Publikationen

A Fractured North – Maintaining Connections

A Fractured North – Maintaining Connections featured The volumes of the “Fractured North” trilogy address research collaborations in Siberia and the Russian North that are now at risk or frozen, and how partnerships might be restored, under the evolving political situation. The first two volumes …

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Written by Erich Kasten on Thursday March 6, 2025

A Fractured North – Journeys on Hold

A Fractured North – Journeys on Hold featured This collection represents the second volume in the trilogy initiated in 2023 under the title, “A Fractured North.”We envisioned these publications as a response of the international community of Northern scholars to the ongoing war in Ukraine and to …

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Written by Erich Kasten on Tuesday July 23, 2024

A Fractured North – Facing Dilemmas

A Fractured North – Facing Dilemmas featured The remarkable opening of Siberia and the Russian Arctic to international social science research, starting in the early 1990s, gave rise to the spirit of cooperation, innovative partnerships, and the co-production of knowledge across boundaries and …

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Written by Erich Kasten on Tuesday April 9, 2024

Academia across the borders

Academia across the borders featured This book documents the voices of scholars working in, with, or about Russia in the context of historical collapse. The brief answers, commentaries, and essays collected here were written in response to the four questions asking how academic lives and practices …

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Written by Erich Kasten on Saturday January 6, 2024

Call for papers

Call for papers A FRACTURED NORTH (A new book series for our ‘troubled times’) The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, now in its twentieth month, has had a chilling impact on our common field of research, publications, museum work, and interactions with Indigenous partners and …

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Written by Erich Kasten on Saturday October 28, 2023