Identity-of-place: A conceptual framework - Dina Brode-Roger, 2026 This article introduces the conceptual framework of identity-of-place, a perspective that reorients how we think about and with place. Rather than treating plac...

My article “Identity-of-place: A conceptual framework” has just been published! It brings together ideas about place, identity, materiality and de-centering the human. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #AcademicPublishing #Research #CulturalStudies #Identity #Place

Webinars Art/Place webinars Art/Place is a three-part webinar series exploring how artists and/or arts-based practitioners engage with Arctic places through diverse creative practices and perspectives. Host…

The recording from our first Art/Place webinar is available for those interested! criticalarcticstudies.com/webinars/ #art #place #arctic #svalbard #webinar #UArctic #CritcalArcticStudies #culturalstudies

not mine and not sure who to credit - but I really liked the image so sharing anyway...

Call for Chapters | Alexandra Middleton 🔍 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰’𝘀 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 – 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗦+ 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 We invite scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to contribute to the upcoming edited volume 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰’𝘀 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗚...

𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰’𝘀 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 – 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗦+ 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Beautiful image of Svalbard from space, taken by Svalbard acquaintance Jannicke Mikkelsen <3 #Svalbard #space #JannickeMikkelsen #visualsociology

Wait, look who brought a polar bear to space! 😅 🌏 💫 🚀 Love love love this! You are amazing, Jannicke Mikkelsen!! Congratulations on the successful launch! 👏👏👏

Follow social scientists at KU Leuven.
go.bsky.app/AKcqGke
(pack still incomplete, pls send suggestions)

Sun is still well below the horizon here in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (won't be back until mid Feb) but ice crystals in the sky reflected back from the red spectrum yesterday. Just beautiful!

This image, Kelly Latimore's 'Christ in the Rubble,' made me stop my scrolling and take the time to reflect. It is all too easy to shut out the craziness of what is going on around the world. But we shouldn't forget quite so quickly. Here's to hoping we can effect change, small and large, next year!

Posting this in case anyone I know is interested! (link here:
herogder.org?fbclid=IwY2x... ) #artist #residency #Norway

Two PhD positions in the project "Contested frontiers of settler states" (261443) | University of Bergen Job title: Two PhD positions in the project "Contested frontiers of settler states" (261443), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Monday, August 5, 2024

There are two fully-funded four-year PhD positions available in the project "Contested Frontiers of Settler States.”
Deadline for applications Aug 5, 2024
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

CfP - “Affect and Material Cultures of Weathering: Histories, Temporalities, and Spaces”. 10-11 December 2024 at Greenhouse Centre for Environmental Humanities (UiS), Stavanger, Norway. Please circulate and/or get in touch if this is of interest! @greenhouseuis.bsky.social @unistavanger.bsky.social

Arctic Emergency Management Conference One of the first international conferences dedicated to a holistic view of Arctic emergency management.

For all interested in Disaster Risk Response, this looks like it will be a great conference!
#disasterrisk #DRR #response #SAR #prepardness #Arctic
arctic-council.org/about/norway...

Orion Magazine - From War Machine to Supermarket Staple: A History of the Plastic Bag The history of the plastic carrier bag—the kind so often found caught on a tree branch and flagging in the wind—is a story of persuasion.  For over a

an interesting post about the plastic bag orionmagazine.org/article/plas... #plasticbag #waste #bags #plastic #culturalstudies #things #matter #materiality #random

World in a Box: Cardboard Media and the Geographic Imagination Cardboard’s ubiquity rests on simple claims: I can hold that, and I can go there. But cardboard boxes hold a world of meaning — a global anatomy of commerce, consumption, disposal, and reuse.

Cardboard boxes make possible a global apparatus of commerce, consumption and reuse, displaying (& delivering) the fruits of capitalism while embodying its waste, inequity & exploitation.

From @shannonmattern.bsky.social, on the social history of the cardboard box: placesjournal.org/article/soci...

Sun dogs and sun halos
#Arctic #Svalbard #culturalstudies #embodiedunderstanding #visualmethods #phone #photography

I found this absolutely fascinating. What is included, what isn't, how is it treated? such a brilliant portrayal of how our own perspective shapes what we see and show #culturalstudies #perspectives #art

Two photo essays, free-to-download, recently published:
 
1. "Land body ecologies: The London hub"
doi.org/10.47818/DRA...
 
2. "Islander Activism and Resistances: Any Role for Resiliences and Vulnerabilities?"
doi.org/10.24564/000... (scroll down for the PDF file).

Iceland xkcd.com/2874

So nice to receive our copies of 'Svalbard Imaginaries: the making of an Arctic Archipelago' #ArcticEncounters #Palgrave #Imaginaries #Polar #Socialscience #culturalstudies #research #publishing #polarscience #Svalbard #Longyearbyen #postdoc #KULeuven #SSSI

Looking for a 4-year #postdoc position? The new ERC-funded project "Contested Frontiers," examining struggles to (re)constitute federal territories and related "peripheral jurisdictions" is hiring! #postdocjobs #Arctic #phdlife
scholarshipdb.net/jobs-in-Norw...

#Avalanche barrier in #ísafjördur #Iceland, part of my #visualmethodologies research as a #GrímssonFellow looking at perceptions of #disaster #risk. It has been a true pleasure to work with local residents! #culturalstudies #qualitative #inquiry

Westfjords sheep chilling on the beach this weekend... #sheep #Iceland #culturalstudies #GrimssonFellow #weekend #random #roadtrip #Westfjords #DRR

Very happy to be in #ísafjördur #Iceland as a #GrímssonFellow to do research on perceptions of #disaster #risk. Here pic of #avalanche barriers I explored the other day. #culturalstudies #visualmethodologies #DRR

PhD #envhist position: Doctoral Position in Project Beyond the Nature/Culture Divide: Reimagining Human-Environment Relations in Museums, LMU Munich
www.en.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/do...

Congratulations!!