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Naja Dyrendom Graugaard

Naja Dyrendom Graugaard

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Naja Dyrendom Graugaard ist eine Dänisch-Kalaaleq(Inuk)-Wissenschaftlerin mit Expertise in kritischen Inuit-Studien und (de)kolonialen Beziehungen zwischen Dänemark und Kalaallit Nunaat. Sie befasst sich mit der Dominanz kolonialer Wissensregime und des dänischen Exzeptionalismus in den zeitgenössischen Manifestationen des skandinavischen Kolonialismus und beschäftigt sich in ihrer Forschung mit alternativen, dekolonialen und indigenen Erzählungen, den gelebten Erfahrungen der Kalaallit und den Wissenssystemen der Inuit. Weiterhin widmet sie sich verschiedenen öffentlichen Verbreitungsformen der nordischen Kolonialgeschichte, wie Debatten, Workshops, Performances und Videoblogs. Graugaard hat poetische, theatralische und autobiografische Schriften veröffentlicht, welche die (inter-)generationalen Erfahrungen von Kolonisierung, Rassifizierung und Wiederaufleben in gemischten, indigenen Familien in Dänemark beleuchtet.

  • 2025 Associate Professor, Nordische Studien & Linguistik, Copenhagen University
  • 2023-25 Researcher and dramaturg, 'Inuk Ingerlaartoq/Det Vandrende Menneske, Det Olske Orkester/Forsøgsstation, Copenhagen Danish-Kalaallit collaborative theatre performance on Danish-Greenlandic colonial history
  • 2023-24 Postdoctoral research project: Playfulness and humour in Kalaallit decolonial art, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University AUFF NOVA project: Playing with ghosts - Affective ambivalence in decolonial arts practices, PI: Britta Timm Knudsen
  • 2020-22 Postdoctoral research project: Gender & mining in Indigenous communities, AAU Arctic, Department of Sustainability and Planning, Aalborg

  • Skandinavischer/Nordischer/Europäischer Exzeptionalismus
  • Dekolonialisierung von Arktischem Wissen
  • Souveränität von indigenen Narrativen
  • Feministische Ansätze zu Ökonomien der Fürsorge, der Emotion und des Affekts
  • Reparative Forschungsmethoden

Publikationen vor der Tätigkeit am RIFS

  • Graugaard, N.D. (forthcoming). "I intend to write about it, even say it out loud": Poems for a change and decolonial endeavours in the Kalaallit Inuit diaspora. Eds. Charlton, J. & Richardson, C. (2025). Anthology: Indigenous Perspectives of Life Course Psychology.

  • Graugaard, N. D. & Knudsen, B. T. (forthcoming). Fun for real! Dismantling the "cool colonizer" through the decolonial politics of memes from Kalaallit Nunaat. AlterNative: An International Jounral of Indigenous Peoples.

  • Graugaard, N. D., Pihl, V. S., Stage, J. L. (2025). Colonial Reproductive Coercion and Control in Kalaallit Nunaat - The Overlooked Role of Racism in Denmark's IUD Program. Special issue on 'Race, racialization, and reproduction in the Nordic context, NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2024.2427817

  • Graugaard, N. D., & Høgsbro, A. (2023). The silenced genocide - why the intrauterine device enforcement in Kalaallit Nunaat calls for an intersectional decolonial analysis. Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, 2, 162-167. https://doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v36i2.137309

  • Boassen, P., Cossette-Laneville, E., Graugaard, N. D., Jensen, L., Lingner, B. & Møller, R. D. (2022). Introduction. Greenland - 301 Years Later: Kalaallit Nunaat ukiut 301-nngornerat. KULT Postkolonial Temaserie, 17, 1-6.

  • Lingner, B. & Graugaard, N. D. (2022). Inuit place-based knowledge, cocreation, and decolonizing processes in the climate research of Lene Kielsen Holm: A conversation with Suzy Basile and Mark Nuttall. KULT Postkolonial Temaserie, 17, 1-15. http://postkolonial.dk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/9-Bjorn-and-Naja-interview-about-Lene-Kielsen-Holm.pdf

  • Graugaard, N. D. (2020/2021). "A Sense of Seal" in Greenland: Kalaallit Seal Pluralities and Anti-Sealing Contentions. Etudes/Inuit Studies, 44(1-2), 373-97.

  • Graugaard, N. D. (2020). Arctic Auto-ethnography - unsettling colonial research relations. In Ren, C. Merrild, A. & Ren, C. (Eds.), Collaborative Research Methods in the Arctic - Experiences from Greenland. Routledge: London. 33-50.

  • Graugaard, N. D. (2020). En fornemmelse for sæl? Sælens 'flerhed' i Grønland, vestlige fortolkninger og EU's sælregime. Tidsskriftet Grønland, 4, 170-186.

  • Graugaard, N. D. (2020). Opgøret med Kæmpe Eskimoen. Tidsskriftet Grønland, 3, 90-99.

  • Graugaard, N. D. (2020). Tracing Seal - Unsettling Narrative of Kalaallit Seal Relations [PhD thesis]. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press. The summary chapter can be accessed here: https://vbn.aau.dk/en/publications/tracing-seal-unsettling-narratives-of-kalaallit-seal-relations

  • Graugaard, N. D. (2019). "Without seals, there are no Greenlanders": Colonial and postcolonial narratives of sustainability and Inuit seal hunting. In: Gad, U.P. & Strandsbjerg, J. (Eds.) The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic - Reconfiguring identity, space and time. Oxon/New York: Routledge.

  • Gad, U. P., Graugaard, N. D., Holgersen, A., Jacobsen, M., Lave, N. & Schriver, N. (2018). Imagining China on Greenland's Road to Independence. Arctic Yearbook.

  • Graugaard, N. D. (2018). STILLS: Poetic reflections on racisms in Denmark's kindergarten. KULT - Postkolonial Temaserie, 15, 19-35.

  • Graugaard, N. D. (2016). Uanga ("I"): Journey of Raven and the Revival of the Spirit of Whale. KULT - Postkolonial Temaserie, 14, 6-22.

  • Graugaard, N. D. (2009). National Identity in Greenland in the Age of Self-Government [pdf]. Centre for the Critical Study of Global Power and Politics, Working Paper CSGP, 09/5, 1-70. Access: https://www.trentu.ca/globalpolitics/documents/Graugaard095.pdf

  • 2024 "Cool colonizers and colonial narratives - Kalaallit memes, representation and decolonization", LiteratureXchange, Århus International Literature Festival
  • 2023-24 "Play and humour in Kalaallit decolonial art practices", presented at Nuuk Art Museum / National Gallery of Denmark / Art as Forum, Copenhagen University
  • 2024 "New research from Kalaallit Nunaat: From Western to Inuit perspectives", co-presented at Kalaallit Illuutaat / The Greenlandic House, Aarhus
  • 2024 "The IUD program in Kalaallit Nunaat as Colonial Genocide", Challenging Nordic Innocence podcast, https://nettop.guru/wordpress/spiralprogrammet-i-kalaallit-nunaat-som-kolonialt-folkemord-the-iud-program-in-kalaallit-nunaat-as-colonial-genocide/
  • 2024 "Danish colonial histories, Kalaallit Decoloniality, Positionality, Indigenous-non Indigenous relations through arts-based research", PhD course, Royal Danish Academy of Art.
  • 2023 "A Conversation on Decolonization in Higher Education and Research". Postcolonial Entanglements, Aarhus University.
  • 2023 "Towards a reflexive research praxis: Unsettling power dynamics and knowledge regimes in Arctic research", A week of Exchange: Ethics and Methods in Arctic Transformative Research, Oulu.
  • 2022 "Komd'inn: Can we talk...about colonization and decolonization?". Gerðarsafn Kópavogur Art Museum, Iceland.
  • 2022 "Dekoloniserende tilgange i forskning" (Decolonizing research in the Arctic), PhD course, Ilisimatusarfik, Nuuk, Kalaallit Nunaat. 2020 PhD school, Ilisimatusarfik (University of Greenland).
  • 2020 'Interview i afkoloniserende forskningspraksis' (Interviews in decolonial research practices), PhD course, Ilisimatusarfik (University of Greenland)

  • Emma Goldman Award 2025