Table Of ContentMARE Publication Series 27
Anne Trine Kjørholt
Sharon Bessell
Dympna Devine
Firouz Gaini
Spyros Spyrou Editors
Valuing the Past,
Sustaining the
Future?
Exploring Coastal Societies,
Childhood(s) and Local Knowledge
in Times of Global Transition
MARE Publication Series
Volume 27
SeriesEditors
Maarten Bavinck, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland,
TheNetherlands
SveinJentoft,NorwegianCollegeofFisheryScience,UiT-TheArcticUniversityof
Norway,Tromsø,Norway
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EditorsSveinJentoft,UiT-TheArcticUniversityofNorway,Norway
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Anne Trine Kjørholt Sharon Bessell
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Dympna Devine Firouz Gaini Spyros Spyrou
Editors
Valuing the Past, Sustaining
the Future?
Exploring Coastal Societies, Childhood(s) and
Local Knowledge in Times of Global
Transition
Editors
AnneTrineKjørholt SharonBessell
DepartmentofEducation&Lifelong CrawfordSchoolofPublicPolicy
Learning TheAustralianNationalUniversity
NorwegianUniversityofScienceand Canberra,ACT,Australia
Technology
Trondheim,Norway FirouzGaini
UniversityoftheFaroeIslands
DympnaDevine Tórshavn,FaroeIslands
SchoolofEducation
UniversityCollegeDublin
Dublin,Ireland
SpyrosSpyrou
EuropeanUniversityCyprus
Nicosia,Cyprus
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Acknowledgments
Thisvolumeresultsfromcross-disciplinary,internationalresearchcollaboration,led
by Professor Anne Trine Kjørholt, Norwegian University of Science and Technol-
ogy. The research grew out of our desire to better understand the dynamic and
shiftinginterplaybetweeneducation,societies,andworkinglifeincoastalcommu-
nities across three generations in five countries, as those communities strive to
achieve a sustainable future. As scholars of childhood studies, we were driven by
our deep interest in the meaning and changing nature of childhood over time and
acrossplaces,andinthenatureofintergenerationalrelationshipsandlearning.
This volume is part of the project Valuing the Past, Sustaining the Future:
Education,Knowledge,andIdentityacrossThreeGenerationsinCoastalCommu-
nities,fundedbytheResearchCouncilofNorway,headedbyProfessorAnneTrine
Kjørholt from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and in part-
nership with researchers at the Australian National University, University College
Dublin, the University of the Faroe Islands, and the European University Cyprus.
WearegratefulforthegeneroussupportoftheResearchCouncilofNorway.
WearegratefulforthecontributionofAssociateProfessorMaritUrsinfromthe
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, particularly for her role in
developingtheresearchproposal.
Our deep gratitude to the outstanding project advisory board: Professor An-
MagrittJensen,theNorwegianUniversityofScienceandTechnology,andProfessor
Ellen Schrumpf, University of South-East Norway, for their ongoing expertise,
support,andencouragementthroughouttheproject.
Throughout the project, our research has benefitted from the support and input
fromseveralacademiccolleagueswhohavecontributedtheirtimeandexpertiseto
our annual project workshops. In particular, we express thanks to Professor Julia
Brannen, Professor Joanna Bornat, Professor Stuart Aitken, and Professor Siri
Gerrard. Special thanks also toDr. AoifeCrummy forhervaluable contributionin
makingthemanuscriptreadyforsubmissiontothePublisher.
Thisvolume,andtheresearchthatunderpinsit,wouldneverhavebeenpossible
withoutthesupportandcontributionofpeopleinthecommunitiesthatarethefocus
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vi Acknowledgments
of our work, in Norway, Australia (Tasmania), Cyprus, the Faroe Islands, and
Ireland. We are grateful to all those who hosted our workshops and provided us
withanunderstandingoflocalwaysoflivingandknowing.Specialthanksgotothe
Blue Competence Centre at Frøya for their valuable contribution and continuous
supportthroughouttheproject.Ourdeepestgratitudegoestothose–acrossgener-
ationsandacrosscountries–whoparticipatedintheresearch,andsharedtheirtime,
knowledge, and memories so generously. It was through our discussions with
participants that we came to understand the challenges and opportunities facing
coastalcommunitiesintransition,andwealsocametounderstandthedeepsenseof
connectionandbelongingthatpeoplehavefortheircoastalhomes.Toallthosewho
supportedtheresearch,andparticipatedinit,wesaythankyou.
Last but not least, special thanks go to Springer and the editors of MARE
Publication Series, ProfessorMaarten Bavinck and ProfessorSveinJentoft, forthe
opportunity to publish this volume, and for their valuable support and feedback
duringtheprocess.
Takk!;Takkfyri!;Thankyou!;Goraibhmatihagaibh!;Σαςευχαριστoύμε!
Contents
1 ExploringCoastalSocietiesandKnowledgeinTransition
AcrossGenerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
AnneTrineKjørholt,SharonBessell,DympnaDevine,FirouzGaini,
andSpyrosSpyrou
2 CoastalCommunitiesPast,Present,andFuture?TheValue
ofSocialandCulturalSustainability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
SharonBessellandAnneTrineKjørholt
3 GrowingUpinaNorwegianCoastalTownintheNineteenth
Century:WorkandIntergenerationalRelations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
EllenSchrumpf
4 ‘I’mTreadingWaterHereforMyGeneration’:Genderedand
GenerationalPerspectivesonInformalKnowledgeTransmissions
inIrishCoastalCommunities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
AoifeCrummyandDympnaDevine
5 LocalKnowledgeandChangeinaSmallFishingCommunity
inCyprus:ImplicationsforSocialandCulturalSustainability. . .. 81
EleniTheodorouandSpyrosSpyrou
6 TheShiftingLandscapeofChildhoodandLiteraciesoftheSea
inaCoastalCommunityinMid-Norway:SustainingtheFuture
byValuingthePast?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
AnneTrineKjørholt
7 LearningfromtheCoast:Youth,Family,andLocalKnowledge
intheFaroeIslands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
FirouzGaini
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8 Sustainability,KnowledgeandSocialIdentity:Commonalities,
ConflictsandComplexitiesinCoastalCommunitiesinTasmania,
Australia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
SharonBessell
9 “IShallBeaFisherman”:LearningfromthePast,Imagining
theFuture:ObservationsfromaViableFishingCommunity
inNorthNorway. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
HaraldBeyerBroch
10 TheSeaLostandFound:ChangesandInterdependencies
inaCoastalCommunityinDenmark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
EvaGulløvandJohnGulløv
11 BlueEducation:ExploringCaseStudiesofPlace-Basedand
IntergenerationalLearningonNorwegianIslands. . . . . . . . . .. . . . 195
TobiasJohansson,AnneTrineKjørholt,andErlingKrogh
12 BecomingCoastalinaMinorKey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
StuartC.Aitken
About the Editors
AnneTrineKjørholt isaprofessorinchildhoodstudiesatNorwegianUniversity
ofScienceandTechnology,NTNU,andaffiliatedprofessorineducation,aesthetic,
and leadership at University of South East Norway. She is currently head of the
programme;NorwayasaSeaNationinoneofNTNU’sStrategicResearchAreas;
Oceans. She was director of Norwegian Centre for Child Research from 2012 to
2016, vice dean for research (2013–2015), and former academic coordinator of
MPhil program in childhood studies and of the interdisciplinary PhD program in
ChildResearch.Shehasextensiveexperiencesincoordinatinginterdisciplinaryand
external funded research projects in collaboration with international researchers,
includingprojectsinEthiopiaandZambia.Herresearchinterestsincludechildhood
asasocialandsymbolicspace,children’srights,earlychildhoodeducationandcare,
childhoodincrossculturalcontexts,localknowledge,identitiesandbelonging.
She has published widely. Among anthologies, she has edited Children as
Citizens: In the Best Interest of the Child? (University Press), Early Childhood
and Development work: Theories, Policies and Practices (coedited with Helen
Penn), Children, Young People and Local Knowledge in Ethiopia Rights, Liveli-
hoodsandGenerations,(Akademica;coeditedwithTatekAbebe);andTheModern
ChildandtheFlexibleLabourMarket(Palgrave;coeditedwithJensQvortrup).She
was an elected member of several boards, currently of the national board Save the
Children.
Sharon Bessell is a professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the
Australian National University. Sharon is the director of the Children’s Policy
Centre, and of the Poverty and Inequality Research Centre. She is a co-presenter
of Policy Forum Pod. In 2019, she was named as one of the Australian Financial
Review’s Women of Influence. She is originally from Tasmania and now lives in
Canberra.
Her research interests revolve around issues of social justice and human rights,
focusingonthreebroadareas:(i)socialpolicy,socialjustice,andthehumanrights
of children; (ii) childhoods in transition in coastal and regional communities; and
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