boREALIFE Blog Part 1

First impressions from the freshly started research project boREALIFE: Overheating in the High Arctic.

From February 2019 till February 2021, Zdenka Sokolíčková will be studying the impacts of globalization on life in the town of Longyearbyen (Svalbard Archipelago). The researcher’s host instituttion is Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. The project is mentored by professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen and financed by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic.

Many further details and photos to be found at project’s facebook page.