ERC Grant Sean Desjardins
Sean Desjardins received an Starting Grant from the European Research Council's (ERC) consisting of €1.5 million for a period of five years. The grant is meant for outstanding researchers with the aim of stimulating cutting-edge research in Europe. Sean's project is called TRACES (Tracking Long-term Resilience in Arctic Sociocultural-Ecological Systems), an interdisciplinary project aiming to better understand the differences between Western-scientific understandings of sustainability/conservation, and time-honored Inuit traditional knowledge about environmental health and human/nonhuman animal relationships.
This will be accomplished through research on:
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Modern Inuit subsistence hunting (of, for example, seals, walruses and caribou)
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The archaeology of past harvesting (from ca. AD 1300 to present)
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Inuit traditional knowledge about hunting and broader relationships with animals
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Circumpolar governmental policy on the regulation of a wide-range of animal-related activities, such as hunting, sewing and carving.
Based at the Arctic Centre, Groningen Institute of Archaeology, the TRACES team will carry out the research alongside Inuit knowledge- and rights-holders in the biogeographically-dynamic Foxe Basin region of Nunavut, Inuit Nunangat (the traditional lands, waters and ices of what is now Canada).
Click here to learn more about Sean's research.
Last modified: | 02 October 2023 07.25 a.m. |
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