F Gaini
Biographic Data
| ID | 37238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F Gaini |
| GIVEN NAMES | F |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaini |
| SIGNATURE | GAINI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Faroe Islands |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0432-7057 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Between governance and local knowledge
Unemployment among young people is a large and multifaceted theme in contemporary social work research in the Nordic countries, with investing in youth being a top political priority. Social work has a pivotal role in the provision of employment services, particularly for young people in disadvantageous situations. We argue that the political understanding of unemployment as a social problem, and work inclusion as the solution effectuated through…
A Rocky Paradox
Island Studies, as it has developed over the last 3-4 decades, has been primarily addressed to research and theorisation concerning inhabited, formerly inhabited and/or inhabitable islands. There are several types of terrestrial formations that have fallen outside its evolving purview, including sandbanks, reefs and rocks. The latter have not so much been formally excluded as eschewed, in parallel with international legal definitions of islands a…
Den usynlige understrøm
I denne artikel beskrives og analyseres færøske LGBT+-minoriteters position i det nordatlantiske øsamfund fra efterkrigstiden og frem til i dag. Færøerne bliver indimellem kategoriseret som en nordisk «undtagelse» i debatten om beskyttelse af minoriteters rettigheder og ligestillingspolitik: Hvordan skal denne forestilling forklares? Formålet med artiklen er først og fremmest at præsentere en kritisk diskussion af LGBT+-minoriteters migration mel…
The Roundabout at the Edge of the World
This paper is based on the thesis that there is a ‘sea change’ in the Faroe Islands (Faroes) of the twenty-first century, and that this multi-layered transformation in more than a symbolic understanding is brought about by the sea. Submarine space is being appropriated in futuristic infrastructure projects continentalising the Nordic Atlantic society. The relationship between the world above and the world below the sea is reconfigured, and the ne…
Beyond the Shadow of Adults-Youth, Adultism, and Human Rights in the Contemporary Faroe Islands
This article discusses young people's human rights situation in the Faroe Islands today by addressing youth participation issues from a cultural adultism perspective. It argues that the local cultural values and intergenerational relations in the family influence the multilayered and shifting nature of 'Faroese adultism'. My purpose is to explore the ways through which young people are challenging adultism in their everyday life practices: what d…
Enquete
Enquete: Nordatlantens autopia
Two Girls by the Sea
This essay discusses island films as a possible cinematographic genre based on the case of the Faroese feature film Dreams by the Sea (Sakaris Stórá, 2017). It examines the role and meaning - as focus and locus - of the island in the award-winning Faroese production, which takes viewers to a small remote village in the northwestern Atlantic island community. Dreams by the Sea is about young lives, islandness, and future dreams. New Faroese cinema…
Changing childhoods in coastal communities
This Special Issue explores coastal living, foregrounding the experiences of childhood across time and place. The contributions come from the international, interdisciplinary project titled ‘Valuing the past, sustaining the future: Education, knowledge and identity across three generations in coastal communities’ which was carried out in coastal communities in Norway, the Faroe Islands, Ireland, Cyprus and Australia. Coastal childhoods in communi…
The wave cannot catch me
This paper – at the intersection of childhood studies, island studies, and geographies of place – explores place and sense of belonging in relation to the childhood memories of people from a Faroese village community in a time of societal shift. It examines and analyses the role of and dynamic connection between everyday life practices, local knowledge, and intra- and intergenerational relations in children's place-making practices and narratives…
Youth on the ‘Bridge to All Nations’
On a bell hanging in front of the main hall of the Shurijo Castle in Naha, Okinawa, the following inscription is engraved: “ Ryukyu is located in a blessed region in the South Seas...sailing on ships and serving as a bridge between all nations, the land is filled with treasures .” This article, which is based on an ethnographic fieldwork in Okinawa in 2018, looks at contemporary young Okinawans’ narratives and experiences of ‘globalization’ as pa…
You Just Throw Yourself Into It
This article explores the empirical realities of fatherhood and family lives as experienced by Faroese men, through an anthropological lens.It delves into the question about men's ambivalent roles and identities in Faroese society today: what does it mean to be a father in the Faroe Islands today?Drawing on information from an ongoing ethnographic study of contemporary Faroese fatherhoods, the first extensive research project on men and masculini…
Boat Spirits, Sea Monsters and Seal Women
This article discusses aquatic mythologies of the Faroes with focus on the narratives about the shoveller (also called 'the man on board'), a boat spirit nesting in deep-sea fishing ships. The aim of the article is to examine and interrogate cultural representations of the relation between sea and land in the Faroes today by means of critical reflection on and analysis of the meaning of water-related mythology and folklore: what is the role of th…
He understands me in a different way than others do
In this paper a group of young people from Torshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands, share their personal reflections and views on the 'Faroese father' in present-day society. The material from this qualitative study is used to examine and analyse the role and position of the father in relation to his family and working life, his masculinity and identity, and his general historic status in society. The main aim of the paper is to outline and il…
Fra redaksjonen
Future images of contemporary Oki Islands youth
This paper – at the intersection of island studies, youth research, and the anthropology of the future – examines the future perspectives of young Oki Islanders. When we investigate future images, we also explore present-day action. What do young people expect, what do they aspire to, what do they dream? In metropolitan post-growth Japan, the “crisis of youth” and the “lost generation” of the “lost decade” have become common expressions signaling…
Altered Islands
This paper explores scenarios created by young Faroe Islanders reflecting on the future of their local community and islands. The main objective is to outline and analyse the dynamic relationship between young people's future images and present-day realities. Based on data from an ethnographic study from 2014, the paper discusses young people's future-oriented essays in relation to their islands' history, culture, and values. The essays, as metho…
Torild Hammer og Christer Hyggen
Heart of lightness
Warring souls
Altered Islands
This paper explores scenarios created by young Faroe Islanders reflecting on the future of their local community and islands. The main objective is to outline and analyse the dynamic relationship between young people's future images and present-day realities. Based on data from an ethnographic study from 2014, the paper discusses young people's future-oriented essays in relation to their islands' history, culture, and values. The essays, as metho…
Changing childhoods in coastal communities
This Special Issue explores coastal living, foregrounding the experiences of childhood across time and place. The contributions come from the international, interdisciplinary project titled ‘Valuing the past, sustaining the future: Education, knowledge and identity across three generations in coastal communities’ which was carried out in coastal communities in Norway, the Faroe Islands, Ireland, Cyprus and Australia. Coastal childhoods in communi…
The Roundabout at the Edge of the World
This paper is based on the thesis that there is a ‘sea change’ in the Faroe Islands (Faroes) of the twenty-first century, and that this multi-layered transformation in more than a symbolic understanding is brought about by the sea. Submarine space is being appropriated in futuristic infrastructure projects continentalising the Nordic Atlantic society. The relationship between the world above and the world below the sea is reconfigured, and the ne…
Beyond the Shadow of Adults-Youth, Adultism, and Human Rights in the Contemporary Faroe Islands
This article discusses young people's human rights situation in the Faroe Islands today by addressing youth participation issues from a cultural adultism perspective. It argues that the local cultural values and intergenerational relations in the family influence the multilayered and shifting nature of 'Faroese adultism'. My purpose is to explore the ways through which young people are challenging adultism in their everyday life practices: what d…
The wave cannot catch me
This paper – at the intersection of childhood studies, island studies, and geographies of place – explores place and sense of belonging in relation to the childhood memories of people from a Faroese village community in a time of societal shift. It examines and analyses the role of and dynamic connection between everyday life practices, local knowledge, and intra- and intergenerational relations in children's place-making practices and narratives…
Heart of lightness
Warring souls
Torild Hammer og Christer Hyggen
Future images of contemporary Oki Islands youth
This paper – at the intersection of island studies, youth research, and the anthropology of the future – examines the future perspectives of young Oki Islanders. When we investigate future images, we also explore present-day action. What do young people expect, what do they aspire to, what do they dream? In metropolitan post-growth Japan, the “crisis of youth” and the “lost generation” of the “lost decade” have become common expressions signaling…
Altered Islands
This paper explores scenarios created by young Faroe Islanders reflecting on the future of their local community and islands. The main objective is to outline and analyse the dynamic relationship between young people's future images and present-day realities. Based on data from an ethnographic study from 2014, the paper discusses young people's future-oriented essays in relation to their islands' history, culture, and values. The essays, as metho…
Fra redaksjonen
He understands me in a different way than others do
In this paper a group of young people from Torshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands, share their personal reflections and views on the 'Faroese father' in present-day society. The material from this qualitative study is used to examine and analyse the role and position of the father in relation to his family and working life, his masculinity and identity, and his general historic status in society. The main aim of the paper is to outline and il…
The wave cannot catch me
This paper – at the intersection of childhood studies, island studies, and geographies of place – explores place and sense of belonging in relation to the childhood memories of people from a Faroese village community in a time of societal shift. It examines and analyses the role of and dynamic connection between everyday life practices, local knowledge, and intra- and intergenerational relations in children's place-making practices and narratives…
Youth on the ‘Bridge to All Nations’
On a bell hanging in front of the main hall of the Shurijo Castle in Naha, Okinawa, the following inscription is engraved: “ Ryukyu is located in a blessed region in the South Seas...sailing on ships and serving as a bridge between all nations, the land is filled with treasures .” This article, which is based on an ethnographic fieldwork in Okinawa in 2018, looks at contemporary young Okinawans’ narratives and experiences of ‘globalization’ as pa…
You Just Throw Yourself Into It
This article explores the empirical realities of fatherhood and family lives as experienced by Faroese men, through an anthropological lens.It delves into the question about men's ambivalent roles and identities in Faroese society today: what does it mean to be a father in the Faroe Islands today?Drawing on information from an ongoing ethnographic study of contemporary Faroese fatherhoods, the first extensive research project on men and masculini…
Boat Spirits, Sea Monsters and Seal Women
This article discusses aquatic mythologies of the Faroes with focus on the narratives about the shoveller (also called 'the man on board'), a boat spirit nesting in deep-sea fishing ships. The aim of the article is to examine and interrogate cultural representations of the relation between sea and land in the Faroes today by means of critical reflection on and analysis of the meaning of water-related mythology and folklore: what is the role of th…
Changing childhoods in coastal communities
This Special Issue explores coastal living, foregrounding the experiences of childhood across time and place. The contributions come from the international, interdisciplinary project titled ‘Valuing the past, sustaining the future: Education, knowledge and identity across three generations in coastal communities’ which was carried out in coastal communities in Norway, the Faroe Islands, Ireland, Cyprus and Australia. Coastal childhoods in communi…
Den usynlige understrøm
I denne artikel beskrives og analyseres færøske LGBT+-minoriteters position i det nordatlantiske øsamfund fra efterkrigstiden og frem til i dag. Færøerne bliver indimellem kategoriseret som en nordisk «undtagelse» i debatten om beskyttelse af minoriteters rettigheder og ligestillingspolitik: Hvordan skal denne forestilling forklares? Formålet med artiklen er først og fremmest at præsentere en kritisk diskussion af LGBT+-minoriteters migration mel…
The Roundabout at the Edge of the World
This paper is based on the thesis that there is a ‘sea change’ in the Faroe Islands (Faroes) of the twenty-first century, and that this multi-layered transformation in more than a symbolic understanding is brought about by the sea. Submarine space is being appropriated in futuristic infrastructure projects continentalising the Nordic Atlantic society. The relationship between the world above and the world below the sea is reconfigured, and the ne…
Beyond the Shadow of Adults-Youth, Adultism, and Human Rights in the Contemporary Faroe Islands
This article discusses young people's human rights situation in the Faroe Islands today by addressing youth participation issues from a cultural adultism perspective. It argues that the local cultural values and intergenerational relations in the family influence the multilayered and shifting nature of 'Faroese adultism'. My purpose is to explore the ways through which young people are challenging adultism in their everyday life practices: what d…
Enquete
Enquete: Nordatlantens autopia
Two Girls by the Sea
This essay discusses island films as a possible cinematographic genre based on the case of the Faroese feature film Dreams by the Sea (Sakaris Stórá, 2017). It examines the role and meaning - as focus and locus - of the island in the award-winning Faroese production, which takes viewers to a small remote village in the northwestern Atlantic island community. Dreams by the Sea is about young lives, islandness, and future dreams. New Faroese cinema…
Between governance and local knowledge
Unemployment among young people is a large and multifaceted theme in contemporary social work research in the Nordic countries, with investing in youth being a top political priority. Social work has a pivotal role in the provision of employment services, particularly for young people in disadvantageous situations. We argue that the political understanding of unemployment as a social problem, and work inclusion as the solution effectuated through…
A Rocky Paradox
Island Studies, as it has developed over the last 3-4 decades, has been primarily addressed to research and theorisation concerning inhabited, formerly inhabited and/or inhabitable islands. There are several types of terrestrial formations that have fallen outside its evolving purview, including sandbanks, reefs and rocks. The latter have not so much been formally excluded as eschewed, in parallel with international legal definitions of islands a…
Political science (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · History (7 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Art (4 works)