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  • - Measuring Progress in Circumpolar Cities
     
    1.559,95 kr.

    Advances our understanding of cities in the far north by applying elements of the international standard for urban sustainability (ISO 37120) to numerous Arctic cities.

  • - Resource Politics, Migration, and Climate Change
     
    395,95 kr.

    Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines the key challenges that city managers will face in navigating this shifting political, economic, social, and environmental terrain.

  • - Luck, Spirits and Ambivalence among the Siberian Orochen Reindeer Herders and Hunters
    af Donatas Brandisauskas
    396,95 kr.

    Nowhere have recent environmental and social changes been more pronounced than in post-Soviet Siberia. Donatas BrandiA auskas probes the strategies that Orochen reindeer herders of southeastern Siberia have developed to navigate these changes. "e;Catching luck"e; is one such strategy that plays a central role in Orochen cosmology -- luck implies a vernacular theory of causality based on active interactions of humans, non-humans, material objects, and places. BrandiA auskas describes in rich details the skills, knowledge, ritual practices, storytelling, and movements that enable the Orochen to "e;catch luck"e; (or not, sometimes), to navigate times of change and upheaval.

  • - Indigenous Urbanization in the Nordic States and Russia
     
    1.422,95 kr.

    Presenting the political and cultural processes that occur within the indigenous Sami people of North Europe as they undergo urbanization, this book examines how they have retained their sense of history and culture in this new setting. The book is written by a team of researchers, mostly Sami, from all the countries covered in the book.

  • - Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North
     
    1.264,95 kr.

    Examining the processes at work in sites of industrial extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, this book looks at the displacements that conceal exploitation, on the one hand, and appropriations of value on the other.

  • af Donatas Brandisauskas
    1.423,95 kr.

    Nowhere have recent environmental and social changes been more pronounced than in post-Soviet Siberia. Donatas Brandi¿auskas probes the strategies that Orochen reindeer herders of southeastern Siberia have developed to navigate these changes. "Catching luck" is one such strategy that plays a central role in Orochen cosmology -- luck implies a vernacular theory of causality based on active interactions of humans, non-humans, material objects, and places. Brandi¿auskas describes in rich details the skills, knowledge, ritual practices, storytelling, and movements that enable the Orochen to "catch luck" (or not, sometimes), to navigate times of change and upheaval.

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