Barns fiskevær: Jenters og gutters uteaktiviteter som bidrag til konstruksjon av sted og kjønn

Artikkelen handler om barn og deres utendørsaktiviteter i et nordnorsk fiskevær som jeg velger å kalle for Fiskeværet. Barna, dvs. fire jenter og fem gutter i åtte-tiårsalderen, gikk på en skole der elever fra flere trinn var samlet i en og samme klasse, noe som er vanlig på norske skoler der elevtallet er lite. Spørsmålet jeg stiller er hvordan barnas utendørsaktiviteter bidro til å konstruere sted og kjønn, og eventuelt om endringer i slike konstruksjoner har funnet sted. Datagrunnlaget består av barnas tegninger og korte tekster samt eget feltarbeid om hva barna gjorde utendørs i og etter skoletid og på turer de fortalte om. For å avdekke endringer er også data fra tidligere feltarbeid i Fiskeværet og samtaler med voksne anvendt i analysen. Teoretisk bygger artikkelen på geografiske og antropologiske studier av barns steder, sosiologiske studier av barns kjønnsdelte arbeid i kystsamfunn på 1970- og 1980-tallet samt friluftforskeres tekster om barns naturbruk. Funnene viser at jenter og gutter tegnet og skrev om de samme lokalitetene og aktivitetene, men la vekt på ulike forhold. Jenter la mer vekt på mennesker og relasjoner, mens gutter var mer opptatt av tekniske ting og redskaper. Både gutter og jenter inkluderte flere lokaliteter i nabolaget og oppfattet derved Fiskeværet som noe mer enn den konsentrerte bebyggelsen vi ofte forbinder med et fiskevær

Mobility Practices and Gender Contracts: Changes in Gender Relations in Coastal Areas of Norway’s High North

This article addresses the relationship between gender contracts and mobility practices in fishery communities of Norway’s High North, mainly Skarsvåg, Finnmark. By combining perspectives from gender research, anthropology and geography, the aim of this article is to contribute to a greater understanding of the interrelations between structural, material, and cultural changes in the context of a small-scale coastal fishing environment. My main question is whether changes in mobility practices, related to restructuring of the fisheries by means of a quota-system, Norway’s agreement with the European Union (EEA) and other changes in the Norwegian context, have had impacts on gender contracts and in what way. Emphasis lies on the period after World War II and until today. The data collection are based on a lifelong engagement on gender questions in fishery villages, reading newspapers and using registers as well as interviews and participant observation through several research projects

The Gendered North-South University Collaboration: Experiences and visions

Bidrag til Women`s world 99 i Kvinnforsks skriftserieThe universities in the North and the South are as all institutions, gendered. That means that the ambitions of the universities reflect ideologies, which attribute different values to male and female students and teachers. These ideologies are also embodied in the various institutions, for example in the mandates of the programmes for North-South university collaboration. This article is based on our experiences from such a programme, namely the Anthropos project, financed by the Norwegian University Committee for Developing Research and Education (NUFU)

Forslag til saker på årsmøtet i Norges Fiskarlag

Source at https://www.nordlys.no/.Den siste uka har det pågått en debatt i media om trakassering av kvinner i fiskeryrket. Kvinnelige fiskere har stått fram med rystende historier. Ukulturen i fiskerinæringen er et kulturelt og strukturelt problem

Quota Policy and Local Fishing: Gendered Practices and Perplexities

In April 1989, the Norwegian fisheries authorities declared a moratorium on fishing by the Norwegian fleet for Barents Sea Cod (Gadus morhua). It subsequently introduced a multi-level boat quota system within the coastal cod fishery north of the sixty-second latitude in 1990. This paper treats the quota regime as a national manifestation of neo-liberal globalising processes. It provides a macrolevel, gendered analysis of trends in fishing registrants since the regime was introduced. At the micro-level it explores examples of gendered responses to the regime including the ways some women and men re-arranged their lives. The micro-level discussion draws on findings from gender-informed ethnographic research in Northern Norway’s fishery communities carried out since the beginning of the 1970s including, in particular, fieldwork undertaken in 2003 and 2004 in Skarsvåg, a fishing village in the municipality of Nordkapp in the county of Finnmark. Following Ramamurthy, it focuses on some of the gendered perplexities, or joys and aches of globalised life that followed the introduction of the quota regime. The analysis shows that, for fisheries, as in other industrial sectors, the notion of perplexity can help us understand the uneven and conflicting consequences of globalisation for women and men

Mobility Practices and Gender Contracts: Changes in Gender Relations in Coastal Areas of Norway

This article addresses the relationship between gender contracts and mobility practices in fishery communities of Norway’s High North, mainly Skarsvåg, Finnmark. By combining perspectives from gender research, anthropology and geography, the aim of this article is to contribute to a greater understanding of the interrelations between structural, material, and cultural changes in the context of a smallscale coastal fishing environment. My main question is whether changes in mobility practices, related to restructuring of the fisheries by means of a quota-system, Norway’s agreement with the European Union (EEA) and other changes in the Norwegian context, have had impacts on gender contracts and in what way. Emphasis lies on the period after World War II and until today. The data collection are based on a lifelong engagement on gender questions in fishery villages, reading newspapers and using registers as well as interviews and participant observation through several research projects

Quota Policy and Local Fishing: Gendered Practices and Perplexities

In April 1989, the Norwegian fisheries authorities declared a moratorium on fishing by the Norwegian fleet for Barents Sea Cod (Gadus morhua). It subsequently introduced a multi-level boat quota system within the coastal cod fishery north of the sixty-second latitude in 1990. This paper treats the quota regime as a national manifestation of neo-liberal globalising processes. It provides a macrolevel, gendered analysis of trends in fishing registrants since the regime was introduced. At the micro-level it explores examples of gendered responses to the regime including the ways some women and men re-arranged their lives. The micro-level discussion draws on findings from gender-informed ethnographic research in Northern Norway’s fishery communities carried out since the beginning of the 1970s including, in particular, fieldwork undertaken in 2003 and 2004 in Skarsvåg, a fishing village in the municipality of Nordkapp in the county of Finnmark. Following Ramamurthy, it focuses on some of the gendered perplexities, or joys and aches of globalised life that followed the introduction of the quota regime. The analysis shows that, for fisheries, as in other industrial sectors, the notion of perplexity can help us understand the uneven and conflicting consequences of globalisation for women and men

Women and Children First: the Gendered and Generational Socialecology of Smaller-scale Fisheries in Newfoundland and Labrador and Northern Norway

The resilience of small-scale fisheries in developed and developing countries has been used to provide lessons to conventional managers regarding ways to transition toward a social-ecological approach to understanding and managing fisheries. We contribute to the understanding of the relationship between management and the resilience of small-scale fisheries in developed countries by looking at these dynamics in the wake of the shock of stock collapse and fisheries closures in two contexts: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and northern Norway. We revisit and update previous research on the gendered effects of the collapse and closure of the Newfoundland and Labrador northern cod fishery and the closure of the Norwegian cod fishery in the early 1990s and present new research on young people in fisheries communities in both contexts. We argue that post-closure fishery policy and industry responses that focused on downsizing fisheries through professionalization, the introduction of quotas, and other changes ignored the gendered and intergenerational household basis of small-scale fisheries and its relationship to resilience. Data on ongoing gender inequities within these fisheries and on largely failed recruitment of youth to these fisheries suggest they are currently at a tipping-point that, if not addressed, could lead to their virtual disappearance in the near future