Nanna Schneidermann is the project lead of Gendered Island Futures and associate professor in anthropology at Aarhus University. She works with digital media, gender, and urban development in different constellations in research projects in Uganda, South Africa, Denmark and the Faroe Islands. In this project she leads the work package on images of motherhood and practices of mothering. In particular, attention is given to mothering as moral laboratories that shape ideas of the future of the Faroes islands by projecting images of the good life onto the next generation. The study traces social transformations across generations but also different perspectives and positions in kin- and social networks. This will be combined with research on images and imaginaries of motherhood in personal and public realms.
Firouz Gaini is professor in anthropology at the University of the Faroe Islands. He is co-editor of Island Studies Journal and BARN (Nordic Childhood Journal). He is the Research Leader of the Faculty of History and Social Sciences and a Deputy Member of the Board of the University of the Faroe Islands. His fieldwork is from the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Japan. He has published widely on the topics of young people’s everyday lives and futures, fatherhood and masculinities, and small island communities in articles and books. In Gendered Island Futures the takes lead on the work pacage on men's experiences, images and imaginaries of motherhood and mothering in the Faroe Islands.
Turið Hermannsdóttir, phd in anthropology, has her expertise in reproductive health and rights matters, whereas her recent phd project explored untold reproductive stories in the context of the Faroe Islands. What draws her attention is inequalities and boundaries, the unjust and lived experiences. In the Gendered Island Future project, she is responsible for Work Package 2, which seeks to ask into when motherhood, either as a personal experience or institution, is challenged or otherwise/either experienced or done differently.
Jónleyg Djurhuus is a Ph.D.-student at the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University. Her Ph.D.-project centers on families’ experiences with caring for children with disabilities in the Faroe Islands. Her project seeks to understand how a small island context impacts the kinds of decision-making and moral dilemmas families raising children with disabilities face in their everyday lives. She is particularly interested in exploring how these families negotiate, contest, and experiment with notions of the good life in a context where distance, (im)mobility and access to care for many families becomes a routinized practice. Adding an intergenerational perspective, the project seeks to trace how experiences, images, and imaginaries of raising children with disabilities in the Faroe Islands have changed over time.
