Danish Colonial Reproductive Coercion in Kalallit Nunaat

In this open lecture, Naja Dyrendom Graugaard will discuss the colonial, intersectional aspects of Denmark’s family planning program that made the Indigenous female body the center of Danish subordination and governance. This is a keynote lecture given as part of the symposium The past, present, and future of reproductive in/justice in the Nordic countries and the Futures Thoughts series, of which both are hosted and funded by the Malmö Research Centre for Imagining and Co-Creating Futures.

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Graugaard is a Danish-kalaaleq researcher and Associate Professor at Center for Gender, Sexuality & Difference, Dept. of Nordic Studies & Linguistics, Copenhagen University. Her research focuses on past and present colonial relations between Denmark and Kalaallit Nunaat, Inuit knowledge systems, Indigenous narrative sovereignty, Land relations, intersectionality & decoloniality in the Arctic. She is Affiliate scholar at RIFS, Research Institue for Sustainability, GFZ, Potsdam and recipient of Emma Goldman Award 2025.

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