Mona Livholts
Biographic Data
| ID | 250261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mona Livholts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mona |
| FAMILY NAME | Livholts |
| SIGNATURE | LIVHOLTS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mid Sweden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9119-5269 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Immaterial Monuments, Narrative Inequality and Glocal Social Work. Towards Critical Participatory Community Art-Based Practices
The aim of this study is to ask critical questions about the immaterial narrative force of monuments and social justice related to place and space, and to develop an interdisciplinary, participatory, art-based methodology for the study of narrative inequality in glocal social work. The study begins with the glocal turn in social work, a condition characterised by a critical understanding of the interlinked and intersectional localities within a w…
Body Politics of Glocal Social Work: Essays on the Post-Anthropocentric Condition
Exhaustion and possibility. The wor(l)dlyness of social work in (G)local environment worlds during a pandemic
Exhaustion is not about being tired. It is an intense feeling of restlessness, of insomnia, and awakening when I ask myself: have I exhausted all that is possible? Such a state of restlessness and wakefulness represents a turning point for having enough, and opens for new possibilities to act for social change. This reflexive essay departs from the notion that the language of exhaustion offers a wor(l)dly possibility for social work(ers) to engag…
Discourse and Narrative Methods: Theoretical Departures, Analytical Strategies and Situated Writings
Discourses and narratives are crucial in how we understand a world of rapid changes. This textbook constitutes a unique introduction to two major influential theoretical and methodological fields - discourse and narrative methods - and examines them in their interrelation. It offers readers an orientation within the broad and contested area of discourse and narrative methods and develops concrete analytical strategies to those who wish to explore…
Location and Unlocation: Examining Gender and Telephony through Autoethnographic Textual and Visual Methods
Studies on gender and telephony tend to be quantitative and depict the purposes for which women and men use mobile telephones and landlines. Qualitative studies on the topic predominantly rely on face-to-face interviews to examine how telephone use genders space. We suggest these traditional methods of data collection leave unexamined the emotional and social relationships that emerge and are enabled by telephone use, which at times reconfigure a…
Emergent Writing Methodologies in Feminist Studies
This piece of writing was originally planned as an Afterword, entitled ‘How Does Writing Research Become Innovative Forms of Research Writing?’ for an earlier and rather different version of this book conceived around the theme of innovativeness in writing research. For this, the proposed abstract read: Is this chapter an innovative form(s) of writing research? Are you sure? How can I convince you? You know it makes sense. Are the theories used a…
To Fill Academic Work with Political Passion: Nina Lykke's Cosmodolphins and Contemporary Post/Academic Writing Strategies
This article is part of a project, which builds on interviews with feminist scholars about the complex activity of writing research. The focus is on exploring processes of writing and genre in the context of a feminist academic author’s career and to reflect on these in relation to a context of contemporary post/academic writing strategies. The article builds on a publicly staged dialogue with Nina Lykke, Professor of Gender Studies with special …
The Snow Angel and Other Imprints: An Untimely Academic Novella
This article, written in the form of an untimely academic novella is a text, which explores academic authoring as thinking and writing practice in a place called Sweden. The aim is on inquiries of geographical space, place, and academia, and the interrelation between the social and symbolic formation of class, gender and whiteness. The novella uses different writing strategies and visual representations such as documentary writing and photographi…
The Professor's Chair. An untimely academic novella
One sits with power; one does not lie down with power. This reflexive article constructs academic textuality beyond the author, and elaborates possible forms of the symbolic, visual and sensory in research, via a novella set in a university. Thank you also to the reviewers of Life Writing, whose comments helped to improve the quality of the article and to Elizabeth Hoon for linguistic check-up. To Maj Öberg—I am always grateful for our friendship
Writing Change in Feminist and Gender Studies: Staging the Political and the Embodied
(2010). Writing Change in Feminist and Gender Studies: Staging the Political and the Embodied. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research: Vol. 18, Writing Change? Contemporary Challenges for Feminist and Gender Studies, pp. 223-225
Writing Masculinities, Gender, and the Politics of Change: A Publicly Staged Interview with Raewyn Connell
To theorize in a more passionate way: Carol Lee Bacchi's diary of mothering and contemporary post/academic writing strategies
This article seeks to explore feminist theorising on mothering by discussing the complexity related to movement between different forms of textual representations/’genre’; that is, what is often referred to as academic and not academic writing. In the article, Carol Lee Bacchi, previously Professor of Politics at the University of Adelaide, is invited to reflect upon the process of writing the book Fear of food – a diary of mothering. By introduc…
Det tänkandeskrivande subjektet: Reflektioner kring metodologiska postulat, svensk genusforskning och post/akademiskt skrivande
This article is an experimental and critical text with the aim of addressing methodological issues of forms for academic writing in Swedish gender research. In the focus of interest lays a methodological paradox: at the same time as gender research sets out to analyse complex issues of power relations and normativity, dominance and homogeneity, mainstream theory has continued to dominate through traditional forms of academic writing. The thinking…
Exploring the Gendering of Space by Using Memory Work as a Reflexive Research Method
How can memory work be used as a pathway to reflect on the situatedness of the researcher and field of inquiry? The key aim of this article is to contribute to knowledge about the gendering of space developed by feminist geographers by using memory work as a reflexive research method. The authors present a brief review of feminist literature that covers the local and global symbolic meanings of spaces and the power relations within which space is…
Det tänkande-skrivande subjektet: Om minnesarbete som vetenskapligt arbetssätt och politisk handling
Att skriva emancipatoriskt. Akademisk dialog för två röster
This article is an attempt to open a discussion on feminist academic writing, its obstacles and its emancipatory potential. The form of the article is a dialogue, in ten parts, for two voices. By choosing this form we want to find a strategy for avoiding the reductive and hierarchal dualism that all too often characterizes academic thinking and writing. The geography of writing in a Swedish academic context is described as a contradictory field f…
The making of Nordic "women-friendlyness" and the language of emancipatory politics: A feminist genealogy
What made it possible to develop thinking about Nordic "women-friendlyness"* during the 1980s? What does Nordic "women-friendlyness" have to offer feminist theory today? This study examines and interprets the foundations of Nordic "women-friendlyness" using a feminist genealogical discursive analysis designed as a set of interrelated and overlapping stories. The aim of the study is to analyse the official textual academic formulations of Nordic "…
The making of Nordic "women-friendlyness" and the language of emancipatory politics: A feminist genealogy
What made it possible to develop thinking about Nordic "women-friendlyness"* during the 1980s? What does Nordic "women-friendlyness" have to offer feminist theory today? This study examines and interprets the foundations of Nordic "women-friendlyness" using a feminist genealogical discursive analysis designed as a set of interrelated and overlapping stories. The aim of the study is to analyse the official textual academic formulations of Nordic "…
Exploring the Gendering of Space by Using Memory Work as a Reflexive Research Method
How can memory work be used as a pathway to reflect on the situatedness of the researcher and field of inquiry? The key aim of this article is to contribute to knowledge about the gendering of space developed by feminist geographers by using memory work as a reflexive research method. The authors present a brief review of feminist literature that covers the local and global symbolic meanings of spaces and the power relations within which space is…
To Fill Academic Work with Political Passion: Nina Lykke's Cosmodolphins and Contemporary Post/Academic Writing Strategies
This article is part of a project, which builds on interviews with feminist scholars about the complex activity of writing research. The focus is on exploring processes of writing and genre in the context of a feminist academic author’s career and to reflect on these in relation to a context of contemporary post/academic writing strategies. The article builds on a publicly staged dialogue with Nina Lykke, Professor of Gender Studies with special …
Location and Unlocation: Examining Gender and Telephony through Autoethnographic Textual and Visual Methods
Studies on gender and telephony tend to be quantitative and depict the purposes for which women and men use mobile telephones and landlines. Qualitative studies on the topic predominantly rely on face-to-face interviews to examine how telephone use genders space. We suggest these traditional methods of data collection leave unexamined the emotional and social relationships that emerge and are enabled by telephone use, which at times reconfigure a…
To theorize in a more passionate way: Carol Lee Bacchi's diary of mothering and contemporary post/academic writing strategies
This article seeks to explore feminist theorising on mothering by discussing the complexity related to movement between different forms of textual representations/’genre’; that is, what is often referred to as academic and not academic writing. In the article, Carol Lee Bacchi, previously Professor of Politics at the University of Adelaide, is invited to reflect upon the process of writing the book Fear of food – a diary of mothering. By introduc…
Immaterial Monuments, Narrative Inequality and Glocal Social Work. Towards Critical Participatory Community Art-Based Practices
The aim of this study is to ask critical questions about the immaterial narrative force of monuments and social justice related to place and space, and to develop an interdisciplinary, participatory, art-based methodology for the study of narrative inequality in glocal social work. The study begins with the glocal turn in social work, a condition characterised by a critical understanding of the interlinked and intersectional localities within a w…
The Professor's Chair. An untimely academic novella
One sits with power; one does not lie down with power. This reflexive article constructs academic textuality beyond the author, and elaborates possible forms of the symbolic, visual and sensory in research, via a novella set in a university. Thank you also to the reviewers of Life Writing, whose comments helped to improve the quality of the article and to Elizabeth Hoon for linguistic check-up. To Maj Öberg—I am always grateful for our friendship
The making of Nordic "women-friendlyness" and the language of emancipatory politics: A feminist genealogy
What made it possible to develop thinking about Nordic "women-friendlyness"* during the 1980s? What does Nordic "women-friendlyness" have to offer feminist theory today? This study examines and interprets the foundations of Nordic "women-friendlyness" using a feminist genealogical discursive analysis designed as a set of interrelated and overlapping stories. The aim of the study is to analyse the official textual academic formulations of Nordic "…
The making of Nordic "women-friendlyness" and the language of emancipatory politics: A feminist genealogy
What made it possible to develop thinking about Nordic "women-friendlyness"* during the 1980s? What does Nordic "women-friendlyness" have to offer feminist theory today? This study examines and interprets the foundations of Nordic "women-friendlyness" using a feminist genealogical discursive analysis designed as a set of interrelated and overlapping stories. The aim of the study is to analyse the official textual academic formulations of Nordic "…
The making of Nordic "women-friendlyness" and the language of emancipatory politics: A feminist genealogy
What made it possible to develop thinking about Nordic "women-friendlyness"* during the 1980s? What does Nordic "women-friendlyness" have to offer feminist theory today? This study examines and interprets the foundations of Nordic "women-friendlyness" using a feminist genealogical discursive analysis designed as a set of interrelated and overlapping stories. The aim of the study is to analyse the official textual academic formulations of Nordic "…
Att skriva emancipatoriskt. Akademisk dialog för två röster
This article is an attempt to open a discussion on feminist academic writing, its obstacles and its emancipatory potential. The form of the article is a dialogue, in ten parts, for two voices. By choosing this form we want to find a strategy for avoiding the reductive and hierarchal dualism that all too often characterizes academic thinking and writing. The geography of writing in a Swedish academic context is described as a contradictory field f…
Det tänkande-skrivande subjektet: Om minnesarbete som vetenskapligt arbetssätt och politisk handling
Exploring the Gendering of Space by Using Memory Work as a Reflexive Research Method
How can memory work be used as a pathway to reflect on the situatedness of the researcher and field of inquiry? The key aim of this article is to contribute to knowledge about the gendering of space developed by feminist geographers by using memory work as a reflexive research method. The authors present a brief review of feminist literature that covers the local and global symbolic meanings of spaces and the power relations within which space is…
Det tänkandeskrivande subjektet: Reflektioner kring metodologiska postulat, svensk genusforskning och post/akademiskt skrivande
This article is an experimental and critical text with the aim of addressing methodological issues of forms for academic writing in Swedish gender research. In the focus of interest lays a methodological paradox: at the same time as gender research sets out to analyse complex issues of power relations and normativity, dominance and homogeneity, mainstream theory has continued to dominate through traditional forms of academic writing. The thinking…
To theorize in a more passionate way: Carol Lee Bacchi's diary of mothering and contemporary post/academic writing strategies
This article seeks to explore feminist theorising on mothering by discussing the complexity related to movement between different forms of textual representations/’genre’; that is, what is often referred to as academic and not academic writing. In the article, Carol Lee Bacchi, previously Professor of Politics at the University of Adelaide, is invited to reflect upon the process of writing the book Fear of food – a diary of mothering. By introduc…
The Snow Angel and Other Imprints: An Untimely Academic Novella
This article, written in the form of an untimely academic novella is a text, which explores academic authoring as thinking and writing practice in a place called Sweden. The aim is on inquiries of geographical space, place, and academia, and the interrelation between the social and symbolic formation of class, gender and whiteness. The novella uses different writing strategies and visual representations such as documentary writing and photographi…
The Professor's Chair. An untimely academic novella
One sits with power; one does not lie down with power. This reflexive article constructs academic textuality beyond the author, and elaborates possible forms of the symbolic, visual and sensory in research, via a novella set in a university. Thank you also to the reviewers of Life Writing, whose comments helped to improve the quality of the article and to Elizabeth Hoon for linguistic check-up. To Maj Öberg—I am always grateful for our friendship
Writing Change in Feminist and Gender Studies: Staging the Political and the Embodied
(2010). Writing Change in Feminist and Gender Studies: Staging the Political and the Embodied. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research: Vol. 18, Writing Change? Contemporary Challenges for Feminist and Gender Studies, pp. 223-225
Writing Masculinities, Gender, and the Politics of Change: A Publicly Staged Interview with Raewyn Connell
Emergent Writing Methodologies in Feminist Studies
This piece of writing was originally planned as an Afterword, entitled ‘How Does Writing Research Become Innovative Forms of Research Writing?’ for an earlier and rather different version of this book conceived around the theme of innovativeness in writing research. For this, the proposed abstract read: Is this chapter an innovative form(s) of writing research? Are you sure? How can I convince you? You know it makes sense. Are the theories used a…
To Fill Academic Work with Political Passion: Nina Lykke's Cosmodolphins and Contemporary Post/Academic Writing Strategies
This article is part of a project, which builds on interviews with feminist scholars about the complex activity of writing research. The focus is on exploring processes of writing and genre in the context of a feminist academic author’s career and to reflect on these in relation to a context of contemporary post/academic writing strategies. The article builds on a publicly staged dialogue with Nina Lykke, Professor of Gender Studies with special …
Location and Unlocation: Examining Gender and Telephony through Autoethnographic Textual and Visual Methods
Studies on gender and telephony tend to be quantitative and depict the purposes for which women and men use mobile telephones and landlines. Qualitative studies on the topic predominantly rely on face-to-face interviews to examine how telephone use genders space. We suggest these traditional methods of data collection leave unexamined the emotional and social relationships that emerge and are enabled by telephone use, which at times reconfigure a…
Discourse and Narrative Methods: Theoretical Departures, Analytical Strategies and Situated Writings
Discourses and narratives are crucial in how we understand a world of rapid changes. This textbook constitutes a unique introduction to two major influential theoretical and methodological fields - discourse and narrative methods - and examines them in their interrelation. It offers readers an orientation within the broad and contested area of discourse and narrative methods and develops concrete analytical strategies to those who wish to explore…
Exhaustion and possibility. The wor(l)dlyness of social work in (G)local environment worlds during a pandemic
Exhaustion is not about being tired. It is an intense feeling of restlessness, of insomnia, and awakening when I ask myself: have I exhausted all that is possible? Such a state of restlessness and wakefulness represents a turning point for having enough, and opens for new possibilities to act for social change. This reflexive essay departs from the notion that the language of exhaustion offers a wor(l)dly possibility for social work(ers) to engag…
Immaterial Monuments, Narrative Inequality and Glocal Social Work. Towards Critical Participatory Community Art-Based Practices
The aim of this study is to ask critical questions about the immaterial narrative force of monuments and social justice related to place and space, and to develop an interdisciplinary, participatory, art-based methodology for the study of narrative inequality in glocal social work. The study begins with the glocal turn in social work, a condition characterised by a critical understanding of the interlinked and intersectional localities within a w…
Body Politics of Glocal Social Work: Essays on the Post-Anthropocentric Condition
Sociology (18 works) · Law (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Reflexivity (7 works)