Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir
Biographic Data
| ID | 221143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hanna Björg |
| FAMILY NAME | Sigurjónsdóttir |
| SIGNATURE | SIGURJÓNSDÓTTIR H B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iceland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4498-6214 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Medieval Disability Studies
This is a foreword to a special edition of the journal, "Medieval Disability Studies: Challenges and Commonalities." The special edition editors are Aðalheiður Eyvör Pálsdóttir ([email protected]) and Joab Tirosh Huici Móðason ([email protected])
Safeguarding Families and Rights of Parents with Intellectual Disability Involved in Child Protection
The focus of this contribution is on how rights protection officers (RPOs) experience supporting parents with intellectual disabilities involved in child protection investigations. We situate the role of the RPOs within disability human rights framework as well as the institutional justice capital perspective to comprehend how RPOs function as a resource for parents and professionals. We identified four overlapping themes: Altering power relation…
Understanding Disability Throughout History
Understanding Disability Throughout History explores seldom-heard voices from the past by studying the hidden lives of disabled people before the concept of disability existed culturally, socially and administratively. The book focuses on Iceland from the Age of Settlement, traditionally considered to have taken place from 874 to 930, until the 1936 Law on Social Security (Lög um almannatryggingar), which is the first time that disabled people we…
Child Protection, Disability and Obstetric Violence
This contribution is a collective re-analysis of three research projects in Iceland focused on parenting with a disability which draws upon data spanning a twenty-year period. The core purpose of these projects is to understand why parents with primarily intellectual disabilities encounter such difficulties with the child protection system. Our aim with this contribution is to identify, through a longitudinal and comparative framework, why these …
The weight of history
This contribution focuses on four periods in Iceland, from the early twentieth century until the time of writing, in order to document and analyse the struggles of people with intellectual disabilities to marry, have a family and maintain custody of their children. Each period is linked to specific pieces of legislation that governed the bodies and lives of disabled people and reflected larger social norms concerning issues of family life and par…
Disability before Disability
Research Article| December 01 2020 Disability before Disability: Mapping the Uncharted in the Medieval Sagas Ármann Jakobsson; Ármann Jakobsson University of Iceland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Anna Katharina Heiniger; Anna Katharina Heiniger University of Iceland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Christopher Crocker; Christopher Crocker University of Iceland Search for other works by this a…
Disability before Disability
To the medievalist, the field of disability studies offers unique challenges. In short, disability studies is a critical, interdisciplinary field designed to investigate the interaction between bodies and minds perceived as disabled and various aspects of culture and society. Disability studies
Balancing the scales
In Iceland, disability receives disproportionate attention in custody deprivation investigations, while the long-term outcomes for children in fostering receive scant attention. Building on discourse analyses of custody deprivation cases, we call for greater understanding of how disability intersects with parenting and the need for an improved support system
Serving neglect
This contribution analyses the problematics underlying how food related matters act as evidence of parental neglect in child protection work in Iceland. Our intention is to cast a critical light upon child protection workers’ judgments about the foodways practices of parents under investigation and what this says about the child protection system. Neglect on the basis of malnutrition is a very real and legitimate concern for child protection. How…
Notifying Neglect
The goal of this contribution is to bring to light some systemic applications of organizational power that occur within the child protection system in Iceland. The specific focus is on the ways in which notifications are made to the child protection system concerning allegations of parental neglect on the part of parents with disabilities and a criticism of some specific mechanisms by which these notifications may contribute to unjust custody dep…
Evidence’ of Neglect as a Form of Structural Violence
This contribution draws upon the findings from a multi-year project in Iceland entitled Family Life and Disability . One goal of the project was to analyse whether or not parents with intellectual disabilities (ID) experienced differential treatment in custody deprivation proceedings. The dataset consisted of the analysis of publicly available court documents concerning custody deprivation cases from 2012 to 2017. The project later expanded its d…
Disability Studies in Iceland
Disability Studies is a new interdisciplinary academic field that has developed over the past two decades. The aim of this paper is to introduce Disability Studies in Iceland including its roots, context, development, main characteristics and future prospects. Icelandic Disability Studies has developed in Nordic and international contexts and shares theoretical origins and location in the academic landscape. Early beginnings of Disability Studies…
Analysing care-related decisions in parents of congenitally deaf children
Research into issues of deafness is characterised by the dominance of the medical model of disability. Although social and cultural-linguistic models have received increasing attention from scholars, they have been used mainly in theoretical debate. Empirical application has been limited. Based on our comprehensive research project into the care-related decisions of parents of congenitally deaf children in Flanders, Belgium, an explanatory model …
Congenitally Deaf Children's Care Trajectories in the Context of Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening
The objective of this study is to examine the early care trajectories of congenitally deaf children from a parental perspective, starting with universal neonatal hearing screenings. The analysis using a three-dimensional care trajectory concept is aimed at developing a basic typology of postscreening care trajectories. Children with severe/profound hearing loss, registered in the Flanders' (Belgium) universal neonatal hearing screening program, b…
The weight of history
This contribution focuses on four periods in Iceland, from the early twentieth century until the time of writing, in order to document and analyse the struggles of people with intellectual disabilities to marry, have a family and maintain custody of their children. Each period is linked to specific pieces of legislation that governed the bodies and lives of disabled people and reflected larger social norms concerning issues of family life and par…
Disability before Disability
Research Article| December 01 2020 Disability before Disability: Mapping the Uncharted in the Medieval Sagas Ármann Jakobsson; Ármann Jakobsson University of Iceland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Anna Katharina Heiniger; Anna Katharina Heiniger University of Iceland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Christopher Crocker; Christopher Crocker University of Iceland Search for other works by this a…
Disability before Disability
To the medievalist, the field of disability studies offers unique challenges. In short, disability studies is a critical, interdisciplinary field designed to investigate the interaction between bodies and minds perceived as disabled and various aspects of culture and society. Disability studies
Balancing the scales
In Iceland, disability receives disproportionate attention in custody deprivation investigations, while the long-term outcomes for children in fostering receive scant attention. Building on discourse analyses of custody deprivation cases, we call for greater understanding of how disability intersects with parenting and the need for an improved support system
Disability Studies in Iceland
Disability Studies is a new interdisciplinary academic field that has developed over the past two decades. The aim of this paper is to introduce Disability Studies in Iceland including its roots, context, development, main characteristics and future prospects. Icelandic Disability Studies has developed in Nordic and international contexts and shares theoretical origins and location in the academic landscape. Early beginnings of Disability Studies…
Evidence’ of Neglect as a Form of Structural Violence
This contribution draws upon the findings from a multi-year project in Iceland entitled Family Life and Disability . One goal of the project was to analyse whether or not parents with intellectual disabilities (ID) experienced differential treatment in custody deprivation proceedings. The dataset consisted of the analysis of publicly available court documents concerning custody deprivation cases from 2012 to 2017. The project later expanded its d…
Congenitally Deaf Children's Care Trajectories in the Context of Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening
The objective of this study is to examine the early care trajectories of congenitally deaf children from a parental perspective, starting with universal neonatal hearing screenings. The analysis using a three-dimensional care trajectory concept is aimed at developing a basic typology of postscreening care trajectories. Children with severe/profound hearing loss, registered in the Flanders' (Belgium) universal neonatal hearing screening program, b…
Analysing care-related decisions in parents of congenitally deaf children
Research into issues of deafness is characterised by the dominance of the medical model of disability. Although social and cultural-linguistic models have received increasing attention from scholars, they have been used mainly in theoretical debate. Empirical application has been limited. Based on our comprehensive research project into the care-related decisions of parents of congenitally deaf children in Flanders, Belgium, an explanatory model …
Disability Studies in Iceland
Disability Studies is a new interdisciplinary academic field that has developed over the past two decades. The aim of this paper is to introduce Disability Studies in Iceland including its roots, context, development, main characteristics and future prospects. Icelandic Disability Studies has developed in Nordic and international contexts and shares theoretical origins and location in the academic landscape. Early beginnings of Disability Studies…
Notifying Neglect
The goal of this contribution is to bring to light some systemic applications of organizational power that occur within the child protection system in Iceland. The specific focus is on the ways in which notifications are made to the child protection system concerning allegations of parental neglect on the part of parents with disabilities and a criticism of some specific mechanisms by which these notifications may contribute to unjust custody dep…
Evidence’ of Neglect as a Form of Structural Violence
This contribution draws upon the findings from a multi-year project in Iceland entitled Family Life and Disability . One goal of the project was to analyse whether or not parents with intellectual disabilities (ID) experienced differential treatment in custody deprivation proceedings. The dataset consisted of the analysis of publicly available court documents concerning custody deprivation cases from 2012 to 2017. The project later expanded its d…
Balancing the scales
In Iceland, disability receives disproportionate attention in custody deprivation investigations, while the long-term outcomes for children in fostering receive scant attention. Building on discourse analyses of custody deprivation cases, we call for greater understanding of how disability intersects with parenting and the need for an improved support system
Serving neglect
This contribution analyses the problematics underlying how food related matters act as evidence of parental neglect in child protection work in Iceland. Our intention is to cast a critical light upon child protection workers’ judgments about the foodways practices of parents under investigation and what this says about the child protection system. Neglect on the basis of malnutrition is a very real and legitimate concern for child protection. How…
Child Protection, Disability and Obstetric Violence
This contribution is a collective re-analysis of three research projects in Iceland focused on parenting with a disability which draws upon data spanning a twenty-year period. The core purpose of these projects is to understand why parents with primarily intellectual disabilities encounter such difficulties with the child protection system. Our aim with this contribution is to identify, through a longitudinal and comparative framework, why these …
The weight of history
This contribution focuses on four periods in Iceland, from the early twentieth century until the time of writing, in order to document and analyse the struggles of people with intellectual disabilities to marry, have a family and maintain custody of their children. Each period is linked to specific pieces of legislation that governed the bodies and lives of disabled people and reflected larger social norms concerning issues of family life and par…
Disability before Disability
Research Article| December 01 2020 Disability before Disability: Mapping the Uncharted in the Medieval Sagas Ármann Jakobsson; Ármann Jakobsson University of Iceland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Anna Katharina Heiniger; Anna Katharina Heiniger University of Iceland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Christopher Crocker; Christopher Crocker University of Iceland Search for other works by this a…
Disability before Disability
To the medievalist, the field of disability studies offers unique challenges. In short, disability studies is a critical, interdisciplinary field designed to investigate the interaction between bodies and minds perceived as disabled and various aspects of culture and society. Disability studies
Understanding Disability Throughout History
Understanding Disability Throughout History explores seldom-heard voices from the past by studying the hidden lives of disabled people before the concept of disability existed culturally, socially and administratively. The book focuses on Iceland from the Age of Settlement, traditionally considered to have taken place from 874 to 930, until the 1936 Law on Social Security (Lög um almannatryggingar), which is the first time that disabled people we…
Safeguarding Families and Rights of Parents with Intellectual Disability Involved in Child Protection
The focus of this contribution is on how rights protection officers (RPOs) experience supporting parents with intellectual disabilities involved in child protection investigations. We situate the role of the RPOs within disability human rights framework as well as the institutional justice capital perspective to comprehend how RPOs function as a resource for parents and professionals. We identified four overlapping themes: Altering power relation…
Medieval Disability Studies
This is a foreword to a special edition of the journal, "Medieval Disability Studies: Challenges and Commonalities." The special edition editors are Aðalheiður Eyvör Pálsdóttir ([email protected]) and Joab Tirosh Huici Móðason ([email protected])
Psychology (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (4 works) · Child protection (4 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (4 works) · Criminology (4 works)