Subjects:
Gender studies: women
Fisheries & related industries
Fishing often makes an important contribution to food security in northern regions, where agriculture is impossible or marginal at best, as well as providing important occupational and economic diversification in small and often remote communities. This book provides the reader with a current accounting of the generally under-recognized role of women in a variety of northern subsistence and industrial fisheries, both aboriginal and non-aboriginal, rural and urban-based in Alaska, Arctic Canada, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
Joanna Kafarowski holds a Bachelor's degree in English from Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, a Master's degree in Geography from the University of Victoria, British Columbia and a Ph.D. in the Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Program at the University of Northern British Columbia. Her doctoral thesis focused on the intersections between gender, decision-making, and contaminants in Nunavik, Canada. Current research interests include human dimensions of environmental change; Indigenous peoples with a focus on gender; natural resource management; environmental and social justice; human security and protected areas. Much of her work was conducted in the circumpolar North.