Civic Empowerment through Digitalisation: The Case of Greenlandic Women

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Abstract

This paper explores the disruptive and transformative effects of digital technology on gendered security asymmetries in Greenland. Through ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Greenland and Denmark, research findings emerged through in-depth interviews, collaborative mappings and field observations with 51 participants. Employing a critical feminist lens, the paper identifies how Greenlandic women develop digital security practices to respond to Greenland's ecologically, politically and socially induced transformation processes. By connecting individual security concerns of Greenlandic women with the broader regional context, the findings highlight how digital technology has created transitory spaces in which collective security is cultivated, shaped and challenged. The contribution to HCI scholarship is therefore threefold: (1) identification and acknowledgement of gendered effects of increased usage of digital technology in remote and hard-to-reach communities, (2) a broader conceptualisation of digital security and (3) a recommendation for more contextualised, pluralistic digitalisation policies and design.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publicationCHI'20
PublisherACM
Pages1-13
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)978-1-4503-6708-0/20/04
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2020

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