Naja Dyrendom Graugaard

During her fellowship at IWM, Naja Dyrendom Graugaard will be working on a research project that examines the relations between land, body, and healing in the Arctic, with a specific focus on coastal communities in Kalaallit Nunaat. This project springs from the cross-Arctic EU-project “Birgejupmi – Bridging knowledge systems for inclusive, resilient and prosperous Arctic coastal futures,” in which Graugaard leads a work package on “Coastscape Relationalities” and Indigenous approaches to “One Health.” As part of this research, the project seeks to center Inuit terminologies and epistemologies of land, body, and healing as central to the creation of culturally appropiate, ethical, and trauma-responsive approaches to Indigenous research. Much of this work is based on collective research, and Graugaard will spend this time at IWM to reflect, write, and report on the project’s processes of knowledge creation with her colleagues in Kalaallit Nunaat and Sápmi. This project will draw on and develop Graugaard’s research into the coloniality and intersectionality of Inuit reproductive (in)justice.