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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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'Only Applies to Research Conducted in Sweden...' : Dilemmas in Gaining Ethics Approval in Transnational Qualitative Research
- 2019
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Ingår i: International Journal of Qualitative Methods. - : Sage Publications. - 1609-4069. ; 18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Transnational research funders such as the European Commission and NordForsk increasingly require researchers to conduct transnational research. Yet, there is little research on what this means for seeking ethics approval, not least for qualitative researchers. Much work on ethics approval comes from Canada, the United States, and other Anglophone countries, often in a health-related context, and centers on issues between researchers and research ethics boards (REBs), or on inconsistent or inappropriate decision-making by REBs. Ethical conduct within research has, of course, generated a rich literature but not on gaining ethics approval when conducting qualitative transnational research. Rather, the underlying situation usually is that the research is conducted in the same geopolitical space as where the REB is located. Drawing on two cases studies, in which researchers located in one country, Sweden, sought ethics approval to conduct research in other European countries, we explore some of the challenges that we faced in gaining such approval and provide some suggestions how this process might be made both more efficient and more productive for researchers and research funders alike.
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- Griffin, Gabriele, Prof, 1957-, et al.
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"Only Applies to Research Conducted in Sweden horizontal ellipsis " : Dilemmas in Gaining Ethics Approval in Transnational Qualitative Research
- 2019
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Ingår i: International Journal of Qualitative Methods. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC. - 1609-4069. ; 18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Transnational research funders such as the European Commission and NordForsk increasingly require researchers to conduct transnational research. Yet, there is little research on what this means for seeking ethics approval, not least for qualitative researchers. Much work on ethics approval comes from Canada, the United States, and other Anglophone countries, often in a health-related context, and centers on issues between researchers and research ethics boards (REBs), or on inconsistent or inappropriate decision-making by REBs. Ethical conduct within research has, of course, generated a rich literature but not on gaining ethics approval when conducting qualitative transnational research. Rather, the underlying situation usually is that the research is conducted in the same geopolitical space as where the REB is located. Drawing on two cases studies, in which researchers located in one country, Sweden, sought ethics approval to conduct research in other European countries, we explore some of the challenges that we faced in gaining such approval and provide some suggestions how this process might be made both more efficient and more productive for researchers and research funders alike.
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- Jordal, Malin, 1973-, et al.
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'I want what every other woman has' : reasons for wanting clitoral reconstructive surgery after female genital cutting – a qualitative study from Sweden
- 2019
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Ingår i: Culture, Health and Sexuality. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1369-1058 .- 1464-5351. ; 21:6, s. 701-716
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Female genital cutting (FGC) involves the removal of women's external genitalia for non-therapeutic reasons. An estimated 38,000 women living in Sweden have undergone some form of the procedure. These women often belong to marginalised minorities of immigrant women from countries where FGC is widespread. Clitoral reconstructive surgery following FGC has recently been introduced in Sweden. This study investigates women's perceptions of FGC and clitoral reconstructive surgery with a particular focus on: (1) reasons for requesting reconstructive surgery, and (2) FGC-affected women's expectations of the surgery. Seventeen women referred for clitoral reconstructive surgery at the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, participated in the study. Findings revealed five factors motivating women's request for clitoral reconstruction (CR): (1) symbolic restitution - undoing the harm of FGC; (2) repairing the visible stigma of FGC; (3) improving sex and intimacy through physical, aesthetic and symbolic recovery; (4) eliminating physical pain; (5) and CR as a personal project offering hope. These factors were highly interconnected, suggesting that the reasons for seeking surgery were often multiple and complex.
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- Mphaphuli, Memory, et al.
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'Ducking, diving and playing along' : Negotiating everyday heteroerotic subjectivity in the field
- 2019
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Ingår i: Qualitative Research Journal. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 1443-9883 .- 1448-0980. ; 20:1, s. 34-48
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the fieldwork dilemmas a young, female, heterosexual, indigenous South African researching everyday negotiations around heterosexuality within township families encountered in negotiating her own heteroerotic subjectivity within the field. Design/methodology/approach A heterosexuality studies approach is here combined with a critical feminist research methodological perspective. Findings The paper argues that researchers are often unprepared for having to negotiate their erotic subjectivity within the field and that such negotiations can be compromising to the researcher in a variety of ways. Originality/value Little is published on female researchers negotiating their heteroerotic subjectivity in the field. The paper contributes original insights on this from fieldwork carried out by an indigenous heterosexual female researcher in South African townships. It raises important issues about the conduct of fieldwork in (non-)compromising and agentic ways.
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- Nyarango, Margaret, et al.
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Circumsizing the mind, reconstructing the body : Contextualizing genital reconstructive surgery in Burkina Faso
- 2019
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Ingår i: Body, Migration, Re/Constructive Surgery. - London : Routledge. - 9780815354192 - 9781351133661 ; , s. 121-139
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Burkina Faso is one African country that offers reconstructive surgery for circumcised women. 1 Burkinabe government officials, ‘Afropolitan’ health professionals and activists opposing ‘female genital mutilation’ portray these practices as inevitably causing grave problems for women. This message has been largely accepted and is reproduced in urban Burkina Faso. Based on fieldwork in Burkina Faso by the first author, we argue that as currently conceptualized, this official discourse re-victimizes circumcised women by redefining what is natural, healthy, desirable, sexually attractive and marriageable. Yet, as we shall suggest, reconstructive surgery is not readily accessible, successful or, indeed, endorsed. Nonetheless, some Burkinabe women seem to have found a space of fulfilment in their adoption of a worldview which combines Raëlian values, traditional Burkinabe ideals, feminist and other discourses.
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- Saeed, Muhammad, et al.
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Researching a Sensitive Topic in an Unstable Environment : Fieldwork Dilemmas in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Provice of Pakistan
- 2019
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Ingår i: Qualitative Research Journal. - Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 1443-9883 .- 1448-0980. ; 19:3, s. 248-258
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore fieldwork dilemmas for a Pakhtun researcher, educated in the West, to research family or domestic violence in the unstable, hostile environment of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan.Design/methodology/approachA gender studies approach is here combined with masculinities studies, and a critical qualitative research methodology is used in this study.FindingsThe paper argues that unstable regions dominated by certain forms of masculinity require specific research approaches when conducting research and addressing a topic that is culturally taboo.Practical implicationsThe paper suggests how the insider–outsider dynamic plays out for researchers who come from a particular field and return to it under changed circumstances. It also indicates how a taboo topic in a context where direct questioning is not possible might be approached through the use of vignettes.Social implicationsThe paper suggests how the contradictory position of a masculinity, simultaneously bearing traces of the hegemonic and of marginalization, may be negotiated in the field.Originality/valueSocial research on the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan is rarely conducted and reported due to the unrest in this region. The paper thus contributes original insights from fieldwork carried out there. It also contributes to the limited but growing literature on conducting fieldwork in hostile environments.
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