Human Rights and Security in the Arctic

No prerequisites; participation in the course Arctic Ecosystems and Adaptation of Species to Arctic Environment will be an advantage.

The course aims to provide Arctic-related knowledge on different dimensions of human security. After completion of the course the student is able to - explain the relationship between food security and climate change - analyze the expression of food sovereignty in different spatial contexts and what food sovereignty entails in the Arctic context - describe the basics of international cultural heritage law and analyze the concept in the context of rights to the heritage of Arctic communities in Russia.

Literature (suggested):

Food resilience and Sovereignty in the Arctic:

Hossain, K., Raheem, D. & Cormier, S. (2018). Food security Governance in the Arctic-Barents region. New York: Springer Nature. Available at: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319757551#aboutBook.

Cormier, S. & Raheem, D. (2018). Food security in the Barents region. Routledge. Available at: https://www.routledge.com/Society-Environment-and-Human-Security-in-the-Arctic-Barents-Region/Hossain-Cambou/p/book/9780815399841 (e-book).

FAO (2016). The State of Food and Agriculture: Climate change, agriculture and food security. Available at: http://www.fao.org/3/a-i6030e.pdf.

Hossain, K., Hermann, T. & Raheem, D. (2018). Food (in)Security across the Circumpolar Arctic. Book Chapter 38 in Handbook on Arctic Security. Routledge.

Raheem, D. (2018). Food and nutrition as a measure of resilience in the Barents region. Urban Science, 2018, 2, 72. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci2030072. Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), Switzerland (open access).

Nilsson, L. M. & Evengård, B. (2015). Food Security or Food Sovereignty: What Is the Main Issue in the Arctic? In B. Evengård, J. Nymand Larsen & Ø. Paasche (Eds) The New Arctic. Cham: Springer.

 

Introduction to Cultural Heritage Law and Heritage rights and Russian Arctic communities:

Blake, J. (2015). Cultural Heritage and Human Rights. In J. Blake, International Cultural Heritage Law. Oxford University Press, pp. 271–311.

Waterton, E. & Smith, L. (2009). There is no such thing as heritage. In E. Waterton & L. Smith (Eds) Taking Archaeology out of heritage. Cambridge Scholars Press.

 

Human security: questions concerning economic growth and industrial development

TBC

Principle tutor: Researcher Bamidele Raheem, PhD, Arctic Centre. Lecturers: Senior Researcher Bamidele Raheem, PhD; Senior Researcher Juha Saunavaara, PhD; PhD Candidate Karolina Sikora.