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Heidi Konttinen is a Researcher at the Arctic Centre and Doctoral Researcher in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Lapland, Finland. She contributes to the Sustainable Naturecultures and Multispecies Future (SuMu) research team within Critical Arctic Studies and serves as Collaborative Investigator for the POST-Bothnia project (2023-2027) examining post-anthropocentric water relations in the Bothnian Bay.
Her academic background includes:
- Master of Arts in Creative Sustainability, Aalto University (2018)
- Master of Arts in Industrial Design, University of Lapland (2016)
Konttinen's research investigates the plurality of sustainabilities in the Arctic through decolonial lenses, focusing on power dynamics between competing sustainability paradigms. Her dissertation explores seal hunting traditions in Greenland and the Gulf of Bothnia, framing sustainability as a sociomaterial entity where making and participatory practices constitute core methodological approaches. This work intersects political ecology, indigenous knowledge systems, and multispecies ethnography.
Analysis of her 2020-2025 publications reveals consistent engagement with Arctic human-animal relations, indigenous material cultures, and critiques of extractivism. Key thematic threads include relational ontologies of ice and water, decolonial approaches to seal skin knowledge, and the interplay between global capital flows and local sustainability practices in northern communities.
No scientific awards were documented in the source material.
Konttinen currently advises no listed students but actively contributes to academic knowledge production through collaborative projects. Her primary funding source is the Academy of Finland (SUOMENAKATEMIA)-supported POST-Bothnia project, where she investigates water-society relations through seal skin methodologies.
She operates within the Sustainable Naturecultures and Multispecies Future research team at the Arctic Centre and participates in the Doctoral Programme: the Arctic in a Changing World, with upcoming leadership roles in the 2025 Sustainable Naturecultures Symposium and International Conference on Cultural History.
