Overview

This book addresses the growing demand for collaborative and reflexive scholarly engagement in the Arctic directed at providing relevant insights to tackle local challenges of arctic communities. It examines how arctic research can come to matter in new ways by combining methods and engagement in the field of inquiry in new and meaningful ways. Research informs decisions affecting the futures of arctic communities. Due to its ability to include local concerns and practices, collaborative research could play a greater role in this process. By way of example of how to bring new voices to the fore in research, this edited collection presents experiences of researchers active in collaborative arctic research. It draws multidisciplinary perspectives from a broad range of academics in the fields such as law and medicine over tourism and business studies, planning and development, cultural studies, ethnology and anthropology. It also shares personal experiences of working in Greenland and with Greenlanders, whether communities, businesses and entrepreneurs, public officials and planners, patients or students. Offering useful insights into the current problems of Greenland representative of the arctic region, this book will be beneficial for researchers and scientists involved in arctic research.

Full Product Details

Author:   Anne Merrild Hansen ,  Carina Ren
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367467555

ISBN 10:   0367467550
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   01 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

1. Collaborative Research Methods in the Arctic – Why and How? Part 1: New Positionalities and Reflections in Research 2. Telling the Good Story: A Conversation With Minik Rosing on Research Collaboration and Research in Greenland 3. Participatory Principles in Arctic Health Research 4. Arctic Auto-Ethnography: Unsettling Colonial Research Relations Part 2: Case Examples 5. Industrial Development in Nuuk and Sermersooq: Empowerment Through Action Research 6. Collaboration to Secure Relevance and Quality in a Study of EIA Practise in Extractive Industries in the Arctic 7. Critical Proximity in Arctic Research: Reflections from the Arctic Winter Games 2016 8. Life Mapping: A Collaborative Approach to Tourism Collaboration in Greenland Part 3: Knowledge Collaboration Beyond Research 9. Development of Jurisprudence Research Through Engagement of Students 10. Recruiting and Retaining Labour in Greenland – A PhD Project in Close Cooperation With Local Stakeholders 11. Co-Creating Knowledge for and With the Arctic: Future Avenues

Reviews

Author Information

Anne Merrild Hansen is professor in planning and impact assessment in the Arctic at Aalborg University and the head of the Research Platform AAU Arctic at Aalborg University. Her research is focused on social impact assessment in relation to extractive industries in the Arctic. Carina Ren is associate professor at the Centre for Innovation and Research in Culture and Living in the Arctic at Aalborg University and the platform coordinator of AAU Arctic. Carina researches connections between tourism and other fields of the social through cultural innovation, knowledge collaboration and capacity building.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions