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- Höjdestrand, Tova
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Black Russian : Moralkonservativa mardrömmar om totalitär neoliberalism
- 2018
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Ingår i: Tidsskriftet Antropologi. - 0906-3021. ; :78, s. 33-55
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sexual perversion, broken families, and a totalitarian state safeguarding “children’s rights” by a ruthless persecution of parents – these are central tropes in an increasingly conspicuous neoconservative nationalist discourse in Russia. An obscure global elite is assumed to have realized this nightmare in the West already, and is now plotting to usurp Russia into the One World Government of the New World Order. The narrative was at first articulated by a small clique of Russian Orthodox ultranationalists in the 1990s, but has since then been elaborated further by the “Parents’ Movement”, a conservative mobilization that appeared in the mid-2000s against a comprehensive social policy reform. The movement is supported by a number of influential conservative politicians but its frivolous attitude to facts prevents it from becoming a substantial political force. Nonetheless, the dystopia as such expresses a justifiable critique against neoliberal governmentality, and its mobilizing capacity contributes to the shaping of a libertarian, egalitarian and autonomous political subjectivity.
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- Höjdestrand, Tova
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Bokomtale av "Reforming Child Welfare in the Post-Soviet Space: Institutional Change in Russia"
- 2022
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Ingår i: Nordisk Østforum. - : Cappelen Damm AS - Cappelen Damm Akademisk. - 1891-1773. ; :36, s. 184-186
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Recension (refereegranskat)abstract
- Antologin Reforming Child Welfare in the Post-Soviet Space: Institutional Change in Russia behandlar Rysslands satsning under senare år på att etablera ett fosterhemssystem i stället för de ökända institutionerna för omhändertagna barn. Den praktiska implementeringen redogörs för från olika aktörers perspektiv, myndighets- och NGO-personal såväl som fosterföräldrar och barn, med fokus både på institutionella bromsklossar och reformens mer välfungerande aspekter.
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- Höjdestrand, Tova
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Corona : Anthropology About a Pandemic
- 2020
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Ingår i: kritisk etnografi. - Stockholm : Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi. - 2003-1173. ; 3:1, s. 83-86
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Höjdestrand, Tova
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Fatherland, Faith and Family Policy: Parental Mobilization against Children’s Rights in Contemporary Russia
- 2015
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Policies related to family, children, and birthrates have since the mid-2000s become increasingly central to the general ideological shift toward nationalism and conservative values in Russia. A symptom of, and a response to, this development is the so-called Parents’ Movement; a rapidly proliferating grassroots mobilization in the defense of presumably traditional Russian family values against allegedly Western forms of moral degeneration. The catalyst and main target of the Movement is a current reform of the state structures of child protection in line with the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child. The parental opponents claim the reforms to be a conspiratorial Western attack against Russian “tradition” and its presumed core, the family. Nonetheless the popular appeal of the Parent’s Movement also stems from a proliferated distrust in the Russian state administration, which is expected to intentionally exploit the CRC to increase corruption and authority abuse. The recent success of the Parents' Movement, this paper argues, resides in a simultaneous distrust in “Western” models of governance as well as in the Russian state bureaucracy. (Mis)representations of Western systems of child protection are used to draw up apocalyptic scenarios of a domestic future, and as the critique against Russian authorities are expressed in anti-Western terms an explicit challenge of an increasingly repressive regime is avoided.
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- Höjdestrand, Tova
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Fatherland, Faith, and Family Values : Anti-liberalism and the desire for difference among Russian grassroots conservatives
- 2020
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Ingår i: Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1468-0467 .- 0435-3684. ; 102:3, s. 273-288
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This is a revised and extended version of my contribution to the Vega Symposium on Resurgent Nationalisms and Populist Politics in the Neoliberal Age, held at the Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, in April 2018. It is part of a Special Issue of Geografiska Annaler, Series B which also includes articles by Gillian Hart, Kanishka Goonewardena, and Manu Goswami. The article investigates how understandings of the concept ‘liberalism’ have shifted among ultranationalist Russian grassroots as the ‘roll-back’ neoliberalism (in Peck and Tickell’s terms) of the turbulent 1990s has developed into ‘roll-out’ governance during Putin’s presidency. A moral conservative Russian grassroots mobilization is traced from its origins as a crusade against sexual education in the late 1990s, to a campaign against reforms of the state child protection system initiated in the mid-2000s. In this time span, understandings of ‘liberalism’ as chaos and elimination of boundaries have been superseded by an image of liberalism as totalitarianism, a conception resembling academic criticism of neoliberal governmentality despite the movement’s rejection of the purportedly ‘liberal’ Academy. The principal rejection of ‘liberalism’ is in practice mitigated also by ideals of communitarianism and civic engagement bearing many similarities to Western notions of ‘civic liberalism’.
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- Höjdestrand, Tova
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Fosterland, familj och föräldraföreningar: moralisk mobilisering och myndighetsmisstro i dagens Ryssland
- 2014
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Ingår i: Nordisk Østforum. - 0801-7220. ; 28:4, s. 254-329
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Abstract in UndeterminedI Ryssland har familj och familjevärderingar sedan mitten på 2000-talet kommit att bli centrala för en allmän ideologisk svängning mot konservativa värderingar och patriotism. Symptomatisk för denna tendens är den så kallade Föräldrarörelsen, en växande och starkt nationalistisk gräsrotsmobilisering med syfte att försvara föregivet traditionella ryska familjevärderingar mot förmodat destruktiv västerländskt moraliskt inflytande. Föräldrarörelsen primära fokus är en pågående anpassning av rysk lagstiftning till FN:s konvention om barnets rättigheter, vilket av ortodoxa ultranationalister ses som en konspiratorisk västerländsk strategi med syftet att eliminera familjen som institution och, därmed, även rysk kultur och tradition som helhet. Men kampanjens popularitet bottnar även i den generella ryska misstron mot den egna statsadministrationen, som antas missbruka Barnkonventionen för att förvärra korruption och maktmissbruk. Dessa skilda lokaliseringar av ansvar – ”våra” byråkrater versus ”deras” fientliga imperialism – förenas i svartmålningar av västerländska (i synnerhet skandinaviska) system för barnskydd som får representera en dystopisk rysk framtid. Artikeln diskuterar implikationerna av denna sammanblandning för Familjerörelsens förmåga att locka anhängare och få sin röst hörd offentligt.
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- Höjdestrand, Tova
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Good Relations, Micro-Entrepreneurship, And Permissive Spaces: “Transitional” Homelessness In St. Petersburg
- 2011
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Ingår i: Urban Geography. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0272-3638 .- 1938-2847. ; 32:7, s. 957-971
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study examines how survival strategies of homeless people in St. Petersburg, Russia, have been affected by “roll back” and “roll out” patterns of neoliberalism. The chaotic transition to market economy after 1990 caused widespread poverty, but it also provided opportunities that allowed the most marginalized people to carve out niches to exist. Outdoor markets, railway stations, and other places of petty commerce provided options to make money, while spaces for privacy and rest were offered in the dilapidated and neglected apartment blocs. After the year 2000, however, a thorough urban revitalization of the city has seriously reconfigured these spaces, thus jeopardizing the survival of the homeless.
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