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Siri Gerrard
Associate Professor
Department of Planning and Community Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tromsø
Phone
+47 776 45559
E-mail
sirig@sv.uit.no
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Curriculum Vitae
Field of interest
Ethnography
Social Anthropology
Gender and Feminist Studies
Description of competence
Research on fisheries, fisheries policies, fishing communities, work, employment and development in North Norway, but also in Tanzania and Cameroon, studied by means of cultural and gender perspectives. Interdisciplinary social sciences, inclusive research on women- and gender
Current research projects
Towards “new” fishery communities? In this project I am looking at the changes that have taken place in fishing and other types of local employment, in fishery households, community life and children’s activities within the framework of small fishing villages. The changes have occurred in a period where fish resources, regulation systems with quotas are restructured. At the same time there are changes in education, labour market and viewpoints on men’s and women’s roles and positions in society. I try to analyse the data by means of gender and cultural perspectives. One of my findings so far, is that the male fishers, and the women as well as youngsters are very mobile individuals with non-fixed perceptions of gender and gender roles. Accordingly, the household becomes mobile with different houses at different places. With these kinds of mobilities and changes, it seems necessary to deconstruct the concepts of household, fishery community and fisher. What is a fisher, and what is it to be a fisher under these new circumstances?
Web-addresses:
Listings in Forskerbasen
Listings in FRIDA
Listings in BIBSYS
Lisings in Norart
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