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Rättvist resande? Villkor, utmaningar och visioner för samhällsplaneringen
- 2023
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Att styra framtidens resande i en rättvis och hållbar riktning framstår idag som alltmer akut. Trots en ökad medvetenhet om hur djupt orättvisa vardagslivets resor kan vara tycks just rättvisa transporter vara särskilt svåra att uppnå – i synnerhet för vissa grupper. Hur drabbas unga i Norrlands inland när bränslepriserna ökar? Vilka möjligheter har egentligen barn att påverka sitt vardagsresande? Hur kan ett bostadsområdes närhet spela roll för jämställdheten? Varför kommer inte samtidens och framtidens transportlösningar alla till gagn? För att anta utmaningen att styra mot rättvist resande krävs både kunskap och visioner, vilket kan vara utmanande att omsätta i planering och praktik. Vi hoppas att den här boken kan ge inspiration och handfasta råd till dem som efterfrågar mer kunskap om hur rättvisa hänger ihop med vardagsresandet. I antologin introduceras tio bidrag med fokus på hur resande, mobilitet och tillgänglighet kan förstås, forskas om, och planeras för – ur ett rättviseperspektiv.Författarna har bland annat bakgrund i genusvetenskap, socialt arbete, statsvetenskap, kulturgeografi, historia, psykologi och barn- och ungdomsvetenskap.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-
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Långsamt våld : Om trafiken och klimatförändringarna
- 2024
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Ingår i: Texter om våld. - Örebro : Centrum för våldsstudier, Örebro universitet. - 2004-3775. ; :1, s. 80-86
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Trots att många städer och kommuner uppmanar sina invånare att cykla, gå och åka kollektivt för hälsans och miljöns skull, är bilen fortfarande det vanligaste transportmedlet i Sverige. Trots en ökad elektrifiering av bilflottan transporterar vi oss främst med hjälp av bensin- och dieseldrivna motorer, vilka släpper ut luftföroreningar som skadar vår hälsa och som bidrar till klimatförändringar. Vägtrafiken står för den största delen av energianvändningen från transporter i Sverige, över 60% av dessa står personbilstrafiken för. Den här texten handlar om vägtrafikens negativa inverkan på miljön och människors välbefinnande. Målet är att diskutera vad våld kan vara genom att beakta de växthusgasutsläpp och klimatförändringar som följer i vägtrafikens kölvatten, närmare bestämt som en form av långsamt våld. Att betona våldets långsamhet möjliggör att lyfta fram fenomen som vanligtvis inte förstås som våld, men som över tid kan ha synnerligen våldsamma effekter på såväl miljö, djur och människor.
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- Strid, Sofia, Docent, 1976-, et al.
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States of violence : Exploring welfare state regimes as violence regimes by developing a violence regimes index
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of European Social Policy. - : Sage Publications. - 0958-9287 .- 1461-7269. ; 31:3, s. 321-336
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of the article is to examine if and how the welfare state regime typology translates into a violence regime typology in a European context. It builds on the concept of violence regimes (Strid et al. 2017; Hearn et al. 2020) to empirically examine whether the production of interpersonal violence constitutes distinct regimes, and how these correspond (or not) with welfare regimes, gender regimes, and with other comparative metrics on violence, gender equality and feminist mobilisation and transnational actors. Its main contribution is to operationalise the concept of violence regimes, thereby moving from theory to a first empirical measurement. By first constructing a new composite measure of violence, a Violence Regimes Index, based on secondary administrative and survey data covering the then 28 EU member states, countries are clustered along two axes of violence: ‘deadly’ violence and ‘damaging’ gender-based violence. This serves to examine if, and how, the production of gendered violence in different states constitutes distinct regimes, analogous to welfare state regimes, as well as to enable future research and further comparisons and contrasts, specifically related to violence and the welfare state. By providing an empirical measurement of violence regimes in the EU, the article then contributes further to the debates on welfare, welfare regimes, and violence. It specifically contributes with discussions on the extent to which there are different violence regimes, comparable to welfare regimes, and with discussions on the relevance of moving from thinking about violence as an institution within other inequality regimes, to thinking about violence as a macro-regime, a way of governing and ruling in its own right. The article concludes that the exclusion of violence from mainstream social theory and research has produced results that may not be valid, and offers an alternative classification using the concept of violence regimes, thereby demonstrating the usefulness of the concept.
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Vi talar om våld : Hur kan vi förstå vad våld är?
- 2024
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Varför är det viktigt att diskutera vad våld är? Ett svar är att det finns många olika sätt att förstå och analysera våld. Vissa betonar strukturella förklaringar till våld, med emfas på maktrelationer mellan män och kvinnor, andra betonar i stället individuella förklaringar, med fokus på förövarens egenskaper och karaktär. Klart är att våld tar sig många olika uttryck, exempelvis statligt våld, ekonomiskt våld, terrorism, interpersonellt våld, gängvåld, hatbrott, nätbaserat våld, och stalkning. Våld kan utövas mellan stater, mellan grupper, och mellan människor och på en mängd olika arenor. Kort sagt, vad som förstås som våld beror på vilket perspektiv som tillämpas och kan förändras över tid och rum. För att kunna motverka våld behöver vi därför diskutera och ibland utmana etablerade definitioner och förståelser av våld. I det här numret av tidskriften texter om våld har vi bjudit in forskare inom CVS att bidra till dessa diskussioner.
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- Joelsson, Tanja, 1980-, et al.
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‘Less-than’ and ‘barely’ citizens : Young people’s public mobilities as precarious experiments of democracy
- 2022
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Ingår i: Urban Matters. - Malmö : Institute for urban research (IUR), Malmö university. - 2004-206X. ; :4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this text, we will discuss this current urban matter of the publicness of public transport as a question of spatial justice, through the perspective of young people in so-called disadvantaged neighbourhoods. We argue that public mobilities such as the bus, are essential for young people’s everyday lives, yet seldom highlighted in discussions of, for example, child-friendly cities. Bus mobilities can be understood as a vital part of citizenship, as the bus allows young people to explore dispersed localities, to take up and inhabit public space, with opportunities that go beyond mere transport. In this sense, be(com)ing a bus rider is about be(com)ing a citizen, but the citizenship skills cultivated through everyday bus use are seldom recognized as such. The young people can be seen as less-than-citizens, as their perspectives and bodies are not recognized as both citizenship and urban mobilities seem to be permeated by an adult norm.
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- Andersson, Susanne, et al.
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From glass ceiling to firewalls : Detecting and changing gendered organizational norms
- 2022
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Ingår i: NORA. - : Routledge. - 0803-8740 .- 1502-394X. ; 30:2, s. 140-153
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is based on an empirical case study with an interactive research approach focusing on gendered norms in a Swedish truck Company. It discusses the combined value of using the metaphor of a firewall for (1) analysing how organizational constraining gendered norms are done in everyday organizational life, and (2) as a practical tool to facilitate the processes aimed at improving norm awareness. The metaphor embodies an understanding that makes it possible to visualize relational ongoing organizational processes and power dimensions. In addition, the firewall is useful for emphasizing variations and complexity. Variations and dynamics are manifested in the ways that employees need to fulfil varying “codes” in order to be accepted. The possession of certain codes (norms) that are required to pass through the first layer of the firewall (employment), and give access to some networks, does not automatically ensure acceptance and integration into more influential networks (referred to as the informal and inner layers of the firewall). The results furthermore show that the firewall metaphor is fruitful when facilitating reflection processes amongst employees to improve norma wareness and to discuss strategies for change. The conclusion is that the firewall metaphor facilitates an analysis of the relational and complex doing of constraining norms, and that it also can be used to initiate change.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-
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Cycling politics : imagining sustainable cycling futures in Sweden
- 2020
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Ingår i: Applied Mobilities. - : Routledge. - 2380-0127 .- 2380-0135. ; 5:3, s. 324-340
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this article is to analyse the ways in which cycling politics, established bicycle advocates and “new” forms of net-based activism in Sweden imagine and shape future cycling. The study engages with policy analysis, cultural imaginaries, cycling citizenship, power and urban planning in order to analyse expressions of contemporary cycling politics in Sweden, with aparticular focus on the national strategy for increased and safer cycling, launched in 2017. This strategy, including how advocacy responded to the strategy, and topics raised in online blogs, reflects core differences in top-down/bottom-up views on cycling as contested practice: from more pragmatic, policy- and solution-oriented approaches to making everyday cycling experiences political. The analyses address both established and alternative ways of influencing mobility transitions and seek to address the alternative imaginings for everyday cycling that their approaches and strategies suggest. This includes analysing their role in shaping or changing cycling in the future and what these cases may tell us about the sustainability of cycling itself at both local and national levels. It is argued that, while well-established organizations already enjoy aposition of access to planners and policy-makers, it remains important to find ways of including the perspectives of emergent, on-line-based initiatives and blogs, which also formulate critical perspectives on everyday cycling.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Disperse violence : gender-based violence and environmental violence
- 2020
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper is part of the session Violence Regimes: Analysing the Multiplicity of Gendered Violence(s). Violence regime is a framework developed for analysing the multiplicity of violence(s) (Hearn et al 2018; Strid et al 2018). The framework concerns direct and indirect violence; across four pillars of comprehensiveness; across macro, meso and micro levels; often with increasing amount of time and space between act and impact; and vary in both manifestation and understanding of violence, extending the continuum of violence (Kelly 1988) across four pillars: Deadly, Damaging, Diffuse and Dispersed violence.Empirically, this paper explores manifestations of violence in the first and fourth pillar of the violence regime framework: deadly and direct forms of violence such as homicide, femicide and suicide; and dispersed manifestations not necessarily understood as violence, usually indirect, sometimes directed towards a group but with a less easily identifiable ‘victim’ or ‘object; manifestations not usually recognized as violence; e.g. environmental destruction. Two different cases will be discussed, 1) automobility and 2) killings of animals for food, both associated with negative impact on the environment. First, we examine the violent, damaging and deadly effects of automobility across country comparisons of the EU28. Second, we examine slow violence (Nixon 2011) and the levels of slaughtering of animals in relation to the levels of homicide, femicide and suicide through cross country comparisons of the EU28. The paper contributes to the violence regime framework analyzing how manifestations of violence not usually understood as violence correlate with the most direct and deadly forms of violence.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Disperse violence : gender-based violence and environmental violence
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper is part of the session Violence Regimes: Analysing the Multiplicity of Gendered Violence(s). Violence regime is a framework developed for analysing the multiplicity of violence(s) (Hearn et al 2018; Strid et al 2018).The framework concerns direct and indirect violence; across four pillars of comprehensiveness; across macro, meso and micro levels; often with increasing amount of time and space between act and impact; and vary in both manifestation and understanding of violence, extending the continuum of violence (Kelly 1988) across four pillars: Deadly, Damaging, Diffuse and Dispersed violence. Empirically, this paper explores manifestations of violence in the first and fourth pillar of the violence regime framework: deadly and direct forms of violence such as homicide, femicide and suicide; and dispersed manifestations not necessarily understood as violence, usually indirect, sometimes directed towards a group but with a less easily identifiable ‘victim’ or ‘object; manifestations not usually recognized as violence; e.g. environmental destruction. Two different cases will be discussed, 1) automobility and 2) killings of animals for food, both associated with negative impact on the environment.First, we examine the violent, damaging and deadly effects of automobility across country comparisons of the EU28. Second, we examine slow violence (Nixon 2011) and the levels of slaughtering of animals in relation to the levels of homicide, femicide and suicide through cross country comparisons of the EU28.The paper contributes to the violence regime framework analysing how manifestations of violence not usually understood as violence correlate with the most direct and deadly forms of violence.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Gender and Transport : Affective structures and practices
- 2023
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Ingår i: The Routledge Companion to Gender and Affect. - London and New York : Routledge. - 9780367492014 - 9781003045007 - 9781000737936 - 9781032350844 ; , s. 111-120
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this chapter, we introduce how gender and affect can be co-thought in studies of mobilities and transport, and in particular masculinity and transport practices as this is our main field of expertise. From our perspective, affect in this context implies how people feel and act as a consequence of aroused emotion experienced within an affective economy such as the mobility and transport system (Ahmed 2004; Sheller 2004; Balkmar and Mellström 2020). The affective economy of transport and mobility regulates and channels how travel and mobility patterns organize and include individual, group and societal structures with human and non-human elements. We argue that it is analytically vital to separate affect and emotions with regard to the mobility and transport system in order to outline the systemic dimensions of many ecological and societal challenges of our present time. In the larger land- scape of contemporary challenges, the transport and mobility system is key to halt planetary warming, the endemic traffic congestion of major metropolises and decrease carbon dioxide emissions on a global scale, to mention a few. Our present transport and mobility systems are pressing the planet to a core boundary (Steffen et al. 2011) where the passing of such a limit would drive the planet into a less sustainable level of human life.
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