Auni Haapala

Auni Haapala is a Visiting Researcher at the Arctic Centre and Doctoral Researcher at the University of Lapland's Graduate School in the 'Arctic in a Changing World' programme. Their work focuses on global extractivism, Arctic urban dynamics, and feminist political ecology. Based in Rovaniemi, Finland, Haapala's research interrogates how urban spaces materialize invisible global processes like fisheries and tourism in Arctic contexts.

Research interests include:

• Urban political ecologies of Arctic cities
• Decolonial approaches to northern urbanism
• Feminist critiques of resource extraction

Recent publications analyze Tromsø's urban invisibilities in global fisheries networks and postcolonial histories of Arctic urban development. Their presentations at international conferences address topics like aurora tourism's material-discursive formations and Arctic city-nature relations.

Currently affiliated with the Sustainable Multispecies Futures (SuMu) research group, Haapala's work bridges environmental humanities and urban studies to explore multispecies coexistences in rapidly changing Arctic environments.