

Urban Wråkberg
Professor
Job description
Professor of Northern Studies
- Wråkberg, Urban. Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld and His Svalbard Expedition of 1872–73. Springer Nature 2021 ISBN 978-3-030-67879-1.s 9 - 29.s doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-67880-7_2.
- Haugseth, Peter; Wråkberg, Urban. 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 ISBN 978-5-4222-0442-7.s 117 - 122.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Наука и индустрия на Кольском полуострове после 1917 года (Science and Industry on the Kola Peninsula since 1917). Murmansk State Humanities University 2020 ISBN 978-5-4222-0419-9.s 95 - 118.
- Tevlina, Victoria V.; Wråkberg, Urban; Inna, Ryzhkova. Introduction from the editors. Murmansk State Humanities University 2020 ISBN 978-5-4222-0419-9.s 18 - 23.
- Wråkberg, Urban. A.E. Nordenskiöld in Swedish memory: the origin and uses of Arctic heroism. Acta Borealia 2019; Volum 36 (2). ISSN 0800-3831.s 166 - 182.s doi: 10.1080/08003831.2019.1680511.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Collective memory of the Kirkenes iron mine in sub-Arctic Norway: Its role in forming the future. Polar Record 2019. ISSN 0032-2474.s doi: 10.1017/S003224741900038X.
- Borovoy, Vassily; Eklund, Niklas; Kalemeneva, Ekaterina; Lajus, Dmitry; Lajus, Julia; Stogova, Daria; Vlakhov, Andrian; Wråkberg, Urban. Imageries and historical change in the European Russian Arctic. Routledge 2019 ISBN 9781138040601.s 200 - 220.s doi: 10.4324/9781315174969-11.
- Höhler, Sabine; Lajus, Julia; Roberts, Peder William Chellew; Wråkberg, Urban. Troubling the northern seas: The turbulent history of Norwegian and Russian fisheries. Routledge 2019 ISBN 9781138040601.s 181 - 199.s doi: 10.4324/9781315174969-10.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Oil and gas extraction in the Barents Sea: A Nordic state-industry governance system goes north. Routledge 2019 ISBN 9781138040601.s 161 - 180.s doi: 10.4324/9781315174969-9.
- Avango, Dag; Kunnas, Jan; Pettersson, Maria; Pettersson, Örjan; Roberts, Peder William Chellew; Solbär, Lovisa; Warde, Paul; Wråkberg, Urban. Constructing northern Fennoscandia as a mining region. Routledge 2019 ISBN 9781138040601.s 78 - 98.s doi: 10.4324/9781315174969-5.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Tourism in the Subarctic and the Baltic Sea regions of Europe. (fulltekst) Арктика и Север 2018; Volum 32. ISSN 2221-2698.s 4 - 14.s doi: 10.17238/issn2221-2698.2018.32.5.
- Kinossian, Nadir; Wråkberg, Urban. Palimpsests. Berghahn Books 2017 ISBN 9781785334641.s 90 - 110.
- Haugseth, Peter; Wråkberg, Urban. Tourism Experiences in Post-Soviet Arctic Borderlands. CABI Publishing 2017 ISBN 9781780648620.s 181 - 190.
- Myklebost, Kari Aga; Wråkberg, Urban. Explorations in the North. Pax Forlag 2016 ISBN 9788253038575.s 198 - 205.
- Wråkberg, Urban. The Path-dependence of Russia's Northern Industry and Some Aspects of its Future Development. Northern Arctic Federal University 2015 ISBN 978-5-261-01078-4.s 304 - 313.
- Wråkberg, Urban. The politics of place names: a summation. (fulltekst) 2015; Volum 2015 (3). ISSN 0000-0000.s 69 - 92.s doi: 10.7557/5.3585.
- Wråkberg, Urban. The Loss of Built Heritage in Northern Norway during WWII and the Failing Interest to Restore It in the Official Post-War Rebuilding Policy. Murmansk State Humanities University 2015 ISBN 978-5-4222-0258-4.s 257 - 262.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Arctic Geoeconomics and the Research Challenges of the Northern University. Murmansk State Humanities University 2014 ISBN 978-5-4222-0245-4.s 197 - 210.
- Doel, Ronald E.; Wråkberg, Urban; Zeller, Suzanne. Science, Environment, and the New Arctic. Journal of Historical Geography 2014; Volum 44. ISSN 0305-7488.s 2 - 14.s doi: 10.1016/j.jhg.2013.12.003.
- Wråkberg, Urban; Granqvist, Karin. Decolonizing technoscience in northern Scandinavia: the role of scholarship in Sámi emancipation and the indigenization of Western science. Journal of Historical Geography 2014; Volum 44. ISSN 0305-7488.s 81 - 92.s doi: 10.1016/j.jhg.2013.12.005.
- Doel, Ronald E.; Friedman, Robert Marc; Lajus, Julia; Sörlin, Sverker; Wråkberg, Urban. Strategic Arctic science: national interests in building natural knowledge – interwar era through the Cold War. Journal of Historical Geography 2014; Volum 44. ISSN 0305-7488.s 60 - 80.s doi: 10.1016/j.jhg.2013.12.004.
- Avango, Dag; Hacquebord, Louwrens; Wråkberg, Urban. Industrial extraction of Arctic natural resources since the sixteenth century: technoscience and geo-economics in the history of northern whaling and mining. Journal of Historical Geography 2014; Volum 44. ISSN 0305-7488.s 15 - 30.s doi: 10.1016/j.jhg.2014.01.001.
- Wråkberg, Urban. The geopolitics of northern travels: Enactments of adventure and exploration in the Norwegian-Russian borderland. (fulltekst) Nordlit 2014; Volum 31. ISSN 0809-1668.s 71 - 89.s doi: 10.7557/13.3057.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Built Heritage in the Borderlands of the Barents and Baltic Regions: Post-Soviet Spaces in Kirkenes, Pechenga and Klaipeda. Murmansk State Humanities University 2014 ISBN 978-5-4222-0231-7.s 161 - 169.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Science and Industry in Northern Russia in Nordic Perspective. (sammendrag) Ashgate 2013 ISBN 978-1-4724-0969-0.s 195 - 223.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Introduction: Interdisciplinary History. (fulltekst) The Polar Journal 2012; Volum 2 (2). ISSN 2154-896X.s 191 - 199.s doi: 10.1080/2154896X.2012.735035.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Vetenskaplig expertis och nordområdets naturresurser. (fulltekst) Nordlit 2012 (29). ISSN 0809-1668.s 215 - 234.s doi: 10.7557/13.2315.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Euroarctic Strategies and Synergies. 2012 ISBN 9789491431081.s 161 - 172.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Axel Hambergs nordliga forskningsfärder i ett vetenskapligt och socialt perspektiv. (sammendrag) Uppsala universitet 2012; Volum Skrifter rörande Uppsala universitet Serie C (94) ISBN 9789155482541. ISSN 0502-7454.s 35 - 91.
- Wråkberg, Urban Sven F. 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, Skriftserie Institutt for historie, Universitetet i Tromsø 2010 (12). ISSN 1503-1241.s 152 - 163.
- Wråkberg, Urban Sven F. “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. 2009 ISBN 5-7536-0360-2.s 255 - 264.
- Wråkberg, Urban Sven F. IPY Field Stations: Functions and Meanings. Ashgate 2009 ISBN 978-0-7546-7399-6.s 47 - 71.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Axel Hamberg mellan två polarår. Ymer 2009; Volum 129. ISSN 0044-0477.s 81 - 103.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Pomor Zone: A Cross-Border Initiative to Further Regional Development in Northern Norway and Northwest Russia. 2009 ISBN 9785991100410.s 19 - 29.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Barents Institute – The Agenda of a New Institute. 2008 ISBN 978-82-7571-168-5.s 141 - 150.
- Wråkberg, Urban. The Quest for Authenticity in Narratives of Northern Border Lands. Nordlit 2007; Volum 22. ISSN 0809-1668.s 193 - 209.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Nature Conservationism and the Arctic Commons of Spitsbergen 1900-1920. Acta Borealia 2006; Volum 23 (1). ISSN 0800-3831.s 1 - 23.
- Wråkberg, Urban. In the Days of Pioneers and Amateurs: On the Early History of Arctic Archaeology. Rossijskaja akademija nauk / Russian Academy of Sciences 2006 ISBN 5891763583.s 40 - 87.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Arctic sublime. (data) (fulltekst) Merge Magazine sound thought image 2005 (14-15). ISSN 1402-6570.s 28 - 28.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Delineating a Continent of Ice and Snow: Cartographic Claims of Knowledge and Territory in Antarctica in the 19th and Early 20th Century. 2004 ISBN 91-85252-64-6.s 123 - 143.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Det internationella intresset för Arktis 1800-1925. 2004 ISBN 82-92201-07-6.s 7 - 25.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Ruiner i förfallande landskap: Arktiska spår av kultur, vetenskap och industri. Symposion Brutus Östlings bokförlag 2003 ISBN 91-7139-605-5.s 337 - 365.
- Wråkberg, Urban. The Politics of Naming: Contested Observations and the Shaping of Geographical Knowledge. (omtale) (sammendrag) 2002 ISBN 0-88135-385-X.s 155 - 197.
- Wråkberg, Urban; Lindkvist, Julia. A. E. Nordenskiöld’s Impressions of Meiji Japan. 2002 ISBN 91-7190-039-X.s 61 - 80.
- Wråkberg, Urban. The Russo-Swedish Arc of the Meridian Expeditions to Spitsbergen 1898-1902. 2002 ISBN 5-89176-180-7.s 15 - 52.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Den internationella antarktisforskningen och Otto Nordenskjölds sydpolarexpedition 1901-03. Ymer 2001; Volum 121. ISSN 0044-0477.s 25 - 50.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Eugenio Parent and Giacomo Bove: Italians in 19th Century Swedish Polar Exploration. 2001 (32) ISBN 91-7190-036-5. ISSN 0081-9956.s 169 - 205.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Andrée’s Folly: Time for Reappraisal?. 1999 (28) ISBN 91-7190-031-4. ISSN 0081-9956.s 56 - 99.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Politik och vetenskap i A. E. Nordenskiölds ockupationsförsök av Spetsbergen år 1871-1873. 1999 (69). ISSN 1101-5284.s 39 - 52.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Minnets land – Om den geografiske namngivningens historia i Arktis. (fulltekst) 1995 ISBN 82-7373-051-4.s 121 - 142.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Where Science Turns into Sports and Politics: The Decline of Swedish Polar Research in the Early 20th Century. (prosjekt) 1993 ISBN 0-88135-157-1.s 79 - 106.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Om djuphavets gåtor och ett fiskeri på vetenskaplig grund: Historiska perspektiv på oceanografin i Sverige. Ymer 1991; Volum 111. ISSN 0044-0477.s 84 - 105.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Betydelsen av teori- och metodutvecklingen inom historieskrivningen för undervisningen i ämnet teknikhistoria. Polhem : Tidskrift för teknikkhistoria 1990; Volum 8 (3). ISSN 0281-2142.s 189 - 199.
- Wråkberg, Urban. Svensk polarforskning på 1800-talet. 1990 ISBN 8272165899.s 137 - 146.
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.
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