Description: Interest in the Arctic as one of the world's last energy frontiers is increasing. The indigenous peoples of the circumpolar North have long been involved in struggles to make sense of, adapt to, and negotiate the impacts and consequences of resource development, but they have also been involved in struggles to gain some measure of control over development as well as to benefit from it.
Brief description: Mark Nuttall is a professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the department of anthropology at the University of Alberta, Canada.