Young People, Wellbeing and Placemaking in the Arctic

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Introduction: The quest for a good life: Contributions from the Arctic towards a theory of wellbeing
	Integrating different theoretical approaches to wellbeing
	Wellbeing as an applied category for measuring quality of life
	Why the Arctic?
	Why youth?
	Mobility, agency and regulating paths to independence: a road map for the volume
	Conclusion
	References
Part I: Movement and emplacement
	Chapter 1: Motives for migrating among youth in Russian Arctic industrial cities
		Introduction: youth in the urban Russian Arctic
		Methods and materials
		Discussion of results
			Young people’s feelings about migration in the Arctic industrial towns
			Factors affecting an inclination to migrate and wellbeing among youth
			Three dimensions of wellbeing: towards defining criteria
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 2: Not wanting to be “Stuck”: Exploring the role of mobility for young people’s wellbeing in Northern Finland
		Introduction
		Northern culture of migration
		Methodology
		The municipality of Kolari and the Finnish “periphery”
		Leaving to pursue one’s dreams
		The perks and perils of “everyone knows everyone”
		The importance of having “something to do”
		A “dead place” and a place of “beloved nature”
		Conclusions
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 3: Leaving or staying?: Youth agency and the liveability of industrial towns in the Russian Arctic
		Introduction
		Peripheralization and agency of youth in declining communities
		Soviet single-industry towns in the Arctic and their post-Soviet transformations
		Staying or leaving?
		Stuckness: “ Nothing can save this place! ”
		Working in mining as a life choice
		Women’s paths in mining cities
		“Forced” entrepreneurship
		Activism and liveability in single-industry towns
			Recycling
			Open space for youth as “third place”
		Conclusion: staying as agency?
		Notes
		References
Part II: Youth agency for the future: Alternatives and livelihoods
	Chapter 4: Towards a sustainable future of the Indigenous youth: Arctic negotiations on (im)mobility
		Introduction: extractivist imaginaries of the Barents Sea region and the local peoples
		The European Arctic and its peoples
		Sustainable wellbeing and (im)mobilities
		Conclusions: (im)mobility allowing for sustainable futures
		Notes
		References
		Interviews
	Chapter 5: Youths’ and their guardians’ prospects of reindeer husbandry in Finland
		Introduction
		Studies about Indigenous youths’ prospects in the Artic context
		The voices and views of the young herders and their guardians
			Connectedness and memories about reindeer herding
			Ideas about reindeer herding
			Future prospects
		Reindeer-herding identity
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 6: Indigenous youth perspectives on extractivism and living in a good way in the Yukon
		Setting the stage
			Living in a good way and extractivism
			Methods and methodology
		“There needs to be balance”: protecting nature and climate, jobs and the work environment
			Addictions, sexism, and workplace harassment
		“Northern Tutchone Strong”: language revitalization, education, ceremony, art and play
		Discussion and conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
		Interviews
Part III: Regulating youth’s paths to independence
	Chapter 7: Youth law, policies and their implementation in the Russian Arctic
		Introduction
		Russia’s Arctic youth policy
		Implementation of youth policy in Russian Arctic single-industry towns
			Neryungri—“You decide what your city looks like”
			Novy Urengoy—how much rootedness can gas money buy?
			Kirovsk—the North is for living
		The involvement of industry in educating qualified youth for industrial cities
		Discussion
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 8: The quest for independent living in Finland: Youth shelter as a critical moment in young adults’ life courses
		Introduction
		Conceptual framework
		Data and methods
		Accounts of entering YS
			Fragile family and intimate relationships
			Illness and psycho-social wellbeing issues
			Moving residence
		Enabling spaces and possibilities for support
		Conclusions
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 9: Planning for the future: Future orientation, agency and self-efficacy of young adults leaving care in the Russian Arctic
		Introduction
		Russian care leavers and aftercare support
		Theoretical framework: agency, projectivity, and self-efficacy
		Data and analysis
		Planners, dreamers, copers, cynical “non-believers”: future orientations among the studied young adults
			Young adults with future orientation
				Long-term planning with strong self-efficacy
				Dreaming-like planning
				Unfeasible dreams
				Planning with constant obstacles
			Young care leavers with no or little future orientation
				No plans but current life satisfaction
				Planning is not worth it
				No plans with survivalist self-reliance
				No big plans but “damn, ordinary life”
		Facilitations and constraints of future-oriented agency at the macro, meso and micro levels
			The macro level
			The meso level
			The micro level
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 10: Youth wellbeing in “Atomic Towns”: The cases of Polyarnye Zori and Pyhäjoki
		Introduction
		Polyarnye Zori and Pyhäjoki: two contrasting field sites?
		Methodological considerations and research ethics
		Geopolitics, the nuclear sector and corporate social responsibility
		Youth wellbeing: Eudaimonic and hedonic perceptions
		The meaning of good life for young people in nuclear towns
		Conclusion: wellbeing rewired
		Acknowledgements
		References
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