Circumpolar peoples, including many Indigenous communities (such as Sami and Inuit peoples), are complexly remote within the Nordic Region. By consequence, Studies in Remoteness will investigate how international attention to circumpolar regions complexly interfaces with (and often contradicts) historical efforts from within Indigenous and rural circumpolar communities to broadcast their merits, needs, and hopes – including their pursuits of self-determination – through, for example, art and culture (Heinämäki &  Herrmann 2017).

While the remoteness of circumpolar communities has long been facilitated by lack of outside attention, it is also conditioned by their remoteness from each other. Globality, then, produces multiple forms of remoteness that impact how circumpolar peoples are understood, and how they understand each other and themselves. Thus, by bringing together different case studies addressing remoteness from these different vantage points, the project Studies in Remoteness aims to articulate how remoteness is differently formulated within communities as well as through globalised intersocietal contention and economies of attention (Jones & Baumgartner 2005; Davenport & Beck 2001), to produce multifaceted remote views conditioning politics of solidarity, otherisation, extraction, and sovereignty alike. As circumpolar peoples fight for self-determination and climate justice, struggling along the way with multinational corporations, imperial powers, and extractive research attention, their struggle takes the shape, as well, of attempts to be understood, valued, and empathically addressed by countless faraway people from whom they would nevertheless like to protect their lands, ways of life, and even, their remoteness.