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Ria-Maria Adams

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PostDoc Researcher | Fennoscandian Arctic Anthropology | Rural Communities | Transport Infrastructures

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High North News @highnorthnews.bsky.social · Aug 20

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

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...

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Ria-Maria Adams @riaadams.bsky.social · Aug 20

🏗️⛪️ Final steps before #Kiruna #kyrka reaches its new place. Would’ve loved to be there in person, but so grateful for the #SVT’s livestream for the past two days. Just incredible planning and precision at work.🎯Can’t wait to visit! @infranortherc.bsky.social #urbantransformation #kirunamove

Ria-Maria Adams @riaadams.bsky.social · Jul 1

🌾 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

Ria-Maria Adams @riaadams.bsky.social · Jul 1

💡Also learned at the #Edgenet workshop: battery production involves 120 precise steps - every single one must function for success. With cheaper #electricity than southern #Sweden and nearby raw materials, #Västerbotten is well-positioned for large-scale industry and investments.

Ria-Maria Adams @riaadams.bsky.social · Jul 1

🔋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

Ria-Maria Adams @riaadams.bsky.social · Jun 18

📯 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....

Ria-Maria Adams @riaadams.bsky.social · Jun 18

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

Ria-Maria Adams @riaadams.bsky.social · Jun 18

✍🏻 In the #Westermarck Lecture, Tom #Boellstorff reminded us that the task of comparison is “not restricted to that of classifying the different phenomena of culture. Its ultimate object is to answer to the question: ‘why‘”
Our goal as #anthropologists should be to understand how people think 🌀💡

Ria-Maria Adams @riaadams.bsky.social · Jun 18

💎Soumhya Venkatesan’s keynote was a powerful reminder: comparison doesn’t have to be good to be productive.💡Her example on contrasting views of #freedom showed just how profoundly differently people can understand the same concept. It’s through comparison that these diverse meanings come into view.

Ria-Maria Adams @riaadams.bsky.social · Jun 18

🌀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

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InfraNorth: Building Arctic Futures @infranortherc.bsky.social · Jun 10

📅 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...

Ria-Maria Adams @riaadams.bsky.social · Jun 5

Our new blogpost on Arctic housing is out 🏠🏘️👷🏽🧱🏗️

infranorth.eu/blog/plenty-...

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Ria-Maria Adams @riaadams.bsky.social · May 26

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

Ria-Maria Adams @riaadams.bsky.social · May 24

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 🎣🦀

Ria-Maria Adams @riaadams.bsky.social · May 24

📡🐠 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...

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....

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · May 24

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...

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Ria-Maria Adams @riaadams.bsky.social · May 7

🗞️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...

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.

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Ria-Maria Adams @riaadams.bsky.social · May 7

🍿🎬📽️ Ethnographic documentary film festival @ethnocineca.bsky.social starting tomorrow in #Vienna. Great program:

www.ethnocineca.at/en/home/

ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival Vienna

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InfraNorth: Building Arctic Futures @infranortherc.bsky.social · Apr 18

▶️ 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 👇

Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · Apr 17

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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Ria-Maria Adams @riaadams.bsky.social · Apr 2

🙌🏼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 🏫

Ria-Maria Adams @riaadams.bsky.social · Apr 1

Had a great weekend with @gretegans.bsky.social exploring rural #Wyoming and driving through Niobrara County 🇺🇸🐎The vast open spaces, small villages, the harsh weather, endless cargo trains, and oil fields reminded me of many of the issues we face in the #Arctic too. @infranortherc.bsky.social

Ria-Maria Adams @riaadams.bsky.social · Mar 31

💫 🇺🇸Two memorable days of getting to know the #rural areas of #Wyoming with @gretegans.bsky.social

Grete Gansauer @gretegans.bsky.social · Mar 31

So excited to share the weekend w @riaadams.bsky.social checking out rural communities in eastern #Wyoming. Statistics would call these places #LeftBehind, and their built environment might look like that too. But we found many local initiatives *building* community. More to come 🤎💛

Ria-Maria Adams @riaadams.bsky.social · Mar 28

Leaving #ASSW2025 with fresh insights on #Arctic infrastructure issues. @colorado.edu provided a great venue to foster collaboration and rethink our work with local communities 🏞️🏗️ Our work must be even more grounded in local knowledge and easily accessible to make a real difference. @infranorth

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InfraNorth: Building Arctic Futures @infranortherc.bsky.social · Mar 26

❄️🏗️ The #RATIC workshop at #ICARPIV Summit reviewed a decade of progress and set research priorities for the next 10 years on #Arctic #infrastructure and its interactions with natural and social systems. #ASSW2025 #InfraNorth

🔗 infranorth.eu/news/mar-20-...

RATIC Workshop “Planning for the Next Decade in Arctic Infrastructure Research: A Contribution to ICARP IV,” co-chaired by Olga Povorozkyuk (University of Vienna), Vera Kuklina (George Washington University), and Howard Epstein (University of Virginia). Arctic Science Summit Week 2025 at the University of Colorado Boulder. Photo by Olga Povoroznyuk.

RATIC Workshop “Planning for the Next Decade in Arctic Infrastructure Research: A Contribution to ICARP IV,” co-chaired by Olga Povorozkyuk (University of Vienna), Vera Kuklina (George Washington University), and Howard Epstein (University of Virginia). Arctic Science Summit Week 2025 at the University of Colorado Boulder. Photo by Olga Povoroznyuk.

RATIC Workshop “Planning for the Next Decade in Arctic Infrastructure Research: A Contribution to ICARP IV,” co-chaired by Olga Povorozkyuk (University of Vienna), Vera Kuklina (George Washington University), and Howard Epstein (University of Virginia). Arctic Science Summit Week 2025 at the University of Colorado Boulder. Photo by Olga Povoroznyuk.

RATIC Workshop “Planning for the Next Decade in Arctic Infrastructure Research: A Contribution to ICARP IV,” co-chaired by Olga Povorozkyuk (University of Vienna), Vera Kuklina (George Washington University), and Howard Epstein (University of Virginia). Arctic Science Summit Week 2025 at the University of Colorado Boulder. Photo by Olga Povoroznyuk.

Ria-Maria Adams @riaadams.bsky.social · Mar 17

#ASSW2025 starting this week in Boulder, CO 🇺🇸 Come and meet us @infranortherc.bsky.social in person and online 💫 More Infos where to find us in the link below 👇🏼

InfraNorth: Building Arctic Futures @infranortherc.bsky.social · Mar 12

❄️ Arctic Science Summit Week #ASSW2025 & ICARP IV Summit are almost here!

The #InfraNorth team is excited to be engaged in several #infrastructure sessions at the University of Colorado Boulder. If you are attending, we look forward to connecting with you!

🔗 infranorth.eu/news/mar-20-...

Mar 20–28, 2025: InfraNorth at the Arctic Science Summit Week 2025 - InfraNorth

InfraNorth researchers Peter Schweitzer, Olga Povoroznyuk, Alexandra Meyer, Ria-Maria Adams, and Susanna Gartler will participate in the Arctic Science Summit Week 2025 (ASSW) from 20 to 28 March 2025...