Month: July 2024

Inuit Innovation: grassroots hydropower green transition among sheep farmers

On By FstammleIn All, Climate change, Fieldwork, Indigenous Peoples

by Florian Stammler, Asiarpa Paviasen and Tupaarnaq Kreutzmann-Kleist What connects dams, hydropower, green energy, agriculture, sheep farming and Inuit in Greenland? in the front the water supply pipe leading to the tiny turbine house of the micro-hydropower plant supplying two sheep farms in South Greenland Inuit are better known in the popular and anthropological literature …

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Fieldwork literally: the stony path of working in the field

On By FstammleIn All, Fieldwork, Human-animal relations, Indigenous Peoples, Theoretical Issues

Some may remember our entry here with Erik Kielsen about the disastrous early snowfall and freezing event in South Greenland in late 2023. This summer fieldwork in the WIRE project there is on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of modern Inuit animal husbandry, and I am hosted at the Qorlortup Itinnera sheep farm, which …

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