G Griffin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 21554 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | G Griffin |
| NOMBRES | G |
| APELLIDO | Griffin |
| FIRMA | GRIFFIN G |
| AFILIACIONES | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1236-4691 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The (im)possibility of doing research in a low-income country
This article centers on the difficulties of conducting social and life sciences research in a low-income country: Mozambique. It draws on decolonial, professionalization and self-motivation theory to examine, through qualitative, participative, discussion-based, bottom-up research with local informants carried out between December 2024 and February 2025, what factors inhibit the conduct of research in this context. The article suggests that it is…
Tracing the bias loop
This article investigates the pervasive issue of bias within AI-driven cultural heritage collections, emphasizing how digital technologies both inherit and amplify existing societal and historical prejudices embedded in analogue records. It outlines the multifaceted nature of bias—ranging from data selection and annotation to algorithmic design and user interaction—demonstrating how each stage of the AI pipeline can introduce or perpetuate distor…
On being (not so) different
There has been an increase in the number of people experiencing gender dysphoria and neurodiversity over the last decade. Medical studies employing quantitative methodologies consistently report a high co-occurrence of gender diversity and neurodiversity. Simultaneously various sociocultural views have been proposed to understand these conditions together. Still, there is limited evidence on how this co-occurrence is experienced by individuals wi…
The words to say it 1
Drawing on a qualitative study conducted in Sweden in 2024 with 16 highly educated people (aged 15–35) who reported experiencing gender dysphoria, this article explores how they talked about their gender identity. It draws on work from Gender and Medical Studies to argue that the literature on gender identity and trans uses gender identity terms in very diverse ways which do not necessarily do justice to how that identity is experienced by people…
AI and Swedish Heritage Organisations
This article examines the challenges and opportunities that arise with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) methods and tools when implemented within cultural heritage institutions (CHIs), focusing on three selected Swedish case studies. The article centres on the perspectives of the CHI professionals who deliver that implementation. Its purpose is to elucidate how CHI professionals respond to the opportunities and challenges AI…
AI, Cultural Heritage, and Bias
Our article AI, cultural heritage, and bias examines the challenges and potential solutions for using machine learning to interpret and classify human memory and cultural heritage artifacts. We argue that bias is inherent in cultural heritage collections (CHCs) and their digital versions and that AI pipelines may amplify this bias. We hypothesise that effective AI methods require vast, well-annotated datasets with structured metadata, which CHCs …
Gender Segregation in the Borderlands of E-Science
This article draws on an ethnographic study of an e-science platform in Sweden to analyse how horizontal gender segregation across sciences plays out in e-science, a borderland in which sciences converge around state-of-the art computational technologies for scientific research. While the convergence of sciences in e-science has the potential to open a non-traditional trajectory to attract women to ICTs, we find that this potential remains untapp…
The 'Work-Work Balance' in higher education
The neoliberalization of higher education in western countries has led to work intensification, projectification, and work-life balance issues for academics. This article draws on interviews with Digital Humanities practitioners in higher education conducted in 2017-2018 in three Nordic countries to introduce the concept of the 'work-work balance', an under-researched phenomenon in contemporary academe. The term 'work-work balance' refers to the …
Swedish Gynecologists’ Positioning in Relation to Clitoral Reconstruction After Female Genital Cutting. A Qualitative Interview Study
Background: Clitoral reconstruction (CR) is surgical reparation of the clitoris cut as part of the practice of female genital cutting (FGC) available in a handful of countries, including Sweden. The surgery aims at restoring the clitoris esthetically and functionally, thus has implications for sexual health. Gynaecological examinations can be an opportunity for dialogue regarding women’s sexual health. Gynecologist play a role in referring patien…
Feminising Innovation
This article explores why innovation, conventionally associated with the masculine (e.g., Andersson et al., 2012; Lindberg, 2012), might also be framed as feminine, indeed on occasion feminist. It does so via an exploration of the embedding of a new academic discipline, in this instance Digital Humanities, in existing higher education institutions in the Nordic countries. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in 2017-18 with Digital Humanitie…
The Persistence of Gender Struggles in Nordic Research and Innovation
Despite being renowned for their gender equality, the Nordic countries continue to suffer from persistent inequalities including in research and innovation (R&I) as an employment field. Drawing on interviews conducted between 2017 and 2020 with women and men working in R&I inside and outside of the academy, and on Charles Tilly’s (1998) conceptualisations of durable inequalities, the authors find that specific and cumulative gendered disadvantage…
When method fails
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore why the use of a particular qualitative method, walking, failed in a given context, the Chile of contemporary unrest. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores walking methodologies from a critical cultural perspective. Findings The article argues that context as socio-material entanglement, or people's relation to place, in a volatile situation, requires strong participatory engagement to enab…
States of reproduction
Achieving parenthood with the help of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) remains a fraught business, particularly for queer and trans people who want to use sperm donation, egg donation, procedures involving surrogates, or other ARTs. This is because the regulation of fertility treatment and associated issues such as the documentation of parenthood in birth certificates and passports varies across countries including European jurisdictions.…
“Only Applies to Research Conducted in Sweden…”
Transnational research funders such as the European Commission and NordForsk increasingly require researchers to conduct transnational research. Yet, there is little research on what this means for seeking ethics approval, not least for qualitative researchers. Much work on ethics approval comes from Canada, the United States, and other Anglophone countries, often in a health-related context, and centers on issues between researchers and research…
I want what every other woman has’
Female genital cutting (FGC) involves the removal of women's external genitalia for non-therapeutic reasons. An estimated 38,000 women living in Sweden have undergone some form of the procedure. These women often belong to marginalised minorities of immigrant women from countries where FGC is widespread. Clitoral reconstructive surgery following FGC has recently been introduced in Sweden. This study investigates women's perceptions of FGC and cli…
Ducking, diving and playing along”
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the fieldwork dilemmas a young, female, heterosexual, indigenous South African researching everyday negotiations around heterosexuality within township families encountered in negotiating her own heteroerotic subjectivity within the field. Design/methodology/approach A heterosexuality studies approach is here combined with a critical feminist research methodological perspective. Findings The paper a…
Researching a sensitive topic in an unstable environment
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore fieldwork dilemmas for a Pakhtun researcher, educated in the West, to research family or domestic violence in the unstable, hostile environment of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach A gender studies approach is here combined with masculinities studies, and a critical qualitative research methodology is used in this study. Findings The paper argues that unstable re…
Intersectionalized Professional Identities and Gender in the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries
Digital Humanities (DH) has emerged as a new academic employment field in the past 20 years or so. Its place within the academy remains contested, differently realized and materialized in different socio-cultural contexts. It conjoins domains conventionally female-dominated (Humanities disciplines) with technology domains that have been regarded as male-dominated. Yet while there has been much research on women within technology-driven work envir…
“It’s not just a matter of speaking…”
Purpose In “Can the subaltern speak?,” Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak makes the important distinction between representation as “Vertretung” and “Darstellung.” She also produces a strong version of whom she regards as a subaltern woman. Thirty years on both the distinction between “Vertretung” and “Darstellung” and the question of who the subaltern woman is, remain extremely important, not least in methodological considerations in cross-cultural cont…
Clitoral reconstruction
The migratory flows of recent decades that have exercised Europe as a socio-political and economic entity have produced extensive responses and interventions from European gender scholars. One relatively recent phenomenon in this context is the question of reparative surgical interventions, specifically clitoral reconstruction, in cases where women who have migrated to Europe have experienced female genital cutting. Clitoral reconstruction, which…
Challenging the myth of gender equality in Sweden
Sweden ranks as one of the world's most gender-egalitarian countries, based on a firm belief that men and women should share power and influence equally. An extensive welfare system makes it easier for both sexes to balance work and family life. However, the Government recognises that there is still room for improvement in many areas. (Sweden.se, Official source for facts about Sweden)
Identity matters
Narratives of origin are critical to one's sense of identity as stories ranging from Greek myths such as that of Oedipus to donor offspring's desire to trace their biological families testify. Different cultures require diverse degrees of particularity and frequency when it comes to accounting for one's origin, and as Cavarero [Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood (London: Routledge, 2000)] and Butler [Giving an Account of Oneself (New …
The mutual constitution of risk and inequalities
In this article, we examine the conceptual importance of integrating risk and intersectionality theory for the study of how risk and various forms of inequality intersect and are mutually constitutive. We argue that an intersectional perspective can advance risk research by incorporating more effectively the role of such social categories as gender and race into the analysis of ‘risk’ as an empirical phenomenon. In doing so, the intersectional pe…
Relative strangers
The Compromised Researcher
This article centres on issues of vulnerability and being compromised in feminist research where the focus has frequently been on researching the same. Compromise, here used in its pejorative sense, may for instance occur in terms of one’s research topic, the methods one utilizes, or the participants chosen for a study. Drawing on a range of examples including the methodological work of Ann Oakley (1981, 2000) as well as three articles on researc…
The 'Work-Work Balance' in higher education
The neoliberalization of higher education in western countries has led to work intensification, projectification, and work-life balance issues for academics. This article draws on interviews with Digital Humanities practitioners in higher education conducted in 2017-2018 in three Nordic countries to introduce the concept of the 'work-work balance', an under-researched phenomenon in contemporary academe. The term 'work-work balance' refers to the …
Intersectionalized Professional Identities and Gender in the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries
Digital Humanities (DH) has emerged as a new academic employment field in the past 20 years or so. Its place within the academy remains contested, differently realized and materialized in different socio-cultural contexts. It conjoins domains conventionally female-dominated (Humanities disciplines) with technology domains that have been regarded as male-dominated. Yet while there has been much research on women within technology-driven work envir…
Psychological counselling in post-Soviet Russia
In this article the authors discuss psychological counselling as it emerges as a gendered profession in the transitional economy of Russia. Based on qualitative, semi-structured interviews with 23 female and three male practising counsellors, the article analyses their perceptions of their profession, focusing in particular on two key issues: (1) their reasons for entry into the profession; and (2) their expectations of their work as a profession…
Clitoral reconstruction
The migratory flows of recent decades that have exercised Europe as a socio-political and economic entity have produced extensive responses and interventions from European gender scholars. One relatively recent phenomenon in this context is the question of reparative surgical interventions, specifically clitoral reconstruction, in cases where women who have migrated to Europe have experienced female genital cutting. Clitoral reconstruction, which…
Science and the cultural imaginary
AI, Cultural Heritage, and Bias
Our article AI, cultural heritage, and bias examines the challenges and potential solutions for using machine learning to interpret and classify human memory and cultural heritage artifacts. We argue that bias is inherent in cultural heritage collections (CHCs) and their digital versions and that AI pipelines may amplify this bias. We hypothesise that effective AI methods require vast, well-annotated datasets with structured metadata, which CHCs …
Questions of mobility and belonging
One dominant narrative about diaspora and queer identity concerns the liberating potential of the experience of dis-placement which enables both the rejection of the taboos and constraints that inform one's socio-cultural background and the articulation and enactment of one's queer identity. In this article I address this narrative by analysing two very different kinds of text, dealing with dis-placement and the enactment of queer identity. The f…
The ‘Ins’ and ‘Outs’ of Women’s/Gender Studies
In the spring of 2008, fuelled by the impending demise of the undergraduate Women’s/Gender Studies programme at London Metropolitan University, a series of public statements proclaimed the death of Women’s/Gender Studies. This article constitutes a response to these statements. Taking a broadly European view of the state of Women’s/Gender Studies, it argues that the discipline has established a research infrastructure, mainstreamed its undergradu…
Balancing Agendas
Taking as its starting point the European Commission’s agenda for promoting collaborative, interdisciplinary research that includes the Humanities as well as the Social Sciences, this article argues that arts and humanities research needs greater integration into that research agenda and more, as well as more imaginative and incentivizing, funding and support. Utilizing the issue of the London bombers as an example, the article indicates that the…
Women's/Gender Studies,1 Professionalization and the Bologna Process—Cross‐European Reflections
This article focuses on the interrelationship between Women's Studies, the professionalization of its students, and the so‐called Bologna process, with the emphasis very much on the first two terms, since the Bologna process itself is currently in process, and its outcomes remain uncertain. Based on findings from two EU‐funded projects, it argues that Women's Studies students want to engage in the labour‐market but on specific terms; that the lab…
States of reproduction
Achieving parenthood with the help of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) remains a fraught business, particularly for queer and trans people who want to use sperm donation, egg donation, procedures involving surrogates, or other ARTs. This is because the regulation of fertility treatment and associated issues such as the documentation of parenthood in birth certificates and passports varies across countries including European jurisdictions.…
Ducking, diving and playing along”
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the fieldwork dilemmas a young, female, heterosexual, indigenous South African researching everyday negotiations around heterosexuality within township families encountered in negotiating her own heteroerotic subjectivity within the field. Design/methodology/approach A heterosexuality studies approach is here combined with a critical feminist research methodological perspective. Findings The paper a…
The Compromised Researcher
This article centres on issues of vulnerability and being compromised in feminist research where the focus has frequently been on researching the same. Compromise, here used in its pejorative sense, may for instance occur in terms of one’s research topic, the methods one utilizes, or the participants chosen for a study. Drawing on a range of examples including the methodological work of Ann Oakley (1981, 2000) as well as three articles on researc…
Desert Island Texts
Theatres of Difference
Since the 1990s, there has been an extended debate among feminists and left-wing thinkers concerned with notions of justice and equality about the relationship between 'redistribution' and 'recognition' in contemporary politics. In this article, I examine the ways in which the issues of redistribution of resources and recognition are articulated in plays by contemporary Black and Asian women playwrights such as Rukhsana Ahmad, Tanika Gupta, Winso…
Difference in View
The sexual metaphor
Self and other
(1995). Self and other: European women playwrights' work in Britain. History of European Ideas: Vol. 20, No. 1-3, pp. 3-6
Difference in View
Women's Difference/s
Gender Issues in Elder Abuse
Romancing the Margins’
The Dispersal of the Lesbian, or Re-Patriating the Lesbian in British Writing
Based on an analysis of Kay Summerscale's (1997) biography The Queen of Whale Cay, Jeanette Winterson's (1997) novel Gut Symmetries and Patricia Duncker's novel Hallucinating Foucault (1996), I argue that the emergence of postmodernism and queer has led to a re-positioning of ‘the lesbian’ in a number of contemporary texts whereby the once taken-for-granted notions of women and their relation to each other have become subsumed under an interrogat…
Was haben wir erreicht? Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem »Schicksal« von Women’s Studies im Vereinigten Königreich
Article Was haben wir erreicht? Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem »Schicksal« von Women’s Studies im Vereinigten Königreich was published on May 1, 2002 in the journal Feministische Studien (volume 20, issue 1)
Constitutive Subjectivities
This article focuses on the work of Black and Asian women playwrights in Britain and examines their position as constitutive subjectivities in contemporary British culture. It suggests that recent developments in theatre studies such as the emphases on the postcolonial, intercultural, world theatre and performance art, which have emerged simultaneously with these playwrights’ work and might have offered some critical reception of their work, have…
Humboldt, Mickey Mouse and Current European Research Programmes - or Where are the Women in all This
Hvad kan kønsforskning tilføre det europæiske projekt? Og hvad kan de europæiske forskningsprogrammer tilbyde kønsforskningen? Kønsforskningen og det europæiske projekt har fælles intentioner når det gælder udviklingen af ny viden og forskning på tværfagligt grundlag. Og kønsforskning rummer nye begrebsmæssige kontekster til at forstå europæiske nøgleord som medborgerskab, velfærdsstat, familie, race og etnicitet. Det nye 6. rammeprogram for fors…
Balancing Agendas
Taking as its starting point the European Commission’s agenda for promoting collaborative, interdisciplinary research that includes the Humanities as well as the Social Sciences, this article argues that arts and humanities research needs greater integration into that research agenda and more, as well as more imaginative and incentivizing, funding and support. Utilizing the issue of the London bombers as an example, the article indicates that the…
Women's/Gender Studies,1 Professionalization and the Bologna Process—Cross‐European Reflections
This article focuses on the interrelationship between Women's Studies, the professionalization of its students, and the so‐called Bologna process, with the emphasis very much on the first two terms, since the Bologna process itself is currently in process, and its outcomes remain uncertain. Based on findings from two EU‐funded projects, it argues that Women's Studies students want to engage in the labour‐market but on specific terms; that the lab…
Theatres of Difference
Since the 1990s, there has been an extended debate among feminists and left-wing thinkers concerned with notions of justice and equality about the relationship between 'redistribution' and 'recognition' in contemporary politics. In this article, I examine the ways in which the issues of redistribution of resources and recognition are articulated in plays by contemporary Black and Asian women playwrights such as Rukhsana Ahmad, Tanika Gupta, Winso…
Unknown Others
In December 2004, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in the United Kingdom decided to close down the play Behzti1 by the British-born Sikh woman playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti because “Violent scenes outside a Birmingham theatre could be repeated unless changes [were] made to a controversial play” according to a leading city Sikh cited in the Birmingham Mail (Newey 2006: 327). The playwright herself, a young woman hounded by male members from her …
What Mode Marriage? Women's Partner Choice in British Asian Cultural Representation
On 16 November 2005 British newspapers carried reports that Labour MAP Ann Cryer had called for a ban on marriage between cousins ‘after research showed alarming rates in defective births among Asi
The ‘Ins’ and ‘Outs’ of Women’s/Gender Studies
In the spring of 2008, fuelled by the impending demise of the undergraduate Women’s/Gender Studies programme at London Metropolitan University, a series of public statements proclaimed the death of Women’s/Gender Studies. This article constitutes a response to these statements. Taking a broadly European view of the state of Women’s/Gender Studies, it argues that the discipline has established a research infrastructure, mainstreamed its undergradu…
Science and the cultural imaginary
Desert Island Texts
Psychological counselling in post-Soviet Russia
In this article the authors discuss psychological counselling as it emerges as a gendered profession in the transitional economy of Russia. Based on qualitative, semi-structured interviews with 23 female and three male practising counsellors, the article analyses their perceptions of their profession, focusing in particular on two key issues: (1) their reasons for entry into the profession; and (2) their expectations of their work as a profession…
Questions of mobility and belonging
One dominant narrative about diaspora and queer identity concerns the liberating potential of the experience of dis-placement which enables both the rejection of the taboos and constraints that inform one's socio-cultural background and the articulation and enactment of one's queer identity. In this article I address this narrative by analysing two very different kinds of text, dealing with dis-placement and the enactment of queer identity. The f…
The Compromised Researcher
This article centres on issues of vulnerability and being compromised in feminist research where the focus has frequently been on researching the same. Compromise, here used in its pejorative sense, may for instance occur in terms of one’s research topic, the methods one utilizes, or the participants chosen for a study. Drawing on a range of examples including the methodological work of Ann Oakley (1981, 2000) as well as three articles on researc…
More Trans than National? Re-Thinking Transnational Feminism through Affective Orders
The mutual constitution of risk and inequalities
In this article, we examine the conceptual importance of integrating risk and intersectionality theory for the study of how risk and various forms of inequality intersect and are mutually constitutive. We argue that an intersectional perspective can advance risk research by incorporating more effectively the role of such social categories as gender and race into the analysis of ‘risk’ as an empirical phenomenon. In doing so, the intersectional pe…
Relative strangers
Identity matters
Narratives of origin are critical to one's sense of identity as stories ranging from Greek myths such as that of Oedipus to donor offspring's desire to trace their biological families testify. Different cultures require diverse degrees of particularity and frequency when it comes to accounting for one's origin, and as Cavarero [Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood (London: Routledge, 2000)] and Butler [Giving an Account of Oneself (New …
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