Disputation in Cultural Anthropology: Crafting Futurities on Thawing Grounds. Climate Change, Terrafrontiering, and Indigenous Cosmopolitics in the Siberian Arctic

Date
23 January 2026, 09:15–12:00
Location
English Park, Geijer hall, Eng/6-1023
Type
Seminar
Lecturer
Anastasia Ulturgasheva
Organiser
Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
Contact person
Charlotta Widmark

This PhD thesis examines how Eveny reindeer-herding communities in northeastern Siberia negotiate the converging pressures of climate change, extractive expansion, and settler colonial governance. The analysis is based on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork (2021–2022) in two Eveny villages in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), supported by participant observation in kin networks, cohabitation with multigenerational households, and conversations.

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