Emptiness

Anna Varfolomeeva

Anna Varfolomeeva is a postdoctoral researcher at Faculty of Arts and Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, University of Helsinki, Finland. Her postdoctoral project focuses on indigenous conceptualizations of sustainability in industrialized areas of the Russian North and Siberia. Anna received her PhD (2019) at Central European University in Budapest and previously worked at School of Advanced Studies, University of Tyumen in Siberia. She is the co-editor of the volume Multispecies Households in the Saian Mountains: Ecology at the Russia-Mongolia Border (2019), and has published on indigeneity in Russia and the symbolism of stone extraction.

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