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- Thörn, Håkan, et al.
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Constraints and possibilities for co-housing to address contemporary urban and ecological crises : A conclusion
- 2020
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Ingår i: Contemporary Co-housing in Europe : Towards Sustainable Cities? - Towards Sustainable Cities?. - London : Routledge. - 9781138325913 - 9780429450174 ; , s. 202-213
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this conclusion we argue that, while we have demonstrated in this book that definitions of co-housing as well as co-housing practices in different European countries vary, there are some general lessons to be learned for anyone interested in understanding or practising co-housing in the context of advanced capitalist societies. This conclusion has three parts: First, we address the questions asked in the introduction regarding the relation between contemporary co-housing ideas and practices and the discourse on sustainable urban development. Second, we address the questions asked in the introduction regarding the two key dimensions of co-housing, community and autonomy, as understood in relation to the broader contexts of civil society and urban governance. Third, we will conclude by paying particular attention to the constraints on co-housing produced by contemporary urban development regimes as well as the potentials of co-housing to contribute towards more just and ecologically sustainable cities.
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- Alm, Erika, 1975, et al.
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Cultural products in flux: an introduction
- 2016
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Ingår i: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research. - 2000-1525. ; 8:3, s. 187-192
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- Alm, Erika, et al.
(författare)
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Introduction
- 2020
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Ingår i: Pluralistic struggles in gender, sexuality and coloniality. - London, New York : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783030474324 - 9783030474317 ; , s. 1-18
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The focus of this book is on the many far from predictable transformative political processes on gender, sexuality and coloniality that grow out of the broad range of bodies and actors engaged in politics outside the hegemonic order and in everyday activities. These processes are not conducted by states, governments or transnational nongovernmental organisations; rather, they are examples of politics in-between states, organisations and national imagined communities. In this first chapter we will introduce some of the main themes, regarding these processes we in our joint research programme have worked on over the last couple of years.
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- Alm, Erika, et al.
(författare)
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Introduction
- 2021
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Ingår i: Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783030474324 ; , s. 1-18
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The focus of this book is on the many far from predictable transformative political processes on gender, sexuality and coloniality that grow out of the broad range of bodies and actors engaged in politics outside the hegemonic order and in everyday activities. These processes are not conducted by states, governments or transnational nongovernmental organisations; rather, they are examples of politics in-between states, organisations and national imagined communities. In this first chapter we will introduce some of the main themes, regarding these processes we in our joint research programme have worked on over the last couple of years.
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- Alm, Erika, 1975, et al.
(författare)
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Introduction (Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality)
- 2021
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Ingår i: Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality. Challenging Swedish Exceptionalism. - London, New York : Palgrave. - 9783030474317 ; , s. 1-18
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The focus of this book is on the many far from predictable transformative political processes on gender, sexuality and coloniality that grow out of the broad range of bodies and actors engaged in politics outside the hegemonic order and in everyday activities. These processes are not conducted by states, governments or transnational nongovernmental organisations; rather, they are examples of politics in-between states, organisations and national imagined communities. In this first chapter we will introduce some of the main themes, regarding these processes we in our joint research programme have worked on over the last couple of years.
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- Berg, Linda, 1974-, et al.
(författare)
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Contesting Secularism : Religious and Secular Binary Through Memory Work
- 2020
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Ingår i: Pluralistic struggles in gender, sexuality and coloniality. - London, New York : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783030474324 ; , s. 269-297, s. 269-297
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The notion of Sweden as a secular nation-state, or rather the linkage between notions of secularism and gender equality, is strong in public discourse. Within this frame, religion is located in a traditional past and often understood as a hindrance to liberal and modern values.In this chapter we focus on our own situatedness as feminist researchers living in Sweden and thereby explore how, where and why ideologies of secularism entangled with notions of European values and superiority become dominant. Inspired by the feminist tradition of memory work, an aim is to explore the boundary between the secular and the religious through our own experiences and from our location in Sweden. The aim is also to search for counter-memories, both in the doing of secular (gendered) selves as well as the ongoing production of the “religious other”.
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- Caldenby, Claes, et al.
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The social logic of space: community and detachment
- 2019
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Ingår i: Contemporary Co-housing in Europe Towards Sustainable Cities? Hagbert, P., Larsen, H. G., Thörn, H. and Wasshede, C. (eds.). - London : Routledge. - 9780429450174 ; , s. 163-182
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter argues that co-housing is a spatial organization that over a long time has shown some important characteristics, and that there is what could be called a ’social logic of space’ in co-housing. Two processes in the creation of ’commitment’ to a collective are identified: on the one hand, ’detaching’ from the surrounding context and, on the other hand, ’attaching’ to the collective. The early predecessors of co-housing were all complex internal spatial organizations detached from the urban context and placed as ’buildings in the park’. Co-housing projects from the 1970s and onwards have in turn been described as coming in two ’models’: the ’Danish’ cluster of low-rise houses and the ’Swedish’ high-rise multi-family building. The Danish model is quite widespread in the Anglo-Saxon world. Using some central concepts in Hillier and Hanson’s space syntax, it will here be questioned whether these seemingly different two models of co-housing are really spatially different as far as ‘internal’ community and ‘external’ detachment is concerned. The chapter ends with a discussion of how co-housing can deal dialectically with the potentially vicious circle between ‘internal’ community and ‘external’ detachment.
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- Hagbert, Pernilla, Dr, 1986-, et al.
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Contemporary Co-housing in Europe: Towards Sustainable Cities?
- 2020
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book investigates co-housing as an alternative housing form in relation to sustainable urban development. Co-housing is often lauded as a more sustainable way of living. The primary aim of this book is to critically explore co-housing in the context of wider social, economic, political and environmental developments. This volume fills a gap in the literature by contextualising co-housing and related housing forms. With focus on Denmark, Sweden, Hamburg and Barcelona, the book presents general analyses of co-housing in these contexts and provides specific discussions of co-housing in relation to local government, urban activism, family life, spatial logics and socio-ecology. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in a broad range of social-scientific fields concerned with housing, urban development and sustainability, as well as to planners, decision-makers and activists.
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- Larsen, Henrik Gutzon, et al.
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Barcelona: Housing crisis and urban activism
- 2020
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Ingår i: Contemporary Co-housing in Europe : Towards Sustainable Cities? - Towards Sustainable Cities?. - London : Routledge. - 9781138325913 - 9780429450174 ; , s. 74-93
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Co-housing is an emerging housing form in Spain, where many pioneering initiatives are found in Catalonia and the Barcelona area. Using the La Borda project as a recurring illustration, but also drawing on other examples and developments, the chapter seeks to contextualize this nascent but noticeable interest in co-housing in and around Barcelona. Starting at the scale of the crisis-ridden Spanish housing system, the chapter gradually zooms in on co-housing at the scale of Catalonia, Barcelona, neighbourhoods and, eventually, the La Borda project. While still embryonic, co-housing activism in the Barcelona area is generally characterized by a high degree of urban-political commitment and organization, and the chapter suggests that emerging experiences in Barcelona can serve as inspiration for those who want co-housing to evolve into a more sustainable housing form.
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- Larsen, Henrik Gutzon, et al.
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Denmark: Anti-urbanism and segregation
- 2020
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Ingår i: Contemporary Co-housing in Europe : Towards Sustainable Cities? - Towards Sustainable Cities?. - London : Routledge. - 9780429450174 - 9781138325913 ; , s. 23-37
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- Lilja, Mona, 1971-, et al.
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The Performative Force of Cultural Products : Subject Positions and Desires Emerging From Engagement with the Manga Boys’ Love and Yaoi
- 2016
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Ingår i: Culture Unbound. - Linköping, Sweden : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 2000-1525. ; 8:3, s. 284-305
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article deals with questions about the performative power of cultural products that travel the world. The Japanese manga genre Boys' Love and Yaoi has gained a broad readership outside of Japan during recent decades. This has cultivated an image of Japan as sexually radical and 'as more than Japan', something which has produced alternative subject positions and practises regarding gender and sexuality among Swedish Boys' Love/Yaoi followers. With the help of the concept hyperreality and elaborations on materiality within feminist theories, this article discusses: Which images of Japan and Sweden are produced as manga Boys' Love/Yaoi – as cultural products – travel from Japan to Sweden? Which subject positions and forms of desires emerge? In order to understand how cultural products create new subjectivities, images and desires, we also ask: What can a sharper focus on materiality and the agency of matter add to the understanding of the concept of hyperreality and the construction of new realities? We argue that embodied experiences of certain subject positions and desires challenge the idea of the hyperreal as a surface phenomenon. Further, the article shows how the image of "Japan" is often coloured by the desires that West cultivates about the 'other'.
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- Lund Hansen, Anders, et al.
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Christiania and the right to the city
- 2011
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Ingår i: Space for alternative urbanisms? Christiania 1971-2011. - 9789178448302 ; , s. 288-308
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- Mulinari, Diana, et al.
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Contesting Secularism: Religious and Secular Binary Through Memory Work
- 2020
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Ingår i: Pluralistic Struggles in Gender Sexuality and Coloniality : Challenging Swedish Exceptionalism - Challenging Swedish Exceptionalism. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 9783030474317 - 9783030474324 ; , s. 269-279
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Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality. Challenging Swedish Exceptionalism
- 2021
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- “There is a hegemonic narrative of Sweden as an exemplary and exceptional feminist nation-state, one that exists in a secular, migrant-friendly, and market-friendly, liberal democracy. Yet this narrative’s racial and religious exclusions and conflicts – of which there are many – have led feminists and LGBTQ activists to question the terms of normative belonging, and to probe the tensions and frictions of contemporary Sweden. This necessary and powerful collection of essays reveals both the exclusions of this exceptionalist national narrative, one that the editors and authors trenchantly term ‘neocolonial,’ and the demands of feminist, queer and trans artists, researchers, migrants, and activists striving to produce lives that think a different Sweden: of communities that are plural, transnational, multi-racial, transformative, radical and ever-changing.” — Inderpal Grewal, Professor Emerita, Yale University, USA
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- Scheller, David, et al.
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Urban activism and co-housing
- 2020
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Ingår i: Contemporary Co-housing in Europe : Towards Sustainable Cities? - Towards Sustainable Cities?. - London : Routledge. - 9781138325913 - 9780429450174 ; , s. 120-139
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter looks at the interrelations and dynamics between urban activism and the politics of co-housing. Drawing on empirical material from Hamburg and Barcelona, it explores the socio-political context of co-housing in the interplay of bottom-up organizing and top-down governance. With particular attention to squatting and related questions of post-autonomous urban activism, this investigation is structured according to three issues: relations to the state; horizontal organizing; and direct actions. This includes questions around the legalization of squatted houses, and intersections with broader movements. On this basis, the chapter discusses what is termed the dialectics of the politics of co-housing. This dynamic relation between grassroots organizing and top-down governance intersects in different political aspirations for co-housing – and eventually in what is understood as sustainable urban development. On the one hand, squatting and urban activism follow a political logic of empowerment, self-management, mutual self-help and solidarity. On the other hand, local city governments impose a political logic of urban governance, often with the aim of regulation, control, marketization and co-optation. This dialectic plays out differently in Hamburg and Barcelona, but the underlying contradictory political logics remain similar.
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Space for urban alternatives? Christiania 1971-2011
- 2011
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book brings together ten researchers from various disciplines; Sociology, Anthropology, History, Geography, Art, Urban planning, Landscape architecture and Political science to bring thier own reflections on the unique community that is Christiania. In the introductory chapter, the editors provide an overview of the research that has been done on the settlement from the early 1970s to the 2000s.
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- Thörn, Håkan, et al.
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Co-housing, sustainable urban development and governance : An introduction
- 2020
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Ingår i: Contemporary Co-housing in Europe Towards Sustainable Cities?. - London : Routledge. ; , s. 1-20, s. 1-19
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Co-housing is often lauded as an alternative housing form offering a more socially, ecologically and economically sustainable way of living. This book takes its departure in the need for a critical exploration of co-housing in the context of sustainable urban development, beyond the normative approach that often characterizes co-housing research. Based on a four-year research project involving in-depth studies of co-housing in and around major cities in Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Spain, the empirical and theoretical contributions presented in the book explore how co-housing developments can be understood and contextualized in urban sustainability discourses and policies in Europe today. The introductory chapter outlines the analytical and contextual framework of the book. After a brief description of the definitions used and the research approach taken, the chapter introduces a discussion on the discourse of sustainable development, to frame the ‘sustainability problems’ that co-housing is perceived to solve. Analytically, it is found relevant to distinguish between two contextual dimensions of co-housing: (1) urban civil society; and (2) urban governance. These contextual dimensions, in turn, are argued to relate to two key facets of co-housing, as recurring themes throughout the book: revolving around forms of community, and forms of autonomy.
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- Thörn, Håkan, 1961, et al.
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Constraints and possibilities for co-housing to address contemporary urban and ecological crises: A conclusion
- 2019
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Ingår i: Contemporary Co-housing in Europe: Towards Sustainable Cities? Edited ByPernilla Hagbert, Henrik Gutzon Larsen, Håkan Thörn, Cathrin Wasshede. - London : Routledge. - 9781138325913 ; , s. 202-213
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- co-housing, sustainable urban development, governance, gentrification, civil society, ecological sustainability, social sustainability
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- Wasshede, Cathrin, et al.
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Avsked i coronatider : Att ta farväl av döende nära anhöriga i tider av restriktioner
- 2021
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - Huddinge : Sveriges Sociologförbund. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 58:1-2, s. 153-176
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Farewell in corona times. To say good bye to dying next of kin in times of restrictionsIn our society, great importance is attached to being able to say goodbye to loved ones when they are dying. The Covid-19 pandemic not only causes deaths but also creates barriers to being present in the dying process. In a study conducted in 2020, nine people whose next of kin died during Covid-19 restrictions were interviewed. The aim of the article is to make visible norms and ideas about final farewells and to identify how the interviewees handle their feelings when deviating from, or fulfilling, these norms. The most prominent ideals are for relatives to be physically and emotionally present at the deathbed, both to support the dying person and to better handle the grief. The interviewees who found ways to be present express pride and gratitude, while those unable to be present express anxiety, guilt, helplessness, and pain. To deal with their emotions they try to establish trust both in the necessity of the Covid-19 restrictions and in the staff that worked with their deceased relatives.
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- Wasshede, Cathrin, 1967, et al.
(författare)
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Avsked i coronatider. Att ta farväl av döende nära anhöriga i tider av restriktioner : Farewell in corona times. To say good bye to dying next of kin in times of restrictions
- 2021
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Ingår i: Sociologisk forskning. - : Sociologisk Forskning, Swedish Sociological Association. - 0038-0342 .- 2002-066X. ; 58:1-2, s. 153-176
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- I vårt samhälle läggs stor vikt vid att vi ska kunna säga farväl till våra nära och kära när de ligger för döden. Covid-19-pandemin har inte bara orsakat ett stort antal dödsfall utan också medfört hinder för anhörigas möjligheter att närvara i döendeprocessen. I en studie som genomfördes 2020 intervjuades nio personer som hade förlorat en nära anhörig under en tid av restriktioner till följd av covid-19. Några hade avlidit av covid-19, några av andra orsaker. Syftet med denna artikel är att synliggöra normer och ideal om slutgiltiga avsked och analysera hur de intervjuade hanterar sina känslor, både när de avviker från och lever upp till dessa normer. Fysisk och emotionell närvaro vid dödsbädden utgör ett starkt ideal om hur avsked bör gå till, ett ideal som antas stödja den döende och få de anhöriga att känna sig delaktiga. De intervjupersoner som levt upp till dessa ideal uttrycker tacksamhet och stolthet, medan de som inte haft möjlighet att göra det uttrycker oro, skuldkänslor, hjälplöshet och smärta. Ett sätt att hantera dessa känslor är att försöka etablera tillit både till covid-19-restriktionernas nödvändighet och till den personal som arbetade med de avlidna.
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- Wasshede, Cathrin, 1967
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Avvikande könstolkning
- 2001
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Ingår i: Lambda Nordica. ; :Nr 4
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- Wasshede, Cathrin, 1967
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Beard and skirt - gender bending i public space
- 2010
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Ingår i: (Re-)Searching Gothenburg. Eds. Holgersson, H, Thörn, C, Thörn, H & Wahlström, M. - Göteborg : Glänta produktion. - 9789186133207
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- Wasshede, Cathrin, 1967
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Boendeformen som kan förlänga livet
- 2016
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Ingår i: Göteborgs-Posten. - 1103-9345. ; :27 feb 2016
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- Wasshede, Cathrin, 1967
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Bygga billiga bostäder för fler
- 2016
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Ingår i: Göteborgs-Posten. - 1103-9345. ; :7 feb 2016
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- Wasshede, Cathrin, 1967
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Børnemagt/children's power in the Freetown of Christiania: citizenship, agency and vulnerability
- 2017
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Ingår i: Childrens Geographies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1473-3285 .- 1473-3277. ; 15:6, s. 651-663
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article contributes to the field of research on children and citizenship, by analysing retrospective narratives about experiences of BOrnemagt (Children's Power) in the Freetown of Christiania, Denmark, in the 1970s and 1980s, focusing on strategies for agency and rights, as well as on vulnerabilities. Power relations regarding age and space are used as analytical tools. Runaway children from harsh backgrounds found a refuge in Christiania and tried to take charge of their own lives after rejecting the care they had received from adults and societal institutions earlier in life. The freedom experienced in Christiania supported the young people in their elaboration of citizenship, at the same time as the attitude of leaving the children to their own devices' excluded them from a citizenship based on interdependency and interrelationality. Vulnerability, it is argued, is a constitutive element of citizenship that needs to be further elaborated within this field of research.
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- Wasshede, Cathrin, 1967
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"Bøssehuset - Queer Perspectives in Christiania"
- 2011
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Ingår i: Space for Urban Alternatives? Christiania 1971-2011. - Stockholm : Gidlunds förlag. - 9789178448302
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- Wasshede, Cathrin, 1967
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Doing family in co-housing communities
- 2019
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Ingår i: Hagbert, P., Larsen, H. G., Thörn, H. and Wasshede, C. (eds.) (2019) Contemporary Co-housing in Europe Towards Sustainable Cities?. - London : Routledge. - 9780429450174 ; , s. 140-162
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this chapter emotional boundary work relating to ‘family’ in co-housing communities is analysed, with a special focus on shared meals, children’s relationships and care. In almost all co-housing communities, the kitchen and practices of cooking and eating together are said to be cornerstones for the sense of collectivity. Further, the dream of a ‘good childhood’ is another cornerstone in many multi-generational co-housing communities. The chapter is based on empirical material from visits to six co-housing communities in Sweden and two in Denmark. People in co-housing communities deal with at least two ideas of what a family is: one favouring the intimacy and privacy of the nuclear family and the other favouring the wider ‘family’, i.e. the community in the house – and sometimes even the neighbourhood and/or the city. Frictions between these two ideas often lead to ambivalences that are handled with the help of what is described here as emotional boundary work. The different ways of doing family that emerge among people living in co-housing communities shed light on the relationship between the individual and the collective, a recurring theme in research about co-housing.
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- Wasshede, Cathrin, 1967
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From hidden homophiles to rainbow families - a story of liberation?
- 2012
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Ingår i: Transformations of the Swedish Welfare State : from Social Engineering to Governance? Eds. Bengt Larsson, Martin Letell and Håkan Thörn. - Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave macmillan. - 9780230293410
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- Wasshede, Cathrin, 1967, et al.
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Gemenskap och autonomi
- 2022
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Ingår i: Gemenskap och autonomi. Kollektivboende som hållbart alternativ. - Göteborg : Bokförlaget Korpen. - 9789189401204 ; , s. 13-20
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- Wasshede, Cathrin, 1967, et al.
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Heteronormativitet och emotioner
- 2015
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Ingår i: Feministiskt tänkande och sociologi, red. Anna Hedenus, Sofia Björk och Oksana Shmulyar Gréen. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144100852 ; , s. 199-215
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- Wasshede, Cathrin, 1967
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Inte längre vid liv men ännu inte död
- 2022
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Ingår i: Lägga döden till rätta, A. Björnsson & B. Rombach (red.). - Stockholm : Santérus förlag. - 9789173591805 ; , s. 27-39
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- Wasshede, Cathrin, 1967
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Med hat och smuts som vapen. Queeraktivisters självpresentationer på internet
- 2013
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Ingår i: Lambda Nordica: Tidskrift om homosexualitet. - 1100-2573. ; 2013:1, s. 35-60
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the queer strategical and rhetorical use of the emotion hate. Through analysis of a selection of queer activists’ self-representations on Internet, the article discusses how hate and dirt are performed, how this is motivated and how hate and dirt stick together. The three cases selected are situated in the queer activist milieu in Gothenburg: the festival The Day of the Heterohate, the block in the annual Rainbow Walk of the HBTQ-Festival; Black Rainbow Riot and the music video; Cry Alliance Of Our Hatred. Drawing on Ahmed’s theory of hate and the stickiness of signs and Cobb’s research about religious hate rhetoric as a possibility for queers, contradictions and ambivalences in the queer activists’ emotional speech acts are analysed. The concept abjectification, which signifies an active and strategic use of the abject position, is central in the understanding of hate and dirt in this article. The queer use of hate and dirt is found to have at least four purposes; resistance to normalisation and assimilation, emotion channelling, construction of a strong ”we”, and a way to experience pleasure, laughter and joy.
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- Wasshede, Cathrin, 1967
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Normalization of children: Politics and images of children in the Freetown of Christiania
- 2016
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Ingår i: Childhood. - : SAGE Publications. - 0907-5682 .- 1461-7013. ; 23:2, s. 207-220
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article aims to problematize the normalization of children in a Nordic welfare society. The production of ‘good childhoods’ is seen as a guarantee for socially sustainable societies. Children are subject to different governing strategies; the ‘child’ and ‘youth’ are disputed symbols, used to protect already established ‘futures’, that is, the present order, and promote alternative futures. Parliamentary debates and government reports about children in the Freetown of Christiania, Denmark, are analysed. The results highlight the need to distinguish between soft and coercive disciplinary power and the presence of sovereign power even in liberal societies that value freedom of the individual.
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- Wasshede, Cathrin, 1967
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Nya sätt att göra familj
- 2022
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Ingår i: Gemenskap och autonomi. Kollektivboende som hållbbart alternativ, C. Caldenby & C. Wasshede (red.). - Göteborg : Bokförlaget Korpen. - 9789189401204 ; , s. 103-116
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Wasshede, Cathrin, 1967
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Passionerad politik. Om motstånd mot heteronormativ könsmakt.
- 2010
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Abstract Title: Passionate Politics. Resistance to Heteronormative Gender Power Written in Swedish, summary in English, 350 pages. Author: Cathrin Wasshede Doctoral Dissertation at the Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, Box 720, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden ISBN: 978-91-86980-44-3 Göteborg 2010 This thesis analyses resistance to heteronormative gender power in order to explore both the possibilities and limits of this kind of resistance. Through a case study of young left-wing political activists in Gothenburg – a group of people that are supposed to offer an intense and well-articulated feminist resistance to dominating norms around gender and sexuality – the relation between power and resistance is brought into focus. The empirical materials drawn upon consist of interviews and focus group interviews with 36 activists in Gothenburg and documentation from part of the movement culture. Theoretically, resistance is seen as part of and depending on power, and vice versa. Through the activists’ strategies and attempts to resist the heteronormative gender power this very power structure is made visible. The alternative spaces produced are not free from power relations. In fact, they involve both traces of the heteronormative gender order, which they oppose, and new norms - so called counter-norms, and limits. Change and stability co-exist. One important resistance strategy is to oppose subjectivation, either by counter-identification or by disidentification. Among the activists it is common to be very critical of the gender dichotomy and in different ways they seek to escape from it or eliminate it. Because of the penalties – often in the form of abjection – imposed on people who break norms around gender and sexuality in a way that disturbes the heteronormative gender order, even many of the activists tend to pay attention to the limits for their transgression and make sure that they are on the ”right” side, that they have so-called hetero protection. Those who challenge the boundaries between different identity categories or between the normal/intelligible and the abnormal/unintelligible are performing limit experience and are actively using the abject position to offer resistance. Contradictions, emanating from opposing discourses trying to win superiority, are transformed into ambivalences, in the sense that the activists not only endure ambivalences, but that they also produce and use ambivalences as part of their resistance. The main ambivalence is the awareness of the possible in doing resistance and the impossible in leaving the structures and discourses behind. Through their passionate politics the activists both change and reinforce the heteronormative gender power.
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- Wasshede, Cathrin, 1967
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Queer Hate and Dirt Rhetoric: An Ambivalent Resistance Strategy
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Resistance Studies. - 2001-9947. ; 3:1, s. 29-61
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the queer use of hate and dirt as a form of resistance. Through analysis of a selection of Swedish queer activists’ self-representations on the Internet, the article’s aim is to describe and problematize the queer use of hate and dirt, and point to some ambivalences and risks with this resistance strategy. The three cases selected are situated in the queer activist milieu in Gothenburg, Sweden: The Day of Hetero Hate festival; the Black Rainbow Riot block in the annual Rainbow Walk of the HBTQ Festival; and the music video Cry Alliance Of Our Hatred. Ambivalences and risks in the emotional speech acts of queer activists are analyzed, first by looking at Michael Cobb’s research into religious hate rhetoric as a potent form of queer expression, and Mary Douglas’ discussion of dirt as having creative potential, and then by critically examining the use of hate as resistance. The concept of abjectification, which signifies an active and strategic use of the abject position, is central in the understanding of hate and dirt in this article. The queer use of hate and dirt is found to have at least four purposes: resistance to normalization and assimilation; emotion channeling; construction of a strong ‘we’; and a way to experience pleasure, laughter and joy. It is also shown how this strategy risks reinstating hate and excluding many people, even queer activists, from the activism/community.
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- Wasshede, Cathrin, 1967
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Rainbow Flag and Belongings/Disbelongings: Öckerö Pride and Reclaim Pride in Gothenburg, Sweden 2019
- 2021
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Ingår i: Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality. Challenging Swedish Exceptionalism. - London, New York : Palgrave. - 9783030474317 ; , s. 147-175
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In spite of the rainbow flag’s importance as a symbol for transnational queer belonging and its meanings for the survival of queers all over the world, much critical queer Anglo-Saxon research and activism concerning the rainbow flag and the celebration of Pride claims that it has lost its radical potential through processes of normalisation, mainstreaming, homonationalism and commercialisation. In order to address other queer political issues, alternative Pride events are organized in parallel with conventional Pride celebrations.This chapter will discuss two Pride events held in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2019, Reclaim Pride and Öckerö Pride, drawing on auto-ethnographic methods. It will reflect on two connected questions: What meanings, emotions, actions and temporalities are (re)produced as a result of the relationship between the events, the rainbow flag, the concept of Pride and the activists/participants—including the author? In what ways do the rainbow flag and the concept of Pride work as co-producers of belongings as well as disbelongings—and how does the author’s position as a Swedish, middle-class, white, lesbian, feminist, mother, former activist and now sociologist affect her feelings of belonging and disbelonging?It is shown that the rainbow flag is a very topical and heated cultural artefact in the Swedish political arena, in which racism, homophobia and Islamophobia are growing. The author’s experiences and emotions at the two Pride events reflect the ambivalent struggle that takes place at the borders of belonging and disbelonging. Temporality and space are important aspects of the contextualisation that needs to be applied in order to grasp the different effects that processes of inclusion and exclusion have on queer people in different places and situations.
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