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- Elwidaa, Eiman
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Rethinking adequate housing for low-income women of the Global South : reflections on women initiated housing transformations to Masese Women Slum-Upgrading Housing Project, Jinja, Uganda
- 2020
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The global discourse on low-income housing promotes participation to provide slum dwellers of the Global South with adequate housing. Despite acknowledged women’s extra vulnerability to the substandard housing of slums, how their participation, or what design considerations support their housing adequacy, remains ambiguous. Case study methodology was used for the exploration of the research presented in this PhD thesis. Targeting women as its main beneficiaries, Masese Women Slum-Upgrading Housing Project (MWSUHP) was selected as the case for the research explorations at it represents the state of the art in providing adequate housing to women living in Ugandan slums. The research aims at describing, exploring and developing an understanding of the contribution of women’s participation in MWSUHP housing processes, as well as identifying design considerations to support their adequate housing provision. Empirical evidence was gathered using combined methods of documents and drawings analysis, walk-throughs, interviews and focus group discussions.The research identified the domination of the colonial ideologies, men’s over representation, ad the gender blindness of the Ugandan low-income housing discourse. These factors contributed to the production of housing designs that promote gender stratification, segregation and subordination. The research results acknowledged Ugandan low-income women’s substantial design knowledge to their housing adequacy and highlights the importance of interpreting housing designs in gender-related terms. To attain housing adequacy to the Ugandan low-income women, the research advocates for; i) including low-income women in their housing design processes, ii) increase women’s representation in the Ugandan housing design discourses, iii) developing housing design ideologies that understand housing in gender related terms iv) developing housing designs that appreciate the Ugandan low-income women’s socio-cultural contexts and lifestyles, respond to their productive, reproductive and community integration roles v) embracing women’s intersectionality vi) considering flexibility, spontaneity, improvisation and incremental development in their housing designs.This research contributes in filling the knowledge gap in the low-income housing discourse, with a focus on providing women living in the Ugandan slums with adequate housing.
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| 792. |
- Emilsen, Kari, et al.
(author)
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Children’s perspectives on their male and female teachers in Brazil and Norway
- 2023
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study aims to understand how cultural discourses in Norway and Brazil are represented in children’s views on their teachers as seen through a gendered lens. ECEC institutions are infused with local gender discourses represented by professional and parental beliefs. Nordic countries emphasize equality and gender sensitive practice (Edström & Brunila, 2016), while conservative forces in Brazil attempt to block educational policy focusing on gender and sexuality (Vianna & Bortolini, 2020). The theoretical framework posits gender as socially constructed performances (Butler 2004, Connell & Pearse, 2015) that are fluid and situational, cultural, political, and socially multi-leveled. In our case study methodology, data collection is modeled on the Mosaic Approach (Clark, 2017), using observation and open-ended interviews with children, and semi-structured interviews with mixed gender staff and parents. Thematic analysis using an abductive approach was conducted. Children gave assent to their participation, and adults gave informed consent. Data was anonymized. Ethical approval was obtained from National Centres for Research Data. Preliminary findings suggest that children in both settings value playfulness and kindness amongst the staff and are attracted towards staff with those competencies. The Brazilian case exhibits a binary pattern where children see only male teachers with those qualities. In Norway it is harder to distinguish a gendered pattern. We relate these findings to local gender discourses, pedagogical traditions and organizational traits. This study shows how cultural contexts affect gender sensitive practices and challenge gender stereotypes by acknowledging children's voices.
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| 793. |
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Enförälderfamiljer : Om ensamstående föräldrar, singelföräldrar och soloföräldrar
- 2023
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Editorial collection (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- Vägarna till ensamstående föräldraskap är många, och de kan vara frivilliga eller ofrivilliga, omdebatterade eller okontroversiella. Livet som ensamstående förälder kan också vara präglat av ensamhet, eller inte alls ensamt.Enförälderfamiljer synliggör de många betydelser och nyanser, vanligheter och ovanligheter, värden och känslor som ryms i erfarenheter av att vara ensamstående förälder. Boken undersöker också skildringar av ensamstående föräldrars familjeliv i litteratur, film och andra medier, från banbrytande romaner på 1930-talet till komplexa filmberättelser och humoristiska seriealbum på 2000-talet.Kapitlen är skrivna av forskare, författare och journalister med olika perspektiv och utgångspunkter. Detta gör att boken som helhet ger en bred bild av hur det ensamstående föräldraskapet beskrivs, förstås och upplevs i olika sammanhang och situationer.
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| 794. |
- Engebretsen, Elisabeth L., et al.
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Introduction : Transforming identities in contemporary Europe
- 2023
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In: Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe : Critical Essays on Knowledge, Inequality and Belonging - Critical Essays on Knowledge, Inequality and Belonging. - 9781032151113 - 9781000907407 ; , s. 1-15
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The nation-state level of formal, parliamentary politics is an increasing polarisation with contradistinctions appearing in the ‘traditional’ Left, Progressive, and Conservative politics. Adherent is an increasing politicisation of gender, race, sexuality, and nation connected to citizenship, resources, and identification. By insisting on making visible the epistemologies of colonial knowledge regimes that operate in neoliberal governance, the contributing authors stress the importance of location, experience, pain, and (story)telling from a position of marginalisation, othering, and exclusion to counter hegemonic and hierarchical structures of differentiation and disenfranchisement. Methodological concerns and struggles over knowledge production and their concurrent inequalities in and beyond the academic terrain and across historical periods have been central to this collaborative project since its inauguration. Situated within a geopolitical crisis that traversed all borders and group domains, the COVID-19 pandemic emerged on top of a longer period of economic austerity, growing inequality, intensifying pressures in academia, as well as the global climate crisis.
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| 795. |
- Enghel, Florencia, 1968-
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Does having access to information imply being well informed? Considerations based on a study of women’s everyday communication practices in Argentina
- 2023
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- How do ordinary citizens get informed today? Based on qualitative interviews conducted with women in Argentina in 2021-2022, I analyze which forms of information they have access to, which types of media they tend to adopt or reject and why, and what are their strategies to stay on top of those gendered issues that particularly affect them. The analysis shows how and why they find the daily task of informing themselves problematic in various ways. The analysis moreover illuminates how, to stay on top of issues that affect them, they resort to distinct practices: they relate to each other, choose collaborative media with a feminist focus, and follow female journalists recognized for their attention to gender issues. The work-in-progress article on which this presentation is based will contribute to rethinking how to study everyday information practices with a gender perspective, and to imagining how information diets aimed at advancing women’s rights may look like.
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| 796. |
- 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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In: Revista de la Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación. - : Grupo Novos Medios. - 2341-2690. ; 10:19, s. 22-41
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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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| 797. |
- 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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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)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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| 798. |
- 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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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)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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| 799. |
- Englund, Boel, et al.
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Shaping a New Age : Educators, Entrepreneurs, Publicists – and Members of Parliament
- 2021
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)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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| 800. |
- 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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In: Suffrage and Its Legacy in the Nordics and Beyond. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783031523588 - 9783031523595 - 9783031523618 ; , s. 63-84
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)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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