Haldis Haukanes
Biographic Data
| ID | 118244 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Haldis Haukanes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Haldis |
| FAMILY NAME | Haukanes |
| SIGNATURE | HAUKANES H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9961-1535 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 35 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Navigating an ambiguous abortion terrain in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Ethiopia liberalized its abortion law in 2004 and issued technical guidelines in 2006 to expand access to legal and safe abortion services. However, the implementation of this progressive policy is shaped by stigma, patriarchal norms, and influential actors. As a result, women seeking abortion are required either to negotiate these power dynamics or to go through unsafe procedures. Despite this policy overhaul, there is a paucity of data on how w…
We need to confirm at least from two or three”
Healthcare workers' practices in this rural area were found to challenge the basic provisions laid out in Ethiopia's abortion legislation. Their negative discretion of the legislation contributes to the substantial barriers Ethiopian abortion-seeking women face in gaining access to legal abortion services, despite the presence of a progressive legal framework and guidelines
Between ‘block course relationships ’ and abstinence
Inspired by African and other feminist scholarship on gender, sexuality and agency, this article studies narrations of norms and practices in sexual relationships between university students. A main aim of the article is to move beyond the problem focus in earlier scholarship on women, sexuality and reproduction, and to identify potential spaces of freedom and expansion of female agency. The article is based on qualitative research conducted with…
I Do Not Want Her to be Doing Anything Stressful’
Drawing on qualitative research from rural and urban areas, this article contributes to evolving social research in Ghana on possible changes in the gendered distribution of domestic labour. Formulated within debates on ‘doing gender’ and ‘undoing gender’, this study examines the extent to which acts of gender transgression may potentially occur during peak reproductive periods in the lives of Ghanaian couples. The findings of the study indicate …
Participation in Climate Change Adaptation Programs in Nepal
In the social discourses of climate change, women are perceived both as vulnerable victims and as active players in adaptation. These perceptions of women along with inclusion policies have led climate change adaptation programs to seek women’s participation. However, ‘women’ is not a homogenous category. Intra-gender power differences in terms of castes and ethnicities can play an important role, especially in Nepal with its long history of inst…
Intimacy and mobility in an era of hardening borders
Silences and Secrets of Family, Community and the State
In this article, we suggest that silence is often more about remembering than forgetting. We consider ways in which silences can occupy and dominate state discourse, community knowledge, family stories and individual narratives. Drawing on research material from Poland and the Czech Republic in the late socialist and post-socialist periods, we look at ways similar patterns of narrative fusion take place in various contexts in which both the publi…
The emotional journey of motherhood in migration. The case of Southern European mothers in Norway
Based on focus group discussions and in-depth interviews with Greek, Italian, and Spanish mothers living in Norway, this article contributes to an emerging body of literature on the role of emotions in migration by exploring migrant motherhood as an emotional journey. Drawing on the work of Arlie Hochschild on emotions and her theoretical concepts of framing rules, feeling rules, and emotion work, the article explores how migrant mothers reflect …
Self‐legitimation and sense‐making of Southern European parents' migration to Norway
This article explores the migration narratives of Southern European parents living in Norway, where family projects emerged as a central theme. Migrant parents told stories not only of disillusionment and sacrifice but also of satisfaction, which they articulated around their aspiration to have a family life after migration. We analysed the informants' storytelling and explored the ways that family aspirations manifested. By articulating their mi…
Organizing for Empowerment
Gendered visions of family life and parenthood among Czech young people
This article explores young people's imaginations of their future family life. Based on qualitative research among young people in North Bohemia, it considers social reproduction and change within the domain of gendered labour and parenting. This is done on the backdrop of post-1989 transformation of Czech society, where drives towards individualisation and diversification of the life course stand against discourses and policies supporting separa…
Silent politics and unknown numbers
This article addresses the gaps between knowledge, policy and practice in reproductive health by exploring the processes involved in translating Zambian abortion policy from paperwork to practice in a predominantly rural province. Central to these processes are rural health bureaucrats, who are tasked with administering and monitoring a myriad of reproductive health policies and programmes. The articles is based on eleven months of ethnographic f…
When abortion becomes public - Everyday politics of reproduction in rural Zambia
This article takes the public reaction to the discovery of an aborted foetus in a rural Zambian community as the empirical starting point for exploring the everyday politics of reproduction. It builds on eleven months of ethnographic fieldwork on abortion and abortion policy in Zambia in 2017 and 2018, including participant observation in the community where the episode took place and interviews with clinic staff and neighbours. The article explo…
Why teach sexuality education in school? Teacher discretion in implementing comprehensive sexuality education in rural Zambia
The CSE had limited legitimacy in the community and was met with resistance from teachers tasked with its' implementation. In order to enhance ownership to the CSE program, local concerns about the contents of the curriculum and the parent-teacher role dilemma must be taken into consideration. Not addressing these challenges may undermine the policy's intention of increasing knowledge about sexuality and reproduction and empowering adolescents to…
When abortion is not within reach
In spite of increasing international commitment to young people’s sexual and reproductive health, unintended pregnancies remain a major problem for young women worldwide. This article explores the issue of unintended pregnancies among Ethiopian university students and investigates narratives of students who carried their pregnancy to term. Ethiopia’s relatively permissive abortion law forms part of the backdrop for the exploration. We also consid…
Shaping the abortion policy – competing discourses on the Zambian termination of pregnancy act
We argue that the Zambian Termination of Pregnancy Act is ambiguous and leaves much room for interpretation. This paper challenges the notion that the Zambian abortion law is liberal and opens up for further discussion on the relationship between how a law is described and perceived by the public, and the rights to health and services ensured by it
An uneasy compromise’
While silence as a strategy works to protect the law enhancing the health and survival of young women, it may at the same time prevent the law from being fully effective. As a long term strategy, silence fails to expand awareness and access to safe abortion services, and may not sufficiently serve to fulfill the potential of the law to prevent abortion related maternal deaths
The access paradox
Legal frameworks are vital instruments for securing the right to health, but broad contextualized studies rather than classifications of law along a liberal-restrictive continuum are demanded in order to enhance existing knowledge on access to safe abortion services in a given context
Parenting after the Century of the Child
Maid in India
Building on qualitative, unstructured interviews with domestic workers, this article seeks to illuminate the complexity of the specific strategies and negotiations adopted by domestic workers as they contest and challenge the sociocultural markers of hierarchical difference that their employers mobilize as they try to create boundaries and distinctions between themselves and their employees. To understand the dynamics of this boundary work, we ap…
Care and Career in the Life Scripts of Young People—Gendered Cases from The Czech Republic and Norway
Based on a qualitative study of young people’s visions of their future, this article explores tensions emerging between care work and professional success in the life-scripts of young girls and boys in the Czech Republic and Norway. The two countries both have a high level of female labour market participation but have developed distinctively different welfare policies as concerns the emphasis placed on family vs. institutional care. In Norway, t…
Shifting meanings of gender equality in development
This paper explores how differently situated actors in Norway and Ethiopia relate to global gender and development policies and interpret the concept gender equality. We show that a universalizing gender language influenced by both United Nations policies and the World Bank’s gender discourse have made strong imprints on how gender equality is conceptualized at policy and grassroots levels in Ethiopia and in Norwegian gender and aid policies. How…
Freedom and pressure in self-disclosure
Fearing the future? Young people envisioning their working lives in the Czech Republic, Norway and Tunisia
On the backdrop of recent restructurings of the global economic order, the article examines youths' narratives on their prospective lives in the three countries Norway, Tunisia and the Czech Republic, with a particular focus on the youths' reflections on educational and job preferences. To what extent are uncertainties related to education and work challenges voiced in youth expressions? Analysing the subtle nuances in and differences between the…
Belonging, Mobility and the Future
Framed within debates on space, youth mobility and globalization, this article examines representations of space in rural youth’s narratives of their own future. In contrast to other research on youth in ‘peripheral’ areas, it is found that positive representations of both own locality and country prevail among the youth in the communities investigated, and that spatial mobility is sought for in limited ways. It is argued that the wish to remain …
Belonging, Mobility and the Future
Framed within debates on space, youth mobility and globalization, this article examines representations of space in rural youth’s narratives of their own future. In contrast to other research on youth in ‘peripheral’ areas, it is found that positive representations of both own locality and country prevail among the youth in the communities investigated, and that spatial mobility is sought for in limited ways. It is argued that the wish to remain …
Fearing the future? Young people envisioning their working lives in the Czech Republic, Norway and Tunisia
On the backdrop of recent restructurings of the global economic order, the article examines youths' narratives on their prospective lives in the three countries Norway, Tunisia and the Czech Republic, with a particular focus on the youths' reflections on educational and job preferences. To what extent are uncertainties related to education and work challenges voiced in youth expressions? Analysing the subtle nuances in and differences between the…
The emotional journey of motherhood in migration. The case of Southern European mothers in Norway
Based on focus group discussions and in-depth interviews with Greek, Italian, and Spanish mothers living in Norway, this article contributes to an emerging body of literature on the role of emotions in migration by exploring migrant motherhood as an emotional journey. Drawing on the work of Arlie Hochschild on emotions and her theoretical concepts of framing rules, feeling rules, and emotion work, the article explores how migrant mothers reflect …
Sharing food, sharing taste? Consumption practices, gender relations and individuality in Czech families
A la lumière des théories sociologiques et anthropologiques de la famille et de la parenté, cet article pose la question de la préparation et de la consommation de nourriture dans les familles tchèques de différentes générations, et ce, aussi bien en milieu rural qu'urbain. Sur la base d'une enquête qualitative (entretiens) ainsi que de données d'observation, l'article interroge le rôle que joue réellement le partage alimentaire dans la vie quoti…
Silent politics and unknown numbers
This article addresses the gaps between knowledge, policy and practice in reproductive health by exploring the processes involved in translating Zambian abortion policy from paperwork to practice in a predominantly rural province. Central to these processes are rural health bureaucrats, who are tasked with administering and monitoring a myriad of reproductive health policies and programmes. The articles is based on eleven months of ethnographic f…
Symbols and Meanings in Breast Cancer Awareness Campaigns
This article examines symbols and meanings in breast cancer awareness campaigns, and the ways in which multifarious actors draw attention to the disease. We discuss what the various campaigns and initiatives can indicate, above and beyond creating breast cancer awareness. Our data stem from sources such as printed material, the Internet, and events. From these sources we have singled out and explored objects, text, and visual expressions, looking…
When abortion becomes public - Everyday politics of reproduction in rural Zambia
This article takes the public reaction to the discovery of an aborted foetus in a rural Zambian community as the empirical starting point for exploring the everyday politics of reproduction. It builds on eleven months of ethnographic fieldwork on abortion and abortion policy in Zambia in 2017 and 2018, including participant observation in the community where the episode took place and interviews with clinic staff and neighbours. The article explo…
Maid in India
Building on qualitative, unstructured interviews with domestic workers, this article seeks to illuminate the complexity of the specific strategies and negotiations adopted by domestic workers as they contest and challenge the sociocultural markers of hierarchical difference that their employers mobilize as they try to create boundaries and distinctions between themselves and their employees. To understand the dynamics of this boundary work, we ap…
Shifting meanings of gender equality in development
This paper explores how differently situated actors in Norway and Ethiopia relate to global gender and development policies and interpret the concept gender equality. We show that a universalizing gender language influenced by both United Nations policies and the World Bank’s gender discourse have made strong imprints on how gender equality is conceptualized at policy and grassroots levels in Ethiopia and in Norwegian gender and aid policies. How…
Self‐legitimation and sense‐making of Southern European parents' migration to Norway
This article explores the migration narratives of Southern European parents living in Norway, where family projects emerged as a central theme. Migrant parents told stories not only of disillusionment and sacrifice but also of satisfaction, which they articulated around their aspiration to have a family life after migration. We analysed the informants' storytelling and explored the ways that family aspirations manifested. By articulating their mi…
Memory, imagination, and belonging across generations
The last two decades have witnessed a phenomenal expansion of scholarly work on collective memory. Simultaneously, increasing anthropological attention is being paid to collective visions of the future, albeit through a range of disparate literatures on topics including development, modernity and risk, the imagination, and, perhaps ironically, nostalgia. In this introduction to this special section, we bring together analyses of postsocialist vis…
Strong State Policies on Gender and Aid
This article presents a case study of how Bistandsnemnda (BN)/Digni, an umbrella organisation for Norwegian mission organisations and churches, responded to increased pressure from the Norwegian state to focus on gender equality and women's rights as part of their development aid work. BN initiated a special programme called Women Empowerment and Gender Equality in which the organisation displayed an unusually strong involvement. The level of inv…
Participation in Climate Change Adaptation Programs in Nepal
In the social discourses of climate change, women are perceived both as vulnerable victims and as active players in adaptation. These perceptions of women along with inclusion policies have led climate change adaptation programs to seek women’s participation. However, ‘women’ is not a homogenous category. Intra-gender power differences in terms of castes and ethnicities can play an important role, especially in Nepal with its long history of inst…
Precarious lives
Framed by questions concerning the normal biography and its distortion in late modernity, this article examines the biographical narratives of two different generations of Czechs. Through a parallel analysis of retrospective and future-oriented imaginations of life, the article explores the extent to which the two generations' narratives are structured along the expectations implicated in the normal biography and the kinds of disturbances to the …
Elisabeth Lorange Fürst
Katja's canteen
This article discusses notions of "public" and "private" in the postsocialist Czech Republic through a comparative examination of food practices in families and in the canteen of an agricultural cooperative in South Bohemia. Different meanings of public and private will be outlined, making up a complex set of referential contexts for the interaction between canteen personnel and customers. Analysis of daily life in the canteen revealed that the p…
Anthropological debates on gender and the post-communist transformation
The article discusses anthropological debates on gender from the late 1960s until today and explores their significance for understanding recent developments in the post-communist world. Three different phases of development are distinguished in anthropological theorizing on gender: First, the question of universal female subordination is set in focus, then the second phase, when eyes are opened for "the differences of the difference", and a thir…
Anthropological debates on gender and the post-communist transformation
The article discusses anthropological debates on gender from the late 1960s until today and explores their significance for understanding recent developments in the post-communist world. Three different phases of development are distinguished in anthropological theorizing on gender: First, the question of universal female subordination is set in focus, then the second phase, when eyes are opened for "the differences of the difference", and a thir…
Bokomtaler
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Katja's canteen
This article discusses notions of "public" and "private" in the postsocialist Czech Republic through a comparative examination of food practices in families and in the canteen of an agricultural cooperative in South Bohemia. Different meanings of public and private will be outlined, making up a complex set of referential contexts for the interaction between canteen personnel and customers. Analysis of daily life in the canteen revealed that the p…
Sharing food, sharing taste? Consumption practices, gender relations and individuality in Czech families
A la lumière des théories sociologiques et anthropologiques de la famille et de la parenté, cet article pose la question de la préparation et de la consommation de nourriture dans les familles tchèques de différentes générations, et ce, aussi bien en milieu rural qu'urbain. Sur la base d'une enquête qualitative (entretiens) ainsi que de données d'observation, l'article interroge le rôle que joue réellement le partage alimentaire dans la vie quoti…
Food Chains
Parenting After the Century of the Child
Contents: Parenting after the century of the child: introduction, Tatjana Thelen and Haldis Haukanes Parenthood and childhood: debates within the social sciences, Haldis Haukanes and Tatjana Thelen Part I Travelling Ideals about Relatedness, Family and Parenting Obligations: What is a good mother? Historical shifts, divergent models in urban Japan, Susan D. Holloway, Yoko Yamamoto and Sawako Suzuki No school without foster families in Northern Be…
Elisabeth Lorange Fürst
Strong State Policies on Gender and Aid
This article presents a case study of how Bistandsnemnda (BN)/Digni, an umbrella organisation for Norwegian mission organisations and churches, responded to increased pressure from the Norwegian state to focus on gender equality and women's rights as part of their development aid work. BN initiated a special programme called Women Empowerment and Gender Equality in which the organisation displayed an unusually strong involvement. The level of inv…
Freedom and pressure in self-disclosure
Fearing the future? Young people envisioning their working lives in the Czech Republic, Norway and Tunisia
On the backdrop of recent restructurings of the global economic order, the article examines youths' narratives on their prospective lives in the three countries Norway, Tunisia and the Czech Republic, with a particular focus on the youths' reflections on educational and job preferences. To what extent are uncertainties related to education and work challenges voiced in youth expressions? Analysing the subtle nuances in and differences between the…
Belonging, Mobility and the Future
Framed within debates on space, youth mobility and globalization, this article examines representations of space in rural youth’s narratives of their own future. In contrast to other research on youth in ‘peripheral’ areas, it is found that positive representations of both own locality and country prevail among the youth in the communities investigated, and that spatial mobility is sought for in limited ways. It is argued that the wish to remain …
Symbols and Meanings in Breast Cancer Awareness Campaigns
This article examines symbols and meanings in breast cancer awareness campaigns, and the ways in which multifarious actors draw attention to the disease. We discuss what the various campaigns and initiatives can indicate, above and beyond creating breast cancer awareness. Our data stem from sources such as printed material, the Internet, and events. From these sources we have singled out and explored objects, text, and visual expressions, looking…
Precarious lives
Framed by questions concerning the normal biography and its distortion in late modernity, this article examines the biographical narratives of two different generations of Czechs. Through a parallel analysis of retrospective and future-oriented imaginations of life, the article explores the extent to which the two generations' narratives are structured along the expectations implicated in the normal biography and the kinds of disturbances to the …
Memory, imagination, and belonging across generations
The last two decades have witnessed a phenomenal expansion of scholarly work on collective memory. Simultaneously, increasing anthropological attention is being paid to collective visions of the future, albeit through a range of disparate literatures on topics including development, modernity and risk, the imagination, and, perhaps ironically, nostalgia. In this introduction to this special section, we bring together analyses of postsocialist vis…
Shifting meanings of gender equality in development
This paper explores how differently situated actors in Norway and Ethiopia relate to global gender and development policies and interpret the concept gender equality. We show that a universalizing gender language influenced by both United Nations policies and the World Bank’s gender discourse have made strong imprints on how gender equality is conceptualized at policy and grassroots levels in Ethiopia and in Norwegian gender and aid policies. How…
Parenting after the Century of the Child
Maid in India
Building on qualitative, unstructured interviews with domestic workers, this article seeks to illuminate the complexity of the specific strategies and negotiations adopted by domestic workers as they contest and challenge the sociocultural markers of hierarchical difference that their employers mobilize as they try to create boundaries and distinctions between themselves and their employees. To understand the dynamics of this boundary work, we ap…
Care and Career in the Life Scripts of Young People—Gendered Cases from The Czech Republic and Norway
Based on a qualitative study of young people’s visions of their future, this article explores tensions emerging between care work and professional success in the life-scripts of young girls and boys in the Czech Republic and Norway. The two countries both have a high level of female labour market participation but have developed distinctively different welfare policies as concerns the emphasis placed on family vs. institutional care. In Norway, t…
Why teach sexuality education in school? Teacher discretion in implementing comprehensive sexuality education in rural Zambia
The CSE had limited legitimacy in the community and was met with resistance from teachers tasked with its' implementation. In order to enhance ownership to the CSE program, local concerns about the contents of the curriculum and the parent-teacher role dilemma must be taken into consideration. Not addressing these challenges may undermine the policy's intention of increasing knowledge about sexuality and reproduction and empowering adolescents to…
When abortion is not within reach
In spite of increasing international commitment to young people’s sexual and reproductive health, unintended pregnancies remain a major problem for young women worldwide. This article explores the issue of unintended pregnancies among Ethiopian university students and investigates narratives of students who carried their pregnancy to term. Ethiopia’s relatively permissive abortion law forms part of the backdrop for the exploration. We also consid…
Shaping the abortion policy – competing discourses on the Zambian termination of pregnancy act
We argue that the Zambian Termination of Pregnancy Act is ambiguous and leaves much room for interpretation. This paper challenges the notion that the Zambian abortion law is liberal and opens up for further discussion on the relationship between how a law is described and perceived by the public, and the rights to health and services ensured by it
An uneasy compromise’
While silence as a strategy works to protect the law enhancing the health and survival of young women, it may at the same time prevent the law from being fully effective. As a long term strategy, silence fails to expand awareness and access to safe abortion services, and may not sufficiently serve to fulfill the potential of the law to prevent abortion related maternal deaths
The access paradox
Legal frameworks are vital instruments for securing the right to health, but broad contextualized studies rather than classifications of law along a liberal-restrictive continuum are demanded in order to enhance existing knowledge on access to safe abortion services in a given context
The emotional journey of motherhood in migration. The case of Southern European mothers in Norway
Based on focus group discussions and in-depth interviews with Greek, Italian, and Spanish mothers living in Norway, this article contributes to an emerging body of literature on the role of emotions in migration by exploring migrant motherhood as an emotional journey. Drawing on the work of Arlie Hochschild on emotions and her theoretical concepts of framing rules, feeling rules, and emotion work, the article explores how migrant mothers reflect …
Political science (26 works) · Sociology (26 works) · Gender Studies (16 works) · Law (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Politics (10 works) · Abortion (9 works) · Medicine (9 works)