Gertrude Saxinger

Gertrude Saxinger is a researcher and lecturer on social dimensions of natural resource extraction (mining, oil and gas) and Arctic anthropology at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Polar Research Institute APRI.

Contributions
Saxinger previously worked in textile engineering in South-East Asia and stage costume design/production for theatres in Austria in the 1990s. She has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Vienna (2013) and defended her habilitation at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She studies community-extractive industry relations in remote regions (Canada, Russia, Sápmi) and associated issues of mono-industrial urban and regional development in the Circumpolar North. She also works on the ‘green’ transition and critical mineral extraction and the European Green Deal.

Together with her international colleagues from geology, anthropology, geography, political science, sociology and cultural studies, she leads the SSHRC funded research and conversation project Beyond Hot Air - Conversations around Critical raw materials supply for the 'green' transition.

Substantive projects have been with the First Nation of Na-cho Nyäk Dun in Yukon/Canada on the impacts of 20th century colonialism and gold and silver mining, on mobility infrastructures and state-corporate-community relationships in oil regions along the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) in Siberia and on hyper-mobile workforce (FIFO / fly-in/fly-out, rail-in/rail-out) of the oil and gas industries of in the Yamal-Nenets and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Districts in Russia.

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. The Mobile Workers Guide - Fly-In/Fly-Out & Rotational Shift Work in Mining. Yukon Experiences Mobile_Workers_Guide_2017.pdf. 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