The Danish ‘Coil Campaign’ in Greenland

What is it about?

This article looks at the application of the definition of genocide to the forced administration of birth control to indigenous Greenlanders by the Danish authorities in the 1960s and 1970s. In doing so, it provides an in-depth analysis of genocide and how it applies to forced birth control. The article also also unpacks the tendency to limit or constrict the definition of genocide to circumstances of mass murder, even though the definition is potentially much wider/broader. and explains the impacts of narrowing genocide in this way on what kinds of events are understood to qualify as genocide. The article bridges colonialism, genocide, and gender/birth control and also addresses some of the gender critiques related to international criminal law.

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