Rikke Andreassen
Biographic Data
| ID | 204887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rikke Andreassen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rikke |
| FAMILY NAME | Andreassen |
| SIGNATURE | ANDREASSEN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0692-6288 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Queer tattooing: Archives of spatial belonging, bodily autonomy, resistance and community
This article examines queer tattooing as both a historical and a contemporary practice of resistance, belonging and community formation. Bringing together three archives – oral history interviews and portraits of queer elders, historical medical records documenting tattooed queer women engaged in sex work at the turn of the twentieth century and a dialogue with queer tattoo artist Sara Swanson – we consider what queer tattooing reveals across gen…
“She never married”: Archival abundance and the realm of possibilities for queer women at the turn of the 20th century
This article challenges dominant narratives of queer absence in historical archives by examining women’s same-sex relationships in Denmark at the turn of the 20th century. While feminist and queer scholars have often emphasised archival silences surrounding non-heterosexual lives, we uncover not an archive of loss, but one of abundance. Drawing on Anjali Arondekar’s concept of “archival abundance,” we analyse demographic data and archival materia…
Matching Colours and “Genetic Countries of Origin”: On Race, Nation and Biopolitics in Scandinavian Queer Donor Conception
This article explores how the practice of “matching” sperm donors and recipients is interpreted and negotiated among fertility clinic staff and queer parents in Scandinavia. Drawing on qualitative research, we frame donor conception in Scandinavia as a technology of race that requires and relies on careful documentation of colours and origin whereby parents and donors are assigned national, racial and familial belonging. Furthermore, we show how …
A sapphic love story as a window into sex work and rebellion at the turn of the Twentieth Century
Through newly discovered archival sources, including love letters, police records, hospital files and censuses, this article tracks the love story of two young women, Flora and Agnes, a same-sex couple at the turn of the nineteenth century, working in the sex trade. Their story takes us through police arrest, forced hospitalisation and leisure spaces such as dance halls. Historically, Flora and Agnes represent the many sex workers, who engaged in…
Sprouting sideways: Queer Temporalities and Kinship in Donor Conception
Temporal constructs are central to reproduction and kinship, as epitomised by the pervasive concept of the biological clock within public imaginaries. While queer scholarship has problematised linear models of kinship and reproductive temporality, the specific temporalities associated with donor-conceived families have received less scholarly attention, despite the increasing prevalence of these family structures. In this article, we explore the …
The Routledge International Handbook of New Critical Race and Whiteness Studies
Since its foundation as an academic field in the 1990s, critical race theory has developed enormously and has, among others, been supplemented by and (dis)integrated with critical whiteness studies. At the same time, the field has moved beyond its origins in Anglo-Saxon environments, to be taken up and re-developed in various parts of the world – leading to not only new empirical material but also new theoretical perspectives and analytical appro…
Donors we choose: Race, nation and the biopolitics of (queer) assisted reproduction in Scandinavia
The Story of Miss C.’s Seduction of Young Women. A Methodological Quest into Female Same‐Sex Relations at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
This article explores a series of newspaper articles from 1908, describing Miss C. – a Copenhagen woman who, apparently, hosted carnal orgies in which she ‘converted’ young women into sapphism. While most historical sources only hint at female same‐sex relationships or describe women's romantic (platonic) feelings for one another, these articles are explicit in their descriptions of lust and carnal sex. For this reason, they add nuance to our his…
From the families we choose to the families we find online: Media Technology and Queer Family Making
Since the mid-2000s, a number of Western countries have witnessed an increase in the number of children born into 'alternative' or 'queer' families. Parallel with this queer baby boom, online media technologies have become intertwined with most people's intimate lives. While these two phenomena have appeared simultaneously, their integration has seldom been explored. In an attempt to fill this gap, the present article explores the ways in which c…
Surveillance practices among migration officers: Online media and LGBTQ+ refugees
Examining Denmark as a case study, and focusing on LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in particular, this article investigates migration authorities’ use of online surveillance to assess claims for asylum. Drawing on interviews with migration officers and asylum seekers, the article describes how asylum seekers’ social media and phone content comes to determine whether they are seen as having a ‘genuine’ or a ‘fraudulent’ LGBTQ+ identity. The article further …
Social media surveillance, LGBTQ refugees and asylum
In recent years, social media content has played an increasingly significant role in the legal processing of asylum claims in Europe. This article investigates the role of such content in Danish asylum cases by examining verdicts from the years 2015–2019. In particular, it examines cases relating to LGBTQ refugees (i.e., asylum seekers who claim asylum on the basis of sexual orientation and/or gender identity) and how their credibility — and thus…
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…
New kinships, new family formations and negotiations of intimacy via social media sites
The article investigates how the technology of social media sites facilitates new kinds of intimacy and kinship. It analyses what happens when ‘donor families’ – families with children conceived via sperm donation – connect with each other online. Inspired by Lauren Berlant’s understanding of intimacy as a promise of belonging, the article investigates how new kinship relations facilitate belonging and practices of intimacy. While Berlant uses ‘i…
Social Imaginaries, Sperm and Whiteness: Race and Reproduction in British Media
This article analyses narratives about so-called Viking babies and Viking sperm. Over the last few years an increasing number of British single women and lesbian couples have been creating families by becoming pregnant with Danish donor sperm, termed ‘Viking sperm’. Through analyses of British media coverage of these new families, this article explores contemporary constructions of race, especially whiteness, and gender, and shows how imaginaries…
Developing Theoretical Perspectives on Racialisation and Migration
Race, Gender, and Reseacher Positionality Analysed through Memory Work
Drawing upon feminist standpoint theory and memory work, the authors analyse racial privilege by investigating their own racialized and gendered subjectifications as academic researchers. By looking at their own experiences within academia, they show how authority and agency are contingent upon racialization, and how research within gender, migration, and critical race studies is often met by rejection and threats of physical violence. The articl…
Sing a Song, but Stay Out of Politics: Two Cases of Representations of Racial/Ethnic Minorities in the Danish Media
This chapter analyses racial/ethnic minorities' representation in two different Danish media cases. It explains how racial/ethnic minorities' representation in the Danish media often functions as a tool for national inclusion or exclusion. The chapter examines the news media representations of a Danish Muslim woman, Asmaa Abdol-Hamid, who ran for Parliament in 2007; the other is the television programme The X Factor, an entertainment programme wi…
Human Exhibitions: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Ethnic Displays
From 1870s to 1910s, more than 50 exhibitions of so-called exotic people took place in Denmark. Here large numbers of people of Asian and African origin were exhibited for the entertainment and ‘education’ of a mass audience. Several of these exhibitions took place in Copenhagen Zoo. Here different ‘villages’ constructed in the middle of the zoo hosted men, women and children, who sometimes stayed for months, performing their ‘daily lives’ for th…
The search for the white Nordic: Analysis of the contemporary New Nordic Kitchen and former race science
The article analyzes the so-called ‘New Nordic Kitchen’ and its award-winning Copenhagen-based restaurant, Noma. Despite the fact that the idea of the New Nordic Kitchen, where only ingredients found naturally in the Nordic territories can be used for cooking, has gained huge popularity among ordinary people and politicians alike, very limited critical research has been done on the phenomenon. This article investigates how the New Nordic Kitchen …
Debate
I can never be normal: A conversation about race, daily life practices, food and power
This article focuses on the doing and undoing of race in daily life practices in Denmark. It takes the form of a dialogue between two women, a heterosexual Muslim woman of colour and a lesbian white woman, who discuss and analyze how their daily life, e.g. interactions with their children’s schools and daycare institutions, shape their racial and gendered experiences. Drawing upon black feminist theory, postcolonial theory, critical race and whit…
Muslim Women and Interracial Intimacies
This article focuses on media debates about interracial and interethnic marriage practices. In 2012, Danish immigrants and descendants, especially Muslim women, were accused of harming the integration processes as they were not marrying ethnically Danish men. Through analysis of newspaper articles and Internet debates the article shows how Muslim women became excluded from the national community in these debates. Drawing upon previous debates abo…
Representations of Sexuality and Race at Danish Exhibitions of “Exotic” People at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Denmark hosted a number of exhibitions of “exotic” people between the 1880s and the 1910s, in which people of colour were exhibited as mass entertainment in amusement parks and zoological gardens. This article illustrates how the categories of race, gender, and sexuality were co-constructed in the representations of these exhibitions; it reveals how not only the women but also the men on display were sexualized and constructed as erotic figures. …
Dette nummers samlede anmeldelser
I dette nummer er følgnde bøger blevet anmeldt: Vanita Sundaram: Violence victimisation as a gender-specific process. Ph.d.-afhandling fra National Institute of Public Health, 2007. Dorthe Marie Søndergaard (red.): Feministiske tænkere. En tekstsamling. Hans Reitzel, 2007. Charlotte Holgersen, Pia Höök, Sophie Linghag og Anna Wahl: Det ordner sig – teorier om organisation og køn. Samfundslitteratur, 2004
Indledning
Developing Theoretical Perspectives on Racialisation and Migration
The search for the white Nordic: Analysis of the contemporary New Nordic Kitchen and former race science
The article analyzes the so-called ‘New Nordic Kitchen’ and its award-winning Copenhagen-based restaurant, Noma. Despite the fact that the idea of the New Nordic Kitchen, where only ingredients found naturally in the Nordic territories can be used for cooking, has gained huge popularity among ordinary people and politicians alike, very limited critical research has been done on the phenomenon. This article investigates how the New Nordic Kitchen …
New kinships, new family formations and negotiations of intimacy via social media sites
The article investigates how the technology of social media sites facilitates new kinds of intimacy and kinship. It analyses what happens when ‘donor families’ – families with children conceived via sperm donation – connect with each other online. Inspired by Lauren Berlant’s understanding of intimacy as a promise of belonging, the article investigates how new kinship relations facilitate belonging and practices of intimacy. While Berlant uses ‘i…
Surveillance practices among migration officers: Online media and LGBTQ+ refugees
Examining Denmark as a case study, and focusing on LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in particular, this article investigates migration authorities’ use of online surveillance to assess claims for asylum. Drawing on interviews with migration officers and asylum seekers, the article describes how asylum seekers’ social media and phone content comes to determine whether they are seen as having a ‘genuine’ or a ‘fraudulent’ LGBTQ+ identity. The article further …
Social Imaginaries, Sperm and Whiteness: Race and Reproduction in British Media
This article analyses narratives about so-called Viking babies and Viking sperm. Over the last few years an increasing number of British single women and lesbian couples have been creating families by becoming pregnant with Danish donor sperm, termed ‘Viking sperm’. Through analyses of British media coverage of these new families, this article explores contemporary constructions of race, especially whiteness, and gender, and shows how imaginaries…
Race, Gender, and Reseacher Positionality Analysed through Memory Work
Drawing upon feminist standpoint theory and memory work, the authors analyse racial privilege by investigating their own racialized and gendered subjectifications as academic researchers. By looking at their own experiences within academia, they show how authority and agency are contingent upon racialization, and how research within gender, migration, and critical race studies is often met by rejection and threats of physical violence. The articl…
I can never be normal: A conversation about race, daily life practices, food and power
This article focuses on the doing and undoing of race in daily life practices in Denmark. It takes the form of a dialogue between two women, a heterosexual Muslim woman of colour and a lesbian white woman, who discuss and analyze how their daily life, e.g. interactions with their children’s schools and daycare institutions, shape their racial and gendered experiences. Drawing upon black feminist theory, postcolonial theory, critical race and whit…
From the families we choose to the families we find online: Media Technology and Queer Family Making
Since the mid-2000s, a number of Western countries have witnessed an increase in the number of children born into 'alternative' or 'queer' families. Parallel with this queer baby boom, online media technologies have become intertwined with most people's intimate lives. While these two phenomena have appeared simultaneously, their integration has seldom been explored. In an attempt to fill this gap, the present article explores the ways in which c…
Debate
The `Exotic' as Mass Entertainment: Denmark 1878-1909
Les deux dernieres decennies du 19 eme siecle et la premiere decennie du 20 eme ont constitue un sommet pour les expositions de peuples exotiques au Danemark, comme dans la plupart des autres pays d'Europe occidentale. Avec au moins trente-trois expositions, le spectacle des peuples exotiques, lointains, primitifs, orientaux est devenu non seulement un divertissement de masse, mais fut egalement instrumentalise par la science, et notamment l'ethn…
The Story of Miss C.’s Seduction of Young Women. A Methodological Quest into Female Same‐Sex Relations at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
This article explores a series of newspaper articles from 1908, describing Miss C. – a Copenhagen woman who, apparently, hosted carnal orgies in which she ‘converted’ young women into sapphism. While most historical sources only hint at female same‐sex relationships or describe women's romantic (platonic) feelings for one another, these articles are explicit in their descriptions of lust and carnal sex. For this reason, they add nuance to our his…
Muslim Women and Interracial Intimacies
This article focuses on media debates about interracial and interethnic marriage practices. In 2012, Danish immigrants and descendants, especially Muslim women, were accused of harming the integration processes as they were not marrying ethnically Danish men. Through analysis of newspaper articles and Internet debates the article shows how Muslim women became excluded from the national community in these debates. Drawing upon previous debates abo…
Representations of Sexuality and Race at Danish Exhibitions of “Exotic” People at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Denmark hosted a number of exhibitions of “exotic” people between the 1880s and the 1910s, in which people of colour were exhibited as mass entertainment in amusement parks and zoological gardens. This article illustrates how the categories of race, gender, and sexuality were co-constructed in the representations of these exhibitions; it reveals how not only the women but also the men on display were sexualized and constructed as erotic figures. …
Intersektionalitet i voldtægtsnarrativer
The article shows how the Danish news media’s portrayals of meetings between visible minority males and ethnically Danish females have participated in constructing certain images of gender, sexuality and race/ ethnicity. It illustrates how understandings of these categories are interwoven with understandings of nationality and Danishness. The article shows how ethnically Danish females have been constructed as symbolic reproducers of the nation, …
The `Exotic' as Mass Entertainment: Denmark 1878-1909
Les deux dernieres decennies du 19 eme siecle et la premiere decennie du 20 eme ont constitue un sommet pour les expositions de peuples exotiques au Danemark, comme dans la plupart des autres pays d'Europe occidentale. Avec au moins trente-trois expositions, le spectacle des peuples exotiques, lointains, primitifs, orientaux est devenu non seulement un divertissement de masse, mais fut egalement instrumentalise par la science, et notamment l'ethn…
Intersektionalitet i voldtægtsnarrativer
The article shows how the Danish news media’s portrayals of meetings between visible minority males and ethnically Danish females have participated in constructing certain images of gender, sexuality and race/ ethnicity. It illustrates how understandings of these categories are interwoven with understandings of nationality and Danishness. The article shows how ethnically Danish females have been constructed as symbolic reproducers of the nation, …
Indledning
Dette nummers samlede anmeldelser
I dette nummer er følgnde bøger blevet anmeldt: Vanita Sundaram: Violence victimisation as a gender-specific process. Ph.d.-afhandling fra National Institute of Public Health, 2007. Dorthe Marie Søndergaard (red.): Feministiske tænkere. En tekstsamling. Hans Reitzel, 2007. Charlotte Holgersen, Pia Höök, Sophie Linghag og Anna Wahl: Det ordner sig – teorier om organisation og køn. Samfundslitteratur, 2004
Representations of Sexuality and Race at Danish Exhibitions of “Exotic” People at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Denmark hosted a number of exhibitions of “exotic” people between the 1880s and the 1910s, in which people of colour were exhibited as mass entertainment in amusement parks and zoological gardens. This article illustrates how the categories of race, gender, and sexuality were co-constructed in the representations of these exhibitions; it reveals how not only the women but also the men on display were sexualized and constructed as erotic figures. …
I can never be normal: A conversation about race, daily life practices, food and power
This article focuses on the doing and undoing of race in daily life practices in Denmark. It takes the form of a dialogue between two women, a heterosexual Muslim woman of colour and a lesbian white woman, who discuss and analyze how their daily life, e.g. interactions with their children’s schools and daycare institutions, shape their racial and gendered experiences. Drawing upon black feminist theory, postcolonial theory, critical race and whit…
Muslim Women and Interracial Intimacies
This article focuses on media debates about interracial and interethnic marriage practices. In 2012, Danish immigrants and descendants, especially Muslim women, were accused of harming the integration processes as they were not marrying ethnically Danish men. Through analysis of newspaper articles and Internet debates the article shows how Muslim women became excluded from the national community in these debates. Drawing upon previous debates abo…
The search for the white Nordic: Analysis of the contemporary New Nordic Kitchen and former race science
The article analyzes the so-called ‘New Nordic Kitchen’ and its award-winning Copenhagen-based restaurant, Noma. Despite the fact that the idea of the New Nordic Kitchen, where only ingredients found naturally in the Nordic territories can be used for cooking, has gained huge popularity among ordinary people and politicians alike, very limited critical research has been done on the phenomenon. This article investigates how the New Nordic Kitchen …
Debate
Sing a Song, but Stay Out of Politics: Two Cases of Representations of Racial/Ethnic Minorities in the Danish Media
This chapter analyses racial/ethnic minorities' representation in two different Danish media cases. It explains how racial/ethnic minorities' representation in the Danish media often functions as a tool for national inclusion or exclusion. The chapter examines the news media representations of a Danish Muslim woman, Asmaa Abdol-Hamid, who ran for Parliament in 2007; the other is the television programme The X Factor, an entertainment programme wi…
Human Exhibitions: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Ethnic Displays
From 1870s to 1910s, more than 50 exhibitions of so-called exotic people took place in Denmark. Here large numbers of people of Asian and African origin were exhibited for the entertainment and ‘education’ of a mass audience. Several of these exhibitions took place in Copenhagen Zoo. Here different ‘villages’ constructed in the middle of the zoo hosted men, women and children, who sometimes stayed for months, performing their ‘daily lives’ for th…
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…
New kinships, new family formations and negotiations of intimacy via social media sites
The article investigates how the technology of social media sites facilitates new kinds of intimacy and kinship. It analyses what happens when ‘donor families’ – families with children conceived via sperm donation – connect with each other online. Inspired by Lauren Berlant’s understanding of intimacy as a promise of belonging, the article investigates how new kinship relations facilitate belonging and practices of intimacy. While Berlant uses ‘i…
Social Imaginaries, Sperm and Whiteness: Race and Reproduction in British Media
This article analyses narratives about so-called Viking babies and Viking sperm. Over the last few years an increasing number of British single women and lesbian couples have been creating families by becoming pregnant with Danish donor sperm, termed ‘Viking sperm’. Through analyses of British media coverage of these new families, this article explores contemporary constructions of race, especially whiteness, and gender, and shows how imaginaries…
Developing Theoretical Perspectives on Racialisation and Migration
Race, Gender, and Reseacher Positionality Analysed through Memory Work
Drawing upon feminist standpoint theory and memory work, the authors analyse racial privilege by investigating their own racialized and gendered subjectifications as academic researchers. By looking at their own experiences within academia, they show how authority and agency are contingent upon racialization, and how research within gender, migration, and critical race studies is often met by rejection and threats of physical violence. The articl…
Social media surveillance, LGBTQ refugees and asylum
In recent years, social media content has played an increasingly significant role in the legal processing of asylum claims in Europe. This article investigates the role of such content in Danish asylum cases by examining verdicts from the years 2015–2019. In particular, it examines cases relating to LGBTQ refugees (i.e., asylum seekers who claim asylum on the basis of sexual orientation and/or gender identity) and how their credibility — and thus…
Surveillance practices among migration officers: Online media and LGBTQ+ refugees
Examining Denmark as a case study, and focusing on LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in particular, this article investigates migration authorities’ use of online surveillance to assess claims for asylum. Drawing on interviews with migration officers and asylum seekers, the article describes how asylum seekers’ social media and phone content comes to determine whether they are seen as having a ‘genuine’ or a ‘fraudulent’ LGBTQ+ identity. The article further …
The Routledge International Handbook of New Critical Race and Whiteness Studies
Since its foundation as an academic field in the 1990s, critical race theory has developed enormously and has, among others, been supplemented by and (dis)integrated with critical whiteness studies. At the same time, the field has moved beyond its origins in Anglo-Saxon environments, to be taken up and re-developed in various parts of the world – leading to not only new empirical material but also new theoretical perspectives and analytical appro…
Donors we choose: Race, nation and the biopolitics of (queer) assisted reproduction in Scandinavia
The Story of Miss C.’s Seduction of Young Women. A Methodological Quest into Female Same‐Sex Relations at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
This article explores a series of newspaper articles from 1908, describing Miss C. – a Copenhagen woman who, apparently, hosted carnal orgies in which she ‘converted’ young women into sapphism. While most historical sources only hint at female same‐sex relationships or describe women's romantic (platonic) feelings for one another, these articles are explicit in their descriptions of lust and carnal sex. For this reason, they add nuance to our his…
From the families we choose to the families we find online: Media Technology and Queer Family Making
Since the mid-2000s, a number of Western countries have witnessed an increase in the number of children born into 'alternative' or 'queer' families. Parallel with this queer baby boom, online media technologies have become intertwined with most people's intimate lives. While these two phenomena have appeared simultaneously, their integration has seldom been explored. In an attempt to fill this gap, the present article explores the ways in which c…
Sprouting sideways: Queer Temporalities and Kinship in Donor Conception
Temporal constructs are central to reproduction and kinship, as epitomised by the pervasive concept of the biological clock within public imaginaries. While queer scholarship has problematised linear models of kinship and reproductive temporality, the specific temporalities associated with donor-conceived families have received less scholarly attention, despite the increasing prevalence of these family structures. In this article, we explore the …
Queer tattooing: Archives of spatial belonging, bodily autonomy, resistance and community
This article examines queer tattooing as both a historical and a contemporary practice of resistance, belonging and community formation. Bringing together three archives – oral history interviews and portraits of queer elders, historical medical records documenting tattooed queer women engaged in sex work at the turn of the twentieth century and a dialogue with queer tattoo artist Sara Swanson – we consider what queer tattooing reveals across gen…
“She never married”: Archival abundance and the realm of possibilities for queer women at the turn of the 20th century
This article challenges dominant narratives of queer absence in historical archives by examining women’s same-sex relationships in Denmark at the turn of the 20th century. While feminist and queer scholars have often emphasised archival silences surrounding non-heterosexual lives, we uncover not an archive of loss, but one of abundance. Drawing on Anjali Arondekar’s concept of “archival abundance,” we analyse demographic data and archival materia…
Sociology (19 works) · Gender Studies (16 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (7 works) · Queer (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (5 works)