Frank Sejersen

Frank pursues research within the field of anthropology and political ecology. In his research projects, the analytical focus is on processes of cultural transition, knowledge conflicts, environmental perception and policies of sustainability. The research focus has been on transition where questions of environmental management, climate, urbanization, human rights, economic development, and societal dynamics are integrated into a larger analytical field of scaling practices, cultural translation, identity politics and cultural representation. Lately, the research focus has been on innovation, hope, brokerage, affective economies, place-and future-making.

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Literature suggestions

Bacchi, Carol (2012). Why Study Problematizations? Making Politics Visible. Open Journal of Political Science 2(1): 1-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojps.2012.21001
Too often problems are taken for granted and feed into already existing ideas about how to solve them. Bacchi encourages us to engage in critically scrutinizing how ‘the problem’ is made up, made visible, is maintained and enter a regime of truth. When studying how phenomena are turned into problems we may also appreciate that politics is not about governing to solve ‘problems’ but moreover to govern through problematizations.

Cameron, Emilie (2012). Securing indigenous politics: A critique of the vulnerability and adaptation approach to the human dimensions of climate change in the Canadian Arctic. Global Environmental Change, 22(2012), 103-114.
Cameron makes an intriguing critique of the social science research on vulnerability, adaptation and resilience that has become so widespread in the Arctic. By bringing feminist and post colonial perspectives upfront Cameron reminds me about the fact that we constantly need to scrutinize the paradigms we subscribe to when doing research.   

Stern, Pamela & Stevenson, Lisa (2006). Critical Inuit Studies: An Anthology of Contemporary Arctic Ethnography. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press
This edited volume addresses a number of ethical, political, and practical predicaments and problemcomplexes when doing research in the Arctic, where the colonial heritage and research is deeply entangled.   

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