Hi:
This is a call for presentations for a session at the Coastal Zone
Conference to be held in St. John's at the end of June, 2004. The session's
focus is on women's changing lives in coastal communities. Please consider
participating in the session or, alternatively, forward the notice along to
those who may be interested. Also, check out the conference website at
http://www.czc04.ca/.

Thanks so much,
Brenda Grzetic
PhD Student,
Community Health
Memorial University of Newfoundland

Call for Presentations
Coastal Zone Canada Conference
Location: St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Dates: 27-30 June, 2004

The Changing Roles of Women in Coastal Communities

Globalization and environmental change have a fundamental effect on rural
women in coastal communities. One possible effect is that gender relations
change in very visibly ways, challenging traditional power relations.
Gender, race and class are important crosscutting factors that affect
participation and often determine whether living and working conditions
improve or deteriorate.  Yet, an important and promising aspect of
globalization is the increasing accessibility of information which offers
new opportunities for collective action and resistance in coastal
communities. How has environmental change affected women's strategies of
resistance, both overt and covert, in coastal communities? How has
environmental change and economic globalization affected women's paid and
unpaid workloads?

The specific roles of women in maintaining community moral and stability as
environmental, social and economic conditions change is another important
theme. Women have always had a key role in the survival of coastal
communities. Are there new roles or responsibilities for women in
encouraging, facilitating and participating in economic diversification,
community development and new forms of planning and decision making. How do
new roles interact with more traditional work patterns?

This workshop, facilitated by Brenda Grzetic, will be held on June 29th. It
will provide an opportunity for presenters to deliver a short paper or
visual presentation (up to 10 minutes) on women's changing lives in coastal
communities. The remainder of the session will consist of an open discussion
where we will explore some of the issues identified in the presentations.

A mixture of formats are encouraged and we hope to receive a variety of
papers from many coastal regions. Please send draft submissions to Brenda
Grzetic at [log in to unmask] by May 30th.

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