Island Feminisms,
Island Justice Sessions 2024
American Association of Geographers (AAG)
The Island Feminisms, Island Justice Sessions convened for 3 sessions during the 2024 American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. The first session began with acknowledging our location in Oceania by centering Pacific research and researchers first (Kanahele, Axelrode, Espina, Fiame, and Zambonelli) followed by a paper on islands and human rights from a transnational legal perspective (Tsampi). The second session offered a series of case studies (Puerto Rico; Gozo Island, Malta; Galápagos Islands, Ecuador; Cardoso Island, Brazil; Madagascar). The first two presentations centered on women and work (Rodriguez-Coss, Augustine) and the last three on ecology and activism (Zaragocín, Gini, Baker-Médard).
Participants
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Alana Kanahele, University of Hawaiʻi, "Silicon Shores: Pacific Women's Leadership in Digital Preservation"
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Dayshia Fiame and Tabitha Espinas, University of Washington, "Navigating Island Feminisms in the Ocean in the School"
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Brigitte Leilani Axelrode, "Sovereign Bodies in Motion: Confronting Colonial Heteropatriarchy and Reclam(ea)tion of Indigenous Sexualities
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Vera Zambonelli, "Island Feminism and Filmmaking: A Thought-Provoking Analysis of Hawaiʻi's Locally Produced Films by Wāhine"
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Aikaterini Tsampi, University of Groningen, "Is international human rights law harbouring island injustice?: the case of the ‘colonial clause’ of the European Convention on Human Rights
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Noralis Rodriguez-Coss, Gonzaga University, "Dismantling gender roles: Women’s experiences of empowerment acquiring handiwork skills in Puerto Rico"
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Margaret Augustine, University of Prince Edward Island, "Women living on small, peripheral islands are super-heroes: photos and stories of gendered work, citizenship and mobilities on and off Gozo, Malta"
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Sofia Zaragocin, FLACSO-Ecuador, "Feminisms in the Galápagos Islands: bridging Latin American Feminist Political Ecology and Island Feminisms"
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Giovanna Gini, University of Oxford, "Feminist Leadership and Decolonial Practices in Climate Change Resistance: The Case of Enseada da Baleia on Cardoso Island, Brazil"
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Merrill Baker-Médard, Middlebury College, "Feminist conservation: paradox or paragon"
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Marina Karides, Organizer, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
