1st Edition

Gender and Island Communities

Edited By Firouz Gaini, Helene Pristed Nielsen Copyright 2020
204 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book takes an explicitly feminist approach to studying gender and social inequalities in island settings while deliberating on ‘islandness’ as part of the intersectional analysis. Though there is a wealth of recent literature on islands and island studies, most of this literature focuses on islands as objects of study rather than as contexts for exploring gender relations and local... Read more

1. Gender, Change, and Continuity in Island Communities

Firouz Gaini & Helene Pristed Nielsen

 

2. An Island Feminist Approach to Scholar-Activism

Marina Karides

 

3. Being (un)stuck in Qaqortoq: Attachment, Ambivalence, and Affect in Contemporary Greenland

Helene Pristed Nielsen

 

4. Gender on the Rock: Gender, identity and militarism in Okinawa

Firouz Gaini

 

5. An Intersectional Analysis of Island Feminist Praxis in Puerto Rico

Noralis Rodríguez Coss

 

6. Parenting and islands: constructing gender and work in the Faroe Islands

Erika Anne Hayfield

 

7. An Island and Intersectional Analysis of STEM Faculty Careers in Hawai’i

Marina Karides, Nathalie Rita, Ruth Aloua, and Jennifer Stotter

 

8. Island intersections: A correspondence about educational research in Tasmania

Kim Beasy, Michael Corbett, Sherridan Emery and Halyna Pavlyshyn

 

9. Island Studies through Love and Affection to Power and Politics

Helene Pristed Nielsen and Noralis Rodríguez Coss

 

Epilogue: Writing from somewhere

Godfrey Baldacchino

Biography

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).