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- Holm, Ulla M, 1944, et al.
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Elite Women as Strangers : A Phenomenology for Interdisciplinary Studies
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In: Projektrapport redigerad av Gabriele Griffin.
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In this article, we will outline why we want to take part in the development of a phenomenology for interdisciplinary studies on gender and migration and what we will use for such a development. Then we provide a brief historical account of phenomenologists who have contributed to the phenomenological movement that started at the beginning of the 20th century. We will focus on critical phenomenology as an approach and methodology rather than on its different research methods and will draw especially on what Hannah Arendt and Dorothy E Smith may contribute to metho¬dological considerations. Such an approach seems to have a renaissance today. Qualitative research methods, especially as they have developed historically within the social sciences, are often understood to be interpretative and post-phenomenological. The qualitative research methods that are explicitly called ‘phenomenological’ today resemble unstructured depth interviews, ethnography, participant observations, ethnomethodological and post-structural discourse analyses etc which are discussed more thoroughly in othercontributions to this project. Therefore the article moves from a phenomenological framework via methodological reflections to a couple of textually based examples, one from the humanities and the other from the social sciences.
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- Çağatay, Selin, 1983, et al.
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Conferencing in times of climate crisis and Covid-19: feminist and queer reflections on the digital shift in academic work
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In: Globalizations. - 1474-7731.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article employs a holistic understanding of environmental, social, and economic sustainability to explore the interaction between neoliberalism, climate crisis, digitalization, and academic work with a focus on its everyday aspects. Drawing our experience of organizing an online conference during the Covid-19 pandemic and our dialogue with conference participants, we first problematize the presumed disembodiment of digital exchange and suggest a nuanced understanding of physicality’s role in knowledge production. We then explore the impact of the changing times and spaces of academic work on bodies and minds and the boundaries between private and public realms. Finally, we challenge the notion of digital solutionism by highlighting the implications of inhabiting digital platforms as spaces for knowledge production. While there is no simple solution to the problems around the digital shift in academic work and conferencing, we argue, downsizing can be a counteraction to platform capitalism in times of the climate crisis.
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- Liinason, Mia, 1973, et al.
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PhDs, Women's/Gender Studies and Interdisciplinarity
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In: NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. - 0803-8740. ; 14:2, s. 115-130
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article is concerned with Women's Studies as interdisciplinary. It begins with the various ways in which interdisciplinarity has been understood and then accounts for some of the barriers to interdisciplinary cooperation between the humanities and social sciences as we have identified them in an EU-funded project on interdisciplinarity (www.hull.ac.uk/researchintegration). Against the background of existing external and internal barriers to interdisciplinarity in general it is our intention in this article to open up a research political discussion in the Nordic context around the meaning or meanings of the budding (inter)disciplinary PhD training in gender studies.
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- Arik, H., et al.
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Unsettling the political: conceptualizing the political in feminist and LGBTI plus activism across Russia, the Scandinavian countries, and Turkey
- 2023
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In: International Feminist Journal of Politics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1461-6742 .- 1468-4470. ; 25:4
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article aims to expand the ongoing theoretical debate on the broadened and context-specific notion of politics by offering an empirically nuanced conceptualization of the political based on the study of feminist and lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex (LGBTI+) activism in Russia, Turkey, and the Scandinavian countries. We use a multi-scalar transnational approach to foreground connectivities across regions to challenge nation-bound and state-centric perspectives on politics and reveal the various formulations beyond the formal/informal divide. Case studies from feminist and LGBTI+ activists and minority organizations demonstrate context-specific ways of inhabiting or distancing from politics. Drawing on interdisciplinary feminist scholarship and a Gramscian approach to civil society, we challenge the narrow articulation of politics either as antagonism or contestation. In doing so, we highlight the political expressions that do not neatly fit into the expected forms of politics, yet are motivated by a commitment to shaping new ways of living together.
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- Liinason, Mia, 1973, et al.
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Challenging constructions of nationhood and nostalgia: exploring the role of gender, race and age in struggles for women's rights in Scandinavia
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In: Women's History Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0961-2025 .- 1747-583X. ; 27:5, s. 729-753
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Drawing on a multi-sited ethnographic approach, this article aims to study interactions between women’s organizations, state agendas and national histories in the contemporary struggle for women’s rights in Scandinavia. Upon examining a diverse range of material (debates, survey responses, fieldnotes and interview data), it is revealed how the largest women’s organizations appeal to dominant discourses of Scandinavia as a homogeneous region and Scandinavian women as a uniform collectivity. It is shown how divisions between groups of women are shaped along categories of national belonging, race and age, and it is argued that a conceptualization of women as a uniform group offers a too simplistic frame for an understanding of these dynamics. By contrast, it is suggested that the contestations evoked by nostalgic articulations of homogeneity, and uniformity can be rich sources for social analysis, as attention to such tensions can help us to visualize the existence of multiple historical pasts and presents.
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