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- Andersson, Renée, 1979-
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Gender mainstreaming as feminist politics : A critical analysis of the pursuit of gender equality in Swedish local government
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Gender mainstreaming is often described as a strategy to increase gender equality in states and other institutions and/or to make them more gender aware. It should however be considered a contested concept, and the aim of this thesis is to produce a critical perspective and empirical knowledge about whether, and if so how, gender mainstreaming contributes to a more (gender) equal society. The production of gender mainstreaming as gender equality policy is investigated, using both feminist new institutionalism and discourse theory.The study investigates whether, and if so how, gender mainstreaming is facilitating new public management by transforming the ambitions of feminist politics into a neoliberal strategy adapted for public administration.The case examined in this study is a local government gender mainstreaming project conducted in a municipality in Sweden. The case also includes vertical and horizontal outlooks and is categorized as a critical case. To study "what is not there" in the empirical material, the concepts of silences and silencing are used as both theoretical and methodological tools.The thesis shows that gender mainstreaming produces a gender equality policy that is disconnected from political parties, and that gender mainstreaming becomes a common good. This, I argue, produces a non-political politics, which includes a governing technique that privileges political consensus, articulated in terms of non-conflict and win-win.The thesis identifies a conflation between gender mainstreaming, as a strategy, with the policy objective of gender equality. Gender mainstreaming did not create space for addressing gender-based violence, or include the voice of the women’s movement, from which it can be concluded that gender mainstreaming does not contribute to feminist politics. This could have societal consequences and can influence, or even hinder, actual political change.
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- Carbin, Maria, 1972-, et al.
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Vad är ett rent sexobjekt?
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Ingår i: Aftonbladet. - : Schibsted Forlag. - 1103-9000. ; :13 Aug, s. 5-
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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Discourse and ideology: story-telling, images, and the space of conflicts
- 2011
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This section invites papers from the poststructuralist and anti/post-foundationalist approach topolitics. Submissions may include case studies or theoretical work, or a combination of both. Weparticularly invite papers dealing with contingency and conflict, and meaning-making as a form ofpolitics. The papers may wish to focus on concepts, discourse, logics, narratives, rhetoric or specifictropes, and may draw from a range of theoretical perspectives associated with the linguistic turnand poststructuralism (Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, Laclau, Mouffe, Rancière, Skinner, etc.).The section hopes to focus on the political, and would like to devote some time in making clearthe contributions of this kind of approaches to the study of politics - rather than cultural studies, linguistics or sociology, just to name a few neighbouring fields where the focus may differ.The empirical case studies may range from an area specific focus (e.g. Latin America, Europeanpolitics), to theoretico-empirical topics such as feminism, ethnicity or populism, or urban politics,politics of the past, and politics and art. Politics under investigation may take place on the global, national, transnational, regional or local level. The study of language, metaphors and visual imagesor sounds – or indeed the classics, time and space – is encouraged but not expected. Dealing with poststructuralist and anti/post-foundationalist approach to politics, this sectionproposes to interrogate those precise moments and ideas of ground and grounding, rupture andcontingency – besides discussing the issues presented in the panels. How and what to study, whenstudying the political or politics in its various dimensions? A large part of the section will be held only in English to meet the demand for such panels byinternational researchers working in the Nordic countries, who are expected to join Nordic colleagues at the NOPSA Conference 2011.
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- Elander, Ingemar, 1942-, et al.
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Faith-based engagement and place : Searching for a Swedish muslim identity
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In a recently published study of the political psychology of globalisation and Muslims in the West, the authors identify three ideal type strategies of identity formation among Muslim immigrants: retreatism, essentialism, and engagement. The authors themselves normatively argue in favour of the latter, suggesting that both majority and minority communities in society should strive to become “postnationalist, self-dialogical, and engaged in dialogue with a range of others. Activist, assertive, and agonistic rather than antagonistic”. They conclude that “Muslims are positioned to contribute toward new cosmopolitical potentialities for a renewed pluralistic global order” (Kinnvall and Nesbitt-Larking 2010). Starting with the notion that emotional geography “commonly concerns itself with the emotions that people feel for one another and, more extensively for places, for landscapes, for objects in landscapes and in specific situations” (Pile 2010: 15), we want to explore how Muslim immigrants arriving in Sweden emotionally and in action identify with and take part in social life at their place of arrival, i.e. their housing estate, their town/city and in their new country more generally. Focus will be on a few selected people, and a civic association, who openly refer to their Muslim identities as a faith-based driver in order to help their fellow immigrants to adapt to and identify themselves as members of their new habitat. Methodologically we will draw upon narratives told by Muslim immigrants, a recently established association of Muslim adult education, media articles, and observations done by ourselves. We will also, briefly, draw the attention to the “counter-emotional” islamophobian stance against Muslim immigrants in general as displayed in Swedish society. In conclusion we will reflect upon and critically discuss the challenges and potentialities of an emotionally engaged Muslim standpoint in front of a rather ignorant, partly even negative domestic population.
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- Elander, Ingemar, 1942-, et al.
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Swedish muslims and secular society : faith-based engagement and place
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Ingår i: Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0959-6410 .- 1469-9311. ; 26:2, s. 145-163
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article sets out to explore how Muslims in Sweden identify with and create social life in the place where they live, that is, in their neighbourhood, in their town/city and in Swedish society at large. In a paradoxical religious landscape that includes a strong Lutheran state church heritage and a Christian free-church tradition, in what is, nevertheless, a very secular society, Muslims may choose different strategies to express their faith, here roughly described as “retreatist,” “engaged” or “essentialist/antagonistic.” Focusing on a non-antagonistic, engaged stance, and drawing upon a combination of authors' interviews, and materials published in newspapers and on the Internet, we first bring to the fore arguments by Muslim leaders in favour of creating a Muslim identity with a Swedish brand, and second give some examples of local Muslim individuals, acting as everyday makers in their neighbourhood, town or city. Third, we also give attention to an aggressively negative Islamophobic stance expressed both in words and in physical violence in parts of Swedish society. In conclusion, we reflect upon the challenges and potentialities of an emotionally engaged, dialogue-orientated Muslim position facing antagonistic interpretations of Islam, and an ignorant, sometimes Islamophobic, environment.
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