“It’s a bit like saying: I don’t see colour”: Unpacking Coloniality in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) through Epistolary Collaborative Practice

In this article we argue that the epistolary form can be used as collaborative practice—further expanding researcher-informant relations—where both parties enter an epistemic partnership and become co-researchers, co-theorizing and co-creating the research output together. We have been using the epistolary form as a means to exchange observations, ideas, and positionalities about coloniality in Kalaallit (Greenlandic Inuit) society today, and to investigate the stance young people take in this discussion. The article has developed from correspondence via letter-writing between the two authors and renders visible the dynamics of our epistemic relationship, an essential element of the collaborative process that often stays hidden. We hereby experiment with collaborative research practices and alternative ways of creating knowledge, as advocated by practitioners working with collaborative and experimental research practices in anthropology, clearly positioning ourselves as authors, an Indigenous scholar and a non-Indigenous researcher, in relation to each other as well as to the world around us.