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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: III

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:

40

Organizers:

Timothy Edmund Heleniak

Andrey N Petrov

Chairs:

Timothy Edmund Heleniak

Participants:

Presenter:

Aileen Aseron Espiritu, '"Resource Curse" in the Arctic: the meaning of oil and gas development for communities in NW Russia and Northern Norway.'

Presenter:

Andrey N Petrov, Convergence or Divergence? Comparing Economic Development Policies in the Russian and Canadian North

Presenter:

Alexander Alekseev, Climate change, the Northeast Passage and settlement of the Russian Arctic

Presenter:

Timothy Edmund Heleniak, Migration in the Most Remote Regions: Magadan and Chukotka

Presenter:

Tobias Holzlehner, Ghost Towns at the End of the World: The Topology of Loss, Ruination and Remembrance in Chukotka, Russia.

 

Sponsorships:

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

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