1st Edition
Remapping Gender, Place and Mobility Global Confluences and Local Particularities in Nordic Peripheries
Biography
Stine Thidemann Faber is Associate Professor of Sociology at FREIA, Center for Gender Research at the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University in Denmark. She is also head of EDGE, Centre for Equality, Diversity and Gender, also at Aalborg University. Helene Pristed Nielsen is Associate Professor at FREIA, Center for Gender Research at the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University in Denmark, and she was together with Stine Thidemann Faber project coordinator for the Global Periphery-project (2011-2014) which focuses on gender and diversity and how globalization is affecting place practices and place attachment at the social level.
’Peripheries are not merely geographically remote they are regions that are subordinated to the metropole. When the center is found in the famously egalitarian Nordic countries, there are interesting contradictions to be found in these inherently unequal relations. The Nordic welfare state model, this collection points out, has built-in blind spots about nationalism and ethnic differences. By focusing on the unique challenges facing people at the geographic edges, the authors raise important questions about intersectionality and inequality of many different kinds.’ Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin USA ’A collection of rich case studies engaging in detail with how women and men cope and struggle in situated everyday lives in the Nordic peripheries. Taking a perspective on gender and space from below, it offers students and scholars across disciplines nuanced analyses of migration and belonging.’ Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt, Roskilde University, Denmark
