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- Saeidzadeh, Zara, 1980-
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Trans and Sex Change in Contemporary Iran : A Socio-Legal Study of Gendered Policies and Practices
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis is a result of a qualitative study that investigates the socio-legal status of trans persons who undergo sex-change surgery in contemporary Iran. It examines how social practices of gender shape the lives of trans men and trans women in Iranian society. Further, it explores the ‘legality’ and ‘illegality’ of sex change under shi’a Islamic jurisprudence and examines how the interplay between the medical and the judicial systems affects the social and legal status of trans people in Iran.The thesis uses two sets of materials: interviews and documents. Fortytwo interviews with 39 people were conducted, including trans people, trans activists, lawyers, medical professionals and a jurist in Iran. The majority of the interviews were carried out face-to-face in Iran during two fieldtrips in 2014 and 2015. A set of ten telephone interviews were also completed with trans people living in Iran in 2017. Using the concept of (mis)recognition developed by Nancy Fraser, the thesis argues that the lack of legal legislation, along with the plurality of Islamic legal opinions (fatwas) on sex change and the status of trans people, have resulted in arbitrary decision-making by medical and legal professionals (e.g. surgeons and judges). It further shows that while the dominant view on medicalisation of trans people misrecognises their status within lawand society, it nevertheless helps them to negotiate a liveable life. Drawing on the work of Raewyn Connell, the thesis explains how trans people’s process of social embodiment involves individual, medical and legal transition in which the surgery is only a part.The thesis shows how trans activism in Iran is shaped around the discourse of needs rather than that of human rights. Furthermore, the thesis problematises the strong influence of homonormativity and some Second Wave feminist thinking among Iranian feminists who consider sex-change surgery a patriarchal force.
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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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- Strid, Sofia, Associate Professor [Docent], 1976-, et al.
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The violently gender-equal Nordic welfare states
- 2023
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Ingår i: Re-imagining Sexual Harassment<em></em>. - Bristol : Policy Press. - 9781447366522 - 9781447366546 ; , s. 48-66
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Strid, Sofia, Associate Professor [Docent], 1976-, et al.
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UniSAFE D3.1 Theoretical and conceptual framework
- 2021
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Rapport (refereegranskat)abstract
- There are different understandings of both gender and gender-based violence in different national and organisational contexts. While recognising the potential conflicts and tensions emanating from different strands of epistemology, ontology and contexts, UniSAFE is primarily informed by a feminist understanding of both gender and violence.The aim of the UniSAFE theoretical and conceptual framework is to frame the overall study – including data collection and analysis on micro, meso and macro levels and their interrelations – and to highlight key debates and contestations in the research field of gender-based violence in RPOs (Research Performing Organisations, including universities). The framework is developed in order to contribute to the data collection and analysis of gender-based violence in academic environments and research workplaces in Europe.The underlying approach is multi-level and holistic, and informed by gender theory, intersectionality, and feminist violence studies: these are applied to both the collection and analysis of evidence, and to its operationalisation into tools and dissemination. Such an approach, in turn, requires approaching gender equality and gender-based violence in institutions from an organisational violence perspective, rather than approaching gender-based violence only from a gender equality perspective, or indeed an individualist perspective.To these ends, the UniSAFE theoretical and conceptual framework outlines the key concepts used in the project and proposes forms of gender-based violence to cover and the definitions for these forms, with the whole project anchored in feminist violence studies. It introduces the 7P model at the heart of the project, defining each of its elements in turn. How these concepts relate to each other are then provided, as well as an operationalisation in terms of different strands of data collection. This informs the work in the following work packages and assists in the systematisation of data collection and analysis.
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- Strid, Sofia, Associate Professor [Docent], 1976-, et al.
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Violence regimes : A framework for analysing multiple forms of violence and their relation
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The paper is one of five papers in the proposed session Violence Regimes: Analysing the Multiplicity of Gendered Violence(s). It theoretically explores and empirically tests the framework of violence regime to analyse the multiplicity of violence(s). Violence regime is a newly developed framework for analysing violence (Hearn et al. 2018; Strid et al. 2018). It 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 varying in both manifestation and understanding of violence, as well as for policy implications, thus extending the continuum of violence (Kelly 1988):1. Deadly: manifestations of violence with potential to kill, usually direct and directed towards someone (has a ‘victim’ or ‘object’), as in deadly violence, e.g. homicide, femicide, death penalty;2. Damaging: manifestations of violence/violations with potential to harm or injury, usually direct and directed towards someone (as ‘victim’ or ‘object’), e.g. recorded violent crime, violence against the person, IPV and stalking;3. Diffuse: underpinnings to manifestations of violence, usually less direct, and directed towards a group, usually with an identifiable ‘victim’ or ‘object’, including e.g. legitimizations and regulations of violence; and 4. Dispersed: other manifestations not necessarily understood as violence, usually indirect, sometimes directed towards a group but with a less easily identifiable ‘victim’ or ‘object; manifestations not are not usually recognized as violence, e.g. environmental destruction.To develop and test the framework, we first construct a composite measure of violence, a so-called Violence Regime Index (Strid et al. 2019), and then cluster countries in terms of the four the pillars of violence. This serves to examine if and how the production of violence in different states constitutes distinct regimes, and to enable further comparisons and contrasts specifically related to violence and the welfare state Finally, the paper analyses different theorisations, manifestations and measurements of violence and their implications, and develops violence regimes as a fruitful approach and means to deepen the analysis of gender relations, gender domination, and policy.
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- Strid, Sofia, Associate Professor [Docent], 1976-, et al.
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Violence regimes : Analysing the multiplicity of gendered violence(s)
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- How do we approach violence as an issue for scientific research and a problem for professional practices? This introduction explores this through engagements with the framework of violence regime. It analyses different manifestations and measurements of violence and their implications, and develops violence regimes as a fruitful approach and as means to deepen the analysis of gender relations, gender domination, and policy. It concerns the ontology of violence and conceptualizes violence as inequality in its own right and as autotelic (Schinkel 2010). Violence regime is a relatively newly developed framework 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):Deadly: manifestations of violence with potential to kill, usually direct and directed towards someone (has a ‘victim’ or ‘object’), as in deadly (or minimal) violence; e.g. homicide, femicide, death penalty, and militarism; toDamaging: manifestations of violence/violations with potential to harm or injury, usually direct and directed towards someone (as ‘victim’ or ‘object’); e.g. recorded violent crime, violence against the person, IPV and stalking; and then Diffuse: underpinnings to manifestations of violence, usually less direct, and directed towards a group, usually with an identifiable ‘victim’ or ‘object’, including e.g. legitimizations and regulations of violence; and Dispersed: other manifestations not necessarily understood as violence, usually indirect, sometimes directed towards a group but with a less easily identifiable ‘victim’ or ‘object; manifestations not are not usually recognized as violence; e.g. environmental destruction. The first paper in the session sets out the violence regimes framework, as described above. The following four papers each engage empirically with a specific pillar and manifestation of violence regime. In combination, the five papers contribute to the development of methods and theory to better explore and explain difference sand similarities between multiple forms of violence, and their causes and consequences.
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- Aktas, Oya, et al.
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Men, masculinities and military organizations
- 2023. - 1
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Ingår i: Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations. - London : Routledge. - 9781003193579 - 9781032045153 - 9781032045160 ; , s. 262-275
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Militaries and militarism are among the most obviously gendered of all organizational activities. The military is also one of the clearest arenas of social power, violence and killing in their many guises. Military matters are urgent, powerful and lethal. The ways armies and those in them are organized and act are literally questions of life and death for all concerned. This chapter brings together studies on men and masculinities with those in the military and military organizations. Men, militarism and the military are historically, profoundly and blatantly interconnected. These interconnections have often either been simply accepted or it has gone unnoticed that these military persons are largely men. Indeed, many, though not all, armies and other fighting forces of the world have been and still are armies composed mainly of men, young men and boys. Those engaged in active combat and direct fighting in wars are often young men and boys. In the chapter, we address the place of men and masculinities in some key organizational issues in military organization and militarism, most notably recruitment, hierarchies and segregations, disability and veterans, and the impacts of these organizations on civilians, before concluding remarks on wider processes and impacts, on research, scientific and technological organizations, on international relations and geopolitics, and on the environment.
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- Blake, Vic, et al.
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Collective memory work with older men : Ageing, gender politics and masculinities
- 2021. - 1
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Ingår i: Reader Collective Memory-Work. - Sligo : Beltra Books. - 9780992827144 ; , s. 327-353
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Over a thirteen-year period, between 2002 and 2015, we were part of what we now call the Older Men’s Memory Work Group (hereafter the group). During our final three years together, we also collaboratively produced and edited a collective book, Men’s Stories for a Change: Ageing Men Remember (Barber et al., 2016; also Blake et al., 2016, 2018) – though it should be said, at the outset, that this was not at all part of our agenda until late in the initial process.Memory work is work on memories, usually though not necessarily collective, and usually also focused on and about some agreed issue(s) of concern. In our case, these memories were about the making and unmaking of older men and masculinities through age, ageing, gender, gendering, and other intersections. Indeed, from the very beginning the group was part of a personal-political project of changing older men and masculinities against patriarchal and sexist ways and relations, and towards feminist and profeminist ways and relations. Here, in this contribution, we first describe the practicalities and the process of our memory work before placing the method itself in its broader framework, and considering its potential for working with older people, and specifically with older men, and with certain implications for practice.
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- Collinson, David L., et al.
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Men, masculinities, and leaderships : Emerging issues
- 2023. - 1
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Ingår i: A Research Agenda for Gender and Leadership. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781800883819 - 9781800883826 ; , s. 87-106
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter argues that combining recent work in critical studies on men and masculinities (CSMM) with critical leadership studies (CLS) has the potential to open up important new research agendas in the broad area of gender and leadership and more particularly in relation to men, masculinities, and leadership. Its starting point is Collinson and Hearn’s 1994 Gender, Work & Organization article, “Naming men as men: Implications for work, organizations and management. ”Collinson and Hearn sought to make the gendered social category of men explicit in studying work, organizations, and management. This involved interrogating debates on patriarchies and multiple masculinities, as well as analytical questions around exclusion, differences, meaning, and power. The relevance of these issues was discussed in relation to (material) discourses of masculinity in management: paternalism, authoritarianism, entrepreneurialism, informalism, careerism.
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- Cornell, Josephine, et al.
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Sexual justice and sexualities
- 2023
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Ingår i: Handbook of Social Sciences and Global Public Health. - New York : Springer. - 9783030967789 ; , s. 1-21
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sexualities research is a diverse and wide-ranging field, comprising a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. Mainstream public health scholars have tended to approach the study of sexualities from an essentialist and biomedical framework, at times drawing on deficit-focused interpretations of sexuality and neglecting questions of power, context, and sexual diversity. Public health researchers have an important role to play in promoting and working toward sexual justice, and critical perspectives and understandings of sexuality are crucial in this regard. Approaching sexualities with a critical lens requires always paying attention to the power relations that shape sexual experiences, identities, and practices. This is of particular urgency in light of the many forms of repression, exclusion, and regressive backlash occurring across the globe, despite the many successes of the struggle for sexual rights and justice. This chapter provides a historical overview of sexualities research in the social sciences and public health and delineates some of the key theoretical trends within sexualities scholarship. It then presents some key priorities for critical research into sexualities within public health that may meaningfully contribute to advancing sexual justice globally.
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