Marina Karides
Rhuthmosanalyst
about
I am a Professor of Geography & Environment at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. A sociologist by training and a rhuthmosanalyst by method, my research is dedicated to social and environmental justice through an intersectional and decolonial feminist lens. Islands are the spaces I pursue it. I have roamed and researched islands in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, and Oceania to learn about economic alternatives to capitalism and practices of gender, race, and Indigenous solidarities.
recent publications
Marina Karides. "Settler Colonial Perceptions of Hostile Nature in Oceania: the Mongoose, the Media, and the Mountain" Urban Geography, 2024.
Tiara Naʻputi, Marina Karides, Ayano Ginoza, Valia Papoutsaki (editors). “Editorial Note” Okinawan Journal of Island Studies 4(2) i-v, 2023. Special Issues: Island Activisms.
Marina Karides and Noralis Rodríguez-Coss (editors). “Island Feminisms: In/on Island Studies: Place, Justice, and Movement.” Shima 16(1): 137-142, 2022. Special Section on Island Feminisms.
Marina Karides. “Persephonic Rhythms and Tourism in Lesvos: The Seasonal Urbanisation of Island Space: Tourism and Migration in Lesvos” Pp. 189-208 in Rhythmanalysis: Place, Mobility, Disruption, and Performance edited by Dawn Lyon, Research in Urban Sociology Series, Emerald Publishing Limited: Bingley, UK, 2022.
Marina Karides. Sappho's Legacy: Convivial Economics on a Greek Isle. State University of New York (SUNY) Press: Albany, New York, 2021.
Nathalie Rita and Marina Karides. “I have an accent, so people know I’m not from here”: A Racial and Ethnic Analysis of International STEM Faculty in Hawai‘i” Ethnic and Racial Studies 45(10): 1873-1895, 2021.
Huihui Kanahele-Mossman and Marina Karides. “Papakū Makawalu and Grounded Theory: A Combined and Collective Analytical Process for Hawai’i Land Stewardship” AlterNatives: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 17(4):449-459, 2021.
Marina Karides. “An Island Feminist Approach to Scholar Activism.” Pp. 21-45 in Gendered and Island Communities edited by Firouz Gaini and Helene Pristed Nielsen. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2020.
Marina Karides, Nathalie Rita, Ruth Aloua, and Jennifer Stotter. “An Island and Intersectional Analysis of STEM faculty careers in Hawai’I” Pp. 119-138 in Gendered
and Island Communities edited by Firouz Gaini and Helene Pristed Nielsen. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2020.
Marina Karides and Patricia Widener. “Race, Class, Privilege and Bias in South Florida Food Movements.” Pp. 199-203 in Food and Poverty: Food Insecurity and Food Sovereignty among America’s Poor, edited by L. Hossfeld, B. Kelly, and J. Waity. Vanderbilt University Press, 2018.
Marina Karides. “An Island Feminism Perspective: Convivial Economics and the Women’s Cooperatives of Lesvos.” Pp. 78-96 in Island Geographies: Essays and Conversations, edited by E. Stratford, Advances in Human Geography Series, Routledge, 2017.
Marina Karides. “Why Island Feminism?” Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures 11:1:30-39, 2017.
island feminisms(if) project
The Island Feminisms (IF) Project is a coordinated effort between Marina Karides and Noralis Rodríguez-Coss. We are cultivating a transnational, multi-lingual space for critical race, feminist, and queer activism and scholarship on and for islands.
“Island feminisms refers to the intellectual sensibilities of island place and constructs of gender and sexuality as intertwining forces that contour the particular conditions of life – economic, geographical, and ecological – and cultural and political manifestations on islands. Like most feminisms, it is action oriented, in pursuit of just and fair conditions for all beings, but is guided by specific interest in islanders’ local and subaltern strategies that remain resistant to hegemonic discourses and practices of power" (Karides, 2017)
advance-bridge
Building Relationships to Increase Diversity and Gender Equity (BRIDGE) is an NSF ADVANCE funded project (2017-2022) to assess workplace conditions in higher education in Hawai'i prioritizing community colleges. Serving as PI, my team and I analyzed more than 1000 surveys and 75 interviews to identify patterns of gender, Indigenous, and racial bias on campus. Many Island faculty contend with insufficient wages, high workloads, and exorbitant housing costs. Programmatically we supported faculty by facilitating cross-island systems of mentorship and coaching. Below is the link to the campus report:
*please email me at the address below to request a complete vita.