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Urban Wråkberg

Urban Wråkberg contributes to international networking and conducts research on social, political and scientific issues of the Polar Regions, with a focus on the Euroarctic. He has published in English, Swedish, Norwegian and Russian on the social and economical context of scientific, technological and indigenous knowledge formation on the Arctic and, regarding the former two cases, on Antarctica. He analyses theories and practices of sustainability, and undertakes applied research on economic growth and northern industrial development.

His PhD and research training at the Universities of Uppsala and Stockholm was interdisciplinary, including sociology and economic history, while specialising in the epistemology and social construction of scientific knowledge. He holds a MSc (Civilingenjör) from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, in material science and metallurgical engineering.

Selected publications

Wråkberg, Urban & Karin Granqvist, “Decolonising Technoscience in Northern Scandinavia: The Role of Scholarship in Indigenous Identity Making and Sámi Self-determination”, Journal of Historical Geography [forthcoming].

Wråkberg, Urban, “The Great Game of the North: A Global Scenario for Domestic Use?,” in: Norway and Russia in the Arctic: Conference Proceedings from the International Conference: Norway and Russia in the Arctic, Longyearbyen 25-28th August 2009, eds., Stian Bones & Petia Mankova, Speculum Boreale no. 12 (Tromsö: University of Tromsö, 2010), pp. 152-163

Wråkberg, Urban, “Pomor Zone: A Cross-Border Initiative to Further Regional Development in Northern Norway and Northwest Russia,” Transborder Cooperation of Russia with Northern Countries: Conditions and Perspectives on the Development: Proceedings of V Northern Social and Ecological Congress, Moscow, 21-21 April, 2009 (Moscow: Publishing house Galleria, 2009), pp. 19-29 [in Russian]

Urban Wråkberg, “IPY Field Stations: Functions and Meanings,” in: Legacies and Change in Polar Sciences: Historical, Legal and Political Reflections on the International Polar Year, eds. Jessica M. Shadian & Monica Tennberg (Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2009), pp. 47-71.

Urban Wråkberg, “The Role of Research in Barents Region Cross-border Collaboration,” in: Russia and the World: History, International Relations, Science and Education, ed. L.B. Krasavshev (Arkhangelsk & Moscow: Solti, 2009), pp. 255-264.

Urban Wråkberg, Jens Petter Nielsen, Alexey Komarov & Yulia Bardileva, eds., International Relations in the European North and the Barents Region: Proceedings of the Russian-Norwegian Seminar Murmansk, May 19-20, 2007 (Murmansk: Murmansk State Pedagogical University, 2008). 236 pp

Urban Wråkberg, “Nature Conservationism and the Arctic Commons of Spitsbergen 1900-1920,” Acta Borealia 23 (2006) no. 1, pp. 1-23.

Contact

Urban Wråkberg

Barents Institute
P.O. Box 107
N-9915 Kirkenes
Norway

E-mail: urban@barinst.no

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