Sense Making, Place attachment and Extended networks as sources of Resilience in the Arctic
Informations
- Funding country
Norway- Acronym
- -
- URL
- -
- Start date
- 1/1/2020
- End date
- 12/31/2024
- Budget
- 124,230 EUR
Fundings
| Name | Role | Start | End | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| POLARPROG - Polar Research Programme | Grant | - | - | 124,230 EUR |
Abstract
The SeMPER-Arctic project (Sense making, place attachment, and extended networks as sources of resilience in the Arctic) aims to collect local stories of changes, crises and shocks in three Arctic communities in Greenland and Russia. It analyses in an interdisciplinary way how these narratives incorporate notions of resilience. WP2, “Reflexivity in narrative-based resilience science", is led by Anne Bremer and focusses on nurturing reflexivity within the consortium, along the two tasks of WP2: 2.1 and 2.2. The updates of 2022 are as follows: First, for task 2.1 of WP2, Oksana Singh has led a series of 16 interviews of key informants in the field of (Arctic) narrative research, as well as a literature review of key papers on how to undertake narrative research and explore how local narratives are represented in academic literature. Oksana and Anne cooperated tightly on the interview guidelines and to make sure the WP2 tasks are done in a coherent way. Subsequent collaboration has also happened with WP5 member Natalia Doloisio, linking reflexivity and resilience. For the task 2.2 of WP2, Anne Bremer has, on the basis of several reflexive sessions with the consortium members, compiled eight key point on what it means to do narrative research in a responsible and caring way, These points, which will be further elaborated in the final WP2 report, include intercultural competency, respect, curiosity, empathy and deep listening, slow science and aligning one’s own values and research objectives. In addition, WP2 has also organised a one-day consortium meeting focused on reflexivity and synergies within SeMPER-Arctic, to continue to explore the dynamics between reflexive research and (researchers’ and local communities’) resilience. This will also be the topic of our upcoming 3-day consortium meeting, 6-9 December 2022.