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Dear colleagues! You may consider submitting an abstract for one of the two sessions outlined below. 1) Gender and Labour in the Arctic 2) The Promise of Arctic Infrastructural Development: Connectivity, Mobility, Prosperity ICASS X in Arkhangelsk/Russia 15-20 June 2020 10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences https://icass.uni.edu/ Deadline 31st Dec. 2019 https://icass.uni.edu/abstract-submission Gender and Labour in the Arctic Affiliation: Austrian Polar Research Institute/ McMaster University | Country: Austria / Canada | Organizer(s): Gertrude Saxinger, Suzanne Mills Changes in the organization of work and gender relations are mutually constitutive. This starting point allows us to critically investigate wage work's power to reconfigure sociality in the realms of e.g. home, workplace or subsistence activities. Previous research about gender in the Arctic has often focused on the impacts of resource development on women. This panel seeks to foster a discussion about gender relations in the Arctic that examines how gender and waged work more broadly as well as how gendered waged work is connected to subsistence production, volunteerism, the public sector and other social relations of northern mixed economies. We invite papers that explore masculinity and femininity influence work within and outside of extractive industries in the Arctic; gendered labour-migration; gender relations in subsistence production; Indigenous feminism; and other questions related to gender and wage labour. The Promise of Arctic Infrastructural Development: Connectivity, Mobility, Prosperity Affiliation: University of Vienna | Country: Austria | Organizer(s): Peter Schweitzer, Olga Povoroznyuk, Gertrude Saxinger Large-scale infrastructure projects in the Arctic seem to have the power to enchant different publics such as industry representatives, local residents and indigenous people, transnational stakeholders, as well as policy makers at all scales. At the same time, such projects trigger fear and concern among some of these groups. The promises of modernity and development through mobility, connectivity, and prosperity, which are often at the heart of this enchantment, deserve critical examination in the context of rapid social transformation, climate change, and resource extraction. We invite papers addressing a wide range of questions about the connection between infrastructural development and these social and economic costs and benefits, as well as about the actual social transformations they set in motion. Starting from our ongoing Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project "Configurations of Remoteness (CoRe)", we encourage participants to present case-studies on these topics, in order to continue theoretical conversations on a pan-Arctic level. Best wishes Gerti ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Gertrude Saxinger APRI - Austrian Polar Research Institute 1010 Vienna, AT // [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> // +43 660 2118551 // https://www.polarresearch.at/faculty/research-group-saxinger/ Project CoRe Configurations of Remoteness: Entanglements of Humans and Transportation Infrastructure in the Baikal Amur Mainline (BAM) Region www.core.univie.ac<http://www.core.univie.ac/>. Cartographic Storytelling along the Baikal Amur Mainline (BAM Railroad): www.lifeofbam.com<http://www.lifeofbam.org/> Adjunct researcher at Yukon College, Canada ReSDA Project "LACE Labour Mobility and Community Participation in the Extractive Industries - Yukon" www.resda.ca/labour-mobility<http://www.resda.ca/labour-mobility> [Mobile_Workers_Guide_SM] [Cover_2016-jep HGS] [Dan Hunay Cover_first edition_signatur] [B?hlau Cover] [Arktis_ewr_24_cover_klein_NEU] ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/Anthropology-Matters * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * This message was sent to ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS and to the subscriber &*TO; To unsubscribe please click here: &*TICKET_URL(ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS,SIGNOFF); ***************************************************************