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Elana Wilson Rowe

[Senior Research Fellow]

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News

[2007-10-27]: Concluding workshop for 'Regional Competence Building-project in Tbilisi, Georgia [link]
[2007-11-07]: Paper at NUPI's Department of Russian Studies annual conference titled 'Russia and northern multilateralism''
[2007-12-02]: Fieldwork in Russia, 2-8 December

Current research

Editing (with Stina Torjesen) book titled ‘The Multilateral Dimension in Russia’s Foreign Policy’ (forthcoming 2008). Wilson’s book contributions include: ‘Russian Multilateralism in a Comparative Perspective’ (with Torjesen) and ‘Northern Multilateralism: Comparing Russia’s participation in the Northern Dimension, the Arctic Council and the Barents Euro-Arctic Region’

Coordinating program titled ‘Regional Competence-Building for Think Tanks in Central Asia and the South Caucasus’. Conducting research (June-December 2007) on the politics of the Russian oil and gas sector, focusing primarily on 1) domestic visions of Russia’s energy future as present in public debate prior to the 2007 parliamentary elections and 2) the political discussion around the development of cooperation, licensing and environmental standards/regimes for Russian offshore petroleum deposits. Projekts: 'The Energy Complex' and 'Rammebetingelser for petroleumssektoren i Nord'.

Formal education

[2001-2002]: M. Phil., human geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
[2002-2006]: D. Phil., human geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Professional experience

[2002-2006]: Teaching Assistant/Supervisor, Geography Department, University of Cambridge
[2006-]: Senior research fellow, NUPI

Publications

Articles (in books and journals)

Wilson Rowe, Elana (2007). Indigenousness and the Mobility of Knowledge: Promoting Canadian Governance Practices in the Russian North, Sibirica, Vol. 6, No. 2 . London,Routledge.p. 26-50. Examines issues related to transferring natural resource management models across state borders in the North.
Wilson Rowe, Elana (2007). Time, idealization and international development: promoting Canadian comanagement in Northern Russia, Area, Vol. 39, No. 3 . London,Institute of British Geographies.p. 323-330. Examines ways in which equating today's Russian North with the Canadian northern past and idealizing the Canadian experience of co-management were problematic strategies for knowledge transfer.
Wilson Rowe, Elana , Indra Overland (2007). Indigenous Issues, In Olav Schram Stokke and Geir Hønneland, eds. International Cooperation and Arctic Governance: Regime Effectiveness and Northern Region Building. . London,Routledge.p. 27-49. Examines the impact of Arctic regimes on indigenous issues
Wilson Rowe, Elana (2007). Arctic Unity, Arctic Difference: Mapping the Reach of Northern Discourses, Polar Record, vol. 43, no. 225 . p. 125-133. In this article, efforts to transfer natural resource management knowledge and models from Canaqda to Russia via an international development project are examined and problematized.