2022 •
Dissertation Research. Knowledge Production and Arctic Environmental Futures. Nuuk, Greenland and Continental USA. Anthropology. 2019-2022
Authors:
Schnur, Scott
Abstract:
This research sought to better understand how scientific facts about global environmental change are made and cross-culturally communicated. It shed light on the ways that culture and history shape scientific research practices among US and Greenland based hydrologists, geologists, and environmental scientists. It aimed to better understand how different communities of researchers working in Greenland discuss and think about the future of the environment, and how they communicate and collaborate with one another and the public in Nuuk, Greenlan (...)
This research sought to better understand how scientific facts about global environmental change are made and cross-culturally communicated. It shed light on the ways that culture and history shape scientific research practices among US and Greenland based hydrologists, geologists, and environmental scientists. It aimed to better understand how different communities of researchers working in Greenland discuss and think about the future of the environment, and how they communicate and collaborate with one another and the public in Nuuk, Greenland. The research uncovered the ways that the politics of settler colonialism continue to impact the practice of science and scientific communication in Greenland. This research was undertaken from 2019-2022, and was funded by NSF Arctic Social Sciences from March 2020 forward. The researcher used ethnographic participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and media analysis to collect data and complete a dissertation based on this research in August 2022. The project was severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing the researcher to shift from in-person to remote digital methodologies beginning in March 2020. (Read More)
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