Zdenka Sokolickova

Zdenka is a social anthropologist fascinated by the circumpolar trouble. She studied Theory of Culture (Charles University in Prague) and Euroculture (Palacky University in Olomouc / University of Groningen). In 2010, she obtained her PhD degree with a thesis about environmental ethics and started working as a lecturer at the University of Hradec Králové in Czechia. From 2019 until 2021, she conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the high Arctic Svalbard, hosted by the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, mentored by Thomas H. Eriksen. Her engagement with the Arctic Centre started in 2021 when she joined an interdisciplinary team exploring the "environmental memory" of Svalbard (the SVALUR project). Since 2024 she works as a postdoc for the GUIDE-BEST project. Zdenka is interested in anthropology of environmental and climate change, globalization, tourism, science, migration and social justice. She is the author of The Paradox of Svalbard: Climate change and globalisation in the Arctic (London: Pluto, 2023).