Inuit traditional knowledge meets engineering: a tale of energy-autonomy in South Greenland

"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 …

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