Pelle Tejsner

Pelle Tejsner is an Associate Professor of Social Anthropology and Head of the Department of Cultural and Social History at Ilisimatursarfik/University of Greenland. His Ph.D. thesis was a seasonality-based research project based on a year-long fieldwork in Qeqertarsuaq on Disco Island/Northwest Greenland. It examined Kalaallit Inuit perceptions of environmental change as part of his wider research focus on socio-cultural resilience, socio-environmental, and human-animal relations (multispeciesism) with Inuit communities. Postdoctoral research was sponsored by the Danish Independent Research Council and reviewed public discourses and civic engagement focusing on indigenous rights in relation to non-renewable resource extraction (offshore hydrocarbon/gas, and mining) and wider societal impacts with a view to promoting sustainable development of non-renewable resource governance in Greenland and the Arctic (Canada and Alaska) at large. As an interdisciplinary researcher he has worked with both indigenous informants and natural scientists as part of his overarching on differing culturally based forms of knowledge-making in relation to climate change mitigation and coastal renewable resource management.