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- Bäckström, Hanna, 1986- (författare)
- Umeå universitet,Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)
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- Berg, Linda, Docent, 1974- (preses)
- Umeå universitet,Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)
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- Edenheim, Sara, Docent, 1975- (preses)
- Umeå universitet,Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)
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- Andersson, Helen, Docent (preses)
- Teologiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet
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- Folkmarson Käll, Lisa, Docent (opponent)
- Institutionen för etnologi, religionshistoria och genusvetenskap, Stockholms universitet
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- ISBN 9789178790043
- Umeå : Bokförlaget h:ström - Text & Kultur, 2020
- Svenska 381 s.
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Abstract
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- The thesis addresses the issue of social work in Swedish civil society, focusing on the ambition and practice of helping others as an existential as well as a social, political and cultural phenomenon. The aim is to study the ambiguities and aporetic conflicts that imbue helping activities and the desire to help others, using ethnographic as well as philosophical method. An interview study comprising of 12 volunteers and activists, all working with begging EU-citizens in Sweden, was carried out between 2015 and 2016. The interviews aimed to gather context specific experiences of helping others from a vulnerable group, especially concerning questions of power asymmetry and moral and political dilemmas. Subsequently, a reading of the participants’ narratives informed by Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction was performed. Following Derrida’s understanding of deconstruction as a bipartite process, focusing on genealogy and representation as well as the logico-formal paradoxes, aporias or ‘undecidables’, that characterise certain phenomena, two strands of research questions guided the analysis: Firstly, how do the participants understand and create meaning regarding their helping activities? And secondly, what seemingly impossible paradoxes, aporias, emerge in the constituting ideas and practices of helping, as they are expressed in the participants' narratives?Resulting from this reading and a parallel literature study, three main areas of conflict were identified: altruistic gift-giving vs. reciprocity and exchange, objective and structural justice vs. personal relations and exceptions, and lastly, the meaning of empathy as well as the difficulty of representing the suffering of others. The main theoretical sources are Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, Hélène Cixous and Jessica Benjamin, whose writings on economy, gifts, responsibility, desire and intersubjectivity respectively, are employed to understand and theoretically develop the participants' experiences.Connecting the difficulty of doing a good deed to feminist ethical elaborations on care and justice, I conclusively argue for a deconstructive ethics of care, that takes the aporetic character of helping others into account, while not relinquishing the responsibility towards the other and the possibility of solidarity.
Ämnesord
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Genusstudier (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Other Social Sciences -- Gender Studies (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Sociologi -- Socialt arbete (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Sociology -- Social Work (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Sociologi -- Socialantropologi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Sociology -- Social Anthropology (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- civil society
- critical social work
- empathy
- ethics of care
- feminist ethics
- gifts
- gift-giving
- moral perception
- poststructuralist ethics
- solidarity
- street-begging
- voluntary social work
- civilsamhälle
- kritiskt socialt arbete
- empati
- omsorgsetik
- feministisk etik
- gåvor
- moralisk perception
- poststrukturalistisk etik
- solidaritet
- tiggeri
- frivilligt socialt arbete
- genusvetenskap
- gender studies
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