Gender and Island Communities

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 gendered developments. Taking Karides’ ‘Island feminism’ as a starting point and drawing from the wider literature on island studies as well as gender and place, this book bridges this gap by exploring gender, gender relations, affect and politics in various island settings spanning a great variety of global locations, from the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the north to Tasmania in south. Insights on recent developments and gendered contestations in these locations provide rich food for thought on the intricate links between gender and place in a local/global world.This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of gender and feminist studies, cultural studies, Island studies, anthropology, and more broadly to sociology, geography, diversity and social justice studies, global democracy, and international relations.

1. Gender, Change, and Continuity in Island CommunitiesFirouz Gaini & Helene Pristed Nielsen2. An Island Feminist Approach to Scholar-ActivismMarina Karides3. Being (un)stuck in Qaqortoq: Attachment, Ambivalence, and Affect in Contemporary GreenlandHelene Pristed Nielsen4. Gender on the Rock: Gender, identity and militarism in OkinawaFirouz Gaini5. An Intersectional Analysis of Island Feminist Praxis in Puerto RicoNoralis Rodrguez Coss6. Parenting and islands: constructing gender and work in the Faroe IslandsErika Anne Hayfield7. An Island and Intersectional Analysis of STEM Faculty Careers in HawaiiMarina Karides, Nathalie Rita, Ruth Aloua, and Jennifer Stotter8. Island intersections: A correspondence about educational research in TasmaniaKim Beasy, Michael Corbett, Sherridan Emery and Halyna Pavlyshyn9. Island Studies through Love and Affection to Power and PoliticsHelene Pristed Nielsen and Noralis Rodrguez CossEpilogue: Writing from somewhereGodfrey Baldacchino

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).