Kirsten Hastrup's research while affiliated with IT University of Copenhagen and other places

... Egede's history was broad in scope and rich in detail, laden with references to Inuit customs, beliefs and behaviours, but his mapping of the territory, its landscape, and natural resources was also vital to the development of economic and political connections with Denmark. The foundation of settler colonies on the west coast, the support given to Egede's efforts to spread the Gospel, and the economic value of his narrative of encounters and observations were all part of the same story [32,35]. Helen Curry and James Secord have observed "natural history [developed] as a way of cataloguing novelties, charting unfamiliar territories and inventorying potentially useful resources" [36]. ...

... However, we encountered narwhals at the entrance of Bowdoin Fjord and within a kilometer of the calving front in this study (end of July) (Figure 1). Furthermore, at least two narwhals were caught and butchered near the Bowdoin Glacier (within 3 km of the calving front) and in front of Kangerluarsuk on the days of our survey (on 19 and 20 July 2019) (Figure 1), which has been an important hunting site for at least 60 years (Hastrup, 2019) or even 135 years (Peary, 1898). Nevertheless, our own narwhal sighting (12-15 narwhals), combined with catch numbers (two narwhals), suggests that there is no evidence of high densities of narwhals in this area. ...

... Pikialasorsuaq in Baffin Bay is the Arctic's largest area of open water surrounded by ice, and is also one of the most biologically productive regions in the Arctic (Barber et al., 2001). Adjacent Inuit communities depend on Pikialasorsuaq for their food security and subsistence economy (Hastrup et al., 2018). They use Qaujimajatuqangit, an Indigenous knowledge (IPCC, 2019b). ...

... The scenarios were constructed from a review of regime shifts inferred from statistical analysis of time series of monitoring data. Jeppesen et al. have since added two further scenarios of driver recovery based on their empirical findings in the North Water area between Canada and Greenland [19] (Figure 1d,e). They identified recoveries in some periods of ecosystem reconstruction tracing back to ca. 4500 years ago based on lake sediment data, archaeological findings, and historical records of climate change. ...

... • Indigenous (a society-building role/ consumed and totemic species) (e.g. Gotfredsen et al., 2018;Beach and Stammler, 2006); ...

... This throughflow and open water fuels high local productivity, which supports a diverse community of Arctic fauna, including higher-trophic level seabirds and marine mammals (Stirling, 1980;Tremblay et al., 2002a). Due to the rich biodiversity, the region has also supported intermittent human occupation for at least 4000 years (Dorset, 500 BCE to 1500 CE; Thule, 1000 to 1600 CE, Schlederman, 1980), with modern Inuit inhabitants continuing to rely on the NOW for their food 45 security and subsistence economy today (Hastrup et al., 2018). Given that stable ice arches fail to form as reliably as they once did (Moore et al., 2021), the NOW is becoming geographically and seasonally less defined (Ryan and Münchow, 2017). ...

... On one hand, it should be noted that the Inughuit cash economy became "almost exclusively dependent" on the polar fox (Malaurie, 2016: 102). On the other hand, because the Station was by essence meant to be lucrative, it should be recognised that it established a structure in which the Inughuit were meant to be 'productive' (for instance by forbidding hunters to settle in one place for too long (Hastrup, 2017), it can be argued that Rasmussen tried to maximise the hunting ground covered by the hunters and thereby, maximise profitability ). While this worked well during Ramussen's dominion, the issue is that to access the western goods they were increasingly contingent on, the Inughuit were encouraged to sell their catches to a trading post, where the prices were set according to market fluctuations. ...

... Field studies have, thus, grounded and anticipated the emergence of the natural and empirical cultural sciences since the late 19th century. Regardless of the vibrant debates on the constitution and the methodological challenges of fieldwork in the social sciences (Bourdieu, 2001;Hastrup, 2014;Marcus, 1995;Star, 1999), the historical kinship between naturalist and sociological fieldwork has been somewhat forgotten. Instead, it was the 'lab' which became a frequent topos to describe eco-social worlds and their disciplinary enactments. ...

... Por ende, antes de que las disciplinas sean trincheras epistemológicas con metas fijas, la construcción de conocimiento debe ser el trazado de una ruta que articule preguntas, conceptos, sensibilidades y actores más allá de las fronteras académicas. Hastrup (2018), a partir de su participación en un proyecto transdisciplinar, afirma que "Conocer a otras personas en terrenos no comunes nos enseña a mantener las cosas abiertas, mientras ensamblamos los elementos que Trascendiendo el todo y las partes: universalismo, escritura y ética en la antropología ...

... Ifølge Kirsten Hastrup er oppdagelser av det ufortalte kjernen i deltagende observasjon. Feltarbeidet oppstår i møtet med mennesker, steder oppstår i møte med mennesker, og fortiden tillegger mennesker betydning i nåtid (Hastrup, 2016). Å gjøre feltarbeid i det demokratiske Sør-Afrika, altså etter apartheid, handler både om fortid og nåtid. ...