Gertrude Saxinger (born 1973) is a researcher and lecturer on mining and Circumpolar North anthropology at the University of Vienna, Austria.[1][2]
Contributions
Saxinger is Austrian, and previously worked on industrial textile engineering in South-East Asia and stage costume design/production for theatres in Austria in the 1990s.[2] She has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Vienna (2013).[2] She studies community-extractive industry relations in remote regions (Canada, Russia, Sápmi), and associated issues of climate adaptation, migration, and regional development in the Circumpolar North.[3] She also works on the ‘green’ transition and critical mineral extraction and the European Green Deal.[4]
Substantive projects have been with the First Nation of Na-cho Nyäk Dun, Yukon Territory on the impacts of gold and silver mining,[5] on livelihoods spanning the Baykal-Amur Mainline (BAM) in Siberia and the Russian Far East,[6] and on the mobile workforce of the oil and gas industries of in the Yamal-Nenets and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Districts in Russia.[7]
Her main roles have been at the Austrian Polar Research Institute and Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, and University of Bern.[8]
Works
- 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. T he Mobile Workers Guide: Fly-in/Fly-out and Rotational Shift Work in Mining. 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
- Saxinger, G. 2013. Mobile Leben der FernpendlerInnen in der Erdgas‐ und Erdölindustrie im Norden Russlands (Mobile lives of long-distance commute workers in the Northern Russian gas and oil industry), Doctoral thesis, University of Vienna.
References
- ↑ "ORCID". orcid.org.
- 1 2 3 Curriculum Vitae & Publication List univie.ac.at April 2019
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Saxinger". politikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at.