Global Coasts: Gender, Fisheries and contemporary issues

Date: June 26-30, 2006 Organisers: Centre for Women and Gender Research (KVINNFORSK) and Department of Planning and Community Studies (IPL), University of Tromsø, in collaboration with Bodø University College and Finnmark University College Project head: Siri Gerrard, Kvinnforsk/IPL Venue: LHL Centre, Skibotn (bus from Tromsø)     The PhD-course and symposium has as its points of departure the Research Council of Norway-financed project: “Sustainable Coastal Culture? A Gender Perspective on Area and Resource Use”, a workshop held at the University of Tromsø in 2004 and collaboration with feminist researchers in several countries. These projects have revealed the need for a stronger focus on women’s and men’s actions and positions in globalised coastal areas, in relevant organisations and in resource management. The PhD-course/symposium will be held in English and will involve experts on the subject from Canada, France, Norway, Spain, and the U.S. Target group The PhD-course/symposiumis intended to be a meeting-place for established researchers as well as for students who are working on or have an interest in the connection between gender, nature and culture. The main target group is PhD-students and researchers from within Norway and overseas. We are preparing contributions and debates in plenary as well as smaller groups.  PhD-students and others are welcome to register for paper delivery We welcome participants to give papers at the symposium. Please add the title of your contribution when sending your registration. All papers will be discussed in group-sessions. PhD-students may receive 5 or 10 ECTS credits dependent on the amount of work that each student puts in. Please consult the Faculty of Social Science homepages for more information and PhD-course registration Deadline for PhD-course registration: 6 June PhD-papers must be send us before: 20 June Registration and Practical Details Please register for participation before June 6th. Click here for information on symposium registration, prices and other practical details. All participants must send us the required registration info by email, fax or snail mail. PhD-students additionally must send an application to the Faculty of Social Science. Academic objective Over the past decade, researchers from all over the world have placed significant emphasis on resource management, coastal zones and other coastal and global issues, often related to industry and professional activities. Most research communities, also those who are considered as the leading ones, often lack serious studies in gender-related dimensions. Lack of gender focus can also be found in studies on coastal cultures and societies in a broad sense, including research on outdoor recreation and tourism. Our symposium aims to bring together researchers from various disciplines that have studied coastal-related topics, utilising diverse theories and methods, but in a gender and/or feminist perspective. Social and cultural theories about men and women, gender relations, identities and knowledge formation will, therefore, form the basis for the presentations and discussions.     Research topics and challenges The symposium will deal with different aspects of the relationship between gender, knowledge production and coastal cultures and societies in a context coloured by global processes. We will present and discuss established and new perspectives in these fields, aiming to get an overview over the research status. We will also try to demonstrate how production of knowledge in shifting coastal contexts with emphasis on gender perspectives can benefit the mainstream research on resource management, coastal zones, recreation and tourism and vice versa, and how an emphasis on such topics can benefit the gender perspectives.   Such foci represent a challenge since coastal areas represent, on the one hand, areas with many and rapid ongoing changes, related to new technology, new economies and new political and social structures, as well as to climate, pollution, use and over-exploitation of natural renewable natural resources. On the other hand, the changes are also linked to values, symbols, and knowledge. By examining gender relations, discussion and disagreement between actors with different interests on different decision levels, as well as new ideologies and gender identities, we may gain new knowledge about these changes and, at the same time, come up with theoretical and methodological contributions. Doing this, we may include other forms of differentiation and analyse relationships between gender and for instance ethnicity, class, age, or sexual orientation. We also believe that a focus on gender in different coastal contexts and on different levels will bring us further in the study of interface and intersectionality.    The lecturers and delegates represent different research fields and experience from various geographical contexts. Through lectures, debates and empirical data from communities in different countries throughout the world, we hope to give a contribution to theory building and development of methods. We also hope to bring light to the question of whether a focus on gender, coastal areas and natural resources creates a unique knowledge and interpretation universe compared with other fields.

Program:   GLOBAL COASTS: GENDER, FISHERIES AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES Monday June 26:  At University of Tromsø, KVINNFORSK 10.30: Welcome. Gerd Bjørhovde, Pro-rector, Lise Nordbrønd, Kvinnforsk, and repr/Department of Planning and Community Studies 11.00: Chartered bus from the University of Tromsø (The administrative building) At Skibotn: Monday June 26: Has Gender Come to Fishery Knowledge? 12.30: Arrival at Skibotn, check in at the hotel 13.00-14.00: Lunch 14.00-15.30: Dona Lee Davis: How Gender came to Fish: The Challenges of Gendering Knowledge Production  Questions and discussions 15.30-16.00: Break 16.00-16.30: Presentation of participants 16.30-18.00: Marilyn Porter: Women in Fisheries. International Comparisons  Questions and discussions 18.00-18.30: Inger Marie Olsen: Situating the PhD-Course/Symposium: North Troms as a Multiethnic Meeting Place. Women’s Challenges.       19.00: Welcome dinner and informal get together Tuesday June 27: Construction of Identities - Constructing Knowledges in a Global World 09.00-10.00: Harald Beyer Broch: On the shaping of women and men in coastal communities: division of work and gender attributes in praxis and narratives. Empirical examples from Indonesia and Norway. 10.00-10.15: Break 10.15-11.15: Nicole Power: From Fisherman to Entrepreneur. The Impacts of Changing Meanings and Realities in the Newfoundland Fishery on Occupational Health 11.15-12.15: Unnur Dis Skaptadottir: Changing Times - Changing Femininities? 12.15-13.15: Lunch 13.15-14.15: Marit Hauan: Absolute Masculine. Constructing Gender in the North 14.15-15.15: Runa Hjelm: Innovation and Masculinity in the Faroe fishery 15.15-15.30: Break 15.30-16.30: Dikka Storm: Resources, Traditional Knowledge, Ethnicity and Gender in a Sami Community 16.30-17.15: Maria Baptista: Celebrating Coastal Culture 17.15-17.45: Dona Lee Davis: Sum up of the day  19.00-20.00: Dinner 20.00-21.30:Touring the area by foot (in rain or midnight sun) Wednesday June 28: Global Processes and Constructions of New Realities 09.00-10.45: Jose Pascual and Gloria Cabrera Socorro: Fisheries and Tourism: Realities, Identities and Concepts: Case Studies from Canary Islands 10.45-11.00: Break 11.00-12.00: Liv Toril Pettersen: Gender, Household and Industry     12.00-13.00: Lunch 13.00-14.00: Mai Camilla Munkejord: Challenging Discourses on Rurality Women and Men In-migrants' Constructions of Good Life in a Rural Town in Northern Norway 14.00-15.00: Karin Marie Antonsen: Gendered representations of Nature and Place in Lofoten. A poststructural perspective 15.00-15.30: Break 15.30-16.30: Siri Gerrard: Did Gender Studies Change Fisheries? Challenges in the Process from Studying Local Communities to Studying Cyborgcoasts? 16.30-17.00: Barbara Neis: Sum up of the day 18.00-19.00: Dinner Thursday June 29: Challenging Methods 09.00-10.00: Barbara Neis: The Feminist Challenges of Large-Scale, Interdisciplinary Fisheries Research 10.00-11.00: Joan Scott: How is Femininity and Masculinity relevant for Natural Research and Teaching? Questions 11.00-11.15: Break 11.15-12.15: Linda Cullum: Doing Narratives: Narratives in the Knowledge Production of Masculinity and Femininity 12.15-13.00: Discussion 13.00-14.00: Lunch 14.00-15.00: Kirsti Pedersen Gurholt: Lived-experiences, embodied knowledge and gender in outdoor recreational life and adventure 15.00–16.00: Lene Foss: Life Stories in Studying Gender in the Processing Fish Industry 16.00-16.30. Break 16.30-17.30: Katia Frangoudes: Transforming Research for Practice and Advocacy 17.30- 18.00: Siri Gerrard: Discussions and sum up of the day 19.00: Dinner Friday June 30: Challening Differentiation: Gender, Age and Ethnicity in Resource-based Societies 09.00-10.00: Dagrunn Grønbech: A Study of Elderly Women - Doing Anthropology at Home 10.00-10.15: Break 10.15-11.15: Jorunn Jernsletten: Women, Men and Sami reindeer herding: Cosmologies and Policies 11.15-12.30: Lunch   Final Session: 12.30-14.30: Dona Lee Davis, Katia Frangoudes, Siri Gerrard, Jose Pascual, Nicole Power, Liv Torill Pettersen and Unnur Dis Skaptadottir (introductions to plenary discussions): Global or Situated? Challenges for Future Gender Research in Coastal Contexts (based on the seminar and new project ideas) Final discussion: All participants 14.30-14.45: Evaluation of PhDcourse and Symposium 15.00: Transport back to Tromsø 17.00:  Arrival in Tromsø SPEAKERS: · Barbara Neis, Professor, Department of Sociology and Director of Safety-net, Memorial University, St.John’s, Canada · Dona Lee Davis, Professor, University of South Dakota, USA · Marilyn Porter, Professor, Department of Sociology, Memorial University, St.John’s, Canada · Linda Cullum, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Women’s Study Programme, Memorial University, St.John’s, Canada · Nicole Power, Researcher, Safety-net, Memorial University, St.John’s, Canada · Joan Scott, Biologist, Memorial University,  St.John’s, Canada · Katia Frangoudes, Senior Researcher, Department of Law and Economics/ Center for the Law and Economics of the Sea, University of Western Brittany, Brest, France · Jose Pascal, Associate Professor, La Laguna University (Tenerife), Spain · Gloria Cabrera Socorro, Associate Professor, La Laguna University, Spain · Unnur Dis Skaptadottir, University of Island · Harald Beyer Broch, Professor, University of Oslo, Norway · Marit Hauan, Dean, Tromsø Museum, Norway · Dikka Storm, Curator, Tromsø University Museum, Norway · Kirsti Pedersen, Associate Professor, Norwegian University of Sport Studies, Oslo, Norway · Siri Gerrard, Associate Professor, University of Tromsø, Norway · Jorun Jernsletten, PhD-student, University of Tromsø, Norway · Lene Foss, Researcher, NFH, University of Tromsø, Norway Presentation (in progress) Dona Lee Davis Dona Davis is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Dakota, USA. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980. Her areas of research and publication include medical and psychological anthropology. She has a long-standing interest in gender and fishing issues in North Atlantic fishing areas, especially Newfoundland/Canada and Norway. Harald Beyer Broch Harald Beyer Broch is a professor at the Department for Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. He is one of very few male anthropologists that have focused on gender and identity in coastal societies in different parts of the world, the latest years in Western contexts. He has a long list of publication both relating to coastal cultures and to anthropology in general. José J. Pascual-Fernández Dr. José J. Pascual-Fernández is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of La Laguna (Tenerife). Before 1993 he was Curator of Ethnography at the Archaeological and Ethnographical Museum in Tenerife from 1987 to 1991. He received his PhD in 1989 with a thesis about the fisheries in the Canary Islands. Since the eighties, his research has been focused on fisheries and natural resource management. He has published several book and articles on this subject, and joined several European projects and networks; for instance the Femmes network devoted to gender issues in European fisheries. Katia Frangoudes Katia Frangoudes is a senior researcher, Department of Law and Economics/ Center for the Law and Economics of the Sea, University of Western Brittany, Brest, Frankrike. Katia Frangoudes has the last years been the leader of the multinational EU-project on women in fishery in European countries. She also belongs to networks in Resource management and has published articles in many books. Through the newsletter AKTEA she has also developed a meetingplace where fisherwomen and researchers meet. Siri Gerrard Siri Gerrard is a senior lecturer at the Departement og Planning an Community Studies at the University of Tromsø. She has a long history in the field with field experience from different parts of the world. She has written articles in Norwegian and English with focus on the gender and transition processes. She has also co-edited several books where globalization, culture and knowledge have been the main themes. Barbara Neis Barbara Neis is co-director of SafetyNet, A Research Alliance in Workplace Health and Safety in Marine and Coastal Work at Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. She is also Professor in the Dept. of Sociology. Dr. Neis received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1988. She has researched many different aspects of the Newfoundland and Labrador fisheries and has recently begun linking that research with international fisheries-related developments. Her current areas of research include occupational asthma to snow crab and fishing vessel safety, the human health impacts of restructuring in the Newfoundland and Labrador fisheries, and local ecological knowledge and science. Jorunn Jernsletten Jorunn Jernsletten is a Sámi researcher, currently finishing her PhD-thesis titled "Southern Sámi understandings of landscape in a religious studies' perspective". She is working at the Institute of religious studies, Social sciences faculty, University of Tromsø, Norway. Marilyn Porter Marilyn Porter is University Research Professor in Sociology and Women's Studies at Memorial University. She has a PH.D in Sociology from the University of Manchester, UK. After a decade of work on women's economic experience of rural fishing communities in Newfoundland, she became interested in women and development issues around the world. She has worked, taught and researched in Pakistan, Indonesia and Tanzania, and in connection with the UN. She has published and edited several books, and many journal articles and contributions to books. Nicole Power Nicole Gerarda Power received her Ph.D. from The University of Essex, United Kingdom in 2002. She currently holds a Post-Doctoral Fellowship with the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Applied Health Research at Memorial University of Newfoundland and is co-investigator on the Safe Catch Fishing Vessel Safety: Perceptions of Risk Study with SafetyNet. Her post-doctoral research project is entitled “Being a ‘Real Fisherman’: How Masculinity Mediates Workplace Safety Practices and Perceptions of Risk, Safety and Health among Newfoundland Fish Harvesters in Changing Times.” In July 2006 she joins the Sociology Department at Memorial University.  Dikka Storm Dikka Storm is working as curator at Department of Sámi Ethnography, Tromsø University Museum. Her research is mainly about Coastal Sámi settlement, resources, traditional knowledge and management of identity in the county of Southern Troms, Norway. The cultural, historical perspective on traditional handicraft – duodji, is part of her studies, which is connected to the work with the scientific collections and archives. She has taken part in the establishment of the cultural management of Sami Cultural Act. She was Dean at Tromsø University Museum 2002-31.7.2005 Linda Cullum Linda Cullum is a teacher, researcher and writer, currently working in Sociology and the Women’s Studies Program at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. She has written and presented most recently on women and fish plant work in 1940s, and is active in community work with equality-seeking groups. Kirsti Pedersen Gurholt Kirsti Pedersen Gurholt is an associate professor at Norwegian University of Sport Studies in Oslo. She teaches outdoor adventure education and physical education, mostly at the master level. Her doctoral dissertation (1999) is a feminist cultural analyses of change and continuity in gendered identities, symbols and relations within outdoor adventure and recreation. The research is based on a lifestory approach combined with an ethnographic fieldwork that was carried out in a community in Finnmark at the beginning of the 1990s. Liv Torill Pettersen Liv Torill Pettersen is a sociologist with special interest in feminist studies. She has studied and written about women in fishery households when the moratorium and quota system hit the Norwegian cod fishery in 1989 and early 1990s. She has also emphasised women's role in aquaculture and as entrepreneurs. She has been working at the Northern Feminist University in Steigen. Now she is a researcher at Nordland Research Institute and a PhD student at Bodø University College. In her PhD work she emphasises on the role of the household in the fishery, aquaculture and agriculture and its importance in managing the business activities. Dagrunn Grønbech Dagrunn Grønbech holds a Cand.Polit. degree in social science from the University of Tromsø, where she also has been Senior Lecturer and for many years been assosiated with women´s research. She has been working on women and education, teenagers in fishing communities and the lives of women on the Norwegian coast. For the time beeing she is about to finish her Ph.D. about elderly women in costal area in the Northern part of Norway. Joan Scott An 11+ student just after WWII, Joan completed Elementary school with teacher qualifications and taught in the UK and Canada. She did motherhood along with getting a BSc (Hons) in Biology at Memorial University of Newfoundland and eventually became a professor of Biology. There are nice photos of her little ones wearing Mum's mortar board. She added Women's Studies around 1985, producing one of the early few courses in Women and Science in Canada, and completing her Ontario Institute of Education PhD in the mid 90s. Her qualitative research with Dr. Dorothy Smith was on the careers of faculty women(20) and men(12) professors in biosciences in five Canadian cities. Joan was seconded to The Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women for two years where she worked on economic policy recommendations. Funding for the CACSW ($9 million) was withdrawn in the mid '90s. Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iceland. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from CUNY Graduate Center, New York in 1995. Her main fields of interest include theories of globalization, ethnicity and feminist perspectives. She has done research in Icelandic fishery based villages and is currently doing a study among immigrants in Iceland.