Eva Reimers
Biographic Data
| ID | 147631 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eva Reimers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eva |
| FAMILY NAME | Reimers |
| SIGNATURE | REIMERS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5296-6275 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Classroom Reading as a Battle of the Sensory. Bodily Dimensions of Unshared Reading in Primary Education
Primary classrooms are dynamic spaces where young students learn to read and develop as readers. While reading inherently fosters an individual interaction with a text, its manifestation in a classroom transforms reading into a collective activity. This study explores young students' simultaneous, collective participation during private, unshared reading in the classroom, aiming to illuminate bodily practices of reading and discuss their relation…
Sex education and religion - resistance and possibilities
Starting with the question of why there is so much religiously motivated resistance against compulsory sex education, this article explores and discusses entanglements of norms about sexuality, gender, and religion in education. Based on predominantly Swedish data, the aim of the paper is to offer perspectives on connections between religiosity and discourses about sexuality. The first part centres around religious resistance against compulsory s…
School knowledge and teacher authority - politicisation and depoliticisation of compulsory education instigated by a right-wing nationalist parental intervention
The article explores differing conceptions of, or a struggle concerning, the role of compulsory education, the understanding of knowledge, and the authority of teachers. It is based on a discourse theoretical analysis of emails, online media, and parliamentary data from Sweden, initiated by a parent who is active in the nationalist party, the Sweden Democrats. He criticised a teacher for being leftist by not representing the storming of the US Ca…
Constructions of a reading crisis - representation of PIRLS 2021 in public discourses
International large-scale assessment studies play a significant role in educational reforms. The aim of this article is to explore the constructions of the meaning and significance of reading literacy in relation to presentations of Swedish results in 2021 PIRLS. While the National Agency for Education focuses on the positive aspects of the results, the government presented them as indicative of a ‘reading crisis.’ Furthermore, whereas the Nation…
Everyday nationalism in Swedish preschools
This paper explores everyday nationalism in relation to work with traditions in Swedish preschools, as well as how preschool teachers reflect on these practices. One of the tasks of the Swedish preschools is to transmit and develop a cultural heritage. In Sweden, 95% of children aged 3-5 attend preschool. Approximately one fourth have a foreign background. Moreover, preschool children encounter very different cultural realities depending on where…
The boy in a dress
This article draws upon theories of gender, nation and haunting in order to examine what we term the spectre of the boy in a dress within two international contexts, Sweden and Australia. These two contexts have been chosen because, on the surface, they appear to be very different and yet as our analysis will reveal there are striking similarities around gender conformity discourse and nation, although they play out differently. We illustrate how…
Civil Servants Talk Back - Political Subjectivity and (Re) Constructions of the Nation
This article discusses the emergence of political subjectivity and politicization among social workers and teachers. We present situations that have induced teachers and social workers to become politically active and examine what their struggle might imply for these unaccompanied children. We also ask how the nation state is interpellated and transformed. Drawing on Laclau, Mouffe and Biesta, we find that political subjectivity emerges in situat…
Discourses of education and constitutions of class
Drawing on post-structural perspectives and analysis of television programs on education, the article investigates the public educational discourse in Sweden. It shows how a dominant neoliberal educational discourse is articulated together with a discourse of equal education, where the two discourses influence and subvert each other so that neither becomes totally hegemonic. Taking as its point of departure the neoliberal emphasis on the individu…
Primary mourners and next-of-kin - how grief practices reiterate and subvert heterosexual norms
This article discusses kinship practices in connection with death and mourning. It argues that kinship is an ambiguous and contingent concept, and that rituals done in connection with death and mourning have consequences for how people are acknowledged as bereaved. The discussion is based on data from a Swedish study of bereavement. Besides evincing the salience in death practices of a notion of kinship based on conjugal relations and blood ties,…
Representations of An Honor Killing
This study uses discourse analysis to examine representations found in Swedish newspapers of the murder of a Kurdish woman perpetrated by her father. It discloses representations of a media event that reiterate intersecting norms concerning ethnicity, gender and social class, which together delineate boundaries and significant core values for a hegemonic notion of the Swedish. Notions of ethnicity, class, and gender are articulated together, form…
A reasonable grief—discursive constructions of grief in a public conversation on raising the shipwrecked M/S Estonia
The paper uses a debate in Swedish newspapers about the fate of the corpses from the shipwrecked M/S Estonia as a case study, in order to demonstrate how different discourses on grief construct a normative way of mourning. The theoretical vantage point is a discursive perspective on grief where different discourses are regarded as resources and limitations for how to express and make sense of bereavement. It maintains that what are to be consider…
Döden och identiteten
The article describes a multicultural Swedish grave quarter and three immigrants funerals; one Catholic-Chilean, one Catholic-Polish and one Mormon-Polish. The analysis elucidates how funerals and graveyards signal different ethnic or cultural adherence and henceforth can be employed as communicative symbolic actions for the construction of ethnic and cultural identity. The theoretical perspectives draws on ritual studies (Driver, 1991; Durkheim,…
Death and identity
A multicultural Swedish grave quarter and three immigrant funerals are used as vantage points to elucidate how funerals and graveyards are employed as communicative symbolic actions for construction of ethnic and cultural identity. The theoretical perspective draws on ritual studies (Driver, 1991; Durkheim, 1915/1965; Myerhoff, 1984; van Gennep 1960), Goffman's (1967) notion of self-presentation, and studies of ethnicity (Barth 1971; 1994). The s…
Death and identity
A multicultural Swedish grave quarter and three immigrant funerals are used as vantage points to elucidate how funerals and graveyards are employed as communicative symbolic actions for construction of ethnic and cultural identity. The theoretical perspective draws on ritual studies (Driver, 1991; Durkheim, 1915/1965; Myerhoff, 1984; van Gennep 1960), Goffman's (1967) notion of self-presentation, and studies of ethnicity (Barth 1971; 1994). The s…
Representations of An Honor Killing
This study uses discourse analysis to examine representations found in Swedish newspapers of the murder of a Kurdish woman perpetrated by her father. It discloses representations of a media event that reiterate intersecting norms concerning ethnicity, gender and social class, which together delineate boundaries and significant core values for a hegemonic notion of the Swedish. Notions of ethnicity, class, and gender are articulated together, form…
Civil Servants Talk Back - Political Subjectivity and (Re) Constructions of the Nation
This article discusses the emergence of political subjectivity and politicization among social workers and teachers. We present situations that have induced teachers and social workers to become politically active and examine what their struggle might imply for these unaccompanied children. We also ask how the nation state is interpellated and transformed. Drawing on Laclau, Mouffe and Biesta, we find that political subjectivity emerges in situat…
Discourses of education and constitutions of class
Drawing on post-structural perspectives and analysis of television programs on education, the article investigates the public educational discourse in Sweden. It shows how a dominant neoliberal educational discourse is articulated together with a discourse of equal education, where the two discourses influence and subvert each other so that neither becomes totally hegemonic. Taking as its point of departure the neoliberal emphasis on the individu…
Everyday nationalism in Swedish preschools
This paper explores everyday nationalism in relation to work with traditions in Swedish preschools, as well as how preschool teachers reflect on these practices. One of the tasks of the Swedish preschools is to transmit and develop a cultural heritage. In Sweden, 95% of children aged 3-5 attend preschool. Approximately one fourth have a foreign background. Moreover, preschool children encounter very different cultural realities depending on where…
Primary mourners and next-of-kin - how grief practices reiterate and subvert heterosexual norms
This article discusses kinship practices in connection with death and mourning. It argues that kinship is an ambiguous and contingent concept, and that rituals done in connection with death and mourning have consequences for how people are acknowledged as bereaved. The discussion is based on data from a Swedish study of bereavement. Besides evincing the salience in death practices of a notion of kinship based on conjugal relations and blood ties,…
School knowledge and teacher authority - politicisation and depoliticisation of compulsory education instigated by a right-wing nationalist parental intervention
The article explores differing conceptions of, or a struggle concerning, the role of compulsory education, the understanding of knowledge, and the authority of teachers. It is based on a discourse theoretical analysis of emails, online media, and parliamentary data from Sweden, initiated by a parent who is active in the nationalist party, the Sweden Democrats. He criticised a teacher for being leftist by not representing the storming of the US Ca…
Constructions of a reading crisis - representation of PIRLS 2021 in public discourses
International large-scale assessment studies play a significant role in educational reforms. The aim of this article is to explore the constructions of the meaning and significance of reading literacy in relation to presentations of Swedish results in 2021 PIRLS. While the National Agency for Education focuses on the positive aspects of the results, the government presented them as indicative of a ‘reading crisis.’ Furthermore, whereas the Nation…
Döden och identiteten
The article describes a multicultural Swedish grave quarter and three immigrants funerals; one Catholic-Chilean, one Catholic-Polish and one Mormon-Polish. The analysis elucidates how funerals and graveyards signal different ethnic or cultural adherence and henceforth can be employed as communicative symbolic actions for the construction of ethnic and cultural identity. The theoretical perspectives draws on ritual studies (Driver, 1991; Durkheim,…
Death and identity
A multicultural Swedish grave quarter and three immigrant funerals are used as vantage points to elucidate how funerals and graveyards are employed as communicative symbolic actions for construction of ethnic and cultural identity. The theoretical perspective draws on ritual studies (Driver, 1991; Durkheim, 1915/1965; Myerhoff, 1984; van Gennep 1960), Goffman's (1967) notion of self-presentation, and studies of ethnicity (Barth 1971; 1994). The s…
A reasonable grief—discursive constructions of grief in a public conversation on raising the shipwrecked M/S Estonia
The paper uses a debate in Swedish newspapers about the fate of the corpses from the shipwrecked M/S Estonia as a case study, in order to demonstrate how different discourses on grief construct a normative way of mourning. The theoretical vantage point is a discursive perspective on grief where different discourses are regarded as resources and limitations for how to express and make sense of bereavement. It maintains that what are to be consider…
Representations of An Honor Killing
This study uses discourse analysis to examine representations found in Swedish newspapers of the murder of a Kurdish woman perpetrated by her father. It discloses representations of a media event that reiterate intersecting norms concerning ethnicity, gender and social class, which together delineate boundaries and significant core values for a hegemonic notion of the Swedish. Notions of ethnicity, class, and gender are articulated together, form…
Primary mourners and next-of-kin - how grief practices reiterate and subvert heterosexual norms
This article discusses kinship practices in connection with death and mourning. It argues that kinship is an ambiguous and contingent concept, and that rituals done in connection with death and mourning have consequences for how people are acknowledged as bereaved. The discussion is based on data from a Swedish study of bereavement. Besides evincing the salience in death practices of a notion of kinship based on conjugal relations and blood ties,…
Discourses of education and constitutions of class
Drawing on post-structural perspectives and analysis of television programs on education, the article investigates the public educational discourse in Sweden. It shows how a dominant neoliberal educational discourse is articulated together with a discourse of equal education, where the two discourses influence and subvert each other so that neither becomes totally hegemonic. Taking as its point of departure the neoliberal emphasis on the individu…
Civil Servants Talk Back - Political Subjectivity and (Re) Constructions of the Nation
This article discusses the emergence of political subjectivity and politicization among social workers and teachers. We present situations that have induced teachers and social workers to become politically active and examine what their struggle might imply for these unaccompanied children. We also ask how the nation state is interpellated and transformed. Drawing on Laclau, Mouffe and Biesta, we find that political subjectivity emerges in situat…
The boy in a dress
This article draws upon theories of gender, nation and haunting in order to examine what we term the spectre of the boy in a dress within two international contexts, Sweden and Australia. These two contexts have been chosen because, on the surface, they appear to be very different and yet as our analysis will reveal there are striking similarities around gender conformity discourse and nation, although they play out differently. We illustrate how…
Everyday nationalism in Swedish preschools
This paper explores everyday nationalism in relation to work with traditions in Swedish preschools, as well as how preschool teachers reflect on these practices. One of the tasks of the Swedish preschools is to transmit and develop a cultural heritage. In Sweden, 95% of children aged 3-5 attend preschool. Approximately one fourth have a foreign background. Moreover, preschool children encounter very different cultural realities depending on where…
Sex education and religion - resistance and possibilities
Starting with the question of why there is so much religiously motivated resistance against compulsory sex education, this article explores and discusses entanglements of norms about sexuality, gender, and religion in education. Based on predominantly Swedish data, the aim of the paper is to offer perspectives on connections between religiosity and discourses about sexuality. The first part centres around religious resistance against compulsory s…
School knowledge and teacher authority - politicisation and depoliticisation of compulsory education instigated by a right-wing nationalist parental intervention
The article explores differing conceptions of, or a struggle concerning, the role of compulsory education, the understanding of knowledge, and the authority of teachers. It is based on a discourse theoretical analysis of emails, online media, and parliamentary data from Sweden, initiated by a parent who is active in the nationalist party, the Sweden Democrats. He criticised a teacher for being leftist by not representing the storming of the US Ca…
Constructions of a reading crisis - representation of PIRLS 2021 in public discourses
International large-scale assessment studies play a significant role in educational reforms. The aim of this article is to explore the constructions of the meaning and significance of reading literacy in relation to presentations of Swedish results in 2021 PIRLS. While the National Agency for Education focuses on the positive aspects of the results, the government presented them as indicative of a ‘reading crisis.’ Furthermore, whereas the Nation…
Classroom Reading as a Battle of the Sensory. Bodily Dimensions of Unshared Reading in Primary Education
Primary classrooms are dynamic spaces where young students learn to read and develop as readers. While reading inherently fosters an individual interaction with a text, its manifestation in a classroom transforms reading into a collective activity. This study explores young students' simultaneous, collective participation during private, unshared reading in the classroom, aiming to illuminate bodily practices of reading and discuss their relation…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (4 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (3 works)