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- Arik, H., et al.
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Unsettling the political: conceptualizing the political in feminist and LGBTI plus activism across Russia, the Scandinavian countries, and Turkey
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Feminist Journal of Politics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1461-6742 .- 1468-4470. ; 25:4, s. 687-710
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article aims to expand the ongoing theoretical debate on the broadened and context-specific notion of politics by offering an empirically nuanced conceptualization of the political based on the study of feminist and lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex (LGBTI+) activism in Russia, Turkey, and the Scandinavian countries. We use a multi-scalar transnational approach to foreground connectivities across regions to challenge nation-bound and state-centric perspectives on politics and reveal the various formulations beyond the formal/informal divide. Case studies from feminist and LGBTI+ activists and minority organizations demonstrate context-specific ways of inhabiting or distancing from politics. Drawing on interdisciplinary feminist scholarship and a Gramscian approach to civil society, we challenge the narrow articulation of politics either as antagonism or contestation. In doing so, we highlight the political expressions that do not neatly fit into the expected forms of politics, yet are motivated by a commitment to shaping new ways of living together.
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- Çağatay, Selin, 1983, et al.
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Conferencing in times of climate crisis and Covid-19: feminist and queer reflections on the digital shift in academic work
- 2024
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Ingår i: Globalizations. - 1474-7731.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article employs a holistic understanding of environmental, social, and economic sustainability to explore the interaction between neoliberalism, climate crisis, digitalization, and academic work with a focus on its everyday aspects. Drawing our experience of organizing an online conference during the Covid-19 pandemic and our dialogue with conference participants, we first problematize the presumed disembodiment of digital exchange and suggest a nuanced understanding of physicality’s role in knowledge production. We then explore the impact of the changing times and spaces of academic work on bodies and minds and the boundaries between private and public realms. Finally, we challenge the notion of digital solutionism by highlighting the implications of inhabiting digital platforms as spaces for knowledge production. While there is no simple solution to the problems around the digital shift in academic work and conferencing, we argue, downsizing can be a counteraction to platform capitalism in times of the climate crisis.
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- Holm, Ulla M, 1944, et al.
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Elite Women as Strangers : A Phenomenology for Interdisciplinary Studies
- 2007
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Ingår i: Projektrapport redigerad av Gabriele Griffin.
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this article, we will outline why we want to take part in the development of a phenomenology for interdisciplinary studies on gender and migration and what we will use for such a development. Then we provide a brief historical account of phenomenologists who have contributed to the phenomenological movement that started at the beginning of the 20th century. We will focus on critical phenomenology as an approach and methodology rather than on its different research methods and will draw especially on what Hannah Arendt and Dorothy E Smith may contribute to metho¬dological considerations. Such an approach seems to have a renaissance today. Qualitative research methods, especially as they have developed historically within the social sciences, are often understood to be interpretative and post-phenomenological. The qualitative research methods that are explicitly called ‘phenomenological’ today resemble unstructured depth interviews, ethnography, participant observations, ethnomethodological and post-structural discourse analyses etc which are discussed more thoroughly in othercontributions to this project. Therefore the article moves from a phenomenological framework via methodological reflections to a couple of textually based examples, one from the humanities and the other from the social sciences.
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- Liinason, Mia, 1973, et al.
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Challenging constructions of nationhood and nostalgia: exploring the role of gender, race and age in struggles for women's rights in Scandinavia
- 2018
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Ingår i: Women's History Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0961-2025 .- 1747-583X. ; 27:5, s. 729-753
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing on a multi-sited ethnographic approach, this article aims to study interactions between women’s organizations, state agendas and national histories in the contemporary struggle for women’s rights in Scandinavia. Upon examining a diverse range of material (debates, survey responses, fieldnotes and interview data), it is revealed how the largest women’s organizations appeal to dominant discourses of Scandinavia as a homogeneous region and Scandinavian women as a uniform collectivity. It is shown how divisions between groups of women are shaped along categories of national belonging, race and age, and it is argued that a conceptualization of women as a uniform group offers a too simplistic frame for an understanding of these dynamics. By contrast, it is suggested that the contestations evoked by nostalgic articulations of homogeneity, and uniformity can be rich sources for social analysis, as attention to such tensions can help us to visualize the existence of multiple historical pasts and presents.
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- Liinason, Mia, 1973
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Challenging the visibility paradigm: Tracing ambivalences in lesbian migrant women’s negotiations of sexual identity
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Lesbian Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1089-4160 .- 1540-3548. ; 24:2, s. 110-125
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, I want to illuminate a more diverse image of lesbian lives in the Nordic region than what is often assumed through Western-centric notions of the global queer community and of “out and proud” visibility. Moving beyond dichotomous divisions between visibility and invisibility, I approach in/visibility as an ambivalent, ambiguous, and performative concept. My fieldwork data illuminate that non-heterosexual migrant women in this context do not primarily subscribe to a so-called “Western” visibility paradigm. I analyze how non-heterosexual migrant women, primarily Muslim, exercise ownership of their sexual identities and how they negotiate the degree to which their romantic and sexual relations become—or do not—points of discussion. As these women were involved in multi-layered negotiations in relation to their families, queer communities, and nations, their positionings in relation to the visibility paradigm differed. However, on a general level, their positionings could be interpreted as simultaneously in and out of the closet, or neither in nor out. These ambivalences and ambiguities, I suggest, illuminate the need to challenge the visibility/invisibility divide, and highlight the importance of paying attention to multiple, context-specific, and intersecting forms of power. Drawing on these discussions, I propose the need to rethink notions of community, family, and home within a framework of queer livability. © 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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