The Polar Journal has issued a call for papers for their next publication. If you are interested in submitting a paper, further details are set out below.
Title: Contemporary methodologies and approaches in Polar Social Sciences
Special Issue Editors: Julia Olsen (Nord University, Norway), Carina Ren (Aalborg University, Denmark), Hanne Nielsen (University of Tasmania, Australia)
Period of submission: 1 December 2024 – 28 February 2025
First revisions: March 2025 – April/May 2025
Topics for contributions:
- Participatory methodologies
- Co-production of knowledge, inclusion of Indigenous, traditional, and local knowledge
- Inter- or transdisciplinarity – opportunities and benefits, challenges, and friction
- Learning and living labs
- Cross-case comparison in Arctic and Polar contexts: why and how to compare?
- Citizen science
- Multimodal or visual methods
- Rethinking or repurposing ‘traditional’ social science methods
- Navigating research ethics in Polar Social Science (consent, guidelines, GDPR etc.)
For more details: Call for Papers