In this article, we identify what herders in Fennoscandia and northwestern Russia see as
critical conditions and events in the annual reindeer herding cycle. Indigenous Sámi and …

Mimi Sheller area, and the only sessions with mobility in their title are concerned with social
mobility–with only a handful focusing on educational mobility, job mobility or geographic …

Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest
India, into a strategic border area with an increasing military presence that has decentered …

Xavier de Maistre was born in 1763 at the foot of the French Alps. At the age of twenty-three,
he became fascinated by aeronautics. De Maistre and a friend fashioned a pair of giant …

Permafrost is an integral part of the environmental conditions that frame indigenous peoples'
livelihoods in many parts of the circumpolar region. On the basis of their long-term …

Pitched against the apparently more civilised and modern'settled'folk, pastoralists have
historically been penalised for the seemingly primitive and outdated practice of mobility …

As a philosophical discipline, phenomenology is interested in how and as what things
appear to a subject from the first-person perspective. Phenomenological analyses can be …

This chapter illustrates how sedentarizing nomads work in practice, more specifically, how it
worked in the remote parts of the boreal forest of the Soviet Union in the 1940's and 1950's …

This introduction opens a special section on emotional and experiential aspects of travel in
Northern and Siberian landscapes. Conventional representations of the Arctic as a frontier …

1 This thesis is based on eleven months of fieldwork in the Evenki village of Kholodnaia in
the Severobaikal'skii raion of the republic of Buriatiia and five months of archival research in …