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Janne Flora

Research Associate

Anthropology and Russian Northern Studies Group

Janne is a social anthropologist with research interests in Greenland. Her PhD research was an exploration of suicide, longing and reincarnation in Greenland and her MPhil dissertation looked at the role of silence in relationships between social workers and Greenlandic clients in Denmark. Janne is currently working on a three year project, researching the concepts of loneliness and relatedness within the context of seasonal movements among Greenlanders locally, as well as among Greenlandic students and migrants in Denmark. This project raises questions about how Greenlanders locally and abroad maintain relatedness and negotiate various forms of distance and loneliness within a context where loneliness is generally feared and avoided. This project is funded by the Carlsberg Foundation / Carlsbergfondet, Denmark.

Biography

Qualifications

PhD (2009) Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
MPhil (2002) Polar Studies, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
BSc Hons (2000) Anthropology, University of East London

Research Grants, Scholarships and Prizes

Postdoc Stipend awarded for research carried out in 2012-13 by: Carlsbergfondet (The Carlsberg Foundation), Denmark
Postdoc Stipend awarded for research carried out in 2011-12 by: Carlsbergfondet (The Carlsberg Foundation), Denmark
Postdoc Stipend awarded for research carried out in 2010-11 by: Carlsbergfondet (The Carlsberg Foundation), Denmark
International PhD Scholarship awarded for 2002-2005 by Forskningsuddannelsesrådet, Forskningsstyrelsen (The Danish Research Agency), Denmark
Cambridge European Trust with Isaac Newton Trust, 2002
Cambridge Scandinavian Studies Fund, 2005

Publications

Selected publications:

Flora, J. 2012 '"I Don't Know Why He Did it. It Happened by Itself": Causality and Suicide in Northwest Greenland' In: C. High, A. Kelly and J. Mair (eds.) The Anthropology of Ignorance: An ethnographic approach. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp 137-161
Flora, J. 2009, Relatedness, Loneliness and Longing in Qeqertaq, Greenland, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
Flora, J. 2007, 'Tilknytning og Selvstændighed - unges fravalg af uddannelse' in: W. Kahlig and N. Banerjee (eds.) Børn og Unge i Grønland – en antologi. Nuuk: Milik Publishing, pp. 148-162
Flora, J. 2007, 'Attaveqarneq nammineernerlu – inuusuttut ilinniagaqanngitsoortarnerat' in: in: W. Kahlig and N. Banerjee (eds.) Meeqqat Inuusuttullu Kalaallit Nunaanni – allaaserisat katersat. Nuuk: Milik Publishing, pp. 172-188
Flora, J. 2002, The Spirit of Silence: Greenlandic cultural life in a Danish urban setting, unpublished MPhil dissertation, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge

Selected Conferences and Seminar Papers (Unpublished):

Persons Apart: Loneliness and the reversibility of suicide in a northwest Greenlandic village, Suicide and Agency Workshop, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany
Suicide, Longing and Reincarnation in Greenland. UCL Medical Anthropology Seminar Series, UCL/British Museum, UK
Unge Mænd i Bygder: bevidste valg mellem globalisering og familie. Conference on Gender and Violence. Ilisimatusarfik, Nuuk, Greenland
Suicide, Despair and Reincarnation in Greenland. Discussant: Jean Briggs. Seminar, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK

Teaching

2011-12 Sessional Lecturer, Human Geography of the Polar Regions, Department of Geography, University of Reading
2010-11 Sessional Lecturer, Human Geography of the Polar Regions, Department of Geography, University of Reading
2009-10 Sessional Lecturer, Human Geography of the Polar Regions, Department of Geography, University of Reading
2006-07 Supervisor, Tripos Part II, Human Geography of the Arctic, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
2005-06 Supervisor, Tripos Part II, Human Geography of the Arctic, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge

Scott Polar Research Institute

University of Cambridge