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- Griffin, Gabriele, Prof, 1957-
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Embedded Narrative and the Ethical Im/possibility of "Giving Voice" in the Age of Refugee Migration : Henning Mankell's The Shadow Girls
- 2016
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Ingår i: Op.Cit. Revista de Estudios Anglo-Americanos. - Lisbon. - 2182-9446. ; :5, s. 1-18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article centres on a figure generated by war and conflict, that of the refugee, in a contemporary novel, Henning Mankell’s The Shadow Girls, first translated into English in 2012. It explores the use of a specific narratological device, embedded narrative, as a strategy to “give voice” to refugee girls. Mankell’s novel is of particular salience for contemporary conflict-related migration into Europe as it explores the dilemma of how to respond to the refugee crisis in an ethical manner. As such it constitutes an imaginative and narratologically complex intervention in the construction of refugee narratives. In this article I draw on the narratological theories of Gérard Genette and Mieke Bal, and the theoretical writings of Arjun Appadurai (2006, 2009), Paul Ricoeur (1990) and Emmanuel Levinas (1961, 1972). It argues that in The Shadow Girls Mankell critiques notions of “giving voice” as adequate to the plight of refugees through his use of particular narrative devices.
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- Griffin, Gabriele, Prof, 1957-
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Feminizing Innovation : Challenges in Science and Technology Studies (STS)
- 2021
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Ingår i: Feminist Encounters. - : lectito. - 2468-4414. ; 5:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores why innovation, conventionally associated with the masculine (e.g., Andersson et al., 2012; Lindberg, 2012), might also be framed as feminine, indeed on occasion feminist. It does so via an exploration of the embedding of a new academic discipline, in this instance Digital Humanities, in existing higher education institutions in the Nordic countries. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in 2017-18 with Digital Humanities practitioners in Finland, Sweden and Norway, this article argues that the feminisation of innovation in higher education institutions can lead to the material and symbolic marginalisation of those disciplines, with specific consequences both for their practitioners and for those disciplines. As part of this, the article analyses how innovation can be considered both desirable and disruptive (innovation as such constitutes a disruptive technology), and utilises Fiona Mackay’s (2014) notions of ‘embedded newness’ and the ‘liability of newness’ to explore the gendered implications of the feminising of innovation.
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- Griffin, Gabriele, Prof, 1957-
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Intersectionalized Professional Identities and Gender in the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries
- 2019
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Ingår i: Work, Employment and Society. - : Sage Publications. - 0950-0170 .- 1469-8722. ; 33:6, s. 966-982
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Digital Humanities (DH) has emerged as a new academic employment field in the past 20 years or so. Its place within the academy remains contested, differently realized and materialized in different socio-cultural contexts. It conjoins domains conventionally female-dominated (Humanities disciplines) with technology domains that have been regarded as male-dominated. Yet while there has been much research on women within technology-driven work environments in general, there has been no research on DH as an emerging employment context, or on the impacts of gender in its formation both as workplace and as a site for professional identities. This article draws on qualitative research conducted in 2017/18. It examines how gender, DH as a materialized workplace, and professional identities within it, are imbricated in a field characterized by ‘intersectionalized identities’. These ‘intersectionalized identities’ have particular effects, producing ‘vacated spaces’ as metaphorical and as material gaps.
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- Griffin, Gabriele, Prof, 1957-, et al.
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Introduction
- 2018
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Ingår i: Body, Migration, Re/constructive Surgeries. - : Routledge. - 9781351133678 - 9780815354192 ; , s. 1-16
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Body modification, self- or other-administered, invasive or non-invasive, lasting or temporary, has a long history and is conducted in many cultures and contexts. Advances in biotechnology, surgical techniques, opportunities for intervention and the rapid expansion of social media and their use have thus to some extent foregrounded and 'normalized' public discussions on body modification. Migration as the accompaniment of bodily intervention has been particularly relevant to women at whom many practices concerning bodily interventions are directed, not least in the context of genital re/constructive surgery. Both in the American and in the European contexts, 'medical necessity' as opposed to 'elective' or aesthetic bodily interventions is a key distinction that has been taken up extensively in the context of re/constructive surgery. Gender reassignment surgery involves the construction of embodied gender identities that either augment or establish the patient's preferred gender. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
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- Griffin, Gabriele, Prof, 1957-
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"It's not just a matter of speaking..." : the vicissitudes of cross-cultural interviewing
- 2018
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Ingår i: Qualitative Research Journal. - : EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD. - 1443-9883 .- 1448-0980. ; 18:2, s. 105-114
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose - In "Can the subaltern speak?," Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak makes the important distinction between representation as "Vertretung" and "Darstellung." She also produces a strong version of whom she regards as a subaltern woman. Thirty years on both the distinction between "Vertretung" and "Darstellung" and the question of who the subaltern woman is, remain extremely important, not least in methodological considerations in cross-cultural contexts. A number of questions may be asked in relation to representation, such as: how distinct are its two meanings in the interviewing context? And how do they relate to the notion of the co-production of knowledge which has gained such traction in the past three decades? The paper aims to discuss these issues.Design/methodology/approach - In this paper, I draw on cross-cultural interviewing experiences. Starting from the silence of illiterate rural women in a study conducted in Madhya Pradesh, India, in 2011 (Mohanraj), this paper draws on the research experiences of the author and a number of projects reported on in Cross-Cultural Interviewing (Griffin, 2016) to elucidate how one might re-think both representation and subalternality in the contemporary globalized context.Findings - The experiences of cross-cultural interviewing I draw on in this paper show that in the contemporary context subalternality may be more productively understood in terms of a continuum rather than as the radical state of unreachable, unspeaking alterity that Spivak proposes.Originality/value - The paper contributes new perspectives on Spivak's notion of the unspeaking alterity of the subaltern in light of globalized developments over the past 30 years and specific experiences of cross-cultural interviewing, as these comment on Spivak's insights.
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- Griffin, Gabriele, Prof, 1957-
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Morphing together : Motherhood, old grievances, and corporeal materiality in Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk
- 2022
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Ingår i: Close Relations. - London : Springer Publishing Company. - 9789811607929 ; , s. 209-220
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- In the twenty-first century when mothers are frequently styled as their daughter’s ‘best friend’ and confidante, feminist writings on motherhood continue to construct mother–daughter relations as problematic. Deborah Levy, a contemporary writer with an experimental bend, mobilizes Hélène Cixous’ famous essay ‘The laugh of the Medusa’ (Signs 1(4):875–893, 1976), and in particular the line, ‘It’s up to you to break the old circuits’ to explore embodiment, female rage, abandonment and co-dependence in her most recent work, Hot milk (Penguin, London, 2016). This chapter explores the conditions of maternality in the twenty-first century as a replay of ‘the drama of the gifted child’ (Miller, The drama of the gifted child. Faber and Faber, London, 1979) which requires ‘morphing together’ as an antidote to female victimhood.
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