2009 Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV Online Program

Paper Session: 4426 The Changing Geographies of the Arctic and Northern Regions: I is scheduled on Wednesday, 3/25/09, from 1:00 PM - 2:40 PM in Capri 114, Riviera Hotel, 1st Floor Sponsorship(s): Russian, Central Eurasian, and East European Specialty Group Canadian Studies Specialty Group Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group Organizer(s): Timothy Edmund Heleniak - University of Maryland Andrey N Petrov - University of Toronto Chair(s): Timothy Edmund Heleniak - University of Maryland Abstract(s):   1:00 PM   Author(s): *Elizabeth S. Vidon - Indiana University  Abstract Title: Nationalism, Identity and Space in the Eastern Canadian Arctic 1:20 PM   Author(s): *Lisa Cooke - York University  Abstract Title: Canada's North: A landscape of (whose) desire? 1:40 PM   Author(s): *Gail Russel, PhD Candidate - University of Toronto  Abstract Title: A political-economic reading of the Arctic Exception Policy 2:00 PM   Author(s): *Michael Graham - University of Northern Iowa  Abstract Title: Space, history, and law: Rethinking Canadian territorial claims in its Arctic archipelago Session Description: The Arctic and Northern regions are currently undergoing rapid economic, political, environmental, and climatic change. There is a growing interest in the Arctic among both geographers and the general public. This session invites papers examining any aspect of changes in the human, physical, cultural, or environmental geography of the Arctic or northern regions. The 2009 AAG comes near the end of the International Polar Year and provides an opportunity to present results from fieldwork undertaken during that time.

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