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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-
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Se upp - allt fler kvinnor kör som män! : Nollvisionen som diskurs och problemet män i trafiken
- 2009
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Ingår i: Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap. - Karlstad : Föreningen Tidskrift för Genusforskning. - 1654-5443 .- 2001-1377. ; :2-3, s. 97-118
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sweden is the first country in the world to have introduced the so-called Vision Zero (Nollvisionen). This is an ethical approach suggesting that road safety cannot be traded for mobility. Since the beginning of mass-motoring, men have been over-represented in traffic safety statistics, in terms of both ‘causing’ accidents and casualties. Against the background of the Swedish Vision Zero, it is quite extraordinary how little attention work on traffic safety has paid to men’s over-representation in Swedish fatal road accidents (90%), and (auto)mobility as a way of doing gender. The present article discusses how men and women driver subjects are produced through the Vision Zero discourse, with a particular focus on how men in traffic are constructed. This is important since such constructions and modes of address affect possible interventions and ‘solutions’ regarding road safety issues. Here I focus on three contemporary documents of policy making character or with general impact: first, the Governmental Act 2003 on road safety intervention; second, a report from the Swedish Road Administration which is applying a gender equality discourse on transport; and third a brochure issued by the Road Administration addressed to the everyday road user. These documents constitute case material that is illustrative of the Vision Zero as a generative apparatus of gender discourse. The article brings attention to the ambiguous ways in which the Vision Zero may, on the one hand, explicitly address men as problematic driver subjects, as an explicitly gendered high risk category; and, on the other, make men and masculine norms implicit through the rendering of young(er) driver subjects as problematic. This also involves pointing out women as an up and coming high risk category. To improve road safety, the discursive effects of this configuration suggest allocating responsibility partly to the ‘system’, partly to women driver subjects – in effect, to women who drive like men – rather than the men driver subjects.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-
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Online/Offline with Virtual Garages
- 2009
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Ingår i: GEXcel work in progress report. Vol. 6, Proceedings from GEXcel theme 2: Deconstructing the hegemony of men and masculinities : conference 27-29 April 2009. - Linköping : Linköping University. - 9789173935630 - 9789176686737 ; , s. 91-96
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Rättvist resande? Villkor, utmaningar och visioner för samhällsplaneringen
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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-, et al.
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A Reconsideration of Two "Welfare Paradises" : Research and Policy Responses to Men's Violence in Denmark and Sweden
- 2009
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Ingår i: Men and Masculinities. - : Sage Publications. - 1097-184X .- 1552-6828. ; 12:2, s. 155-174
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article compares the situation in Denmark and Sweden regarding research and policy making around the issue of men-s violence to women and children. It does so by drawing on two comprehensive reviews of academic and policy data in those countries that were part of a broader European Union-funded project. Although the picture emerging from this comparison is complex, the overall conclusion is that in Sweden over recent years many more examples can be found of a critical, power-oriented approach than is the case in Denmark.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Den bioniske mannen på autoerotiska äventyr : mäns risktagande i trafikrummet
- 2010
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Ingår i: Norma. - Oslo, Norge : Universitetsforlaget. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 5:1, s. 27-44
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- “The bionic man goes autoerotic – theoretic keys towards a refined understanding of men’s risk taking in public space”Gender construction in relation to mobility and movement gives rise to intriguing questions regarding the interfaces between men, masculinity, technology, “danger” and risk-taking, especially when discussing issues of traffic safety. How can we conceptualize men’s risk taking practices within the traffic realm? By drawing on research from feminist science and technology studies, the authors suggest and develop the figuration the bionic man for how to understand cars and other mobile vehicles such as mopeds as extensions of the (male) body. The construction of masculinity is seen to be interlinked with the use and mastering of motor vehicles. This theoretical frame work is further analysed by introducing the concept of autoeroticism as a meaningful way for understanding the profound embodied and emotional relation between men, technologies of movement and risk taking. The authors argue that the emotional aspects of driving cars and riding mopeds need to be regarded as both vital and crucial aspects when studying men’s risk taking in traffic space.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-
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Implicit men in traffic safety discourse : A life course perspective on (auto)mobility, violations and interventions
- 2007
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Ingår i: Norma. - Oslo : Universitetsforlaget AS. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 2:2, s. 127-143
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sweden is the first country in the world to have introduced the so-called Vision Zero (Nollvisionen): an ethical approach suggesting that road safety cannot be traded for mobility. Policy writings on traffic safety have so far been very limited in terms of explicitly addressing risk taking practices as mainly performed by men or as a way of performing masculinities. In this article I discuss how the gender-neutral language in traffic safety policy constructs adulthood as signifying maturity and good driving practices. In traffic safety policy, implicit adult men are contrasted against the young(er) drivers who are constructed as problematic to traffic safety. Rather than being about maturity or something that ‘just happens’ I suggest understanding (dangerous) driving as a repertoire for some men to perform masculinities linking it with power and entitlement.Still, not only dangerous driving practices per se are problematic to road safety. I argue that automobility needs to be understood as much more thoroughly affecting everyday life than is acknowledged in traffic safety discourse. A way of acknowledging the multiplicity of experiences and effects from automobility is to view it as a ‘process of damaging’. This perspective takes into consideration how automobility simultaneously enables and disables ‘safe’ mobility along lines of gender, age and able-bodiedness. Despite the fact that these problematic effects to some extent are acknowledged in policy, automobility remains a privileged mode of transportation in contemporary Sweden.
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