Materials in Focus
Feature of thematic selection of relevant materials on issues of gender equality in the Arctic region, such as academic papers, reports, researches, professional comments and interviews, videos, podcasts, journalist publications, books.
For the past 2 years the GEA Project has gathered over one hundred materials and disseminated on the GEA Project social media platforms. Would you like to submit and share Gender Equality in the Arctic relevant material? Please, contact us!
The Forgotten Indigenous Women of Robert Peary’s Arctic Expeditions
Article | By Evan Evans
When Robert Peary set out to reach the North Pole, he took along entire Indigenous families. New research looks at the experiences of the women who came along, whose stories have until recently gone largely untold.
Source: News Deeply
A fading culture adapts to the changing times in this Arctic town
Article | By Jennifer Kingsley & Eric Guth
With each new border and political shift, the indigenous women of Chukotka, Russia adjust to maintain their heritage and survive.
Source: National Geographic / Photo: Eric Guth
Nunatsiavut Elder Nellie Winters returns to her birth home for the first time in 58 years
Video | By Jennifer Kingsley & Eric Guth
Makkovik Elder and Labrador Inuk, Nellie Winters returns to her homes of Okak Bay and Nutak for the first time in 58 years with the help of Tradition & Transition researcher Andrea Proctor of Memorial University.
Source: Tradition & Transition, Vimeo Channel
Mother of Many Children
Video | By Alanis Obomsawin
Tracing the cycle of Indigenous women’s lives from birth to childhood, puberty, young adulthood, maturity and old age, the film reveals how Indigenous women have fought to regain a sense of equality, instilled cultural pride in their children and passed on their stories and language to new generations.
Source: NFB.ca, the National Film Board of Canada
Sustainability and Development in the Arctic
Audio | By Gunn-Britt Retter
Gunn-Britt Retter, Arctic- and Environmental Unit, Saami Council, Norway, speaking at the Gender Equality and the Arctic: Current Realities, Future Challenges conference in Akureyri October 30 2014, where she discussed whether possible opportunities for resource extraction in the Arctic was clouding the judgement of policymakers and threatening traditional, sustainable livelihoods in the Arctic.
Source: Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network YouTube Channel
Photo: FAO/Alessia Pierdomenico
Do dads hold the key to sustainability?
Podcast
This episode of the Think Nordic! Podcast series explores how the Nordic countries became one of the most progressive regions in the world when it comes to gender equality together with Sharan Burrow, Secretary General of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and Espen Barth Eide, Member of Parliament in Norway. The podcast was recorded in front of a live audience at the Nordic Pavilion at COP24 in Katowice, Poland.
Source: Nordic Co-Operation. Think Nordic! Podcasts series
Indigenous Men and Masculinities. Legacies, Identities, Regeneration
Book | Robert Alexander Innes (Editor), Kim Anderson (Editor)
Indigenous Men and Masculinities, edited by Kim Anderson and Robert Alexander Innes, brings together prominent thinkers to explore the meaning of masculinities and being a man within [such] traditions, further examining the colonial disruption and imposition of patriarchy on Indigenous men.
Indigenous Rights in Modern Landscapes Nordic Conservation Regimes in Global Context, 1st Edition
Book | Edited by Lars Elenius, Christina Allard and Camilla Sandström
This book examines the diverse use of Indigenous customary rights in modern landscapes. The authors investigate how longstanding Sámi customary territorial rights have been reassessed in the context of new kinds of legislation regarding Indigenous people. The volume provides a multidisciplinary analysis of how the customary livelihood of Indigenous people has adapted to modern industrialised landscapes and also how postcolonial approaches have contributed to global changes of Indigenous rights and nature conservation models.
A rights‐based approach to indigenous women and gender inequities in resource development in northern Canada (2018)
Paper | Konstantia Koutouki, Katherine Lofts, Giselle Davidian
Along with investments in the Arctic other socio-economic issues arises in indigenous peoples agenda. The article examines social and environmental risks for northern indigenous communities. Within these communities, the associated challenges of resource development are felt most acutely by women. The article fills a lack of research and analysis concerning the gendered dimension of resource development in northern Canada through the lens of indigenous women's human rights.
Source: Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law. Special issue: Arctic Environmental Governance.
Women's human rights in the governance of the Arctic: gender equality and violence against indigenous women (2018)
Paper | Burman Monica, Svensson Eva-Maria
The public governing bodies have almost no focus on gender equality at all, despite far-reaching international obligations and, for several of the states, national ambitious agendas for gender equality politics.
Source: The Yearbook of Polar Law, Brill Nijhoff.