Gertrude Saxinger
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Gertrude Saxinger is a researcher and lecturer on social dimensions of natural resource extraction (mining, oil and gas) and Arctic anthropology "ORCID". orcid.org. at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Polar Research Institute APRI.
Contributions
[edit]Saxinger previously worked in textile engineering in South-East Asia and stage costume design/production for theatres in Austria in the 1990s. She has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Vienna (2013) and defended her habilitation at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She studies community-extractive industry relations in remote regions (Canada, Russia, Sápmi) and associated issues of mono-industrial urban and regional development in the Circumpolar North.[1] She also works on the ‘green’ transition and critical mineral extraction and the European Green Deal.[2]
Together with her international colleagues from geology, anthropology, geography, political science, sociology and cultural studies, she leads the SSHRC funded research and conversation project Beyond Hot Air - Conversations around Critical raw materials supply for the 'green' transition.
Substantive projects have been with the First Nation of Na-cho Nyäk Dun in Yukon/Canada on the impacts of 20th century colonialism and gold and silver mining,[3] on mobility infrastructures and state-corporate-community relationships in oil regions along the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) in Siberia [4] and on hyper-mobile workforce (FIFO / fly-in/fly-out, rail-in/rail-out) of the oil and gas industries of in the Yamal-Nenets and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Districts in Russia.[5]
Works
[edit]- Film. Saxinger, G. with R. Gebauer, S. Gartler, J. Oschmann. 2017. Mining on First Nation Land ‐ The First Nation of Na‐Cho Nyäk Dun in Mayo/Yukon Territory Film.
- Saxinger, G. & S. Gartier. 2017. The Mobile Workers Guide - Fly-In/Fly-Out & Rotational Shift Work in Mining. Yukon Experiences Mobile_Workers_Guide_2017.pdf. Yukon Experiences. ReSDA/ First Nation of Na-cho Nyäk Dun/Yukon College.
- Saxinger, G. 2016. Unterwegs. Mobiles Leben in der Erdgas‐ und Erdölindustrie in Russlands Arktis /Mobil’nyy obraz zhizni vakhtovykh rabochikh neftegazovoy promyshlennosti na Russkom Kraynem Severe /Lives on the Move – Long‐distance Commuting in the Northern Russian Petroleum Industry. With an extended summary in English and Russian. Böhlau, pp. 206. ISBN 978-3-205-79694-7
- Taylor, A. Carson, D., Ensign, P., Huskey, L., Rasmussen, R. & G. Saxinger. (eds.). 2016. Settlements at the Edge: Remote human settlements in developed nations. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781784711955
- Schweitzer, P., Donecker, St. & Saxinger, G. (eds.) 2016. Arktis und Subarktis. Geschichte, Kultur, Gesellschaft (Arctic and Subarctic. History, Culture, Society). New Academic Press, 224 pp. ISBN 978-3-7003-2321-1
References
[edit]- ^ Expert interview with Gertrude ('Gertie') Saxinger, retrieved 2023-11-09
- ^ "Saxinger". politikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
- ^ "Fly-in work and family stress: Researchers explore the pitfalls for remote workers". CBC. 18 April 2018. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
- ^ "FWF-Project Configurations of 'Remoteness' (CoRe)". core.univie.ac.at.
- ^ "Mobile Leben der FernpendlerInnen in der Erdgas- und Erdölindustrie im Norden Russlands". utheses.univie.ac.at. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
