My name is Luisa Lollio, and I am a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oulu, Finland. In my project, I focus on how climate change and pollution impact the coast of South Greenland through the lens of multispecies relations with seals. In collaboration with community members, I study the changes they observe while hunting seals, processing their skins or engaging with other seal-related activities as well as how they adapt to changes. I am especially interested in whether and how people try to think and see from the seals’ perspective when making sense of changes on the coast. By focusing on human-seal relations and knowledge I aim to talk about environmental changes in ways that resonate with the people affected by it, and for whom seals have strong personal, cultural and social significance.
I obtained my master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology in 2023 at University of Turin (Università degli Studi di Torino), where I started to be interested in the perspectives of Arctic Indigenous people on environmental change, multispecies relations and the everchanging dynamics of colonialism in the Arctic. I started my PhD in 2024, as part of project ICEBERG, an EU funded horizon project which focuses on studying pollution and climate change in the European Arctic and co-developing resilience strategies with local communities.
Feel free to contact me at my email address: luisa.lollio@oulu.fi
Women in the Arctic and Antarctic 