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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, 1971-, et al.
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20 years of studies of risk and intersectionality
- 2022
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Ingår i: Book of Abstracts. - 9788660224400 ; , s. 62-
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper maps a current trend in risk research, namely intersectional analysis of risk. In the last decades the concept of risk has spread into almost all kinds of societal domains. The original focus on technical and environmental risks has transferred to areas such as health, crime, regulation, social inequality, public and social policy, and global risk as well as the management of risks in everyday life and intimate relationships. Scientific advances and the global media have together created a long string of alarms about risks of different magnitude: from more recent the Covid 19 pandemic, to terrorist threats. The distribution and impact of these risks are not equal, instead they tend to follow and reinforce already existing structural inequalities. In the wake of this development we have seen a growing body of feminist and intersectional approaches in the study of risk. The two perspectives informs each other: On the one hand, the intersectional perspective advance risk research by clarifying how new complexities in the reproduction of social inequalities brought about by globalization and the intersections between social class, gender, ethnicity, and other social categorisations, are connected to the production of risks. Risk research, on the other hand, inform intersectional analysis by clarifying the mechanisms in risk governance that are reproducing old inequalities (i.e., class and gender) and producing new inequalities. Through a systematic literature review, this paper aims to map insights and viewpoints from scholars regarding intersectional analyses of risks associated with inequality on an individual, group or community level, including analyses of individual perception and behaviour, policy, mass media and discourses.
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- Lidén, Gustav, 1983-, et al.
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Living in a foreign country : The meaning of place of origin and gender for risk perceptions, experiences, and behaviors
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Risk Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1366-9877 .- 1466-4461. ; 23:3, s. 365-378
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Previous research has convincingly proven that perceptions, experience, and exposure to risks vary among certain groups in society. By drawing from a unique combination of Swedish survey data and interviews, this study aims to investigate perceptions and experiences of risks as well as in relation to behavior by analyzing the cleavages related to interactions between place of origin and gender. Theoretically, we see individual risk perception as part of situated hierarchical power relations where an individual’s position (which is an intersection of, for example, gender, race, age, and place of origin) structures action and thought. Findings verify that foreign-born men and women perceive risks to a greater extent than those born in Sweden. However, no direct pattern of ethnicity is apparent in exposure to risks, but since predictors measuring experience of discrimination are shown to be significant, the effect can be mediated by such circumstances. In terms of how risks have affected behavior, women, irrespective of their ethnicity, are affected. Exposure to tragic experiences among those who are foreign born can pose risks that are perceived to a greater extent. Furthermore, more vulnerable material conditions can also affect how risks are perceived, and uncertainty due to a lack of resources and as an inherent ingredient of living in a foreign country seem to enhance perceptions of risk and feelings of unsafety. Last, the sense of discrimination appears to influence exposure to certain risks, which might capture an interaction between racism and violence.
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- Danielsson, Erna, 1954-, et al.
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Krishanteringens logiker i hanteringen av migraitonen hösten 2015 : En kritisk analys
- 2020
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Ingår i: Genus, risk och kris. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144124995 ; , s. 77-95
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Syftet med detta kapitel är att analysera och diskutera de processer genom vilka krishanteringen verkar och de styrningsrelationer som krishanteringsretoriken grundas i och genererar. Till vår hjälp tar vi Dorothy Smiths institutionella etnografi och kritisk riskteori. Fallet vi utgår från är en utvärdering som vi författare gjorde av Myndighetens för samhällsskydd och beredskaps insatser under hösten 2015 när ett ovanligt stort antal personer från andra länder sökte asyl i Sverige.
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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, et al.
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Doing and undoing risk : The mutual constitution of risk and heteronormativity in contemporary society
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Risk Research. - Abingdon : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1366-9877 .- 1466-4461. ; 20:3, s. 418-432
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper develops the concepts of ‘doing’ and ‘undoing’ risk, a new approach to risk research that echoes the ‘doing gender’ of gender studies. In this way, we combine intersectional and risk theory and apply the new perspective to empirical material. To better explore the doing and undoing, or the performance, of risk, we will refer to practices that simultaneously (re)produce and hide socio-political norms and positions, played out in contemporary, hierarchical relations of power and knowledge. The aim is to develop a theoretical understanding of doing and undoing risk. The study makes use of transcripts from five focus group interviews with men and women, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people of different ages living in Sweden to develop a theory of ‘doing risk’. The doing of risk of our informants takes place within the frame of a hegemonic heteronormativity. The way that risks are perceived and done in everyday life therefore always needs to be read within a frame of prevailing structures of power. This counts for all of us as we are all part of the hegemonic power structures and thereby are both subject to the intersecting doings of risk and performatively reproducing these power structures in practice.
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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, et al.
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Everyday places, heterosexist spaces, and risk in contemporary Sweden
- 2016
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Ingår i: Culture, Health and Sexuality. - Abingdon : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1369-1058 .- 1464-5351. ; 18:1, s. 45-47
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Subjective feelings of risk are a central feature of everyday life, and evidence shows that people who do not conform to contemporary normative notions are often more exposed to everyday risks than others. Despite this, normative notions are rarely acknowledged as risk objects. By drawing on the theory of ‘doing’ and ‘undoing’ risk, which combines intersectional and risk theory, this study contributes new perspectives on the everyday risks in contemporary society that face people who many would label as being ‘at risk’ – lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The study consists of five focus group interviews with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people of different ages in Sweden. Findings pinpoint risks and how these are done and un-done in different spheres of interviewees’ lives: the emotional risks prevailing in their private lives; the risk of discrimination at work and in relations with other institutions; and the risk of violence and harassment in public places. These risks are all related to the heteronormative order in which the mere fact of being lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender is perceived as a risk.
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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, 1971-, et al.
(författare)
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Intersektionell riskteori
- 2020
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Ingår i: Genus, risk och kris. - : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144124995 ; , s. 217-237
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Kapitlets syfte är att presentera hur ett ramverk av intersektionell riskteori kan bidra till en djupare förståelse av hur risk sammanflätas med rådande maktstrukturer och därför ofta tenderar att reproducera normer om kön, etnicitet och klass. Intersektionell riskteori innebär att risk och krisforskning sammanförs med begrepp och analysmetoder utvecklade inom det genusvetenskapliga kunskapsfältet, inte minst intersektionalitet. Genom att införliva intersektionalitet i riskteori kan vi klargöra hur riskkonfigurationer skapar nya ojämlikheter, medan gamla strukturer förblir oförändrade. I ramverket ses risk som en lins genom vilken maktrelationer, och deras samverkan, kan studeras. En sådan analys är viktig då risker och kriser också påverkar samhället och människors sociala relationer.
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- Danielsson, Erna, 1954-, et al.
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Risk Communication : A Comparative Study of Eight EU Countries
- 2020
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- How do EU member states communicate risks to their citizens? In this study, we define risk communication as the information provided by different levels of government to citizens regarding possible future crises. The questions serving as departure points for this study are as follows: How is the administrative system for risk communication set up in the countries studied? How the different risk communication campaigns are (provided that they exist) embedded in the larger administrative context? How is risk communication strategy formulated in each country and what kind of threats are emphasized? In order to tackle these questions, we examine the risk communication strategy of eight countries: Sweden, Finland, Germany, England, France, Estonia, Greece and Cyprus. Our data consist of governmental web sites, publications, campaigns, as well as other modes of communication, such as videos posted on YouTube, with questions centering on institutional actors, methods of delivery, content, and effectiveness. We acknowledge that risk communication aims at supporting vulnerable populations and evening out imbalances, but at the same time we flesh out the power dimension of risk. In our analysis, we search for reproduction of norms and social inequality in risk communication practices. The results show that some patterns emerge regarding the way different EU countries convey information to the public, but they do not hold strictly to geography or administrative system. Digital media are the foremost vehicle of risk communication and the message generally conveyed is geared towards traditional, middle class households with the main language of the country as their first language. Volunteer organizations are present in all the countries in question, though not at the same degree. The conveyance of “self-protection” guidelines implicitly places the responsibility of protection to the individual. The results also show that in some countries, materiality has become more prevalent than the social dimension of risk in the message the public sector conveys, and that there is a move from focusing on risk to focusing on security.
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- Ekholm, Sara
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Föräldraskap och klimatoro – betydelsen av omsorg
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of the thesis is to study the relationships between parenthood, care and worry about the consequences of climate change and how these relate to climate behaviour. The thesis is based on the argument that care affect the degree of worry for the person to whom the care is directed and that the social context surrounding the individual has an influence on their experiences and worries about risks, in this case climate risks. In relation to climate change worry, it addresses differences in care practice between parents and people who are not parents, and between mothers and fathers. Time and practice with caring responsibilities may differ between these groups and may therefore also relate to levels of worry. Care practice can thus be one of several aspects that can be significant for climate change worry. Four studies have jointly addressed the overall purpose of the thesis and a ‘mixed methods’ approach has been used where quantitative and qualitative methods have been combined. The studies have thus complemented each other through four different sets of empirical material: three sets of quantitative survey data with random samples and one set of qualitative interview data. The empirical context of the survey studies includes a regional and a national survey in Sweden and a European survey. The qualitative material is based on interviews with respondents from several regions in Sweden that are vulnerable to climate change. The results of the thesis as a whole show a recurring pattern, in a Swedish context, regarding the relationship between parenthood and worry about the consequences of climate change. They show that parents in general are more worried about climate change than people who are not parents (Articles 1, 2 and 3). So, this pattern is reflected in the three independent surveys mentioned above, conducted at different times over a six-year period. The results also show that women are generally more worried than men are about the consequences of climate change. Fathers, on the other hand, are significantly more likely to experience climate change worry than men who are not fathers, a difference that is not evident between mothers and women who are not mothers (Articles 2 and 3). One of the studies (Article 3) examine whether the role of parenthood, as well as the role of mothers and fathers, differs between three care regimes (Orloff, 2002), in relation to climate change worry. Regimes here refer to normative and regulatory systems that are not reduced to individual institutions in society (Hood, Rothstein & Baldwin, 2001). It is only in the care regime prevailing in Sweden that parenthood reveals a significantly greater degree of climate change worry, both between parents and people who are not parents and between fathers and men who are not fathers. One possible explanation for this may be the nature of care regimes and how they relate to the individual, including the regulation of care time structures for both men and women through parental insurance. The fact that climate change worry increases for men who become fathers may be about the development of “caring masculinities” (Elliot, 2016) that relate to men’s emotional experiences such as worry, here through their spending time with their children. This seems to be particularly evident for men who become fathers in contexts where men are given more time for care practice, as shown in the Swedish context. Parents’ worry about the impact of climate change thus appears to be linked to care practice. A term for this kind of worry is referred to in the thesis as care-worry (Article 4) and includes a worry rooted in caring for and having a responsible attitude towards other people, both towards the specific child being cared for, and a concern for people in general and for future generations. This is supported by van Manen’s (2002) argument that worry is part of caring. People’s care-worry is also shaped by the specific context of discourses about caring, worry and risk (see Lupton, 2013; see also Giritli Nygren, Olofsson & Öhman, 2020). Based on parents’ experiences of climate change, the concept of care-worry has been empirically explored (Article 4) and reveals four ideal types that can illustrate parental care-worry in different ways. These are the worrying type, the trusting type, the calculating type and the security-seeking type. Differences between the ideal types are evident in the degree of worry, sense of uncertainty about the future and desire for control or security, with the common link of taking responsibility for the climate situation. Parents’ different types of climate behaviour can also be related to their type of care-worry. The worrying type talks about the climate situation with others, while the trusting type cares about sustainable consumption and is confident that global climate action will solve the climate situation. The calculating type focuses primarily on a climate-mitigating approach, such as reduced energy consumption, and the security-seeking type on a lifestyle adapted to the climate by means of such things as sustainable housing. Parents’ care-worry thus seems to relate to practical action with climate behaviour that takes personal responsibility for limiting the impact of climate change on future generations. The overall conclusions and contributions of the thesis are thus essentially that parenthood is significant for worry about climate change in the Swedish care regime, i.e. that parents have greater climate change worry than those who are not parents. It is also the case that in Sweden fathers’ climate change worry is greater than that of men who are not fathers, a difference that does not appear in women who become mothers. Caring for children can thus increase worry about the consequences of climate change, i.e. parents experience care-worry in relation to future climate risks that their children and other people may face. A further conclusion is that care-worry can also be a motivating aspect to act on climate change by limiting one’s climate impact for the sake of future generations.
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- Ekholm, Sara, et al.
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Parenthood and worrying about climate change : The limitations of previous approaches
- 2017
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Ingår i: Risk Analysis. - : Wiley. - 0272-4332 .- 1539-6924. ; 37:2, s. 305-314
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The present study considers the correlation between parenthood and worry about the con-sequences of climate change. Two approaches to gauging people’s perceptions of the risksof climate change are compared: the classic approach, which measures risk perception, andthe emotion-based approach, which measures feelings toward a risk object. The empiricalmaterial is based on a questionnaire-based survey of 3,529 people in Sweden, of whom 1,376answered, giving a response rate of 39%. The results show that the correlation of parenthoodand climate risk is significant when the emotional aspect is raised, but not when respondentswere asked to do cognitive estimates of risk. Parenthood proves significant in all three ques-tions that measure feelings, demonstrating that it is a determinant that serves to increaseworry about climate change.
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- Fjæstad, Björn, 1943-, et al.
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Gentekniken vinner terräng
- 2003
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Ingår i: Forskning & Framsteg. - Stockholm : Stiftelsen Forskning & Framsteg. - 0015-7937. ; 37:6, s. 51-53
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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