B Bjerge
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 50562 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | B Bjerge |
| NOMBRES | B |
| APELLIDO | Bjerge |
| FIRMA | BJERGE B |
| AFILIACIONES | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0942-0322 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Squared Drinking
Public drinking practices among socially marginalized people remain highly stigmatized. Unlike public drinking practices among young people in Denmark, little attention has been put on the meanings and value attributed to such settings by people at the margins. In this paper, we examine public drinking practices of socially marginalized people with a Greenlandic background living in Denmark with attention to public squares where participants gath…
‘It can be difficult to help them’
Older marginalized citizens with severe substance use are presently a growing population in Denmark. They struggle with comprehensive and complex needs for care and treatment, which put high demands on health and care professionals working with them. Yet, the complexity of their needs for care and the care provided to them is highly understudied. We take our empirical point of departure in an anthropological pilot study of care work in private ho…
As Long As it Lasts-Older Substance Users, Brittle Ties and Danish Health Care
I denne artikel undersøger vi en en gruppe ældre marginaliserede stofbrugere og deres relationer til det danskr sundhedsvæsen. Vi viser empiriske eksempler indsamlet gennem etnografisk feltarbejde, om hvordan de håndterer deres sundhedssituation og mødet med det danske sundhedsvæsen. Analytisk trækker vi især på begrebet "disposable ties" og foreslår udtrykket "brittle ties" for at nuancere begrebet og undersøge, hvordan opfattet individuel auton…
Inclusive gentrification? Reproducing logics of exclusion in strategies for inclusive urban planning
Purpose The authors investigate two contrasting, yet mutually constitutive strategies for regulating open drug scenes in the city of Aarhus, Denmark: A strategy of dispersing marginalized substance users from the inner city, and a simultaneous strategy of inclusion in a new, gentrifying neighbourhood. Design/methodology/approach The authors apply a multi-temporal ethnography approach, including data from studies dating back to 2002. This enables …
What are dually diagnosed patients' problems represented to be in mental health? A WPR analysis of the multistability purpose of digital health records
No previous studies have investigated how political measures, opinions and views of people with dual diagnoses, organisational requirements and professional values are purposefully communicated, mediated and/or integrated in digital records in mental health care. It remains unclear how health records function as both clinical vehicles for documentation, audit and quality assurance in patient care as well as political vehicles of power to articula…
The construction of 'socially marginalised Greenlanders' as a target group in Danish welfare policy and practice
This paper examines the emergence of ‘socially marginalized Greenlanders’ as a distinct target category in Danish welfare policy and practice. It builds on analysis of policies targeting Greenlandic minorities in Denmark and interviews with welfare professionals in charge of implementing these. The paper shows how Greenlandic minorities are represented as characterized by markers of difference viewed to set them apart from other socially marginal…
Reflections on publishing ethnographic work
Where do ethnographers with an interest in how and why people organize themselves in particular ways go to publish, engage in discussions
Problematisations in drug use policy, practice and research
Complex cases – Complex representations of problems
Many Danish drug users do not only require services related to drug use, but face other obstacles such as mental illnesses and unemployment. The services are constituted by different types of policies, which represent both overlapping and sometimes conflicting ideas of how to frame, intervene and 'fix' problems. Policy research has mainly focused on these fields separately, however, in this article, we scrutinize policies in the fields drug use a…
Ethnographic reflections on access to care services
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is twofold: to explore how gatekeepers' ways of regulating the researchers' access to knowledge in/about care services reflect the systemic and interpersonal values that inform Danish welfare systems' daily workings at the street level; and also explore how the authors' methodological experiences mirror the value-informed regulatory strategies that professionals and users themselves experience in their daily encou…
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A Case Study of Casework Tinkering
Citizens with complex problems are often in touch with different welfare services and administrative systems in order to receive the help, they need. Sometimes these services overlap and sometimes they conflict. The lack of ready-made services to match the complex, multiple, and often shifting needs of citizens with complex problems presents a challenge to caseworkers in the welfare system. In this article, we zoom in on the management of a singl…
Researching Organisational Imbrications and Interstices
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Inside the black box of public service change
Guest editorial
The twilight zone
Purpose In many public sector reform processes, employees' roles as professional experts are shifting toward more entrepreneurial and market-oriented roles, a change that entails a shift in the demands made of these employees. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the reflections, considerations, and experiences of such employees regarding the spaces of possibility open to them in which to act in accordance with this new role. Design/method…
Rationalities of Choice and Practices of Care
As in many Western countries, notions of active, free, and self-managing citizens have become key concerns in Danish social policies. This article describes how these key concerns have made their inroads into laws and guidelines for delivery of social welfare services and how these laws and guidelines are intended to be implemented in social work practices. In the first part of the article, we analyze how policies envision drug users as active, f…
From Zero Tolerance to Non-Enforcement
The neighborhood of Vesterbro in Copenhagen has housed the largest open drug scene in Denmark since the 1980s. In recent years there has been a remarkable change in the police strategy towards this drug scene from zero tolerance to a non-enforcement strategy. This article presents a case study of this change in strategy and its implications for more general discussions about drug control and harm reduction. With inspiration from the governmentali…
Empowered and self-managing users in methadone treatment
Empowerment is a keyword in treatment. Users should have the means and possibilities to influence their treatment and become self-managing. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Danish methadone treatment project, we find that the practices of users and staff are often not carried out in accordance with governmental intentions. We identify a gap between the official notions of treatment and practices. We analyse the notions and practices of empo…
Empowerment in drug treatment
Empowerment in drug treatment
From Zero Tolerance to Non-Enforcement
The neighborhood of Vesterbro in Copenhagen has housed the largest open drug scene in Denmark since the 1980s. In recent years there has been a remarkable change in the police strategy towards this drug scene from zero tolerance to a non-enforcement strategy. This article presents a case study of this change in strategy and its implications for more general discussions about drug control and harm reduction. With inspiration from the governmentali…
Empowered and self-managing users in methadone treatment
Empowerment is a keyword in treatment. Users should have the means and possibilities to influence their treatment and become self-managing. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Danish methadone treatment project, we find that the practices of users and staff are often not carried out in accordance with governmental intentions. We identify a gap between the official notions of treatment and practices. We analyse the notions and practices of empo…
Ethnographic reflections on access to care services
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is twofold: to explore how gatekeepers' ways of regulating the researchers' access to knowledge in/about care services reflect the systemic and interpersonal values that inform Danish welfare systems' daily workings at the street level; and also explore how the authors' methodological experiences mirror the value-informed regulatory strategies that professionals and users themselves experience in their daily encou…
The construction of 'socially marginalised Greenlanders' as a target group in Danish welfare policy and practice
This paper examines the emergence of ‘socially marginalized Greenlanders’ as a distinct target category in Danish welfare policy and practice. It builds on analysis of policies targeting Greenlandic minorities in Denmark and interviews with welfare professionals in charge of implementing these. The paper shows how Greenlandic minorities are represented as characterized by markers of difference viewed to set them apart from other socially marginal…
A Case Study of Casework Tinkering
Citizens with complex problems are often in touch with different welfare services and administrative systems in order to receive the help, they need. Sometimes these services overlap and sometimes they conflict. The lack of ready-made services to match the complex, multiple, and often shifting needs of citizens with complex problems presents a challenge to caseworkers in the welfare system. In this article, we zoom in on the management of a singl…
Rationalities of Choice and Practices of Care
As in many Western countries, notions of active, free, and self-managing citizens have become key concerns in Danish social policies. This article describes how these key concerns have made their inroads into laws and guidelines for delivery of social welfare services and how these laws and guidelines are intended to be implemented in social work practices. In the first part of the article, we analyze how policies envision drug users as active, f…
What are dually diagnosed patients' problems represented to be in mental health? A WPR analysis of the multistability purpose of digital health records
No previous studies have investigated how political measures, opinions and views of people with dual diagnoses, organisational requirements and professional values are purposefully communicated, mediated and/or integrated in digital records in mental health care. It remains unclear how health records function as both clinical vehicles for documentation, audit and quality assurance in patient care as well as political vehicles of power to articula…
Inside the black box of public service change
Guest editorial
The twilight zone
Purpose In many public sector reform processes, employees' roles as professional experts are shifting toward more entrepreneurial and market-oriented roles, a change that entails a shift in the demands made of these employees. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the reflections, considerations, and experiences of such employees regarding the spaces of possibility open to them in which to act in accordance with this new role. Design/method…
Squared Drinking
Public drinking practices among socially marginalized people remain highly stigmatized. Unlike public drinking practices among young people in Denmark, little attention has been put on the meanings and value attributed to such settings by people at the margins. In this paper, we examine public drinking practices of socially marginalized people with a Greenlandic background living in Denmark with attention to public squares where participants gath…
Researching Organisational Imbrications and Interstices
Empowerment in drug treatment
Empowered and self-managing users in methadone treatment
Empowerment is a keyword in treatment. Users should have the means and possibilities to influence their treatment and become self-managing. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Danish methadone treatment project, we find that the practices of users and staff are often not carried out in accordance with governmental intentions. We identify a gap between the official notions of treatment and practices. We analyse the notions and practices of empo…
Rationalities of Choice and Practices of Care
As in many Western countries, notions of active, free, and self-managing citizens have become key concerns in Danish social policies. This article describes how these key concerns have made their inroads into laws and guidelines for delivery of social welfare services and how these laws and guidelines are intended to be implemented in social work practices. In the first part of the article, we analyze how policies envision drug users as active, f…
From Zero Tolerance to Non-Enforcement
The neighborhood of Vesterbro in Copenhagen has housed the largest open drug scene in Denmark since the 1980s. In recent years there has been a remarkable change in the police strategy towards this drug scene from zero tolerance to a non-enforcement strategy. This article presents a case study of this change in strategy and its implications for more general discussions about drug control and harm reduction. With inspiration from the governmentali…
Withdrawn
Inside the black box of public service change
Guest editorial
The twilight zone
Purpose In many public sector reform processes, employees' roles as professional experts are shifting toward more entrepreneurial and market-oriented roles, a change that entails a shift in the demands made of these employees. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the reflections, considerations, and experiences of such employees regarding the spaces of possibility open to them in which to act in accordance with this new role. Design/method…
Withdrawn
A Case Study of Casework Tinkering
Citizens with complex problems are often in touch with different welfare services and administrative systems in order to receive the help, they need. Sometimes these services overlap and sometimes they conflict. The lack of ready-made services to match the complex, multiple, and often shifting needs of citizens with complex problems presents a challenge to caseworkers in the welfare system. In this article, we zoom in on the management of a singl…
Researching Organisational Imbrications and Interstices
Ethnographic reflections on access to care services
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is twofold: to explore how gatekeepers' ways of regulating the researchers' access to knowledge in/about care services reflect the systemic and interpersonal values that inform Danish welfare systems' daily workings at the street level; and also explore how the authors' methodological experiences mirror the value-informed regulatory strategies that professionals and users themselves experience in their daily encou…
Problematisations in drug use policy, practice and research
Complex cases – Complex representations of problems
Many Danish drug users do not only require services related to drug use, but face other obstacles such as mental illnesses and unemployment. The services are constituted by different types of policies, which represent both overlapping and sometimes conflicting ideas of how to frame, intervene and 'fix' problems. Policy research has mainly focused on these fields separately, however, in this article, we scrutinize policies in the fields drug use a…
The construction of 'socially marginalised Greenlanders' as a target group in Danish welfare policy and practice
This paper examines the emergence of ‘socially marginalized Greenlanders’ as a distinct target category in Danish welfare policy and practice. It builds on analysis of policies targeting Greenlandic minorities in Denmark and interviews with welfare professionals in charge of implementing these. The paper shows how Greenlandic minorities are represented as characterized by markers of difference viewed to set them apart from other socially marginal…
Reflections on publishing ethnographic work
Where do ethnographers with an interest in how and why people organize themselves in particular ways go to publish, engage in discussions
Inclusive gentrification? Reproducing logics of exclusion in strategies for inclusive urban planning
Purpose The authors investigate two contrasting, yet mutually constitutive strategies for regulating open drug scenes in the city of Aarhus, Denmark: A strategy of dispersing marginalized substance users from the inner city, and a simultaneous strategy of inclusion in a new, gentrifying neighbourhood. Design/methodology/approach The authors apply a multi-temporal ethnography approach, including data from studies dating back to 2002. This enables …
What are dually diagnosed patients' problems represented to be in mental health? A WPR analysis of the multistability purpose of digital health records
No previous studies have investigated how political measures, opinions and views of people with dual diagnoses, organisational requirements and professional values are purposefully communicated, mediated and/or integrated in digital records in mental health care. It remains unclear how health records function as both clinical vehicles for documentation, audit and quality assurance in patient care as well as political vehicles of power to articula…
‘It can be difficult to help them’
Older marginalized citizens with severe substance use are presently a growing population in Denmark. They struggle with comprehensive and complex needs for care and treatment, which put high demands on health and care professionals working with them. Yet, the complexity of their needs for care and the care provided to them is highly understudied. We take our empirical point of departure in an anthropological pilot study of care work in private ho…
As Long As it Lasts-Older Substance Users, Brittle Ties and Danish Health Care
I denne artikel undersøger vi en en gruppe ældre marginaliserede stofbrugere og deres relationer til det danskr sundhedsvæsen. Vi viser empiriske eksempler indsamlet gennem etnografisk feltarbejde, om hvordan de håndterer deres sundhedssituation og mødet med det danske sundhedsvæsen. Analytisk trækker vi især på begrebet "disposable ties" og foreslår udtrykket "brittle ties" for at nuancere begrebet og undersøge, hvordan opfattet individuel auton…
Squared Drinking
Public drinking practices among socially marginalized people remain highly stigmatized. Unlike public drinking practices among young people in Denmark, little attention has been put on the meanings and value attributed to such settings by people at the margins. In this paper, we examine public drinking practices of socially marginalized people with a Greenlandic background living in Denmark with attention to public squares where participants gath…
Political science (12 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Business (6 obras) · Public relations (6 obras) · Ethnography (5 obras) · Homelessness and Social Issues (5 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Medicine (4 obras)