Gender, Culture, and Contaminants in the North

Kafarowski, Joanna

doi:10.1086/593383

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“…Midgley, 2006). Kafarowski (2009) points out that in the small northern Inuit community of Inukjuak in Nunavut, women have achieved higher levels of education than men, and have a higher rate of participation in waged employment and volunteer positions. Yet, these achievements are not accompanied by a higher status for women in the community where (men's) subsistence-based activities like hunting and fishing are accorded more value and prestige.…”

Section: Discursive and Materials Contradictions In Gendered Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While inexorably fundamental, these trends and differences between men and women do not entirely capture the relevance of gender. As Kafarowski's (2009) example attests, gender is pivotal in how such trends and inequalities (or relative equalities) play out in the daily lives of men and women. In many cases, localized constructions of gender may in fact render certain seemingly beneficial equalities or other social forces as contradictions in the daily lives of women and men.…”

Section: Discursive and Materials Contradictions In Gendered Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Correspondingly, the gendered experiences of women in such communities are also likely to vary. Reed (2000Reed ( , 2003a; GibsonGraham (1994); Davis (1993Davis ( , 2000; Tallichet (1995Tallichet ( , 2000; Kafarowski (2005Kafarowski ( , 2009); Sandilands (2002Sandilands ( , 2005 and others have begun to document the nuanced experiences of women with all their variation in places of resource reliance and rural environmental contestations. This paper seeks to highlight this work and build on it with an analytical approach to changing gendered experiences in the context of contemporary resource extraction, which focuses on contradictions in experiences of gender at material and discursive levels.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gender as contradiction: From dichotomies to diversity in natural resource extraction

O’Shaughnessy

Krogman

2011

Journal of Rural Studies

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Section: Discursive and Materials Contradictions In Gendered Experiencesmentioning

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Section: Discursive and Materials Contradictions In Gendered Experiencesmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Gender as contradiction: From dichotomies to diversity in natural resource extraction

O’Shaughnessy

Krogman

2011

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…Women also play a critical role as wage earners, supplying income to support hunting activities. A broad definition of hunting and food sharing in the social economy therefore incorporates both men's and women's labor (Kafarowski 2009;Bodenhorn 1990).…”

Section: Inuit Knowledge Food Sharing and The Social Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Thinking through affect: Inuit knowledge on the tundra and in global environmental politics

Johnson

2014

Journal of Political Ecology

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Inuit residents of the Canadian Arctic balance a commitment to the land and to land-based traditions with full engagement in governance across different scales of decision-making. In this article, I suggest that thinking with and through 'affect' offers a promising approach to conceptualizing the dynamic role of Inuit knowledge across these different scales. Food sharing in remote Inuit settlements tangibly demonstrates the affective dimensions of Inuit knowledge, reflecting practices rooted in social and ethical relations with land, animals, and human community. Affect also informs the role of Inuit knowledge in international environmental negotiations. I explore this relationship in the work of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), an organization that advocated for a ban on persistent organic pollutants (POP) in the negotiations leading up to the Stockholm Convention. Facilitated by the gift of an Inuit carving, ICC shared a moral and ethical perspective that helped connect negotiators to the physical harms caused by pollutants. Drawing on the philosophy of former ICC Chair Sheila Watt-Cloutier and the non-capitalist framework of J.K. Gibson-Graham (2006), I examine the role this gift played in the POPs negotiations. I conclude that thinking through affect offers new ways of conceptualizing the emergent possibilities of environmental politics and practice.Keywords: Indigenous knowledge, persistent organic pollutants, Stockholm Convention, environmental politics, the gift, food sharing, Gibson-Graham.

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“…Though the research addressing intersections of human health, climate change and gender is indeed scarce, there are some multi/transdisciplinary studies where these intersections are explored. One can mention, for example, the research carried out by Joanna Kafarowski on gendered dimensions of environmental health and contaminants in Nunavik in Canada ( 3 , 46 , 47 ). Kafarowski studies the differences between women's and men's perceptions of contaminants’ threat to human health and shows that men and women not only have different perceptions of health risks but also develop different adaptation strategies.…”

Section: Multidisciplinary Approach To Climate Change Human Health Amentioning

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Climate change effects on human health in a gender perspective: some trends in Arctic research

Kukarenko

2011

Global Health Action

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BackgroundClimate change and environmental pollution have become pressing concerns for the peoples in the Arctic region. Some researchers link climate change, transformations of living conditions and human health. A number of studies have also provided data on differentiating effects of climate change on women's and men's well-being and health.ObjectiveTo show how the issues of climate and environment change, human health and gender are addressed in current research in the Arctic. The main purpose of this article is not to give a full review but to draw attention to the gaps in knowledge and challenges in the Arctic research trends on climate change, human health and gender.MethodsA broad literature search was undertaken using a variety of sources from natural, medical, social science and humanities. The focus was on the keywords.ResultsDespite the evidence provided by many researchers on differentiating effects of climate change on well-being and health of women and men, gender perspective remains of marginal interest in climate change, environmental and health studies. At the same time, social sciences and humanities, and gender studies in particular, show little interest towards climate change impacts on human health in the Arctic. As a result, we still observe the division of labour between disciplines, the disciplinary-bound pictures of human development in the Arctic and terminology confusion.ConclusionEfforts to bring in a gender perspective in the Arctic research will be successful only when different disciplines would work together. Multidisciplinary research is a way to challenge academic/disciplinary homogeneity and their boundaries, to take advantage of the diversity of approaches and methods in production of new integrated knowledge. Cooperation and dialogue across disciplines will help to develop adequate indicators for monitoring human health and elaborating efficient policies and strategies to the benefit of both women and men in the Arctic.

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Gender, Culture, and Contaminants in the North

Cited by 7 publications

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Gender as contradiction: From dichotomies to diversity in natural resource extraction

Gender as contradiction: From dichotomies to diversity in natural resource extraction

Thinking through affect: Inuit knowledge on the tundra and in global environmental politics

Climate change effects on human health in a gender perspective: some trends in Arctic research

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