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dc.contributor.authorWara, Tatiana
dc.contributor.authorMunkejord, Mai Camilla
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-07T12:12:38Z
dc.date.available2016-10-07T12:12:38Z
dc.date.issued2016-10-05
dc.description.abstractThis article examines how gender hierarchies are (re)created within the context of northern landscapes. We analyse data from fieldwork and interviews with middle-class female Russians having settled in a small town in northernmost Norway, most of them as marriage migrants. Inspired by the phenomenology of the body, feminist phenomenology and gender theory, the analysis shows how the participants talk about nature as ‘recreation’ and ‘poetry’, but also as a venue that is vital for (re)shaping their gendered identities. In particular, the Russian women talk about their strong, skilful outdoors Norwegian husbands as ‘experts’ in nature, and about themselves as ‘novices’. This ‘expert–novice’ relationship creates a hierarchical distinction between the Norwegian man and the Russian woman, but also attributes additional value to the equality-oriented, but in several cases neither highly educated nor highly paid, Norwegian husband. Through this ‘remasculinisation’ of their Norwegian partners, the Russian women create a complementary, but subordinate space for themselves. The analysis reveals that our participants situate themselves in contrast to the Norwegian equality ideal while creating a room of their own where they can form a separate and unique Russian femininity. This illustrates how constructions of gender are interwoven in translocal ‘minoritising’ and ‘majoritising’ processes.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work is funded by the University of Tromsø, the Arctic University of Norway. The study has been affiliated to the research project Mobile Lifestyles financed by the Norwegian Research Council [grant number 214265].en_US
dc.descriptionPublisher's version, source: <a href=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2016.1239572>http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2016.1239572</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Gender Studies 2016en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1389819
dc.identifier.issn1465-3869
dc.identifier.issn0958-9236
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2016.1239572
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/9794
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09589236.2016.1239572
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccess
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Kvinne- og kjønnsstudier: 370en_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectmigrationen_US
dc.subjectphenomenologyen_US
dc.subjectRussiansen_US
dc.subjectNorthern Norwayen_US
dc.subjectnatureen_US
dc.title(Re)creating gender hierarchies within northern landscapes: a study of stories about nature and genderen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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