IPSG Session, 2009 AAG: The Changing Geographies of the Arctic and Northern Regions: I

Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group
Sponsored Session
2009 Annual Meeting
Association of American Geographers
Las Vegas, Nevada; March 22-27, 2009

Title:

The Changing Geographies of the Arctic and Northern Regions: I

Description:

The Arctic and Northern regions are currently undergoing rapid economic, political, environmental, and climatic change. Thereis a growing interest in the Arctic among both geographers andthe general public. This session invites papers examining any aspect of changes in the human, physical, cultural, or environmental geography of the Arctic or northern regions. The2009 AAG comes near the end of the International Polar Year and provides an opportunity to present results from fieldwork undertaken during that time.

Anticipated Attendance:

Organizers:

Timothy Edmund Heleniak

Andrey N Petrov

Chairs:

Timothy Edmund Heleniak

Participants:

Presenter:	Erin Carey, Climate Change and Rural Livelihoods in Interior Alaska: Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Adaptive Strategies With Natural Resource Management
Presenter:	Elizabeth S. Vidon, Nationalism, Identity and Space in the Eastern Canadian Arctic
Presenter:	Lisa Cooke, Canada's North: A landscape of (whose) desire?
Presenter:	Gail Russel, Unveiling sovereignty claims over The Northwest Passage: A political-economic reading of the Arctic Exception Policy in context of Inuit hunting communities
Presenter:	Michael Graham, Space, history, and law: Rethinking Canadian territorial claims in its Arctic archipelago

Sponsorships:

Russian, Central Eurasian, and East European Specialty Group, Canadian Studies Specialty Group, Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group

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