Dahl, Sissal (2023) Knitting the Faroes: understanding island change through the social infrastructures of women’s everyday lives. Master thesis.
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Abstract
Within the field of Island Studies, the lack of gender sensitive research is reflected in the limited tools for effective engagement with both gendered dimensions of island life and the island as a context. This study explores how to enhance our understanding of women's island lives through empirical research on women's lived experiences of change on the Faroe Islands. Gender inequality is a pronounced issue on the Faroe Islands, making it a pressing case for exploring the interplay between gender and islands. Grounded in life-history interviews with 12 elderly women on the islands, this study contributes a comprehensive insight into how women have experienced, lived, and embodied change from the post-war era to the present day. It found the women to define change through their stories of everyday practices and relations. Furthermore, the women's changing everyday was lived and embodied through their active movements and relations overseas as strategies for navigate island life. This study concludes with the suggestion of future application of the everyday as an analytical lens to understand women’s island lives. Specifically the everyday as embodied social infrastructure that sustains island life through mundane daily practices and relations - an analytical lens that both comprehends the gendered dimensions of women’s everyday lives and the geographic island context.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Spatial Sciences (Research): Islands and Sustainability (track) |
| Supervisor: | Bolderman, S.L. |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Oct 2023 07:57 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Oct 2023 07:57 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4414 |
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