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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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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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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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