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6 Daughter-girls, sister-girls, mom-girls and old lady-girls. Thoughts on subjectivity and reflexivity in girlhood-studies
Annelie Branstrom Ohman
The Feeling of Migration: Narratives of Queer Intimacies and Partner Migration
2016 •
Sara Ahlstedt
This dissertation analyzes narratives of queer partner migration. The purpose of the study is to examine how queer partner migrants and their Swedish partners experience the migration process by analyzing the emotions and feelings that emerge in the process. The focus is the queer partner migration relationship, and what emotions and feelings ‘do’ to this relationship, but also how emotions and feelings structure the migration process. The study analyzes the work three different emotions – love, loss, and belonging – do in these migration processes, and how this work is described in the participant narratives. By using affect theories and the concept of queer phenomenology, the dissertation shows how the work is connected to gender identity, sexual identity, race and whiteness, nationality, perceived proximity to Western-ness, class, language, and the migration narrative the migrating partner is (or is not) written into by way of the country they have migrated from. This is analyzed in relation to the theoretical frameworks of entanglement, hom*onationalism, and intimate citizenship. The analysis shows that emotions and feelings structure the migration process for both more privileged and less privileged migrants, but in different ways. The understanding of who ‘is’ a migrant, and the preparedness for the feelings that arise in a migration process, are tied to the positions mentioned above, and the privileges these positions give, or do not give, the migrant access to. By focusing on emotions and feelings and what these do, the study also illustrates how the migration process affects the non-migrating partner who, amongst other things, engages in emotional labour to ‘make’ the migrating partner ‘Swedish.’ Both narratives and storytelling are important throughout the dissertation, not only as the method used in the analysis but as the form of the dissertation.
International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion
Emotions and normativity in assessments of children at risk
2014 •
Veronica Svärd
This article explores the linkage between emotions and social norms, based on gender, nationality/culture, class and (dis)ability, in 14 hospital social workers assessments about parents, in their narratives about children at risk. In various ways, a range of emotions are shown to be linked to normativity. When the feeling of blame was present, other emotions such as worry became stuck to unprivileged groups of parents in a ‘logical’ way in assessments and shaped certain orientations for actions against the parents. By using the concept of stickiness, an understanding of how emotions and normativity works in assessments is developed.
Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture
Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture
2020 •
Mats Hyvönen
CHILDREN AT RISK? HOSPITAL SOCIAL WORKERS' AND THEIR COLLEAGUES' ASSESSMENT AND REPORTING EXPERIENCES
Veronica Svärd
This thesis explores factors that influence professional discretion in Swedish hospital professionals’ assessment of children who may be at risk of harm. It is based on two data samplings, interviews with fourteen hospital social workers and a questionnaire with 295 responding physicians, nurses, nurse assistants and hospital social workers. The theoretical frame consists of theories of professions, sociology of emotions and normativity. Although all professionals are mandated to report suspicions about children who may be at risk to social services, the findings show that a majority of the participants had never made a report. However, there were major differences between the professions: hospital social workers and physicians made most reports, while it was unusual for nurses and nurse assistants to report. This is explained by children at risk being everyone’s but no single profession’s responsibility within health care – which shapes an informal pattern of jurisdiction, split between physicians and hospital social workers. The professional group to which a person belongs was shown to affect how other factors influence assessment. The lower the status of the group, the less knowledge about the issue and the available organisational support its members have, and the more emotions influenced the decisions not to report. While hospital social workers are less strongly affected by emotions in decisions not to report, the deeper qualitative analysis shows that assessment tended to follow a ‘logic of normativity’ where their worries stuck to ‘warning signs’ associated with gender stereotypes or unprivileged groups of parents. Critical reflexivity could disturb this logic as well as the silence of normality, meaning that children from privileged groups may not be given enough attention. Hospital social workers were also found to take different positions in their inter-professional teams – active, reflective or passive – relating to three institutionalized norms of action – juridical, therapeutic and medical. A small number followed the medical norm, but that had the most dangerous consequences for children who sometimes were not dealt with appropriately despite severe signs of harm. The overall analysis in this thesis suggests that theories of professional discretion should take into account factors such as the context, inter-professional relations, emotions and normativity to enhance the understanding of what influences assessment and decisions.
Love, fear and power/ shame, blame and silence: professionals' discourses about victimes and perpetrators of gender violence in Portugal
Maria-José Magalhães
The Power of Vulnerability: Mobilising Affect in Feminist, Queer and Anti-racist Media Cultures
Koivunen, Anu; Kyrölä, Katariina; Ryberg, Ingrid (2018) "Vulnerability as a Political Language". In: The Power of Vulnerability: Mobilising Affect in Feminist, Queer and Anti-racist Media Cultures, (Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 1-26.
2018 •
Anu Koivunen, Kata Kyrola, Ingrid Ryberg
In present-day public discussions, questions of power, agency, and the media are debated more intensely than ever as issues of injury or empowerment. Vulnerability has emerged as a key concept circulating in these discussions and their academic analyses. The #MeToo campaign, as well as its extensions like #TimesUp and versions in various languages across the globe, has been taken up as a key example of these tendencies, showing how the public articulation of experiences of injury, trauma, and hurt is now turning into a powerful worldwide movement. A collective of voices testifying to a persistent, repetitive vulnerability and injury caused by sexual harassment, assault, and abuse has, perhaps paradoxically, become praised as a feminist movement for empowerment, justice, and change, and a societal force to be reckoned with. At the same time, the campaign has raised several questions: what are the limits of feminist politics that draws first and foremost on a shared public victimhood, or survivorship? How much of this vulnerability is shared, and by whom? (...)
Love, Fear and Power / Shame, Blame and Silence: Professionals' Discourses about Victims and Perpetrators of Gender Violence in Portugal
Maria-José Magalhães, Salomé Lopes Coelho
In this paper we focus on discourses of shaming and blaming that occur among professionals working in the field of gender violence intervention in Portugal. The work presented here is part of a larger research project entitled: “Love, fear and power: Pathways to a non-violent life” (financed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology — FCT, and the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality – CIG), in which we aim to investigate gender violence, specifically as it occurs in intimate relationships. Drawing
International Journal of Mens Social and Community Health
No Country for Middle-Aged Men?
2020 •
Shane O'Donnell
In many high-income countries, the rate of suicide is highest among middle-aged men. Despite this, few studies have explored the factors that underpin psychological distress and support-seeking among this cohort. This qualitative study used an intersectional approach to account for the plurality of middle-age masculinities and to offer deeper insights into middle-age men’s mental health experiences. Focus groups and interviews were conducted with nine demographic groups of middle-aged men considered ‘at risk’ of suicide in Ireland (n=34). Data collection and data analysis were informed by the principles of grounded theory. A master code list and conceptual maps were developed from which four themes emerged. Theme 1 Reconciling Increasing Expectations with Diminishing Capacities to Achieve at Middle-Age captures various tensions that emanated from expectations on men to have acquired mastery of various gendered norms by middle-age that coincided with a reality of different manifestat...
(IV) High-impact journals in sociology: the Table Contents of the International Journals for the Period (2018-2022)
Ahmed Mousa Badawi
Four: General Sociological Journals 1- The choice of journals is based on Web of Science's SSCI (Social Science Citations Index). 2- From this list, only the journals on the Sage Publisher website were selected. Because they are keen from 2018, to set a table of contents for each issue of these journals, separate from the rest of the research papers, this allowed me to compile these tables and then merge them into a single file. 3- Then I compiled the table of contents for the last five years. 4- The journals were classified into four categories: (i) journals specialized in one branch of sociology,(ii) journals specialized in sociological theory,(iii) journals specialized in sociological research methods, (v) general sociological journals), and combine the tables of contents for this category during the past five years in one file. 5- This bibliographic work benefits researchers in sociology, young and old alike. Wait for Part Two: Sociological Theory Journals
