T Johansson
Biographic Data
| ID | 22603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Johansson |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Johansson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHANSSON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2047-4943 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 195 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
When the Heart Breaks the Rhythm: Masculinity and Emotional Stoicism in Men’s Experiences of Myocardial Infarction
This article builds on interview data with 24 Swedish men who had experienced myocardial infarction. The aim of the study was to explore how their illness prompted existential reflection and how such reflections intersect with constructions of masculinity and social positions, such as age and class. The findings show that while existential anxiety is frequently acknowledged, it is also managed through practices such as humour, biomedical reasonin…
Pedagogy of avoidance: Teachers’ and students’ approaches to the Israel–Palestine conflict and manifestations of antisemitism in Swedish Schools
Recent reports from a number of Swedish municipalities show increased levels of antisemitism since the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023. This underlines the challenges faced by schools in addressing antisemitism. Despite increasing reports of antisemitism in Swedish schools, little is known about how educators and students navigate these issues within multireligious school environments. This case study focuses on an urban secondary school…
(Re)constructing Intersectional Masculinities Following Myocardial Infarction
This study builds on interview data with 24 Swedish men who have been diagnosed with and treated for myocardial infarction (MI). The aim is to explore how masculine subjectivities are constituted and dynamically negotiated through men's meaning‐making of their illness experiences, with particular attention to how notions of masculinity intersect with and are shaped by social categories such as class and age. Across the data, various configuration…
Theorising masculinity, ageing, and the lived body: The Case of Prostate Cancer
This article conceptualises how masculinity and masculine ideals are played out in relation to prostate cancer treatment and its side-effects, offering a heuristic and theoretical perspective with which to make sense of the complex interrelationship between lived gendered bodies and social structures. With the support of three case studies of older men treated for prostate cancer, the article explores how the concept of hegemonic masculinity can …
Life gained – identity lost – Untold stories from the second- and third generation Holocaust survivors
In defence of multiculturalism – theoretical challenges
Although it seems that multiculturalism has been dismissed as a failed experiment or sham in the public debate, there has been an ongoing internal academic discussion of theoretical approaches to multiculturalism. This theoretical dialogue is, of course, parallel to and affected by developments in society. This article dissects and analyses some key and ‘classical’ nodes in the theoretical exploration of multiculturalism and brings forward key di…
Men’s Achilles’ heel: Prostate cancer and the reconstruction of masculinity
The aim of this study was to investigate how Swedish men diagnosed with prostate cancer understand the effects of their treatment in relation to sexual health and masculinity. Utilising a phenomenological and sociologically informed approach, the study involved interviews with 21 Swedish men who experienced problems following treatment. The results showed that participants' initial response post-treatment, involved the development of new bodily u…
In the Absence of Testosterone: Hormonal Treatment, Masculinity, and Health among Prostate Cancer Patients Engaging in an Exercise Programme
This study focuses on men undergoing androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) treatment for prostate cancer who also participated in an exercise programme as part of their rehabilitation. Our aim was twofold. First, we aimed to describe and analyse how the participants talk about their treatment and its side-effects in relation to the body and masculinity. Second, we aimed to describe the participants’ understanding of and motivation to participate in …
Theorising fatherhood: Challenges and suggestions
During the 1990s, the sociology of the family was vitalised by new and groundbreaking theories of modernity, identity, and the family. At this time the family was put forward as an example of how modern institutions and identities were transforming and changing. Concepts such as individualisation, choice biographies, and reflexivity brought new perspectives to family research. Parallel to this Raewyn Connell’s book Masculinities raised important …
The past and the present: Following in the footsteps of a neo-Nazi movement in a rural Sweden school
This case study aimed to describe and analyse how students and staff at a school in a geographical area with a tradition of high neo-Nazi activism perceived and talked about racism and sexism in particular, and the ‘school climate’ in general. The case consists of 10 school professionals and 14 students. The selected school was located in a traditional mill town, once built around a dominating industry, but over the last decades it has been chara…
Prostate Cancer and the Emotionology of Masculinity: Joking, Intellectualization, and the Reconstruction of Gender
This article builds on data gathered through focus group interviews with Swedish men treated for prostate cancer. First, we aim to analyse how the participants talk about and handle sensitive issues and common side effects. Second, we investigate how the participants’ feelings about their disease affect or interfere with their understanding of masculinity. The findings illustrate how participants partly break with historical expectations of men a…
When I think about Shortfield, I think about mosquitos, and neo-Nazis”: Students’ narratives of racism, sexism, and intolerance in rural Swedish schools
The aim of this study was to analyse how young people living in geographical areas with a tradition of high neo-Nazi activism talk about racism and sexism, in particular, and the “school climate”, in general. Two schools situated in traditional rural mill towns were selected, and students (of ages 14–16) were interviewed. Influenced by Essed's theory on everyday racism, the study addresses how micro and macro dimensions of racism intersect throug…
Neo-Nazi Violence and Ideology: Changing Attitudes toward Violence in Sweden's Skinhead and Post-Skinhead Eras
This study examines how ideology is narrated in the life stories of former and active Swedish neo-Nazis. Employing a social psychological and generational perspective toward the meaning-making process of the neo-Nazi ideology, this study investigates the role ideology plays in both former and active adherents’ narratives of engagement in the neo-Nazi movement. This study also analyzes the differences in how former and active neo-Nazis talk about …
Perceptions of gender equality and engaged fatherhood among young fathers: Parenthood and the welfare state in Sweden and the UK
This article presents analyses from an international empirical study of young fatherhood in Sweden and the UK to interrogate how welfare contexts and family policies shape young fathers’ views of parenthood. Our analyses demonstrate that despite differences in constructions of young fatherhood, whereby young parenthood is problematised in UK family policy, more so than in Sweden, young fathers in both countries express an encouraging commitment t…
The Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Lockdown Policies on Young Fathers: Comparative Insights from the UK and Sweden
This article explores the impacts of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown policies on young fathers and their families. We present analyses from a larger programme of qualitative longitudinal research examining young fatherhood in the UK and Sweden to develop a unique international comparative and empirical contribution. The views and experiences of young fathers are examined in the context of two ostensibly different policy appro…
The neo-Nazi doxa, the deep state, and Covid-19: Neo-Nazis' ambivalent relations to Big Pharma and the anti-vaccine movement
This article explores the role of conspiracy theories in the neo-Nazi movement. The focal points of the study are the core conspiracy theories within the movement and the interface with other conspiracy theories of less ideological importance such as ‘Big Pharma.’ The study is based on interviews with six active neo-Nazis in the context of the Swedish-dominated Nordic resistance movement. The informants were all senior in the movement with long e…
Violence, Victimisation and Young People: Education and Safe Learning Environments
Becoming and belonging: Modern passages and transitions from childhood to adulthood
The concept and metaphor of transition occupies a central place in child and youth studies. The concept points to changes from one state, condition or age to another. Consequently, there are strong
We Are the White Aryan Warriors: Violence, Homosociality, and the Construction of Masculinity in the National Socialist Movement in Sweden
Violence is a significant element in the constitution, emotional structure, and reproduction of right-wing extremism and neo-Nazism. This article examines the life histories of former neo-Nazis and explores the roles of violence in the Swedish skinhead culture and neo-Nazi organizations. We conducted individual and group interviews with seven former neo-Nazis who held high positions in the movement. Our study focused on violence and violent acts,…
Holocaust education and the Palestinian cause: Young Palestinian people in Sweden, and their perceptions of Holocaust education
The paper investigates the experiences, perceptions and responses of immigrants with a Palestinian background in relation to learning about the Holocaust and the Palestinian cause in Swedish schools and visiting Holocaust sites. Data were collected from 50 immigrant students using audio-recorded and open-structured interviews. The results indicate that most informants had learned about the Holocaust in various classes, through readings, discussio…
Just a Joke? The Thin Line between Teasing, Harassment and Violence among Teenage Boys in Lower Secondary School
The present article, addresses and discusses thin line between teasing, and violence in lower secondary school. The main aim of the study is to highlight and explore different types of “joking cultures” and lad cultures. This study draws from interviews with ninth grade students conducted at three schools in various geographic locations in Sweden. The results indicate that jokes and fighting for “fun” are recurrent in everyday school life and par…
Sis Science' and Fitness Doping: Ethnopharmacology, Gender and Risk
This article is part of a larger investigation looking into recent changes in the demographics of fitness doping and the possible consequences of such changes. Contesting the historical alliance between masculinity and fitness doping, the article focuses on women's narratives and experiences of fitness doping in a male-dominated open online community called Flashback. The article builds upon a qualitative and netnographic approach to the research…
(Un)Becoming a Fitness Doper: Negotiating the Meaning of Illicit Drug Use in a Gym and Fitness Context
The widespread availability of doping and its growing prevalence among fitness groups has contributed greatly to the realization of an emergent public health issue. Emanating from an ethnographic study in Sweden, the purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the processes involved in becoming and 'unbecoming' a fitness doping user. The study employs a cultural and sociological perspective as its theoretical framework and discusses how the…
Violence and gender thresholds: A study of the gender coding of violent behaviour in schools
This article explores how schools define situations in which students have been exposed to violence at school. The purpose of the study is to explore and investigate whether and how school violence is gendered and whether acts of violence are being coded as either masculine or feminine. The data were gathered at Swedish secondary schools. The results indicate that gender influences how professionals categorise violence, with physical violence oft…
Tough-Girl Femininity, Sisterhood and Respectability: Minority Girls’ Perceptions of Sexual Harassment in an Urban Secondary School
This study aims to explore how adolescent girls with minority backgrounds experience different forms of sexual harassment in school. The study draws on semi-structured interviews conducted in a lower secondary school located in one of Sweden’s most socially disadvantaged urban areas. The results reveal that the girls repeatedly experienced misogynist comments such as “whore” and “slut” and were subjected to moral judgements connected to their man…
Fatherhood in Transition: Paternity Leave and Changing Masculinities
Here, Swedish men's relations to the new ideal and image of the caring and present father are explored. It is argued that the dominant image of contemporary masculinity and fatherhood is changing. During recent decades, debates and political ambitions concerning fatherhood have led to the construction of new ideals. In Sweden, reforms and information strategies are used to enhance and create the new father. The article focuses on men sharing the …
Hegemonic Masculinity and Pornography: Young People's Attitudes toward and Relations to Pornography
This article explores young people's attitudes toward pornographic material. How do young people in general relate to and view pornography? Are there any clear gender differences? On the basis of empirical results from an extensive Swedish survey study, we discuss and analyze how gender differences are articulated. We are specifically interested in what kinds of attitudes young men and young women develop. A common conception of gender and the co…
Gendered spaces: The gym culture and the construction of gender
Doing resistance – youth and changing theories of resistance
The purpose of this article is to investigate and analyze changing conceptions of resistance within youth research. Through a careful selection of influential and paradigmatic texts, we follow the development of the concept from the 1970s until today. In particular, we have focused on how the relation between power and resistance is described and portrayed in different theories and empirical studies. This article also takes up questions of social…
Credibility Assessments as 'Normative Leakage: Asylum Applications, Gender and Class
Based on the assumption that credibility assessments function as 'normative leakage' within the asylum process, we analyse how narratives of gender and class are articulated, rendered meaningful, or silenced in credibility assessments. Two cases concerning male applicants are selected in order to illustrate these processes. In relation to the existing concepts of internal/external credibility, we wish to introduce the concept of social credibilit…
Learning from each other? Multicultural pedagogy, parental education and governance
Today there is a strong tendency to involve local citizens in community work, and to mobilize social forces in poor urban districts. We will focus on one specific method used to educate and help immigrant parents raise and foster their children. This method is described as part of a wider ambition to integrate and involve immigrants in Swedish society. The aim is to get parents involved, and to create a dialogue and the necessary requirements for…
The Experience of Being Stopped: Young Immigrants, Social Exclusion and Strategies
The purpose of the present article was to investigate social psychological processes leading to complex patterns of inclusion and exclusion. Following Sarah Ahmed’s theory of the phenomenology of ‘being stopped’, we explored young adults’ experiences of coming to or living in Sweden. The empirical material used consists of four strategically selected case studies. Living in the new Europe can be described as an experience of having to constantly …
Just a Joke? The Thin Line between Teasing, Harassment and Violence among Teenage Boys in Lower Secondary School
The present article, addresses and discusses thin line between teasing, and violence in lower secondary school. The main aim of the study is to highlight and explore different types of “joking cultures” and lad cultures. This study draws from interviews with ninth grade students conducted at three schools in various geographic locations in Sweden. The results indicate that jokes and fighting for “fun” are recurrent in everyday school life and par…
Global narratives of fatherhood. Fathering and masculinity on the Internet
There is currently an increasing amount of research on online fatherhood. In this article, we have used international blogs as our empirical data, in order to investigate and create an in-depth picture of fatherhood as it is expressed in various men’s stories about their everyday lives. Three distinct conceptions of fatherhood and masculinity emerge. The first of these positions could be described as a nostalgic position in relation to hegemonic …
Becoming a half-time parent: Fatherhood after divorce
Men have increasingly been dedicating time and effort to childcare. Consequently, the idea of the ‘new’ emotionally involved father has been discussed in the literature. This article focuses on narratives of divorced Swedish fathers with joint physical custody of their children. This arrangement, a new model of post-divorce parenting, has become increasingly popular in several Nordic countries. The article aims to analyse the experiences attached…
If they're allowed to wear a veil, we should be allowed to wear caps”: Cultural diversity and everyday racism in a rural school in Sweden
Gender, Fitness Doping and the Genetic Max. The Ambivalent Construction of Muscular Masculinities in an Online Community
This article is based on written accounts posted on an online forum called Flashback. The purpose of the study was to explore how participants in this community negotiated the meanings of fitness doping and how such negotiations could be understood in terms of masculinity. The findings indicate that the Internet community studied in this article can be read as an example of a transformational process in which ordinary rules are questioned and par…
Doing for group exercise what McDonald's did for hamburgers’: Les Mills, and the fitness professional as global traveller
This article analyses fitness professionals' perceptions and understanding of their occupational education and pedagogical pursuance, framed within the emergence of a global fitness industry. The empirical material consists of interviews with personal trainers and group fitness instructors, as well as observations in their working environment. In addition, printed material from different occupational organisations and educational companies has be…
In defence of multiculturalism – theoretical challenges
Although it seems that multiculturalism has been dismissed as a failed experiment or sham in the public debate, there has been an ongoing internal academic discussion of theoretical approaches to multiculturalism. This theoretical dialogue is, of course, parallel to and affected by developments in society. This article dissects and analyses some key and ‘classical’ nodes in the theoretical exploration of multiculturalism and brings forward key di…
Sis Science' and Fitness Doping: Ethnopharmacology, Gender and Risk
This article is part of a larger investigation looking into recent changes in the demographics of fitness doping and the possible consequences of such changes. Contesting the historical alliance between masculinity and fitness doping, the article focuses on women's narratives and experiences of fitness doping in a male-dominated open online community called Flashback. The article builds upon a qualitative and netnographic approach to the research…
Tough-Girl Femininity, Sisterhood and Respectability: Minority Girls’ Perceptions of Sexual Harassment in an Urban Secondary School
This study aims to explore how adolescent girls with minority backgrounds experience different forms of sexual harassment in school. The study draws on semi-structured interviews conducted in a lower secondary school located in one of Sweden’s most socially disadvantaged urban areas. The results reveal that the girls repeatedly experienced misogynist comments such as “whore” and “slut” and were subjected to moral judgements connected to their man…
The school as crime scene: Discourses on degrading treatment in Swedish schools
There is a strong case for stating that during the past decades there has been a shift in perspective when addressing questions of how to handle and preserve social order in Swedish schools. As an institution that has focused on social order and education since the 1990s, the Swedish school system has also become an institution that focuses on social order in terms of law and legal issues. The overall purpose of the article is to explore in which…
The Health Guru: Masculinity and Fitness Coaching in the Blogosphere
Through a close study of blogs, where male fitness experts share their expertise, this article analyses how masculinity are framed within the Internet-mediated context of the fitness culture. This is done against the background of Connell's theory of masculinity, and recent critiques of the concept of hegemony. Through an in-depth analysis of three blogs, we get a complex and contradictory image of the different forms of masculinity portrayed in …
Theorising fatherhood: Challenges and suggestions
During the 1990s, the sociology of the family was vitalised by new and groundbreaking theories of modernity, identity, and the family. At this time the family was put forward as an example of how modern institutions and identities were transforming and changing. Concepts such as individualisation, choice biographies, and reflexivity brought new perspectives to family research. Parallel to this Raewyn Connell’s book Masculinities raised important …
Prostate Cancer and the Emotionology of Masculinity: Joking, Intellectualization, and the Reconstruction of Gender
This article builds on data gathered through focus group interviews with Swedish men treated for prostate cancer. First, we aim to analyse how the participants talk about and handle sensitive issues and common side effects. Second, we investigate how the participants’ feelings about their disease affect or interfere with their understanding of masculinity. The findings illustrate how participants partly break with historical expectations of men a…
We Are the White Aryan Warriors: Violence, Homosociality, and the Construction of Masculinity in the National Socialist Movement in Sweden
Violence is a significant element in the constitution, emotional structure, and reproduction of right-wing extremism and neo-Nazism. This article examines the life histories of former neo-Nazis and explores the roles of violence in the Swedish skinhead culture and neo-Nazi organizations. We conducted individual and group interviews with seven former neo-Nazis who held high positions in the movement. Our study focused on violence and violent acts,…
Violence and gender thresholds: A study of the gender coding of violent behaviour in schools
This article explores how schools define situations in which students have been exposed to violence at school. The purpose of the study is to explore and investigate whether and how school violence is gendered and whether acts of violence are being coded as either masculine or feminine. The data were gathered at Swedish secondary schools. The results indicate that gender influences how professionals categorise violence, with physical violence oft…
Bodybuilding and Fitness Doping in Transition. Historical Transformations and Contemporary Challenges
This article describes and analyses the historical development of gym and fitness culture in general and doping use in this context in particular. Theoretically, the paper utilises the concept of subculture and explores how a subcultural response can be used analytically in relation to processes of cultural normalisation as well as marginalisation. The focus is on historical and symbolic negotiations that have occurred over time, between perceive…
The many faces of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Unruly behaviour in secondary school and diagnostic solutions
In society today, there is a tendency towards over-diagnosing. This tendency in society at large seems to reflect the normalization of a diagnostic culture. Some researchers have claimed that this normalization could be defined as the ‘medicalization of childhood’. There would seem to be a need for a sociocultural analysis of this phenomenon in schools – and it is in relation to this background that the present study hopes to generate new knowled…
Youth victimisation, school and family support: Schools’ strategies to handle abused children
This article explores and investigates school officials’ narratives about how schools involve and collaborate with families, social services, the police, and other agencies to support students who are suspected of being exposed to domestic violence. School officials’ describe their work as positioned within legal restrictions and official policies, and they express a strong wish to create good relationships with families and other authorities to …
Music video, youth culture and postmodernism
(1992). Music video, youth culture and postmodernism. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 9-22
Gendered spaces: The gym culture and the construction of gender
Det globale gymet - Manligt og kvinnligt i simulakrats tidsålder
The article deals with the gender ideals cultivated within contemporary fitness and gym culture - in particular the paradoxical features of this culture. On the one hand, traditional gender ideals are maintained and strengthened; on the other hand, there is a development towards an androgynous ideal. The hard and "perfect" body is gradually becoming a dial for both men and women. Men as well as women are facinated by this sculptured and well-trai…
Moral panics revisited
and Rockers is an important landmark in youth culture research. It was in 1972 that Cohen published his study of English youth culture and the construction of deviance. This book was an empirical case study of the mods and the rockers; but also, and more importantly, it was a theoretical study of the construction of images of you th and of deviance. The most significant characteristic of a moral panic is that it tends to distort and grossly exagg…
Hegemonic Masculinity and Pornography: Young People's Attitudes toward and Relations to Pornography
This article explores young people's attitudes toward pornographic material. How do young people in general relate to and view pornography? Are there any clear gender differences? On the basis of empirical results from an extensive Swedish survey study, we discuss and analyze how gender differences are articulated. We are specifically interested in what kinds of attitudes young men and young women develop. A common conception of gender and the co…
Schooling, religion, youth and everyday life: Learning processes in an independent Muslim school environment
This article investigates the ways in which different and complex learning processes take place in an independent Muslim school in Sweden. In particular it focuses on how a group of young women interprets, discusses and relates to school and everyday life. The empirical material consists of interviews with teachers and repeated focus group interviews with eight to ten 15–year–old Muslim women. Methodologically, the focus is on how these subjects …
European Perspectives on Men and Masculinities. National and Transnational Approaches – Edited by Jeff Hearn and Keith Pringle
Fatherhood in Transition: Paternity Leave and Changing Masculinities
Here, Swedish men's relations to the new ideal and image of the caring and present father are explored. It is argued that the dominant image of contemporary masculinity and fatherhood is changing. During recent decades, debates and political ambitions concerning fatherhood have led to the construction of new ideals. In Sweden, reforms and information strategies are used to enhance and create the new father. The article focuses on men sharing the …
Imagine, just 16 years old and already a dad!’ The construction of young fatherhood on the Internet
Studies exploring young fatherhood have mainly looked at low-income and unemployed young men. The literature is thus focused on fathering at the margins of society and mechanisms of exclusion. This discourse of young, marginal, excluded and often fragile fatherhood is also strongly connected to discourses on young parenthood in general. There is, for example, an ongoing and parallel discussion in many countries on young teen mothers and social ex…
Doing resistance – youth and changing theories of resistance
The purpose of this article is to investigate and analyze changing conceptions of resistance within youth research. Through a careful selection of influential and paradigmatic texts, we follow the development of the concept from the 1970s until today. In particular, we have focused on how the relation between power and resistance is described and portrayed in different theories and empirical studies. This article also takes up questions of social…
Learning from each other? Multicultural pedagogy, parental education and governance
Today there is a strong tendency to involve local citizens in community work, and to mobilize social forces in poor urban districts. We will focus on one specific method used to educate and help immigrant parents raise and foster their children. This method is described as part of a wider ambition to integrate and involve immigrants in Swedish society. The aim is to get parents involved, and to create a dialogue and the necessary requirements for…
The Experience of Being Stopped: Young Immigrants, Social Exclusion and Strategies
The purpose of the present article was to investigate social psychological processes leading to complex patterns of inclusion and exclusion. Following Sarah Ahmed’s theory of the phenomenology of ‘being stopped’, we explored young adults’ experiences of coming to or living in Sweden. The empirical material used consists of four strategically selected case studies. Living in the new Europe can be described as an experience of having to constantly …
Credibility Assessments as 'Normative Leakage: Asylum Applications, Gender and Class
Based on the assumption that credibility assessments function as 'normative leakage' within the asylum process, we analyse how narratives of gender and class are articulated, rendered meaningful, or silenced in credibility assessments. Two cases concerning male applicants are selected in order to illustrate these processes. In relation to the existing concepts of internal/external credibility, we wish to introduce the concept of social credibilit…
The Health Guru: Masculinity and Fitness Coaching in the Blogosphere
Through a close study of blogs, where male fitness experts share their expertise, this article analyses how masculinity are framed within the Internet-mediated context of the fitness culture. This is done against the background of Connell's theory of masculinity, and recent critiques of the concept of hegemony. Through an in-depth analysis of three blogs, we get a complex and contradictory image of the different forms of masculinity portrayed in …
Doing for group exercise what McDonald's did for hamburgers’: Les Mills, and the fitness professional as global traveller
This article analyses fitness professionals' perceptions and understanding of their occupational education and pedagogical pursuance, framed within the emergence of a global fitness industry. The empirical material consists of interviews with personal trainers and group fitness instructors, as well as observations in their working environment. In addition, printed material from different occupational organisations and educational companies has be…
Youth victimisation, school and family support: Schools’ strategies to handle abused children
This article explores and investigates school officials’ narratives about how schools involve and collaborate with families, social services, the police, and other agencies to support students who are suspected of being exposed to domestic violence. School officials’ describe their work as positioned within legal restrictions and official policies, and they express a strong wish to create good relationships with families and other authorities to …
The school as crime scene: Discourses on degrading treatment in Swedish schools
There is a strong case for stating that during the past decades there has been a shift in perspective when addressing questions of how to handle and preserve social order in Swedish schools. As an institution that has focused on social order and education since the 1990s, the Swedish school system has also become an institution that focuses on social order in terms of law and legal issues. The overall purpose of the article is to explore in which…
Gender, Fitness Doping and the Genetic Max. The Ambivalent Construction of Muscular Masculinities in an Online Community
This article is based on written accounts posted on an online forum called Flashback. The purpose of the study was to explore how participants in this community negotiated the meanings of fitness doping and how such negotiations could be understood in terms of masculinity. The findings indicate that the Internet community studied in this article can be read as an example of a transformational process in which ordinary rules are questioned and par…
Becoming a half-time parent: Fatherhood after divorce
Men have increasingly been dedicating time and effort to childcare. Consequently, the idea of the ‘new’ emotionally involved father has been discussed in the literature. This article focuses on narratives of divorced Swedish fathers with joint physical custody of their children. This arrangement, a new model of post-divorce parenting, has become increasingly popular in several Nordic countries. The article aims to analyse the experiences attached…
Global narratives of fatherhood. Fathering and masculinity on the Internet
There is currently an increasing amount of research on online fatherhood. In this article, we have used international blogs as our empirical data, in order to investigate and create an in-depth picture of fatherhood as it is expressed in various men’s stories about their everyday lives. Three distinct conceptions of fatherhood and masculinity emerge. The first of these positions could be described as a nostalgic position in relation to hegemonic …
The many faces of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Unruly behaviour in secondary school and diagnostic solutions
In society today, there is a tendency towards over-diagnosing. This tendency in society at large seems to reflect the normalization of a diagnostic culture. Some researchers have claimed that this normalization could be defined as the ‘medicalization of childhood’. There would seem to be a need for a sociocultural analysis of this phenomenon in schools – and it is in relation to this background that the present study hopes to generate new knowled…
The Web of Loneliness: A Netnographic Study of Narratives of Being Alone in an Online Context
Using a netnographic and case-study-based approach, this article uses different blogs as data in order to analyse how loneliness is conceptualized and understood. More precisely, the study aims to investigate experiences of loneliness and related themes in the context of online communication. In approaching the nature of loneliness, we have analytically leaned on the theories and some of the most basic assumptions of symbolic interactionism, acco…
Policing the school: In between dialogues and crime reports
The actions and behaviour among students in Swedish schools previously described as teasing, fighting and ‘school trouble’ have gradually come to be positioned and understood within a legal discourse. Self-assessment surveys conducted with students in grade nine, from 1995 onwards, do not, however, reveal any marked increase in violence among young people over time. Consequently, it is possible to identify signification spirals, where certain iss…
Violence in urban schools: School professionals’ categorizations and explanations of violence among students in two different demographic areas
The present study explores how officials in Swedish secondary schools define and categorize situations in which students have been exposed to violence in the school. The study is designed as a case study of two secondary schools, situated in two demographically different urban neighbourhoods. The results indicate that different socio-economic conditions influence how professionals categorize and explain violence, but also what strategies are used…
Violence and gender thresholds: A study of the gender coding of violent behaviour in schools
This article explores how schools define situations in which students have been exposed to violence at school. The purpose of the study is to explore and investigate whether and how school violence is gendered and whether acts of violence are being coded as either masculine or feminine. The data were gathered at Swedish secondary schools. The results indicate that gender influences how professionals categorise violence, with physical violence oft…
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