctic Research concern about issues surrounding data and Planning held in 1995 in New Hampshire, management, interoperability and dissemination. It there has been a paradigm shift to a holistic is clear that in light of the International Polar Year and multidimensional perspective in the Arctic. and implementation of ICARP II plans over the This holistic perspective integrally includes the next decade that the research community must human dimension, Indigenous insights and a urgently address this issue. The need for enabling more full integration of Arctic processes in the infrastructure to provide the platforms for the next earth system. generation of users is a critical need highlighted in the reports and during the conference plenary The Conference is the culmination of a 24-month sessions. Providing for our future remote sensing planning process involving over 140 scientists needs, ice breakers, circum Arctic observing working to develop research plans around thirteen networks and the such is critical to meeting the critical research themes identified by the needs of scientists in the years to come. Conference sponsors based upon input from the The ICARP II process will continue with the science and Arctic community at large. Conference revision of working group reports guided by the participants were actively involved in modifying Conference discussions, the development of a full and improving these plans for future Conference proceedings and ultimately implementation. implementation of the science plans that will benefit those who live in and near the Arctic as The Arctic is a unique and important part of the well as the global community at large. Earth system, environmentally, socially, economically and politically. It surrounds a Source: ICARP II website northern polar sea strategically positioned between two continents and bridging eastern and western The “paradigm shift” mentioned in the statement societies. How the Arctic system works, how it is above, between the two editions of the Conference changing, and what will it be like in the future are ten years apart, was readily apparent to those who the important questions being asked by policy had participated in both. The editorial of the Spring makers, land use managers, and people who reside 1996 issue of the IASSA Newsletter reported on in the Arctic. The ICARP II Conference put voice that first ICARP, regretting the dominance of the to these questions and developed plans to address natural sciences, and the very sparse representation them. But several important issues arose during the of indigenous peoples and other Arctic residents. proceedings. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006 11 A number of IASSA members who were present at • Science in the public interest ICARP I had met there to discuss this situation which they found unsatisfactory, and had come up Together, these four themes represent a triumphant with a “strong recommendation to IASC to include expansion of the original project presented by Arctic indigenous peoples and indigenous IASSA at ICARP I. The seed planted ten years ago viewpoints in the IASC research priorities under is thus, after many tribulations, close to blooming the headline of ‘Rapid Cultural Changes in the into large, international research projects. All the Circumpolar North’.” Such a research plan was eleven research plans are currently being revised elaborated by a common IASC-IASSA working taking into account the conference discussions, and group (see earlier editions of the Newsletter), but it will be presented at the next Arctic Science did not materialize under the auspices of the Summit Week in Postsdam, Germany, in March International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), 2006 (see which had figured prominently as the main www.icarp.dk/Followup_timetable.PDF). organizer of ICARP I. As they should be implemented over the next ten ICARP II was organized and sponsored by a broad to fifteen years, linkages with other major and representative group of stakeholders, including programs such as IPY and ACIA must be dealt indigenous organizations and IASSA. Out of with by careful coordination (see eleven research themes discussed at the conference www.icarp.dk/Linkage_IPY_ACIA.PDF). The (full list see www.icarp.dk/WGreports/Start.html), draft of “A Synthesis of Critical Research Needs four deal specifically with human and social for the Decade Ahead” at issues: www.icarp.dk/Grand_Challenges.PDF presents a summary of the “Grand Research Challenges” • Sustainable development and Arctic identified at ICARP. economies • Indigenous peoples and change in the Arctic • Resilience, vulnerability and rapid change Comments by Yvon Csonka

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From October 10 to 15, 2005 the Khanty-Mansiysk under the auspices of the Russian AC Autonomous Okrug – Yugra hosted the second chairmanship. meeting of the Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG) and the second meeting of Senior Being an observer to the AC, IASSA were Arctic Officials (SAO) of the Arctic Council (AC) represented in both meetings.

SDWG meeting, Khanty-Mansiysk, October 10 and 11

The main agenda item was concerned with • Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic, progress reports from SDWG projects focussing on SLiCA (Denmark/Greenland) information about the progress of the projects, • Arctic Infrastructure: Aviation (USA) required decisions and anticipated deliverables to • S.M.A.R.T. (Ecological and Cultural the 5th Ministerial Meeting in the autumn of 2006. Tourism) (Finland) • Telemedicine (USA) The following SDWG-projects reported (info on • Children and Youth of the Arctic (Canada) lead country in bracket): • Product Development and Processing in Sustainable Reindeer Husbandry (“Ofelas”) • The International Circumpolar Surveillance (Finland) (ICS): Prevention and Control of Emerging • EcoNor: The economy of the north: Impacts Infectious Diseases in the Arctic (USA) and effects of climate change: A proposal ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 12 Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006 for an Arctic Council project 2005-2006 proposals can be sent to IASC and IASSA for a (Norway). scientific or quality content evaluation …. • Women and resource management in the The SDWG did not conclude on Guidelines for rural North (Norway). project proposals and a taskforce was established to develop the proposal The S.M.A.R.T. project (Sustainable Model for Follow-up activities to AHDR, Arctic Human Arctic Regional Tourism) made their final project Development Report: A Human Indicators report to the SDWG at this meeting, whereas the workshop during the ICARP II in Copenhagen, rest of the projects still are in progress and will be November was announced. reporting to the Ministerial in October 2006. Brief In Finland a town hall meeting was held in Inari summaries of the background of the projects and and further town hall meetings were planned to links to more detailed information can be found on take place in 2006. the SDWG web site: www.sdwg.org. I took the opportunity on behalf of IASSA to support the continuation of the AHDR process and A proposal from RAIPON/Russia on Sustainable confirmed that IASSA in 2006 would be Development of Russian North was recommen- sponsoring a town hall meeting, following up on ded by the SDWG and subsequently adopted by both AHDR and ACIA, in Nuuk, Greenland. the SAO meeting as an Arctic Council project. Follow-up activities to ACIA, Arctic Climate Below some items that might be of special interest Impact Assessment: At the SAO meeting in to the IASSA constituency are noted: Yakutsk in April 2005 an ACIA focal point (SAO- chair, working groups’ chairs and a representative Requirements and endorsements of SDWG from the Permanent Participants) was established projects: Sweden had prepared a revised proposal to coordinate and initiate follow-up activities to the for guidelines and a structured format to project ACIA report. As other AC working groups proposals that seek endorsement by the (AMAP, CAFF and PAME) had initiated activities SDWG/AC. The Swedish proposal distinguished related to climate change, SDWG agreed to between projects that may be Endorsed, Promoted establish an ad hoc task group led by Norway and or Mandated. Endorsed and mandated projects Finland to consider how SDWG can best would be labelled SDWG/AC projects, whereas contribute to the ACIA focal point process. The promoted projects would be sponsored by others tasks to be undertaken until the next SDWG but fulfil AC criteria. meeting were primarily defining the agenda of the To Arctic social scientists it is especially worth ad hoc group and investigating national and noting, that the proposed guidelines include the international projects concerning impacts of demand for considerations on how indigenous climate change in the Arctic. The ACIA Science peoples are involved. The proposal too asks for report, the ACIA Overview Report as well as other outlining of incorporation of locally applicable documents related to the ACIA process can be ethical research requirements as well as how found at: www.acia.uaf.edu. project results will be communicated to northern residents. Furthermore, it is proposed that

Report from the Senior Arctic Officials (SAO) Meeting, Khanty-Mansiysk, October 12-14

A major part of the Senior Arctic Officials’ (SAO) • AMAP, Arctic Monitoring and Assessment meetings usually deals with reports from the Arctic Plan focussed especially on the Oil and Gas Council working groups and ongoing activities. At Assessment Report that is being prepared for this meeting comprehensive reports were presented the Ministerial meeting in 2006. by WG’s. Just a few comments are referred to, but (www.amap.no) more extensive information can be found at • CAFF, Conservation of Arctic Fauna and Flora www.arctic-council.org or on the websites listed (www.caff.is) below: • EPPR, Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response (http://eppr.arctic- • ACAP, Arctic Council Action Plan to council.org/contact.html) Eliminate Pollution of the Arctic.

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006 13 • PAME, Protection of the arctic Marine • The Canadian delegation announced a CAD Environment. The focus of this presentation 150 mill. funding initiative. The Government was on Arctic shipping assessment and of Canada will provide $150 million in new • climate change (www.pame.is) funding (90 mill. for research and 60 mill. for • SDWG, Sustainable Development Working logistics, education and outreach) over six Group. A part of the discussion was related to years to carry out an innovative, AHDR follow up activities - among others the interdisciplinary program for International meeting on indicators in Copenhagen in Polar Year (IPY) along with our international November and the potential cooperation with partners. See The Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic, http://forum.polarcom.gc.ca/forum/ for further SLiCA. (See report from SDWG meeting for information. further information). (www.sdwg.org) • The US lead, Arctic Council IPY-initiative • ACIA Focal point update. As this is a Arctic Human Health Initiative, AHHI has coordinating body many follow up activities been endorsed by the IPY Joint Committee. take place in the different WG’s. Again, it is See www.iuch.org.ipy for further information worth noting the explicit demand for social science projects related to climate change. (See report from SDWG meeting for further University of the Arctic, UArctic information). A Special Edition of the University of the Arctic Newsletter, Shared Voices was prepared for the AC’s preparation for the IPY AC Meeting in Khanty-Mansiysk IPY Director for the International Programme (www.uarctic.org) and the UArctic agenda item Office, David Carlson presented a status of the IPY focused on the UArctic Evaluation decided by the process to the SAO’s. His full presentation can be Arctic (UArctic) Board of Governors (BoG) in found at the web site of the IPY Secretariat May 2005. The intention of the terms of reference http://www.ipy.org/international/presentations/. approved by the BoG is to guide a systematic With a point of departure in the general IPY status evaluation of the growth of the University of the the SAO’s presented national initiatives and Arctic over a ten-year period and to provide useful problems - of which some is mentioned below: input into UArctic planning for the future. The • An increase in charges to access Russian Arctic Council and the authorities responsible for waters was seen as an obstacle to research evaluation of higher education in the member vessels. The delegation of the Russian states were encouraged to engage in the evaluation Federation replied that the Foreign Department process. is working on lowering tariffs. An internal evaluation was planned to be started • Moving samples from flora and fauna out of right away, whereas an external evaluation is some regions had been problematic to some planned to be started late 2006. projects. The Russian and Canadian delegates explained about the national procedures and Miscellaneous the rules of operation that had to be followed • A feasibility study on the Icelandic lead Arctic by researchers working with flora and fauna Portal project was endorsed by the AC (a samples in these countries. workshop was held in Iceland in the beginning • The Swedish delegation presented a progress of December 2005). report on the Swedish lead Arctic council IPY- • Canada called for input to Arctic Day at the initiative, COMAAR (Coordination of United Nations’ CoP XI meeting in Montreal, Observation and Monitoring of the Arctic for November-December 2005. Assessment and Research). A proposal that AC • Possible Arctic Council event at the Permanent applied to join GEO (the Group on Earth UN Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York, Observations) as a “Participating May 2006 were discussed. Organization” was not decided at the meeting • In 2006 AC celebrates the 10th anniversary. but postponed to November 1. The permanent Contributions related to the IPY process and participants complained by not being involved hence ideas from the Arctic science in the project and urged the project leadership communities were among the ideas brought to include the PP’s in the continued work. forward.

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University of the Arctic Council meeting, May 2005

The eighth meeting of the Council of the streamlining the application- and approval University of the Arctic was held in Oulu, Finland, procedures. from May 19 – 21, 2005. The meeting was hosted by the University of Oulu and Oulu Polytechnic Health and well-being with the participation of more than 120 members The question of health and well-being had been representing more than 70 different institutions chosen by the organizers as a key issue during the connected to education activities in relation to the session, and it was stressed by one of the key-note Arctic. During the meeting eighteen new speakers, Mary Simon, that a key priority for institutions were approved as members, of which future activities should be mental health, especially 11 were from higher education institutions while 7 suicide prevention. She emphasized that it is were from other types of organisations. During the important to consider more than just physical dense program many issues of relevance for the health, and to adopt a holistic approach because Social Science community were discussed, and health informs every other part of life. She called three of them would call for special attention. for increased action on mental health issues, public awareness and student awareness in public and Teaching and learning private agendas. Another keynote-speaker, Oran In connection with the ongoing and future teaching Young, mentioned that The Arctic Human initiatives within the group of University of the Development Report (AHDR) includes a chapter Arctic members the importance of development of on human health where it is emphasized how quality control processes that are compliant with research has demonstrated that there have been the Bologna process was stressed. And – compliant positive improvements over the past 50 years, for with this process - that the providing students with example in the prevention of tuberculosis. He also information on studying opportunities across stressed that well-being has a different meaning in borders should be emphasized. Members of The the Arctic than in other regions, and one of the University of the Arctic already offer a wide most important elements would be a sense of number of programs as well as opportunities for control over one’s destiny. The two last keynote student mobility. A new program – GoNorth - was speakers on this theme, Gert Mulvad and Vilho approved by the Council. The GoNorth Program Myllylä, recommends the creation of a thematic will be seeking four major goals: network on Arctic Health and Well-being, a. To strengthen and promote Northern tentatively called TN HealthWell, called for the institutions in their role as the major creation of a formal working group to pursue the providers of knowledge about the North, idea, and emphasized that student involvement, b. To increase international awareness and broad collaboration and connections with knowledge of northern issues and regions international organizations/initiatives, should be a by educating and informing the next cornerstone for such a network. generation of decision-makers, a. Enhance understanding of the significance IPY of the circumpolar regions in the As a key theme for the scientific community these environment and economy of lower days are the possibilities in connection with the latitudes, and International Polar Year, the Council also confirms b. Use the University of the Arctic’s that University of the Arctic sees IPY as an principles and values, including the key important opportunity to promote northern higher role of indigenous peoples for the education. The University of the Arctic is ready to development of the north, as a guide assist in the area of education and outreach, and the during the implementation of the program. formation of a University of the Arctic Task Force Among the teaching activities the development of to develop core IPY projects to strengthen the role field courses have become an important issue, as of northern higher education institutions in the these courses both enables student exchange creation and dissemination of knowledge about the arrangements, and open up for Arctic experiences north. Several ideas were presented, such as the in connection with the study activities. In the incorporation of IPY research into curricula, a future a University of the Arctic-wide catalogue book-video project to communicate the research to will be established, including procedures for a broader audience, and increased involvement of ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006 15 indigenous PhD students through the creation of Next council meeting fellowships through expanding the indigenous The Council accepted the invitation of Bodø circumpolar networking opportunities in PhD University College to host the Spring 2006 Council networks, just as a travelling museum exhibit or meeting in Bodø, Norway from June 15 – 17, film festival could be planned in cooperation with 2006. the Polar Libraries Colloquy. The next steps would be to ascertain the precise role of the University of Rasmus Ole Rasmussen the Arctic’s role in relation to the IPY, to identify NORS – North Atlantic Regional Studies interested parties and funding, and to refine a Roskilde Universitet mechanism for UArctic members and communities to get involved. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Call for Submissions

Final call for IPY 2007-2008 submissions To familiarize yourself with proposals that have Please be aware that the third and final call for already been submitted, click on the "Link to the International Polar Year 2007-2008 (IPY 2007- EoI and Full Proposal Databases, EoI Clustering 2008) submissions of full proposals to the and Science Plans" on the main IPY website. International Programme Office (IPO) is now We hope that you will give your serious extended until January 31, 2006. consideration to this chance to become an active All proposals received by that date will be part of the International Polar Year 2007-2008 reviewed promptly by the members of the Joint program in social and human sciences. Committee (JC) for the IPY 2007-2008. The We wish you well, applicants will be notified of the results within a month or so, most certainly by March 5, 2006. Igor Krupnik JC Member, Social and Human Sciences The IPO emphasized at the IPY Discussion Forum Arctic Studies Center in Copenhagen in November that it is not too late Smithsonian Institution now--that proposals submitted by next January will Washington, DC, USA have the opportunity to receive IPY endorsement [email protected] 1-202-633-1901 and thus be eligible for their national funding sources as 'official' projects under the IPY 2007- Grete K. Hovelsrud 2008 program. IPY Joint Committee Member This also relates to the proposals that were Center for International Climate and submitted during earlier rounds in June and Environmental Research – Oslo CICERO September 2005 and that where not endorsed at PO Box 1129, Blindern, 0318 Oslo, Norway +47- that time. Investigators and teams that did not 95806046 receive such endorsements are encouraged to [email protected] revise their proposals, following IPO recommendations, and to resubmit them in January Yvon Csonka 2006. If accepted those proposals also become President, International Arctic Social Sciences part of the IPY 2007-2008 overall science Association (IASSA) program. Ilisimatusarfik, The University of Greenland To submit a proposal, go to the IPY website at: Box 279, DK-3900 Nuuk, Greenland http://www.ipy.org Please pay special attention to [email protected] +299 324 566 several specific requirements outlined in the IPY proposal template that go beyond the disciplinary Anne Sudkamp merits of your science outline, such as IASSA Council Member interdisciplinarity; partners from other nations University of Alaska Fairbanks and/or regions; plan for project and data PO Box 757730 management; plan for education and outreach Fairbanks, AK 99775-7730 USA activities; engaging younger scholars, students, and 1.907.474.6367; 1.907.474.6370 fax northern residents, and others. [email protected]

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For Students

IPY Youth Steering Committee this program I ask that you pass this along to The idea for an International YSC grew from a them. If you would like more information or group founded in Canada and endorsed by the would like to be involved in this program in any Canadian IPY Steering Committee. This group way please contact myself, Amber Church was formed because of concerns raised that ([email protected]) or my fellow co-chair, although IPY's mandate included inclusion of the Tyler Kuhn, ([email protected]). next generation of polar researchers, nothing was actually being done to bring this to fruition. The 4th Open Meeting of the Northern Myself, and my fellow YSC co-chair, Tyler Kuhn, Research Forum (NRF) 2006 brought these concerns forward to the Canadian th Steering Committee along with the plan of the The 4 NRF Open Meeting entitled The Borderless YSC to address them. This plan involved a North will take place on October 5-8, 2006 in the national committee of youth throughout all levels Bothnian Arc, in Oulu and Tornio (Finland) and of education (high school through PhD) Haparanda and Luleå (Sweden). The main theme representing all regions of the country with of this meeting is Tech-knowledgy in Economies interests in the polar regions. These regional and Cultures, with several integrated sub-themes. The event is being organized by the Northern representatives would be responsible th for outreach and education about IPY to youth in Research Forum (NRF) together with the 4 NRF their area. The YSC as a whole would tackle Host Planning Committee. larger national programs such as a webpage, About 20-25 young researchers will be selected (based on applications) to receive funding to attend mentoring programs, links to other youth and polar th organizations, and programs to aid youth in the 4 NRF Open Meeting and present a scientific running their own IPY programs. Ultimately at the paper during a relevant session, that is, in a Square close of the IPY this network of youth would Hour, Plenary or Project-Day session. For further continue as a legacy of IPY and ensure continued details see the full announcement in the interest and research in the polar regions. Conferences and Meetings section. The success of this program and the enthusiasm around it caused us to dream that such a program University of the Arctic 2006 could occur internationally as well, ensuring that Spring Semester, February 1-April 30th all of the world's youth would have equal Spring course offers opportunities to participate in IPY. With this goal The Undergraduate Studies Office for the in mind we approached the Joint Steering University of the Arctic wishes to invite Committee who enthusiastically approved the idea registrations from students at all UArctic member and encouraged us to submit a full proposal for the institutions to study northern topics in online September 30th deadline (which we plan to do). global classrooms with students from Russia, Our vision is that the International YSC will be Greenland, Denmark, Canada, Alaska, Norway, composed of youth representatives from around the Sweden, Finland and Iceland! world who will represent their countries on the International YSC as well as found their own BCS 100: Introduction to the Circumpolar national youth committees to ensure that youth World (Section 1) everywhere are aware of IPY. Some of the Instructor: Amanda Graham, Yukon College projects that are proposed to be tackled by the Offering Institution: Yukon College, Canada international group include an international youth conference on the poles during IPY, international BCS 100: Introduction to the Circumpolar field schools and other learning opportunities World (Section 2) focused on the polar regions and trying to bring Instructor: Kathleen Osgood Dana, IPY to youth who would not normally be involved Offering Institution: Center for Northern or interested in it (especially those in non-science Studies, Sterling College, USA streams or those who chose not to pursue university level education). BCS 312: Land and Environment of the If you know of anyone who might be interested in Circumpolar World II ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006 17 Instructor: Leanne Fishback University of the Arctic Undergraduate Studies, Offering Institution: University of Manitoba 209 Kirk Hall, 117 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, S7N 5C8 BCS 322: Peoples and Cultures of the Phone: +1 306 966 1665 Fax: +1 306 966 1220 Circumpolar World II Email: [email protected] Instructor: Lisbeth Glanfield, Bodø Regional University Courses are delivered online via WebCT. Each Offering Institution: Bodø Regional University, course is worth 6 ECTS, or 3 credit units at most Norway North American institutions. The language of instruction is English. Tuition and other fees are *BCS 331: Contemporary Issues I charged only by a student’s home institution, Instructor: Heather Myers where applicable. Credit will be recorded at the Offering Institution: University of Northern offering institution and may be transferred to a British Columbia student’s home institution after successful completion of the course. Students should BCS 332: Contemporary Issues in the consider if they need a letter of permission or other Circumpolar World II official approval for credit transfer with their site Instructor: Chris Southcott, coordinator before registering. Offering Institution Lakehead University To register please contact: *BCS 331 is offered January 3rd to April 5th. http://www.uarctic.org/bcs/registration.doc and Registrations for BCS 331 must be received by return it by email to [email protected] or January 16th by fax to + 1 250 960 6330. Participating students must have permission from their site coordinator. More information about these courses and the th Circumpolar Studies program at REGISTRATION DEADLINE JANUARY 25 , www.uarctic.org/bcs 2006

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February 24-26, 2006 Images of the North Conference construction, shifting and re-shaping through time The Reykjavik Academy in collaboration with the and space. Reykjavik Winter Festival organizes an The conference will be divided in two parts, with international conference on the images of the two closed seminars on the one hand and several North in Reykjavik, Iceland open workshops on the other. Two keynote speakers will be invited to the closed seminars (to This interdisciplinary conference seeks to examine be announced later). For each seminar participation and explore the various issues surrounding image is limited to 40 individuals. A fee of ISK 15.000 construction, identity making and representations will be charged for both seminars and ISK 8.000 of the North, as well as the interconnectedness for one. between those issues. The aim is to elucidate the Registration will take place on the conference’s multiple aspects of the idea of the North, both as a homepage or by sending an email to mythological space and a discursive system created [email protected]. Registration will close on and shaped by cultures outside the North as well as February 17, 2006. from within. No entrance fee will be charged for participation in The North, whether an imaginary place or the workshops and they are open to all. We geographical locus, constitutes a fascinating welcome proposals for papers to be presented in multiple mosaic shaped by myth, image, text and this part of the conference. Participation is sought experience. In contemporary discourse the from those engaged in the fields of the social complex and often contradictory images of the sciences, humanities, environmental studies and North co-exist at the same time, and as their tourism studies. We also welcome professionals representations they have been in constant working in the fields of advertising, tourism ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 18 Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006 promotion, culture management or other sectors LODGING relating to the subject. Organizers will provide updated links on the Submissions must have a focus on the images, website to Boulder motels and plan to arrange identities and/or representations of the North, block reservations at a local hotel. either in local, regional or global perspective. RESEARCH THEMES Topics can relate either to a specific geographical This workshop has grown out of a series of location or to a more abstract idea of the North. informal annual meetings sponsored by INSTAAR and other academic institutions worldwide. In March 16-18, 2006 keeping with this tradition, there are no formalized topics, and the workshop is organized around The 36th Annual International Arctic themes developed from the abstracts submitted for Workshop presentation. However, organizers can Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research accommodate specific themes and arrange small (INSTAAR), University of Colorado group meetings. Please identify any special Boulder, Colorado topics or needs by e-mailing Tad Pfeffer at For more information, please go to: [email protected]. http://instaar.colorado.edu/meetings/AW2006 SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS or contact: Student participation is a vital component of this [email protected] workshop. A limited number of graduate student presenters will receive free registration and Deadline for Registration and Abstracts: reimbursement for meals and hotel. Wednesday, 22 February 2006 The 36th Annual International Arctic Workshop ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS will be held 16-18 March 2006 at the Institute of Support for student participation is subsidized by Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF, grant University of Colorado at Boulder. The meeting is OPP-0425387). open to all interested in the Arctic, and will consist of a series of talks and poster sessions covering all May 25-26, 2006 aspects of high-latitude environments, past and present. Previous Arctic Workshops have included ARCUS 18th Annual Meeting and Arctic presentations on arctic and antarctic climate, Forum 2006 archeology, environmental geochemistry, National Association of Home Builders geomorphology, hydrology, glaciology, soils, Conference Center ecology, oceanography, Quaternary history, and 1201 15th Street, NW more. Washington, D.C. WHEN 25-26 May 2006 A reception and registration is scheduled for Wednesday evening March 15th from 5 pm - 8 For further information, please contact ARCUS at: p.m. The main program is scheduled for Thursday E-mail: [email protected] through Saturday, March 16th to 18th. Phone: 907-474-1600 ABSTRACTS Submission of abstracts through the website will The ARCUS 18th Annual Meeting and Arctic begin before Thursday, 15 December 2005. The Forum 2006 will be held in Washington, D.C. on deadline for submissions is Wednesday, 22 25-26 May 2006. All sessions will be held at the February 2006. Presentations can be either a poster National Association of Home Builders or a talk, but probably not both. Conference Center located in downtown REGISTRATION Washington, D.C. Registration through the website will begin before The focus of this year's Arctic Forum is Thursday, 15 December 2005. Professional "International Arctic Research registration will be $135 USD if paid by at a Turning Point: Innovations and Collaborations Wednesday, 22 February or $160 USD thereafter. for the Future." The Forum will be co-chaired by Students presenting a talk or poster can register for Craig Tweedie of the University of Texas at free. Other students can register for $60 USD until El Paso and Volker Rachold of the International Wednesday, 22 February or $160 USD thereafter. Arctic Science Committee (IASC).

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006 19 Arctic Forum 2006 will gather scientists, agency partnerships and what is needed to overcome these personnel, policy makers, and other stakeholders barriers? Arctic Forum 2006 will address these for a dynamic exchange of ideas and solutions on questions with a 1.5-day open forum featuring a innovations and collaborations for the future of combination of invited and contributed plenary and arctic research. See the detailed description of the poster presentations as well as moderated 2006 Arctic Forum theme below. panel discussions. Arctic Forum 2006 will gather scientists, agency personnel, policy makers and An agenda and further information on registration, other stakeholders for a dynamic exchange abstract submission, and hotel specifics will be of ideas and solutions on innovations and available on the ARCUS website soon: collaborations for the future of arctic research. http://www.arcus.org/annual_meetings/2006/index. html July 10-14, 2006 Information about registration and abstract Arctic Change and Coastal Communities submission also will be distributed via ArcticInfo. Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories For further information, please go to: Arctic Forum 2006 Abstract http://www.czc06.ca/e/home.html Arctic Change and Coastal Communities is the In response to the growing realization that the seventh conference in a biennial series, sponsored Arctic is a complex integrated system of natural, by the Canada Coastal Zone Association. This is physical, and social domains inextricably the first of the series to be located on the arctic connected to the larger global system, there has coast. been considerable movement toward new The intent of the Coastal Zone Canada 2006 collaborative modes and approaches of science. conference is to raise awareness about the unique Initiatives and programs such as the International challenges faced by residents of the arctic coastal Polar Year (IPY), the Arctic Climate Impact zone in the face of rapid changes occurring in Assessment (ACIA), and the Second International arctic marine ecosystems. While the focus is on Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP coastal and ocean issues in the north, contributions II) underscore the importance of these from coastal areas around the world are developments. Arctic science is at a turning point, encouraged, recognizing that many of the drivers the research community poised to develop of coastal change, and the adaptation of people to unprecedented partnerships and innovations them, are common to many parts of the world. transcending disciplinary, geographical, political, For further information, please go to: and mission-related boundaries. http://www.czc06.ca/e/home.html

The ability of arctic researchers to successfully forge and maintain novel innovations and October 5-8, 2006 th international partnerships will be critical to the The 4 Open Meeting of the Northern success of arctic science in the near future, Research Forum (NRF) 2006 especially in view of likely agency budget The 4th NRF Open Meeting entitled The Borderless constraints. The arctic community, however, is North will take place on October 5-8, 2006 in the only beginning to understand how to successfully Bothnian Arc, in Oulu and Tornio (Finland) and design research and education activities to meet Haparanda and Luleå (Sweden). The main theme these new directions. Issues such as stakeholder of this meeting is Tech-knowledgy in Economies involvement, multi- and interdisciplinary research, and Cultures, with several integrated sub-themes. trainingof the next generation of scientists, The event is being organized by the Northern technological innovations, and data management Research Forum (NRF) together with the 4th NRF are all issues in which innovation and collaboration Host Planning Committee. are all critical, yet still remain a challenge in most The NRF promotes internationally wide, intensive contexts. and interdisciplinary discussions among members of the research community and a wide range of What new methods, approaches, or innovations publics and stakeholders such as politicians, will prove successful and sustainable to advance business leaders, educators, civil servants, our understanding of the Arctic? What are the community leaders, NGO representatives, and barriers to success in formal and informal resource users and managers.

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 20 Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006 In various 4th NRF Open Meeting sessions this participation of children, teachers, parents and dialogue will address a disparate set of topics as others. well as numerous critical issues, problems, and About 20-25 young researchers will be selected opportunities facing people living in the regions of (based on applications) to receive funding to attend the North; however, discussions will particularly the 4th NRF Open Meeting and present a scientific focus on the experiences within, and comparisons paper during a relevant session, that is, in a Square with, the Baltic Sea Region and the North Calotte, Hour, Plenary or Project-Day session. In addition while embracing the theme of Tech-knowledgy in of delivering an oral presentation and participating Economies and Cultures. The discussions are in discussions, each young researcher will serve as expected to particularly highlight the matters of the a rapporteur for one of the sessions, and then role of research and the social relevance of science present a brief oral report reflecting her/his in addressing the issues of economics, knowledge substantive and personal impressions on this and technology, borders, (sustainable/regional) particular session during a Summary Session at the development, international relations and politics, end of the meeting. In January 2006, the NRF will environmental politics, culture and community send out an announcement requesting that young viability, integration and security, and regionalism researcher applicants send to the NRF Secretariat a and globalization in Northern regions. The NRF is brief statement of interest that describes how currently soliciting Position Papers as background her/his research and professional and personal documents covering the various sub-themes, topics experiences relate to the main theme and particular and sessions of the 4th NRF that will be published sub-themes and/or to a topic which will be the in advance of the meeting. focus of a particular Project-Day Session or Presentations and discussions covering the main Special Session. In addition, the applicants will be theme and sub-themes will be conducted during asked to send a one-page resume as well as an three Plenary Sessions as well as four Square abstract for a scientific presentation. Hours, i.e. session reserved for scientific For further information on the 4th NRF Open presentations by young researchers. Several local meeting - including detailed listing of sub-themes, and regional case studies will be introduced in the case studies and Project-Day sessions already Plenary Sessions and Square Hours – for example, proposed, and the identities of the 4th NRF Host – Oulu phenomenon: techno-growth and tech- please consult www.nrf.is. The final list of sub- knowledgy; Kiruna: raw materials and technology; themes and Project-Day topics has yet to be The borderless twin-town of Tornio-Haparanda: determined; discussion on relevant and interesting from utopia into reality; and The Tornionjoki River potential sub-themes and topics will continue for valley and “Vittulanjänkä”: interactive cultures in some time. Please contribute by sending your ideas a borderless space - a unique culture. and proposals to the NRF secretariat In addition to the above the 4th NRF Open ([email protected]), or any member of the NRF Steering Meeting will include so-called Project-Day Committee. Sessions, several of which are to be conducted simultaneously at different locations, and each of Jón Haukur Ingimundarson, Ph.D. which addresses or focuses on a specific topic, Senior Scientist, Stefansson Arctic Institute ongoing project, or new initiative. These sessions Borgir, Nordurslod will be structured by way of a workshop or in the format of formal introductions/presentations October 26-28, 2006 followed by general discussion. Finally, the 4th NRF program includes the following types of 15th International Inuit Studies sessions that are referred to as Special Sessions and Conference will be open not only to registered conference participants but also the general public: 1) Orality in the XXIst Century Northern Traveling Film Festival, late-afternoon Inuit discourse and practices and evening showings of films from around the Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France Circumpolar North, 2) Town Hall Meeting 222, rue de l'Université 75343 Paris cedex 07 focusing on the findings, issues, problems, Organizing Committee : opportunities and initiatives raised by the Arctic Michèle THERRIEN, National Institute for Human Development Report and the Arctic Oriental Languages and Climate Impact Assessment reports, and 3) School- Civilizations (INALCO) Nicole TERSIS, National day session in Tornio and Haparanda including the Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006 21 Béatrice COLLIGNON, University Paris 1 New spaces and discursive practices (Panthéon-Sorbonne) Linguistic change. Shifting structures Semantics and cognition Keywords: Today status of orality in its geographic diversity Multi-voices papers are encouraged. Reactivating orality. Passing down knowledge First Call for Papers and Sessions Verbal arts, cultural heritage Deadline: February 15th 2006 Methodological problems in analyzing orality Contact: Secretary of the conference Relations between oral and written practices [email protected] History and social memory Landscapes and oral tradition

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Arctic Climate Impact Assessment - authors were selected from open nominations Scientific Report provided by AMAP, CAFF, IASC, the Indigenous Peoples Secretariat, the Assessment Steering Cambridge University Press, New York, Committee, and several national and international November 2005 scientific organizations. A similar nomination www.cambridge.org process was used by ACIA to select international Information on this title: experts who independently reviewed this report. www.cambridge.org/9780521865098 The report has been thoroughly researched, is fully Hardback, USD $200 referenced, and provides the first comprehensive ISBN-10: 0521865093 | ISBN-13: 9780521865098 evaluation of arctic climate change, changes in Full scientific report can be downloaded for free at ultraviolet radiation, and their impacts for the www.acia.uaf.edu region and for the world. Written certification has been obtained from the ACIA leadership and all Earth’s climate is changing, with the global lead authors to the effect that the final scientific temperature now rising at a rate unprecedented in report fully reflects their expert views. the experience of modern human society. These The scientific results reported herein provided the climate changes, including increases in ultraviolet scientific foundations for the ACIA synthesis radiation, are being experienced particularly report, entitled “Impacts of a Warming Arctic”, intensely in the Arctic. Because the Arctic plays a released in November 2004.This English language special role in global climate, these changes in the report is the only official document containing the Arctic will also affect the rest of the world. It is comprehensive scientific assessment of the ACIA. thus essential that decision makers have the latest Recognizing the central importance of the Arctic and best information available regarding ongoing and this information to society as it contemplates changes in the Arctic and their global implications. responses to the growing global challenge of The Arctic Council called for this assessment and climate change, the cooperating organizations are charged two of its working groups, the Arctic pleased to forward this report to the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) Council, the international science community, and and the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna others around the world. (CAFF), along with the International Arctic Financial support for the ACIA Secretariat was Science Committee (IASC), with its provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation implementation. An Assessment Steering and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Committee was charged with the responsibility for Administration. Support for ACIA-related scientific oversight and coordination of all work workshops, participation of scientists and experts, related to the preparation of the assessment reports. and the production of this report was provided by This assessment was prepared over the past five the governments of the eight Arctic nations, years by an international team of over 300 several other governments, and the Secretariats of scientists, other experts, and knowledgeable AMAP, CAFF, and IASC. members of the indigenous communities. The lead International, Inuit Circumpolar Conference, Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 22 Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006 North, and Saami Council), and official observers Dansksprogede grønlænderes plads i et (including France, Germany, the Netherlands, Grønland under grønlandisering og Poland, United Kingdom, non-governmental organizations, and scientific and other international modernisering" (Danish Speaking bodies). Greenlanders' Position in Greenland in an Era of Greenlandization and Community at Play - Social and Religious Modernization) Dynamics in the Modern Inuit Gad, Ulrik Pram Community of Qikiqtarjuaq ISBN 87-87874-23-7 Stuckenberger, A.Nicole Price: $34 USD (plus postage) Rozenberg Publishers To order this book, please contact: Price: 26.50 Euros Adda Schack ISBN: 90 5170 957 9 Department of Eskimology and Arctic Studies For further information and to order the book, Strandgade 100H please go to: DK-1401 Copenhagen K http://www.rozenbergps.com Greenlandic language is central to Greenlandic This study shows, by examining ways of social and identity. But how are Greenlanders who do not religious life in a modern Inuit community and the speak Greenlandic dealt with? Ulrik Pram Gad annual "Ten Days of Christmas" festival, that after analyzes the Greenlandic debate on language and more than 100 years of being Christians and about offers, inspired by post-structuralism, a conceptual 50 years after moving from nomadic hunting apparatus for systematically grasping identity camps to modern settlements, Inuit still perceive negotiations as politics. This publication is written themselves as a hunting society and formulate their in Danish. self-perceptions in cosmological terms emphasizing relations to God, land, and animals. Geografisk Orientering To Inuit the community does not represent a Tidsskrift for Geografforbundet corporate unit encompassing and transcending the Tema: Grønlands Kulturgeografi participants, it represents potential for cooperation. (Geographical Information

About the Author Journal of The Geographer´s Union Anja Nicole Stuckenberger received her M.A. in Theme: The Ethnography of Greenland) Cultural Anthropology at the Westfaelische No 6, volume 35 Wilhelms University (Muenster, Germany) in November 2005 1997. In 1999, she studied Inuktitut at the Institut ISSN 0105-4848 National de la Langues Orientales (Paris, France). This publication is in Danish. From 1999 until 2004 she conducted Ph.D. To order an issue/subscribe, please contact: research at Utrecht University on Inuit perceptions Geografforlaget of modern communities. As part of her project, she Rugårdsvej 55, 5000 Odense C carried out 14 months of fieldwork in Qikiqtarjuaq, Denmark Nunavut (Canada). She earned her Ph.D. degree Phone +45 63 44 16 83 Fax +45 63 44 16 97 in 2005 with the study "Community at Play - [email protected] Social and Religious Dynamics in the Modern www.geografforbundet.dk Community of Qikiqtarjuaq." From 2004 until 2005 she taught at Utrecht University. Currently, This issue of GO focuses on the societal she holds a Postdoc position at the Institute of perspectives of Greenland. This way it follows up Arctic Studies (IAS) that is part of the on GO no. 4, 2005 which described the John Sloan Dickey Center for International environment of Greenland. Understanding at Dartmouth College (Hanover, The Greenlandic society is undergoing great NH, USA). She is working on a project of arctic change these years where, for example, the wish peoples' perceptions and ways of dealing with for independent self-government replacing the effects of climate change. present home rule system is being weighed against the economic realities. In these considerations, education is a central issue securing a qualified

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006 23 work force for the new sectors in growth. The Eighteenth Century Greenland in the Global Web articles in this thematic issue provides a description of the state of a number of sectors in The modern history of Greenland begins in 1721 society from demographics and education to a when the Danish-Norwegian royal missionary description of the political situation and developing Hans Egede came to West Greenland. At the industries. beginning he had his base at a small island close to the Davis Strait. After seven years, however, he Indigenous Ecological Practices and Cultural moved some miles inward to the place of present Traditions in Yakutia: History, Ethnography Nuuk, the official birthday of the town being 28th August 1728. A few years later Hans Egede and Politics received some help in his efforts to christen the Edited by Hiroki Takakura Greenlanders by Moravian missionaries coming up Series: Northeast Asian Study Series 6 from Herrnhut in South Eastern Germany, not far Sendai, Japan: Center for Northeast Asian Studies, from Dresden. The Moravian missionaries installed Tohoku University, 2003, iii+150 pp., no price, themselves in the first valley east of old Nuuk, and ISBN 4-901449-12-5. after some difficult years they succeeded in Orders: Send the postage by international reply building up a considerable congregation. In 1747 a coupon, 500 Japanese Yen, to the Library, Center new missionary station was built and proudly for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University, called Neu Herrnhut(New Herrnhut)after the home 41, Kawauchi, Aobaku,Sendai, 980-8576, Japan. town of the Moravian Bretherns. New Herrnhut is the big red house with a small tower, situated This book is the results of a cooperative between the water and the cemetery covered with Japanese-Sakha (Yakut) anthropological research. white crosses, which today serves as the main It explores the historiography of Sakha national building of Ilisimatusarfik, the University of intellectuals, the current socioeconomic condition Greenland. The Moravians are no more in of the indigenous peoples in Yakutia, and the Greenland; they have been gone since 1900. related environmental issues: N. Diakonova & E. In a small, abundantly illustrated book (available Romanova "The role of the Yakut intelligentsia in in Greenlandic and in Danish) Kathrine Kjærgaard the national movement"; H. Katsuki "The and Thorkild Kjærgaard, both members of the foundation of Soyuz Yakutov and the political teaching staff of the University of Greenland, tell exiles"; A. Borisov "The first Yakut law of land the story of the beautiful house, which, sometimes relations"; N.Vasileva "Spiritual culture of the in competition, sometimes in cooperation with the Sakha people"; S.Boyakova "Traditional dominant Danish mission, became an important ecological culture in Yakutia: transformations in cultural and religious centre in Greenland. Here, in the 21century"; V. Ignatieva "Current ecological New Herrnhut, the Greenlanders became situation in the Sakha Republic: aspects of nuclear acquainted with European music and music pollution"; T. Ikeda "Present situation of furbearer instruments. Here they met European art, and here, hunting in Northern Yakutia"; S. Sasaki "Changing in a modest printing office on the first floor, the in hunting systems and strategies in Post-Soviet first book printed in Greenland (a Greenlandic Yakutia"; H.Takakura "Horse husbandry and hymn-book) was produced in 1792. The absentee livestock ownership in the Sakha". Greenlanders who chose to join the Moravian congregation were integrated in a worldwide Ny Herrnhut i Nuuk 1733-2003: community. The book gives surprising examples of missionsstation, rævefarm, embedsbolig, a vast triangular web uniting Greenland, America museum, universitet. and Germany long before the end of the 18th Century. (New Herrnhut in Nuuk 1733-2003: Mission Since 1900, when the Moravians were asked by Station, Fox Farm, Official Residence, the Danish authorities to leave Greenland, the Museum, University) building has served as a guesthouse, as a centre of Kjærgaard, Kathrine and Thorkild a polar-fox-farm, as home for Danish top civil 2nd edition. Nuuk 2005. Atuagkat Publishing. servants, and as home of the first Museum of Price: 128 DKK Greenland until it finally, in 1987, was inaugurated ISBN 87-90197-04-6 (Greenlandic version) as main building of the young University of ISBN 87-90133-47-1 (Danish version) Greenland. Carefully restored, the red house with The book can be ordered via www.atuagkat.gl the black roof stands today as a surprising ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 24 Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006 monument of 18th Century European architecture [email protected] in Greenland, a witness of the cosmopolitan spirit www.atuagkat.gl of the Moravians. The Ecogreen research programme on the West Practical Dictionary of Siberia and the Greenland marine ecosystem is focused on long- term sustainable management of the natural North Akbalian,E., Golubchikova,V. and resources on which Greenland depends. But the Khvtisiashvili, Z management of resource use is very much a European Publications question of interactions of people – fishermen and ISBN 5-98797-002-4 hunters, managers, scientists – and the need for 1104 Pages, Hardcover research on the human aspects of using and Price: 100 EURO interacting with the resources is just as great as that Translated from the original in Russian for the study of the underlying ecological systems. For further information or to order the book, please Therefore, the initial workshop on the biological go to: sciences was followed up by the one reported here, http://www.ruslania.com/language-1/context- held from 18 to 20 November 2003. The social 161/entity-1/details-5472.html scientists and economists assembled from around the entire North Atlantic to share their thoughts "Practical Dictionary of Siberia and the North" gave presentations that afforded many insights into embraces the history, nature, geography, and different socio-economic aspects of resource use. economy of northern areas worldwide (Siberia, User’s views of natural resources and of their Scandinavia, Canada, Alaska, the North Pole, dependence on them, as well as their reactions to Northern Russia). The dictionary contains 500 management actions, are illustrated, for example, black and white illustrations and three color by articles on beluga hunting and management in inserts with northern maps, flora and fauna, and Greenland and an analysis of fishery management clothing of northern peoples. The publication is interactions with small communities. The place of offered in two languages, English and Russian, natural resource use in Arctic societies is with an attached CD containing 2,000 more described, and analyses of different strategies of illustrations,photos, and maps, as well as sound community development presented, as are tracks with samples of northern ethnic music. managers´ views of their responsibilities. Economists have provided analyses of ways in which economic incentives can be made to work to Socio-Economic Research on Management help safeguard resources and of how the Systems of Living Resources exploitation of natural resources by user groups Strategies, Recommendations and Examples can be brought to benefit society as a whole. Proceedings of the Workshop on “Social and The persistent tendency of socio-economic economic research related to the management of research to remain sundered from biological marine resources in West Greenland” organised by research so that these domains continue to go their and held at the Greenland Institute of Natural separate ways also receives extensive treatment, Resources, Nuuk (Greenland) 18-20 November with suggestions on how these two solitudes can be 2003 better integrated. We foresee that this first attempt to lay Edited by Ludger Müller-Wille, Michael C.S. groundwork for the development of integrated Kingsley and Søren Stach Nielsen programmes of socio-economic research related to Inussuk, Arctic research Journal 1, 2005 the management of natural resources, and to Ministry of Culture, Education, Research and suggest ways to integrate it with biological Church, Nuuk 2005 research, will be the forerunner of further 160 pp., 198 DKK developments in this important area. ISBN 87-90948-10-6 ISSN 1397-7431 Michael C.S. Kingsley Publications in the Inussuk series can be ordered Pinngortitaleriffik, Greenland Institute of Natural from: Resources Atuagkat PO Box 1009 Song-Elfs. A History of a Settlement at DK-3900 Nuuk, Greenland the World´s End. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006 25 Martova, Olga information and research concerning Chukotka and 2005, Skt.Petersburg:Boreas its population. All articles but one (M.Fortescue: This publication is in Russian How far West can Eskimo language be traced?) are The book can be ordered from the Barents Centre published in Danish and the authors are affiliated for Social Research in with the University of Copenhagen, University of Murmansk at the price of EURO 39 plus shipping Aarhus, and Danish National Museum. and handling. Please send your order to: Yeenoo Dai' K'e'tr'ijilkai' Ganagwaandaii: Tel./fax: +7 8152 455981 Long Ago Sewing We Fax/tel.: +7 8152 450514 E-mail: [email protected] Address: Will Remember - The Story of the Gwich'in P.O. Box 707, 183038, Murmansk, Russia Traditional Caribou Skin Web: www.andreev.net.ru/olga Clothing Project. Thompson, Judy and Kritsch, Ingrid Olga Martova's (Andreeva) new book in Russian Mercury Series, Ethnology Paper 143, "Song-Elfs. History of a settlement at the world's Canadian Museum of Civilization. 61pp. end" was published by the St. Petersburg Ingrid Kritsch publishing house "Boreas". Research Director The novel is in fantasy style and deals with the Gwich'in Social and Cultural Institute mythology of the indigenous peoples of the North. Research Office As is said in the preface, "in this narration taking Suite 202B, 4912-49 Street place in no man's land between history, poetry and Yellowknife, NT X1A 1P3 pure fiction the reader will find fairy tales of Kola (867)669-9743 ph peninsula Laplanders, legends and tales of (867)669-7733 fx Norway, Sweden, and Finland". e-mail: [email protected] There are 49 chapters in the book, approximately web site: www.gwichin.ca as many as there are days in the Polar Night. The author advises the countrymen-northerners to read Elegant, distinctively styled garments of white one chapter each day, claiming that "this is the best caribou hide once were a striking feature of way for struggling against darkness and emotional Gwich'in culture. Clothing styles changed famine". following contact with Europeans, however, and The novel "Song-Elfs" will teach you many new by the late nineteenth century few Gwich'in and interesting things about the past of our land. seamstresses made "old style" outfits. Within a It will be distributed through local libraries and few generations, knowledge of this aspect of the bookshops. In January, 2006 the author will make culture was lost to the Gwich'in. a presentation of the book. In February 2000, the Gwich'in Social and Michail Ignatov, Chairman of the Murmansk Cultural Institute, Prince of Wales Northern regional organization Heritage Centre and Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) initiated a project to Tjukotka i fortid og nutid (Chukotka past "repatriate" the knowledge and skills involved in and present) making a traditional summer clothing outfit Edited by Bent Nielsen through replication of a nineteenth century ISBN 87-87874-21-0 example from the CMC collection. More than forty Price: $29 USD (plus postage) seamstresses and many others in Gwich'in To order this book, please contact: communities, and in the two museums,participated. Adda Schack Their work culminated in early 2003 with the Department of Eskimology and Arctic Studies completion of five beautiful reproduction outfits. Strandgade 100H This book tells the story of this collaboration DK-1401 Copenhagen K between the Gwich'in of the Northwest Territories and the two museums. It is richly illustrated - with In this publication, seven Danish scholars give a historic and artefact photographs, garment pattern presentation of Chukotka Russia. Every article has drawings, and images of the people, places and a different focus (archaeology, history, linguistics, events central to the project. This will be a philology, socio-linguistics, and anthropology) resource to all who are interested in Gwich'in and the reader is offered a wide range of cultural heritage. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 26 Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006

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traditional settler assumptions of expert status and The nativeness of settlers: Constructions transient cosmopolitanism, it encouraged settlers to of belonging in Soviet and contemporary adopt overtly rooted and localist identities, Chukotka. appropriating a position traditionally occupied by Thompson, Niobe Chukotka’s indigenous population. Ph.D. Dissertation, Cambridge University, Scott This dissertation is the product of multi-sited Polar Research Institute, 2005. ethnographic research, conducted in Chukotka’s This dissertation is an ethnographic account of the capital Anadyr and a series of smaller settlements emergence of a permanent settler population in the over 12 months in 2002-2003. It is also based on northeast Russian region of Chukotka. It explores an additional two months of interviews conducted the development of a collective settler identity in 2003 with former residents of Chukotka now through the late-Soviet and post-Soviet eras, resettled throughout central Russia. Its theoretical culminating in senses of belonging clearly linked framework employs notions of collective identity to specific northern landscapes and communities. and group boundary marking, the meaning of Reflecting in its structure three distinct periods in community, and interpretations of belonging on a the settler experience, this dissertation begins with landscape. Revisionist social histories of Stalinist an account of northern migration and settler and late-Soviet society play an important role in lifestyles in the Soviet period, arguing that the contextualising the emergence of the northern northern settler constituted a distinct and superior settler as a distinct social class. In turn, social class in the Soviet hierarchy of privilege. ethnographies of late-Soviet social life assist in While transience and colonial agency were key examining social networks, patronage and survival elements of settler identity in this era, forms of in the post-Soviet “transition”. Theories of community life and discourses of distinction in development, as well as ethnographies of Chukotka’s settler population created the peripheral communities, are critical in framing conditions for rooted attachments even then. Abramovich’s modernisation, although a long view Moving to the post-Soviet era, this dissertation of centre-hinterland relations in Russia also figures contextualises socio-economic collapse within a here. crisis of governance, in which local administrative The aims of this dissertation are first, to somewhat elites employed their patronage powers as a repair the imbalance in post-Soviet northern strategy of departure from the north. Despite anthropology, which has thus far failed to examine extremely high out-migration, not all settlers the settler population in any depth; second, to offer shared the mentality of transience; strategies of a diachronic portrait of “settling”, as a process survival among those who remained in fact through which transient migrants develop rooted deepened settler loyalties to local communities. identities; and third, to suggest the potential for The final three chapters of this dissertation former migrants to make legitimate claims to examine the arrival of oligarch-governor Roman native entitlement through discourses and practices Abramovich in 2000, and the impact of his of rootedness. campaign of investment and modernisation on the settler population. Despite the governor’s material Northern wildlife, northern people: Native benevolence, many settlers met the programmes of hunters and wildlife conservation in the transformation with hostility. This was an outcome of social distance between imported “experts” and Northwest Territories, 1894-1970. local people, and moreover reflected the manner in Sandlos, John K. which specific projects of modernisation Ph.D. Dissertation, York University, 2004. challenged the legitimacy of the settler in local domains. The social texture of modernisation This dissertation examines the conflict between consequently took the form of “two solitudes”, in native hunters and federal wildlife conservation which incomer and local networks employed programs within the present-day borders of the discourses and practices of separation to define the Northwest Territories and Nunavut from the late boundaries of their respective group identities. nineteenth century to the end of the 1960s. From Because the modernising challenge unseated the first conservation legislation specific to the northern Canada in 1894 to the broad range of ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2005/2006 27 responses to the so-called caribou crisis of the Briand, 92195 Meudon Cedex, France. Fax: post-war era, the introduction of wildlife (33) 1 45 07 58 60 conservation in the Northwest Territories brought a series of dramatic changes to the lives of Dene and This film was made during autumn 2000, in Inuit hunters in the region. The imposition of northeastern Yakutia, in a research program on restrictive game laws, the enclosing of traditional humans' adaptation to the Arctic environment and hunting grounds within national parks and game the consequences of environmental changes on sanctuaries, and the first tentative introduction of ethnic minorities. police and game wardens to the area were all part of a process whereby the nation-state had begun to Abstract: Along the border between Yakutia and assert authority over the traditional hunting Chukotka, not far from the mouth of the Kolyma cultures of the Dene and Inuit. river, a family group of about thirty individuals This work traces the historical development of the tries to find an original way to live autonomously. discord between aboriginal subsistence hunters and With the fall of the Soviet Union, Egor Nutendli federal wildlife managers over three species that and his wife Akulina Kemlil, Chukchi reindeer were all thought to be threatened with extinction at herders, claimed property on part of the cattle, various points in the study period: the wood bison, which had formerly been confiscated from their the muskoxen, and the caribou. It also questions parents, as well as the use of a territory. With their the common assumption that conservationists were relatives they have built a small family co- motivated solely by an enlightened preservationist operative devoted to reindeer breeding and fishing. philosophy of wildlife management. They were still entirely nomadic in 1993. Since Through a close study of the federal government's then they have built a permanent base in proposals to domesticate large ungulates on vast Krasnushka, where the elders are established. The wildlife ranches in Arctic tundra, this work argues film shows the members of this community in the that conservationists were also motivated by a three places where they live and operate: - in the desire to conserve wildlife for commercial tundra, where part of this group takes care of the purposes. In either case, the subsistence hunting prosperity of some 2,000 reindeers, thus cultures of Native people were marginalized and perpetuating a nomadic way of life. Obliged to excluded from state wildlife conservation keep up an endless transhumance, these herders programs, a process that the Dene and Inuit have preserved most of the traditional techniques resisted through various forms of protest of herding. One concession to modernity is their throughout the study period. radio link with the other members of the group; - in The dissertation invokes themes from the Chalaurovo, where two members of the family literature of environmental history, northern devote themselves to river fishing. By selling their Canadian history, and the history of science in an catch in the towns of Yakutia, they contribute effort to reveal the intersection between the substantially to the income of the family co- discourse of wildlife conservation and the operative; - in Krasnushka, where their permanent expansion of state power in the Northwest base is established. In the small hamlet they built, Territories. Egor and Akulina intend to spend their old age in a certain degree of comfort, and to accommodate Film their close relatives. There, they have also started the construction of a school, in order to pass down The Call of the Tundra. to their grandchildren a cultural heritage that is more and more threatened. A Chukchi family seeks a way between Keywords: Siberia - Arctic Yakutia , Kolyma nomadism and modernity Chuktchis, Family co-operative, Reindeer (Lower Kolyma, Siberia 2000) breeding, Nomadism , Social change. The film can be viewed completely with Real A film by Joëlle Robert-Lamblin, 22 min.(French Player on the site: and English versions). http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:SdojCil99i4 DV video film - Editing: M.F. Deligne CETSAH- J:www.rap.prd.fr/ressources/vodMenus.php+%22 CNRS, 2003. Appel+de+la+toundra%22&hl=f Distribution: CNRS Images, 1 place Aristide

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