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- Wrangel, Claes, 1980
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Hope in a time of catastrophe? Resilience and the future in bare life
- 2014
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In: Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2169-3293 .- 2169-3307. ; 2:3
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The framework of resilience has been claimed to strip bodies of both hope and the promise of the future, reducing life to mere biology, concerned only with its survivability. This article interrogates such claims by critical theory, analysing the definitions of life and time embedded in them. Reading the figure of human nature as it appears in US President Obama's call for a common humanity – united by hope in a world of insurmountable insecurity – this article asks what promises structure liberal subjectivity when security and universalism are seemingly abandoned. Through the lens of Agambian biopolitics, I argue that resilient life is produced not in opposition to hope, but as its embodiment, turning indefinite insecurity into a continuous experience of hope, and hence into a structure of promise. As such, I submit that the hopeful life today has become the barest of all, engendered by the production of a paradoxical temporal indistinction between an open future and the inevitability of catastrophe.
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- Wrangel, Claes, 1980-
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Recognising hope : US global development discourse and the promise of despair
- 2017
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In: Environment & Planning. D, Society and Space. - : SAGE Publications. - 0263-7758 .- 1472-3433. ; 35:5, s. 875-892
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Practices of global development have been critiqued for reproducing a notion of the suffering poor as bare life; passive, despairing and devoid of both hope and potentiality. In contrast, this article treats the experience of hope not as external to the governance of underdeveloped life but as a biopolitical technology central to its formation. Reading US President Obama’s call to recognise underdeveloped life as inherently hopeful and potential, this article analyses the biopolitics of development at the moment when the separation between lives on the basis of its capacity for hope is explicitly banished. Emerging from this reading is a troubling paradox, one in which hope and despair enter a zone of indistinction. Encouraged to embody this indistinction, it is argued, is a bare and hopeful form of neoliberal life, a potential yet not sovereign being. Hopeful, but without the capacity to conceive of or to act towards a different future.
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Gender regimes, citizen participation and rural restructuring
- 2008
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Editorial collection (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- This book aims to unravel how rural gender regimes are constituted, enforced, made sense of and resisted, and ho struggles of resistance lead to empowerment and change in various countries in the four corners of Europe as well s Australia and India. The book focuses on the intricate relationship between laws and institutions and everyday life. It analyzes on the one hand how laws and institutions are constituted and on the other hand how gender regimes are built at the local rural level, sometimes in compliance with these frames and sometimes contesting them, The articles, in diverse ways, give voice both to women’s struggles for recognition and men’s voices in gendered rural societies. Through applying the concept of the welfare state and gender regimes within rural research, this book contributes to the further development of a comparative theoretical framework for rural gender studies. The importance of integrating rural gender studies into both the mainstreams of rural and feminist research has been emphasized in previous research, as has that of developing comparative analytical frameworks. The conceptual framework adopted in this volume wets out to meet this challenge by approaching rural gender relations and the meeting point of two core research areas: gender regimes and rural transformative processes. Research into gender regimes offers a promising analytical framework for comparing gender relations in diverse rural settings. At the same time, by addressing rural concerns deriving from the specificity of rural transition processes and gender regimes, the approach also contributes to an elucidation of the complexity of citizenship.
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- Kalat, Anne-Sofie
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Vad gör elitens söner i skolan?
- 2007
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Könsdifferentieringen av utbildningsresultat i grundskola och gymnasieskola har i Sverige liksom internationellt rönt stor uppmärksamhet. Främst har diskussionen kommit att handla om huruvida dagens pojkar möter svårigheter med att förena maskulina praktiker och engagerat skolarbete. Att betygsglappet nu är ungefär lika stort mellan pojkar och flickor oavsett socialklass har väckt frågan om huruvida alla pojkar ställs inför dilemmat att välja mellan skolframgång eller status bland jämnåriga. I bjärt konstrast till samtida genusforskning har detta även öppnat för en ensartad syn på maskulinitet i de utvecklingsarbeten som initierats. Behovet att utöka den inhemska empiriska basen har därmed varit betydelsefullt, inte minst eftersom forskningen i liten grad analyserat hur maskuliniteter konstrueras bland elever från samhällets övre skikt. Syftet med denna text är att problematisera den antagna konflikten mellan den ”riktige killen” och den ”goda eleven” genom att vända blicken mot elitens söner.Det empiriska materialet i detta paper bygger på deltagande observation och intervjuer av unga män och kvinnor i en naturvetenskaplig gymnasieklass, vilka läser första året i en skola med betydande status. Analysen tar utgångspunkt kritisk forskning om män och maskuliniteter. Genom vilka praktiker och diskurser konstrueras dominans, utanförskap och maskulinitetsideal bland elitens söner i skolvardagen? Att ha kul tillsammans under lektionstid, t ex genom att utmana klassrummets ordningsnormer, tycks vara en viktig byggsten i killarnas sociala hierarki och gemenskap. Samtidigt sammanfaller även iscensättande av den ”gode eleven” i hög grad med maskulina praktiker och genererar status i den manliga hierarkin. Här utgör tidigare förvärvat skolkapital emellertid en viktig bricka för att kunna använda sig av skolans ”spelplan”. Således både bekräftas och ifrågasätts antagandet om den negativa relationen mellan maskulinitet/er och skola av empirin. I studien undersöks relationen mellan normer för maskuliniteter och elevskap med en öppenhet för dessa inte bara kan variera mellan elever med olika social bakgrund eller mellan skolor, utan även mellan de olika pedagogiska sammanhang som elever i en och samma skolklass agerar inom. Har exempelvis skolämnenas könskodning betydelse elevernas könsrelationer, och när accentueras respektive utmanas skillnadsskapanden mellan könen?Materialet utgör en av två delar i en pågående sociologisk studie lokaliserad till en mellanstor universitetsstad. I den andra delen studeras en klass som läser fordonsprogrammet i samma kommun.
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- Backlander, Gisela, et al.
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Development and Validation of a Multi-Dimensional Measure of Activity-Based Working Behaviors
- 2021
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In: Frontiers in Psychology. - : Frontiers Media SA. - 1664-1078. ; 12
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Most work on activity-based working centers on the physical environment and digital technologies enabling flexible working. While important, we believe the key components for implementing activity-based working are employee and manager behaviors. To measure the degree of enactment of activity-based work, based on workshops with experienced practitioners as well as previous literature, we have developed and validated a behavior-focused measure of activity-based working behaviors. In our initial sample (Sample 1, N = 234), three subscales were identified: task - environment crafting, workday planning, and social needs prioritization. In the replication sample (Sample 2, N = 434), this model also showed adequate fit. Moreover, task - environment crafting was related to general health and lower stress in sample 1 (multi-organization sample), but not in the single-organization sample (sample 2). Workday planning was associated with higher concentration in both samples and in the second sample with general health and work engagement; the latter was also related to social needs prioritization.
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- Bahner, Julia, et al.
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Who Counts as a Sexual Subject? The Impact of Ableist Rhetoric for People with Intellectual Disability in Sweden
- 2024
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In: Sexuality Research and Social Policy. - 1868-9884 .- 1553-6610. ; 21:1, s. 161-176
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Introduction: The ableist rhetoric around sexuality in disability services and beyond can hinder subjective sexual expression and have a powerful impact on health, self-esteem, and everyday life through internalized ableism, structural marginalization, and interpersonal discrimination. The aim of this study was to explore the ableist rhetoric of sexuality and its impact on sexual scripting for people with intellectual disability. Methods: A thematic analysis was carried out on data generated through ethnographic fieldwork at five sheltered accommodations and semi-structured interviews with ten individuals with intellectual disability. Results: The results show that people in Sweden with intellectual disability are desexualized within a moral order that is maintained in post-institutional social care. Through this moral order, which is deeply embedded in an ableist rhetoric about sexual relationships, sexual scripting for disabled people is constrained both inside post-institutional social care initiatives, and in the broader community of “ableist environments.” In response, disabled people employ various strategies of resistance. Conclusions: A rhetoric of positive sexuality should be a guiding principle for successfully supporting the development of sexual agency on each individual’s own term. Policy Implications: We conclude by encouraging the development of initiatives that will empower and support people with intellectual disability to learn about their sexual rights and to find solutions that allow for development of sexual agency and subjectivity.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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A Reconsideration of Two "Welfare Paradises" : Research and Policy Responses to Men's Violence in Denmark and Sweden
- 2009
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In: Men and Masculinities. - : Sage Publications. - 1097-184X .- 1552-6828. ; 12:2, s. 155-174
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article compares the situation in Denmark and Sweden regarding research and policy making around the issue of men-s violence to women and children. It does so by drawing on two comprehensive reviews of academic and policy data in those countries that were part of a broader European Union-funded project. Although the picture emerging from this comparison is complex, the overall conclusion is that in Sweden over recent years many more examples can be found of a critical, power-oriented approach than is the case in Denmark.
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- Callegari, Julia, 1988-, et al.
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Kompetent aktör eller psykiskt skör? : Barn- och flickdiskurser i konstruktionen av ungas psykiska ohälsa
- 2019
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In: Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap. - 1654-5443 .- 2001-1377. ; 40:1, s. 73-95
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Mental health problems among children and youth is positioned as one of the most urgent public health issues in Sweden today. Both research and official reports assert that mental health issues have increased among adolescents, especially girls, during the last decades. The aim of this study is to investigate how changes in childhood and gender discourses has implicated the construction of young people’s mental health as a public problem since the early 1990s up until today. The empirical material consists of documents published by state authorities between 1990 and 1998, and between 2006 and 2017. The results show that the construction of mental health issues among children and youth is characterized by an ideological and gendered shift, promoting different ideals of childhood. In early 1990s, young people’s poor mental health was understood as a result of social inequality, most common among working-class boys with behavioral problems. Today, it is framed as an introvert phenomenon most common among girls, who are depicted as having trouble handling stress and performance-related pressure. In this shift, the child (read boy) is initially framed as a “child of society” in need of support, to later on being defined as a “competent child” (read girl) who has the responsibility to create a good life for herself. In this way, the construction of mental health among children and youths reflects how gender orders are reformulated in the individualized era, where young girls who do not embody neoliberal ideals of independency, flexibility, and female empowerment are framed as mentally fragile and in crisis. Furthermore, the construction shows how current ideas about the child as a competent actor has central implications for today’s understanding of young people’s mental health.
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