Calotte Academy 2023: Non-state actors and circumpolar regionalization
The Calotte Academy is an annual traveling symposium and international forum in Europe’s North Calotte region, designed to promote interdisciplinary discourse, and implement the interplay between senior and young researchers for to train and supervise early-career scientists in circumpolar Arctic studies (see, a short history in this booklet). It is a “school of dialogue” and participatory by nature with an idea to share knowledge and experiences with communities, and foster academic and policy-oriented dialogue among members of the research community and a wide range of other northern stakeholders.
The Calotte Academy 2023 is held in Rovaniemi, Kiruna, Kautokeino, Alta, Kirkenes, and Inari, June 11-18, 2023.
The theme of the 2023 Academy, “Non-state Actors and Circumpolar Regionalization” is inspired by the rich circumpolar cooperation and regionalization by local & regional non-state actors - Indigenous peoples’ organizations, sub-national governments, non-governmental organizations, civil societies - and their important contributions for multi-level governance. These contributions, as well as the entire work, are done under an emerging pressure of the environmental catastrophe and climate crisis, as well as the new (East-West) great power rivalry and the related power politics. Local & regional actors also face, by concrete ways, a paradox of Arctic development whenever a balance has been sought between environmental protection & climate change mitigation and economic activities due to ‘political inability’ of the Arctic states to make hard decisions.
The 2023 Calotte Academy is co-organized by Saami Education Institute (SAKK), and Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Lapland (in Finland); Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education (HSL) & Barents Institute at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and International Center for Reindeer Herding Husbandry (EALAT) (in Norway); University of Stockholm (in Sweden); in cooperation with UArctic’s Thematic Network (TN) on Geopolitics and Security.
Read more about the symposium: Calotte Academy 2023 Booklet.