"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 …
Category: Indigenous Peoples
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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new Finnish Sámi research ethics: a reading circle & discussion 19 Sep 2024
Within Finland the new ethical guidelines for research involving the Sámi people in Finland have been widely announced, starting with their launch in June 2024. The guidelines also state that they can be applied across all areas where Sámi reside, i.e. all of Sápmi. Starting at noon Finnish time on the 19th september, at the …
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The impact of mobility for people and food in the Arctic
The final seminar in our 2021-2024 Japan-Finland early career researcher exchange programme Human movement between the Arctic and East Asia due to tourism and business is increasing. Food, especially fishery resources, from the Arctic meet the growing market demand in East Asia. On the other hand, such influences from Asia have a major impact on …
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Arctic Anthropology 