Young kalaallit men’s negotiation of masculinity: Maskulinitetsval hjá ungum kalaallit monnum

This article investigates young kalaallit’s perspectives on gender identity and culture with focus on their presentations of kalaaleq man and social marginalization. Relying on qualitative data collected during a field trip
to Nuuk in spring 2014, this article outlines the close connection between dominant (gendered) images of the traditional hunter lifestyle and discourses on the social and cultural predicaments of contemporary man in Greenland. I suggest men’s identity negotiation process to be characterized by navigation between cultural narratives on their kalaallit ancestors and alternative images of man disseminated by electronic media and through the modern urban setting. Young men use multiple masculinities from different sources to express their ways of being kalaallit men.