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GLOBAL CHANGE - SOCIAL CHALLENG  

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  • As development in Northern and Arctic communities are influencing both the living conditions and the cultural characteristics of the population in the North, the present pace of globalization is calling for a research focus on both short and long term perspectives in social and socio-economic changes. The question of sustainable development emphasizes the need of understanding changes not only in relation to the present, but in an inter-generational perspective. In addition the need for a gender perspective on the development process has been emphasized. Crucial is on one hand the need of interdisciplinarity in the research activities, because there is an intimate connections between the bio-physical, the socio-economic and the cultural worlds. And on the other hand, an understanding of the changes in inter-generational and gender perspectives is very much needed. The focus of the project will be on six major components shaping the future social characteristics of the Northern and Arctic communities. 1) Change in resource use, technology and employment patterns. The technologification and capitalization of renewable and non-renewable resources has profound implications on both the sectors and the communities. Similarly the technological development and its influence on the access and distribution of information, insight, knowledge and understanding, contributes to the shaping of the future through increased access by Arctic residents to the global flow of information, as well as access for outsiders to a more in-depth understanding of the Arctic perspectives. 2) Change in values, power relations, perception, preferences and life strategies. The basis is the status of the living conditions, health and welfare situation characterizing the communities in the Arctic. In this process migration has a profound impact on kinship and family, just as on the children´s position in the family and society. Retrospective: Changing patterns of (gendered) social and geographical mobility. In status: Mobility, aspirations and actions: Rationalities and reasoning in relation to patterns of mobility. And Prospective: Youth Aspirations in relation to social and geographical mobility. 3) Change in community dynamics and gender aspects of the development process, where one component is on the status of education and research activities shaping the future patterns of development, especially the question of the interaction between the two divergent processes of centralization and decentralization as components in the process. Similarly components in the ongoing changes include the regional and structural characteristics of different types of settlements such as the divide between towns and villages and the differences in perceptions of development goals. 4) Shift in income patterns, property issues, resource rights, as well as access to decision making. A key question will be women’s access to decision making in the resource based sectors in rural areas of the north. 5) The questions of risk, threads and crises in the development process, and how realities as well as the perceptions are influencing the social interaction in Arctic communities. On one hand the question of establishing and maintaining efficient and competent health system in sparsely populated Arctic regions including the modification and transfer of technology to quite different settings. And on the other hand the question of understanding and managing violence, both in its public and domestic forms. 6) A cross-cutting issue - is the youth and gender perspectives on the development process, on one hand the question of participation and involvement in the social processes, and on the other hand their specific role in the processes of change, influencing both the direction and characteristics of the development process. A crucial topic for the consortium is the further development of the research school activities within the framework of CASS and CAES, so the list of contributors include as well members of the research consortium as well as members of the research school groups. Summary provided by http://classic.ipy.org/development/eoi/proposal-details.php?id=210 (en)

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