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- Andersson, Susanne, et al.
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From glass ceiling to firewalls : Detecting and changing gendered organizational norms
- 2022
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Ingår i: NORA. - : Routledge. - 0803-8740 .- 1502-394X. ; 30:2, s. 140-153
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is based on an empirical case study with an interactive research approach focusing on gendered norms in a Swedish truck Company. It discusses the combined value of using the metaphor of a firewall for (1) analysing how organizational constraining gendered norms are done in everyday organizational life, and (2) as a practical tool to facilitate the processes aimed at improving norm awareness. The metaphor embodies an understanding that makes it possible to visualize relational ongoing organizational processes and power dimensions. In addition, the firewall is useful for emphasizing variations and complexity. Variations and dynamics are manifested in the ways that employees need to fulfil varying “codes” in order to be accepted. The possession of certain codes (norms) that are required to pass through the first layer of the firewall (employment), and give access to some networks, does not automatically ensure acceptance and integration into more influential networks (referred to as the informal and inner layers of the firewall). The results furthermore show that the firewall metaphor is fruitful when facilitating reflection processes amongst employees to improve norma wareness and to discuss strategies for change. The conclusion is that the firewall metaphor facilitates an analysis of the relational and complex doing of constraining norms, and that it also can be used to initiate change.
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- Andersson, Susanne, et al.
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Moving with(in) normative firewalls : a dynamic approach to study gendered careers and innovation processes in the truck industry
- 2018
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we explore how existing work place culture and gendered norms impact on the possibilities to work with so called ”norm-critical” innovation processes in an organisation. Norm-critical reflexivity in the context of innovation processes implies to pay attention to invisible and implicit norms that may result in that certain privileged perspectives is being prevailed (over others) (Balkmar & Lykke 2015). The empirical findings emanates from a two year interactive research project, in which gender researchers in collaboration with participants at Volvo Group, Sweden, have explored the ways that the company can increase its capacity to work with norm-critical perspectives in the innovation process. Volvo is a highly gender segregated organisation. At the same time the trucking industry in itself is highly masculinized in terms of different professions; ranging from truck drivers to sales personnel to technical engineers involved in the design and manufacturing of trucks. In later years the shortage of truck drivers, in combination with more women drivers entering trucking academies and haulage contractors, has led to a questioning of male norms in the transport business. This includes reports of difficult working conditions for female truckers, including how the design of the truck itself takes the male body as the implicit norm, to the assumption that it is a man that is the presumed driver of trucks.This paper focus on the part of the project that seeks to better understand how existing work-place culture and norms structure who is considered the ideal employee (Acker 1992) and its implications for innovation. This includes studying its impacts on both the possibility for different categories of employees to take part in the innovation work on equal terms, and the ability to reflect upon the impact of implicit norms in the innovation process itself. In total, 17 semi-structured interviews were conducted with co-workers and managers (13 women and 5 men). The main questions concerned whether there existed ideals that formed implicit ”codes” (Bendl and Schmidt 2010) in the organization and its impact on ideas of preferred professional qualifications, behaviors, personal qualities and its links to career possibilities and innovation. The underlying theoretical assumption is that gender is a fundamental element of organisational structure and work life; “present in [its] processes, practices, images and ideologies, and distribution of power” (Acker 1992, p. 567). The way that gender plays out in the daily life in a workplace is understood as not being a static barrier prohibiting women in general, rather, it is considered fluid, relational and may vary depending on the context (Meyerson & Fletcher 2001, Bendl and Schmidt 2010). It is argued that the concept ”fire wall” (Bendl and Schmidt 2010 ), offers a fruitful way to highlight the elasticity and permeability that we believe characterize the forms of discrimination, inclusion and exclusion that takes place in these processes.ReferencesAcker, J. 1992. Gendering Organisational Theory. In Mills, A. and Tancered, P. (eds.). Gendering Organisational Analysis. London: SAGE.Acker, J. 2006. Inequality Regimes: Gender, Class, and Race in Organisations. Gender and Society 20(4):441-464.Balkmar, D. & Lykke, N. 2015. Developing disruptive norm-critical innovation at Volvo: FINAL REPORT. Linköping: Tema Genus Report Series No. 23: 2015.Bendl, R. & Schmidt. 2012. From 'Glass Ceilings' to 'Firewalls' - Different Metaphors for Describing Discrimination. Gender, Work and Organization. Vol. 17. No 5:612-635.Meyerson, D. & Fletcher J.K. 2001. A Modest Manifesto for Shattering the Glass Ceiling. Boston: Harvard Business Review.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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A Reconsideration of Two "Welfare Paradises" : Research and Policy Responses to Men's Violence in Denmark and Sweden
- 2009
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Ingår i: Men and Masculinities. - : Sage Publications. - 1097-184X .- 1552-6828. ; 12:2, s. 155-174
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article compares the situation in Denmark and Sweden regarding research and policy making around the issue of men-s violence to women and children. It does so by drawing on two comprehensive reviews of academic and policy data in those countries that were part of a broader European Union-funded project. Although the picture emerging from this comparison is complex, the overall conclusion is that in Sweden over recent years many more examples can be found of a critical, power-oriented approach than is the case in Denmark.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-
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A Violent Regime : Men, Masculinities and Road Conflicts in Sweden
- 2018
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This presentation focuses on violence(s) in traffic space as a gendered problem. It draws on qualitative online studies and interviews with cyclists about their experiences of motorists’ violent practices, including cyclists’ negotiations of anti-cyclist discourses and their coping strategies. It follows that modal conflicts is not only a problem for cities with a low prevalence of cycling; ‘bike friendly’ cities like Copenhagen and Stockholm are also troubled by fights between cyclists and drivers (Freudendal-Pedersen 2015; Koglin 2013). Such conflicts are gendered in complex ways.Automobility appears to be a ‘violent regime’ (Joelsson 2013), a regime that produces uncaring, oppressive and violent configurations of men and masculinity (cf. Hanlon 2009). However, there are no clear-cut gendered frameworks to be applied. Such violence cannot be understood within a binary gendered framework; there is neither clearly a typical victim position nor a gendered perpetrator position. It is argued that automobility makes it possible for certain men to perform their ‘right to the road’, including gender-identity-shaping practices, and that this has the negative effect of violating cyclists’ bodily integrity. It follows that a shift from cars to more sustainable mobilities also demands related shifts in masculinities and men’s practices in the context of transport and traffic.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-
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Arbetspendling på cykel : vardagsrisk, hälsa och arbetsorganisationers strategier för ökad cykelpendling
- 2013
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Ingår i: I Rörelse/On the move. - : ACSIS. ; , s. 96-96
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Frågan om vikten av att öka cykeltrafiken och göra den säkrare har rönt stor uppmärksamhet såväl medialt som inom forskningen under senare år. Många organisationer, kommuner och landsting uppmanar också sina anställda att cykla mer, något som ofta argumenteras för i positiva termer av dess bidrag till ökat välbefinnande, (folk)hälsa, teamkänsla och framkomlighet i storstäderna.Detta projekt syftar till att med utgångspunkt i ett antal arbetsorganisationer vilka arbetar med att förmå sina medarbetare att välja cykel som transport till jobbet nå en fördjupad kunskap om de vardagsvillkor som gör att vissa väljer cykel och andra inte. Med etnografisk metodologi är målet med detta projekt att bidra med en kontextualiserad beskrivning av människors vardagsvillkor för arbetspendling med cykel.Att färdas med cykel är förknippat med olika former av upplevelser, emotioner och (föränderliga) identiteter. Genom att beakta arbetspendling med cykel ur ett vardagsperspektiv fokuseras upplevelser av cykling relaterat till såväl cyklingens njutningar som utsatthet som oskyddad trafikant, eventuella konflikter med andra trafikslag samt hur arbetsorganisationer försöker förmå sina medarbetare att välja cykeln före mindre miljövänliga sätt att färdas.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Bicycling and politics : movements, strategies and visions in bicycle activism in Sweden
- 2016
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Swedish national government, as transport authorities and many Swedish municipalities, are currently planning and implementing ambitious programs that are designed to promote cycling and increase the share of cycling among everyday travel modes. However, with more ‘pro-cycling’ discourses and in the wake of antagonism and lack of road space for increasing numbers of cyclists, new forms of bicycle activism appears to be on the rise.The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse the ways in which bicycle activists in Sweden construct their politics and the role of bicycle activism as a vehicle for contributing to more sustainable cycling futures. What are their concrete approaches and strategies that inform their activism? How do activists and advocates view bicyclists as e.g. vulnerable, angry or marginalized subjects, and how do they view their roles as spokespersons for these groups? What alternative visions for cycling and cyclists are expressed? Empirically the paper focuses on three expressions of contemporary bicycling activism/advocacy; the Swedish national cycling advocacy organization, the ad-hoc “Ghost Bike Sweden” and the on-line based “Bike Maffia”-initiative in Stockholm.It is argued that all three reflect a “contested terrain” with regard to approaches and strategies to bicycle activism (Vivanco 2013, 103). Although all three share an ambition to improve conditions for cyclists, they reflect core differences in their strategies and views on bicycling as contested practice: from more pragmatic, policy- and solution-oriented approaches to explicitly political and hands-on street-level activism. All three organisations/initiatives also represents different forms of grassroots organisations with different capacities to participate within formal governance structures. However, the more activist based initiatives seem to create spaces for new forms of political engagement beyond formal institutions – initiatives that also are worth listening to.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Contested mobilities : politics, strategies and visions in Swedish bicycle activism
- 2017
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Ingår i: Applied mobilities. - : Taylor & Francis. - 2380-0127 .- 2380-0135. ; 2:2, s. 151-165
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Cycling is currently the focus of considerable political and public attention in many urban areas. As more and more cyclists claim space on the roads, new forms of political engagement in cycling issues beyond traditional bicycle advocacy have also emerged. Beyond focusing on cyclists’ perspectives and rights, these expressions of bicycle activism show the ways in which bicycles – as potential vehicles for sociopolitical change – are contested political and cultural symbols. The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse the ways in which bicycle activists and advocates in Sweden construct their politics and practices. Empirically the paper addresses three expressions of contemporary bicycling activism and advocacy: the well-established Swedish national cycling advocacy organization Cykelfrämjandet (Cycling Sweden), the ad-hoc Ghost Bike Sweden, and the online-based Bike Maffia-initiative. The empirical material of the paper consists of qualitative interviews with the leading representatives from each organization or initiative, as well as written and video materials. As arenas for cultural politics, the organizations or initiatives are diverse, exemplifying highly different views concerning conflicts in urban space, strategies for addressing these conflicts, and views of cyclists as subjects of bicycle politics. The paper addresses these issues in a specific Swedish context, also exploring the implications for understanding how political activism is shaped more generally. It is argued that bicycle activism can be viewed as a way of practising cycling citizenship, a perspective that provides a conceptual linkage between new social movement theory and activism more generally.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Cyborgs and entanglements of technology, masculinity, and (automated) vehicles
- 2019
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Ingår i: Feministische Studien. - Berlin : Walter de Gruyter. - 0723-5186 .- 2365-9920. ; 37:2, s. 320-334
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we will discuss different entanglements of technology and masculinity with a special focus on (automated) vehicles. Starting from a cyborg- epistemology formulated as 'thesis, anti-thesis, synthesis, prosthesis' (Gray 2001: 189), we will, in three sections, entangle and disentangle different discourses and practices around how masculinity has been constructed around intimacy, technology, and cyborgisation. Historically, this points in both destructive directions and emancipatory hopes of transcendence through cyborgisation. Cyborgs are thus political technologies, and we argue that a history of masculinity as well as the future of masculinity, in a western context and beyond, can be understood in relation to cyborgisation and intimacy with technological artefacts. It is argued that cyborgs are possibly the tricksters of the future posthuman masculinity but they are also a tool to understand the 'leitmotif' of male transcendence in the history of masculinity. To illustrate our point, we will use different forms of technologies of movement and other man-machine relations as our "objects-to-think-with", considering gendered power relations and emancipatory potentials (Haraway 2004: 321).In the first section we will discuss cyborgs and masculine entanglements in a historical perspective to suggest a cyborg-epistemology. Such approach is apt for understanding masculine desires of transcendence invested in and nurtured through automatons, golems, robots, etcetera. A characteristic feature of these ‘Man plus’ (Gray 2001) artefacts and creatures have been their prosthetic capacity with an inherent destructive/emancipatory Janus face. In the second section, we will apply the cyborg-epistemology to contemporary imaginaries and driving practices of cars. Cars and car driving is one of the arenas where masculinity is clearly constructed around intimacy, technology and cyborgisation, as exemplified in numerous cases of popular culture, and daily practices in and around cars. This section exemplifies emancipatory and destructive aspects of cars and car driving in dominant automobility systems. In the third section we will be more future oriented and speculative, looking at autonomous transport futures. While the interpellative experience of cars and its emotional and gendered dimensions have been discussed in the second section, the third section turns to the question how autonomous vehicles can be imagined and ‘felt’, and perhaps also changing gendered relations with, in and around cars (Berscheid 2016).
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-
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Cycling politics : imagining sustainable cycling futures in Sweden
- 2020
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Ingår i: Applied Mobilities. - : Routledge. - 2380-0127 .- 2380-0135. ; 5:3, s. 324-340
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this article is to analyse the ways in which cycling politics, established bicycle advocates and “new” forms of net-based activism in Sweden imagine and shape future cycling. The study engages with policy analysis, cultural imaginaries, cycling citizenship, power and urban planning in order to analyse expressions of contemporary cycling politics in Sweden, with aparticular focus on the national strategy for increased and safer cycling, launched in 2017. This strategy, including how advocacy responded to the strategy, and topics raised in online blogs, reflects core differences in top-down/bottom-up views on cycling as contested practice: from more pragmatic, policy- and solution-oriented approaches to making everyday cycling experiences political. The analyses address both established and alternative ways of influencing mobility transitions and seek to address the alternative imaginings for everyday cycling that their approaches and strategies suggest. This includes analysing their role in shaping or changing cycling in the future and what these cases may tell us about the sustainability of cycling itself at both local and national levels. It is argued that, while well-established organizations already enjoy aposition of access to planners and policy-makers, it remains important to find ways of including the perspectives of emergent, on-line-based initiatives and blogs, which also formulate critical perspectives on everyday cycling.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Cykelpolitik : rörelser, strategier och visioner i svensk cykelpolitik
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Politiker, kommuner och transportmyndigheter arbetar idag på olika sätt för att förbättra förutsättningarna för cykling – inte minst för att skapa mer attraktiva, sunda och tillgängliga städer. Men med en alltmer cykelvänlig diskurs – och i kölvattnet av motsättningar i trafiken relaterat till trängsel för ett ökat antal cyklister i storstäderna – skapas också grogrund för nya former av cykelaktivism. Ofta tar dessa initiativ utgångspunkt i vem och vilka trafikslag som får ta plats på och ha tillgång till stadens gator samt vilka former av motstånd som kan riktas mot bilismen som norm.Syftet med det här föredraget är att beskriva och analysera de sätt som cykelaktivism i Sverige konstrueras samt cykelaktivismens roll som förändringsaktörer i arbetet för hållbara städer. Vilka konkreta tillvägagångssätt och strategier baseras aktivismen på? Hur förstår aktivister och cykelförespråkare cyklister, exempelvis som sårbara, arga eller marginaliserade grupper. Hur ser de på sina roller som talespersoner för cyklister? Vilka alternativa visioner för cykling och cyklister uttrycker de?Empiriskt fokuserar presentationen på tre nutida uttryck för cykelaktivism/cykelförespråkare; Cykelfrämjandet, Ghost Bike Sweden och det online-baserade initiativet Cykelmaffian i Stockholm. Metodologiskt baseras presentationen på kvalitativa metoder, främst intervjuer med representanter för respektive organisation/initiativ, samt analyser av deras externa kommunikation. Resultaten från studien visar att cykelaktivism är att betrakta som ett omstritt område, särskilt med avseende på initiativens strategier och inriktning. Även om alla tre delar en ambition om att förbättra förutsättningarna för cykel, så ger de uttryck för centrala skillnader i deras respektive strategier och syn på cykling och cykelpolitik: från en mer pragmatisk, policy- och lösningsorienterad inriktning till explicit politiska och direkt-aktions orienterade former av gatuaktivism. Alla tre organisationer/initiativ representerar också olika former av (gräsrots)organisationer, med sinsemellan olika möjligheter att medverka och påverka inom ramen för formella politiska strukturer. Samtidigt så skapar de mer aktivistbaserade initiativen nya former av utrymmen för politiskt engagemang och motstånd bortom formella institutioner.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-
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De osynliga slår tillbaka : Om cyklisters plats i en bilnormativ omgivning
- 2014
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Ingår i: Gränsløs : tidskrift för studier av Öresundsregionens historia, kultur och samhällsliv. - : Lunds Universitet, Centrum för Öresundsstudier/Lund University, Center for Öresund Studies. - 2001-4961. ; :4, s. 83-94
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Syftet med den här texten är att undersöka olika cyklisters föreställningar om cyklisters plats i bilsamhället och de förhandlingar de utför. När cykling marknadsförs görs det ofta i positiva ordalag med hänsyn till förbättrad hälsa och miljö. I den mediala rapporteringen om cykling i stor- och medelstora städer har det dock under senare år talats om problem såsom hot, våld och aggressivitet i ett allt intensivare och trängre trafikrum. I förlängningen är det relevant att ställa frågor om cyklisters plats i bilsamhället och vad konflikter och upplevd rädsla att cykla har för konsekvenser för den numera spridda ambitionen att öka cyklingen.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Den bioniske mannen på autoerotiska äventyr : mäns risktagande i trafikrummet
- 2010
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Ingår i: Norma. - Oslo, Norge : Universitetsforlaget. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 5:1, s. 27-44
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- “The bionic man goes autoerotic – theoretic keys towards a refined understanding of men’s risk taking in public space”Gender construction in relation to mobility and movement gives rise to intriguing questions regarding the interfaces between men, masculinity, technology, “danger” and risk-taking, especially when discussing issues of traffic safety. How can we conceptualize men’s risk taking practices within the traffic realm? By drawing on research from feminist science and technology studies, the authors suggest and develop the figuration the bionic man for how to understand cars and other mobile vehicles such as mopeds as extensions of the (male) body. The construction of masculinity is seen to be interlinked with the use and mastering of motor vehicles. This theoretical frame work is further analysed by introducing the concept of autoeroticism as a meaningful way for understanding the profound embodied and emotional relation between men, technologies of movement and risk taking. The authors argue that the emotional aspects of driving cars and riding mopeds need to be regarded as both vital and crucial aspects when studying men’s risk taking in traffic space.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Developing disruptive norm-critical innovation at Volvo : FINAL REPORT
- 2015
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Volvo Group Trucks Technology and Tema Genus, Linköping University, have initiated a collaborative project to foster disruptive norm-critical innovation at Volvo. The aim is to 1) further develop existing methods for initiating innovation by bringing disruptive norm-critical innovation methods into already existing “tool boxes for innovation” at Volvo, 2) develop a particular tool box to enhance disruptive norm-critical innovation across existing “tool boxes”, and 3) develop a disruptive norm-critical innovation tool box targeting the leadership programme at Volvo Trucks to enable better management and integration of norm-critical innovation processes at Volvo. The first step was a pilot project, outlined below, the overall aim of which was to develop a detailed application (VINNOVA) which can achieve the above aims.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Disperse violence : gender-based violence and environmental violence
- 2020
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper is part of the session Violence Regimes: Analysing the Multiplicity of Gendered Violence(s). Violence regime is a framework developed for analysing the multiplicity of violence(s) (Hearn et al 2018; Strid et al 2018). The framework concerns direct and indirect violence; across four pillars of comprehensiveness; across macro, meso and micro levels; often with increasing amount of time and space between act and impact; and vary in both manifestation and understanding of violence, extending the continuum of violence (Kelly 1988) across four pillars: Deadly, Damaging, Diffuse and Dispersed violence.Empirically, this paper explores manifestations of violence in the first and fourth pillar of the violence regime framework: deadly and direct forms of violence such as homicide, femicide and suicide; and dispersed manifestations not necessarily understood as violence, usually indirect, sometimes directed towards a group but with a less easily identifiable ‘victim’ or ‘object; manifestations not usually recognized as violence; e.g. environmental destruction. Two different cases will be discussed, 1) automobility and 2) killings of animals for food, both associated with negative impact on the environment. First, we examine the violent, damaging and deadly effects of automobility across country comparisons of the EU28. Second, we examine slow violence (Nixon 2011) and the levels of slaughtering of animals in relation to the levels of homicide, femicide and suicide through cross country comparisons of the EU28. The paper contributes to the violence regime framework analyzing how manifestations of violence not usually understood as violence correlate with the most direct and deadly forms of violence.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Disperse violence : gender-based violence and environmental violence
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper is part of the session Violence Regimes: Analysing the Multiplicity of Gendered Violence(s). Violence regime is a framework developed for analysing the multiplicity of violence(s) (Hearn et al 2018; Strid et al 2018).The framework concerns direct and indirect violence; across four pillars of comprehensiveness; across macro, meso and micro levels; often with increasing amount of time and space between act and impact; and vary in both manifestation and understanding of violence, extending the continuum of violence (Kelly 1988) across four pillars: Deadly, Damaging, Diffuse and Dispersed violence. Empirically, this paper explores manifestations of violence in the first and fourth pillar of the violence regime framework: deadly and direct forms of violence such as homicide, femicide and suicide; and dispersed manifestations not necessarily understood as violence, usually indirect, sometimes directed towards a group but with a less easily identifiable ‘victim’ or ‘object; manifestations not usually recognized as violence; e.g. environmental destruction. Two different cases will be discussed, 1) automobility and 2) killings of animals for food, both associated with negative impact on the environment.First, we examine the violent, damaging and deadly effects of automobility across country comparisons of the EU28. Second, we examine slow violence (Nixon 2011) and the levels of slaughtering of animals in relation to the levels of homicide, femicide and suicide through cross country comparisons of the EU28.The paper contributes to the violence regime framework analysing how manifestations of violence not usually understood as violence correlate with the most direct and deadly forms of violence.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Feeling the speed : the social and emotional investments in dangerous road practices
- 2012
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Ingår i: Gender and change. - Karlstad : Karlstad University Press. - 9789186637057 ; , s. 37-52
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Research on gender aims to contribute towards a better society with the help of scientific tools. Change is therefore a key concept in gender studies. With a wide range of theoretical frameworks, methodological approaches and empirical materials from Sweden, Norway and Iceland, this book investigates how gender relations are shaped, reproduced, and challenged. Collectively, the papers in this volume point to where we are heading in terms of gender relations. Where are the seeds to change, and how does power make possible or impede on change?
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Gender and Transport : Affective structures and practices
- 2023
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Ingår i: The Routledge Companion to Gender and Affect. - London and New York : Routledge. - 9780367492014 - 9781003045007 - 9781000737936 - 9781032350844 ; , s. 111-120
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- In this chapter, we introduce how gender and affect can be co-thought in studies of mobilities and transport, and in particular masculinity and transport practices as this is our main field of expertise. From our perspective, affect in this context implies how people feel and act as a consequence of aroused emotion experienced within an affective economy such as the mobility and transport system (Ahmed 2004; Sheller 2004; Balkmar and Mellström 2020). The affective economy of transport and mobility regulates and channels how travel and mobility patterns organize and include individual, group and societal structures with human and non-human elements. We argue that it is analytically vital to separate affect and emotions with regard to the mobility and transport system in order to outline the systemic dimensions of many ecological and societal challenges of our present time. In the larger land- scape of contemporary challenges, the transport and mobility system is key to halt planetary warming, the endemic traffic congestion of major metropolises and decrease carbon dioxide emissions on a global scale, to mention a few. Our present transport and mobility systems are pressing the planet to a core boundary (Steffen et al. 2011) where the passing of such a limit would drive the planet into a less sustainable level of human life.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-
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Genusrelaterade perspektiv på polisbilskörning
- 2011
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Ingår i: Utryckningsföraren. - Gävle : Meyer. - 9789171111449 ; , s. 54-65
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Pia, som inte riktigt förstått varför Peter gjort den där handbromsvändningen och inte förstår varför de har så bråttom, försöker bestämma sig för hur hon ska agera. Hon känner sig rädd av den höga farten bland alla bilar och människor och önskar att Peter ville ta det lite lugnare. Hon känner hur skräcken griper tag i henne men kan inte på ett medvetet plan bli klok på om det är den höga farten som skrämmer henne eller om det är tanken på att säga till Peter att sakta farten" (Maria Gustafsson i ett kapitel om hjärnan i boken).
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Hur kan elvägar bli socialt hållbara? Ett ramverk för social hållbarhet vid teknik- och miljöomställningar
- 2022
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Syftet med rapporten är att utveckla och presentera ett ramverk för hur sociala hållbarhetsfrågor kan integreras inom ett framtida genomförande av elväg. Målet är att tillhandahålla ett ramverk med förhållningssätt, utgångspunkter och en modell för hur sociala perspektiv kan integreras av infrastrukturägare och andra aktörer i transportsystemet. Ramverket visar på vad som behöver fokuseras när elvägar införs, och i viss mån hur, men själva analysen (och därmed svaren) ges av infrastrukturägare och relevanta aktörer som implementerar elvägar. Ramverket visar således vad som kan vara relevant att belysa, hur det kan till samt av vilka. Ramverket ger därmed förutsättningar för att definiera konkreta målsättningar och indikatorer för social hållbarhet i ett (framtida) genomförande av elvägar. Den tilltänkta läsaren är exempelvis projektdeltagare i ett elvägsprojekt, intressenter inom systemet, eller infrastrukturägare. Ramverket kan även användas av andra aktörer som arbetar med sociala hållbarhetsfrågor i utvecklingsprojekt.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-
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Implicit men in traffic safety discourse : A life course perspective on (auto)mobility, violations and interventions
- 2007
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Ingår i: Norma. - Oslo : Universitetsforlaget AS. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 2:2, s. 127-143
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sweden is the first country in the world to have introduced the so-called Vision Zero (Nollvisionen): an ethical approach suggesting that road safety cannot be traded for mobility. Policy writings on traffic safety have so far been very limited in terms of explicitly addressing risk taking practices as mainly performed by men or as a way of performing masculinities. In this article I discuss how the gender-neutral language in traffic safety policy constructs adulthood as signifying maturity and good driving practices. In traffic safety policy, implicit adult men are contrasted against the young(er) drivers who are constructed as problematic to traffic safety. Rather than being about maturity or something that ‘just happens’ I suggest understanding (dangerous) driving as a repertoire for some men to perform masculinities linking it with power and entitlement.Still, not only dangerous driving practices per se are problematic to road safety. I argue that automobility needs to be understood as much more thoroughly affecting everyday life than is acknowledged in traffic safety discourse. A way of acknowledging the multiplicity of experiences and effects from automobility is to view it as a ‘process of damaging’. This perspective takes into consideration how automobility simultaneously enables and disables ‘safe’ mobility along lines of gender, age and able-bodiedness. Despite the fact that these problematic effects to some extent are acknowledged in policy, automobility remains a privileged mode of transportation in contemporary Sweden.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-
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Kör så det ryker! : hälsorisker i samspelet mellan män, maskulinitet och bil
- 2010. - 1
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Ingår i: Genus och kön inom medicin- och vårdutbildningar. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144059501 - 9144059507 ; , s. 401-413
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Kvinnor och män är delvis lika, delvis olika. Det innebär att kvinnor och män både har behov av likadan behandling och av behandling som är anpassad till det egna könets förutsättningar. Denna antologi belyser kvinnors och mäns förutsättningar och behov inom en rad olika medicinska områden och tar upp både biologiska och sociala faktorer som påverkar hälsa och behandling. Den behandlar även den roll som kön spelar inom vårdens arbetsliv samt hur köns- och genusperspektiv kan integreras inom olika typer av medicin- och vårdutbildningar. Ett av bokens teman är våld, kränkningar och diskriminering, och inom ramen för detta behandlas några av de olika maktordningar som kommer till uttryck vid behandlingar inom hälso- och sjukvården. Antologin har en stor spännvidd när det gäller ämnen och författare. Förhoppningsvis ska den bredd som antologin uppvisar, leda fram till frågeställningar där läsaren utmanar sina förgivettaganden inom både genusvetenskap och mer traditionell medicin samt väcka nya frågor: Om könet snarare ses som en konstruktion än en fysisk realitet - kan då kvinnor lika gärna äta mediciner som är utprovade på män och opereras med metoder och verktyg anpassade till mäns fysiologi? Å andra sidan - hur objektiv är den naturvetenskapligt inriktade medicinska forskningen egentligen om man börjar granska den utifrån frågeställningar om perspektivval och genus? Antologin vänder sig till lärare på utbildningar inom medicin, hälsa och vård. Andra målgrupper är studenter på sådana utbildningar, vårdpersonal och en intresserad allmänhet.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Kör så det ryker! Teoretiska reflektioner om samspelen mellan män, maskulinitet, rumslighet och våldsam mobilitet
- 2008
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Ingår i: Genusrelationer och förändringsprocesser: Nordisk feminism och genusforskning 2008,2008.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Att förstå hur genus görs i relation till mobilitet ställer spännande frågor om gränssnitten mellan män, maskuliniteter, ålder, teknik, -farlighet- och risktagande, inte minst i förhållande till trafiksäkerhet, våld och kroppslig integritet. Feministisk teknologiforskning (FTS) och transportforskning med genusperspektiv uppmärksammar hur bilar eller mopeder kan förstås som en förlängning av (mans)kroppen där kopplingen till görande av maskulinitet är sammanvävt med användandet och bemästrandet av motorfordon. Mot bakgrund av nollvisionen är det dock uppseendeväckande hur lite trafiksäkerhetsarbetet uppmärksammat överrepresentationen av män som -vållande- av dödsolyckor (90 %) eller uppmärksammat (auto)mobilitet som ett sätt att göra kön. Texten tar upp mäns kroppslighet i trafiken med utgångspunkt i feministiska teorier om våld och teknologi, och knyts samman med en diskussion kring (auto)mobilitet. Bidraget öppnar upp för en kritisk diskussion kring bilismens normativa ställning, inte minst hur bilnormativiteten formar och skapar subjektiva upplevelser och identitet, samt hur praktiker knutna till dessa möjliggör och producerar våldsam mobilitet.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Levelling the field : A Guide to an Inclusive Entrepreneurship Ecosystem
- 2022
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Levelling the field: A guide to an inclusive entrepreneurship ecosystem. (Tool 1) A practical guidebook on how to promote inclusive entrepreneurship (part of a three-part tool-kit developed) Intended target audience: equality strategists, other actors with the ambition, mandate and responsibility to promote inclusion in their organisation or towards ecosystem actors. It includes basic facts, findings, challenges’ and suggestion for strategies and approaches, hands-on sections are followed by short summaries and key points.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-
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Långsamt våld : Om trafiken och klimatförändringarna
- 2024
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Ingår i: Texter om våld. - Örebro : Centrum för våldsstudier, Örebro universitet. - 2004-3775. ; :1, s. 80-86
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Trots att många städer och kommuner uppmanar sina invånare att cykla, gå och åka kollektivt för hälsans och miljöns skull, är bilen fortfarande det vanligaste transportmedlet i Sverige. Trots en ökad elektrifiering av bilflottan transporterar vi oss främst med hjälp av bensin- och dieseldrivna motorer, vilka släpper ut luftföroreningar som skadar vår hälsa och som bidrar till klimatförändringar. Vägtrafiken står för den största delen av energianvändningen från transporter i Sverige, över 60% av dessa står personbilstrafiken för. Den här texten handlar om vägtrafikens negativa inverkan på miljön och människors välbefinnande. Målet är att diskutera vad våld kan vara genom att beakta de växthusgasutsläpp och klimatförändringar som följer i vägtrafikens kölvatten, närmare bestämt som en form av långsamt våld. Att betona våldets långsamhet möjliggör att lyfta fram fenomen som vanligtvis inte förstås som våld, men som över tid kan ha synnerligen våldsamma effekter på såväl miljö, djur och människor.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-
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Manliga maktdemonstrationer i trafiken
- 2017
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Ingår i: Ikaros. - Åbo : Folkets bildningsförbund. - 1796-1998. ; :3, s. 12-13
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Masculinity and Autonomous Vehicles : A Degendered or Resegregated Future System of Automobility?
- 2018
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Ingår i: Transfers. - New York : Berghahn Books. - 2045-4813 .- 2045-4821. ; 8:1, s. 44-63
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article addresses the anthropomorphization and interpellative experience of cars and trucks, in order to meet future mobility challenges. Autonomous vehicles offer an emancipatory opportunity within a wider movement of degendering and regendering motor vehicles. We argue that autonomous vehicles can challenge the foundations of a gendered economy founded on masculinity, speed, pleasure, and embodiment. Rather than thinking in terms of a process of demasculinization, this article anticipates a regendering and resegregation through which certain forms of masculine gendered economies of pleasure will lose ground and others will gain. A core question in this article asks who will be in the driver’s seat of future systems of automobility as the control of the vehicle is gradually being transferred from the driver to digital control systems and intelligent roads.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Masculinity in Scandinavian tech entrepreneurship : male technology entrepreneurs negotiating gender (in)equality
- 2024
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Ingår i: International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship. - Leeds : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 1756-6266 .- 1756-6274.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: Both entrepreneurship and technology are significantly gendered, and when combined in technology entrepreneurship, they make up a fundamentally masculine field. This article investigates men tech entrepreneurs' negotiations of gender and gender (in)equality. The purpose is to gain knowledge on masculinity in tech entrepreneurship and to explore what role this might play in any change towards more gender-equal entrepreneurship.Design/methodology/approach: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten Swedish and Norwegian male tech entrepreneurs in tech incubators. The interviews dealt with gender (in)equality and masculinity in tech entrepreneurship. The data were coded in NVivo and inductively analysed using thematic analysis. We apply a social constructivist understanding of gender.Findings: We categorise the male entrepreneurs' views of gender equality along “privileged”, “paradoxical” and “potential” articulations of gender (in)equality. Building on these articulations, we discuss the potential entrepreneurial men and masculinities could have for changing gender inequality in the Scandinavian tech entrepreneurship context. The findings are applicable to several entrepreneurial contexts.Originality/value: The study contributes to further the theoretical understanding of tech entrepreneurship as a gendered phenomenon, its dynamics and its potential for change, particularly in promoting gender equality in tech entrepreneurship. Empirically, it investigates the perceptions about gender (in)equality and gender as negotiated concepts amongst male tech entrepreneurs.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Men, Automobility, Movements, and the Environment : Imagining (un)sustainable, automated transport futures
- 2019
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Ingår i: Unsustainable Institutions of Men. - London : Routledge. - 9781138093003 ; , s. 227-254
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The place of ecological and environmental concerns have not usually been at the centre of debates and analyses of men, masculinities, and global and transnational processes of power, even though men and masculinities have played a key role in environmental damage. Accordingly, there is an urgent need for more research, analysis and action on ecological and environmental questions, ‘green’ issues, sustainability, and climate change, and how these link to men and masculinities. Against this background, this chapter addresses sustainability in relation to intersections of men and the environment, and with emphasis on movements and transport futures. The current transport system not only supports and enacts the predominant global form of ‘quasi-private’ mobility that subordinates other less resource intense means of movement, it also causes damaging effects on the environment locally and globally. Central actors are to an overwhelmingly degree men of power, and men that dominate andcontrol its interlinked centres, such as the auto-, oil-and road industry. However, while the automobile and automobility have changed the world, self-driving cars and related automations are imagined as the next major transportation technology revolution. In the context of automated transport futures, the balance of power between state bodies, the auto-industry and power enactments by individual men, are likely to change.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Men, Movements and Automation : Imagining (un)sustainable transport futures
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This presentation addresses sustainability in relation to intersections of men, movements and transport futures. As an unsustainable system, transport not only support and enacts the predominant global form of ‘quasi-private’ mobility that subordinates other less resource intense means of movement, it also cause damaging effects on the environment locally and globally (Urry 2004). Central actors are to an overwhelmingly degree men of power, men that dominate and control its interlinked centres, such as the auto-, oil- and road industry. To critically consider how these institutions not only are gendered, but also changing, is therefore important.The relations between men, movements and transport put focus on the complexity of power and power resources in relation to technology and technical institutions more generally. While the automobile managed to change the world, self-driving vehicles are imagined as the next major transportation technology revolution. This technology is imagined to ‘solve’ many gendered problems associated with the current automobility system, such as congestions, pollution and ‘man-made’ risk taking. Against this background, the phenomenon of autonomous cars is here thought upon as challenging the foundations of a gendered car culture. Even though the automobilic system may be thought of as connecting many transnational centres of power, while also distributing power to individual men as car users, the ‘new’ technology is about to repudiate the power over the vehicles gradually and reassign it to the designers and engineers. In the context of transport, the balance between power enforcements by state bodies, the auto-industry and power enactments by individual men, are likely to change. Scenarios of “re-gendering and re-segregation” (see Balkmar & Mellström forthcoming) are discussed where certain institutions and forms of men’s power will lose ground and others will become more foregrounded.References:Balkmar, Dag & Mellström, Ulf (forthcoming), Re-gendering the relation between men, masculinity and cars? On autonomous vehicles and emancipatory challenges, forthcoming in Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies.Urry, John (2004) The ‘System’ of Automobility, Theory, Culture & Society,Vol. 21(4/5): 25–39.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-
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Men on the move : masculinities, (auto)mobility and car cultures
- 2019
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Ingår i: Routledge International Handbook on Masculinity Studies<em></em>. - Abingdon Oxon/New York : Routledge. - 9781315165165
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As more societies around the globe will have to reduce the dominance of motorized transport for more sustainable mobilities, masculinity studies have much to contribute towards engaging more fully with mobility and transport issues, not least the many ways in which technologies of movement relates to men, masculinities and (un)sustainable transport futures. Against this background, the chapter begins with a brief note on gendered mobilities and transport more generally, then moves on to discuss the connections between men, masculinity and automobility, followed by a section that focuses on driving, emotions and risk-taking. The chapter ends with a discussion on the implications of a transport future populated with increasingly automated vehicles, including what the implications for men and masculinities may be.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Mobilitet på lika villkor? Om jämlikhet och makt i transportpolitiken
- 2016
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- De senaste årens jämställdhetspolitiska målsättningar inom transportområdet har väckt frågor om mobilitet och makt. Utgångspunkten är att alla människor, oavsett kön, ska ha samma möjlighet att påverka sin egen mobilitet. Frågan är dock vilka maktdimensioner som inte ryms inom ramen för dessa jämställdhetspolitiska målsättningar. På vilka sätt möjliggör och begränsar jämställdhetspolitiken att tillvarata olika resenärers intressen och erfarenheter? På vilka sätt rymmer olika mobilitetsformer också maktdimensioner kopplat till klass, ålder och/eller etnicitet? Vilka implikationer får det för vad som satsas på politiskt och i samhällsplaneringen? Under presentation diskuterar vi dessa frågor i relation till exempel från pågående forskning om cykling, mobilitet, planering och makt.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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My Better Entrepreneneurial Ecosystem : A Workshop on How to Promote an Inclusive Entrepreneurship Ecosystem
- 2022
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- My Better Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: A Workshop on How to Promote an Inclusive Entrepreneurship Ecosystem (Tool 3). A workshop instruction (part of a three-part tool-kit developed). The main aim of the workshop is threefold; to spur collaboration and exchange among ecosystem actors; to enhance knowledge and learning, and finally; to co-create solutions to inspire change in individual actors as well as joint efforts to promote an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem. Target audience: main facilitator and organizer of workshop.
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Negotiating the ‘plastic rocket’ : masculinity, car styling and performance in the Swedish modified car community
- 2014
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Ingår i: Norma. - London : Routledge. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 9:3, s. 166-177
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article adds new knowledge on the ways that car modifiers negotiate their cars in elation to design, power and performance as qualities that make cars attractive. Inorder to understand the complex ways in which masculinity and cars co-constitute asculine subjectivities and communities, the article uses the modifier-car as a tool to discuss how certain ways of modifying and personifying cars create links between masculinity and cars at risk in male-dominated communities. Despite the fact that modified cars may share the looks and sounds of typical racing cars – and therefore appear to encompass some of the most convincing elements of power in automobile systems, namely the capacity for risk-taking – it is rather an alleged lack of power ascribed to some versions of modified cars –the plastic rocket–that stand out as a risk to constructions of modifier masculinity. Viewed as a feminized car, the plastic rocket has come to be negotiated as an inauthentic, foreign, powerless and vulgarexample of modifying cars compared to the Swedish modified car community’s working-class self-image. At the very core of the plastic rocket is a threat to modifier masculinity which is the inability to back up one’s looks with strength. It is argued that the discourses formed around the plastic rocket indicate ‘queer’ possibilities in the ways cars extend male bodies.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-
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On Men and Cars : An Ethnographic Study of Gendered, Risky and Dangerous Relations
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- It is well known that young men constitute a high-risk group in terms of accidents involving both themselves and others. But comparatively little is known about the roles of gender, masculinity and automobility in reproducing or subverting such particularly risky performances of identity. The study aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of how gender, primarily masculinity, is interrelated with car-related identities, practices and material constructions. Contributing with qualitative insights, this study explores the ways in which gendered individuals and cars co-constitute one another in a particular context, the community of Swedish car modifiers. By using an ethnographic approach, this thesis investigates the lives of young and middle-aged car enthusiasts who invest considerable time, money, skill and passion in modifying, showing and driving their cars. The material stems from fieldwork carried out at car shows, in cars, on online modified-car forums and in garages between 2006 and 2008. In total, 53 men and 14 women between the ages of 19 and 60 make up the informants.The study shows how gender, in particular masculinity, is reproduced and negotiated in the modifiers’ attempts to become “unique” subjects through making their own versions of the car. Cars are not only a means of self-expression and constructing identity, but serve to build community and regulate relations between, primarily, men through competition at car shows and when driving. The study examines the reproduction of craftsmanship as a purified ideal that distinguishes car modifiers as a “special kind” of men, a figure that takes its form through intersecting imaginaries of Swedishness, class and masculinity. To rely on one’s own ideas and hands represented a more authentic way of creating one’s dream car in a heavily commercialised culture. Constructions of masculinity in driving are explored in its profoundly embodied, emotional and dangerous aspects developed in the context of men, cars and risk-taking. The personalised car is shown to generate different forms of risk-taking, which are also productive of counter-discourses on dangerous and risky driving.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-
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On the road to sustainable mobility : shared space, gendered conflicts and micro-politics in everyday traffic interaction
- 2014
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- When cyclists begin to take up more space in traffic than before, conflicts appear. In ‘cycling friendly’ Sweden, there have been media reports about hatred against cyclists when describing the antagonism between (male) cyclists and (male) car drivers, as well as between cyclists and pedestrians, in traffic-dense environments. Despite the current political renaissance of cycling in Sweden, the proportion of personal trips in which the bike is the main mode of transport has remained largely unchanged over the past fifteen years. This has in part been linked to cyclists’ experiences of insecurity in traffic space. Therefore, conflicts between more or less vulnerable road users are becoming increasingly important to investigate in a society where car normativity needs to be challenged in favor of more sustainable travel.The aim of this presentation is to, based on Swedish media material, interviews and cyclists online discussion-forums, present the risk-negotiations that cyclists perform and to discuss their situation in a car-normative environment from a gender and violence perspective. What forms of risk negotiations do cyclists perform in their everyday traffic environment? How can this be understood in relation to gender and violence? The presentation argues that cyclists are being positioned in contradictory ways: both as vulnerable and exposed, as well as particularly dangerous road users in need of disciplining and interventions. The results suggest that not only do cyclists negotiate their situation by viewing themselves as drivers would, namely as more or less invisible. They are also subjected to what has been called ‘cycling hate’: discursive and even physical violence directed towards cyclists for taking up ‘too much’ traffic space from motorists. Hence, the act of swapping our everyday modes of transport for more environmentally sustainable alternatives implies a challenge to normative assumptions in a car-normative environment, including shifts in, masculinities and men’s road practices.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-
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On the road to sustainable mobility : shared space, conflicts and micro-politics in everyday traffic interaction
- 2014
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Contemporary transport policy interventions in Swedish cities have lately come to contest the car hegemony in favor for more sustainable ways of moving about. Cycling is often argued to be one of the answers to the problem of unsustainable automobility. However, when cyclists take up more space in traffic than before, conflicts appear. In Sweden, the media reporting’s goes as far as to speak about ‘cycling hate’ in some cities, to describe the antagonism between cyclists and car drivers and between cyclists and pedestrians. This project investigates what these everyday conflicts look like, the impact of gender and what gendered implications come to mean in the much needed change towards more sustainable mobility.Research on gender has much to benefit from engaging more in issues concerning sustainability and mobility. Both car travelling and the ideas of freedom and movement associated with the car are persistently linked to a masculine domain and masculine identity. Hence, a shift from cars to more sustainable mobility also encompasses related shifts in masculinities and men’s practices. Theoretically, the project links masculinity theory with the sociology of sensory mobilities, including theories on gendered risk-taking and gendered mobility more generally.The study analyzes cyclists and motorist’s narratives and embodied experiences of issues related to shared traffic space. The informants are (foremost) men of different age groups and family situations who commute by bike and car, or work as professional drivers. The material is generated by using ethnographic methods in two Swedish cities, Stockholm and Linköping. The questions asked relate to issues around entitlement to space, disciplinary practices, embodiment, cooperation and conflicts in traffic. In conclusion, the project presents an analysis of intersectional power orders with respect to gender, age, place and mobility, thus focusing on what happens when protected and unprotected road users are assumed to share and negotiate public space.
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