“Sharing and Caring: Arctic Indigenous Knowledges and Co-Creation”

00:00-03:40 Welcome and Introduction (Jan-Erik Henriksen)
03:41-04:50 Guiding Principles (Anne S. Chahine)
04:51-14:10 Academic Extractivism in Arctic Research (Naja Dyrendom Graugaard and Vivi Vold)
14:11-24:40 A Case Study on Bridging Knowledge Systems (Aslak Holmberg and Evie Morin)
24:41-35:10 Embodiment in Co-Creative Research (Nina Hermansen, Anne S. Chahine, Nina Döring)
35:11-40:57 An Invitation to Build More Effective Bridges Between Indigenous Communities and Arctic Research (Michael Milton and Shelly Elverum)
40:58-41:32 Closing Words (Jan-Erik Henriksen)
41:32-41:35 Credits and Acknowledgements
This is the recording of a session at the Arctic Circle Forum Berlin 2024
Host: Research Institute for Sustainability - Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (RIFS)
Moderator: Jan-Erik Henriksen (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Speakers: Nina Hermansen (UiT The Arctic University of Norway), Nina Döring (RIFS), Evie Morin (RIFS), Anne S. Chahine (RIFS), Aslak Holmberg (Sámiráddi/Saami Council), Shelly Elverum (Ikaarvik), Michael Milton (Ikaarvik), Naja Dyrendom Graugaard (Aarhus University), Vivi Vold (Ilisimatusarfik - University of Greenland)
Event: Arctic Circle Forum “THE ARCTIC AT CROSSROADS Science - Climate - Policy - Europe”
Date: 07.-08. May 2024
Place: Radialsystem Berlin, Germany
Hosts: Federal Ministry of Education and Research and co-organized with the German Arctic Office at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
As climate change accelerates in the Arctic, an international region encompassing diverse knowledge systems, the need to address these challenges unfolds at the intersection of science, policy, and decision-making, necessitating collaborative and co-equal approaches for effective responses. This session brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous speakers from Sápmi, Kalaallit Nunaat, Nunavut, and Germany, focusing on collaborative, co-creative, autoethnographic, decolonial, and embodied approaches to Arctic research across the natural and social sciences and humanities.
Credits and Acknowledgements
This session received financial support (for travel, accommodation, work hours, food) from: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Research Institute for Sustainability - Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (RIFS), and the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) as part of the European Environment Initiative (EURENI).
We would like to thank the program coordinators and organizers of the Arctic Circle Forum Berlin, especially Leonie Mädje, for supporting the realization of this session and accommodating the varying requests of our speaker team. We would also like to thank Anna Mihelsone and Cordula Granderath from the RIFS administration for their logistical support, and the team at UiT for arranging travel. We are especially grateful to our co-presenters for the time spent during preparations and at the Arctic Circle Forum in Berlin, and for the lessons we learned in this process.
Photo Credits: Anne S. Chahine, Stephan Dudeck, Arctic Circle, Aslak Holmberg
Further Links and Info
Herrmann et al. 2023. “Comprehensive Policy-Brief to the EU Commission. Roadmap to Decolonial Arctic Research.” Áltá, Kárášjohka, Leipzig, Oulu: University of Oulu, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, The Indigenous Voices (IVO) research group - Álgoálbmogii jienat, Arctic University of Norway UiT, Saami Council. phaidra.univie.ac.at/detail/o....
DÁVGI Project: www.rifs-potsdam.de/en/blog/2...
Holmberg et al. 2023. “Towards Arctic Research Upholding Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: Recommendations for ICARP IV, the International Conference on Arctic Research Planning.” Application/pdf, 2103681 b. doi.org/10.25365/PHAIDRA.459.
Graugaard, Naja Dyrendom. 2021. “Arctic Auto-Ethnography: Unsettling Colonial Research Relations.” In Collaborative Research Methods in the Arctic: Experiences from Greenland, edited by Anne Merrild Hansen and Carina Ren, 33-50. Routledge Research in Polar Regions. London: Routledge.
Graugaard, Naja Dyrendom, and Amalie Ambrosius Høgfeldt. 2023. “The Silenced Genocide : Why the Danish Intrauterine Device (IUD) Enforcement in Kalaallit Nunaat Calls for an Intersectional Decolonial Analysis.” Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, no. 2 (November), 162-67. doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v36i2.137309.
Pedersen et al. 2020. “ScIQ: An Invitation and Recommendations to Combine Science and Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit for Meaningful Engagement of Inuit Communities in Research.” Arctic Science 6 (3): 326-39. doi.org/10.1139/as-2020-0015.