Publications and activities
Find the publications and activities of the centre at the Roskilde University Research Portal.
Research Centre Centre for Arctic Studies at Roskilde University
The Centre for Arctic Studies at Roskilde University (CAS) focuses on developing a practice-oriented, interdisciplinary and engaged research that can play a key role in addressing challenges in the modern Arctic. CAS gathers and promotes RUC's research on Arctic conditions internally and profiles RUC externally. We do this by continuously developing relationships across the university and with relevant partners in the Arctic.
This is done by:
- developing and visualising the research that is already taking place on the Arctic
- supporting interdisciplinary research activities through network meetings, etc.
- planning relevant conferences
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The Centre for Arctic Studies at Roskilde University participate in a number of research projects.
Ongoing projects
Masculinity, Care, and Environmental Change: Young Men’s Lives in Greenland
The project examines how environmental and societal change affects the lives and identities of young men (18–29) in Greenland. Declining subsistence activities such as hunting and fishing, together with urbanisation, colonial legacies, and climate change, are reshaping traditional pathways into adulthood and forms of masculine identity. At the same time, economic restructuring and the expansion of welfare institutions have altered education and labour-market opportunities, leaving some young men facing marginalisation and reduced well-being; the project also includes young fatherhood as part of these life transitions. Using a qualitative multi-sited ethnographic design in Nuuk and Qaqortoq, the study explores how men negotiate masculinity, care, and belonging across everyday life, institutions, and public discourse. By centring young men’s perspectives, the project aims to produce knowledge relevant to gender equality, youth welfare, and policy responses to social and environmental change in the Arctic.Politics of Green Investments: The Green Transition and Recognition of Colonial Relations in Greenland and Sápmi
The project investigates how the clash between the moral imperative to extract for the green transition and the moral imperative of a reckoning with past and ongoing colonial injustices is negotiated in extractive investments in Greenland and Swedish Sápmi.VALUE: Value Creation in Critical Raw Mineral and Green Energy Transition Projects
The project explores a core dilemma of the green transition: We need large investments in green energy and mining of critical minerals to combat climate change, but these investments often encroach on land belonging to indigenous and local communities and threaten their livelihoods and identities. Through a study of four very different cases in Greenland and South Africa the research will unpack how, why and by whom social and corporate value is defined and distributed in large green transition investment projects.Completed projects
Management in Greenland
The research project aims to strengthen leadership practice in Greenland by developing empirical descriptions that analytically get close to the collective practices leaders engage in.Sustainable value chains in Nordic coastal communities
The NORVALUE project investigates how people in Nordic Atlantic local communities are involved in connections and linkages crucial to their livelihoods and survival as a part of the Nordic Atlantic societies of Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands and Northern Norway.You can find a list of research projects on the Roskilde University Research Portal.
Collaboration
Base på RUC
The centre is based at Department of Social Sciences and Business
Participating research units: Globalization and Europeanization research group// Intercultural Studies research group // Management and organization research group // Mobility, Space, Place and Urban Studies (MOSPUS) research group // Centre for Action Research and Democratic Societal Change research center
PhD Programme: Doctoral School of Social Sciences and Business and Doctoral School of People and Technology
Relevant degree programmes: Business Studies // Global and Development Studies // International Studies // International Bachelor in Social Sciences // Cultural Encounters // Global Humanities // International Bachelor in Social Sciences
Research from Roskilde University
More about the research centre
Find additional information abort the Centre for Arctic Studies at Roskilde University here:
Contact
Malin Nystrand,
Associate professor
Phone +45 4674 2507
malinn@ruc.dk