Selected publications

Resource effects on human–land relations:

Varfolomeeva, A. (forthcoming) More-than-human impacts of wind energy development in Finland. In R. Toivanen, V. Vladimirova & C.-G. Ojala (Eds). Decolonizing Sustainable Development Goals: Indigenous and local knowledges on biocultural change. Palgrave McMillan.

Varfolomeeva, A. (2025). The Cycle of Resourcescape: The Impact of Oulujoki Hydropower Industry on Human–Landscape Relations. In: R. Norum, V. Kinnunen and N. Hämäläinen (Eds.) Kalevalaseuran vuosikirja 104. Käänteet ja kierrot – Kulttuuriset ympäristömuutokset pohjoisessa (in Finnish)

Varfolomeeva, A. (2022). Human-resource connections as articulations of belonging in Buriatia. In: J. Chamel & Y. Dansac (Eds.) Relating with More-than-Humans: Interbeing Rituality in a Living World. Palgrave Studies in the Anthropology of Sustainability. Palgrave McMillan.

Varfolomeeva, A. (2020). Lines in the Sacred Landscape: The Entanglement of Roads, Resources, and Informal Practices in Buriatiia. Sibirica, 19 (2), 27-49.

Indigenous sustainabilities :

Oehler, A. & Varfolomeeva, A. (2019). Multispecies Households in the Saian Mountains: Ecology at the Russia – Mongolia Border. Lexington Books.

Varfolomeeva, A. (2023). Incorporating stone mining into Indigenous and local notions of cultural heritage and sustainability. Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines (EMSCAT), 54.

Varfolomeeva, A. (2023). Indigenous connections with the resourcescape in the Russian North and Siberia. Globalizations. doi: 10.1080/14747731.2023.2171221

Care and destruction:

Varfolomeeva, A. (2025). Resourcified Bodies: Women Miners’ Narratives of Limits, Resistance, and Creativity. Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research, 17(1), 93-115.

Varfolomeeva, A. (2023). The nothingness myth: Creation and collapse of a Soviet industrial settlement. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 96 (Special issue The Politics of Emptiness)

Varfolomeeva, A. (2021). Destructive care: emotional engagements in mining narratives. Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies, 9 (1), 13-25.

Varfolomeeva, A. (2020). Care/punishment dilemma in COVID-19 hospital treatment. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, 28 (2), 375-376.

Kurnosov, D. & Varfolomeeva, A. (2020). Constructing the not-so-new normal: ambiguity and familiarity in governmental regulations of intimacies during the pandemic. Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice, 27 (2), 28-32.