Michael Nebeling
Biographic Data
| ID | 1448458 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Nebeling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Nebeling |
| SIGNATURE | NEBELING M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9769-7662 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mediating the Aids crisis. The affective and queer politics of cultural memory in film, television, and digital media
In this article, I examine how AIDS is remembered and mediated in popular culture by identifying three distinct waves of representation: contemporaneous portrayals in the 1980s and early 1990s, a first retrospective wave in the mid-2000s to early 2010s, and a second retrospective wave emerging from 2017 onwards. Drawing on theories of prosthetic memory, retroactivism, and reflective nostalgia, I propose this tripartite framework as a historiograp…
Medicine MAN. Reconfigurations of masculinity in times of increased medicalization
Masculinity as plasticity: Exploring Masculinity in Times of Mediatization and Biomedicalization
The article presents and engages with key conceptual developments within men and masculinity studies, while also highlighting queer and trans theoretical critiques of assumptions that position masculinity as inherently tied to cis male identity. The prevalent tendency to analyze cis and trans masculinities as separate and distinct identities is, as argued, unproductive. Conceiving masculinity through the lens of plasticity instead enables both a …
The racialisation of Aids in Denmark: Tabloid media scandals of sex, race and contagion
In 1992, a Danish tabloid newspaper published the picture, name and address of a Black man on its front page under the title ‘He is the AIDS killer’. The outing marked the beginning of a controversial public scandal in Denmark directly leading to the introduction of a new law criminalising HIV in 1994. Centring questions of race and nationality in connection with HIV/AIDS, we examine in what ways the discursive framing of this, and two other publ…
The mediatization of self-tracking: Knowledge production and community building in YouTube videos
This article investigates a community of men who use the pharmaceuticals Minoxidil and Finasteride to enable and restore beard and hair growth, and who track and trace the effects on YouTube. It argues that the traditional positions of expert and patient are deterritorialized by the digitalization of health discourses and practices, and that the camera in these YouTube videos acts as a mediating/performative factor. The article seeks to answer th…
Medicalised Masculinities – Somatechnical Interventions
How do men's medicalisation and bodily interventions evolve in historical and contemporary societies? How does medicalisation transform or reinstall hegemonic notions of masculinity? How are medicalised masculinities represented, practiced, narrated, mediatised, and aestheticised? And how do these medicalisations expand or challenge key concepts in somatechnical and posthumanist theories such as hybridisation, the cyborg, and becoming? These are …
The white tent of grief. Racialized conditions of public mourning in Denmark
In 2015, Danish-Palestinian Omar El-Hussein shot and killed two men in Copenhagen, before being killed himself by the police. Danish media immediately classified El-Hussein’s actions as ‘a terrorist attack’, and they became the object of extreme concern to the Danish public. In the following days, the two murder sites were momentarily turned into public memorial spaces. When the site of the killing of El-Hussein also became a site of mourning, ho…
Medicalized Masculinities
While studies of masculinities often trace processes of either medicalization or mediatization, few interrogate masculinities at their very intersection. Doing so is the main contribution of this panel, which brings together cases that illustrate the effects these large-scale changes in digital and medical technologies have on masculinities today. Theoretically, the panel is based on the notion that society and everyday life are increasingly inte…
The best men can be”: New configurations of masculinity in the Gillette ad “We believe”
In January 2019, the company Gillette released a short movie “We believe” as advertisement for the brand. In the ad, Gillette reframes their slogan from “the best a man can get” to “the best a man can be.” Connecting the video to the #MeToo movement and critiquing ‘toxic masculinity’, Gillette portrays a new, more responsible, gentle, empathetic masculinity for “the men of tomorrow.” In this article, we present and discuss theories and strands of…
Medicalization and Masculinities
presents original interdisciplinary research concerning feminist theory, gender, power, and inequality, both globally and locally promotes theoretical and methodological debates within gender research
Psychic Life of Gender: Introducing a psycho-soma-technical approach to gender
PETERSEN are part of the FKK-funded project Medicine Man, which explores how everyday cultures and perceptions of middle age men's bodies unfold when masculinity is increasingly both mediatized and medicalized. Today large parts of intimate life, health and social relations have become mediatized: Bodies are monitored using mobile apps, communities are formed on social media, and intimate questions are increasingly the topic of TV-shows and inten…
These are queer times indeed. En introduktion til homonationalisme i en dansk kontekst
Becoming Gay Fathers Through Transnational Commercial Surrogacy
Based on eight interviews with Danish gay male couples and one gay man, who had or were planning to become fathers through transnational commercial surrogacy, I examine the ways the men form family subjectivities between traditional kinship patterns and fundamentally new forms of kinship and family. Arguing that class, mobility, and privilege should also be understood as relational and negotiated positions, I show that gay men engaged in surrogac…
Mediated Intimacies: Connectivities, Relationalities and Proximities
Social media, characterized by user-generated content, interactivity, participation and community formation, have gained much research attention in recent years. At the same time, intimacy, affectivity and emotions are increasingly growing as fields of study. While these two areas are often interwoven, the actual interconnections are rarely studied in detail. This anthology explores how social media construct new types of intimacies, and how prac…
Dad and Daddy Assemblage
Transnational surrogacy and the reproductive practices it entails raise interesting questions about genetic relatedness, kinship formation, and the stratification of reproductive labor and rights. This article discusses two high-profile Norwegian cases involving the Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Øystein Mæland, who served as chief of the Norwegian police from 2011 to 2012. While surrogacy is illegal in Norway, the article demonstrates how newspa…
(Un)liveabilities: Homonationalism and transnational adoption
Rosa Morena tells a story about kinship in which a white homosexual Danish man adopts a child born to a black poor Brazilian woman. Using a theoretical framework of biopolitics and affective labour the article highlights how the male homosexual figure is being cast as heteronormative and white in order to become intelligible as a parent and the bearer of liveable kinship. The casting rests on the affective and reproductive labour of the birth mot…
Moren er Død, Moren, Leve
Gay men are carrying a history as being suspected as potential pedophiles and non-suited parents, and while the reproductive technology of transnational gestational surrogacy makes it possible for gay men to become parents within heteronormative logics, the constructions of families without a mother are looked upon as problematic at best. Through field observations and interviews with gay men, who have been or who are involved in transnational su…
Ph.d.-omtaler
Medier, offentligheder, køn
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
To Belong to the Living – om queer slægtskab og reproduktiv futurisme
Following Lee Edelman’s polemic argument against reproductive futurism and Sara Ahmed’s thinking on queer attachments, this article discusses queer kinship, as it is represented in the American movie The Kids Are All Right (2010). The reading argues that a heteronormative temporal development of the children makes queer kinship recognizable inside a heteronormative kinship paradigm, while simultaneously one mother and the sperm donor fight about …
At forandre for at bevare – biopolitiske rekonfigurationer af den homoseksuelle
Gennem analyser af realityprogrammet Hva’ Bruden Ikke Ved og folketingsforhandlingerne om det kønsneutrale ægteskab undersøges rekonfigurationen af den homoseksuelle fra en figur, der associeres med døden til en figur, som indskrives i biopolitikken gennem familie, slægtskab og reproduktion. I forlængelse af David Engs genlæsning af John D’Emilio vises det, hvordan denne inkludering i biopolitikken lader sig gøre ved, at skrive det homoseksuelle …
Fra barnets tarv til ligestilling - en queerteoretisk undersøgelse af Folketingets forhandlinger om kunstig befrugtning
From the best interest of the child to equality - a queer-theoretical analysis of Danish parliamentary debates on artificial insemination.This article presents an examination of the proceedings in the Danish Parliament regarding lesbian and single women's right to medically assisted artificial insemination. In 1996-1997 the Danish Parliament passed legislation banning doctors in Denmark to inseminate women who were not married or in relationship …
Becoming Gay Fathers Through Transnational Commercial Surrogacy
Based on eight interviews with Danish gay male couples and one gay man, who had or were planning to become fathers through transnational commercial surrogacy, I examine the ways the men form family subjectivities between traditional kinship patterns and fundamentally new forms of kinship and family. Arguing that class, mobility, and privilege should also be understood as relational and negotiated positions, I show that gay men engaged in surrogac…
Dad and Daddy Assemblage
Transnational surrogacy and the reproductive practices it entails raise interesting questions about genetic relatedness, kinship formation, and the stratification of reproductive labor and rights. This article discusses two high-profile Norwegian cases involving the Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Øystein Mæland, who served as chief of the Norwegian police from 2011 to 2012. While surrogacy is illegal in Norway, the article demonstrates how newspa…
The mediatization of self-tracking: Knowledge production and community building in YouTube videos
This article investigates a community of men who use the pharmaceuticals Minoxidil and Finasteride to enable and restore beard and hair growth, and who track and trace the effects on YouTube. It argues that the traditional positions of expert and patient are deterritorialized by the digitalization of health discourses and practices, and that the camera in these YouTube videos acts as a mediating/performative factor. The article seeks to answer th…
The best men can be”: New configurations of masculinity in the Gillette ad “We believe”
In January 2019, the company Gillette released a short movie “We believe” as advertisement for the brand. In the ad, Gillette reframes their slogan from “the best a man can get” to “the best a man can be.” Connecting the video to the #MeToo movement and critiquing ‘toxic masculinity’, Gillette portrays a new, more responsible, gentle, empathetic masculinity for “the men of tomorrow.” In this article, we present and discuss theories and strands of…
The white tent of grief. Racialized conditions of public mourning in Denmark
In 2015, Danish-Palestinian Omar El-Hussein shot and killed two men in Copenhagen, before being killed himself by the police. Danish media immediately classified El-Hussein’s actions as ‘a terrorist attack’, and they became the object of extreme concern to the Danish public. In the following days, the two murder sites were momentarily turned into public memorial spaces. When the site of the killing of El-Hussein also became a site of mourning, ho…
These are queer times indeed. En introduktion til homonationalisme i en dansk kontekst
The racialisation of Aids in Denmark: Tabloid media scandals of sex, race and contagion
In 1992, a Danish tabloid newspaper published the picture, name and address of a Black man on its front page under the title ‘He is the AIDS killer’. The outing marked the beginning of a controversial public scandal in Denmark directly leading to the introduction of a new law criminalising HIV in 1994. Centring questions of race and nationality in connection with HIV/AIDS, we examine in what ways the discursive framing of this, and two other publ…
Medicalization and Masculinities
presents original interdisciplinary research concerning feminist theory, gender, power, and inequality, both globally and locally promotes theoretical and methodological debates within gender research
Psychic Life of Gender: Introducing a psycho-soma-technical approach to gender
PETERSEN are part of the FKK-funded project Medicine Man, which explores how everyday cultures and perceptions of middle age men's bodies unfold when masculinity is increasingly both mediatized and medicalized. Today large parts of intimate life, health and social relations have become mediatized: Bodies are monitored using mobile apps, communities are formed on social media, and intimate questions are increasingly the topic of TV-shows and inten…
Fra barnets tarv til ligestilling - en queerteoretisk undersøgelse af Folketingets forhandlinger om kunstig befrugtning
From the best interest of the child to equality - a queer-theoretical analysis of Danish parliamentary debates on artificial insemination.This article presents an examination of the proceedings in the Danish Parliament regarding lesbian and single women's right to medically assisted artificial insemination. In 1996-1997 the Danish Parliament passed legislation banning doctors in Denmark to inseminate women who were not married or in relationship …
Fra barnets tarv til ligestilling - en queerteoretisk undersøgelse af Folketingets forhandlinger om kunstig befrugtning
From the best interest of the child to equality - a queer-theoretical analysis of Danish parliamentary debates on artificial insemination.This article presents an examination of the proceedings in the Danish Parliament regarding lesbian and single women's right to medically assisted artificial insemination. In 1996-1997 the Danish Parliament passed legislation banning doctors in Denmark to inseminate women who were not married or in relationship …
At forandre for at bevare – biopolitiske rekonfigurationer af den homoseksuelle
Gennem analyser af realityprogrammet Hva’ Bruden Ikke Ved og folketingsforhandlingerne om det kønsneutrale ægteskab undersøges rekonfigurationen af den homoseksuelle fra en figur, der associeres med døden til en figur, som indskrives i biopolitikken gennem familie, slægtskab og reproduktion. I forlængelse af David Engs genlæsning af John D’Emilio vises det, hvordan denne inkludering i biopolitikken lader sig gøre ved, at skrive det homoseksuelle …
To Belong to the Living – om queer slægtskab og reproduktiv futurisme
Following Lee Edelman’s polemic argument against reproductive futurism and Sara Ahmed’s thinking on queer attachments, this article discusses queer kinship, as it is represented in the American movie The Kids Are All Right (2010). The reading argues that a heteronormative temporal development of the children makes queer kinship recognizable inside a heteronormative kinship paradigm, while simultaneously one mother and the sperm donor fight about …
Medier, offentligheder, køn
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
(Un)liveabilities: Homonationalism and transnational adoption
Rosa Morena tells a story about kinship in which a white homosexual Danish man adopts a child born to a black poor Brazilian woman. Using a theoretical framework of biopolitics and affective labour the article highlights how the male homosexual figure is being cast as heteronormative and white in order to become intelligible as a parent and the bearer of liveable kinship. The casting rests on the affective and reproductive labour of the birth mot…
Moren er Død, Moren, Leve
Gay men are carrying a history as being suspected as potential pedophiles and non-suited parents, and while the reproductive technology of transnational gestational surrogacy makes it possible for gay men to become parents within heteronormative logics, the constructions of families without a mother are looked upon as problematic at best. Through field observations and interviews with gay men, who have been or who are involved in transnational su…
Ph.d.-omtaler
Mediated Intimacies: Connectivities, Relationalities and Proximities
Social media, characterized by user-generated content, interactivity, participation and community formation, have gained much research attention in recent years. At the same time, intimacy, affectivity and emotions are increasingly growing as fields of study. While these two areas are often interwoven, the actual interconnections are rarely studied in detail. This anthology explores how social media construct new types of intimacies, and how prac…
Dad and Daddy Assemblage
Transnational surrogacy and the reproductive practices it entails raise interesting questions about genetic relatedness, kinship formation, and the stratification of reproductive labor and rights. This article discusses two high-profile Norwegian cases involving the Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Øystein Mæland, who served as chief of the Norwegian police from 2011 to 2012. While surrogacy is illegal in Norway, the article demonstrates how newspa…
These are queer times indeed. En introduktion til homonationalisme i en dansk kontekst
Becoming Gay Fathers Through Transnational Commercial Surrogacy
Based on eight interviews with Danish gay male couples and one gay man, who had or were planning to become fathers through transnational commercial surrogacy, I examine the ways the men form family subjectivities between traditional kinship patterns and fundamentally new forms of kinship and family. Arguing that class, mobility, and privilege should also be understood as relational and negotiated positions, I show that gay men engaged in surrogac…
Medicalized Masculinities
While studies of masculinities often trace processes of either medicalization or mediatization, few interrogate masculinities at their very intersection. Doing so is the main contribution of this panel, which brings together cases that illustrate the effects these large-scale changes in digital and medical technologies have on masculinities today. Theoretically, the panel is based on the notion that society and everyday life are increasingly inte…
The best men can be”: New configurations of masculinity in the Gillette ad “We believe”
In January 2019, the company Gillette released a short movie “We believe” as advertisement for the brand. In the ad, Gillette reframes their slogan from “the best a man can get” to “the best a man can be.” Connecting the video to the #MeToo movement and critiquing ‘toxic masculinity’, Gillette portrays a new, more responsible, gentle, empathetic masculinity for “the men of tomorrow.” In this article, we present and discuss theories and strands of…
Medicalization and Masculinities
presents original interdisciplinary research concerning feminist theory, gender, power, and inequality, both globally and locally promotes theoretical and methodological debates within gender research
Psychic Life of Gender: Introducing a psycho-soma-technical approach to gender
PETERSEN are part of the FKK-funded project Medicine Man, which explores how everyday cultures and perceptions of middle age men's bodies unfold when masculinity is increasingly both mediatized and medicalized. Today large parts of intimate life, health and social relations have become mediatized: Bodies are monitored using mobile apps, communities are formed on social media, and intimate questions are increasingly the topic of TV-shows and inten…
Medicalised Masculinities – Somatechnical Interventions
How do men's medicalisation and bodily interventions evolve in historical and contemporary societies? How does medicalisation transform or reinstall hegemonic notions of masculinity? How are medicalised masculinities represented, practiced, narrated, mediatised, and aestheticised? And how do these medicalisations expand or challenge key concepts in somatechnical and posthumanist theories such as hybridisation, the cyborg, and becoming? These are …
The white tent of grief. Racialized conditions of public mourning in Denmark
In 2015, Danish-Palestinian Omar El-Hussein shot and killed two men in Copenhagen, before being killed himself by the police. Danish media immediately classified El-Hussein’s actions as ‘a terrorist attack’, and they became the object of extreme concern to the Danish public. In the following days, the two murder sites were momentarily turned into public memorial spaces. When the site of the killing of El-Hussein also became a site of mourning, ho…
The mediatization of self-tracking: Knowledge production and community building in YouTube videos
This article investigates a community of men who use the pharmaceuticals Minoxidil and Finasteride to enable and restore beard and hair growth, and who track and trace the effects on YouTube. It argues that the traditional positions of expert and patient are deterritorialized by the digitalization of health discourses and practices, and that the camera in these YouTube videos acts as a mediating/performative factor. The article seeks to answer th…
The racialisation of Aids in Denmark: Tabloid media scandals of sex, race and contagion
In 1992, a Danish tabloid newspaper published the picture, name and address of a Black man on its front page under the title ‘He is the AIDS killer’. The outing marked the beginning of a controversial public scandal in Denmark directly leading to the introduction of a new law criminalising HIV in 1994. Centring questions of race and nationality in connection with HIV/AIDS, we examine in what ways the discursive framing of this, and two other publ…
Medicine MAN. Reconfigurations of masculinity in times of increased medicalization
Masculinity as plasticity: Exploring Masculinity in Times of Mediatization and Biomedicalization
The article presents and engages with key conceptual developments within men and masculinity studies, while also highlighting queer and trans theoretical critiques of assumptions that position masculinity as inherently tied to cis male identity. The prevalent tendency to analyze cis and trans masculinities as separate and distinct identities is, as argued, unproductive. Conceiving masculinity through the lens of plasticity instead enables both a …
Mediating the Aids crisis. The affective and queer politics of cultural memory in film, television, and digital media
In this article, I examine how AIDS is remembered and mediated in popular culture by identifying three distinct waves of representation: contemporaneous portrayals in the 1980s and early 1990s, a first retrospective wave in the mid-2000s to early 2010s, and a second retrospective wave emerging from 2017 onwards. Drawing on theories of prosthetic memory, retroactivism, and reflective nostalgia, I propose this tripartite framework as a historiograp…
Sociology (17 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Masculinity (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Medicalization (5 works)