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- Danielsson, Erna, 1954-, et al.
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Krishanteringens logiker i hanteringen av migraitonen hösten 2015 : En kritisk analys
- 2020
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Ingår i: Genus, risk och kris. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144124995 ; , s. 77-95
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Syftet med detta kapitel är att analysera och diskutera de processer genom vilka krishanteringen verkar och de styrningsrelationer som krishanteringsretoriken grundas i och genererar. Till vår hjälp tar vi Dorothy Smiths institutionella etnografi och kritisk riskteori. Fallet vi utgår från är en utvärdering som vi författare gjorde av Myndighetens för samhällsskydd och beredskaps insatser under hösten 2015 när ett ovanligt stort antal personer från andra länder sökte asyl i Sverige.
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- Gidlund, Katarina L, 1967-, et al.
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Posing the problems of –e, : eParticipation in everyday life
- 2011
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Ingår i: IADIS International Conference.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A lot of research into different aspects of modern society, and our ability to participate in its becoming, is today carrying the prefix of “e”, for example eSociety and eParticipation. “e” is though often treated as a fixed category rarely problemized. In this paper we want to highlight some of the implications of such a treatment of “e” and suggest a different analytical approach in order to analyse how “e” are intertwined with other social, cultural and economic structures. We propose a study that goes beyond the arranged, the established, the expected, and the wanted. To analyse eParticipation from the viewpoint of everyday life in combination with a power analysis of the discourse surrounding it offers both theoretical and methodological innovation in understanding a today widespread idea and could as such contribute to widening the dimensions acknowledged in relation to the concept.
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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, 1971-, et al.
(författare)
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20 years of studies of risk and intersectionality
- 2022
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Ingår i: Book of Abstracts. - 9788660224400 ; , s. 62-
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper maps a current trend in risk research, namely intersectional analysis of risk. In the last decades the concept of risk has spread into almost all kinds of societal domains. The original focus on technical and environmental risks has transferred to areas such as health, crime, regulation, social inequality, public and social policy, and global risk as well as the management of risks in everyday life and intimate relationships. Scientific advances and the global media have together created a long string of alarms about risks of different magnitude: from more recent the Covid 19 pandemic, to terrorist threats. The distribution and impact of these risks are not equal, instead they tend to follow and reinforce already existing structural inequalities. In the wake of this development we have seen a growing body of feminist and intersectional approaches in the study of risk. The two perspectives informs each other: On the one hand, the intersectional perspective advance risk research by clarifying how new complexities in the reproduction of social inequalities brought about by globalization and the intersections between social class, gender, ethnicity, and other social categorisations, are connected to the production of risks. Risk research, on the other hand, inform intersectional analysis by clarifying the mechanisms in risk governance that are reproducing old inequalities (i.e., class and gender) and producing new inequalities. Through a systematic literature review, this paper aims to map insights and viewpoints from scholars regarding intersectional analyses of risks associated with inequality on an individual, group or community level, including analyses of individual perception and behaviour, policy, mass media and discourses.
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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, 1971-, et al.
(författare)
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A diagnosic framework for eGovernment management
- 2008
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on e-Society 2008. - Algarve : IADIS Press. - 9789728924553 ; , s. 3-8
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- As earlier research has shown, the ways that local leaders and managers translate the overarching idea of eGovernment cause significant consequences for the overall implementation process. In our own research it has become obvious that inside both the translation and the enactment process are invaluable clues for the eGovernment management embedded. Our findings indicate that it is important to consider managers as local mediators of mega trends and that it is necessary to create knowledge about the diverse translation processes and, by doing so, emphasize enactment rather than vision. In this article we suggest that a method called A diagnostic framework for eGovernment management could be a useful method for researchers as well as eGovernment managers to increase the understanding of the enactment process.
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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, 1971-
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"e" i retorik och praktik. : Elektronisk förvaltning i översättning.
- 2009
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The overall purpose of this study is to contribute to the discussion of eGovernment implementation by making the implicit organisational micro dynamic processes involved in the framing and implementation of eGovernment explicit. I want to highlight the important process trough which eGovernment is framed and translated by organisational members and in what way it effects different divisions of practice. To do so, two different analytical aspects of organisational life, the rhetoric of management and the reality of work practices are used as a theoretical context for analysing some implications of eGovernment implementation. These analytical dimensions of organisational life are used to discuss a case study looking at the implementation of eGovernment in a local Swedish municipality. The main contribution of this thesis is a theorisation of how to understand the organisational micro dynamic processes involved in the implementation of eGovernment in public administration. New insights could be gained, for researchers and practioners, by analysing the transformation of practice as an ongoing process characterised by micro-political translation processes involving actors as well as actions and meanings in both rhetoric and practice.
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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, 1971-, et al.
(författare)
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Intersektionell riskteori
- 2020
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Ingår i: Genus, risk och kris. - : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144124995 ; , s. 217-237
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Kapitlets syfte är att presentera hur ett ramverk av intersektionell riskteori kan bidra till en djupare förståelse av hur risk sammanflätas med rådande maktstrukturer och därför ofta tenderar att reproducera normer om kön, etnicitet och klass. Intersektionell riskteori innebär att risk och krisforskning sammanförs med begrepp och analysmetoder utvecklade inom det genusvetenskapliga kunskapsfältet, inte minst intersektionalitet. Genom att införliva intersektionalitet i riskteori kan vi klargöra hur riskkonfigurationer skapar nya ojämlikheter, medan gamla strukturer förblir oförändrade. I ramverket ses risk som en lins genom vilken maktrelationer, och deras samverkan, kan studeras. En sådan analys är viktig då risker och kriser också påverkar samhället och människors sociala relationer.
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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, 1971-, et al.
(författare)
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Leaders as mediators of megatrends : a diagnostic framework
- 2009
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Ingår i: International Journal of Electronic Government Research. - : IGI Global. - 1548-3886 .- 1548-3894. ; 5:4, s. 28-42
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The idea of eGovernment is moving rapidly within supra-national and national and local institutions. At every level leaders are interpreting the idea, attempting to grasp either the next step or indeed the very essence of the idea itself. This article outlines a diagnostic framework, resting on three different dimensions; translation, interpretative frames and sensemaking, to create knowledge about the translation processes and by doing so, emphasize enactment rather than vision. The diagnostic framework is then empirically examined to explore its possible contribution to the understanding of the complexity of leader’s translating and mediating the idea of eGovernment in their local context. In conclusion it is noted that the diagnostic framework reveals logic of appropriateness between local mediators, eGovernment, different areas of interest and appropriate organizational practices.
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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, 1971-, et al.
(författare)
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Managing the Covid-19 pandemic through individual responsibility : the consequences of a world risk society and enhanced ethopolitics
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Risk Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1366-9877 .- 1466-4461. ; 23:7-8, s. 1031-1035
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- At the end of March 2020, international media present Swedish management of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic as soft and irresponsible. Thus, Sweden, which is usually regarded as exceptionally risk averse and cautious, has chosen an unexpected risk management approach. The aim of this article is to reflect on how the Swedish government has managed the Covid-19 pandemic until early April 2020 from two theoretical perspectives, the risk society thesis and governmentality theory. We make a brief review of how previous pandemics have been managed compared to Covid-19 and try to understand the consequences of the Swedish handling of present pandemic with a particular focus on the governance of the pandemic and the exercise of power rather than definite risk management strategies during the pandemic.
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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, 1971-, et al.
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Mapping of Risk Perception and Assessment : Inspiring Methods for National Level Risk Mapping in Sweden
- 2018
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Our modern society is exposed to multiple hazards and risks. To manage these successfully, it is important to have a good overview of the risks that potentially affect our society and how they are perceived and valued. This pilot study investigated possible ways of mapping and analysing risks that Swedish society and its inhabitants are exposed to and aware of. The aim was to capture complementary perspectives on accidents and crises, and to provide a point of departure for future planning and data collection strategies. To achieve this, previous studies are mapped and critically assessed and an example of a method of analysis is presented. The following questions have guided the work: 1) What methods are currently available to describe risks at a broader societal level? 2) What are the limitations, advantages and disadvantages of these existing methods? 3) Which of these methods are of relevance to Sweden? Summarizing previous studies, the report includes examples of methods, structures and data visualizations for mapping risks nationally or in larger regions. The report analyses 11 types of existing study or report as a source of inspiration and to scope existing gaps for potential improvement. The report makes recommendations for national level risk mapping in a Swedish context, supported by an empirical example.
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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, 1971-, et al.
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Media Portrayals of Unaccompanied Child Refugees : Exploring the security/migration nexus through the gendering and racialization of risks in Sweden.
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this paper is to develop a theoretical understanding of how the discursive construction of risk in relation to the migration/security nexus is entangled with processes of othering. Within the Swedish discourse about unaccompanied refugee minors, and its relation to masculinity, racism, and nationalism, risk framing practices are playing a central role. In the Swedish context the word ‘immigrant’ is frequently discussed in terms of risk, and is often associated with discourses of integration, segregation, and ‘Outsiderhood’, especially for people with an origin in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. This type of discourses act through moral norms; however, the imperative of security measures as a response to risk is carried out in relation to collective subject positions of dangerous ‘others’ and/or (un)precarious lives.Drawing on Hunt’s argument (2003) about the hybridity of moral discourses and discourses of risk, we argue that morally infused discourses of risk are central in order to understand the migrant/security nexus, used as a means to create difference and distinction. By analysing how risk is intertwined with the processes whereby age, gender and race, are constructed in relation to unaccompanied child refugees our analyses show how logics of risk are intersecting with discourses of the immigrant to produce a particular framing of these children as ‘at risk’ and/or ‘risky’. Unaccompanied refugees (boys) are constructed as potential threats, as terrorists among other things, while unaccompanied girls are seen as at risk of being abused among other things. The migrant/security nexus has specific gendered conceptions that gives rise to particular strategies designed to profile and manage those labelled as ‘risky’ and at risk which also reproduce the racist formations in the Swedish society.
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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, 1971-, et al.
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Methods for National Level Risk Mapping
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Our modern society is exposed to multiple hazards and risks. In order to manage risks successfully, it is important to have a good overview of potential risks that our society is subject to and how they are perceived and valued. The aim of this paper is to investigate possible ways to map and analyse risks that the Swedish society and its inhabitants are exposed to and aware of. To achieve this, previous studies are mapped and critically assessed. The following questions have guided the work: What are the currently existing methods to describe risks on a broader societal level? What are the gaps of these currently existing methods, their advantages and disadvantages? What methods can be relevant for Sweden? The paper analyses previous studies including examples of methods, structure and visualization of data to map risk nationally or in larger regions. The paper concludes with recommendations applicable in Swedish context to prepare a national level risk mapping.
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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, 1971-, et al.
(författare)
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Swedish exceptionalism, herd immunity and the welfare state : A media analysis of struggles over the nature and legitimacy of the COVID-19 pandemic strategy in Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Current Sociology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0011-3921 .- 1461-7064. ; 69:4, s. 529-546
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Compared to many other countries, Sweden has managed the COVID-19 pandemic with no lockdowns, less regulation and more voluntary action expected of citizens and organizations. In this article, the authors explore media representations of national preventative strategies and how they were anchored in broader discourses. The article aims to analyse the development of crisis narratives and struggles over legitimacy during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden. Employing a critical discourse analysis, the authors investigate the editorials and opinion articles in Sweden’s largest morning newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, during the spring of 2020. The authors combine descriptive analyses of the development of the crisis narratives with discursive analyses of conflicting ideologies in the debate. The study indicates that three crisis narratives dominated the debates: health, the economy and democracy. Within and between these narratives, struggles over legitimacy in the handling of COVID-19 were captured in several conflicting perspectives or paradoxes: Swedish exceptionalism versus the world, centralization versus decentralization and herd immunity versus herd humanism.
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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, 1971-, et al.
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The language of risk and vulnerability in covering the covid-19 pandemic in swedish mass media in 2020 : Implications for the sustainable management of elderly care
- 2021
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI AG. - 2071-1050. ; 13:19
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic—in terms of climate, economy and social aspects—cannot yet be fully assessed, but we can already see how the pandemic is intensifying already existing socio-economic inequalities. This applies to different population groups, particularly the elderly. In this article, our goal is to identify the linguistic constructions of elderly citizens in Swedish mass media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 from a sociological and corpus linguistics perspective. More specifically, our aim is to explore the discursive formations of the elderly in Swedish media during the pandemic and how these formations relate to risk as well as the discursive constructions of in-and out-groups. Drawing on corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS), inspired by discourse–historical analysis (DHA), we examine the media coverage of COVID-19 by three Swedish newspapers published during 2020: Aftonbladet, a national tabloid; Svenska Dagbladet, a national morning newspaper; and Dalademokraten, a regional morning newspaper. In this article, the news articles and their messages are considered performative to the extent that—for example, at the same time as a story is expressed—the elderly are at risk of becoming seriously ill due to COVID-19; moreover, a position of vulnerability for the elderly is simultaneously created. The result reveals that the elderly were constructed as an at-risk group, while visitors, personnel and nursing homes were constructed as being risky or a threat to the elderly.
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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, 1971-, et al.
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Thoughts about intersectionality and risk. Interviews with key scholar
- 2024
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Ingår i: Journal of Risk Research. - : Routledge. - 1366-9877 .- 1466-4461.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since the early twenty first century, feminist and intersectional approaches to risk research have gained momentum, initially emerging from studies on HIV risks within health studies. Over the past decade, these approaches have expanded to other fields. As editors of this special issue, Katarina Giritli Nygren and Anna Olofsson introduce a reflection piece anchoring the issue. The reflection piece includes insights from seven influential scholars in the intersectionality, equality, and risk fields: Lisa Bowleg, Dean Curran, Kelly Hannah Moffat, Claudia Mitchell, Lori Peek, Ignacio Rubio C., and Jens O. Zinn. Each scholar offers personal reflections on the development of intersectional analyses in risk research, highlighting key areas for future research. Three themes emerged: challenging risk as a neutral concept, addressing the complexity of risks in everyday life, and navigating between social structures and identity struggles. Contributors argue for contextualising risk within broader societal structures, embracing complexity, and understanding the intertwined nature of inequalities. Some, but not all, also advocate for intersectionality as a critical concept for studies of systemic change and equality. Overall, the reflections underscore the importance of centring intersectionality in understanding the dimensions of inequality and risk. The piece concludes by calling for further conversations and reflections to deepen our understanding of risk mobilisations and their links to inequality, both locally and globally. Such conversations can challenge assumptions and revitalize risk research, envisioning alternative worlds that prioritize equality.
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- Larsson, Emelie
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Risky distances : Peripheralisation and normalisation in the case of a maternity ward closure in Sweden
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis explores risk, peripheralisation and normalisation in the case of the maternity ward closure at Sollefteå Hospital, located inland in the Swedish region of Västernorrland. When the ward closed in 2017, it drew significant media attention and political discussions on the continuous cuts to Swedish maternity care and the growing economic gap between urban and rural areas – discussions that actualised questions of power and risk. This thesis, building on newspaper articles and interviews with expectant parents and midwives in Sollefteå, uses feminist risk theory to 1) investigate the experiences of those directly affected by the closure, i.e. expectant parents and midwives at the ward and 2) explore how the theoretical approach of ‘doing risk’ can be used to deepen our understanding of the processes of peripheralisation and normalisation. The two aims are addressed in four empirical studies and in the Discussion and Concluding remarks. I conclude that three peripheralisation processes were at work in the closure of BB Sollefteå: peripheralisation of women’s risks, periheralisation of people in rural municipalities from the welfare state and peripheralisation of small-ward work practices in the healthcare discourse. I also found that the closure made Swedish norms on childbirth and discourses on family visible, predominantly manifested through the ‘gender-equal nuclear family’ norm, which repeated in the material. Further, addressing the thesis’ second aim, I conclude that normalisation and peripheralisation can be seen as regulatory practices, which in different ways are structured around risk and power. In this context, ‘doing risk’ helps to theorize how these concepts intersect, and relate to ideology, and thus contributes to a better understanding of ideological processes in contemporary societies.
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- Lindblad Gidlund, Katarina, et al.
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Swedish eGovernment in Public Use
- 2011. - 1
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Ingår i: Information Society and Globalization. - Zagrep : Political Science Research Centre. - 9789537022242 ; , s. 93-124
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- Lindblad Gidlund, Katarina, 1967-, et al.
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The myth of eGovernment
- 2009
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Ingår i: Handbook of Research on ICT-Enabled Transformational Government: A Global Perspective. - Hershey : Information Science Reference. - 9781605663906 ; , s. 313-328
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The authors of this chapter suggest that e-government is best understood as a mythologised megatrend. They argue that it has become a symbol for the modernised government of today. A symbol which, in some sense has to be demythologized in order to be realised. The authors suggest that by analysing general and specific interpretations, the myth can be partially unravelled, which is illustrated by a large scale study based on 2624 employees in public administration. The authors suggest a loose coupling between the general and the specific level.
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- Montelius, Elin, 1983-
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Att göra det materiella virtuellt : Subjektifiering, moral och motstånd i konstruktionen av den riskfyllda mathållningen
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Den här avhandlingen syftar till att bidra till förståelsen av hur risk konstrueras och förändras i diskussioner om mathållning på nätforum och vilka subjektspositioner som görs möjliga då risk uttrycks i relation till klass och kön. Mat har kommit att få stor uppmärksamhet i samhällsdiskussionen, men i det moderna samhället är det inte bristen på mat som står i fokus, utan snarare de val människor måste göra relaterade till mat. Vad vi äter har kommit att bli en signal om vem vi är och vem vi vill vara, men diskussioner kring mat handlar också om vad som betraktas som riskfyllt eller inte. Därtill har mat länge använts för att göra distinktioner mellan människor baserat på maktstrukturer som klass och kön. Avhandlingen är inspirerad av en feministisk poststrukturalistisk ansats vilken används för att undersöka hur maktrelationer och subjektifieringsprocesser uttrycks i konversationer på nätbaserade diskussionsforum.Genom att ta avstamp i den kritiska riskforskningen samt i genusvetenskaplig forskning visar avhandlingen hur risk konstrueras genom riskperformativ. Riskperformativ, uttryckta i det virtuella rummet, medför att olika ”sanningar” konstrueras runt mathållningar vilket får konsekvenser får vilka subjektspositioner som möjliggörs. Genom riskperformativen konstruerats olika förväntningar om vad som kan och bör sägas för att konstituera sig som ett ansvarsfullt och moraliskt subjekt. Därigenom görs olika riskpositioner, det vill säga klass- och könskodade subjektspositioner som konstitueras i relation till riskkonstruktioner, tillgängliga. Analysen visar också hur utrymme för betydelseförskjutningar och motstånd mot riskkonstruktioner skapas i diskussionerna, vilket sker genom dels bekännelsen som teknik och dels genom en teknik som här kallas en responsibiliserad paternalism varigenom det individualiserade ansvaret för upprätthållandet av självreglering inför risk uttrycks i samverkan med kollektivt upprätthållna klass- och könsnormer. I avhandlingen analyseras därigenom hur kön och klass görs i samverkan med riskkonstruktioner på sätt där dessa förstärker varandra.
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- Nyhlén, Sara, 1980-, et al.
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Human Security, Risk and Sustainability in the Swedish Policy for the Arctic
- 2018
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Ingår i: Human and Societal Security in the Cirumpolar Arctic. - : Brill Academic Publishers. - 9789004363045 ; , s. 76-99
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although four million people live and work in the Arctic, it has become a ‘new’ place to discover and secure for the nation-states and companies that want to explore how to exploit newly available resources and territory as the ice melts. We have witnessed an increase in policies regarding the Arctic from many European and other countries throughout the last decade or more. Sweden became the last of the so-called Arctic states to launch a policy for the Arctic in 2011, and this chapter analyses this policy from a critical perspective. A seemingly ‘neutral’ language may characterize policies, but deriving from a feminist intersectional risk analysis, we argue that policy analysis is a key task for understanding contemporary power structures. By identifying enabling discourses, mobilizing metaphors and underlying assumptions, this analysis shows how Sweden’s policy produces normative constructions of environmental risks anchored in time- and context-dependent beliefs. The strategy adapts to and uses the dominant discourses about the Arctic; it puts risks such as climate change, energy shortage, and human and societal security in the centre while simultaneously positioning Sweden as having the best solutions for managing these risks in a sustainable way. The notion of security drifts towards risk management through arguments about developing and applying sustainable practices, and the strategy uses a language that echoes the language used in stories about conquests and colonial exploration of the Arctic written centuries ago.
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- Olofsson, Anna, 1971-, et al.
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Intersectional Risk Theory and Global Public Health
- 2023
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Ingår i: Handbook of Social Sciences and Global Public Health. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030967789
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter shows how intersectional risk theory (IRT) can contribute to a greater understanding of inequality in relation to health risks. IRT is based on a combination of feminist research and risk research. Compared to other theoretical frameworks, it also helps researchers to uncover how the intersections between risk and inequality are in fact mutually dependent and constituted. This chapter first shows the relevance of IRT to global public health research. Then, it introduces the theoretical framework and its methodological implications. To illustrate how IRT can be applied, it provides a concrete example of expert discourses on elective cesareans (ECS) in Sweden and Brazil. The example highlights the intersections between risk and hegemonic norms and social positions on gender, age, class, and so on. It also shows that the medical discourse on risk in relation to cesarean sections can be both global and local.
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- Olofsson, Anna, 1971-, et al.
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Swedish Policy for the Arctic : A Feminist Risk Analysis
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since 2007 there has been an increase in policies for the Arctic from many European and non-European countries. Sweden was the last of the Arctic states to launch a policy for the Arctic in 2011. While policies may be presented in ‘neutral language’ they are fundamentally political. In fact, a key task in order to understand contemporary power structures, is to trace the philosophical underpinnings of policy in order to capture its enabling discourses, mobilizing metaphors, underlying ideologies and uses. Drawing on feminist risk theory the aim is to analyze the Swedish policy for the Arctic to explore risk discourses about the Arctic and their performative practices through policymaking in Sweden. Feminist risk theory has been formulated in order to overcome the dividing lines of risk research and intersectionality. It highlights the need for analysis of the ‘doings’ of risk not only from the perspective of discourses that interpolate individuals into certain subject positions, but also from a perspective that acknowledges the power dimensions in the ‘doings’, and also recognizes that the performativity of risk takes place along lines of difference. It is also difficult not to acknowledge that risk theories are drawn from and, in turn, contribute to a particularly Western conceptualization of risk—one that is progressive, evidence-based, and rational, and situated historically and socially within a post-Enlightenment tradition of modernity, postmodernity, and development discourse. This has led us to question some of the underlying premises in the historical framing of not only risk but also the Arctic as a construct of the post-Enlightenment. Our analyses show the Swedish strategy adapts to and uses the dominant discourses about risks, such as climate change, human security as well as boarder societal security and energy shortage, while simultaneously positioning Sweden as the solution to manage these risks. Using an articulation that echoes the language used in stories about conquests of the Arctic that was written centuries ago, these ‘masculine fantasies’ are embedded in the policy and as a consequence is action and influence the Arctic region are enabled.
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- Öhman, Susanna, 1964-, et al.
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A Methodological Strategy for Exploring Intersecting Inequalities: An Example from Sweden
- 2018
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Ingår i: Zhurnal Issledovanii Sotsial'noi Politiki / The Journal of Social Policy Studies. - Moscow : National Research University, Higher School of Economics (HSE). - 1727-0634. ; 16:3, s. 501-516
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article explores the complex patterns of inequality in Sweden from an intersectional standpoint by developing a methodological strategy using data from quantitative national survey material. Intersectionality stands in contrast to the inductive and hypothesis-testing approaches, which tend to reproduce categories as having an essential and stable meaning. It is generally acknowledged that quantitative approaches to intersectionality are rare or in development. Quantitative analyses tend to disregard some of the theoretical cornerstones of intersectionality: in particular, the relational and fluid character of categories. This may be why intersectionality researchers tend to reject quantitative approaches altogether. To address this dilemma, Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) is applied as a means of linking objective structures to subjective experiences, and it is argued that this methodology is well suited to detecting and capturing social spaces of privilege and oppression. The result shows that this kind of quantitative approach to intersectional analysis can facilitate the exploration of inequalities and positions of privilege across populations and globally at particular times, as well as contributing to ontological and epistemological perspectives on intersectionality. By exploring what the category is said to describe and how these parts relate to other sub-categories, especially about time and place settings and their intersections, we were able to identify relationships between structures of oppression and subjective experiences at a particular time and in a particular place, which is important in understanding both inequalities and positions of privilege. These analyses not only illuminate the hegemonic structures of power that create subordinated and privileged positions but also help us to theorize the non-linear and stochastic relations between and within these positions. This methodological advance also has important implications for social policy.
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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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- Alirani, Gertrud, 1976-, et al.
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"Det är inte så lätt och samtidigt, det är inte så svårt" : Slutrapport från projektet: Ökade kunskaper om Östersunds kommuns integrationsservice
- 2019
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Syftet med studien har varit att skapa kunskap om hur användarna av Östersunds kommuns integrationsinsatser för nyanlända upplevs av användarna själva. Eftersom insatserna från integrationsservice varierar beroende på hur den nyanlända har kommit till kommunen har urvalet av informanter skett utifrån kategorierna: anläggningsboende (ABO), eget boende (EBO), anhöriginvandrad eller kvotflykting. Avsikten med studien är att dess resultat ska kunna användas för att utveckla integrationsservice verksamhet. Östersunds kommun har valt att organisera en del av integrationsarbetet med nyanlända genom integrationsservice. Det innebär att integrationsservice har ett särskilt ansvar för mottagandet av nyanlända kommunplacerade flyktingar som kommit genom anvisning från Migrationsverkets anläggningsboende (ABO) eller som kvotflykting.
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- Brännström, Lotta, 1973-, et al.
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Lived biographies of changing integration regimes : Migrant narratives ofinstitutional support and labor market in/exclusion in Sweden
- 2016
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study is to explore the interconnection between lived biographies and changing integration policies through migrant narratives on institutional support and labor market experiences. The approach applied in this study allows us to pay particular attention to the dynamic character of integration and to make links between personal, organizational and policy domains, analyzing the shifted integration regimes from the standpoint of migrants. The Swedish politics of integration has during the last year’s undergone vast changes and in 2010, the largest change in the Swedish history of integration policies was performed (etableringsreformen) which meant an increasingly emphasized focus on employment and workfare before welfare and the responsibility for new migrants was transferred from the municipalities to the employment service. As a consequence the rhetoric of integration in Sweden also changed, from what was in municipalities talked about as introduction, to what is now talked about as reception and establishment. By combining immigrants’ subjective views and evaluations with the trajectories of their work biographies, we will discuss changing integration regimes as ‘lived experiences’ of individuals who are subjected to and employed in different occupations that the different integration regimes produces.
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- Brännström, Lotta, 1973-, et al.
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LIVED EXPERIENCES OF CHANGING INTEGRATION POLICIES : Immigrant Narratives of Institutional Support and Labour Market Inclusion/Exclusion in Sweden
- 2018
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Migration Research. - : Helsinki University Press. - 1799-649X. ; 8:1, s. 25-34
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- This study aims to map, locate and make visible the everyday experiences of newly arrived immigrants in government-sponsored integration activities and to trace how these experiences are linked to changes in policy. The study pays particular attention to the dynamic nature of integration and draws links between personal, organisational and policy domains while analysing shifting integration policies from the standpoint of immigrants. Swedish integration policy has undergone vast changes during recent years as the government implements one of the largest changes in Swedish history, beginning in 2010. With this came an emphasis on employment and workfare over welfare. Consequently, the rhetoric of integration in Sweden also changed from what in municipalities was called an introduction to a sense of establishment. By examining the subjective views of immigrants, we discuss the lived experiences of individuals who are subjected to and employed in different occupations due to various integration regimes.
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- Degerman, Peter, 1960-, et al.
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Inledning
- 2020
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Ingår i: Kulturell hållbarhet – vad är det?. - Halmstad : Makadam Förlag. - 9789170612862
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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Forum för genusvetenskap - en jubilar i vardande : Tillsammans och på eget håll
- 2022
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Mid Sweden University’s Forum for Gender Studies (FGV) is aninterdisciplinary and intercampus platform from which to initiate and coordinate gender studies at the university and beyond. This volume is ananniversary number that aims to mobilize and re-vitalize Forum for genderstudies future research strategy. It collects stories form the past, directionsfor the future and arguments for continued solidarity work. “Solidarityinvolves commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if wedo not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we dolive on common ground.” (Sara Ahmed)
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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, et al.
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Doing and undoing risk : The mutual constitution of risk and heteronormativity in contemporary society
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Ingår i: Journal of Risk Research. - Abingdon : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1366-9877 .- 1466-4461. ; 20:3, s. 418-432
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- This paper develops the concepts of ‘doing’ and ‘undoing’ risk, a new approach to risk research that echoes the ‘doing gender’ of gender studies. In this way, we combine intersectional and risk theory and apply the new perspective to empirical material. To better explore the doing and undoing, or the performance, of risk, we will refer to practices that simultaneously (re)produce and hide socio-political norms and positions, played out in contemporary, hierarchical relations of power and knowledge. The aim is to develop a theoretical understanding of doing and undoing risk. The study makes use of transcripts from five focus group interviews with men and women, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people of different ages living in Sweden to develop a theory of ‘doing risk’. The doing of risk of our informants takes place within the frame of a hegemonic heteronormativity. The way that risks are perceived and done in everyday life therefore always needs to be read within a frame of prevailing structures of power. This counts for all of us as we are all part of the hegemonic power structures and thereby are both subject to the intersecting doings of risk and performatively reproducing these power structures in practice.
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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, 1971-
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eGovernmentality : on Electronic Administration in Local Government
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Ingår i: Electronic Journal of e-Government. - 1479-439X. ; 7:1, s. 55-64
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- As a consequence of the advance of information technology into the realm of public administration, we are now faced with a potential increase in efficiency of a scope and power not previously seen. The intentional use of information technology to modernise the public sector goes internationally by the name of e-Government. While e-Government’s greatest impact thus far has been to promote customer satisfaction, its guiding spirit is more ambitious, with the fundamental reorganisation of the entire public sector in its sights. The overall purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of how public administration at a local authority level adapts to impending e-Government by considering the discourses that are manifested and how they are used to understand and legitimise electronic administration. The present study uses critical discourse analysis to shed light on those discursive orders that are revealed in the course of deliberations on electronic administration at the local government level. On the one hand, it is possible to see electronic administration as a refinement - and a reform - of a bureaucracy’s techniques. On the other hand, it is equally possible to view it in the light of free market ideology.
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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, et al.
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Everyday places, heterosexist spaces, and risk in contemporary Sweden
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Ingår i: Culture, Health and Sexuality. - Abingdon : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1369-1058 .- 1464-5351. ; 18:1, s. 45-47
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- Subjective feelings of risk are a central feature of everyday life, and evidence shows that people who do not conform to contemporary normative notions are often more exposed to everyday risks than others. Despite this, normative notions are rarely acknowledged as risk objects. By drawing on the theory of ‘doing’ and ‘undoing’ risk, which combines intersectional and risk theory, this study contributes new perspectives on the everyday risks in contemporary society that face people who many would label as being ‘at risk’ – lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The study consists of five focus group interviews with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people of different ages in Sweden. Findings pinpoint risks and how these are done and un-done in different spheres of interviewees’ lives: the emotional risks prevailing in their private lives; the risk of discrimination at work and in relations with other institutions; and the risk of violence and harassment in public places. These risks are all related to the heteronormative order in which the mere fact of being lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender is perceived as a risk.
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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, 1971-, et al.
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Framåtblickande förändringsorienterade fantasier
- 2017
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Ingår i: Hållbarhetens många ansikten. - Sundsvall : Mid Sweden University. - 9789188527370 ; , s. 132-133
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, 1971-, et al.
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Gender Equality and Beyond : At the Crossroads of Neoliberalism, Anti-Gender Movements, "European" Values, and Normative Reiterations in the Nordic Model
- 2018
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Ingår i: Social Inclusion. - : Cogitatio. - 2183-2803. ; 6:4, s. 1-7
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The social-democratic-inspired "Nordic model", with its agenda for gender equality, has been an important example for the development of political interventions to transform society but at the same time, it has functioned as an emerging gender normalising and stabilising structure. In the last decade it has also become the focus of antigender movements and ethno-nationalistic parties both as emblematic for the Nordic nations as well as a threat that must be destroyed to save the nation. This issue will elaborate further on gender equality as a node, a floating signifier in powerful and often contradictory discourses. We are inspired by scholarships of hope in a dialogue with articles that search for realistic utopias that might be considered to be "beyond gender equality". The included articles engage with the messiness and crossroads of gender equality in relation to the work-line, territories, neo-liberalism, religion, the crisis of solidarity and the success of anti-genderism agenda.
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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, et al.
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Intersectional Approaches in Health-Risk Research : A Critical Review
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Ingår i: Sociology Compass. - : Wiley. - 1751-9020. ; 8:9, s. 1112-1126
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- The overall aim of this article is to explore how the intersectional approach is used in health-riskresearch. The concept has been recognized in health-risk research since the early 2000s, but not asmuch as in the broader field of health-inequality studies. However, in the past 5 years, Social Scienceand Medicine has published a series of review articles that argue for the necessity of bringingintersectional perspectives to the field of health-risk studies more generally and quantitative healthriskresearch in particular. Asking what it means for health-risk researchers to practiseintersectionality shows the implications of translating a theoretical approach across fields anddisciplines. When applying intersectional theory in relation to health-risks, the theoretical conceptualizationof health and risk are often very limited and treated as fixed categories – something thatbecomes problematic when taken within an intersectional framework. This does not mean that thiswork is unimportant, but rather that the link between theoretically driven intersectionality andempirical-focused health research is weak. In order to overcome the dividing lines of health-riskresearch and intersectionality, we argue for a new approach that echoes the ‘doing gender’ of genderstudies: doing risk.
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- Giritli Nygren, Katarina, 1971-
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Monotonized administrators and personalized bureaucrats in the everyday practice of e-government : ideal typical occupations and processes of closure and stabilization in a Swedish municipality
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Ingår i: Transforming Government. - Bingley UK : Emerald group publishing. - 1750-6166 .- 1750-6174. ; 4:4, s. 322-337
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- Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse everyday practices in e-government from a labour perspective in order to understand how administrative rationalization and citizen service become connected in the organizational restructuring of the labour process, namely job codification and specification and rule observation.Design/methodology/approach – The analysis applies an organizational e-government implementation perspective and labour process theory to an analysis of a Swedish municipality's implementation of e-government, using both qualitative and quantitative data.Findings – The main finding is the formulation of two distinct types of ideal employee – “monotonized administrators” and “personalized bureaucrats” – who carry e-government work in different directions according to administrative rationalization and the service offered citizens.Originality/value – The paper extends our knowledge of everyday practices in e-government from a labour perspective. It offers practitioners as well as researchers new insights by analysing the transformation of practice as an ongoing process, characterized by micro-political translation processes amongst actors, actions, and meanings in both rhetoric and practice.
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