Urban Wråkberg
Job description
Professor of Northern Studies
Urban Wråkberg,
Peter Haugseth
:
Tracks across the Tundra: Making a Living from Nature in the Borderland of the Russian Northwest
Urban Sven Fredrik Wråkberg
:
Science as Arbitrator on Arctic Land-Use Issues: а Historical Appraisal
Urban Wråkberg
:
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld and His Svalbard Expedition of 1872–73
Springer Nature 2021 DOI
Peter Haugseth,
Urban Wråkberg
:
Experience of Norwegian-Russian cooperation in
the field of education at the University of Tromsø - Arctic University of Norway Campus Alta and Kirkenes
Murmansk State Humanities University 2021 ARKIV
Victoria V. Tevlina,
Urban Wråkberg,
Ryzhkova Inna
:
Introduction from the editors
Murmansk State Humanities University 2020
Urban Wråkberg
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Наука и индустрия на Кольском полуострове после 1917 года (Science and Industry on the Kola Peninsula since 1917)
Murmansk State Humanities University 2020
Urban Wråkberg
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Oil and gas extraction in the Barents Sea: A Nordic state-industry governance system goes north
Routledge 2019 DOI
Vassily Borovoy,
Niklas Eklund,
Ekaterina Kalemeneva,
Dmitry Lajus,
Julia Lajus,
Daria Stogova
et al.:
Imageries and historical change in the European Russian Arctic
Routledge 2019 DOI
Sabine Höhler,
Julia Lajus,
Peder William Chellew Roberts,
Urban Wråkberg
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Troubling the northern seas: The turbulent history of Norwegian and Russian fisheries
Routledge 2019 DOI
Dag Avango,
Jan Kunnas,
Maria Pettersson,
Örjan Pettersson,
Peder William Chellew Roberts,
Lovisa Solbär
et al.:
Constructing northern Fennoscandia as a mining region
Routledge 2019 DOI
Urban Wråkberg
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Collective memory of the Kirkenes iron mine in
sub-Arctic Norway: Its role in forming the future
Urban Wråkberg
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A.E. Nordenskiöld in Swedish memory: the origin and uses of
Arctic heroism
Urban Wråkberg
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Tourism in the Subarctic and the Baltic Sea regions of Europe
Nadir Kinossian,
Urban Wråkberg
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Palimpsests
Berghahn Books 2017
Peter Haugseth,
Urban Wråkberg
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Tourism Experiences in Post-Soviet Arctic Borderlands
CABI Publishing 2017
Victoria V. Tevlina,
Urban Wråkberg,
Ryzhkova Inna
:
Russia and Norway. Multidimensional Relations in the Borderland. Essays in Russian and English (Россия и Норвегия. Многогранные взаимоотношения в приграничье.
Сборник научных статей)
Murmansk State Humanities University 2020
Urban Sven Fredrik Wråkberg
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Science diplomacy and Arctic governance: A contextualization of scientific knowledge claims as basis for northern land-use policies
2024 FULLTEKST
Urban Sven Fredrik Wråkberg
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Studying the Euroarctic Green Transition
2024
Urban Sven Fredrik Wråkberg
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Studying the Norwegian, Finnish and Russian Subarctic Borderland – Past, Present and Future
2024 FULLTEKST
Urban Wråkberg,
Peter Haugseth,
David Alenga
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Arctic Futures Scenarios
2023
Urban Sven Fredrik Wråkberg
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Presentation at the roundtable Rethinking the History of Arctic Science in the 21st Century: Science as Arbitrator on Arctic Land-Use Issues – A Historical Appraisal
2023
Peter Haugseth,
Urban Sven Fredrik Wråkberg
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Forskning på Urbane Arktis er igang
30. November 2023
Urban Wråkberg
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Hacia el hielo: La exploración polar en el siglio XIX y comienzos del XX
Desperta ferro Arqueologia 2022
Urban Wråkberg
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A.E. Nordenskiölds Nordost-passage 1878-1879: Ledarskap, upptäckts-prioriteter och nationalism
2022
Urban Wråkberg
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Current research needs and trends in Northern Studies
2022
Urban Wråkberg
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Hvordan skrive fagartikler, sett fra redaktør og fagfelleperspektivet
2021
Urban Wråkberg,
Victoria V. Tevlina
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Om den nye boka «Russia and Norway. Multidimensional Relations in the Borderland» («Россия и Норвегия. Многогранные взаимоотношения в приграничье»). Redigert av V.V.Tevlina, I.V.Ryzhkova, U.Wråkberg (2020)
2021
Urban Wråkberg,
Victoria V. Tevlina
:
Norsk-russisk forskningssamarbeid i 2019-2020: Om produksjonen av boken 'Russia and Norway. Multidimensional Relations in the Borderland'
2021
Peter Haugseth,
Urban Wråkberg
:
Experience of Norwegian-Russian cooperation in
the field of education at the
University of Tromsø - Arctic University of Norway
Campus Alta and Kirkenes
2021
Urban Wråkberg
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Färdigställning av forskningsartiklar – med fokus på publikationsprocessen
2020 ARKIV
Peter Haugseth,
Urban Wråkberg
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Dårlige tider? Bruk grensekryssende høgere utdanning!
Nordlys 2020
Victoria V. Tevlina,
Urban Wråkberg
:
Ny boklansering “Russia and Norway. Multidimensional Relations in the Borderland”. Essays in Russian and English (Victoria V. Tevlina, Inna Ryzhkova & Urban Wråkberg (eds)). Murmansk, Murmansk Arctic State University, 2020
2020
Urban Wråkberg
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Statement at the roundtable 6H: Merging environmental history, business history, and history of science and technology in the study of natural resources
2019
Urban Wråkberg
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Grensekryssende turisme i Europa – inspirert av Barentsmodellen
2018
Urban Wråkberg
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The Development of Russian and Norwegian Northern Towns in Soviet Times
2018
Urban Wråkberg
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Nature and Culture Heritage in Arctic Tourism: The Case of Svalbard / Spitsbergen
2018
Urban Wråkberg
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Off-shore Industry on the Norwegian Sector of the Seabed of the Barents Sea: Geo-economics, Technoscience and Regional Challenges
2018
Peter Haugseth,
Urban Wråkberg,
Hindertje Hoarau-Heemstra
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Maritime Tourism: Challenges and opportunities of cruising.Parallel Session IV:25/27
2018
Urban Wråkberg
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Research at the Arctic University of Norway in Kirkenes
2018
Urban Wråkberg
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Ungdom, Grenseland og Forskningssamarbeid i Europa
2018
Urban Wråkberg
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Tourism initiatives on Svalbard: A scholarly perspective
2017
Urban Wråkberg
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The development of Russian and Norwegian cities in the north in soviet times
2017
Urban Wråkberg
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Northern cross-border tourism and cultural heritage in a European perspective
2017
Urban Wråkberg
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Review of: Johan Schimanski & Ulrike Spring, Passagiere des Eises: Polarhelten und arktische Diskurse 1874 (Wien & Köln, 2015)
Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge) 2017
Urban Wråkberg
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Some ideas for joint research on the borderlands of Europe: Memory, culture & regional development
2017
Urban Wråkberg
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Presentation of the chapters on “Energy” in one of the forthcoming books of the Mistra Arctic Sustainable Development research programme
2017
Urban Wråkberg
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Nature, heritage and geopolitics in the Arctic visitor industry: Some case studies from Svalbard and North-West Russia
2017
Urban Wråkberg
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Non-renewable energy resources in the Fennoscandian north:
Technological path-dependence and competing visions of change
2017
Peter Haugseth,
Urban Wråkberg
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Some ideas for joint research and tourism in the borderlands of Europe
2017
Urban Wråkberg
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Beyond statistics and stations: Borderlands as cross-roads
2017
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Research interests
Urban Wråkberg is professor of Northern Studies – a multidisciplinary and circum-polar research field. He conducts research on social, political and scientific issues of the north, with a focus on the Euroarctic and the borderlands of the Barents Region. He has published in English, Swedish, Norwegian and Russian on the geo-economic drivers of science in the polar regions, on the history and ideology of polar exploration and on the nexus between scientific and indigenous knowledge-formation in the north. He analyses theories and practices of sustainability in northern industrial development.
Teaching
Urban Wråkberg teaches on-line courses in the three year Bachelor of Northern Studies Programme and in the single course package in Northern Studies. He serves as supervisor of master students at the Department of Tourism and Northern Studies.