Gender and Island Communities (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Gaini, Firouz; Pristed Nielsen, Helene

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book takes an explicitly feminist approach to studying gender and social inequalities in island settings whilst deliberating on 'islandness' as part of the intersectional analysis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429558733
• Artikelnr.: 58848888

Autorenporträt

Firouz Gaini is a Professor in anthropology at the Department of History and Social Sciences, University of the Faroe Islands. He has worked with research focusing on youth cultures, identity, place and futures. He is the editor of Among the Islanders of the North (Faroe University Press, 2011). Among his recent articles is 'The Future Images of Contemporary Oki Islands Youth' (2019). Helene Pristed Nielsen is an Associate Professor at FREIA Centre for Gender Research, Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research interests revolve around gender and place. Previous publications include 'No place for their children: negotiating gender, place and generation in a flexible work context' published in Gender, Place and Culture (2018), and the edited volume (with Thidemann Faber) Remapping Gender, Place and Mobility: Global Confluences and Local Particularities in Nordic Peripheries (Ashgate 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Gender, Change, and Continuity in Island Communities 2. An Island
Feminist Approach to Scholar-Activism 3. Being (un)stuck in Qaqortoq:
Attachment, Ambivalence, and Affect in Contemporary Greenland 4. Gender on
the Rock: Gender, identity and militarism in Okinawa 5. An Intersectional
Analysis of Island Feminist Praxis in Puerto Rico 6. Parenting and islands:
constructing gender and work in the Faroe Islands 7. An Island and
Intersectional Analysis of STEM Faculty Careers in Hawai'i 8. Island
intersections: A correspondence about educational research in Tasmania 9.
Island Studies through Love and Affection to Power and Politics Epilogue:
Writing from somewhere