StudioPolar
News and Events

StudioPolar’s Electronic Polar Information Center (EPIC) is holding an inaugural workshop, January 30-31, 2009 at Hayden Library, Arizona State University, to discuss issues relating to the data management of Deanna Kingston, Peter Schweitzer, John Howard, and Arthur Mason. The workshop plans to develop three distinct Case Studies (Kingston, Schweitzer, Mason) from which to identify patterns of data management in arctic anthropological research.

The Canadian Government awards funds to StudioPolar and the Energy, Society and Policy Initiative to create a North American Network on Energy and Society (NANES). The first NANES symposium and workshop will be held on January 26-27, 2009, at the Ira Fulton Center, Arizona State University.

Arizona State University awards seed grant to StudioPolar to foster international collaborative research. The grant was presented by the Office of the Vice President for Global Engagement for a project titled: Long Term Oil Spill Effects: Scenarios of Cascading Ecological and Socio-Economic Impacts.

Welcome to StudioPolar!

StudioPolar is a joint project of the Consortium for Science, Policy
and Outcomes (CSPO), and the School of Social Transformation (SST) at
Arizona State University. Research at StudioPolar examines the
cultural politics of arctic energy development, climate change and
markets.

We focus on the social formation of knowledge and expertise,
inflationary economies and anticipatory knowledge, anthropogenic
landscapes, ethnohydrocarbony, as well as the social history of
bureaucratic and indigenous elites.