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  • 1.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    About getting a daily life going: Social work, time and normalization2011In: NORMALIZATION AND “OUTSIDERHOOD”: Feminist Readings Of A Neoliberal Welfare State / [ed] Siv Fahlgren, Anders Johansson, Diana Mulinari, Bentham eBooks, 2011, p. 28-38Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Abstract: This chapter analyzes the normalization processes taking place in a Swedish social welfare institution for children/families as processes in which social life is regulated by sociotemporal patterns. Agendas for change in social work institutions are often tied to linear clock time and are continuously repeated in institutional practice. The empirical material consists of ten narrative interviews conducted with the personnel and is here analyzed in relation to the meaning of time in the narratives. The aim is to show how certain concepts of time become normalized as the supposedly neutral foundation for social life, and how the values and power relations inherent in them in terms of gender, race/ethnicity and class become invisible. This normalization makes time into part of institutional disciplining, thus legitimizing certain social practices while others are discredited. The very construction of normalcy itself seems to depend on a linear time structure (the right time, on time etc.). Ironically, these normalization processes may reproduce the very power orders that create social marginalization, stigmatization and social problems that social work have to challenge, and may discredit social practices related to process times that might challenge such power orders. By understanding and conceptualizing the complexity and variety of time that interpenetrate within and permeate our daily lives we may be able to discuss and challenge these normalization processes.

  • 2.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Ambivalenta feministiska positioner i en nyliberal akademi2016In: Ambivalenser och maktordningar: feministiska läsningar av nyliberalism / [ed] Fahlgren, Mulinari, Sjöstedt Landén, Makadam Förlag, 2016, p. 57-82Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 3.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Challenging gender: normalization and beyond2011Collection (editor) (Other academic)
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    Genusstudier vid Mittuniversitetet 3
  • 4.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Det sociala livets drama och dess manus.: Diskursanalys, kön och sociala avvikelser.1999Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other scientific)
  • 5.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Discourse analysis of a childcare drama.: Or the interfaces between paradoxical discourses of time in the context of social work2009In: Time & Society, ISSN 0961-463X, E-ISSN 1461-7463, Vol. 18, no 2-3, p. 208-230Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This article presents a discourse analysis of a child care drama. The purpose is to focus upon paradoxically discourses of social work that include different time orders. Social work seems to be carried out according to a linear time order implicitly assuming improvement over time. At the same time the social worker is supposed to assist the individual according to their current subjective needs within a time order referred to as the time of the mindful body. It is of great significance to critically reflect upon the power of these discourses that set the framework of social work thus creating ethical dilemmas.

  • 6.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Diskursanalys av ett barnavårdsdrama eller hur paradoxala tidsdiskurser möts i socialt arbete.: Paper presenterat vid nordisk konferens Samhällets diskurser. Språk- och samhällsvetenskapliga perspektiv, Stockholm 18-21/10 2001.2001Conference paper (Other scientific)
  • 7.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Diskursanalys, kunskap och kön.: Ett försök att utveckla en teoretisk ram och ett arbetssätt för en diskursanalys av vetenskapliga texter.1998Licentiate thesis, monograph (Other scientific)
  • 8.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Genusforskning på frammarsch: Inledning2007In: Genusmaraton 2007: Mittsveriges genusforskare på frammarsch, Östersund: Mittuniversitetet , 2007, p. 5-14Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 9.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Introduction: Challenging gender - normalization and beyond2011In: Challenging gender: Normalization and beyond / [ed] Siv Fahlgren, Sundsvall: Mittuniversitetet Forum för genusvetenskap , 2011, p. 13-28Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 10.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Kön som kroppsjälsligt blivande.: Paper presenterat vid konferensen Hela människan, eller hela människan, Östersund, 2001.08.30-31.2001Conference paper (Other scientific)
  • 11.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Lisbeth Salander – feministiskt svar eller provokativ fråga?2013In: Millennium. Åtta genusvetenskapliga läsningar av den svenska välfärdsstaten genom Stieg Larssons Millennium-trilogi / [ed] Siv Fahlgren, Anders Johansson, Eva Söderberg, Sundsvall: Forum för genusvetenskap , 2013Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 12.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Makten att forma: Från förvaring till formning1999In: Krut : kritisk utbildningstidskrift, ISSN 0347-5409, no 4, p. 68-75Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 13.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Mångfald och enfald - möjligheter, risker och intersektionella framtidsperspektiv2007In: Genusmaraton 2007: Mittsveriges genusforskare på frammarsch, Östersund: Mittuniversitetet, Forum för genusvetenskap , 2007, p. 90-98Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 14.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Offentligt och/ eller privat. : konferens, paper presenterat vid sociologkonferens 1996, Umeå.1996Conference paper (Other scientific)
  • 15.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Outsiders within’, or the complex meaning of time and place in feminist academic collaborations.2013In: Mobilizing gender research. Challenges and strategies / [ed] Katarina Giritli Nygren, Siv Fhalgren, Sundsvall: Forum för genusvetenskap , 2013, 5, p. 33-46Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 16.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Tankar om tankar om.. Kön1995In: Asplunds socialpsykologi och socialt arbete, Umeå: Umeå universitet. Institutionen för socialt arbete , 1995, p. 110-Chapter in book (Other scientific)
  • 17.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    The art of living: Or the order of the living room sofa2005In: NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, ISSN 0803-8740, E-ISSN 1502-394X, Vol. 13, no 1, p. 59-66Article in journal (Other academic)
  • 18.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    The Paradox of a Gender-Balanced Workforce: The Discursive Construction of Gender Among Swedish Social Workers2013In: Affilia, ISSN 0886-1099, E-ISSN 1552-3020, Vol. 28, no 1, p. 19-31Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Through a study of the narratives and practices in a gender-balanced social worksite, this article identifies institutionalized gender normalization processes. In the tales, the social workers told of their work, they reiterated the value of a gender-balanced workforce, together with the ideal of a gender-neutral profession. This view made it hard for the workers to see the ways in which the gender order they were involved in reproduces a gendered hierarchy in which male social workers are accorded greater value and an increased space of action, while female social workers and femininity are characterized by shortcomings when compared to men. © 2013 SAGE Publications.

  • 19.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Är Lisbeth Salander ett svar på den feministiska frågan i dagens Sverige?2010In: Provins, ISSN 0280-9974, Vol. 3Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 20.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Bergman, Jonny
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Analysing the doing of ‘privilege’. On normalization and privileging in relation to the situation for asylum seekers in Sweden.2013In: Mobilizing gender research. Challenges and strategies / [ed] Katarina Giritli Nygren, Siv Fahlgren, Sundsvall: Forum för genusvetenskap , 2013, 5Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 21.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Edwall, Helen
    Kulturella könsdiskursers makt: Ett exempel från en utbildningstext.2006In: Nordisk sosialt arbeid, ISSN 0333-1342, E-ISSN 1504-3037, Vol. 26, no 1, p. 62-71Article in journal (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    The aim of this article is to emphasize and exemplify how normative meanings of gender still are produced and reproduced within the frame of culturally active gender discourses. By a discoursanalytic reading of a text from a Swedish book being used in education as well as in concrete social work with addicts, we exemplify the discourses we see working. In this reading we are looking for what meanings of gender that are made possible and taken for granted in the text, how these discourses are done and made possible through the history, and finally there roll and possible effects in the specific context. By this reading we find discourses differentiating between men/masculine and women/feminine, and sexualising and naturalising (within a biological context) women in an historical traditional way. These are all meanings of gender within a Swedish cultural heritage that are easily reproduced when the meaning of gender is "taken for granted". We therefore still see it as an important task for gender research to problemazing this cultural heritage made "natural" and how these meanings of gender have been and still are being made, to open up for discussing changes.

  • 22.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Gillander Gådin, Katja
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Health Sciences.
    Giritli Nygren, Katarina
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Johansson, Anders
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities.
    Söderberg, Eva
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities.
    A room of our own: A collective biography of an exercise in interdisciplinary feminism.2011In: Normalization and “outsiderhood”: Feminist Readings of a Neoliberal Welfare State. / [ed] Siv Fahlgren, Anders Johansson & Diana Mulinari, UAE: Bentham eBooks, 2011, p. 106-116Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Abstract: The interdisciplinary research project “Challenging gender” was a joint effort by members of two Swedish universities. Researchers were grouped by five different themes, while together they became “the Arena”. The present authors’ theme focused on normalization processes, and included gender researchers from literary studies, sociology, social work, and public health studies. The purpose of this chapter is to explore what it is to challenge normalization processes as researchers; the context is interdisciplinary gender research under a neo-liberal regime. To deepen their understanding of what the process has occasioned, the researchers used “collective biography”, a memory-work method developed by Bronwyn Davies, who led the researchers’ work of writing down their memories prompted by experience of striations and of lines of flight. In this chapter the memories so produced are discussed in the light of Virginia Woolf’s A room of one’s own.  Thanks to the financial resources the project was able to muster, we were able to create the kind of collective “room” where we could take the opportunity to be creative and challenge structural patterns – but equally where we could give vent to our frustration at these same patterns. Our memories seemed to waver between fragile but uplifting flashes of optimism and a feeling that nothing would work, and not only just the one or the other – always somewhere in between. Our theoretical understanding of normality grew out of that most dangerous of ideas: that we should open our minds to the unpredictable, the non-normalizing, to whatever could be different

  • 23.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Giritli Nygren, Katarina
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Re-assembling ’the normal’ in Neo-liberal times : Tracing (new) closures of ‘normality’ in the age of Risk2013In: ESA 2013 Torino: Crisis, critique and change, 2013Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The meaning of 'the normal' tends to slidefrom the valued ideal, to the ordinary (orstatistically normal), which is constituted asthe opposite of deficiency, deviation or socialproblem. Between these poles are limitlesspossible shifts in meaning. The ordinary shiftseasily from something neutral (common,perhaps even dull), to something desirable orideal when it is applied in social situations.Thus the normalization processes are neitherinnocent nor value free. The notion of "being atrisk" is central to the doing of normality incontemporary society. By formulating orcreating hazards in a community, 'the normal'becomes re-assembled as not being "at risk",an assemblage that is becoming narrower andmore difficult to uphold. By means of thenotion of risk, power reaches all aspects of lifethrough subjective internalization andnormalization, but also draws the boundariesbetween those belonging and needs to besafeguarded against risk, and those whose lifeis expendable. We argue that who becomescategorized as being "at risk" can tell us agreat deal about who qualify as a "normal"citizen, and how this intersect with gender,class, age, and race/ethnicity. Drawing onpolicy related documents concerning health,unemployment, education and integration ouraim of this paper is to explore the doings of"risk" and its joint processes of normalizationin terms of gender, ethnicity, age/generationand class-based inequality and discriminationas well as inclusions and privileges within thecontext of the Swedish welfare state.

  • 24.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Giritli Nygren, Katarina
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Granberg, Magnus
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Johansson, Anders
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities.
    Söderberg, Eva
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities.
    Having Your Cake and Eating It?: The “Painful Cake” Incident of 2012 Examined2015In: Konsthistorisk Tidskrift, ISSN 0023-3609, E-ISSN 1651-2294, Vol. 84, no 1, p. 55-70Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    On the 15th of April, 2012, The Modern Museum (Modernamuseet) in Stockholm celebrated the World Art Day by having a reception with the Swedish cultural minister present, at which an artwork in the form of a cake made in the likeness of the body of a caricatured black woman was served, cut up and eaten, while the artist, masked as the cakes head, screamed. This conceptual, relational, and contextualizing artwork, which leads to a much heated debate in Sweden and which was also internationally picked up on, was made by the explicitly anti-racist artist Makode Linde. In this article, we explore the problem of this event in terms of its sociocultural significance. How did we react upon the drama that we were following from a distance? What did it make us see? What questions did the incident raise about the Swedish society of today? These are examples of the questions we as gender researchers working in Sweden will discuss in the form of a triptych. We use the triptych metaphor as a tool for opening dialogue. By opening its panels it becomes possible to decommodify the single image of the artwork and make relations between agents traceable, visible, and readable.

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  • 25.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Giritli Nygren, Katarina
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Johansson, Anders
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities.
    Utmaningar: feminismens (o)möjlighet under nyliberalismen2016Book (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    När individen på en marknad blivit den alltigenom dominerande modellen för att organisera samhällen och organisationer har det också påverkat hur en ser på betydelsen av kön. Den här boken utforskar hur normalisering går till under nyliberalism, hur det görs på sätt som både utmanar feministiska perspektiv och kan utmanas av feministiska läsningar. Om vi alla i nyliberal anda sägs göra fria, individualistiska val kring alla frågor i våra liv, val som var och en av oss själva samtidigt står ansvariga för, blir en feministisk kritisk position svår att se. Måste vi då kunna tänka i sociala kollektiv för att komma förbi föreställningar om och erfarenheter av ett privatiserat och personligt förtryck, förenklingar och individuell moralism? Så ställer boken frågor om feminismens (o)möjlighet under nyliberalism. Boken avslutas med att skissa möjliga feministiska positioner och strategier för förändring, för att slutligen visionärt diskutera vad ett feministiskt samhälle skulle kunna vara.

  • 26.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Giritli Nygren, Katarina
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Sjöstedt Landen, Angelika
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Resisting 'overing'- Teaching and researching Gender studies in Sweden2016In: Women's Studies International Forum, ISSN 0277-5395, Vol. 54, p. 119-128Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The aim of this paper is to raise and explore some of the challenges we as gender scholars have experienced in Sweden today in what could be conceptualized as 'overed' academic landscapes. Our argument is framed by Sara Ahmed's (2012) statement that the very idea that we are 'over race' is how racism is reproduced where it also has to be emphasized that the notion of being 'over race' needs to be understood as intertwined with being over gender. With autobiographical methods, we take leverage in a problematization of gender studies as 'a room of our own' and discuss related themes in academe such as the paradox of gender studies as a perspective and/or a discipline, pluralism and the academic institutional division of labour, feminism and neoliberal New Public Management, collaborative interdisciplinary work in audit cultures. The paper concludes with a discussion about resisting 'overing' through the conflicted position of the feminist scholar.

  • 27.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Giritli Nygren, Katarina
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Sjöstedt Landén, Angelika
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Teaching and researching gender studies in neoliberal times - Challenges we face.2013Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 28.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Johansson, Anders
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities.
    Reading normalised knowledge production from a feminist perspective - a case study2010In: IARTEM e-journal, ISSN 1837-2104, Vol. 3, no 1, p. 18-38Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This article presents a feminist reading of the introductory part of a Swedish university textbook from the field of social work. We show how a textbook like this,whose aim is to represent the “normal” state of a discipline, is conditioned by discursive circumstances beyond the control of individual authors, such as the normalisation of what is seen as central and what is seen as less important within the discipline, and how these circumstances reproduce patterns that still challenge feminist standpoints. Although pluralism and tolerance are the explicit aims of the editors, a seemingly neutral narrator voice, and the consequent way of presenting different research methods and theories as perspectives open for choice, come to hide existing hierarchies of power within the discipline. Pluralism and discrimination can thus actually coexist.

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  • 29.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Johansson, Anders
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities.
    Reading normalized knowledge production from a feminist perspective – a case study2009In: Challenging Education - Feminist and anti-oppressive perspectives on teaching and learning. Nordic conference on feminist pedagogies, Uppsala, Sweden, 14th - 16th of June 2009, 2009Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 30.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Johansson, Anders
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities.
    Mulinari, Diana
    Lunds universitet.
    INTRODUCTION: CHALLENGING NORMALIZATION PROCESSES IN A NEOLIBERAL WELFARE STATE2011In: NORMALIZATION AND "OUTSIDERHOOD": Feminist readings of a neoliberal welfare state / [ed] Siv Fahlgren, Anders Johansson, Diana Mulinari, UAE: Bentham eBooks, 2011, p. 1-1Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Abstract: This introductory chapter provides the conceptual framework for the book, focusing in particular on normalization processes within the contemporary neoliberal welfare state. In the first part we give the historical background to the ways in which “the normal” has functioned within the discursive field of the modern welfare state. The normal was double-sidedness: it was integral to the ideological formations of race biology and other disciplining and discriminating practices within what was later to be called social work, and it was also that which made possible the formulation of political demands for many underprivileged groups of people. This inclusive aspect of modern welfare policy has been toned down in the current individualized and market-oriented neoliberal welfare state. We argue in the second part of the chapter that the modern emphasis on inclusion as a citizen’s right has been replaced by a focus on the problem of those who are excluded, those outside, as individuals with difficulties in belonging. As we show, this shift leaves its imprint on many social and political areas, not least the ones concerned with gender equality and immigrant policy. After the historical overview, we briefly present some theoretical standpoints for the project, positioning ourselves in relation to our dependence above all on Foucault, Butler and Hacking. The chapter ends in a description of how our research relates to previous research within the areas of postcolonial theory, social policy theory, national identities and political oppositional activism.

  • 31.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Johansson, AndersMid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities.Mulinari, DiananLunds Universitet.
    Normalization and outsiderhood: Feminist Readings of a Neoliberal Welfare State2011Collection (editor) (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    This volume presents an illuminating analysis of the ways in which normalization processes and practices operate in a welfare state in an age of neoliberalism. This informative book problematize the meaning of the phrase ‘normalization processes and practices’, that for an Anglophone audience may smacks of functionalism. The historical context of the adoption of normalization processes and practices in Sweden in the post-World War II era was, in the first instance, an expression of the inclusivity designed to decrease inequalities and to achieve social justice. However all the contributors to this volume, show very clearly how notions of normalcy, of normalization, in a neoliberal time operate not only to create an integrating and equalizing context but also, and much more critically, how these processes and practices serve to exclude certain groups of people, and produce a structural inequality that in recent years has been discussed under the term of ‘utanförskap’ or outsiderhood. Critiquing these interventions, the contributors to this volume show how diverse groups of people - immigrants, families considered ‘at risk’ by social services, pregnant women, young girls – are variously the objects of context-specific normalization processes and practices that make any resistance to such interventions difficult, if not impossible. What people ‘normally do’, cloaks that ‘normal doing’ into a fog of invisibilization that suffocates any form of protest. Normalization thus takes on specific forms of repression in particular circumstances, for instance through the ethnocentric imposition of norms of behaviour on migrants where that ethnocentricity is neither made evident nor acknowledged. This system of normalization also operates in schools, resulting in the reproduction of inequalities and discrimination from an early age. In such normalization processes ‘the normal’ or ‘the usual’ becomes a means for re-interpreting structural inequalities in terms of individual choice, and for displacing the responsibilities for change onto those positioned as outsiders. Worryingly, the individual chapters highlight how the operations of normalizing processes work to obscure their functioning, thus making any critique of both the underlying assumptions and their operationalization almost impossible.

  • 32.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Johansson, Anders
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities.
    Söderberg, Eva
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities.
    Introduktion: Vilken fråga är Lisbeth Salander ett svar på i dagens Sverige?2013In: Millenium: Åtta genusvetenskapliga läsningar av den svenska välfärdsstaten genom Stieg Larssons Millennium-trilogi / [ed] Siv Fahlgren, Anders Johansson, Eva Söderberg, Sundsvall: Mittuniversitetet , 2013, p. 4-9Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 33.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Johansson, AndersMid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities.Söderberg, EvaMid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities.
    Millennium: Åtta genusvetenskapliga läsningar av den svenska välfärdsstaten genom Stieg Larssons Millennium-trilogi2013Collection (editor) (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Stieg Larssons Millennium-trilogi (2005-2007) har blivit en enorm försäljningssuccé världen över. I dess spår har ett allt större intresse för Sverige som land och som välfärdsnation väckts. Frågor har rests om vad författarens beskrivning av det mycket aggressiva våldet betyder och vad det har med Sverige som land och som välfärdsnation att göra? Hur rimmar böckernas berättelser med föreställningarna om Sverige som ett av världens mest jämställda länder?  Kan böckerna läsas som pro-feministiska? Hur relaterar romanfigurerna till svenska barnböcker av Astrid Lindgren? Och hur kommer det sig att romanfigurerna hela tiden dricker kaffe? Tanken att låta det svenska samhället belysas och diskuteras genom Millennium-serien föddes i början av 2010 vid Forum för Genusvetenskap vid Mittuniversitetet, en mångvetenskaplig plattform för forskare med genusperspektiv i sin forskning. Den för många av oss provokativa frågan som restes var: Vilken fråga är Lisbeth Salander ett svar på i dagens Sverige? Syftet med antologin är flerfaldigt och kan sammanfattas på följande sätt:

    Att utifrån en svensk kontext belysa och diskutera det svenska samhället genom Millennium-serien.Att i populärvetenskapliga artiklar vidga rymden kring den skönlitterära texten genom att diskutera den ur många olika perspektiv och utifrån fler ämnesdiscipliner än litteraturvetenskap – som genusvetenskap, etnologi, folkhälsovetenskap och juridik.Att låta genusperspektivet, i mer eller mindre genomförd form, vara en gemensam nämnare för texterna.

    Genom att presentera några svenska (och en finsk) genusforskares läsning och problematisering av hur Sverige av idag kan förstås genom Millennium-trilogin, vill vi ge en kontextuell bakgrund till romanernas bild av vad som pågår i Sverige. Den första delen behandlar frågor om hat, våld och brott i en svensk nutida välfärdskontext. Här diskuteras romanernas porträttering av centrala aspekter av ett samhälle, som brott och lagar, men också rädslor, tillit och andra emotionella narrativ, i relation till forskning om det nutida svenska samhället. Johanna Niemi gör i kapitel 1: "All the Adults in the Noisy Village: Constructions of Post-Modern Identity in the Welfare State in the Millennium Trilogy", en spännande läsning av Sverige med ett perspektiv lite från sidan, det vill säga från grannlandet Finland. I kapitel 2 "Våld, jämställdhet och Millennium- serien" behandlas en fråga som på ett ganska givet sätt reses av Millennium-böckerna: våldet mot kvinnor i en svensk kontext av Katja Gillander Gådin. I kapitel 3 "Rädda sig från intet" diskuterar Håkan Berglund-Lake händelser som gör att platser där människor känner sig hemma och trygga plötsligt förändras av våld, våldtäkt, inbrott, brand, eller andra destruktiva yttre krafter.

    I del två av denna skrift diskuteras bilden av Lisbeth Salander utifrån olika perspektiv. I kapitel 4, "Lilla syster ser dig! Pippi Långstrump, Lisbeth Salander och andra Pippi-karaktärer", analyserar Eva Söderberg hur Larsson har skapat Lisbeth Salander i relation till Lindgrens barnbokshjältinna Pippi Långstrump. Som en stark och mystisk litterär figur har Lisbeth Salander provocerat till en mängd mer eller mindre fantasifulla tolkningar. I kapitel 5, "Salanders teorem. Lisbeth Salander som Millennium-trilogins gåta", av Annelie Bränström Öhman, diskuteras ett annat möjligt svar på vilken fråga Lisbeth Salander är ett svar på. I kapitel 6, "Lisbeth Salander: feministiskt svar eller provokativ fråga?", ställer Siv Fahlgren frågan: kan vi läsa karaktären Lisbeth Salander som svaret på ett samhälle där män hatar kvinnor? Och i så fall – är det då ett feministiskt svar?

    Den tredje och sista delen presenterar bilder av svenskhet. I kapitel 7, "Kaffe, klass och kön – jämlikhetens dryck i Millennium-trilogin", beskriver Åsa Ljungström hur berättelsen om fikat och kaffedrickandet, i relation till berättelserna om jämlikhet och jämställdhet, fungerar i Millennium-trilogin. I det åttonde och sista kapitlet "De goda männen och de starka kvinnorna. Om gemenskaper utifrån Millennium-sviten" skriver Anders Johansson om de goda männens funktion i böckerna i relation till de starka kvinnorna.

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  • 34.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Mulinari, DianaLunds universitet.Sjöstedt Landén, AngelikaMid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Ambivalenser och maktordningar: Feministiska läsningar av nyliberalism2016Collection (editor) (Other academic)
  • 35.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Mulinari, Diana
    Lunds Universitet.
    Sjöstedt Landén, Angelika
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Inledning: Feministiska läsningar av nyliberalism – begrepp och grepp om samtiden2016In: Ambivalenser och maktordningar: Feministiska läsningar av nyliberalism / [ed] Fahlgren, Mulinari, Sjöstedt Landén, Makadam Förlag, 2016, p. 7-27Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 36.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Oldenmark, G.
    Man ser ju andra dimensioner.....: forskningsrapport från ett icke-könsneutralt ledarskapsprojekt1998Report (Other scientific)
  • 37.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Persson, Anne-Lie
    Jag tänker, finns då också hon? : Paper presenterat vid sociologkonferens 1997, Lund.1997Conference paper (Other scientific)
  • 38.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Sawyer, Lena
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    An intersectional gender analysis of a Swedish University social work text book: Genusrelationer och förändringsprocesser: Nordisk feminism och genusforskning 2008 Karlstads universitet2008Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 39.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Sawyer, Lena
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Maktrelationer och normaliseringsprocesser i välfärdsstaten2005In: Kvinnovetenskaplig tidskrift, ISSN 0348-8365, Vol. 26, no 2/3, p. 95-106Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 40.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Sawyer, Lena
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    The power of positioning: On the normalisation of gender, race/ethnicity, nation and class positions in a Swedish social work textbook2011In: Gender and Education, ISSN 0954-0253, E-ISSN 1360-0516, Vol. 23, no 5, p. 535-548Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This article presents a feminist reading of a Swedish social work academic textbook as a case study. We use a discourse analytic approach and positioning theory, focusing on author positions through different story lines. The aim is to make visible how differences are created and positions of the author/reader normalised in terms of gender, race/ethnicity and class. The analysis illustrates how the organisation of the book privileges a particular story line by presenting gender research in a special section of the book and as a perspective. A neutral, unmarked author position is assumed, presented as a common 'we' by identifying 'women researchers' and 'feminist' points of departure as different. If the unmarked author/reader 'we' position appears desirable and morally superior, the clients' gender, ethnicity and class are often openly discussed in relation to social problems, positioning them as 'the other'. Finally there is also a story line of more critical and ambivalent knowledge positions.

  • 41.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Sjöstedt Landén, Angelika
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    När genusforskningen blir ett hot mot jämställdheten: En diskursanalys av en debattartikel2014In: Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, ISSN 1654-5443, E-ISSN 2001-1377, no 1, p. 7-26Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 42.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Thurén, Britt-MarieMid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Genusmaraton 2007: Mittsveriges genusforskare på frammarsch2007Collection (editor) (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Genusmaraton är den första skriften i serien Genusstudier vid Mittuniversitetet. Skriften utgör en sammanställning av flertalet av de förläsningar som hölls vid FGV:s populärvetenskapliga forskardag, Genusmaraton, i Härnösand den 22 februari 2007. Syftet var att genom korta smakprov berätta om den tvärvetenskapliga bredd, djup och den omfattning genusforskningen har vid Mittuniversitetet, och hur spännande den kan vara. Detta avspeglas förhoppningsvis i rapporten, där texterna spänner över ett brett tvärvetenskapligt fält, från Astrids imaginära möte vid genuspassagen i en litteraturvetenskaplig essä, via feministiska reflexioner kring hur maskulinitet och normalitet konstitueras i massmediala berättelser om våldtäkt, till arkeologiska studier av kritpiporna vid en bustuga i Svartviksbodarna i Södra Dalarna.

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  • 43.
    Forsberg, Birgitta
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    En kartläggning av självhjälpsgrupper för personer med smärta: Presented at Past, Present, Future conference 2007-05-14--16, Umeå2007Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [sv]

    I artikeln redovisas en genomförd kartläggning av självhjälpsgrupper i Sverige för personer med smärta. Kartläggningen visar att självhjälpsgrupper finns inom ett brett spektrum av huvudmän, samt att om verksamheten sker inom det offentliga sammanhanget har den en högre grad av professionellt ledarskap, fler könsblandade grupper samt att ordet smärta mer sällan uttalas i gruppernas namn, vilket vi menar kan ses som en icke-legitimering av smärta som sjukdomsorsak. Sker verksamheten inom frivilliga organisationer och/eller studieförbund finns en högre andel självstyrda grupper och grupper med cirkelledare, grupperna uppges oftare bestå av enbart kvinnor samt att gruppernas namn anger mer tydligt att de inriktar sig på smärta. Slående är den överrepresentation av kvinnor som finns inom självhjälpsgrupper för personer med smärta, oavsett huvudman.

  • 44.
    Forsberg, Birgitta
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Nygren, Lennart
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Self-help groups for women with pain: A research review with a gender perspective2005In: International Journal of Self Help & Self Care, ISSN 1091-2851, Vol. 3, no 1/2, p. 133-148Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    It is the aim of this review to provide a survey of research on Self-Help Groups (SHGs) in health care with a special focus on SHGs for women with chronic muscular pain. The aim is not only to describe this field of research, but also to consider how this research relates to gender research as such. A variety of themes are examined: history, external factors that influence SHGs, internal aspects of SHGs, and gender research on SHGs. It was found that the gender perspective was relatively neglected. Our suggestion for further research notes that group members can produce new ways to manage their lives with the help of the interaction/exchange in the SHGs, regarding gender construction, knowledge, legitimacy and adaptation or transformation, and the position of activities in SHGs among societal norms and attitudes.

  • 45.
    Forsberg, Birgitta
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Nygren, Lennart
    Umeå universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Självhjälpsgrupper för personer med smärta: – en nationell kartläggning.2009In: Socionomen, ISSN 0283-1929, no 3, p. 66-75Article in journal (Other academic)
  • 46.
    Giritli Nygren, Katarina
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Historien i bestämd form singularis: en fråga om makt2016In: Makten att berätta: om tal och tystnad i tid och rum / [ed] Karin Jarnkvist och Anna Molin, Sundsvall: Mid Sweden University , 2016, p. 11-23Chapter in book (Other academic)
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  • 47.
    Giritli Nygren, Katarina
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Introduction: Gender research: challenges and strategies2013In: Mobilizing gender research. Challenges and strategies / [ed] Katarina Giritli Nygren, Siv Fahlgren, Sundsvall: Forum för genusvetenskap , 2013, 5, p. 1-20Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 48.
    Giritli Nygren, Katarina
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Fahlgren, SivMid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Mobilizing Gender Research Challenges and Strategies2013Collection (editor) (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    In this newest volume in the FGV's series of working papers, we present our current research strategy 2013-2015 together with a broad range of examples from the research being carried out within the different research area that the strategy is defining. The research environment at the FGV is characterized by intellectual curiosity both in terms of our own research as well that of others. Our approach is constructively critical, always applied in an open, welcoming, and inclusive spirit, since it is our firm belief that creative research environments require room for diversity. The multidisciplinary research at the FGV currently falls into three major research areas: Gender and normalization in neo-liberal times; A lifetime of gendered cultures; and Gender and working conditions. One joint interest for all three areas is to explore gendered institutional practices and discourses, and new types of techniques of governing during the restructuring of the Swedish welfare state in an advanced liberal context.  Since FGV:s mission is to mobilize and promote gender studies in all the diverse forms that it is practiced at Mid Sweden University the proposition and the contributions to this publication are by necessity varied. We have contributions from fields such as gender studies, literary studies, sociology, geography, ethnography, and public health.

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  • 49.
    Giritli Nygren, Katarina
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Johansson, Anders
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities.
    Normalisation meets governmentality: Gender equality reassembled2016In: Challenging the Myth of Gender Equality in Sweden / [ed] Martinsson, L; Griffin, G; Giritli-Nygren, K, London: Policy Press, 2016, p. 49-68Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 50.
    Giritly Nygren, Katarina
    et al.
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Fahlgren, Siv
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Social Sciences.
    Johansson, Anders
    Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities.
    (Re)assembling the ‘Normal’ in Neoliberal Policy Discourses: Tracing Gender Relations in the Age of Risk2015In: Nordic Journal of Social Research, E-ISSN 1892-2783, Vol. 6, p. 24-43Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The purpose of this article is to explore through a reading of an official Swedish policy document what questions and challenges such a document poses for feminist theory by the way the 'normal' is (re)assembled in accordance with what others have called the risk politics of advanced liberalism. The intensified focus on risk in neoliberalism has seen responsibility move from the state to individuals, and old divisions between society and market as well as between civil society and state are being refigured. The argument put forward here is that current modes of governance tend to neglect the complexities of present-day life courses when using a gender-'neutral' approach to social policy that is in fact the work of a gender regime.

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