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- Carlsson, Eric, 1972-, et al.
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Restoring trust? Public communication from Swedish universities about the post-truth crisis
- 2023
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Ingår i: Critical Studies in Education. - : Routledge. - 1750-8487 .- 1750-8495. ; 64:5, s. 497-514
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we engage with five Swedish universities’ discursive articulation of, and responses to, an alleged post-truth crisis in communication, aimed at the public. Taking discourse theory as our point of departure, the aim is to analyse how universities are trying to maintain or restore trustworthiness against a backdrop of problems with fact resistance, fake news, and mistrust in academic institutions. The dilemma for universities is how to counteract post-truth without falling into the trap of returning to a realist paradigm, with its strict notions of truth and objectivity. The paper shows how public events are characterised by a crisis rhetoric, a dislocation, together with imaginaries of both external and internal threats of disorder, which convey a narrow and simplified understanding of scientific knowledge as objective and neutral. ‘Defenders of truth’ seem to foreclose any discussion by deeming knowledge relativism an irrational and dangerous position that fuels arguments claiming a truth crisis. A conclusion is that universities risk increasing polarisation, rather than trying to tackle problems of trustworthiness. The authors argue that, instead, universities need to be attentive to matters of democracy, power, and privilege, as well as a plurality of epistemological ideals, when discussing the so-called post-truth crisis.
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- Carbin, Maria, 1972-
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Towards a politics of uncertainty : difficulties of naming the relationship between gender and violence
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender-Based Violence. - : Bristol University Press. - 2398-6808. ; 5:1, s. 95-109
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article discusses how the relationship between gender and violence can be articulated, both in policy and theory, in order to unsettle the feminist orthodoxy that equates gender-based violence with violence against (heterosexual, white) women. Through an interview study with Swedish policymakers in public-sector healthcare, the author discusses the work done by different conceptualisations, in particular the new and seemingly neutral category of 'violence within close relationships', and shows that there is a need to open up a discussion about the ambiguities involved in trying to find the right language to talk about the relationship between gender and violence. While uncertainty and anxiety are often regarded as negative feelings, as something to be overcome, this article argues that holding onto doubts about the possibility of fixing meaning helps to avoid reduced understandings. Thus, the attempt to lay down one correct version should be dismissed, and instead the author emphasises the need for a politics of uncertainty – both in policy and theory.
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- Goicolea, Isabel, et al.
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Daring to ask about violence? : a critical examination of social services’ policies on asking about gender-based violence
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Gender-Based Violence. - : Bristol University Press. - 2398-6808 .- 2398-6816. ; 7:3, s. 467-482
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article critically analyses the assumptions and effects of the ‘daring to ask approach’ to gender based violence (GBV), as expressed in the policies that govern social services’ work in Sweden. We show how GBV is constituted as a sensitive issue connected with shame and as something that will not be brought up spontaneously; GBV is something that women who had experienced it carry with them as an ‘untouched truth’ waiting to be discovered by social workers while women’s worries about the consequences of telling are not made intelligible. The very speaking as such is seen as emancipatory, and the social worker is understood as a facilitator. With this approach follows standardised questions, aiming for neutrality and equity. However, these are so wide and unspecific, that the risk is that no one thinks the questions are directed to her. By making the assumptions and effects of a seemingly self-evident strategy visible, we demonstrate areas in need of further research and policy development, such as barriers to help-seeking (beyond stigmatisation) and effects of standardisation. This is an important undertaking since without critical scrutiny of the policies there is a risk that stakeholders assume that merely asking will resolve the problem of GBV.
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- Kieu, Lan, 1981-
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After idealism and difference : subjects of yellow feelings and sentimental narratives of migration
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- After Idealism and Difference is a critical and ethical project of reading the postcolonial other. Taking a void from postcolonial and poststructuralist feminist critique, my thesis aims to deconstruct the privilege of the “marginalia” as the beloved object of feminist scholarship. I hope to open up a different account of feminist ethics and politics that can move beyond moralism and identitarianism. Empirically, through a critically unlicensed reading of the narratives of Vietnamese migrant women who have been in intimate relationships with Swedish men, I seek to analyze the structure of feelings and power of the Asiatic migrant subjects, which I term “yellow feelings,” after the moralizing idealism of otherness and after identity-based difference, in which “yellow feelings” such as love, gratitude, mimetic desire, endurance will be unbenevolently scrutinized, de-idealized, and universalized.The thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter One offers a critical review of the treatment of the native image in the field of feminist and postcolonial studies in which I argue for an ethics of reading the other after idealism and difference. I maintain that Vietnamese ethnic subjects must be read as universal subjects while their particularistic yellow feelings must not be premised upon an antinormativity or an oppositional difference to dominant feelings, despite their occasional disavowal of and resistance to dominant feelings. In Chapter Two, I examine yellow feelings through the notions of agency, resistance, and mimetic desire in the racialized “third-world” other. I argue that this feeling agency is convoluted, whereas resistance cannot always be read in opposition to disposability, susceptibility, and complicity. I propose to read the “third-world” desire as mimetic desire in a triangular mode, rather than in a binary framework. In Chapter Three, I analyze yellow feelings of gratitude and the mechanisms of power by which the Vietnamese-Asiatic subjects are obliged to be thankful. I argue that the power of gratitude, although violating, is also enabling, and because of this enablement, it makes the dismissal of power become forever exhausting and awkward. In Chapter Four, I examine the power structure of yellow feelings as endurance under the force of monolingualism. I maintain that while the monolingualism exploits the bad faith of the self-disciplinary Vietnamese subjects, it is also a power to substitute and preserve the loss that the subjects have endured.
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- Lauri, Marcus, 1973-, et al.
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The rise of carceral feminism in Sweden : Analysing political debate and policy on men's violence against women
- 2023
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Ingår i: Women's Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0277-5395 .- 1879-243X. ; 99
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing on recent parliamentary debates and policy proposals, this article illustrates how penal policies and punitive agendas to combat gendered violence are on the rise in Sweden. While right-wing parties have long deployed a rhetoric of crime and punishment, today the Social Democrats and Left Party (labelling themselves feminist), as well as parts of the women's shelter movement, are deploying a similar discourse. This article shows how men's violence against women suddenly became a highly prioritised political issue within a discursive framework of ‘crime and punishment’, thereby asking whether carceral feminism is emerging in Sweden. Firstly, we analyse the logic of this approach, after which we discuss associated risks, such as how carceral feminism (re)shapes the understanding of gendered violence, that it is neither effective nor demanded by victims and has stratifying and stigmatising effects on racialised communities. Furthermore, it silences material welfare solutions and ultimately legitimates the expansion of penal policies, thereby providing a foundation for a carceral state in which repression becomes the standard response to social problems.
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- Öhman, Ann, et al.
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'The public health turn on violence against women' : Analysing Swedish healthcare law, public health and gender-equality policies
- 2020
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Ingår i: BMC Public Health. - : BioMed Central. - 1471-2458. ; 20:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article focuses on policy and law concerning violence against women as a public health issue. In Sweden, violence against women is recently recognized as a public health problem; we label this shift "The public health turn on violence against women". The new framing implies increased demands on the Swedish healthcare sector and its’ ability to recognise violence and deal with it in terms of prevention and interventions. The aim was to describe and discuss the main content and characteristics of Swedish healthcare law, and national public health and gender-equality policies representing the public health turn on violence against women. Through discursive policy analysis, we investigate how the violence is described, what is regarded to be the problem and what solutions and interventions that are suggested in order to solve the problem. Healthcare law articulates violence against women as an ordinary healthcare issue and the problem as shortcomings to provide good healthcare for victims, but without specifying what the problem or the legal obligation for the sector is. The public health problem is rather loosely defined, and suggested interventions are scarce and somewhat vague. The main recommendations for healthcare are to routinely ask patients about violence exposure. Violence against women is usually labelled "violence within close relationships" in the policies, and it is not necessarily described as a gender equality problem. While violence against women in some policy documents is clearly framed as a public health problem, such a framing is absent in others, or is transformed into a gender-neutral problem of violence within close relationships. It is not clearly articulated what the framing should lead to in terms of the healthcare sector's obligations, interventions and health promotions, apart from an ambivalent discourse on daring to ask about violence.
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