Florian Stammler

DepartmentOrganizationEmailPhoneAddressRovaniemi FinlandBioFlorian has done research and lived in many regions of the Russian North since the mid 1990s, and has ever since enjoyed the particularities of how people contemporarily and historically organize their life in this vast area. Since the anthropology team’s big ORHELIA project, he has also started working comparatively with people living in the Western European Arctic, and led several research projects working with Western and Russian Arctic societies and cultures. Much of his research and publications are on the encounter of (extractive) industries with animal-based livelihoods and how its governing changes the livelihoods of Arctic peoples, both indigenous and local. More recently, he has also worked on well-being, youth and Arctic urban anthropology. This research - often using a mix of participant observation and oral history as a method - contributes to broader theoretical debates on worldviews of extractivism, human-animal adaptability and well-being.

Science Specialties

anthropology, Siberian peoples, reindeer breeding

Current Research

Interests lie in the human role in reindeer herding systems, arctic economy, nomadism, indigenous knowledge, land rights, resource extraction and native populations, indigenous movements, centre-periphery relations.Currently engaged in EU project BALANCE, studying local perceptions of climate change among reindeer herders