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Intersektionella rumsligheter
Molina, Irene Journal article in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;3 : Malmö högskola, Studentcentrum (2007)	scientific ARTICLE

English abstract:	There is an increased interest for spatial aspects in social sciences in general today. But the interest also raises questions of how space is conceptualised; whether power relations are included, or if space is understood as neutral and as a container. Historically, geography’s disciplinary base is colonial and patriarchial. Additionally, in Sweden economic geography’s specific interest in the 'homo economicus' has dominated. In contemporary critical spatial theory, space is understood as constructed, produced, fluid and relational. Space is constructed through, and by, different power relations. In this article the concept of intersectionality is used to see how race, gender and class coincide with time and space. Through these different perspectives issues of exclusion and discrimination are revealed. The focus is on the home, homelessness, the nation and the under-privileged suburbs in relation to how space and place are racialised, sexualised and classified. Firstly, it is illustrated how the home is sexualised, but also racialised, through the strong identification with having a place to belong to. This repetitive consolidation with a place also reflects the nationalisation of home, and the similar exclusion from home; the home is private and strangers should be kept out. The racialised female body is intrinsically problematic as she has a stronger connection to the private, at the same time as she is a stranger. In the growing segregation in the metropolitan suburbs these intersections of class, gender, race, time and space is at its most visible, and a revisited colonial approach to these areas can be seen today. The author calls for an increased awareness of the intersectional aspects of space in gender theory formation today since space is a fundamental category in relation to gender, class and race.
Swedish abstract:	Rumsteorier har historiskt utvecklats i en kolonial och patriarkal omgivning. Därför har det inte varit oproblematiskt att införa maktperspektiv på rums- och platsförståelser. Irene Molina tar upp hur tid och rum interagerar med intersektionella maktordningar samt dessa rumsliga ordningars konkreta konsekvenser. Här illustreras komplexiteten i hur stad, hem och nation formeras på diskursiv nivå, vilket oundvikligen får återverkningar på människors vardagsliv.

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Handling som kunskapande : en kunskapskritisk reflexion över konstnär...
Gislén, Ylva Journal article in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;1-2 : Malmö högskola, Studentcentrum (2007)	scientific ARTICLE

English abstract:	The article consists in a discussion of the epistemological implications of the knowledge claims in practice-based research. Rather than arguing a special case for knowledge in art and design, it tries to problematize what is often taken for granted in the distinction between theory and practice, as well as between formal scientific method and creative action. Thus the question is posed: how come knowledge in praxis, creation and action seems problematic in relation to conventional scientific epistemology? Point of departure is the problems and failures of the design theory movement, as well as different attempts to reconcile and negotiate what is often described as a ”structural anxiety” in the relation between practice based and conventional research. This is analyzed in relation to the complex and intricate picture of how research actually is done, as well as to the critique of conventional scientific epistemology and scientific self-image, offered by the last decades science- and technology studies, most notably from a feminist perspective. With subsequent attempts to envisage a different, more responsible, kind of research: in the concepts of situated knowledges, strong objectivity and in the relentless insisting on the active and necessary it is not only possible, but also more interesting and fruitful, to couple the question of practice-based research. What was seen as problematic in relation to conventional scientific epistemology, the situatedness and embodiedness, the difficulties in making generalizations, the role of artefacts, is here seen as a strength. It does not, however, say that anything goes: it rather sets up a different set of standards for good knowledge construction which can be summarized as a critical including of our positions and aims (relevance), a radical curiosity and humbleness in the meeting with that, or those, we regard as our objects of knowledge, and a recognition of the controversies, value conflicts and insecurities that lies at the heart of the political projects we inevitably are involved in. And that practice-based research thus, especially coupled with the critical and constructive perspective of feminist epistemology, can offer new paths and models also for more conventional areas of knowledge production.
Swedish abstract:	När konstnären och designern blir forskare aktualiseras en rad vetenskapliga och kunskapsteoretiska antaganden som berör frågan vad kunskap är, hur den produceras, av vem och i vilket sammanhang. Dessa frågor är själva grundbulten i den feministiska vetenskapskritiken. Den feministiska kritiken tydliggör spänningen och släktskapet mellan "vetaren-designern" och "vetaren-konstnären". Den visar även hur den praktikbaserade konstnärliga forskningen kan berika och påverka vårt förhållningssätt till vetenskap och kunskap i en mer situerad och ansvarstagande riktning.

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Thörn, Catharina
Journal article in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;3 : Malmö högskola, Studentcentrum (2007) scientific
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Swedish abstract: Alla människor har inte egen bostad, inte ens i Sverige. Hur ser hemlösa kvinnors situation ut? Och varför bedöms kvinnors hemlöshet annorlunda än mäns?

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Ett rotsystem på spåren : Om scenkonst och kön
von Schantz, Ulrika Journal article in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;1-2 : Malmö högskola, Studentcentrum (2007)	scientific ARTICLE

English abstract:	The aim of this article is to show how a key observation, made in an advanced institute for training actors, is effected by gender discourses. These discourses interact with a master-apprentice tradition developed as a central part of the institute's artistic-pedagogical training program. Another tradition was also at play as an important pedagogical inspiration and discursive formation: a matrilinear trainingprogram related to the voice and the body. This hierarchical master-apprentice-tradition was not only an accepted condition, but also a power-contra-power relation in the Foucauldian sense. In this powerplay of submission and resistance specific metaphors and symbols related to the body was crucial. These bodyrelated metaphors and symbols are shown to act subconsciously as part of a system of so called "rootmetaphors". By bringing together an analytic approach informed by Foucault's view on power, as well as one informed by psychoanalysis, this gendered "rootsystem" emerged. A key symbol is the metaphor of metaphors in psychoanalysis: the phallus. The complex role of the phallus was made clear when observing a physical exercise whose aim was to activate and raise the students consciouness of the voice's soundingboard. Allusions to classical theatrical ideals, the dubious status of male students in acting in the cultural hegemony in society at large, as well as the confusion and bodily sensations this exercise caused, activated the meaning of the phallus and in extension the penis. One, in our culture natural symbol or rootmetaphor, the phallus, came more or less unconsciously to the rescue of these men. Ironically, the need of male dominance was reinforced in an environment which not only is endowed with a hierarchical male tradition, but also with values and connotations related to the feminine: the artistic and personal, intuition and the desire to perform and act. The phallus as the metaphor of metaphors seemed to work selffulfillingly, interacting with internalized discourses on gender.
Swedish abstract:	En nyckelobservation gjord på en teaterhögskola är utgångspunkten för en diskussion om hur fallos iscensätts och reproducerar makt i en konstnärlig elitinstitution. En diskursiv strid uppstår som tydliggör skådespelaryrkets pendling mellan till synes oförenliga identiteter och funktioner.

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Varannan damernas väg till riksdagen - En romantisk historia
Törnqvist, Maria Journal article in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;4 : Malmö högskola, Studentcentrum (2007)	scientific ARTICLE

English abstract:	This article explores the impact of a romantic discourse in Swedish gender politics and more so; a heteroromantic discourse on closeness and passion between men and women. This is done through a close reading of the Swedish debate on “varannan damernas”, a quota measure to increase the number of women in parliament. The article argues that part of what turned this into a gender political success-story is the heteroromantic framing together with an adoption of ideals of cooperation inside the existing parties. The change in status is marked by a shift in terminology from ‘quotas’ to ‘varannan damernas’ (‘every other women’). In its earlier usage the expression refers to a phrase from the dance halls in which women were allowed to ask men up for every other dance. The metaphor thereby brings the question of women’s political presence into the intimate sphere and turns the previously conflictual framing of enforced legislated gender quota into a dance that symbolically guarantees both parts free will. The discursive embedding of visions and strategies is decisive in order to make gender equality an intelligible target for political action and change. With the counter-case of a women’s party, the article claims that the acceptance of certain gender equality solutions is not only due to a strong women’s movement or a general public interest in gender related matters. It is foremost a question of how claims and strategies are made intelligible and how they are incorporated into normative ideals of Swedish politics (mutual agreements and block-politics) and gender equality (cooperation between men and women). Thereby the case demonstrates that visions of emancipation are structured within relations of power. Gender politics can be described as a striving for gender equality, but is also a struggle over the classifications and legitimacy of certain world views as well as over material resources.
Swedish abstract:	Könskvotering eller kvinnoparti? I valet mellan dessa jämställdhetspolitiska lösningar i början av 1990-talet gick könskvotering till riksdagen som ett skott. Utifrån en diskursanalytisk metod visar Maria Törnqvist att de varvade listorna blev en framgångshistoria därför att de lanserades som ett heteroromantiskt alternativ.

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Förortsfeminismens villkor – transversell politik
Velásquez, Juan Journal article in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;3 : Malmö högskola, Studentcentrum (2007)	scientific ARTICLE

English abstract:	Juan Velásquez is recognizing the difficulties that frame the fight against discrimination, segregation and racism in Sweden. Gender mainstreaming and anti-discrimination work usually go for disparate roads, in spite that growing racism, homophobia and antifeminism require bigger unification between civil society, administrators and the scientific community. To articulate these actors Velásquez proposes transversal politics. He has studied this type of transversal work within the frame of a research project conducted in the multicultural community of Fittja, Botkyrka municipality in the metropolitan region of Stockholm. To advance this work he has developed a perspective based on participatory research that has turned into a transversal research. From the interaction among municipal officials, women’s networks and researcher, Velásquez seeks to make two fundamental contributions to the discussion on transversal politics. The first one is to engage in the local community. Transversal politics has been lifted 80 Tidskrift för genusvetenskap nr 3 2007 t e m a as a perspective to build feminist alliances to overcome global patriarchal structures, and case studies on micropolitics related to that discourse are still few. Both the way in which women performed diversity as well as the search for commonality among them is subject to a series of conditions that frame what Velásquez in the context of a multicultural suburb in the Swedish welfare state calls a suburban feminism. The second contribution is based on a study how women in a place like Fittja overcome the conditions that frame their political underrepresentation. Velásquez shows how women practice what feminist scholars named ”rooting” to analyse their subordinate condition, advancing dialogues where the use of affections and feelings are fundamental. These affections have been important to make ”shifting”, to go from the understanding of subordination to the construction of a local alliance to face the patriarchal outline that concern them. The understanding of the conditions that frame the construction of local feminist alliances is also analyzed in relation to the problems that urban governance can generate, when a transversal frame between women networks, the public administration and researcher is established in order to empower underrepresented groups among women.
Swedish abstract:	Jämställdhets- och antidiskrimineringsarbete har oftast dragit åt olika håll. Det har inneburit att centrala dimensioner av förtryck har förbisetts inom respektive område. Med hjälp av begreppet transversell politik diskuterar Juan Velásquez ett sätt att föra dem samman. Förort

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De nya fäderna : Om pappaledighet, jämställdhet och nya maskulina pos...
Johansson, Thomas; Klinth, Roger Journal article in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;1-2 : Malmö högskola, Studentcentrum (2007)	scientific ARTICLE

English abstract:	This article explores the way different groups of Swedish men experience and relate to issues concerning fatherhood, paternity leave and gender equality – how they together construct fatherhood in the field of tension between normative societal visions and their own lived reality. The study included four groups of men: men working in a centre for men in crisis, men involved in a network organization for masculinity issues, men in an association promoting security and social justice in a multiethnic suburb (a majority of the men had immigrant background) and men involved in a Christian church. Conceptions of fatherhood and gender equality were explored through focus group interviews. As starting point for the interviews the groups were confronted with materials from the last 30 years of state initiated paternity leave campaigns. The result confirms conclusions made in previous research, namely that Swedish men in general have a positive attitude to active parenthood. With few exceptions the groups expressed a child orientation and a positive approach to gender equality and shared parental responsibilities. Despite common ground on the importance of fathers taking active part in child care, the four groups displayed differences in the way they conceptualized the question. They related to different experiences and often used different ways of expressing thought, emotions and observations. The result points toward the influence of factors such as age, social and professional position, ethnic background and religion. The group of men working at the crisis centre primarily used individual rather than societal perspectives. Their main concern was the impact of the campaigns on men’s psychological well-being. The group of men from the Christian church placed the question of fatherhood in the context of preserving and promoting the family. In the group dominated by men with immigrant background, the fatherhood question was mainly framed through references to the economic hard-ship and social exclusion distinguishing many multi-ethnical Swedish suburbs.
Swedish abstract:	Hur uppfattar och förhåller sig män till de kampanjer som vill påverka dem att vara hemma mera med sina barn? Artikelförfattarna har träffat fyra grupper av män med skilda erfarenheter och bakgrunder för att utforska hur de konstruerar sitt faderskap i spänningsfältet mellan visioner och levd erfarenhet.

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Från redaktionen

Edgren, Monika; Sarrimo, Cristine; Smitt, Helena
Publication in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;4 (2007) other
Från redaktionen

Edgren, Monika; Sarrimo, Cristine; Smitt, Helena
Publication in Tidskrift för genusvetenskap;1/2;Tema: Konst - scen, film, forskning (2007) other

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