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40 år av genusforskning! : Festskrift till Centrum för genusvetenskap
- 2023
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Med denna Festskrift firar vi att Centrum för genusvetenskap i över fyrtio år har fungerat som en viktig mötesplats för kunskap och vetenskapande – en sådan plats som många uppfattar som absolut nödvändig för sin överlevnad i akademin. Genom att sätta genus i centrum på Centrum skapar vi kunskap över gränser mellan vetenskapsområden, fakulteter och forskningsfält.Centrum består i grund och botten av de människor som verkar där. Den här Festskriften är också en hyllning till alla dessa människor – deras arbete, engagemang, intelligens, uthållighet och inspirationsförmåga. Centrum existerar också tack vare de viktiga nationella och internationella nätverk inom forskning och utbildning som Centrum är del av. Med denna bok skickar vi alltså en hälsning och ett tack till alla våra kollegor inom fältet. Kapitlen i denna volym är en blandning som sträcker sig från essäer och personliga historieskrivningar om Centrum, till reflektioner om arbetslivet vid Centrum eller som genusforskare överlag, till forskningsartiklar om en rad mycket olika områden, vilka i sig också vittnar om den livliga och variationsrika forskningsmiljö som vi fortsätter att bygga tillsammans.
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- Ahlstedt, Sara, 1977-
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The Feeling of Migration : Narratives of Queer Intimacies and Partner Migration
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation analyzes narratives of queer partner migration, that is, a family-tie migration in which one of the partners of a relationship has migrated in order for the partners to be together, and where the partners queer the migration in the sense that they have a non-normative sexuality and/or gender identity. The purpose of the study is to examine how queer partner migrants and their Swedish partners experience the migration process – which continues also once the administrative process has been completed – by analyzing the emotions and feelings that emerge in the process. The study is a contribution to research on privileged migration as well as intimate migration.The focus is the queer partner migration relationship, and what emotions and feelings ‘do’ to this relationship, but also how emotions and feelings structure the migration process. The study analyzes the work three different emotions – love, loss, and belonging – do in these migration processes, and how this work is described in the participant narratives. Migrant participants have migrated from different parts of the world (Africa, Europe, Latin America, and North America), making it possible to analyze what emotions and feelings do in this particular migration process from the point of view of nationality and, in particular, proximity to ‘Western-ness,’ race, and language as well as how privileges connected to these positions come to matter in the process.The dissertation is an ethnographic interview study in which both migrants and Swedish partners have been interviewed. The interview material consists of a combination of couple interviews and individual interviews.By using affect theories and the concept of queer phenomenology, the dissertation shows how the work that emotions and feelings do in migration processes is connected to gender identity, sexual identity, race and whiteness, nationality, perceived proximity to Western-ness, class, language, and the migration narrative the migrating partner is (or is not) written into by way of the country they have migrated from. This is analyzed in relation to the theoretical frameworks of entanglement, homonationalism, and intimate citizenship.The analysis shows that emotions and feelings structure the migration process for both more privileged and less privileged migrants, but in different ways. The understanding of who ‘is’ a migrant, and the preparedness for the feelings that arise in a migration process, are tied to the positions mentioned above and the privileges these positions give, or do not give, the migrant access to. By focusing on emotions and feelings and what these do, the study also illustrates how the migration process affects the non-migrating partner as this partner engages in emotional labour to ‘make’ the migrating partner ‘Swedish.’ Through their the migrating partner, the non-migrating partner is also aligned in a way that makes them a little bit less ‘Swedish,’ contributing to the non-migrating partner being ‘stopped’ in ways they have usually not experienced before. The study further shows how migration processes produces inequality, and the difficulties that arise when the couples try to live up to the Swedish ideal of the equal relationship.The interviews are analyzed as narratives, and both narratives and storytelling are important throughout the dissertation, not only as the method used in the analysis but as the form of the dissertation, making it a kind of super structure organizing the writing. Writing (how to write accessibly and interesting) and reading (how to write in order to invite an open and active reading) are important aspects of the dissertation.
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- Bengtsson, Elin, 1987-
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Perversa tidsligheter : Ageplay och litenhet ur ett queertemporalt perspektiv
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This doctoral thesis investigates how temporality is constructed and negotiated in ageplay, a term for practices based on performative, non-chronological age and age differences. The empirical material consists of interviews with adults identifying with littleness. The experience of littleness emanates from assuming the position of a child or adolescent, or from a more abstract feeling of being little and in need of guidance. It is often acted out in a dynamic with someone assuming the position of a caregiving and/or authoritative adult. The thesis explores how ageplay opens up for understandings of time beyond the linear model that dominates Western discourse of temporality, and investigates how ageplay and littleness can add important perspectives to the theoretical field of queer temporality studies. The first chapter situates the thesis within the field of queer temporality studies, as well as within a broader field of critical research on age. It relates the thesis to earlier work on ageplay as connected to BDSM and queer sexual cultures, but also broadens this definition by treating ageplay as a complex cultural phenomenon that actualizes non-normative relations to temporality and age.The second chapter concentrates on how littleness can challenge (hetero)normative life lines. It investigates three different aspects of littleness which appear as “failed” in relation to normative ideals of individual development, and explores how these “failures” give the interviewees access to new, creative ways of being in the world. Queer temporality is often linked to the abandoning of a normative life line and its markers of success, which are closely connected to reproduction and social respectability. Thus, queer temporality is often equated with queer nightlife and public sex cultures. The interviewees’ experiences of being out of time are contrariwise anchored in domesticity and centered around everyday routines. The third chapter explores this friction, discussing how the concepts of home, family and everyday life are given meaning in ageplay, and how a focus on domesticity can contribute to the field of queer temporality studies.The fourth chapter discusses how the interviewees negotiate ideas of littleness as a progressive or “backward” position. It explores how littleness can be theorized beyond linear temporal concepts, such as nostalgia, which is commonly used about adults engaging in “childish” phenomena. The chapter stresses how this discourse creates a misleading image, since the interviewees are not seeking to return to their childhoods in the past, but to construct new possible worlds and intimate bonds in the realm of the here and now. The fifth chapter concentrates on how ageplay is associated with pedophilia. It critically investigates this linkage by exploring how the relation between fantasy and reality is negotiated in the interviews, and demonstrates how the interviewees challenge ideas of ageplay as a cover for underlying, more sinister desires. Working with the theoretical concept of the monstrous, the chapter stresses how ageplay poses a threat to the social order by melting together elements perceived as each other’s opposites, such as childish innocence and perverse sexuality.The final chapter ties together the thesis’ main arguments and reflects further upon the perverse temporalities of ageplay, and upon how experiences of littleness can contribute to the growing field of queer temporality studies.
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- Billing, Matilda, et al.
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Signaling via Smad2 and Smad3 is dispensable for adult murine hematopoietic stem cell function in vivo
- 2017
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Ingår i: Experimental Hematology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0301-472X.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Transforming growth factor-β (TGFβ) is a member of a large family of polypeptide growth factors. TGFβ signals mainly through the intracellular proteins Smad2 and Smad3, which are highly similar in amino acid sequence identity. A number of studies have shown that these proteins, dependent on context, have distinct roles in the TGFβ signaling pathway. TGFβ is one of the most potent inhibitors of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell proliferation in vitro, but its role in hematopoiesis in vivo is still being determined. To circumvent possible redundancies at the receptor level and to address specifically the role of the Smad circuitry downstream of TGFβ and activin in hematopoiesis, we studied the effect of genetically deleting both Smad2 and Smad3 in adult murine hematopoietic cells. Indeed, TGFβ signaling is impaired in vitro in primitive bone marrow (BM) cells of Smad2 and Smad3 single knockout models. However, blood parameters appear normal under steady state and in the transplantation setting. Interestingly, upon deletion of both Smad2 and Smad3 in vivo, mice quickly develop a lethal inflammatory disease, suggesting that activin/TGFβ signaling is crucial for immune cell homeostasis in the adult context. Furthermore, concurrent deletion of Smad2 and Smad3 in BM cells in immune-deficient nude mice did not result in any significant alterations of the hematopoietic system. Our findings suggest that Smad2 and Smad3 function to mediate crucial aspects of the immunoregulatory properties of TGFβ, but are dispensable for any effect that TGFβ has on primitive hematopoietic cells in vivo.
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- Björklund, Jenny, et al.
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Gender Trouble in lambda nordica
- 2015
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Ingår i: Lambda Nordica. - 1100-2573 .- 2001-7286. ; :2-3, s. 7-19
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Björklund, Jenny, et al.
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Redaktionens förord: aktivism
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Ingår i: Lambda Nordica. - 1100-2573 .- 2001-7286. ; :1, s. 7-10
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Björklund, Jenny, et al.
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Redaktionens förord: Representationer
- 2013
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Ingår i: Lambda Nordica. - 1100-2573 .- 2001-7286. ; :2, s. 7-10
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Björklund, Jenny, et al.
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Redaktionens förord: trans health (care)
- 2013
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Ingår i: Lambda Nordica. - 1100-2573 .- 2001-7286. ; :3-4, s. 7-9
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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