Birte Siim
Biographic Data
| ID | 258122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Birte Siim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Birte |
| FAMILY NAME | Siim |
| SIGNATURE | SIIM B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9267-2581 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 205 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Patterns of Reflective Solidarity and Migrant Resistance in Copenhagen and Berlin
Inspired by Jodi Dean's understanding of the reflective solidarity of strangers, this contribution explores forms of migrant solidarity and resistance in Copenhagen and Berlin. It investigates how 'hybrid' forms of solidarity emerged out of different circumstances in Trampoline House and the Oranienplatz refugee protest camp. The two selected cases are particularly interesting for exploring how models of contentious and non-contentious civil soci…
The Scandinavian Welfare States – Towards Sexual Equality or a New Kind of Male Domination?
This paper studies the debate about the Scandinavian welfare states from a feminist perspective, focusing on the differences between a feminist perspective and the dominant liberal and critical Marxist understanding of the welfare state. In particular it focuses on the argument that the Scandinavian welfare states are the most advanced in relation to women and discusses both the potentialities and dangers in the Scandinavian welfare states in rel…
Inclusive Political Intersections of Migration, Race, Gender and Sexuality – The Cases of Austria and Denmark
The article aims to integrate key concepts from social movement, citizenship and gender theories with afocus on (political) intersectionality at the interface of migration, race, gender and sexuality. It explores the responses from civil society groups to the exclusive intersections of right-wing politics and discourses in Austria and Denmark with afocus on inclusive intersectionality and transversal politics. The article asks if and how the inte…
Diversity and Contestations over Nationalism in Europe and Canada
This edited collection considers how transformations in contemporary societies have raised questions surrounding our sense of community and belonging, alongside our management of increased diversity.Diversity and Contestations over Nationalism in Europe and Canada includes contributions that consider the rise in regional nationalism and a greater willingness to recognise that many states are multinational. It critically explores the effects of al…
Conclusion
The main contestations that we are witnessing today have been subsumed under the nationalist logic rather than confronting it outright. But even if the terms of debate are set within the ambit of nationalism, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and nationalist resurgence (mainly through right-wing populism) reside in different renditions of nationalism. The terms of contestation are however not confined to the form of nationalism, they also encomp…
Women and the advanced welfare state – a new kind of patriarchal power?
Women’s position in society has changed fundamentally during the last twenty to twenty-five years, especially in those countries where welfare states have been most expansive. This chapter analyses the contradictory aspects of this process in Denmark. The Danish and Swedish welfare states belong to the most advanced in the world, and are often perceived as a model for other countries, particularly when it comes to the situation of women. The inte…
Gendering European welfare states and citizenship
The chapter revisits the feminist scholarship on gendering of European welfare states and European citizenship, and reflects on the effects of globalization, Europeanization and migration. It first presents feminist perspectives on the liberal, the conservative and the social democratic welfare regimes. Next it examines the changes in European welfare states and citizenship during the past 25 years influenced by increased immigration. It proposes…
Feminist Challenges to the Reframing of Equality and Social Justice
Global mobility and the present economic, political and refugee crisis have resulted in political contestations and new theoretical challenges. Inspired by several European research projects, in this paper I reflect upon feminist activism and the challenges to reframing equality and social justice in contemporary society (see Siim & Mokre, 2013; Lazaridis et al., 2016). I first discuss intersectional relations between anti-racist activism and fem…
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Leta Hong Fincher: Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China. Zed Books Ldt, 2014Engebretsen, Elisabeth L.: Queer Women in Urban China: An Ethnography. New York and London: Routledge, 2014Jung Chang: Empress Dowager Cixi. The concubine who launched modern China. Alfred A. Knops. New York, 2013Nancy Fraser: Fortunes of Feminism. From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis, Verso. London – New York. 2013
Conflicts and negotiations about framings of gender equality and diversity by political actors within the European public sphere
This article addresses conflicts and negotiations about gender equality and diversity within the European public sphere (EPS). It aims to explore the specific constraints and possibilities for realizing gender equality and justice from the transnational European context. Research illustrates that the European Union (EU) approach to gender equality has strengthened the transnational space of mobilization and given actors new possibilities to negot…
Political Intersectionality and Democratic Politics in the European Public Sphere
The European Union (EU) consists of 27 nation states, and its motto “united in diversity” refers to the right of EU citizens to cross borders and work and live legally in another EU country as well as to the accommodation of national minorities. In spite of this common fate, “diversity” issues have increasingly been associated with conflicts between citizens and noncitizens about integration of new migrant groups. At a time of rising populism in …
Gender diversities – practising intersectionality in the European Union
This article analyses the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion (2010) (EY 2010) with the aim of identifying the nature of gender diversities in European Union policies. We argue that the European Union handles issues related to gender and diversity in particular ways; this approach is characterised by non-citizen/citizen and redistribution/recognition divisions. Employing intersectionality as the methodological approach to gen…
Citizenship
This article addresses the joint challenge presented by migration, globalization, and multilevel governance, where citizenship within and beyond the nation state is renegotiated. It illustrates the classic national citizenship models, the extension of rights—as defined by recent citizenship scholarship—and the differences in citizenship rights in multicultural societies. The article provides an analysis of the gendering of citizenship and discuss…
Køn og intersektionalitet - lokalt, internationalt og globalt. Beretning fra fra et kønsforskningsmiljø i udvikling
Gender, diversity and migration – challenges to Nordic welfare, gender politics and research
Purpose The aim of the article is to discuss the challenges from immigration to Nordic (gender) politics, theories and research. The research question is to what extent Nordic welfare and gender equality politics is based on exclusive solidarity biased towards the native majorities. A key issue is how Nordic gender theory and research has addressed multiple inequalities. The article briefly revisits the academic debates about gender equality, div…
Citoyenneté, genre et diversité
Cet article examine l’articulation entre genre et diversités selon l’origine ethnique / de race et la religion, au regard de la citoyenneté. Il passe en revue les débats et réglementations nationales sur le port du voile islamique en Europe, à partir des résultats du projet veil portant sur huit pays européens. En dépit de stratégies variables quant au port du voile dans le secteur public, il apparaît que les médias traitent la question de ces di…
Citizenship and Politics of Belonging – Inclusionary and Exclusionary Framings of Gender and Ethnicity
The article explores the intersectional approach to citizenship and politics of belonging focusing on the different framings of gender and ethnicity. It investigates the intersections of gender and ethnicity in the construction of national belongings. The hijab debates illustrate the contextual uses of intersectionality in public debates and illuminate the different framings of gender and ethnicity with both inclusionary and exclusionary effects.…
Intersectionality at Work
Tracks, intersections and dead ends
This article discusses multicultural challenges to state feminism in Denmark and Norway, focusing both on similarities and differences in the two countries policy responses. In spite of important differences, we point towards similar problems and dilemmas in the public responses to multiculturalism and diversity among women connected to a state feminist agenda that in both countries has been rather one-sided in its conception of what women-friend…
Woman-friendly policies and state feminism
The overall aim of this article is to explore the analytical potential and normative value of Helga M. Hernes' concept about woman-friendly welfare states in analysis of Scandinavian countries. The first part discusses the underlying theoretical, political and normative assumptions about gender equality and social justice related to dimensions such as redistribution, recognition and representation. The second part addresses the analytical potenti…
Gendering citizenship in Western Europe
The Challenge of Recognizing Diversity from the Perspective of Gender Equality
The objective of this article is to analyse the tension between diversity and gender equality, looking at problems and potentials for inclusion of minority women in the Danish citizenship model. It addresses the intersection of gender and ethnicity, focusing on two main themes. One is the gender‐political challenge of combining the discourse and politics of gender equality with respect for diversity in cultural values, family forms and gender‐equ…
Contesting Citizenship
The pursuit of equal citizenship has been complicated by two recent developments: the emergence of multi‐level governance (and with it the growing importance of local, regional and global levels of citizenship practices) and the emergence of group recognition claims (which signal the growing importance of particularised experiences and multiple inequality agendas). These developments shape the way citizenship is both practiced and analysed. Mappi…
Fra køn til diversitet – intersektionalitet i en dansk/nordisk kontekst
Intersectionality is a travelling concept rooted in Black Feminism that has recently been adopted by Nordic gender research. The concept has been transformed on its way from the US to the Danish/Nordic context. The purpose with this article is to contribute to a critical reflection of the concept and discuss its potentials from a Danish/Nordic context. Adopting a social science optic we first discuss some tensions between the original American un…
The Politics of Inclusion and Empowerment
Globalization poses new challenges for the modern welfare state and democracies. One controversial issue is how struggles for economic equality are linked with struggles for recognition of difference
The women-friendly welfare states revisited
The concept of the women-friendly welfare states, introduced by the Norwegian political scientist Helga Maria Hernes in 1987, has had a considerable influence on welfare theory and research. In this article the normative basis and the analytical potential of the concept are explored. The concept can be criticized for its bias towards social democratic welfare states, which has challenged its analytical potential. Instead of abandoning it altogeth…
Tracks, intersections and dead ends
This article discusses multicultural challenges to state feminism in Denmark and Norway, focusing both on similarities and differences in the two countries policy responses. In spite of important differences, we point towards similar problems and dilemmas in the public responses to multiculturalism and diversity among women connected to a state feminist agenda that in both countries has been rather one-sided in its conception of what women-friend…
Woman-friendly policies and state feminism
The overall aim of this article is to explore the analytical potential and normative value of Helga M. Hernes' concept about woman-friendly welfare states in analysis of Scandinavian countries. The first part discusses the underlying theoretical, political and normative assumptions about gender equality and social justice related to dimensions such as redistribution, recognition and representation. The second part addresses the analytical potenti…
Scandinavian Feminist Debates on Citizenship
The Scandinavian notion of citizenship is based upon a strong participatory tradition. A broad notion of democracy includes not only formal political institutions but also the activities of social movements and voluntary associations in civil society. In social democratic citizenship, tension thus persists between traditions of governance where consensus-building is mediated through centralized corporate negotiations between major economic organi…
Gender, Transitions to Democracy, and Citizenship
Journal Article Gender, Transitions to Democracy, and Citizenship Get access WENDY SARVASY, WENDY SARVASY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar BIRTE SIIM BIRTE SIIM Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 1, Issue 3, Fall 1994, Pages 249–255, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/1.3.249 Published: 01 October 1994
Political Intersectionality and Democratic Politics in the European Public Sphere
The European Union (EU) consists of 27 nation states, and its motto “united in diversity” refers to the right of EU citizens to cross borders and work and live legally in another EU country as well as to the accommodation of national minorities. In spite of this common fate, “diversity” issues have increasingly been associated with conflicts between citizens and noncitizens about integration of new migrant groups. At a time of rising populism in …
The Challenge of Recognizing Diversity from the Perspective of Gender Equality
The objective of this article is to analyse the tension between diversity and gender equality, looking at problems and potentials for inclusion of minority women in the Danish citizenship model. It addresses the intersection of gender and ethnicity, focusing on two main themes. One is the gender‐political challenge of combining the discourse and politics of gender equality with respect for diversity in cultural values, family forms and gender‐equ…
Citizenship and Politics of Belonging – Inclusionary and Exclusionary Framings of Gender and Ethnicity
The article explores the intersectional approach to citizenship and politics of belonging focusing on the different framings of gender and ethnicity. It investigates the intersections of gender and ethnicity in the construction of national belongings. The hijab debates illustrate the contextual uses of intersectionality in public debates and illuminate the different framings of gender and ethnicity with both inclusionary and exclusionary effects.…
Engendering Democracy
Journal Article Engendering Democracy: Social Citizenship and Political Participation for Women in Scandinavia Get access BIRTE SIIM BIRTE SIIM Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 1, Issue 3, Fall 1994, Pages 286–305, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/1.3.286 Published: 01 October 1994
Inclusive Political Intersections of Migration, Race, Gender and Sexuality – The Cases of Austria and Denmark
The article aims to integrate key concepts from social movement, citizenship and gender theories with afocus on (political) intersectionality at the interface of migration, race, gender and sexuality. It explores the responses from civil society groups to the exclusive intersections of right-wing politics and discourses in Austria and Denmark with afocus on inclusive intersectionality and transversal politics. The article asks if and how the inte…
Feminist Challenges to the Reframing of Equality and Social Justice
Global mobility and the present economic, political and refugee crisis have resulted in political contestations and new theoretical challenges. Inspired by several European research projects, in this paper I reflect upon feminist activism and the challenges to reframing equality and social justice in contemporary society (see Siim & Mokre, 2013; Lazaridis et al., 2016). I first discuss intersectional relations between anti-racist activism and fem…
Gender diversities – practising intersectionality in the European Union
This article analyses the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion (2010) (EY 2010) with the aim of identifying the nature of gender diversities in European Union policies. We argue that the European Union handles issues related to gender and diversity in particular ways; this approach is characterised by non-citizen/citizen and redistribution/recognition divisions. Employing intersectionality as the methodological approach to gen…
Vocabularies of citizenship and gender
The language of citizenship has not till recently been used explicitly in the political discourse or in the academic debate about the welfare state and democracy in Denmark. This article explores the connection between citizenship and the sub-vocabularies of social equality, universality and participation in the political discourse. It is suggested that during the 1990s new vocabularies of citizenship have been introduced, as well as a new framew…
Patterns of Reflective Solidarity and Migrant Resistance in Copenhagen and Berlin
Inspired by Jodi Dean's understanding of the reflective solidarity of strangers, this contribution explores forms of migrant solidarity and resistance in Copenhagen and Berlin. It investigates how 'hybrid' forms of solidarity emerged out of different circumstances in Trampoline House and the Oranienplatz refugee protest camp. The two selected cases are particularly interesting for exploring how models of contentious and non-contentious civil soci…
Gender, diversity and migration – challenges to Nordic welfare, gender politics and research
Purpose The aim of the article is to discuss the challenges from immigration to Nordic (gender) politics, theories and research. The research question is to what extent Nordic welfare and gender equality politics is based on exclusive solidarity biased towards the native majorities. A key issue is how Nordic gender theory and research has addressed multiple inequalities. The article briefly revisits the academic debates about gender equality, div…
Citoyenneté, genre et diversité
Cet article examine l’articulation entre genre et diversités selon l’origine ethnique / de race et la religion, au regard de la citoyenneté. Il passe en revue les débats et réglementations nationales sur le port du voile islamique en Europe, à partir des résultats du projet veil portant sur huit pays européens. En dépit de stratégies variables quant au port du voile dans le secteur public, il apparaît que les médias traitent la question de ces di…
Intersectionality at Work
Towards a Contextual and Gender Sensitive European Political Science
The methodological split in political science between different schools, for example between ‘rationalists’ and ‘social constructivists’, has been challenged by feminist political research. The European criticism of the American model of political research can be read as a methodological critique of ethnocentrism and ‘methodological individualism’. Comparatively speaking there is at least a normative vision of a more genuine methodological plural…
Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics
Images from women in a changing Europe
Feministiska tolkningar av samspelet mellan kvinnor och välfärdsstaten
Birte Siim diskuterar i denna artikel, med utgångspunkt i olika tolkningar av den välfärdsstatliga utvecklingen, kvinnors möjligheter att som kollektiv kraft utöva inflytande över samhällsutvecklingen under 90-talet. Under vilka betingelser kan detta ske
Sex Discrimination and Equal Opportunity
Feministiska tolkningar av samspelet mellan kvinnor och välfärdsstaten
Birte Siim diskuterar i denna artikel, med utgångspunkt i olika tolkningar av den välfärdsstatliga utvecklingen, kvinnors möjligheter att som kollektiv kraft utöva inflytande över samhällsutvecklingen under 90-talet. Under vilka betingelser kan detta ske
Gender, Transitions to Democracy, and Citizenship
Journal Article Gender, Transitions to Democracy, and Citizenship Get access WENDY SARVASY, WENDY SARVASY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar BIRTE SIIM BIRTE SIIM Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 1, Issue 3, Fall 1994, Pages 249–255, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/1.3.249 Published: 01 October 1994
Engendering Democracy
Journal Article Engendering Democracy: Social Citizenship and Political Participation for Women in Scandinavia Get access BIRTE SIIM BIRTE SIIM Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 1, Issue 3, Fall 1994, Pages 286–305, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/1.3.286 Published: 01 October 1994
Images from women in a changing Europe
Vocabularies of citizenship and gender
The language of citizenship has not till recently been used explicitly in the political discourse or in the academic debate about the welfare state and democracy in Denmark. This article explores the connection between citizenship and the sub-vocabularies of social equality, universality and participation in the political discourse. It is suggested that during the 1990s new vocabularies of citizenship have been introduced, as well as a new framew…
Demokrati, lighed og forskellighed - Præsentation af Anne Philips, Aalborg Universitets æresdoktor
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Gender and Citizenship
Feminist analysis shows that the prevailing concepts of citizenship often assume a male citizen. How, then, does this affect the agency and participation of women in modern democracies? This insightful book, first published in 2000, presents a systematic comparison of the links between women's social rights and democratic citizenship in three different citizenship models: republican citizenship in France, liberal citizenship in Britain, and socia…
Scandinavian Feminist Debates on Citizenship
The Scandinavian notion of citizenship is based upon a strong participatory tradition. A broad notion of democracy includes not only formal political institutions but also the activities of social movements and voluntary associations in civil society. In social democratic citizenship, tension thus persists between traditions of governance where consensus-building is mediated through centralized corporate negotiations between major economic organi…
Nye udfordringer til feministiske teorier om køn og demokrati
Fuldt og lige medborgerskab i de moderne demokratier omfatter både autonomi i hverdagslivet og indflydelse på samfundsudviklingen. Hvordan er forholdet mellem empowerment i det civile samfund og repræsentation i politiske forsamlinger? Og hvordan er forholdet mellem inklusion i det lille demokrati med rod i hverdagens problemer og i det store demokrati med rod i nationale og globale problemer
Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics
The women-friendly welfare states revisited
The concept of the women-friendly welfare states, introduced by the Norwegian political scientist Helga Maria Hernes in 1987, has had a considerable influence on welfare theory and research. In this article the normative basis and the analytical potential of the concept are explored. The concept can be criticized for its bias towards social democratic welfare states, which has challenged its analytical potential. Instead of abandoning it altogeth…
The Politics of Inclusion and Empowerment
Globalization poses new challenges for the modern welfare state and democracies. One controversial issue is how struggles for economic equality are linked with struggles for recognition of difference
Introduction
Globalisation poses challenges for political and social theory as well as problems for the modern welfare state and democracy in that it demands the development of a new politics of redistribution and recognition. During the 1980s and 1990s a political battle was waged over the restructuring of the welfare state and democracy, followed by an academic debate about the meaning of certain key concepts, including equality, diversity and difference. O…
Towards a Contextual and Gender Sensitive European Political Science
The methodological split in political science between different schools, for example between ‘rationalists’ and ‘social constructivists’, has been challenged by feminist political research. The European criticism of the American model of political research can be read as a methodological critique of ethnocentrism and ‘methodological individualism’. Comparatively speaking there is at least a normative vision of a more genuine methodological plural…
Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics
Fra køn til diversitet – intersektionalitet i en dansk/nordisk kontekst
Intersectionality is a travelling concept rooted in Black Feminism that has recently been adopted by Nordic gender research. The concept has been transformed on its way from the US to the Danish/Nordic context. The purpose with this article is to contribute to a critical reflection of the concept and discuss its potentials from a Danish/Nordic context. Adopting a social science optic we first discuss some tensions between the original American un…
Gendering citizenship in Western Europe
The Challenge of Recognizing Diversity from the Perspective of Gender Equality
The objective of this article is to analyse the tension between diversity and gender equality, looking at problems and potentials for inclusion of minority women in the Danish citizenship model. It addresses the intersection of gender and ethnicity, focusing on two main themes. One is the gender‐political challenge of combining the discourse and politics of gender equality with respect for diversity in cultural values, family forms and gender‐equ…
Contesting Citizenship
The pursuit of equal citizenship has been complicated by two recent developments: the emergence of multi‐level governance (and with it the growing importance of local, regional and global levels of citizenship practices) and the emergence of group recognition claims (which signal the growing importance of particularised experiences and multiple inequality agendas). These developments shape the way citizenship is both practiced and analysed. Mappi…
Tracks, intersections and dead ends
This article discusses multicultural challenges to state feminism in Denmark and Norway, focusing both on similarities and differences in the two countries policy responses. In spite of important differences, we point towards similar problems and dilemmas in the public responses to multiculturalism and diversity among women connected to a state feminist agenda that in both countries has been rather one-sided in its conception of what women-friend…
Woman-friendly policies and state feminism
The overall aim of this article is to explore the analytical potential and normative value of Helga M. Hernes' concept about woman-friendly welfare states in analysis of Scandinavian countries. The first part discusses the underlying theoretical, political and normative assumptions about gender equality and social justice related to dimensions such as redistribution, recognition and representation. The second part addresses the analytical potenti…
Citizenship and Politics of Belonging – Inclusionary and Exclusionary Framings of Gender and Ethnicity
The article explores the intersectional approach to citizenship and politics of belonging focusing on the different framings of gender and ethnicity. It investigates the intersections of gender and ethnicity in the construction of national belongings. The hijab debates illustrate the contextual uses of intersectionality in public debates and illuminate the different framings of gender and ethnicity with both inclusionary and exclusionary effects.…
Intersectionality at Work
Citoyenneté, genre et diversité
Cet article examine l’articulation entre genre et diversités selon l’origine ethnique / de race et la religion, au regard de la citoyenneté. Il passe en revue les débats et réglementations nationales sur le port du voile islamique en Europe, à partir des résultats du projet veil portant sur huit pays européens. En dépit de stratégies variables quant au port du voile dans le secteur public, il apparaît que les médias traitent la question de ces di…
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