Gender, change, and continuity in island communities

Gaini, Firouz; Nielsen, Helene Pristed

doi:10.4324/9780429263705-1

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“…Islanders can and often exercise power over their reality through local actions and decisions. Thus, island societies and businesses act within a polycentric reality (Gaini and Priested Nielsen, 2021).…”

Section: Islands As a Business Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Island entrepreneurship has been defined as the creation of value or generation of income through innovative activities occurring in peripheral spaces characterised by a lack of economic agglomeration, limited labour markets and scarce resources (Baldacchino, 2015; Rytkönen et al ., 2019). New research argues that islanders could potentially mobilise agency and influence their reality by centring their perspectives on strategic decisions (Booth et al ., 2020; Gaini and Priested Nielsen, 2021). Businesses on islands are always considered entrepreneurship, although this label often contradicts dominant definitions of entrepreneurship as seizing economic opportunities through exploiting path-breaking, new combinations of available resources (Sarasvathy et al ., 2010).…”

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Food entrepreneurship and self-employment in an island context

Rytkönen

Oghazi

Mostaghel

2023

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PurposeThe aim is to advance the conceptualisation of island entrepreneurship by investigating how the island context, for example, industry characteristics, social context and formal and informal institutions, influences the development of artisan food businesses in that context.Design/methodology/approachAn applied, qualitative and participatory research approach was implemented. Data were collected during a business development process focusing on food artisans in the Åland Islands. In total, 19 business owners participated in the process. Key informants and public officers were interviewed, and the literature was reviewed. Interviews were analysed using phenomenography to identify representative categories, and the literature was analysed using content analysis.FindingsIsland characteristics and context, local institutions, the quality of social capital and gendered institutions influence business activities positively and negatively. Island entrepreneurship entails mobilising agencies to find innovative solutions that enable businesses to overcome obstacles. Most previous research treats business activities as entrepreneurship; however, as self-employment is essential in the island context, it should be highlighted in future studies.Research limitations/implicationsThis study illustrates how the island context influences the business development of small firms. Results indicate that local policies (1) benefitting female entrepreneurs, (2) supporting local businesses and (3) promoting locally produced artisan food could generate benefits for the entire artisan food businesses.Practical implicationsLocal policies that (1) benefit female entrepreneurs, (2) support local businesses and (3) promote locally produced artisan food have the potential to generate benefits for the entire trade. Policies can benefit from an understanding of the role played by different ecosystem actors. Promoting self-employment can generate benefits for the local entrepreneurial ecosystem by providing agglomeration and helping to solve some challenges caused by the characteristics of islands.Originality/valueEmpirically, this research enhances the knowledge of post-productive responses in the island context. Theoretically, the study advances the conceptualisation of research on the island entrepreneurship context and the local food debate.

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Section: Islands As a Business Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Food entrepreneurship and self-employment in an island context

Rytkönen

Oghazi

Mostaghel

2023

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“…A cross-disciplinary theoretical framework that combines island feminism and feminist geopolitics is developed in this section of the paper to draw out the particular GBV dynamics in this space. Island feminism is an incipient framework, whose scholars have identified the need for feminist theory to be considered from island spaces (Gaini & Pristed Nielson, 2020;Karides, 2017;Rodriguez-Coss, 2020). Scholars working from an island feminism perspective argue that the spatial imagery of islands guides gender and sexuality dynamics on these spaces (Karides, 2017(Karides, , 2020.…”

Section: Feminist Geopolitics Meets Island Feminismmentioning

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“…Island-defined territories have direct implications for gender relations and GBV dynamics in particular. Scholars working on gender in island communities are addressing these issues from a variety of perspectives ranging from activist responses to an intersectionality focus (Gaini & Pristed Nielson, 2020;Karides, 2017Karides, , 2020Rodriguez-Coss, 2020). While Karides noted that an in-depth feminist geographical engagement with the island space is lacking, her theoretical proposal of island feminism prompts the use of feminist geography along with other intellectual traditions.…”

Section: Feminist Geopolitics Meets Island Feminismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This concern has recently been addressed by feminist scholars studying island dynamics (Karides, 2017) where islands intertwine with gender and sexuality in specific ways. Island spaces have been studied particularly in the field of political geography (Mountz, 2014), but as island feminist scholars note, much less attention has been given to island spaces from feminist geography frameworks (Gaini & Pristed Nielson, 2020;Karides, 2017Karides, , 2020. In this paper, we review the spatiality of GBV on San Cristobal Island from a multi-scalar perspective.…”

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Island feminism meets feminist geopolitics: The spatial dynamics of gender‐based violence in the Galapagos Islands

Dávalos

Zaragocín

2022

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This paper brings together reflections on island feminism with feminist geopolitics in the Latin American context. Based on ongoing qualitative research by two Ecuadorian feminist geographers, gender‐based violence spatial dynamics on one of the islands of the Galapagos archipelago – San Cristobal – is analysed. A multi‐scalar approach from the experience of Galapagueña and foreign women highlights that gender‐based violence is spatially determined in ways that challenge the public–private sphere in the island space.

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Calculating the cost: place, mobility and price in higher education decision-making for students on small islands around the UK

Henderson

2021

Educational Review

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Gender, change, and continuity in island communities

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Food entrepreneurship and self-employment in an island context

Food entrepreneurship and self-employment in an island context

Island feminism meets feminist geopolitics: The spatial dynamics of gender‐based violence in the Galapagos Islands

Calculating the cost: place, mobility and price in higher education decision-making for students on small islands around the UK

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