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- Alemir, Sara, et al.
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EPA (aka A-Traktor) Girl Greasers in Sweden : Girlhood in Motion?
- 2023
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Ingår i: Young - Nordic Journal of Youth Research. - : SAGE Publications. - 1103-3088 .- 1741-3222. ; 31:1, s. 73-86
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article focuses on girlhood in one of the youth subcultures of rural Sweden, EPA greasers. The EPA, a car that Swedes aged 15 and older can legally drive, is at the centre of EPA culture. In this uniquely and previously male Swedish youth greaser culture, there has been a recent increase in the number of Swedish girls driving EPAs. Previous research has shown how EPA culture and EPA girlhood are shaped through distancing from hegemonic urban and middle-class norms and ideology. In this article, we seek to develop an understanding of EPA culture, specifically the ways in which it has been adopted by girls. Starting out from their online performances, we will explore how place, femininity and resistance intersect. The findings demonstrate how EPA girls use a playful way of troubling norms in their online performances, understood here as space and outlet to resist and mess around with dominant discourses and prejudice. This can also be understood as a way of talking back to masculinity, the majority society and urbanity.
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- Kjölstad, Henrik, 1980-
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A European Declaration of Fascism? : En analys av Anders Behring Breiviks manifest 2083
- 2020
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The terror attacks in Oslo, July 22, 2011, executed by Anders Behring Breivik, showed the deadliest outbreak of political violence in Norway since World War II. After the subsequent apprehension of Breivik, discussions about his ideological positioning soon emerged. While Breivik was initially described as an Islamophobic, right wing-extremist, a few expert witnesses and scholars labeled him and his manifesto 2083: A Declaration of European Independence as fascist. Some analysts disagreed with such a categorization and argued that Breivik's views had little to do with fascism. Other commentators and academics partly agreed with the fascist label but added that Breivik's ideology differed from classical fascism in several ways. The aim of this research is to examine whether the manifesto 2083 can be classified as fascist according to various established definitions and ideal types of fascism. In particular, this research draws on the theories, definitions, and ideal types of fascism of established scholars Roger Griffin, Stanley G. Payne, and Emilio Gentile to inform a content analysis of 2083.The study's relevance concerns the ideology of and behind certain violent political activism, and if fascism is undergoing a transformation which urges updates of established definitions of the phenomenon. 2083 is treated as an outlier or deviant case of fascism.This research finds that 2083 does fulfill several fascist criteria, and even concepts central to the ideal types. However, the results are at times ambiguous and open to further interpretation. Fascist concepts such as national rebirth, a glorification of violence, and religiously tinged activism are expressed in the manifesto, but crucial details regarding them remain unexplored or unspecified. 2083's violent strategies for achieving desired societal change have striking similarities with certain contemporary race radicalism; while descriptions of societal condition and utopian goals share certain fascism characteristics, but also resemble late 19th Century German revolutionary conservatism or proto-fascism. Thus, one might rather see 2083 as hybrid form of different, already existing, fascist ideological traits rather than a “new” form of fascism.
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- Lidén, Gustav, 1983-, et al.
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Neoliberal Steering in Swedish Integration Policy : the Rise and Fall of Introduction Guides
- 2019
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Ingår i: Offentlig Förvaltning. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration. - 2000-8058 .- 2001-3310. ; 23:1, s. 23-40
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the past decades, many policy sectors within European countries have encountered political reforms of neoliberal character. One of the key shifts has been the reorientation of public employment services that has been enforced, for example, through the establishment of what have been denoted as quasi-markets. Simultaneously with the rise of quasi-markets, welfare policy as a whole, including integration policy, has beenincreasingly oriented toward “activation”, with its focus on the individual’s obligationsand duties in relation to welfare services. These circumstances pose particular challenges to those charged with the governance of welfare services due to increasingly complex requirements for collaboration and control involving a multitude of actors. The reform is an example of a hybrid system where for- and non-profit actors compete for the“customer”, in this case, the newly arrived immigrant. This article focuses on the changes in Swedish integration reform as an archetype of these changes and studies a clearly defined case study. Empirically, this study draws from both documents and interviews. The article illustrates an unregulated and ill-monitored policy containing a model that comprises mixed modes of steering. The governance of the reform bears traits from both centralist and cooperative forms of governance and, thereby, involves competing philosophies of steering.
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- Nyhlén, Sara, 1980-, et al.
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Haunting the Margins : Excavating EU Migrants as the ‘Social Ghosts’ of Our Time
- 2024
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Ingår i: Critical Criminology. - : Springer Nature. - 1205-8629 .- 1572-9877.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Using the spectral as a conceptual metaphor, we explore narratives within Sweden’s welfare institutions and policy discourses surrounding vulnerable EU citizens. We aim to provide a new understanding of vulnerable EU citizens as the social ghosts of our time by exploring how the concept of the social ghost and hauntology can be used to perform ethical critique of social injustice. By excavating examples from already gathered material, we explore the unseen within the already seen to critically examine how vulnerable EU citizens are constructed in social welfare narratives. We argue that the terminology of vulnerable EU citizens not only is constructed as uncanny and abject but also as social ghosts, denied a social and political identity and forced to haunt the margins of societal life. Moreover, we argue that the Swedish state becomes a site for necropolitical power, enabling but also perpetuating lingering violent effects on Roma people.
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- Skott, Sara, et al.
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In the Shadow of the Monster: Gothic Narratives of Violence Prevention
- 2021
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Ingår i: Critical Criminology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1205-8629 .- 1572-9877. ; 29:2, s. 385-400
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines narratives by professionals working on preventing gender-based violence in Sweden through a Gothic lens. It draws on interviews with authorities responsible for preventing gender-based violence in one region of Sweden and explores the way national policies are translated into regional action. Our analysis shows how the “reel” is adopted by the professionals and becomes a part of the “real,” resulting in implications for policy. By looking at the participants’ narratives through a Gothic lens, this article argues that local-level professionals working to prevent violence frame gender-based violence as a problem of two “othered” groups: the “Immigrant Other” and the “Rural Other.” Through a narratological strategy of illumination and obscurity, these groups of offenders are rendered both uncanny and monstrous by the respondents—a monstrosity that obscures any violence occurring outside this framing. The problem of gender-based violence is relegated from the site of the mundane to the sphere of the monstrous.
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- Sundberg, Leif, 1980-, et al.
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Digitala tjänster : från policy till slutanvändare
- 2020
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Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Denna förstudie har tagits fram genom ett samarbete mellan Mittuniversitetet och Timrå Kommun. Syftet med förstudien är att identifiera och förstå digitaliseringens avsedda nyttor i strategier, nyttors skapande i praktiker, samt nyttors tillgodogörande i användning. Ett särskilt fokus kommer att läggas på demokratiska aspekter av digitaliseringsprocessen.Offentlig sektor spenderar åtskilliga miljarder på digital teknik varje år (den exakta siffran varierar något beroende på hur man räknar. Enligt E-delegationen uppgick summan till 46.5 miljarder 2012). Trots stora investeringar, ett omfattande policyarbete under decennier, och relativt mycket forskning, är förståelsen för vilka nyttor dessa investeringar för med sig inte särskilt utvecklad. Potentiella nyttor nämns ofta i både offentliga dokument och forskning, men det behövs fortfarande forskning om vilka nyttor som realiseras, och för vem.En delmängd av digital teknik är så kallade digitala tjänster, även benämnda ”e-tjänster”. Sådana tjänster används av myndigheter och kommuner att interagera med medborgare och företag. Utvecklingen av digitala tjänster i Sverige tog fart i slutet på 1990-talet i och med Internets spridning. En digital tjänst kännetecknas ofta av ett formulär som fylls i på en hemsida, där medborgaren använder t.ex. BankID för att identifiera sig mot en myndighet / kommun. Ett exempel på en digital tjänst är Skatteverkets deklaration.Förstudien består av fem delar:Del 1: I denna inledande del ges först en sammanfattning av innehållet i rapporter, följt av inledning och teoretiska / metodologiska utgångspunkter.Del 2 innehåller policyanalyser av dokument som är relevanta för offentliga aktörers arbete med digitala tjänster.I Del 3 presenteras resultat från en workshop som syftade till att synliggöra det som görs och inte görs, och de som nås respektive inte nås med digitala tjänster.Del 4 består av resultat från mätningar av användningen av digitala tjänster. Här har vi dels undersökt hur användningen av olika digitala tjänster ser ut jämfört med andra kanaler, men även vilka värden som anställda respektive medborgare ser med Timrå kommuns tjänster. En annan viktig del i Del 4 är en enkätundersökning riktad till icke-användare där vi frågar varför de valt att inte använda de digitala tjänsterna.Förstudierapporten avslutas i Del 5, som består av input till Timrå kommuns strategiska arbete med digitala tjänster: ”Nästa generations tjänsteutveckling”.
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- Svedenmark, Sara, 1971-, et al.
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Old Wine in a New Bottle? – Interpreting Gender Mainstreaming in a Municipal Reorganisation
- 2022
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration. - Göteborg : University of Gothenburg. - 2001-7405 .- 2001-7413. ; :4, s. 73-90
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Gender mainstreaming (GM) has been on the agenda of organisations at various levels in Sweden and worldwide since the 1990s. Research has shown that GM is difficult to apply and has yet to be clearly defined, and additionally that organisations are uncertain about how to implement it. Research also suggests that the dominance of the new public management (NPM) approach within organisations has made GM work more challenging. In this article, we examine GM in a medium-sized Swedish municipality that is reorganising itself to become gender mainstreamed while introducing trust-based governance (TBG). This municipality provides a unique opportunity to study how GM is constructed in a municipality at the intersection of NPM and TBG. Applying a critical perspective, this article analyses documents from reorganisation based on Bacchi’s (2009) policy analysis. The results demonstrate that GM is mainly translated into TBG-inspired practices and that efficiency becomes an overarching concept that entangles GM, TBG and NPM. GM becomes part of cultural change together with TBG, while NPM maintains its dominance in the structural change of the organisation.
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