Publications

Artiklen peger – med fokus på børn og unge – på potentielle udviklingsmuligheder for community-baseret socialt arbejde i Grønland. Der er i øjeblikket et øget fokus på at vende interessen hen mod strukturelle og lokalsamfunds-orienterede metoder i det sociale arbejde. Nogle af disse metoder henter inspiration i oprindelige folks viden om og former for social støtte.

Bogen beskriver og diskuterer de historiske og videnskabsteoretiske baggrunde for at udforme en refleksiv baseline for interventioner, der støtter og styrker social resiliens i to byer i Kalaallit Nunaat/Grønland. Det vises og dokumenteres, hvordan en refleksiv baseline kan tilbyde en måde at forske på, der aktivt styrker sociale ressourcer og derved virker tranformativ i sin udførelse.

Projektets forsknings-del, som specifikt omtales i kapitlerne 2 og 3, er central for en forståelse af hele projektet, er udført af professor, Peter Berliner og er blevet til på baggrund af Peter Berliners mange års forskning i grønlandske forhold og projekt Siunissaq´s konkrete aktiviteter og udførelse.

Objective: To review the context of food insecurity in Greenlandic children, to review and compare the outcomes related to food insecurity in Greenlandic children, in other Arctic child populations and in other western societies, and to explore the measure used by the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study.

Design: The study includes literature reviews, focus group interviews with children and analyses of data from the HBSC study. HBSC is an international cross-national school-based survey on child and adolescent health and health behaviour in the age groups 11, 13 and 15 years and performed in more than 40 countries. The item on food insecurity is “Some young people go to school or to bed hungry because there is not enough food in the home. How often does this happen to you?” (with the response options: “Always”, “Often”, “Sometimes”, or “Never”).

Results: The context to food security among Inuit in Arctic regions was found to be very similar and connected to a westernization of the diet and contamination of the traditional diet. The major challenges are contamination, economic access to healthy food and socio-demographic differences in having a healthy diet. The literature on outcomes related to food insecurity in children in Western societies was reviewed and grouped based on 8 domains. Using data from the Greenlandic HBSC data from 2010, the item on food security showed negative associations on central items in all these domains. Focus group interviews with children revealed face and content validity of the HBSC item.

Conclusion: Triangulation of the above-mentioned findings indicates that the HBSC measure of food shortage is a reliable indicator of food insecurity in Greenlandic schoolchildren. However, more research is needed, especially on explanatory and mediating factors.

Artiklen beskriver tre aspekter ved social, kropslig og rumslig læring og belyser disse ud fra data fra MATU projektet i Grønland.

The article presents and analyses 20 photographs taken by ten young people in Paamiut, Greenland. The photographs were taken as a part of workshop facilitated by photographer Tina Enghoff and journalist Anette Molbech and later published as part of a book. The workshop was one of the many activities in the community mobilization program Paamiut Asasara. The photos, their titles and narrative texts are analyzed, using the method of a close reading with a clear focus on the photos themselves, combined with a contextual analysis of the photos. Transparency into the step-by-step analysis is used to secure plausibility of the results. The study shows that the photographs present the following themes: (1) searching for strength; (2) moving forward (to be on the move); (3) the will to choose and to make changes; (4) a longing for close relationship; and (5) valuing love, i.e. to love and to be loved. These themes are understood in the context of traditional Inuit story-telling and in the present situation of the young people in Paamiut as part of the Paamiut Asasara program.