TAI Bookshelf Podcast - Arctic Identities with Ingrid Medby

Dr. Ingrid A Medby. Photo: Kim Aubut Demers

The Arctic Institute’s Bookshelf Podcast is back with its second series! This season, your favorite hosts Liubov Timonina and Romain Chuffart are joined by a new host, Saga Helgason. Together they chat with scholars and experts to make the Arctic easy and accessible to everyone. Tune in every other week and join our in-depth conversations that take you beyond the headlines and right into the latest ideas, challenges, and experiences from the Arctic.

This week, Romain and Liuba had a conversation with Dr. Ingrid Medby about Arctic identities, Arctic-ness and perceptions of the Arctic. During her doctoral research, Ingrid conducted interviews with officials and state personnel from Arctic states and she told Romain and Liuba a few anecdotes from her field work. The three of them also talked about the concept of peopling, Barents cooperation, and the importance of understanding the everyday dynamics of relationships between people working in and with the Arctic. This conversation was mostly based on Ingrid’s forthcoming book where she explores Arctic state identities that will be published with Manchester University Press.

Dr. Ingrid Medby is a Senior Lecturer in Political Geography at Oxford Brookes University in the UK. She holds a PhD in Political Geography from Durham University and her research interests lie in the areas of geopolitics, identity, nationalism, and statecraft, focusing on the Arctic region. Prior to her PhD, Ingrid worked for the North Norway European Office in Brussels. Ingrid writes regularly on Arctic issues for High North News, and engages with related policy.

This episode was recorded in February 2021.