Pohjoisen muuttuva ympäristö: Kulttuuriset representaatiot ja veden käyttötavat

Thematic issues within the CEN project relate to the anthropology of disaster, specifically to the changing 'physicality' of the water-land-ice interface and its consequences for the Northern communities. The study analyses the flooding events in the Far North of Russia from a processual perspective framed under an umbrella concept – 'sense of place'. It focuses on how, despite the intensity of challenges and the tension between the 'troubled' property of the environment and its rendered meanings, the places continue to anchor human lives. It studies the complexity of sensing a place through various forces and encounters between humans and more-than-human beings.