Pauline Gardiner-Barber was born in New Zealand
but now is also a citizen of Canada, Pauline Gardiner Barber received
her Ph.D in Social Anthropology from the University of Toronto.
She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and
Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University where she is cross
appointed with Women’s Studies and is the Graduate Co-ordinator
of International Development Studies. The over-arching theme explored
in her research concerns the gendered consequences - social, cultural,
and material - of globalization. She is also interested in theory
building that connects the literature on subjective experience
(primarily feminist and post-structural) with the debates on capitalism
and globalization. Her published work discusses livelihoods and
associated culture, class, gender and racism politics in industrial
Cape Breton and in the Philippines. Recently, she has also been
involved in gender and development projects in relation to sustainable
livelihoods, primarily in the Philippines, but also in Indonesia.
Some of this work entails collaborative research; some of it involves
teaching advanced seminar courses in research design and gender
studies. Her collaborative work with University of the West Indies
colleagues at the Centre for Gender and Development Studies occurred
in the context of the Gender Group of the Island Sustainability
Livelihood and Equity project (ISLE), funded by the CIDA from
1995-2000. Current research explores the significance of gendered
labour migration for migrants, their communities, and for Philippine
development with particular attention to the class and gender
effects, and the changing citizenship and political dynamics tied
to the labour diaspora. With Marianne Marchand and Jane Parpart
she co-edits the Ashgate Publishing Series: Gender in a Global
/ Local World.