"Gender in the Arctic" Research Network: Workshop Materials
"Gender in the Arctic" Research Network:
Workshop Materials
2017
International Conference on "Gender Shifts and Resource Politics in the Arctic"
Uppsala, Sweden, 21-23 February 2017
Conveners: Vladislava Vladimirova, Joachim Otto Habeck, Yulian Konstantinov
Supported by the Riksbanken Jubilaeums Fond and the Swedish Science Foundation
2016
"Gender Asymmetries in Northern Communities: Perspectives from the Margins"
Küstrinchen, Germany, 25-28 January 2016
Conveners: Joachim Otto Habeck and Stephan Dudeck
Supported by the International Arctic Science Committee
Brief summary of the main results
The workshop identified the causes of spatial gender shifts and asymmetries, i.e., the separation of sexes in terms of work and residence along with the predominantly female out-migration from rural to urban areas, with particular focus on the Russian Far North. In the light of "the lure of the city", it is worthwhile to flip the perspective and discuss the ways in which small communities and tundra homes provide conditions for personal well-being. Gender disparities in the Far North combine with other forms of social exclusion and marginalisation, as is often experienced by single (mostly female) parents; men who take to illegal hunting; or herdsmen and hunters that cannot find a life partner. The concept of intersectionality facilitates the exploration of such multiple forms of marginalisation. A scientific domain of growing importance, Queer Studies can offer valuable insights into gender disparities and muted identities, but it has thus far seldom been applied in circumpolar contexts.
PDF Presentation (To be uploaded Shortly)
2015
INGA Network Seminar: "Indigenous Gender Asymmetries and Natural Resource Politics in Northern Europe and Russia"
Uppsala, Sweden, 22-23 January 2015
Conveners: Vladislava Vladimirova and Hugh Beach
Supported by Uppsala University and "INPOINT: Socioeconomic significance of development projects in Northwest Russia: The Insiders Point of View"
Print-out version of the abstract and preliminary programme:
http://www.ucrs.uu.se/digitalAssets/368/368908_1inga-network-seminar.pdf
2014
"Indigenous Gender Asymmetries: the 'groupness'--individuality tension in identity formation"
25 February 2014, Tromsø, Norway
Conveners: Yulian Konstantinov, Petia Mankova
Supported by the Center for Women's and Gender Studies (KVINNFORSK) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and "INPOINT: Socioeconomic significance of development projects in Northwest Russia: The Insiders Point of View" (Tromsø Research Foundation/ The Research Council of Norway, project nr 213665)
2008
"Gender Shift in Northern Communities of Russia", May 2-6, 2008, Cesvaine, Latvia
Conveners: Joachim Otto Habeck (MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany), Olga Povoroznyuk (Institute for Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia) and Virginie Vaté (GSRL, UMR 8582 EPHE-CNRS, Paris, France)
Supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle/Saale)
The workshop papers and introductory article were published in 2010:
Povoroznyuk, Olga, Joachim Otto Habeck, and Virginie Vaté 2010. "Introduction: On the definition, theory, and practice of gender shift in the North of Russia". Anthropology of East Europe Review, 28 (2): 1-37.
http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/aeer/article/view/929/1037