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NCM - Nordic
Grant Scheme, 1999-2000, 2000-2001
NCM - NARP, Nordic Arctic Research Programme, 2001-2002
NCM - NorFA Gender and Violence Programme, 2001-2002
Project
summary:
AIM
In most general terms, the research network aims to introduce
new perspectives into the research on gender, citizenship, and
democracy through a woman-friendly prism of double democratisation,
interrelatedness of political and social developments and problematisation
of the public/private division, which are important for women's
sexual-reproductive rights and problems and issues related to
violence against women and trafficking in women.
In the context
of multilevel political orders - in one of the European East-West
transregions, the Barents region - the network will also place
on the agendas issues concerning a new type of democratic formations
seen through democratisation from below, in a civil society.
Issues concerning the social dimension of the Barents administration
will also be discussed by exploring the prospects for cross-border
welfare services for women and for promoting transversal dialogues
between the Nordic and Russian scholars.
The network
will create "added Nordic value" by scrutinising differences
between the Scandinavian (Norwegian, Swedish), Finnish, and
Russian models of crisis centres and their daily practices -
in giving short-term immediate help to victims of violence,
and in doing long-term transformative work in order to increase
public awareness of gendered violence, and to make demands for
legislative reforms and more efficient policies. Also, it will
shed light on problems related to turbulent transition in NW.Russia,
that is affecting the lives of women on both sides of the Nordic-Russian
borders through deterioration of women's position in Russia,
and consequent transborder sex tourism, prostitution and trafficking,
and bipolar constructions of images of Nordic vs. Russian women.
Nordic and Western vs. Russian traditions in women's and gender
studies are on the main agenda, too.
The research
network is closely related to the Nordic-NW.Russian NCRB - A
Network for Crisis Centres in the Russian Barents Region (and
in the Barents region as a whole) development project, 1999-2001,
with 18 units in NW.Russia, Finland, Sweden, and Norway.
For more
information:
aino.saarinen@oulu.fi
http://wwwedu.oulu.fi/ktl/NCRB/
and:
liapounova@pomorsu.ru
http://www.pomorsu.ru/Departments/Crisis_centre/index.htm/
NETWORK
STRUCTURE
Network co-ordinator:
Aino Saarinen, Department of Educational Sciences and Teacher
Education, University of Oulu, P.O.Box 2000, FIN-90014 University
of Oulu;
Tel. +358 - 8 - 5566 092; Fax. +358 - 8 - 5472 253;
E-mail: aino.saarinen@oulu.fi
Participating
co-ordinators, institutions and networks:
Academic institutions:
- Seija Keskitalo-Foley, Faculty of Education, Lapland University,
P.O.Box 122, FIN-96101 Rovaniemi; Tel. +358 -16 - 341 2402;
Fax. +358 -16 - 341 2401; E-mail: seija.keskitalo-foley@urova.fi
- Kerstin Hägg, Department of Child and Youth Education,
University of Umeå, S-90187 Umeå; Tel. +46 - 90
- 1665 13; Fax. +46 - 90 - 786 6511;
E-mail: kerstin.hagg@educ.umu.se
- Siv Oltedal, Department of Social Policy, Bodö Regional
University, N-8049 Bodö; Tel. +47 - 7551 7200; Fax. +47
- 7551 7457;
E-mail:siv.oltedal@hibo.no
- Natalia Gutsol, Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research,
Kola Science Centre RAS, 14 Fersman Street, Apatity, Murmansk
Region, 184200 Russia; Tel. +7 - 815 - 5574 187; Fax. +7 - 815
- 5576 85
- Olga Liapounova, Department of Psychology, Pomor State University,
NCRB project, Office 6, 58 Lomonosov Prospect, Arkhangelsk,
163060 Russia; Tel/Fax. +7 - 8182 - 654 000; E-mail: liapounova@pomorsu.ru;
Elena Kudriashova, Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research,
Pomor State University, 4 Lomonosov Avenue, Arkhangelsk, 163006
Russia, Tel. +7 - 8182 - 247 450; Fax. +47 - 789 - 16133;
E-mail:kudr@arkhangelsk.ru
- Larissa Boitschenko, Karelian Centre for Gender Studies, Petrozavodsk
University, P.O.Box 199, Republic of Karelia, 185035 Russia
- Natalia Khodyreva, Department of Psychology, St. Petersburg
State University, Psychological Crisis Centre for Women, P.O.Box
72, St. Petersburg, 192071 Russia; Tel. +7 - 812 - 222 9096;
Fax. +7 - 812 - 327 3000; E-mail: natasha@women.spb.ru
Through
NorFA - Gender and Violence programme:
- Marina Calloni, Faculty of Sociology, University of Milan-Bicocca,
Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8, I-20126 Milan; Tel. +39 - 2
- 6448 7524; Fax. +39 - 2 - 6448 7505; E-mail: marina.calloni@unimib-it
- Hinke Beukema, Department of Education, University of Groeningen,
Grote Rozenstraat 38, NL-9717 TJ Groeningen, the Netherlands;
Tel. +31 - 50 - 3636 533; Fax. +31 - 50 - 5954 42271;
E-mail: h.j.beukema-siebenga@ppsw.rug.nl
Other
participating networks for research and activism:
- Elena Kudriashova, School of Politics Aleksandra Kollontai,
Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research, Pomor State
University, 4 Lomonosov Avenue, Arkhangelsk, 163006 Russia,
Tel. +7 - 8182 - 247 450; Fax. +47 - 789 - 16133; E-mail: kudr@arkhangelsk.ru
- Marit Stemland, Femina Borealis - Women and Development in
the North, Northern Feminist University, Steigen, N-8286 Nordfold;
Tel. +47 - 7577 9208; Fax. +47 - 7577 9330; E-mail: marit.stemland@kun.nl.no
http://www.kun.nl.no
Collaborating
research network:
- Vappu Sunnari, Gendered Violence in Schools and Teacher Education,
Department of Educational Sciences and Teacher Education, University
of Oulu, P.O.Box 2000, FIN-90014 University of Oulu; Tel. +358
- 8 - 5533 720; Fax. 5533 600; E-mail: vsunnari@ktk.oulu.fi
ACTIVITIES
All in all,
the network involves around thirty post graduate, post doc,
and senior scholars from social sciences, anthropology, cultural
studies, pedagogics, and psychology. It is arranging work meetings,
seminars and workshops (often in collaboration with other networks
and programmes in the Barents region), and exchange of scholars.
Also, it promotes inquiries and collaborative research across
the borders. Two-three joint publications will be produced,
too.
Seminars
and workshops:
- Gender Politics and Crisis Centres for Women. Workshop in
conjunction with Building Bridges: Social Work in Changing Cultures
and Societies, Pomor co-operation programme by Pomor State University
and Bodö Regional University, Pomor State University, Arkhangelsk,
November 1999
- Women's Strategies and Politics in Transition. Dialogues across
the East-West Divide. Seminar, Nevsky Institute of Language
and Culture, St. Petersburg, European University, St. Petersburg,
and St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, May 2000
(in collaboration with the Aleksandra Kollontai School of Politics)
- Interaction of Crisis Centres for Women with Public Authorities
and NGOs on the Problem of Violence against Women. Karelian
Centre for Gender Studies, University of Petrozavodsk, Petrozavodsk,
August 2000
- Gendered Violence and School Children/Infants. Workshop, Department
of Educational Sciences and Teacher Education, University of
Oulu, Oulu, August-September 2000
- Children with Battered Mothers. Workshop, Iris, Shelter for
Women, Luleå, October 2000
Participation
in:
- Social Policy and Intervention in a Gender Perspective. Nordic-NW.Russian
Post-Graduate (NorFA) Course, Department of Social Policy, Bodö
Regional University, Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research,
Pomor State University, Arkhangelsk, June 2000
- Sexism and Violence in Schools as Research Targets. Nordic
Post-Graduate (NorFA) Course, Department of Educational Sciences
and Teacher Education, University of Oulu, Oulu, March 2001
Forthcoming
programme:
- Sexuality, Identity, and Empowerment. Workshop, Centre for
Women's Studies and Gender Research, Pomor State University,
Arkhangelsk, 28 May- 2 June 2001
- Violence against Women. Workshop in conjunction with Professionalisation
of Social Work - Same Concepts in Different Contexts? Pomor-co-operation
programme, closing conference, Pomor State University, Bodö
Regional University, Bodö, 26-29 June, 2001
- NCRB closing seminar. Workshop, Department of Educational
Sciences and Teacher Education, University of Oulu, Oulu, 25-28
November, 2001
For more
information on the above workshops and seminars:
aino.saarinen@oulu.fi
liapounova@pomorsu.ru
Forthcoming publication:
- Women's Strategies and Politics in Transition. Dialogues across
the East-West Divide, to be edited by Aino Saarinen, Irina Yukina
and Elena Kudriashova
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