IACSI
International Association of Circumpolar Sociocultural Issues
IACSI is an international scientific association devoted to an interdisciplinary approach to the study and research of the circumpolar sociocultural phenomena in both the northern and southern regions, that was created in 2005 by Helgi Gunnlaugsson (University of Iceland), Enrique del Acebo Ibáñez (Universidad del Salvador, Argentina) and Miikka Pyykkönen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland).
It was from the platform of IACSI that the journal A&A was launched in 2007, after several IACSI conferences run in Reykjavík, Buenos Aires and Jyväskylä. It was particularly important the two-weeks stay we spent as Visiting Scholar at the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI, University of Cambridge, UK) during 2006, searching for the knowledge of all the publications all over the world related (directly or indirectly) to circumpolar issues
It must be also mentioned the several one-week stays we spent as Visiting Scholar at the Thule Institute (University of Oulu, Finland) from 2005-2007, where we could enrich the design and contents of our planned endeavor along the several meetings developed with the Thule’s directors and with all the scientific round tables run with the main outstanding representatives of the social and geographical sciences devoted to circumpolar issues. The first issue of the A&A journal was launched and presented at the University of Oulu in 2007.
IACSI reinforced its presence through the bi-national agreements signed between the University of Iceland and the Universidad del Salvador (USAL, Argentina), and the University of Jyväskylá (Finland) and the USAL (Argentina). That was continued with the agreements that the Universidad del Salvador signed with the Finnish universities of Lapland and Oulu, and more recently with the University of Versailles, Paris (France).
As we realized that when referring to the circumpolarity several times the scientific realm refers mainly to Arctic issues, not necessarily to the Antarctic ones, the core IACSI committee considered that it was indispensable to emphasize also in the title of the new journal that we will be devoted to the Arctic and the Antarctica sociocultural issues at the same time.
Dr. Enrique del Acebo Ibáñez
IACSI, President
edelacebo@yahoo.com
ARCTIC & ANTARCTIC
International Journal of Circumpolar Sociocultural Issues
Aims and scopes
The Arctic & Antarctic International Journal of Circumpolar Socio-Cultural Issues (A&A-IJCSCI), is an international, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal published annually on behalf of the Foundation of High Studies on Antarctica and Extreme Environments (FAE, Argentina), and under the auspices of the International Association of Circumpolar Socio-Cultural Issues, the University of Iceland (Department of Sociology). The A&A-IJCSCI has been created to provide a forum for the socio-cultural analysis of both circumpolar regions.
Articles in the Journal will be devoted to promote an international and interdisciplinary dialogue concerning the following subjects:
- Local Communities and Extreme Environments
- Habitat, Social Interaction and Identity
- Social Problems and Policies
- Minorities and Aboriginal Cultures
- Migration and Socio-cultural Integration
- Prehistory and History
- Literature and Arts
- Geopolitics and International Relations
- Arctic and Antarctic Comparative Studies
- Other issues related to socio-cultural themes concerning circumpolar areas.