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- Savran, Arin, 1987
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Book Review - The Kurds of Northern Syria: Governance, Diversity and Conflicts
- 2020
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Ingår i: Global Policy. - 1758-5880 .- 1758-5899.
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The Kurds of Northern Syria is one of the latest additions to the fast-growing literature on the Kurds, and in particular on the Kurds in Syria. The purpose of the book is to describe the evolution of Kurdish politics in Northern Syria, the various political parties and blocs fighting for power and legitimacy, and the changes in identity and political representation as experienced or perceived by Kurds living in a state of uncertainty amidst war and contested autonomy. The authors have produced a well-written, structured and meticulous book that refreshingly helps to fill the knowledge gap on the Syrian Kurds since the 2011 Syrian upheaval.
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- Sörum, Niklas, 1977
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Handelsstad i förvandling (recension)
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Ingår i: RIG: Kulturhistorisk tidskrift. - 0035-5267. ; 1, s. 37-44
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- Rönnbäck, Julia
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Effective cure against ignorance : [Bokrecension] Pat Griffin Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport, Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1998, ISBN 978-0-88011-729-6
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Ingår i: Idrottsforum.org/Nordic sport science forum. - : Malmö University. - 1652-7224.
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Women and sports is a recurrent topic in the sport studies literature, and consequently in this journal’s review columns. Usually it’s about the classic women’s question, that is, the all too common discrimination against women in sport that has many facets, and most of them displaying the ugly mug of the patriarchy. But there are other problems, which are treated less often, and one is about female homosexuality in sport, heterosexism and homophobia. Nowadays this discussion comes up more often, also outside the gay sports community, but the issue remains extremely sensitive and for some of the sport’s stakeholders downright troublesome. There is a limited body of literature on this subject matter, which is why this editor secured a review copy of a 13 year old book from Human Kinetics, Strong Women, Deep Closet: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport by the American educator and currently Professor Emerita Pat Griffin, School of Education, University of Massachusetts @ Amherst. Griffin’s own sporting career includes several years as an active college athlete in basketball and field hockey, and then as a coach in these sports as well as in swimming. She won a bronze medal in the triathlon at Gay Games IV and a gold medal in the hammer throw at Gay Games V in 1998, the year her book was published. Julia Rönnbäck has read Griffin’s book, and appreciates the personal tone and the rich empirical data, which more than compensates for the lack of theoretical depth.
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- Zuiderent-Jerak, Teun
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Situated Intervention: Response to Comments
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Ingår i: Science & Technology Studies. - 2243-4690. ; 2:1, s. 70-73
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In STS and Researcher Intervention Strategies, Brian Martin expresses his concern about the lack of strategic guidance STS offers for intervening in controversies in which actors are being marginalized. This is an interesting contrast with some classic critiques of Actor-Network Theory. Leigh Star famously argued that the over-emphasis of ANT on strategic action made it particularly poorly equipped to study heterogeneity––an analytical and political problem at once. I argue that guidance on intervention as research method should actively resist the urge to make intervention “strategic.” Considering intervention as a scholarly method for producing novel insights about our topics is diametrically opposed to considering intervention strategically, that is, as means to achieving predefined scholarly or normative goals. Drawing on previous, recent, and ongoing work on intervention as an equally non-strategic and nondetached method for developing new knowledge and new normativities, I explore how such work would speak to Martin’s challenge of intervening in controversies and what could be some interesting lessons such an experiment might spark. A strategic take on intervention is important for Martin because it challenges a linear model of STS knowledge production: scholars prioritizing the development of greater understanding of phenomena, hoping that such knowledge can then be beneficial for society later on. Approaching intervention as method, however, challenges problematic linear models of STS knowledge, not by inverting the linearity (from areas of social importance to knowledge production), but by extending non-linear scholarship to our own and others’ normativities. This allows STS scholars to take their concerns about the practices they are involved in seriously without violating their equal attachment to reflexivity, unpredictability, and situatedness. Such a prospect may help STS scholars to explore what it means to live the multiple membership of societally and academically concerned communities, which is what considering intervention strategically would make us lose.
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