Magnus Gustavsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1098186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Magnus Gustavsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Magnus |
| FAMILY NAME | Gustavsson |
| SIGNATURE | GUSTAVSSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ruralis - Institute for Rural and Regional Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6469-0675 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From food producers to CEOs and everything in between
Research on women's entrepreneurship has often highlighted gendered barriers, masculine entrepreneurial norms and challenges related to legitimacy and identity. Less attention has been paid to how gender and entrepreneurial identity are experienced in contexts characterised by relatively high levels of gender equality and strong institutional support. This article examines the role of gender and entrepreneurial identity in women's local food entr…
Rise of the rhizome
Coastal communities are experiencing profound social, economic, and environmental change that challenges their capacities to adapt and determine their own futures. In this paper, we conceptualize how such communities navigate change by reconciling their specific transitions within, yet distinct from, the wider sustainability transitions scholarship. The ever-expanding literature addressing transition emphasizes the what and why of change, yet oft…
Designing gender-inclusive data systems in small-scale fisheries
Gender equality is a ubiquitous national goal, yet sectoral gender data gaps to support this goal persist. These gaps are both structural and sexist, concealing women's contributions and impeding actions that would strengthen livelihoods and economic development, food security, and environmental sustainability. The small-scale fisheries sector offers a cogent example of this phenomenon. Building on lessons from the Illuminating Hidden Harvests in…
Centering coastal communities’ diverse economic practices in the blue economy
Fishing businesses, women's entrepreneurship, and the performance of femininity
Although recent work has examined how masculinities are performed through fishing work at sea, less research has focused on how femininities are performed in the gendered fisheries context. By focusing on a particular group of women in fisheries – the women entrepreneur – this study examines the performances of femininities in their entrepreneurialism. It explores whether women entrepreneurs can perform gender differently and, by effect, subvert …
Feminist and gender research in Norwegian farming and forestry ( landbruk ) contexts
Much feminist rural geography to date has centred on understanding gender issues in rural space. Norwegian scholars have been leading the way in identifying new themes and approaches to examining the positions of women and men on farms and in farming communities, which has contributed to important contextual knowledge of gender relations on Norwegian farms, as well as conceptual understandings of farming lives more broadly. The article has the sa…
Introduction to fishy feminisms
Both fisheries and feminism have been the subject of much research spanning academic disciplines and topics for many years. The papers in this themed issue are considered ‘fishy’ in the sense that they are both about fisheries and fish in diverse places, but also because they use a feminist lens, and feminism is often taken as something suspicious that can be doubted by virtue of the social bias associated with the term. Feminism has long offered…
Recognizing Women’s Wellbeing and Contribution to Social Resilience in Fisheries
Building social resilience is important for fishing communities, which globally face unprecedented social and environmental change. While women’s direct and indirect contribution to fishing economies is increasingly recognized, their contribution to the social resilience of fisheries remains under-examined. Using interview and focus group data, we investigate women’s role in supporting the social resilience of UK fishing communities and examine i…
Gender and Blue Justice in small-scale fisheries governance
Women’s belongings in UK fisheries
Research on gender in fisheries often argue that women’s contributions are important to the functioning of fisheries and are worthy of recognition. However, this has so far failed to consider how women experience and practice belonging to fisheries. This paper structures the analysis of women’s narratives around three conceptualisations of belonging: i) how women perform place-belongingness; ii) the politics of belonging; and iii) more-than-human…
The invisible (woman) entrepreneur? Shifting the discourse from fisheries diversification to entrepreneurship
In response to ongoing economic downturns in the small-scale fishing sector, there have been calls for fishing businesses to add value to fishing catches. Whilst such activities would have gendered implications, such proposals often do not consider the gendered contexts in which entrepreneurship is placed, nor how this form of entrepreneurship works for the women involved. The article draws on in-depth narrative interviews with women in fishing f…
Women's changing productive practices, gender relations and identities in fishing through a critical feminisation perspective
In recent years there has been increased academic and policy attention to the important contributions of women in fishing families, communities and industries. Whilst it is important to make visible these contributions, there has been little attention to how women's different and changing roles and practices are associated with (un)changed gender relations shaping, and being shaped by, women's (fishing) identities in different ways. To attend to …
(R)evolving masculinities in times of change amongst small-scale fishers in North Wales
Whilst fishing men have commonly been investigated through the lens of ‘hegemonic masculinity’, recent studies have highlighted a potential change and nuancing of such fishing masculinities. Inspired by the call to pay attention to masculinities as fluid, contextual and interpersonal, this paper pays attention to scalar, placed and temporal specificities to consider how ‘socially-dominant masculinities’ can develop (and persist) in specific conte…
The Fishing Lifecourse
There is an emerging call for social scientists to pay greater attention to the social and cultural contexts of fishing and fishers. A resulting literature is evolving which focuses on individual life experiences, particularly relating to entering the fishing occupation, and what these might mean for the future sustainability of the fishing industry. However, the ways in which these lives are linked and intergenerationally connected remains somew…
Exploring the socio-cultural contexts of fishers and fishing
Inequality and trust in Sweden
Time Out of Work and Skill Depreciation
This paper investigates the role of skill depreciation in the relationship between work interruptions and subsequent wages. Using Swedish data from two waves (1994 and 1998) of the International Adult Literacy Survey, which included results of tests gauging respondents' ability to read and make practical use of printed information, the authors are able to analyze changes in individuals' skills as a function of time out of work. They find statisti…
Women's changing productive practices, gender relations and identities in fishing through a critical feminisation perspective
In recent years there has been increased academic and policy attention to the important contributions of women in fishing families, communities and industries. Whilst it is important to make visible these contributions, there has been little attention to how women's different and changing roles and practices are associated with (un)changed gender relations shaping, and being shaped by, women's (fishing) identities in different ways. To attend to …
Time Out of Work and Skill Depreciation
This paper investigates the role of skill depreciation in the relationship between work interruptions and subsequent wages. Using Swedish data from two waves (1994 and 1998) of the International Adult Literacy Survey, which included results of tests gauging respondents' ability to read and make practical use of printed information, the authors are able to analyze changes in individuals' skills as a function of time out of work. They find statisti…
Exploring the socio-cultural contexts of fishers and fishing
Recognizing Women’s Wellbeing and Contribution to Social Resilience in Fisheries
Building social resilience is important for fishing communities, which globally face unprecedented social and environmental change. While women’s direct and indirect contribution to fishing economies is increasingly recognized, their contribution to the social resilience of fisheries remains under-examined. Using interview and focus group data, we investigate women’s role in supporting the social resilience of UK fishing communities and examine i…
Introduction to fishy feminisms
Both fisheries and feminism have been the subject of much research spanning academic disciplines and topics for many years. The papers in this themed issue are considered ‘fishy’ in the sense that they are both about fisheries and fish in diverse places, but also because they use a feminist lens, and feminism is often taken as something suspicious that can be doubted by virtue of the social bias associated with the term. Feminism has long offered…
(R)evolving masculinities in times of change amongst small-scale fishers in North Wales
Whilst fishing men have commonly been investigated through the lens of ‘hegemonic masculinity’, recent studies have highlighted a potential change and nuancing of such fishing masculinities. Inspired by the call to pay attention to masculinities as fluid, contextual and interpersonal, this paper pays attention to scalar, placed and temporal specificities to consider how ‘socially-dominant masculinities’ can develop (and persist) in specific conte…
The Fishing Lifecourse
There is an emerging call for social scientists to pay greater attention to the social and cultural contexts of fishing and fishers. A resulting literature is evolving which focuses on individual life experiences, particularly relating to entering the fishing occupation, and what these might mean for the future sustainability of the fishing industry. However, the ways in which these lives are linked and intergenerationally connected remains somew…
Fishing businesses, women's entrepreneurship, and the performance of femininity
Although recent work has examined how masculinities are performed through fishing work at sea, less research has focused on how femininities are performed in the gendered fisheries context. By focusing on a particular group of women in fisheries – the women entrepreneur – this study examines the performances of femininities in their entrepreneurialism. It explores whether women entrepreneurs can perform gender differently and, by effect, subvert …
Inequality and trust in Sweden
Time Out of Work and Skill Depreciation
This paper investigates the role of skill depreciation in the relationship between work interruptions and subsequent wages. Using Swedish data from two waves (1994 and 1998) of the International Adult Literacy Survey, which included results of tests gauging respondents' ability to read and make practical use of printed information, the authors are able to analyze changes in individuals' skills as a function of time out of work. They find statisti…
Exploring the socio-cultural contexts of fishers and fishing
The Fishing Lifecourse
There is an emerging call for social scientists to pay greater attention to the social and cultural contexts of fishing and fishers. A resulting literature is evolving which focuses on individual life experiences, particularly relating to entering the fishing occupation, and what these might mean for the future sustainability of the fishing industry. However, the ways in which these lives are linked and intergenerationally connected remains somew…
(R)evolving masculinities in times of change amongst small-scale fishers in North Wales
Whilst fishing men have commonly been investigated through the lens of ‘hegemonic masculinity’, recent studies have highlighted a potential change and nuancing of such fishing masculinities. Inspired by the call to pay attention to masculinities as fluid, contextual and interpersonal, this paper pays attention to scalar, placed and temporal specificities to consider how ‘socially-dominant masculinities’ can develop (and persist) in specific conte…
Women's changing productive practices, gender relations and identities in fishing through a critical feminisation perspective
In recent years there has been increased academic and policy attention to the important contributions of women in fishing families, communities and industries. Whilst it is important to make visible these contributions, there has been little attention to how women's different and changing roles and practices are associated with (un)changed gender relations shaping, and being shaped by, women's (fishing) identities in different ways. To attend to …
Gender and Blue Justice in small-scale fisheries governance
Women’s belongings in UK fisheries
Research on gender in fisheries often argue that women’s contributions are important to the functioning of fisheries and are worthy of recognition. However, this has so far failed to consider how women experience and practice belonging to fisheries. This paper structures the analysis of women’s narratives around three conceptualisations of belonging: i) how women perform place-belongingness; ii) the politics of belonging; and iii) more-than-human…
The invisible (woman) entrepreneur? Shifting the discourse from fisheries diversification to entrepreneurship
In response to ongoing economic downturns in the small-scale fishing sector, there have been calls for fishing businesses to add value to fishing catches. Whilst such activities would have gendered implications, such proposals often do not consider the gendered contexts in which entrepreneurship is placed, nor how this form of entrepreneurship works for the women involved. The article draws on in-depth narrative interviews with women in fishing f…
Feminist and gender research in Norwegian farming and forestry ( landbruk ) contexts
Much feminist rural geography to date has centred on understanding gender issues in rural space. Norwegian scholars have been leading the way in identifying new themes and approaches to examining the positions of women and men on farms and in farming communities, which has contributed to important contextual knowledge of gender relations on Norwegian farms, as well as conceptual understandings of farming lives more broadly. The article has the sa…
Introduction to fishy feminisms
Both fisheries and feminism have been the subject of much research spanning academic disciplines and topics for many years. The papers in this themed issue are considered ‘fishy’ in the sense that they are both about fisheries and fish in diverse places, but also because they use a feminist lens, and feminism is often taken as something suspicious that can be doubted by virtue of the social bias associated with the term. Feminism has long offered…
Recognizing Women’s Wellbeing and Contribution to Social Resilience in Fisheries
Building social resilience is important for fishing communities, which globally face unprecedented social and environmental change. While women’s direct and indirect contribution to fishing economies is increasingly recognized, their contribution to the social resilience of fisheries remains under-examined. Using interview and focus group data, we investigate women’s role in supporting the social resilience of UK fishing communities and examine i…
Fishing businesses, women's entrepreneurship, and the performance of femininity
Although recent work has examined how masculinities are performed through fishing work at sea, less research has focused on how femininities are performed in the gendered fisheries context. By focusing on a particular group of women in fisheries – the women entrepreneur – this study examines the performances of femininities in their entrepreneurialism. It explores whether women entrepreneurs can perform gender differently and, by effect, subvert …
Centering coastal communities’ diverse economic practices in the blue economy
From food producers to CEOs and everything in between
Research on women's entrepreneurship has often highlighted gendered barriers, masculine entrepreneurial norms and challenges related to legitimacy and identity. Less attention has been paid to how gender and entrepreneurial identity are experienced in contexts characterised by relatively high levels of gender equality and strong institutional support. This article examines the role of gender and entrepreneurial identity in women's local food entr…
Rise of the rhizome
Coastal communities are experiencing profound social, economic, and environmental change that challenges their capacities to adapt and determine their own futures. In this paper, we conceptualize how such communities navigate change by reconciling their specific transitions within, yet distinct from, the wider sustainability transitions scholarship. The ever-expanding literature addressing transition emphasizes the what and why of change, yet oft…
Designing gender-inclusive data systems in small-scale fisheries
Gender equality is a ubiquitous national goal, yet sectoral gender data gaps to support this goal persist. These gaps are both structural and sexist, concealing women's contributions and impeding actions that would strengthen livelihoods and economic development, food security, and environmental sustainability. The small-scale fisheries sector offers a cogent example of this phenomenon. Building on lessons from the Illuminating Hidden Harvests in…
Sociology (10 works) · Fishing (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Fishery (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Rural development and sustainability (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Sex work and related issues (5 works) · Economics (4 works)