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Aalborg Universitet Tracing Seal Aalborg Universitet Tracing Seal - Unsettling Narratives of Kalaallit Seal Relations Graugaard, Naja Dyrendom Publication date: 2020 Document Version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Link to publication from Aalborg University Citation for published version (APA): Graugaard, N. D. (2020). Tracing Seal - Unsettling Narratives of Kalaallit Seal Relations. Aalborg Universitetsforlag. Aalborg Universitet. Det Humanistiske Fakultet. Ph.D.-Serien General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. ? Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. ? You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain ? You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ? Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us at [email protected] providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Downloaded from vbn.aau.dk on: November 24, 2020 TRACING SEAL TRACING TRACING SEAL UNSETTLING NARRATIVES OF KALAALLIT SEAL RELATIONS BY NAJA DYRENDOM GRAUGAARD DISSERTATION SUBMITTED 2020 N A J A DY REND OM G OM RA U GAARD TRACING SEAL UNSETTLING NARRATIVES OF KALAALLIT SEAL RELATIONS by Naja Dyrendom Graugaard Thesis submitted . Dissertation submitted: 20-01-2020 PhD supervisor: Associate Prof. Ulrik Pram Gad Aalborg University Assistant PhD supervisor: Associate Prof. Lill Rastad Bjørst Aalborg University PhD committee: Associate professor Robert C Thomsen (chairman) Aalborg University, Denmark Research professor of Arctic Indigenous Studies Rauna Kuokkanen, University of Lapland, Finland Canada Research Chair (Tier-II) Julia Christensen Memorial University of Newfoundland PhD Series: Faculty of Humanities, Aalborg University ISSN (online): 2246-123X ISBN (online): 978-87-7210-455-3 Published by: Aalborg University Press Langagervej 2 DK – 9220 Aalborg Ø Phone: +45 99407140 [email protected] forlag.aau.dk © Copyright: Naja Dyrendom Graugaard Printed in Denmark by Rosendahls, 2020 This PhD thesis is dedicated to the memory of Ejnar Jakobsen, who knew the Arsuk fjords, seas, lands, mountains, and animals with a depth that was channeled into his lifeworks. With honour, I still listen to our conversations. Ejnar, qujanaq! 3 CV Naja Dyrendom Graugaard holds a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University (Toronto, Canada) and a Bachelor of Arts in International Development Studies/Politics from Trent University (Peterborough, Canada). Inspired by her own mixed background in Denmark and Greenland, her university studies have focused on colonial and postcolonial relations in Kalaallit Nunaat [Greenland], Inuit knowledges and stories, and Greenlandic processes of decolonization. Her PhD research specifically focuses on Kalaallit-seal relations. Besides this work, Naja has also published poetic, theatrical, and auto-biographic writings that shed light on the (inter- )generational experiences of colonization, racialization, and resurgence in mixed, Indigenous families in Denmark. Naja is also a mother of two, artist at heart, lover of fresh air and waters, and an aspiring doula. 4 ENGLISH SUMMARY Seals have carried an essential role in the unfolding of Greenland as an Indigenous homeland, colonized territory, and self-governing nation. During the past many decades, seals have also been a topic of controversy between international political actors, animal welfare groups, and Inuit communities. This doctoral thesis explores Kalaallit [Greenlandic Inuit] relations with seals as they arise in these historical and contemporary political landscapes. By tracing ‘the seal’ through various narrative trajectories in Greenland, the thesis engages with the complex processes through which coloniality and Indigenous lifeways collide and interweave. While dominant narratives on Inuit seal hunting – such as those forwarded in the EU Seal Regime – seem to undermine lived and place-based Kalaallit-seal relations, Kalaallit narratives of seals also unsettle the very same ‘seal regimes’. Suggesting that narratives encompass and navigate relations between Kalaallit, Qallunaat [non-Inuit], and seals, the thesis examines how seal narratives engage and unsettle processes of colonization in Greenland. This article-based doctoral thesis consists of four academic articles. Each article is based on a specific, focused study which has emerged from the research process of ‘tracing seal’ in Greenland. The four articles span topics that relate to colonial and postcolonial sustainability narratives, processes of Kalaallit seal hunting, and the seamstress work of creating Greenlandic regalia. One of the articles, specifically, deals with the methodological process of undertaking this thesis research. By paying attention to the various ways in which seals are engaged, narrated, and part of Kalaallit ‘worlding’, the articles destabilize the tendency to reduce diverse Kalaallit- seal relations to simplified narratives within European conceptual vocabularies. Empirically, this research is based on different materials that are generated from seven months of fieldwork in Greenland, from archival research, and from Greenlandic media sources. It draws substantially on interviews with hunters, seamstresses, and other persons whose professions relate to seal hunting or sealskins in Greenland. Theoretically, the thesis seeks to elaborate on postcolonial theoretical applications in contemporary studies on Greenland by engaging decolonial and Indigenous scholarships from within and outside of the Arctic. The thesis suggests that this is a necessary move in order to unsettle colonial research relations in Arctic scholarship and make way for other modes of thinking, knowing, sensing, and being in knowledge production. This approach transpires into the methodological framework of the thesis which works, auto-reflexively and practically, to interrogate and disrupt researcher positionality, academic privileges, and borderland transgressions in the claims to knowledge on Greenland. Altogether, the thesis engages with the very process of ‘tracing seal’ as a way to explore the theoretical and practical tracks for Greenlandic decolonization. 5 KALAALLISUT EQIKKAANEQ Puisit, Kalaallit Nunaata nunap inooqqaavinut nunagisatut, nunasiaatitut aamma nunatut namminersortutut ineriartornerata ingerlaneranut pingaaruteqarluinnarsimapput. Ukiut qulikkaat amerlasuut kingulliit ingerlaneranni, nunat assigiinngitsut akornanni politikikkut ingerlatsisut, uumasut atugarissaarnerannut eqimattakkaat aamma inuiaqatigiit Inuit akornanni, puisit akerleriinnermi aamma sammineqartarsimapput. Ph.d.-mut ilisimatuunngorniarnermi ilisimatuutut allaaserisap matuma, Kalaallit [Kalaallit Nunaanni Inuit] aamma puisit imminut atassuteqarnerat, oqaluttuarisaanermi aamma nalitsinni politikikkut isummat inissisimaneranni pilertarnerat malillugu misissuiffigineqarput. Kalaallit Nunaanni oqaluttuarisaanermi aqqutit assigiinngitsut aqqutigalugit `Puisip´ malinneratigut, ilisimatuutut allaaserisaq allanngoriartornernik katitigaasunik sammisaqarpoq, tassani nunasiaaneq aamma nunap inoqqaavisa inuusaasaat aporaapput imminullu ikaartiterneqarlutik. Massa inuit puisinniartarneri pillugit oqaluttuat saqquminerpaat – soorlu taakku EU-p `puisit pillugit aqutseriaasaanni´ saqqummiunneqartut – Kalaallit puisillu akornanni atassuteqarnernik inuunermi aqqusaakkanik aamma sumiiffimmut tunngaveqartunik tunngaviannik aserorterisut, Kalaallit puisinik oqaluttuaasa aamma `puisit pillugit aqutseriaaseq´ taannarpiaq apeqquserpaat. Aallaavigigaanni oqaluttuat, Kalaallit, Qallunaat [Inuit ilaginngisai], aamma puisit akornanni atassuteqarnermi ilaqartut aamma aqqutissiuisuusut, ilisimatuutut allaaserisami misissorneqarpoq qanoq puisit pillugit, Kalaallit Nunaanni nunasiaateqarniarnerup ingerlaneranik sammisaqarnersut aamma apeqqusiinersut. Allaaserisanik tunngaveqartumik ph.d.-mik ilisimatuutut allaaserisaq una, ilisimatusarnermi allaaserisanik sisamanik ilaqarpoq. Allaaserisat immikkut tamarmik misissuinermik aalajangersimasumik aamma ukkataqartumik tunngaveqarput, taakku Kalaallit Nunaanni `puisimik malittarinninnermi´ ilisimatusarnermi suleriaatsimit saqqummersimapput. Allaaserisani sisamani, nunasiaataanermut aamma nunasiaataanerup kingorna piujuartitsinermik oqaluttuanut, Kalaallit puisinniartarnerani pisut ingerlasarneranut, aamma mersortartut kalaallisuuliortarneranut attuumassuteqartunik sammisat imaqarput. Allaaserisat ilaat ataaseq, immikkut, ilisimatuutut allaaserisap matuma suliarineqarnerani periaatsip ingerlaneranik sammisaqarpoq. Kalaallit nunarsuarmioqataallutik inuuneranni puisit assigiinngitsumik atorneqartarnerannik, oqaluttuarineqartarnerannik aamma ilaanerannik maluginiagaqarnikkut, allaaserisat Kalaallit puisinut atassuteqarnerat katitigaasut, Europamiut paasinnittarnikkut oqaatsit inuit atortagaasa iluani oqaluttuanik oqilisaalluni nassuiaasarnikkut annikillisitseqqajaasarnerannik, qajannarsisitsipput. Misilittakkat misissuinikkullu paasisat tunngavigalugit, ilisimatusarneq una Kalaallit Nunaanni qaammatit arfineq-marluk ornigulluni sulinermit, allagaataasivinni 6 ilisimatusarnermit aamma Kalaallit Nunaanni tusagassiutitsigut pissarsiffinnit najoqqutassanik
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