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Forschungsgruppe Povoroznyuk

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Sozioökonomische und politische Transformationen, Klimawandel und Anpassung, Infrastruktur und gebaute Umwelt, Identität, Indigenität und kulturelles Erbe, Energiewenden und Nachhaltigkeit, Interdisziplinarität und knowledge co-production.

Forschungsinteresse

Diese Forschungsgruppe untersucht ein Bündel sozioökonomischer, (geo-)politischer und ökologischer Transformationen in den Arktisregionen, die durch den Klimawandel, den Ausbau von Infrastruktur, Ressourcengewinnung und Militarisierung sowie durch vielfältige lokale Anpassungen daran geprägt sind. Ein weiteres zentrales Themenfeld befasst sich mit den Verflechtungen der Bewohner:innen des Nordens mit ihren natürlichen und gebauten Umwelten – darunter Subsistenzlandschaften, städtische Grünräume und Infrastrukturen. Der dritte Schwerpunkt liegt auf den Zusammenhängen zwischen indigener und lokal verankerter Identität, Natur, (bio-)kulturellem Erbe und Kunst. Schließlich bündelt das Interesse der Gruppenmitglieder an Energiewenden Diskussionen über soziale und ökologische Sicherheit, kritische Infrastrukturen und Klimagerechtigkeit. Die Forschung zu diesen Themen wird von den Prinzipien der Interdisziplinarität, der Zusammenarbeit mit lokalen Gemeinschaften sowie der kooperativen Wissensproduktion mit arktischen Communities und Bewohner:innen geleitet.

  Social & Cultural Systems

Olga Povoroznyuk, PhD, kandidat nauk

Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, Universität Wien

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Team

  • Olga Povoroznyuk, PhD, kandidat nauk, Forschungsgruppenleiterin
  • Mia Landauer, Dr. nat. techn., M.Sc.
  • Klara Gmeinbauer, MA, Projektassistentin
  • Nabila van der Veen, B.A., MA-Studentin
  • Julia Elzea, BA, MA-Studentin
  • Oliwia Podzik, BA, MA-Studentin
  • Gabriel Peterson, BA, MA-Student
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Mia Landauer, Dr.

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Klara Gmeinbauer, MA

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Nabila van der Veen, BA

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Nabila van der Veen, BA

Selected Publications

  • 2026 Povoroznyuk, O. Toward a Comparative Ethnography of Arctic Seaports Projects: Local Impacts of Expanding Maritime Infrastructure in Alaska, Norway, and Russia. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 55(1):86-109, doi:10.1177/08912416251398479
  • 2026 Povoroznyuk, O., & Schweitzer, P. Beyond the Promises and Fears of Infrastructure: an Alaskan Port Expansion, Geopolitics and Local Disinterest. In N. Magnani & M. Magnani (Eds.), Arctic Silk Roads: An Anthropology of the Unbuilt, pp. 175-195. Berghahn. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781836953081
  • 2026 Schweitzer, P., Povoroznyuk, O., Budka, P., Meyer, A., Schmid, K., & Strelkovskii,N. Scenarios and Ethnography: Infrastructural Futures as Windows into the Present. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 55(1):14-36, doi:10.1177/08912416251398488.
  • 2025 Povoroznyuk, O. Reconceptualizing Siberia: A Personal Account of a Changing Field. In A Fractured North – Maintaining Connections E. Kasten, I. Krupnik, and G. Fondahl, eds. Pp. 89-105, Vol. 3. Fürstenberg/Havel: Kulturstiftung Sibirien. https://bolt-dev.dh- north.org/files/dhn-pdf/fn3povoroznyk.pdf
  • 2025 Davydova, E., & Povoroznyuk, O. Temporality of Arctic transport infrastructure: bridging seasonal supply in Egvekinot, Chukotka. Polar Geography, 1-20. doi:10.1080/1088937X.2025.2592137
  • 2025 Gartler, S., J. Scheer, A. Meyer, K. Abass, A. Bartsch, N. Doloisio, J. Falardeau, G. Hugelius, A. Irrgang, J. Haukur Ingimundarson, L. Jungsberg, H. Lantuit, J. Nymand Larsen, R. Lodi, V. S. Martin, L. Mercer, D. Nielsen, P. Overduin, O. Povoroznyuk, A. Rautio, P. Schweitzer, N. J. Speetjens, S. Tomaškovičová, U. Timlin, J.-P. Vanderlinden, J. Vonk, L. Westerveld, and T. Ingeman-Nielsen. A transdisciplinary, comparative analysis reveals key risks from Arctic permafrost thaw. Communications Earth & Environment 6:21. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01883-w
  • 2023 Povoroznyuk, O. and P. Schweitzer. Ignoring Environmental Change? On Fishing Quotas and Collapsing Coastlines in Bykovskiy, Northern Sakha (Yakutiya). Ambio 52, 1211–1220 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01874-9
  • 2023 Povoroznyuk, O. and Peter Schweitzer. What Difference Does a Railroad Make? Transportation and Settlement in the BAM Region in Historical Perspective. In Siberian Worlds. John P. Ziker, Jenanne Ferguson, and Vladimir Davydov, eds. Routledge: 364-377. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429354663
  • 2022 Povoroznyuk, O., W.F. Vincent, P. Schweitzer, R. Laptander, M. Bennett, F. Calmels, D. Sergeev, C. Arp, B. Forbes and D. A. Walker. Arctic Roads and Railways: Social and Environmental Consequences of Transport Infrastructure in the Circumpolar North. Arctic Science: 1-34 https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/as-2021-0033
  • 2022 Schweitzer, P. and O. Povoroznyuk. Infrastructural Legacies and Post-Soviet Transformations in Northern Sakha (Yakutiya), Russia. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning: 1-12 https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2022.2051455
  • 2021  Povoroznyuk, O. Ambiguous Entanglements: Infrastructure, Memory and Identity in Indigenous Evenki Communities along the Baikal-Amur Mainline. Social Anthropology: 29 (2): 1-17 https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13032
  • 2020 Povoroznyuk, O. (Re)Constructing the Baikal-Amur Mainline: Continuity and Change of Post-Socialis tInfrastructure. Transfers: 10 (2/3): 250-269 https://doi.org/10.3167/TRANS.2020.10020317
  • 2019 Povoroznyuk, O. The Baikal-Amur Mainline: Memories and Emotions of a Socialist Construction Project. Sibirica, Vol. 18 (1): 22-52 https://doi.org/10.3167/sib.2019.180103
  • 2019 Schweitzer, P. and O. Povoroznyuk. 2019. A Right to Remoteness? A Missing Bridge and Articulations of Indigeneity Along an East Siberian Railroad. Social Anthropology 27(2): 236-252. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12648
  • 2019 Kuklina, V., O. Povoroznyuk and G. Saxinger. Power of Rhythms – Trains and Work along the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) in Siberia. Polar Geography 42 (1): 18-33 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1088937X.2018.1564395
  • 2017 Schweitzer P., O. Povoroznyuk and S. Schiesser. Beyond Wilderness: Towards an Anthropology of Infrastructure and the Built Environment in the Russian North. Polar Anthropology, 7 (1): 58-85 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/2154896X.2017.1334427
  • Landauer, M., Swanström, N., & Goodsite, M. E. (2025). Mineral Resources in the Arctic: Sino-Russian Cooperation and the Disruption of Western Supply Chains. In The “New” Frontier: Sino-Russian Cooperation in the Arctic and its Geopolitical Implications (pp. 108-117). Institute for Security & Development Policy.
  • Landauer, M. (2025). The Influence of Sino-Russian Cooperation on Finland’s Energy Policy. In The “New” Frontier: Sino-Russian Cooperation in the Arctic and its Geopolitical Implications (pp. 65-78). Institute for Security & Development Policy.
  • Landauer, M. (2025). Sociological legitimacy of reindeer tourism in northern Finland. Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, 1-18.
  • Loginova, J., Landauer, M., Joona, J., Datta, R., & Joona, T. (2025). Enabling Indigenous-centred decision-making for a just energy transition? Lessons from community consultation and consent in the circumpolar Arctic. Energy Research & Social Science, 120, 103928.
  • Rasmus, S., Yletyinen, J., Sarkki, S., Landauer, M., Tuomi, M., Arneberg, M. K., … & Eronen, J. T. (2024). Policy documents considering biodiversity, land use, and climate in the European Arctic reveal visible, hidden, and imagined nexus approaches. One Earth, 7(2), 265-279.
  • Joona, T., Landauer, M., Wallen, H., Similä, J., Nystén-Haarala, S., Morell, I. A., … & Fahlin, F. (2024). Comparative Integrated Work Package Report for Justice in Participation and Governance: Towards Just, Equitable and Sustainable Arctic Economies, Environments and Societies. https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe202501132944
  • Landauer, M., Joona, J., & Keskitalo, P. (2023). Stakeholder Perceptions of Landscape Justice in the Case of Atlantic Salmon Fishing in Northern Finland. Land, 12(6), 1174.
  • Rasmus, S., Horstkotte, T., Turunen, M., Landauer, M., Löf, A., Lehtonen, I., … & Holand, Ø. (2022). Reindeer husbandry and climate change: challenges for adaptation. In Reindeer husbandry and global environmental change (pp. 99-117). Routledge.
  • Horstkotte, T., Heikkinen, H. I., Næss, M. W., Landauer, M., Forbes, B. C., Risvoll, C., & Sarkki, S. (2022). Implications of norms and knowledge in customary reindeer herding units for resource governance. In Reindeer Husbandry and Global Environmental Change (pp. 133-149). Routledge.
  • Sarkki, S., Johnsen, K. I., Löf, A., Pekkarinen, A. J., Kumpula, J., Rasmus, S., Landauer, M., & Åhman, B. (2022). Governing maximum reindeer numbers in Fennoscandia. In Reindeer Husbandry and Global Environmental Change (pp. 173-188). Routledge.
  • Löf, A., Raitio, K., Forbes, B. C., Labba, K., Landauer, M., Risvoll, C., & Sarkki, S. (2022). Unpacking reindeer husbandry governance in Sweden, Norway and Finland: A political discursive perspective. In Reindeer husbandry and global environmental change (pp. 150-172). Routledge.
  • Rasmus, S., Wallen, H., Turunen, M., Landauer, M., Tahkola, J., Jokinen, M., & Laaksonen, S. (2021). Land-use and climate related drivers of change in the reindeer management system in Finland: Geography of perceptions. Applied Geography, 134, 102501.
  • Sarkki, S., Rasmus, S., Landauer, M., Lépy, É., & Heikkinen, H. I. (2021). Matching societal knowledge demand, research funding and scientific knowledge supply: trends and co-creation dynamics around reindeer management in Finland. Polar Geography, 44(2), 90-111.
  • Landauer, M., Rasmus, S., & Forbes, B. C. (2021). What drives reindeer management in Finland towards social and ecological tipping points? Regional Environmental Change, 21(2), 32.
  • Mechler, R., Calliari, E., Bouwer, L. M., Schinko, T., Surminski, S., Linnerooth-Bayer, J., … Landauer, M., … & Zommers, Z. (2018). Science for loss and damage. Findings and propositions. In Loss and damage from climate change: Concepts, methods and policy options (pp. 3-37). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
  • Landauer, M., & Juhola, S. (2018). Loss and damage in the rapidly changing arctic. In Loss and Damage from Climate Change: Concepts, Methods and Policy Options (pp. 425-447). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Projects

  • 2024-2027 “ARCA: Biocultural Heritage in Arctic Cities: Resource for Climate Adaptation?”, Belmont Forum/Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG.
  • 2024-2027 “ILLUQ“ : Permafrost-Pollution-Health, EU Horizon Europe project.
  • 2021-2025 “INFRANORTH: Building Arctic Futures: Transport Infrastructures and Sustainable Northern Communities”, ERC advanced grant project.
  • 2019-2024 “Informal Roads: The Impact of Undocumented Transportation Pathways on Remote Communities of Siberia”, US NSF project, (2019-2024)
  • 2017-2023 “Nunataryuk”: Permafrost Thaw and the Changing Arctic Coast, Science for Socioeconomic Adaptation”, WP9 “Mitigation and Adaptation”, EU Horizon 2020 project.
  • 2015-2020 “Configurations of Remoteness (CoRe): Entanglements of Humans and Transportation Infrastructure in the Region of Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM)”, Austrian Science Fund FWF project.
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