TY - JOUR
T1 - Present and past dynamics of Inughuit resource spaces
AU - Flora, Janne
AU - Johansen, Kasper Lambert
AU - Grønnow, Bjarne
AU - Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck
AU - Mosbech, Anders
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Information from a collaborative GPS tracking project, Piniariarneq, involving 17 occupational hunters from Qaanaaq and Savissivik, Northwest Greenland, is used to explore the resource spaces of hunters in Avanersuaq today. By comparison with historical records from the time of the Thule Trading Station and the decades following its closure, we reveal a marked variability in resource spaces over time. It is argued that the dynamics of resources and resource spaces in Thule are not underlain by animal distribution and migration patterns, or changes in weather and sea ice conditions alone; but also by economic opportunities, human mobility, settlement patterns, particular historical events and trajectories, and not least by economic and political interests developed outside the region.
AB - Information from a collaborative GPS tracking project, Piniariarneq, involving 17 occupational hunters from Qaanaaq and Savissivik, Northwest Greenland, is used to explore the resource spaces of hunters in Avanersuaq today. By comparison with historical records from the time of the Thule Trading Station and the decades following its closure, we reveal a marked variability in resource spaces over time. It is argued that the dynamics of resources and resource spaces in Thule are not underlain by animal distribution and migration patterns, or changes in weather and sea ice conditions alone; but also by economic opportunities, human mobility, settlement patterns, particular historical events and trajectories, and not least by economic and political interests developed outside the region.
KW - GPS tracking
KW - Hunting
KW - Mobility
KW - Networks
KW - Resource spaces
KW - Seasonality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85043395039&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s13280-018-1039-6
DO - 10.1007/s13280-018-1039-6
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 29520751
SN - 0044-7447
VL - 47
SP - 244
EP - 264
JO - Ambio
JF - Ambio
IS - Suppl 2
M1 - 6
ER -