| 791. |
- Enghel, Florencia, 1968-
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Informarse es problemático: consideraciones a partir de las prácticas cotidianas de las mujeres en tiempos de precariedad [It’s problematic: Considerations on being informed base don women’s everyday practices in precarious times]
- 2023
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Ingår i: Revista de la Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación. - : Grupo Novos Medios. - 2341-2690. ; 10:19, s. 22-41
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Los medios colaborativos pueden potencialmente contribuir a la resiliencia ciudadana. ¿Pero recurren hoy a ellos sus públicos objetivos? ¿Y qué nos dice ese recurrir acerca de qué significa informarse actualmente? A partir de entrevistas cualitativas realizadas con mujeres en Argentina en 2021-2022, indago a qué formas de informarse tienen acceso, qué medios adoptan o rechazan, y cómo se mantienen al tanto acerca de las cuestiones que las afectan en particular. El análisis demuestra que informarse cotidianamente les resulta problemático en diversos sentidos. Para estar al tanto de las cuestiones que las afectan en particular, recurren a prácticas diferentes: se relacionan entre sí, acuden a medios colaborativos que trabajan temáticas feministas, y siguen a periodistas mujeres reconocidas por su atención a esas cuestiones. El artículo aporta elementos para repensar la información con perspectiva de género y el rol de los medios colaborativos en dietas informativas que nutran la resiliencia ciudadana.
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| 792. |
- Enghel, Florencia, 1968-
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Rethinking the communicative dimensions of everyday activism from the South : how do Argentinian women struggle for gender justice in precarious digital times?
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this presentation I share work in progress aimed at rethinking the communicative dimensions of everyday activism. My considerations are based on a qualitative, exploratory study of women’s everyday communication practices in Argentina. My conceptual starting point for this rethinking is work published by political scientists Jane Mansbridge and Katherine Flaster fifteen years ago. The notion of ‘everyday activism’ was formulated by Jane Mansbridge and Katherine Flaster starting from in-depth interviews with women in the US conducted in the early nineties, through which they discovered and studied the use of the phrase “male chauvinist”. Based on this discovery, Mansbridge and Flaster (2007, 627) proposed that "everyday activists may not interact with the world of formal politics, but they take actions in their own lives to redress injustices that a contemporary social movement has made salient". Their focus on women’s everyday talk as a tool for persuasive “micronegotiations with their bosses, husbands and friends” (ibid, 628) implied that there is a communicative dimension to this form of activism (see Mansbridge 2013 for a refined conceptualization that did away with the gender dimension). The notion of ‘everyday activism’ has also been used and conceptualized by other scholars in more recent academic literature published in English, with communicative actions as a distinct element (Abbetz, 2012; Vivienne, 2015). Based on a non-probability/convenience online qualitative survey (N=158) conducted with Argentinean women in 2021, in this presentation I focus on those practices and make two analytical moves. First, I investigate whether respondents consider themselves activists for women’s rights (and to which extent) or not, and why. Then, I examine how they communicate about the problems affecting women that matter to them in their daily lives (preferred avenues and ways of doing), what they communicate (core themes and types of content), what difference they think their everyday activism makes (reflexivity about presumed impact), and what they would want to change about how they communicate (improvement of strategy). The approach serves to clarify current forms of everyday communicative agency for gender justice among women, and to unpack how that agency speaks to what Kay (2020) has defined as communicative injustice.
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| 793. |
- Enghel, Florencia, 1968-
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To do no harm : from scientific ambition and extractivist designs to taking research participants into account
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Large research funders based in the North increasingly require that scholars conduct transnational studies, but what does this mean in practice? (Griffin & Leibetseder, 2019). Drawing on a qualitative multi-method research project undertaken in the Global North with funding from a Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action, I document the challenges raised by funding models that equate excellence with ambition and rewards scholars in the North at the expense of extractivist approaches to studying the South; I analyze the impact of said biases on project design; and I reflect on lessons learnt from fieldwork and the research situation’s specificity (Markham, 2018). Doing reflexivity (Dean, 2017) about this process contributes to illuminating the methodological and ethical tensions, contradictions and risks that face scholars tied to Western funding, and to resetting prestigious grants as opportunities to exercise academic freedom by actively choosing to do no harm at the stage of data collection.
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| 794. |
- Englund, Boel, et al.
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Shaping a New Age : Educators, Entrepreneurs, Publicists – and Members of Parliament
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- At last! The voice of a woman was heard in the Swedish Parliament! The voice belonged to Agda Östlund, representative of the Social Democratic Party and the first woman to give a speech in Parliament. The event took place on Saturday the 11th of March 1922. Together with other women she had struggled for a more equal and democratic society for more than a decade. Now five women were the first to take seats as Members of Parliament. Finally, women suffrage had become a reality – the final parliamentary decision was made in January 1921. Focus in our paper is on Agda Östlund. We explore her path up to the speaker´s chair and the resources that brought her there against the background of some forty women struggling in various ways to achieve, build, and develop higher education, professional work and civil rights for women. The analysis draws upon this more comprehensive study, recently published. There, our overall purpose is to describe and analyse a number of Stockholm women and their paths from private to public in the decades around 1900. The Swedish capital proved an important site framing material conditions and social networks. By analysing how the women made use of and increased their social, cultural and economic resources we could outline patterns that characterised their ways of gaining access to, influencing or founding various institutions and civil rights – and so contributed to the profound social changes characterising the years around 1900. What strategies did they follow? What assets did they set moving?In the paper, we summarise some critical aspects characterising three of the first five women that gained access to the Swedish Parliament and two women active on the municipal level. We highlight similarities and dissimilarities and we pinpoint some main results from the wider study of forty women.
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| 795. |
- Englund, Boel, 1947-, et al.
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Struggles, Resources and Strategies : Portraits of Six Swedish Women Suffrage Activists
- 2024
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Ingår i: Suffrage and Its Legacy in the Nordics and Beyond. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783031523588 - 9783031523595 - 9783031523618 ; , s. 63-84
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The focus here is on six Swedish women struggling as suffrage activists or advocates of women's civil rights, among them three of the first women Members of Parliament. We explore their lives, struggles and strategies. We investigate the various resources they set in motion, and the institional obstacles they encountered on their paths to Parliament and other important arenas that were opened up to women in the changing times around 1900. All managed to build considerable professional, organisational and/or political resources, and all profited significantly from their strategic network-building.
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| 796. |
- Engstrand, Åsa-Karin, 1971-
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Managing the manosphere : The limits of responsibility for government social media adoption
- 2024
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Ingår i: Government Information Quarterly. - : Elsevier BV. - 0740-624X .- 1872-9517. ; 41:1, s. 101909-101909
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The prevalence of hate, threats, gender trolling, and other problematic communication patterns in social media prompts concerns about the responsibility associated with government social media adoption. In addressing this issue, this paper adopts a feminist perspective to enrich our understanding of how governments assume responsibility for their adoption of social media. The study contains a sentiment and thematic analysis of responses to a government video campaign on Facebook, which seeks to heighten public awareness about men's violence against women by highlighting problems surrounding sexist jokes. The video targets two audiences in terms of gender, resulting in various outcomes in sentiments, trolling, and trolling management. Results show disparities in sentiments between males and females, the diverse strategies employed in trolling, and how both users and the local government manage trolling. The local government deploys different strategies for trolling management, encompassing both engaging and non-engaging approaches. Notably, engagement is constrained to the targeted male audience and male trollers. The primary responsibility for trolling management is delegated to users, predominantly women, who become proxies for the local government. This dual practice of ignoring women as relevant stakeholders and utilizing them as proxies is considered a failure of responsibility. The study contributes to the advancement of citizen engagement research by delving into the intricate dynamics of trolling and trolling management within the specific context of government social media. Moreover, it sheds light on issues of responsibility inherent in the adoption of social media by governmental entities.
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- Enlund, Desirée, 1984-
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Contentious countrysides : social movements reworking and resisting public healthcare restructuring in rural Sweden
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The broader aim of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of the production and reproduction of spatial inequalities following from the restructuring of the public healthcare system. More specifically, by analyzing the contention around healthcare restructuring related to two cases spanning a longer period in northern Sweden, I aim to investigate the changing conditions for healthcare provision in rural and sparsely populated areas, and I explore the forms of collective action that local people engage in to sustain the access to healthcare, as well as how state authorities’ attitudes towards such collective action have shifted. In the context of larger public healthcare restructuring in contemporary Sweden, where the marketization and privatization of healthcare since the 1990s have impacted the provision of healthcare across the country, rural areas are experiencing deteriorating accessibility to both primary healthcare as well as emergency healthcare. This development is increasingly contentious, and is frequently met with resistance from rural populations as well as various strategies to rework these uneven conditions. The first case concerns the preceding protests as well as the occupation and opening of a citizen cooperative primary care center in Sollefteå, Västernorrland, in response to cutbacks at the local hospital. The second case follows the worker-cum-citizen cooperative primary and occupational healthcare centers in Offerdal, Jämtland. Through these two cases I explore people’s experiences of public healthcare restructuring, their motivations for engaging in contention around it, their experiences of self-organizing cooperative healthcare, as well as their visions and desires for a future healthcare.As shown throughout this thesis, healthcare restructuring is highly contentious and comes in many forms, ranging from protests, demonstrations, and occupations of healthcare facilities to the self-organization of healthcare services through worker and citizen cooperatives. Healthcare restructuring marked by spatial concentration and withdrawal has thus given rise to a number of drawn-out and spectacular collective actions in contemporary Sweden, but responses can also take the form of low-key efforts to maintain healthcare provision. The healthcare authorities’ attitude towards such low-key efforts by not-for-profit healthcare providers has shifted from a favorable approach in the 1990s to emphasizing their role in safeguarding fair market conditions in the healthcare market. This shift has created a more hostile welfare state landscape for not-for-profit healthcare providers in rural areas, which exacerbates the already unfavorable conditions they operate under. Rural populations’ efforts to remedy the withdrawal of public healthcare are thus highly precarious. While reworking uneven healthcare provision, they operate in this increasingly hostile welfare state landscape, which is not adapted to either rural areas or not-for-profit healthcare. In practice, public healthcare restructuring and withdrawal amount to a cutback in healthcare provision for rural populations. This transfers the work of sustaining social reproduction to the private sphere, in this case not-for-profits healthcare providers. The public healthcare restructuring and withdrawal outlined in this thesis thus present an example of a form of ‘rural neoliberalism’, whereby rural populations are dispossessed of welfare services that instead accumulate in urban areas, which both increases and is connected to larger questions around spatial (in)equalities and the restructuring of the public sector in contemporary Sweden. Nevertheless, those engaged in contention around and the self-organization of healthcare nurture visions and desires for a future healthcare system that would take a holistic approach to the patient and make possible a more equitable access to healthcare.
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