A hybride between colony and sovereign independent state

Until 1953 Greenland was a Danish colony. Both legaly and historically this is an inevitable fact. Aquut is the Greenlandic word for the steering wheel in a ship. Aquut thus is a symbol. Who governs Greenland? How is the relationship between Denmark and Greenland? While there is registered a great interest in Greenland according to melting of the ice cap and global warming, it seems now and then forgotten that there is a Greenlandic population of 56.000 inhabitants in Greenland. Beside of that, we estimate that there will be living about 20.000 Greenlanders outside Greenland. About the editor: I am Danish. The bias is European. The risc is that of always wanting to civilize instead of leaving space to Inuit to choose their own direction

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The blessing time of colonies

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By eMikael Hertig 20 In Denmark, the blessing time of colonies1 Marine Duc and Mikael Hertig Abstract Despite the implementation since the end of the 1970s of a gradual transfer of power from the government of Denmark to Naalakkersuisut – Government of Greenland -, this is not just a peaceful development in relations between the small Nordic country and its…

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Praktikforløb og skånebehov

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Tager arbejdsgiverne skånebehov alvorligt?     Når arbejdsgiveren modtager mennesker i virksomhedspraktik, skal han altid respekterer de skånebehov, der følger personen. Det kan handle om tidsbegrænsninger, om løfteevne, om psykiske forhold. Jeg har mødt klienter med skånebehov, hvor de slet ikke blev respekteret.  Jeg har oplevet det, som om personen bliver sat i arbejde på mere normale vilkår, end skånebehovene…

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A Greenlandic perspective on the Greenlandic economy

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Adam Grydehøj is a researcher in microstates and island communities, with a focus on the Arctic region and China. He is director of the Island Dynamics research institute (www.islanddynamics.org), executive editor of Island Studies Journal (www.islandstudies.ca), and guest lecturer in political science at Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland. A Danish version of this article  was first published in Sermitsiaq.     Adam…

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Greenlands leading party Siumut is at risc of being cleaved in two

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  The leading Siumut Party is at risk at being split up in two after the  congress July 26. Thinking in European logics, a cleavage wood seem inevitable. However, Greenlanders think and act in a culture trying to avoid conflicts. And if conflicts comes to the surface, to live with them if possible. Greenland’s near future depends on the result…

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Greenland: Danish Government is bluffing (updated)

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Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen is bluffing when he threatens the Government of Greenland with eliminating “Bloktilskud”   Abstract Both by a debate in the Danish Folketing  in may and later repeated at a common “Rigsmøde” between the prime ministers of Denmark, Faroe Islands and Greenland the Danish Prime Minister has threatened the Greenlandish Government and Parliament (Naalakkersuisut, Inatsisartut)…

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