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Year of grant: 2018 Research Area: Samfelag Project type: Verkætlan Project title: Faroese Fatherhood. Exploring everyday life, family relations and masculinity across two generations of men in contemporary Faroe Islands Grant number: 0524 Project manager: Firouz Gaini Institution/company: Søgu og Samfelagsdeildin, Fróðskaparsetrið Other participants: Runa Preeti Ísfeld, Jónleyg Djurhuus, Sunniva Busk Vang, Elsa Maria H. Olsen, Kári Holm Johannesen og Ibrar Olsen Project period: Planned: 01.11.2018-31.10.2020 Actual: 01.11.2018-28.02.2023 Total budget: kr. 1.364.93 Grant from the FRC in DKK: kr. 705.588 Project description: Original The general aim of this project is to carry basic research with the expected impact of providing a deeper knowledge base about the shifting and dynamic interplay between family life, working life, and cultural and social values in present-day Faroe Islands.The project addresses the everyday lives, gender identities, and intergenerational relations of men of diverse backgrounds (regarding age, educational level, socio-economic status, etcetera). On the overall level, FFP will contribute to rethinking fatherhood and masculinityin the Faroe Islands in support of a society on equalright and dignity. The purposeof the project is to generate new insights, develop new knowledge, and identify existing manifestations og gender inequalities in society. FFP will develop and initiate new approaches to understand Faroese men masculinities, with focus on fathers and "fathering", using the following research questions: RQ1 - How do men themselves describe and explain images og ideal fatherhood (the "perfect father") in relation to own experiences, strategies and ambitions? RQ2 - In which way has the history of the Faroese family influenced dominant images of fathers and fatherhood through generations? RQ3 - Are men of different background (age, class, region/island, etcetera) representatives of different (compering) styles of fatherhood today? RQ4 - How does gender equality policy and debate resonate and affect the role and status of the father in Faroese family? Final This project has explored and analyzed the contemporary Faroese family from the fathers’ perspectives. It has discussed gender and family values generally, and fathering practices and fatherhood ideals specifically, based on the narratives of Faroese men. The project’s aim was to use ethnographic methods to get a better understanding of transformation and continuity in the Faroese family. The objective was to investigate in which way everyday life practice resonates family/fatherhood values, and vice versa. This project has yielded a wealth of knowledge concerning Faroese fathers, fatherhood and fathering practices in a small-scale island community in cultural and social transformation. The results of the project have shown us that there is a large gap between the dominant cultural discourse on men and the ‘real’ everyday lives and personal narratives of fathers in the Faroe Islands. Its findings have clearly demonstrated the diversity and fluidity characterizing men’s identities as fathers today. It contributes to academic discourse and public debate about fathers, family life, gender equality and justice in a society in shift. It unsettles taken-for-granted assumptions and makes restrianed knowledge on fathers accessible; in other words, it displays tacit knowledge about fathers – their fathering practices, values and intimacy in family relations. Based on qualitative methods, first of all individual biographical interviews, the ethnographic project lets men themselves narrate their life before and after becoming a father. It contributes to theory on fatherhood and masculinity with the case of fathers from a small-scale island community. Its theoretical perspective is critical and future-oriented. Its approach contrasts the crisis-hit post-patriarchal figure with a different representation of what it means to be yesterday’s, today’s, or tomorrow’s man. Project status: Liðug Project output: Storage and access rights to collected data It is safely stored on the university’s server, and only the project leader has direct access to the data. The researchers directly involved in the project have the right to use the collected data. See more on PURE << Back |
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