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Nordic Ruralities Conference 3-5 Dec 2024
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About The Nordic Ruralitites Conference for Rural Research
Last changed: 13 May 2024
The Nordic Ruralitites Conference for Rural Research is an opportunity to share knowledge and experiences on research relevant to the context of the Nordic countries. The conference has previous years attracted up to 300 researchers from various disciplines. The Nordic Ruralites is an excellent environment for interdisciplinary discussions and meeting researchers with an interest in the Nordic Rural areas. This edit focuses on New paths to sustainable transitions?
The conference has been arranged biannually in May/June since 2010 and alternating between the Nordic countries. The latest conference was held in Denmark in 2018. The 6th conference was originally planned to be held in Tahko, Finland in 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We now resume the tradition of this conference with a temporary move to December 2024 instead of a conference in May this year. Thereafter, the plan is to be back on track with a biannual conference in May/June from 2026 onwards.
The conference will be held at at Aurora Kultur and Kongress and Scandic Kiruna in Kiruna from the 3rd to the 5th of December. Kiruna, Sweden's northernmost municipality is a part of Sápmi, the land of the Sami, and home to Sámi indigenous peoples for thousands of years. It is also home to the Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi, to Sweden's highest mountain, Kebnekaise, and to the world's largest underground iron ore mine – a mine that is now forcing the town of Kiruna to move. Kiruna encapsulates the tumultuous implications of transitions for Europe and thus a perfect meeting spot for the Nordic rural research community.
We invite researchers from different disciplines with interests in the Nordic rural areas as an empirical field to join us in discussing and interpreting transitions at various scales. You are all warmly welcome to give presentations on your ongoing research and projects and contribute to the discussions with key scholars from the field.