“It Is Windier Nowadays”: Coastal Livelihoods and Seascape-Making in Qeqertarsuaq, West Greenland

Coastal fishermen and whalers on the island of Qeqertarsuaq (English: Disko Island) in Disko Bay, West Greenland, have relied on the harvest of marine resources for the continuation of livelihoods across the generations. More recently, however, Qeqertarsuarmiut (residents of Qeqertarsuaq) and residents in other parts of the Circumpolar North have increasingly been portrayed as somehow more “exposed” or “vulnerable” victims located on the frontline of a geographically determined global crisis narrative about climate change, which inadvertently ignores the reality of coastal livelihoods in the Arctic today.