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Competing Arctic Futures: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Under the general editorship: N. Wormbs
This edited collection explores how narratives about the future of the Arctic have been produced historically up until the present day. The contemporary deterministic and monolithic narrative is shown to be only one of several possible ways forward. This book problematizes the dominant prediction that there will be increased shipping and resource extraction as the ice melts and shows how this seemingly inevitable future has consequences for the action that can be taken in the present. This collection looks to historical projections about the future of the Arctic, evaluating why some voices have been heard and championed, while others remain marginalised. It questions how these historical perspectives have shaped resource allocation and governance structures to understand the forces behind change in the Arctic region. Considering the history of individuals and institutions, their political and economic networks and their perceived power, the essays in this collection offer new perspectives on how the future of the Arctic has been produced and communicated.
Chapters
Kalemeneva E., , in: Competing Arctic Futures: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Ch. 10 P. 213–241.
Industrialisation and social transformations changed the landscapes of the Soviet Arctic and stimulated discussions about the models of its domestication. Numerous industrial towns in the Soviet Far North in the 1930s were established next to Gulag labour camps. The attempt of technical, social and visual re-conceptualisation of urban space in the Soviet Arctic related to ...
Added: August 24, 2018
Vlakhov A., Gnatenko A., , in: Competing Arctic Futures: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Ch. 8 P. 165–187.
This paper traces the trajectories of governance, local residents’ voices and changes in the resource extraction structure in two Russian regions participating in the Barents Euro-Arctic cooperation during the post-Soviet period: Republic of Karelia and Murmansk Oblast. The paper shows how the perspectives of the cooperation and the futures of the Arctic in these regions ...
Added: April 4, 2018
Novik N., Galimullin E. Z., Мировая экономика и международные отношения 2026 Т. 70 № 9 С. 100–112
The article offers a comparative analysis of the Transarctic Transport Corridor (TTC) and the International North–South Transport Corridor (INSTC) as elements of Russia’s evolving response to systemic shifts in the international order. Drawing on the theory of regional security complexes and the conceptual framework of connectivity, the study examines how both corridors function within a ...
Added: September 12, 2026
Ustyuzhanin V., Zinkina J. V., Korotayev A., / Series "SocArXiv". 2026.
“Leaderlessness” is widely held to be a defining feature of contemporary mass mobilization, yet the claim rests on a handful of recent cases. We offer the first systematic cross-national analysis of this phenomenon from 1791 to 2019. We show that the absence of leadership is real but older and more modest than claimed: the share ...
Added: August 29, 2026
Strelnikova I., Kharina O., Россия и Америка в XXI веке 2026 № 1
В статье исследуется российско-индийское сотрудничество в Арктике в условиях геополитического соперничества и санкционного давления Запада. Цель работы – проанализировать стратегические интересы России и Индии, определить перспективы их взаимодействия в энергетике, инфраструктуре и транспортных коридорах, а также выявить основные вызовы. Выводы показывают, что сотрудничество обладает значительным потенциалом для экономического и технологического развития, однако его реализация осложняется ...
Added: August 15, 2026
Strelnikova I., Общество и экономика 2026 № 7-8 С. 154–173
Статья посвящена исследованию Трансарктического транспортного коридора (ТАТК) в логике транспортной экономики, международного права и геополитического измерения. На ос нове формально-юридического метода и методов системного анализа достигается цель настоящей статьи – дается комплексная и всесторонняя оценка Трансарктического транспортного коридора в контексте предпосылок его формирования, экономической, геополитической и стратегической значимости; показаны особенности его правового статуса и потенциала ...
Added: August 15, 2026
Мармилова Е. П., Арктика и Север 2026 № 63 С. 368–384
The aim of this article is to conduct a meta-analysis of foreign scientific publications in order to identify modern trends in the development of the creative economy and creative industries in the Arctic. The main method of the scientific research was a meta-analysis of the specialized literature. The analysis was carried out on the basis of two databases of peer-reviewed scientific publications — Scopus and Web of Science. These are the largest databases, which are ...
Added: June 17, 2026
Strelnikova I., Агафонов Д. И., Вестник международных организаций: образование, наука, новая экономика 2026 Т. 21 № 1 С. 67–91
Арктический регион, на протяжении более чем десяти лет занимая особое положение в дискурсе международно-политической науки, поэтапно приобретал различные и зачастую диаметрально противоположные образы на страницах как англо-, так и русскоязычных исследований. Длительное время своеобразным «барометром» состояния «исключительности» транснациональных отношений в регионе был Арктический совет – центральный межправительственный форум, призванный де-юре содействовать международному сотрудничеству и поддержанию ...
Added: June 14, 2026
Kravtsova M., Musaev A. U., Welzel C., / Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
Elaborating on Welzel et al.'s "Cool Water Theory," our study zooms into the more limited (albeit still varied) framework conditions of Russia's huge territory. Within Russia's confines, we examine how the combination of moderately cool seasons with steady rain (i.e., Cool Water) affects sub-national areas' contemporary societal progress in two modernization indicators: material prosperity in ...
Added: June 3, 2026
Vorchik A., / SSRN. Серия Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This work is devoted to a theoretical explanation of the Easterlin paradox, according to which long-term economic growth does not make average level of people's happiness increasing. By happiness, we mean the intensity of emotions people experience while comparing their new income with its expected value, or the target income with its original value. In the first case, ...
Added: May 31, 2026
Sizov A., Rodionova M., Sedashov E. et al., / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series PS "Political Science". 2026. No. 1.
Rapid development of surveillance technologies is one of the most socially important consequences of the digital age. This paper investigates the factors determining consent to surveillance of various types of personal data and contributes to rapidly growing research on citizens perceptions of surveillance practices. Relying on a comprehensive survey experiment, we study the effects of ...
Added: May 15, 2026
Карцева М. А., Peresetsky A., / Высшая школа экономики. Серия WP2 "Количественный анализ в экономике". 2026. № WP2/2026/01.
This study examines the association between health status among elderly individuals living alone and pet ownership (cats, dogs). We employ data from the “Time Use Survey” conducted by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) in 2019, which contains information on more than 10,000 elderly individuals living alone aged 60 or older in Russia, including data ...
Added: May 8, 2026
Pavlenko E., Tolstykh D., British Journal of Sociology of Education 2026 P. 1–18
This article examines how youth in a Russian Arctic monotown construct agency through vocational education and training (VET) amid extreme structural constraints. Drawing on cultural sociology, it reconceptualises agency as a narrative construct, mobilising shared repertoires to render scripted pathways viable and morally coherent. Based on 65 interviews with 16–20-year-old students across five VET schools, ...
Added: April 23, 2026
Жигунов А. Ю., В кн.: Медиаобраз региона в современной массовой коммуникации.: Вологда: Вологодский государственный университет, 2022. С. 288–296.
The article is devoted to the peculiarities of interpreting of the concept-ideologem "Arctic" in modern Russian media. The historical prerequisites for the formation of the perception of the Arctic by a mass Russian-speaking addressee as a native, home territory are formulated. The most frequent lexical representatives that characterize the region and allow to identify the ...
Added: April 19, 2026
Жигунов А. Ю., Terra Linguistica 2020 Т. 11 № 3 С. 97–107
The Arctic and its development issues become more and more important in the information agenda of the Russian and world media over the past years. The reasons for this increased attention to the region are the activities of main decision makers: authorities, army, business, nature defenders, international organizations, etc., aimed at expanding regional influence, improving ...
Added: April 19, 2026
Strelnikova I., Азия и Африка сегодня 2026 № 2 С. 5–15
Арктический регион не только привлекает внимание благодаря своим богатым ресурсам, но и становится новой ареной соперничества великих держав. В нынешних геополитических условиях две мировые державы – Россия и Китай – ищут новые точки роста и партнерства в Арктическом регионе. Цель статьи – изучение текущей ситуации, перспектив и возможностей сотрудничества между Россией и Китаем в Арктике ...
Added: April 4, 2026
Klyueva V., Журнал фронтирных исследований 2024 Т. 9 № 4 С. 146–168
The paper focuses on the analysis of survival practices in northern Russian settlements that developed in the 1990s. Most of the northern settlements were in a state of decline: changes in the socio‑demographic composition and population size, transformation of the local economy, degradation of transport infrastructure, deterioration in the quality of life. The reason for the decline ...
Added: March 26, 2026
Klyueva V., Социология науки и технологий 2024 Т. 15 № 2 С. 26–44
The concept of Arctic urbanization, widely used in contemporary Northern Studies, implies that academic and higher education institutions create a competitive advantage for Arctic cities when located there. The focus of science in the Arctic is specific – it stems from the logic of industrial development of the area. The Branch of the USSR Academy ...
Added: March 26, 2026
Klyueva V., Studia Historiae Scientiarum 2025 Vol. 24 P. 131–158
The natural and climatic conditions prevailing in the Russian Arctic have a profound impact on the development of industry and science: Traditional industries are inefficient here, and the process of dynamizing/revitalizing this area and adapting people and technologies to new realities requires specialized research. These circumstances have led some Northern and Arctic cities to develop ...
Added: March 26, 2026
Фаузер В. В., Smirnov A., Арктика: экология и экономика 2018 № 3 С. 3–22
The article reviews the World Arctic and its constituent parts: Russian, North American and West European. The subject of the study is the peculiarities of population settlement and the development of the economy of Arctic administrative-territorial entities. The purpose of the article is to present the World Arctic from diff erent angles — the availability ...
Added: March 19, 2026
Vorchik A., / Social Science Research Network. Серия SSRN Working Paper Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
This article is devoted to the phenomenon of intrinsic motivation, to understand which two models are proposed. We study how positive/negative intrinsic motivation to work (experienced utility) affects worker's individual labour supply (model I) and the amount of effort they exert (model II). In model I, we use intrinsic motivation to explain the positive/negative slope ...
Added: March 15, 2026
Musaev A. U., Vorchik A., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This paper attempts to model the evolutionary theory of modernization and democratization. The model reflects the key provisions of R. Inglehart and C. Welzel's theory and provides a microfoundation for the adaptation of subjective values to the objective importances of the survival factors and the structure of the labour markets from the perspective of evolutionary ...
Added: February 10, 2026
Dorkhanov I., Sokolov B., / Series OSF "SocArXiv". 2025.
This study investigates the relationship between individual religiosity and attitudes towards immigrants of different religious backgrounds in Europe. Using data from the 7th wave of the European Social Survey (2014-2015), we examine the influence of individual denomination and subjective religiosity level on hostility towards Muslim immigrants and the importance of immigrants’ Christian background. Our analysis, ...
Added: December 23, 2025
Nastina E., Sokolov B., / Series OSF "SocArXiv". 2025.
We argue that a classification-based approach to measuring cultural differences across countries or subnational regions is a promising complement, and sometimes an alternative, to the widely used dimensional method in cross-cultural research. The latter summarises cultural variation using continuous dimensions, for example, Hofstede’s famous individualism-collectivism dimension. However, this approach relies on strong parametric assumptions, which are ...
Added: December 23, 2025
Korsunava V., Sokolov B., / Series OSF "SocArXiv". 2025.
Non-probability web surveys offer several advantages over face-to-face (F2F) interviews—they are cheaper, faster, more accessible, and reduce interviewer effects and desirability bias. As such, they are increasingly popular in both academic and commercial research. However, they often yield demographically biased samples, raising concerns about the accuracy of the resulting public opinion estimates. Most studies on ...
Added: December 23, 2025
Ustyuzhanin V., Zinkina J. V., Korotayev A., / Series Soc " SocArXiv". 2025.
Research of the impact of kin alloparenting on reproduction mainly focuses on mother’s parents and parents-in-law. The impact on fertility of extended families and the alloparental help with childcare they can provide has received much less attention. Moreover, there is an important lacuna in the existing studies of this problem, as it is mostly approached ...
Added: November 11, 2025