Ria-Maria Adams
@riaadams.bsky.social
PostDoc Researcher | Fennoscandian Arctic Anthropology | Rural Communities | Transport Infrastructures
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Ria-Maria Adams
@riaadams.bsky.social
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🛫 Arctic Airports as Lifelines and Gateways? Shaped by geopolitical agendas and external economic interests, Arctic airports are essential lifelines for communities across remote regions.Our @infranortherc.bsky.social article explores these relational affordances journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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✈️ Airports are vital to #Arctic life, yet often shaped by geopolitical and economic interests.
An ethnographic comparison of Longyearbyen, Rovaniemi & Tasiilaq by Meyer, Adams & Elixhauser is now #openaccess in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. #InfraNorth
🔗 infranorth.eu/news/dec-202...
An ethnographic comparison of Longyearbyen, Rovaniemi & Tasiilaq by Meyer, Adams & Elixhauser is now #openaccess in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. #InfraNorth
🔗 infranorth.eu/news/dec-202...
February 9, 2026 at 4:54 PM
✈️ Airports are vital to #Arctic life, yet often shaped by geopolitical and economic interests.
An ethnographic comparison of Longyearbyen, Rovaniemi & Tasiilaq by Meyer, Adams & Elixhauser is now #openaccess in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. #InfraNorth
🔗 infranorth.eu/news/dec-202...
An ethnographic comparison of Longyearbyen, Rovaniemi & Tasiilaq by Meyer, Adams & Elixhauser is now #openaccess in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. #InfraNorth
🔗 infranorth.eu/news/dec-202...
New Blogpost on Arctic mobility and disruptions 🔧⚙️🧰
🚗💥 In the #Arctic, a journey is as unpredictable as the weather.
From Chukotka’s tundra to Scandinavian roads and Canadian far-north trails, breakdowns reveal a common logic of Arctic mobility: #infrastructure is both material and relational.
Three #InfraNorth researchers share their experiences:
From Chukotka’s tundra to Scandinavian roads and Canadian far-north trails, breakdowns reveal a common logic of Arctic mobility: #infrastructure is both material and relational.
Three #InfraNorth researchers share their experiences:
When Vehicles Fail: The Fragile Infrastructure of Arctic Mobility - InfraNorth
By Elena Davydova, Ria-Maria Adams and Katrin Schmid In the Arctic, a journey is as unpredictable as the weather. From Chukotka’s tundra to Scandinavian roads and Canadian backcountry trails, mobility...
infranorth.eu
January 13, 2026 at 12:59 PM
New Blogpost on Arctic mobility and disruptions 🔧⚙️🧰
🛫 Arctic Airports as Lifelines and Gateways? Shaped by geopolitical agendas and external economic interests, Arctic airports are essential lifelines for communities across remote regions.Our @infranortherc.bsky.social article explores these relational affordances journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
January 8, 2026 at 8:43 AM
🛫 Arctic Airports as Lifelines and Gateways? Shaped by geopolitical agendas and external economic interests, Arctic airports are essential lifelines for communities across remote regions.Our @infranortherc.bsky.social article explores these relational affordances journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
So happy to see our recent visit to #Vardø featured in @cryopolitics.com fresh-from-the-press blog post! 📡🦀🎣
The #Arctic is perceived as a future military theatre. But while war rages to the south, it has become a safe haven for refugees from #Ukraine and beyond.
New blog post drawing on fieldwork in Vardø with @riaadams.bsky.social @infranortherc.bsky.social
www.cryopolitics.com/2025/12/19/f... 🧪
New blog post drawing on fieldwork in Vardø with @riaadams.bsky.social @infranortherc.bsky.social
www.cryopolitics.com/2025/12/19/f... 🧪
For Ukrainians in Vardø, the Arctic is a refuge, not a battleground - CRYOPOLITICS
The Arctic is often perceived as a future battleground. But it has actually become a safe haven for refugees from Ukraine and beyond.
www.cryopolitics.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
So happy to see our recent visit to #Vardø featured in @cryopolitics.com fresh-from-the-press blog post! 📡🦀🎣
Interesting article on the co-existence of tourism and military in Finnish Lapland 🎅🏼🪖
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Santa at war: ‘home’ town in Finland hosts Nato soldiers as Russian threat looms
Christmas tourists are noticing a growing military presence in Lapland, where Santa Park doubles as a bomb shelter
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Interesting article on the co-existence of tourism and military in Finnish Lapland 🎅🏼🪖
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
🎅🏼🥶Nice article on winter wonderland disasters - perhaps reason enough for some to look at Arctic destinations to have a different kind of experience
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘Look what you’ve done to my children!’: a tale of winter wonderland disasters
These events are meant to make Christmas magical, and while many do, a few fall spectacularly short. Here, in no particular order, are some of the worst offenders
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
🎅🏼🥶Nice article on winter wonderland disasters - perhaps reason enough for some to look at Arctic destinations to have a different kind of experience
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
🗞️Within @infranortherc.bsky.social, Katrin Schmid and I examine very different #Arctic communities to show how capitalist logics drive #housing scarcity — and how “infrastructure’s failed relations” become visible in diverse local contexts.
🏚️🏗️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🏚️🏗️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
No room in the North: housing scarcity as infrastructure’s failed relations in the Arctic
This article examines the entanglements of housing infrastructure, economic structures, and social relations in Arctic regions, focusing on Nunavut (Canada) and Malmfälten (Sweden). Using a compara...
www.tandfonline.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🗞️Within @infranortherc.bsky.social, Katrin Schmid and I examine very different #Arctic communities to show how capitalist logics drive #housing scarcity — and how “infrastructure’s failed relations” become visible in diverse local contexts.
🏚️🏗️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🏚️🏗️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Ria-Maria Adams
📚 We highly recommend 𝗨𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗼𝘇𝗲𝗻: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰, by Mia Bennett (Univ. Washington; InfraNorth associate researcher) & Klaus Dodds (Royal Holloway) — an insightful look at the rapid climate and geopolitical shifts shaping the #Arctic.
@cryopolitics.com @klausdodds.bsky.social
@cryopolitics.com @klausdodds.bsky.social
Oct 2025: Book by Mia Bennett and Klaus Dodds, Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic - InfraNorth
A new book examining the rapid climate and geopolitical shifts in the Arctic, Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic, by Mia Bennett and Klaus Dodds, has been recently published by Yale Univ...
infranorth.eu
October 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM
📚 We highly recommend 𝗨𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗼𝘇𝗲𝗻: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰, by Mia Bennett (Univ. Washington; InfraNorth associate researcher) & Klaus Dodds (Royal Holloway) — an insightful look at the rapid climate and geopolitical shifts shaping the #Arctic.
@cryopolitics.com @klausdodds.bsky.social
@cryopolitics.com @klausdodds.bsky.social
Reposted by Ria-Maria Adams
📚 #InfraNorth researchers contribute two chapters to 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗸 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱𝘀: 𝗔𝗻 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 (Berghahn Books, eds. N. & M. Magnani, Jan 2026).
🚢 The forthcoming book traces how melting sea ice fuels global imaginaries of #Arctic routes and #infrastructure visions shaping local agency.
🚢 The forthcoming book traces how melting sea ice fuels global imaginaries of #Arctic routes and #infrastructure visions shaping local agency.
Jan 2026: InfraNorth Contributions to Forthcoming Book “Arctic Silk Roads” - InfraNorth
InfraNorth researchers contribute two chapters to the forthcoming book Arctic Silk Roads: An Anthropology of the Unbuilt, edited by Natalia Magnani and Matthew Magnani. The volume will be published by...
infranorth.eu
October 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
📚 #InfraNorth researchers contribute two chapters to 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗸 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱𝘀: 𝗔𝗻 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 (Berghahn Books, eds. N. & M. Magnani, Jan 2026).
🚢 The forthcoming book traces how melting sea ice fuels global imaginaries of #Arctic routes and #infrastructure visions shaping local agency.
🚢 The forthcoming book traces how melting sea ice fuels global imaginaries of #Arctic routes and #infrastructure visions shaping local agency.
Reposted by Ria-Maria Adams
Bildeserie: I en historisk prosess flyttes Kiruna i Nord-Sverige for å gi plass til gruvedrift under byen, som har ført til at bakken synker og danner sprekker. Bli med High North News inn i den gamle og nå forlatte gruvebyen.
#Kiruna #LKAB #Arktis #Nordområdene
#Kiruna #LKAB #Arktis #Nordområdene
Bildeserie: Bli med inn i gamle Kiruna
Kiruna (High North News): I en historisk prosess flyttes Kiruna i Nord-Sverige for å gi plass til gruvedrift under byen, som har ført til at bakken synker og danner sprekker. Noe som igjen utgjør en f...
www.highnorthnews.com
August 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Bildeserie: I en historisk prosess flyttes Kiruna i Nord-Sverige for å gi plass til gruvedrift under byen, som har ført til at bakken synker og danner sprekker. Bli med High North News inn i den gamle og nå forlatte gruvebyen.
#Kiruna #LKAB #Arktis #Nordområdene
#Kiruna #LKAB #Arktis #Nordområdene
🌾 Last week’s #Edgenet workshop at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social spotlighted the #periphery 🫶🏼 Discussing industrial booms & busts, the (lack of) infrastructure, and the role of mining in shaping remote regions. Inspired by this amazing group‘s take on local #initiatives ✨ @infranortherc.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🌾 Last week’s #Edgenet workshop at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social spotlighted the #periphery 🫶🏼 Discussing industrial booms & busts, the (lack of) infrastructure, and the role of mining in shaping remote regions. Inspired by this amazing group‘s take on local #initiatives ✨ @infranortherc.bsky.social
🔋Visited #Northvolt’s huge 5,000-employee site during the #Edgenet seminar in #Skellefteå. Once Europe’s best hope to rival Chinese #battery giants, the company filed for bankruptcy in March 2025 - one of Sweden’s largest corporate collapses. @infranortherc.bsky.social @umeauniversitet.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🔋Visited #Northvolt’s huge 5,000-employee site during the #Edgenet seminar in #Skellefteå. Once Europe’s best hope to rival Chinese #battery giants, the company filed for bankruptcy in March 2025 - one of Sweden’s largest corporate collapses. @infranortherc.bsky.social @umeauniversitet.bsky.social
📯 Interested in #tourism #imaginaries across the poles? Our new paper with Jolynna #Sinanan and @philbu.bsky.social compares Everest, Churchill, and Rovaniemi - discussing how these places are imagined and experienced. 🏔️🐻❄️🌌
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
June 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
📯 Interested in #tourism #imaginaries across the poles? Our new paper with Jolynna #Sinanan and @philbu.bsky.social compares Everest, Churchill, and Rovaniemi - discussing how these places are imagined and experienced. 🏔️🐻❄️🌌
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In our #infrastructure panel,we discussed from German museums to Chinese NGOs to #Arctic airports - how comparison isn’t about ranking or simplifying but rather about opening up understanding, challenging assumptions, and making differences analytically visible🔍🌍 #FAC2025 @infranortherc.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
In our #infrastructure panel,we discussed from German museums to Chinese NGOs to #Arctic airports - how comparison isn’t about ranking or simplifying but rather about opening up understanding, challenging assumptions, and making differences analytically visible🔍🌍 #FAC2025 @infranortherc.bsky.social
🌀Two days into the Finnish #Anthropology Conference. Been diving into different takes on #comparison and how colleagues use it in their work.Still untangling how to make it work best in our @infranortherc.bsky.social research, but there are still a few sessions left to spark ideas ✨ #FAC2025 #UHel
June 18, 2025 at 9:23 AM
🌀Two days into the Finnish #Anthropology Conference. Been diving into different takes on #comparison and how colleagues use it in their work.Still untangling how to make it work best in our @infranortherc.bsky.social research, but there are still a few sessions left to spark ideas ✨ #FAC2025 #UHel
Reposted by Ria-Maria Adams
📅 Next week, on June 17, #InfraNorth researcher Ria-Maria Adams will present a paper and chair the session “Rethinking #Infrastructure through Comparative Lenses: Climate, Environment, and Cultures in Transformation” at the #Finnish #Anthropological Society Conference 2025! @riaadams.bsky.social
Jun 17, 2025: Panel and Presentation by Ria-Maria Adams at the Finnish Anthropological Society Conference 2025 - InfraNorth
InfraNorth researcher Ria-Maria Adams will be convening a panel and presenting a paper at the 2025 Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society in Helsinki. This year’s conference, which...
infranorth.eu
June 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
📅 Next week, on June 17, #InfraNorth researcher Ria-Maria Adams will present a paper and chair the session “Rethinking #Infrastructure through Comparative Lenses: Climate, Environment, and Cultures in Transformation” at the #Finnish #Anthropological Society Conference 2025! @riaadams.bsky.social
Our new blogpost on Arctic housing is out 🏠🏘️👷🏽🧱🏗️
infranorth.eu/blog/plenty-...
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infranorth.eu/blog/plenty-...
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June 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Our new blogpost on Arctic housing is out 🏠🏘️👷🏽🧱🏗️
infranorth.eu/blog/plenty-...
@infranortherc.bsky.social
infranorth.eu/blog/plenty-...
@infranortherc.bsky.social
While road #infrastructure is important for #remote towns, air connectivity is vital for #Arctic communities like #Vardø. #Widerøe’s small planes operate on ‘milk run’ routes—making short, essential stops at multiple towns. Four of us got off last week from a full flight. @infranortherc.bsky.social
May 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
While road #infrastructure is important for #remote towns, air connectivity is vital for #Arctic communities like #Vardø. #Widerøe’s small planes operate on ‘milk run’ routes—making short, essential stops at multiple towns. Four of us got off last week from a full flight. @infranortherc.bsky.social
Impressed by the amount of street art in #Vardø — highlighting the importance of local fishing and expressing concern about how big corporations threaten the livelihoods of local fishers who have relied on the sea for generations 🎣🦀
May 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Impressed by the amount of street art in #Vardø — highlighting the importance of local fishing and expressing concern about how big corporations threaten the livelihoods of local fishers who have relied on the sea for generations 🎣🦀
📡🐠 This 2017 @arctictoday.bsky.social article by Andrew Higgins from #Vardø still is relevant today. Residents seem more concerned about shuttered fish factories, dwindling fish stocks, and disappearing whales than about American satellites on their remote island.
www.arctictoday.com/on-a-tiny-no...
www.arctictoday.com/on-a-tiny-no...
On a tiny Norwegian island, America keeps an eye on Russia - ArcticToday
VARDO, Norway — The population of the Arctic island of Vardo has shrunk to half of what it was 20 years ago, and the fishing industry that sustained its residents for generations has mostly collapsed....
www.arctictoday.com
May 24, 2025 at 9:46 AM
📡🐠 This 2017 @arctictoday.bsky.social article by Andrew Higgins from #Vardø still is relevant today. Residents seem more concerned about shuttered fish factories, dwindling fish stocks, and disappearing whales than about American satellites on their remote island.
www.arctictoday.com/on-a-tiny-no...
www.arctictoday.com/on-a-tiny-no...
Reposted by Ria-Maria Adams
Rovaniemi, Kittilä, Ivalo, Kirkenes, Alta, Tromsø and Bodø are all destinations inside the Arctic Circle for the Finnish flag carrier the coming winter. The airport next to Santa Claus Village in Lapland gets as many as 72 weekly flights.
Finnair with record number of flights above the Arctic Circle next winter
Rovaniemi, Kittilä, Ivalo, Kirkenes, Alta, Tromsø and Bodø are all destinations inside the Arctic Circle for the Finnish flag carrier the coming winter. The airport next to Santa Claus Village in Lapl...
www.thebarentsobserver.com
May 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Rovaniemi, Kittilä, Ivalo, Kirkenes, Alta, Tromsø and Bodø are all destinations inside the Arctic Circle for the Finnish flag carrier the coming winter. The airport next to Santa Claus Village in Lapland gets as many as 72 weekly flights.
🗞️Great column by Anna Ruohalainen in #LapinKansa on shifting #youth perceptions of their #rural hometowns - after years of pessimistic views dominating the discourse, a more hopeful view is emerging. Honoured to see results of my dissertation mentioned too 🫶🏼
www.lapinkansa.fi/tapasin-kemi...
www.lapinkansa.fi/tapasin-kemi...
Tapasin kemijärveläisnuoria, ja yllätyin – nuorten mielestä kotikaupungista ei puutu mitään muuta kuin opiskelupaikka
Tapasin kemijärveläisnuoria, ja yllätyin. Nuorten mielestä kotikaupungista ei puutu mitään muuta kuin opiskelupaikka.
www.lapinkansa.fi
May 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
🗞️Great column by Anna Ruohalainen in #LapinKansa on shifting #youth perceptions of their #rural hometowns - after years of pessimistic views dominating the discourse, a more hopeful view is emerging. Honoured to see results of my dissertation mentioned too 🫶🏼
www.lapinkansa.fi/tapasin-kemi...
www.lapinkansa.fi/tapasin-kemi...
🍿🎬📽️ Ethnographic documentary film festival @ethnocineca.bsky.social starting tomorrow in #Vienna. Great program:
www.ethnocineca.at/en/home/
www.ethnocineca.at/en/home/
ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival Vienna
www.ethnocineca.at
May 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
🍿🎬📽️ Ethnographic documentary film festival @ethnocineca.bsky.social starting tomorrow in #Vienna. Great program:
www.ethnocineca.at/en/home/
www.ethnocineca.at/en/home/
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▶️ Don’t miss this video interview with Peter Schweitzer, principal investigator of #InfraNorth, as he reflects on his journey of anthropological research with Arctic communities, focusing on issues related to the built environment, mobility, remoteness, and the social impacts of climate change 👇
Peter Schweitzer, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, has dedicated his career to exploring the #Arctic life. He is working on issues of #mobility, #ClimateChange, and identity in the circumpolar North, in particular in #Alaska and #Siberia. ❄️🏺⤵️
🌍 Exploring Arctic Life & Transport Infrastructures ❄️
YouTube video by Universität Wien
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April 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
▶️ Don’t miss this video interview with Peter Schweitzer, principal investigator of #InfraNorth, as he reflects on his journey of anthropological research with Arctic communities, focusing on issues related to the built environment, mobility, remoteness, and the social impacts of climate change 👇
🙌🏼Yesterday was so special - first, teaching a class together with amazing 💫 @gretegans.bsky.social, followed by an invited talk about our @infranortherc.bsky.social research results on #Arctic tourism #infrastructures at the department brown bag session at the #UniversityofWyoming 🏫
April 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
🙌🏼Yesterday was so special - first, teaching a class together with amazing 💫 @gretegans.bsky.social, followed by an invited talk about our @infranortherc.bsky.social research results on #Arctic tourism #infrastructures at the department brown bag session at the #UniversityofWyoming 🏫