@inbook{0739c61a9bd54cb68ba9f6a3bc7b9697,
title = "Being (un)stuck in Qaqortoq: attachment, ambivalence, and affect in contemporary Greenland",
abstract = "Contemporary Greenland is characterised by a {\textquoteleft}female deficit{\textquoteright} and distinctly different mobility patterns among men and women. In this chapter, I explore attachment and ambivalence regarding South Greenland based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with both current and former residents. While Greenland is the world{\textquoteright}s largest island, in many respects it makes no sense to think of it as one island place, but rather as a series of more or less isolated yet interconnected locations. As the chapter demonstrates, {\textquoteleft}islandness{\textquoteright}, colonial history, locality, climate, and gender intersect in creating affective (mis)alignments between bodies and places. The chapter addresses the research question, {\textquoteleft}How can affective readings of gender, mobility, and place contribute to an understanding of contemporary social realities in South Greenland?{\textquoteright} I end with a discussion of how affect theory can be further developed in ways which could enrich island studies in general, and intersectional studies of {\textquoteleft}islandness{\textquoteright} and gender in particular.",
keywords = "gender, place, Greenland, affect, affect theory, mobility, place attachment",
author = "{Pristed Nielsen}, Helene",
year = "2020",
month = apr,
day = "1",
doi = "10.4324/9780429263705-3",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-0-367-20841-7",
series = "Gender in a Global/Local World",
publisher = "Routledge",
pages = "46--63",
editor = "{Pristed Nielsen}, Helene and Firouz Gaini",
booktitle = "Gender and Island Communities",
address = "United Kingdom",
}