Forskningscenter Center for Arktiske Studier på RUC

Kontakt

Malin Nystrand, lektor, malinn@ruc.dk 
 

Forskere

Medlemmer af CAS fra Roskilde Universitet
 

Center for Arktiske Studier ved RUC deltager i en række forskningsprojekter. 

Igangværende projekter

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.

Afsluttede projekter

Ledelse i Grønland
Forskningsprojekt sigter på at styrke ledelsespraksissen i Grønland ved at udvikle empiriske beskrivelser, der analytisk kommer tæt på de kollektive praksisser ledere indgår i.

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.

Du finder en liste over forskningsprojekter på Roskilde Universitets forskningsportal.