DONNE DEL NORD: VITE DIFFERENTI, FILI COMUNI. LE DONNE DEL CIRCOLO POLARE ARTICO SI INCONTRANO A WHITEHORSE (YUKON, CANADA)

This article is about the Women's Circumpolar Conference, that has been in Whitehorse (Yukon, Canada) in November 1999. Hundreds of women, coming from artic nations like Scandinavia, Greenland, Russia, Alaska, Canada (but also from warmer countries like Great Britain and the Mediterranean) go t...

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Published in:Studi di sociologia 2001-07, Vol.39 (3), p.393-410
Main Author: CASELLA, ANNA PALTRINIERI
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Language:Italian
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Summary:This article is about the Women's Circumpolar Conference, that has been in Whitehorse (Yukon, Canada) in November 1999. Hundreds of women, coming from artic nations like Scandinavia, Greenland, Russia, Alaska, Canada (but also from warmer countries like Great Britain and the Mediterranean) go togheter to talk about problems of their social and common life. The event, developed into the spirit of Bejiing's conference, and due to the active community life in Whitehorse, allowed the representative (many of them coming from native communities) to discuss about themes particularly dramatic in the world such as ecology, social isolation and what is leads to, youth politics, physical and cultural survival of native populations. Reading the event, a few months after, helped by some privileged witness, interviewed in Whitehorse in June 2000, I can clearly underline some strong anthropological themes: the peculiarity of Canadian population in the Artic regions in which old and new group of immigrants live together; the delicate balance between man and Artic environnement, that is now endangered by multinational economic operations, women's role yesterday and today in building social links and cultural meanings that can allow people to «live» in this wide and desolate land; the search for «common threads», that go for beyond national borders, through which plan future.
ISSN:0039-291X
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