International Polar Year 2007-2008
Submissions to IASSA
To facilitate the submission of arctic social science and humanities proposals to the International Council for Science (ICSU) for prospective endorsement as IPY projects, IASSA has launched an initiative to create a vigorous exchange of ideas, discussion, and active communication.

The following have been submitted to IASSA on its form at IASSA IPY Facilitation Initiative:

David G. Anderson: New Religious Movements in the Arctic

David G. Anderson: The Political Ecology of Arctic Pastoralism

David G. Anderson: Translocating Wildlife and Imagined Landscapes: Conflicting Cultural Constructions of Arctic Landscapes

Claudio Aporta and Gita Laidler: Inuit Sea Ice Use and Occupancy Project (ISIP)

Tatiana Argounova-Low: Sakha Diaspora Identity: comparative study of two Sakha communities in Eastern Siberia

Arnar Arnason: Energy, environment and 'indigeneity' in the Arctic

Ray Barnhardt and Oscar Kawagley: Circumpolar Center for Learning and Indigenous Knowledge Systems

Michael Bravo and Sverker Sörlin: Polar Field Stations and IPY History: Culture, Heritage, Governance (1882-Present)

Terry Chapin: Polar Disturbance and Ecosystem Services: Links from Climate to Human Well-being

Susan A. Crate: Investigating the Economic and Environmental Resilience of Viliui Sakha Villages: Building Capacity, Assessing Sustainability, Gaining Knowledge

Christyann Darwent and Genevieve LeMoine: Inglefield Land Archaeology Project (ILAP): Culture Contact and Human Ecology at the Entrance to Greenland

Susan Grigg: Online Resources for the History of Polar Science

Joachim Otto Habeck and Yulian Konstantinov: The herd's calendar: annual profile of a reindeer herd on Kola Peninsula

J. Otto Habeck and Yulian Konstantinov: IFS-Kolm’yavr (Interdisciplinary Social-Science Field Stations in the Barents Region: Field Station 1 (NW Russia, Kola Peninsula, Kolm’yavr))

J. Otto Habeck and Yulian Konstantinov: VERSO (Vernacular Social Security: Kinship and Para-kinship Supportive Networks in the Russian Sub-Arctic (Comparative Fieldwork Based Program))

Sharman Haley: Adaptation and Resilience of Arctic Communities: A Social Science Curriculum

Anne Jensen: Northern Material Culture through International Polar Year Collections, Then and Now: In the Footsteps of Murdoch and Turner

Lawrence Kaplan and Maria Hilden: Language Planning for Eskimo-Aleut languages as perceived by their speech communities

Susan A. Kaplan and Genevieve LeMoine: Beyond the Pole: Robert E. Peary and History of American Arctic Exploration

Gary Kofinas: Integrated Graduate Research Training on Resilience and Adaptation of the Arctic System

Gary Kofinas and Don Russell: Starting the Clock of The CARMA Network: Impacts on Human- Rangifer Systems in the Circumarctic

Lisbeth Lewander: Swedish Polar Policies 1945-2000

Martin Nweeia: Inuit and Western Descriptions of the Narwhal, Connecting Parallel Perceptions: Studies of the Narwhal Tooth Expeditions and Research Investigation

Birger Poppel (IASSA Vice-President): International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences VI in Nuuk, 2007-2008

Birger Poppel: Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic (SLiCA)

Barry Smit: Vulnerability of Human Communities to Environmental Change Across the Arctic

Frank Sowa: Indigenous Peoples of the North and the Globalised World: Local Perspectives on Nature, Risks and Landscapes. (IPY-Idea 153)

Birger Winsa: Study on health and social capital among mono- and bilingual indigenous and autochthonous minorities in northern Sweden

Sincere thanks to the U.S. National Science Foundation for support for the IASSA IPY facilitation initiative.

Questions? Contact Anne Sudkamp at <fyiassa@uaf.edu>.

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