The lectures take place in Zoom on Thursday afternoons 2–3 pm, starting in mid-November.

What is Arctic World Politics?

The Arctic is deeply entangled with world politics and the large global challenges of our time. Climate change and global warming have a profound impact on Arctic geographies, societies, and ways of life. Growing external interest in the region’s natural resources and transport routes has moved the region into the epicenter of broad geopolitical concerns and global divisions and tensions. At the same time, knowledge and experiences of Arctic peoples, societies and communities, including Indigenous peoples, can profoundly challenge these dominant narratives and framings of the Arctic, and provide alternative, decolonial, and critical perspectives and agency to world politics and global change. Never has there been such demand for new, multidisciplinary knowledge on the Arctic region and its connections to the rest of the world.

Hence, it is crucial to examine whose experiences and what kind of knowledge are valued in political decisions and policymaking, and for what purposes that knowledge is used. The MA degree programme in Arctic World Politics addresses these issues from a critical, multidisciplinary perspective that centers local-to-global connections and Indigenous knowledge, combining Politics and International Relations, Indigenous Studies, Environmental Studies, Sociology, Anthropology and Gender Studies. In addition to power relations, conflicts and systems of governance involving states, we highlight the central role of multispecies relations and Indigenous knowledge and worldviews.

For more information on the MA degree programme in Arctic World Politics and how to apply, see www.ulapland.fi/awp. Application deadline is 22.1.2025.

Lecture schedule

Thursday 14.11. 2–3 pm
Laura Junka-Aikio: Arctic Militarisation in the Framework of Colonialism

Thursday 21.11. 2–3 pm
Julian Reid: Indigenous Geopolitics? Rethinking Conservation and Peace in the Arctic

Thursday 28.11. 2–3 pm
Roundtable (chair Florian Stammler): Arctic World with or without half of the Arctic? Our relations to the Russian Arctic at times of war. Speakers: Florian Stammler, Aytalina Ivanova, Karolina Sikora, and Lukas Allemann.

Thursday 5.12. 2–3 pm
Monica Tennberg: More-than-human world politics for the Arctic

Monday 16.12. 2–3pm
Rauna Kuokkanen
Note: The lecture takes place on Monday, not on Thursday as the other lectures

Zoom link to the online lectures (no pre-registration is needed): https://eoppimispalvelut.zoom.us/j/69322492089?pwd=WHdKS1JFa3dkQUNRempQclNEdjE2Zz09

Meeting ID: 693 2249 2089
Passcode: 338335

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