"I just looked at the land and started building". Our group of guests from Norway and Finland in our NAPA project "empowering green transition from the grassroots" sits around a coffee table with a gorgeous view to the fjord dotted with icebergs. The answer of Lars Nielsen from Kangerluarsorujuk to a question how he made …
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A bit of history: the changing profile of this blog
Dear readers and followers you may have noticed that in the last years, activity on this blog has become less, while the content of what has been posted has become more focused. In this text we just want to spell out this change and make this orientation clearer, for future posts as well. When we …
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Autonomy and Self-Sufficiency in South Greenland – a multimodal ethnographic storymap
With all the difficult geopolitical news related to Greenland, the obvious anthropological gaze on autonomy is from the ground, based on people's lived experience on land and sea. Together with Angaartaaq Janussen and Philip Burgess, we have tried to document such a unique story using multiple modes including text, sound, video and imagery, which you …
Paths to a Sustainable Arctic: research avenues
In Rejkjavik, the well-known Finnish architect Alvar Aalto designed a beautiful house that is all about Nordic countries cooperation, the “Nordic House”. We had the honour to be part of the opening seminar there, for nine new Arctic research projects, funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers through its Nordforsk research programme, jointly with Canadian …
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The benefits of the cold: open-access book 2025
Finally the time has come for a separate blog post advertising and celebrating the publication of a book volume, for which more a dozen Arctic scholars have been waiting for six years: several of us were wrapping up a workshop at Tohoku University's Center for Northeast Asian Studies (Japan), in 2019, where we discussed if …
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Arctic Studies in Japan, opportunity
For those who are interested in exploring Arctic anthropological scholarship in Japan, and also make contact with the Japanese anthropologists in general, the Center for Northeast Asian Studies (Tohoku University in Sendai) visiting fellows programme is a great opportunity. I have been there several times, once for half a year, and it is super-rewarding both …
Multimodal Anthropology in the Arctic: history & future
"Multimodal anthropology gives a name to something that many of us have actually been doing for long, but maybe as side projects", says Christine Moderbacher, soon new Professor of multimodal anthropology at UiT in Norway. In this respect the 29 September 2025 made history in Arctic Anthropology: The Arctic University of Norway (Tromsø) opens a …
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