Full Description
Enhancing our understanding of how people and places are affected by globalization at the level of everyday interactions within 'Nordic Peripheries', this book sheds light on local particularities as well as global confluences, by illuminating how gender, mobility and belonging contribute to ruptures and/or stability in the lives of men and women living in and/or moving within these northern localities. Crossing disciplinary and geographical boundaries the focus of the book is specifically on how global processes shape and influence the Nordic countries at the social level: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, as well as the Faroe Islands. The book starts from the premise that the Nordic peripheries offer an especially powerful lens on 'peripherality' in a globalized and globalizing world, because the region as a whole is traditionally perceived as relatively affluent, stable and with high levels of social equality. Yet, as the different chapters in the book demonstrate - with case studies that illuminate diverse gendered processes - globalization produces ruptures and new social constellations also at the rims of Nordic societies, well beyond the cushioning of comprehensive social welfare regimes. By elevating the empirical findings to more general debates about the gendered effects of globalization the book invites the reader to reflect upon not only Nordic particularities but also how insights from this part of the world can be instructive for understanding the nuances and complexities of global confluences at large.
Contents
Preface; Part I Setting the Scene; Chapter 1 Centering the Periphery, Stine Thidemann Faber, Helene Pristed Nielsen; Chapter 2 Part icularities of the Nordic, Birte Siim, Pauline Stoltz; Part II Constructing Place, Space and Home; Chapter 3 The Internal Other, Madeleine Eriksson, Helene Pristed Nielsen, Gry Paulgaard; Chapter 4 Moving to the Periphery, Ruth Emerek, Anja Kirkeby; Chapter 5 At Home Anywhere?, Stine Thidemann Faber, Helene Pristed Nielsen; Chapter 6 When the Strangers Take Root, Ann-Dorte Christensen; Part III Gendered Global Circuits; Chapter 7 Taking Advantage of Peripherality, Elina Penttinen; Chapter 8 New Figurations of Labor in Gendered Global Circuits, Madeleine Eriksson, Aina Tollefsen; Chapter 9 Women and Men on the Move, Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir; Part IV Between the Local and the Global; Chapter 10 Rural Immigrant Entrepreneurship, Mai Camilla Munkejord; Chapter 11 Being Away; Being at Home; Being Both, Gestur Hovgaard; Chapter 12 Young in a Global Context, Lotte Bloksgaard, Stine Thidemann Faber, Claus D. Hansen; Chapter 13 Place Attachment, Unemployment and Masculinity, Gry Paulgaard; Epilogue, Carla Freeman;
