{"id":24685,"date":"2025-10-30T13:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/?p=24685"},"modified":"2026-02-03T13:09:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:09:24","slug":"greenland-diaries-part-2-providers-in-peril-the-pressures-of-being-a-breadwinner-in-greenlands-melting-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/greenland-diaries-part-2-providers-in-peril-the-pressures-of-being-a-breadwinner-in-greenlands-melting-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenland Diaries, Part 2: Providers in Peril: The Pressures of Being a Breadwinner in Greenland\u2019s Melting Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caring Masculinity Fund recipient DareGender, a Danish <\/i><\/b>Una organizaci\u00f3n que involucra a ni\u00f1os y hombres en la promoci\u00f3n de la igualdad de g\u00e9nero explora el significado de ser hombre en Groenlandia. Jeppe Trolle Linnet, antrop\u00f3logo y gestor de proyectos de DareGender, recorre el pa\u00eds entrevistando a hombres que conoce para comprender el significado de la masculinidad en uno de los lugares m\u00e1s remotos del planeta.\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n
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Jeppe has been settling into Qasigiannguit, a small town on Greenland\u2019s West coast, for several weeks. <\/span>The effects of climate change are felt heavily in Greenland and impact many aspects of daily life for all citizens. Hunting \u2013 a traditional rite of passage to manhood in the region \u2013 is particularly under threat from the warming climate, eroding not only this key expression of masculinity, but local people\u2019s lives, too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On land, the men hunt reindeer and musk ox; at sea, they fish for Greenland halibut, cod, and shrimp, and shoot seals and whales. But shifting animal migration patterns and shorter periods of time where there is solid sea-ice cover is causing uncertainty and unpredictability, and impacting men\u2019s ability to provide for their families.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe can no longer trust the ice,\u201d is a familiar phrase Jeppe hears from the local community. <\/span>Ivik is a Qasigiannguit resident in his 30s who works in the local energy supply plant and supplements his income with money earned from hunting to provide for his three children. He tells Jeppe how he was nearly killed by the rising temperatures.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was out seal hunting, and I could feel the ice rocking unstably beneath me. I finally got close to the seal, but then the ice collapsed. I fell through,\u201d he says. <\/span>Ivik had to fight his way up out of the freezing cold water. He survived, but others have not been so lucky. In Qasigiannguit, locals tell Jeppe how, two decades ago, families would take their car out on the winter ice and drive from town to town. While in recent years, only individual hunters who decide to take the risk will venture out on the sea ice in front of the town. Families will stay off it. Jeppe hears of tragic occurrences where family members have perished together in accidents that happen because conditions have become less solid and predictable.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not only does the changing climate pose a physical threat to life, it also threatens the knowledge systems which underpin life in the town. A man\u2019s embodied understanding of the sea ice, weather and animal behavior, along with the courage to navigate risk, and his competence as \u2018provider\u2019 for his family, elders, and neighbors, are a crucial part of male identity and masculinity in the region. But this role is now under threat as climate change rewrites the rules of survival.<\/span><\/p>\n

Inside the yellow-brick house of 65-year-old hunter and fisherman, K\u00e3pe, Jeppe learns firsthand the difficulties faced by men in the region. \u201cThe ice settles, but then suddenly one morning it\u2019s gone, it\u2019s been blown out to sea,\u201d says K\u00e3pe.<\/span><\/p>\n

K\u00e3pe\u2019s home is a homage to a lifetime of fishing and hunting \u2013 his collection is like a private museum, filled with polar bear skins, fossilized sea creatures, and huge skulls from North Atlantic deep-sea fish. <\/span>Like many of the men in <\/span>Qasigiannguit<\/span>, <\/span>K\u00e3pe<\/span> has worked as a hunter and fisherman since he was a teenager.<\/span><\/p>\n

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K\u00e3pe\u2019s home in Qasigiannguit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now, hunting and fishing take more time and energy, with more uncertain results, explains K\u00e3pe. Men have less time with their families and cannot bring home as much income. For K\u00e3pe, this undermines his sense of self as a man, which has been largely based on his success as earner and breadwinner.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Modernization has diversified what \u2018providing\u2019 looks like in the region \u2013 salaried work, vocational training, and public-sector jobs now complement or, in some cases, replace hunting and fishing in many households. Yet the symbolic core of masculinity often remains linked to being a \u2018provider.\u2019 When climate change disrupts the practical foundations of providing, the cultural scripts that affirm men\u2019s worth can be shaken, too.<\/span><\/p>\n

The impacts of climate change in Greenlandic communities like Qasigiannguit go far beyond the irreparable changes to the landscape; they also deeply affect the cultural and social fabric of these communities. As traditional roles disappear, many men are left feeling as though the rug has been pulled out from under them and <\/span>are left navigating a shifting landscape \u2013 not only of ice and animals, but of identity, meaning, and manhood itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read Part 1 of the Greenland Diaries here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s Note: This is just one example of the impact being made by recipients of the Caring Masculinity Fund. Read more <\/span>aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/span><\/h5>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caring Masculinity Fund recipient DareGender, a Danish organisation that engages boys and men in promoting gender equality, is exploring what it means to be a man in<\/p>","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":24809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[204],"class_list":["post-24685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-caregiving","program_areas-caring-men","program_areas-social-connection","geography-north-america","department-advocacy","location-greenland"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24685"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26227,"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24685\/revisions\/26227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}