Hanne Marlene Dahl
Biographic Data
| ID | 263163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hanne Marlene Dahl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hanne Marlene |
| FAMILY NAME | Dahl |
| SIGNATURE | DAHL H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3921-6015 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Reimagining the Caring State in the Nordic Countries
What is a caring state? The concept of caring state has been discussed in an emerging feminist and political theory literature (Chatzidakis et al. 2020; Daly, 1998; Engster 2007; Kim 2018; Vabø and Szebehely 2012). Often viewed as a concrete materialization of the Nordic welfare state ideal, a caring state is conceived as providing care that is universal, generous, good quality, accessible, affordable, flexible, and used by (almost) all (Vabø and…
Tinkering with good care: Professional judgment and innovations in Danish nursing homes
This article examines the COVID-19 pandemic as a large-scale natural experiment, presenting unique opportunities for reflection and insights into what constitutes 'good care' for front-line managers in Danish nursing homes. Using care and institutional theory, this exploratory study delves into how professional judgment and innovation redefine practices in nursing homes to provide quality care based upon qualitative questions in a national quanti…
How Welfare Professions Contribute to the Making of Welfare Governance: Professional Agency and Institutional Work in Elder Care
Welfare governance in elder care has undergone significant changes, but we know less about the processes and actors of making welfare governance. This is problematic, as the concern for process is a key strength of the welfare governance perspective. Based on a case study of elder care in Denmark, and drawing on studies of professions, the aim is to analyse how welfare professions contribute to the making of welfare governance. Our analysis shows…
Strangers in care: Using literature to re-theorise care for the oldest old
Regulated fragmentation organises care of the vulnerable older people into elements provided by the caring family, professionals, care workers from public/private providers and volunteers. In this exploratory article, I consider the role of the stranger in modern care management, a role that has up to now been neglected or been understood largely in terms of a migrant worker. Using literature, applying discourse analysis and drawing upon Simmel a…
Dilemmas of Care in the Nordic Welfare State: Continuity and Change
The Political Construction of Elder Care Markets: Comparing Denmark, Finland and Italy
In Europe over the last two decades, marketization has become an important policy option in elder care. Comparative studies predominantly adopt an institutional perspective and analyze the politics and policies of marketization. This analysis takes a step back and examines the fundamental ideas underpinning the policies of marketization, using the ‘What's the problem?’ approach by Carol Bacchi. The central question is how the market was discursiv…
Rethinking Global Care Chains through the Perspective of Heterogeneous States, Discursive Framings and Multi-Level Governance
In investigating global and regional care chains, scholars have traditionally adopted a sociological bottom-up approach, but more attention has recently been focussed on the role of the state. Despite this new attention to states and how they condition care chains, the existing frameworks cannot grasp the complexity of potential struggles and tensions within states and at the various state levels. In outlining a broad and tentative analytical fra…
Navigating the field of temporally framed care in the Danish home care sector
The organisational and temporal framing of elderly care in Europe has changed in the wake of new public management reforms and standardised care services, the strict measurement of time and work schedules have become central aspects of care work. The article investigates the crafting of care in this framing: how care workers approach the services specified in their rotas and navigate between needs, demands and opportunities in the daily performan…
Coexisting principles and logics of elder care: Help to self‐help and consumer‐oriented service
Healthy and active ageing has become an ideal in W estern societies. In the N ordic countries, this ideal has been supported through a policy of help to self‐help in elder care since the 1980s. However, reforms inspired by N ew P ublic M anagement ( NPM ) have introduced a new policy principle of consumer‐oriented service that stresses the wishes and priorities of older people. We have studied how these two principles are applied by care workers …
Trajectories of Change in Danish Long Term Care Policies—Reproduction by Adaptation through Top-Down and Bottom-Up Reforms
Omsorg, styring og køn gennem tavshed og italesættelse
The governance of care consists of both things said and not said. Whereas care has increasingly entered the political agenda, there is a simultaneous process of silencing parts of care in political discourses both nationally and within the EU. This constitutes a paradox – and a condition of possibility. Through bricolage various new elements in the governance of care such as New Public Management and Europeanization are discussed inspired by theo…
Dette nummers samlede anmeldelser
I dette nummer er følgnde bøger blevet anmeldt:Peter Edelberg: Storbyen trækker. Homoseksualitet, prostitution og pornografi i Danmark 1945-1976. Jurist- og Økonomforbundets Forlag, 2012.Helma Lutz: The New Maids – Transnational Women and the Care Economy. Zed Books, 2011.Sofie Danneskiold-Samsøe, Yvonne Mørck og Bo Wagner Sørensen: ‘Familien betyder alt’ Vold mod kvinder i etniske minoritetsfamilier. Frydenlund, 2011
Neo-liberalism Meets the Nordic Welfare State—Gaps and Silences
It seems an impossible task to write critically and reflexively about the contemporary status of research on neo-liberalism. This can be blamed on both the broad, elusive usage of neo-liberalism as
Tavshed som magt og afmagt
Hvorfor beskæftige sig med tavshed? Fordi tavshed kan indikere både fraværet af magt, afmagt og magt. Tavshed er således ikke en entydig størrelse, og der er også identificeret forskellige former for tavshed i den internationale forskning. Men der savnes i forskningslitteraturen dels en specifik forståelse af tavshed som en proces, dels konkrete analysestrategier til at identificere forskellige former for tavshed i tekster. Derfor fokuseres der i…
Europeanization, Care and Gender
This collection addresses the complexity of care arrangements in contemporary Europe, developing new insights into debates about the care crisis, gender equality, the division of work and the reconcil
Concluding Remarks
This book has focused on varieties of care in present-day diversified Europe. If at times care has been seen as something personal, intimate, familial and private, the chapters in the book display the fact that the idea of care can no longer exclusively be understood as personal and intimate, nor within a nation-state container, but needs a transnational perspective encompassing broad and complex processes of Europeanization and globalization. Th…
Europeanization, Care and Gender: Global Complexities
Nye styringsformer og anerkendelseskamp - den vrede hjemmehjælper
New forms of Governance and Struggles about Recognition – the angry Home Helper? Struggles about recognition of care have evolved during the last decade in Western Europe. In Denmark struggles can be found within the field of elderly care and publicly employed home helpers. This mobilization seems to be related to the prevalence of a new form of governance, New Public Manage- ment (NPM), and is investigated from a top-down and a bottom-up perspec…
An Old Map of State Feminism and an Insufficient Recognition of Care
Feminists have documented that care suffers from insufficient valorization due to its associations with the private and the feminine. Traditionally, they have argued that its recognition should be achieved by the state and/or through the professionalizing of care. When considering state-organized elderly care in one of the Scandinavian countries, Denmark, these strategies seem inadequate. This is a fundamental problem for feminist theory inspired…
New Public Management, care and struggles about recognition
New Public Management (NPM) is usually perceived as a homogeneous discourse. However, when we examine it by looking at micro-politics in municipalities and understand its consequences drawing on the voices of home helpers, the picture is more complex and ambiguous. NPM is seen as disciplining paid public elderly care by limiting and forming the understandings applied through two combined but different logics: a usually dominant logic of details a…
Gender and the state: From differences between to differences within
The article argues from a Nordic, feminist and poststructuralist position that feminist state theories need to be developed methodologically. This claim is based on both theoretical arguments as well as empirical arguments arising from a case study on care politics in Denmark. In contrast to answering questions about the essence of the state, the aim of the article is to provide some analytical tools for studying the state. First, it focuses on t…
Interview med Nancy Fraser: Anerkendelse, omfordeling og repræsentation
Lighed og Anerkendelse
Recognition, Redistribution and Representation in Capitalist Global Society: An Interview with Nancy Fraser
Nancy Fraser is a Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science of the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, New York, USA, and is considered one of the leading theorists within the 1990s recognition theoretical turn. She works with analyses of contemporary societal developments from a normatively informed position. Her analytical framework is applicable to current, empirical studies o…
A View from the Inside: Recognition and Redistribution in the Nordic Welfare State from a Gender Perspective
The Nordic model is often seen as having succeeded in gaining recognition for care-giving work and as embodying a potentially women friendly state model owing to the availability of publicly provided care for the elderly and pre-school children. This simple story neglects one particular group of women - publicly employed home-helpers and the valorization of their care-giving work. Applying Nancy Fraser's dual theory of justice gives us a normativ…
Recognition, Redistribution and Representation in Capitalist Global Society: An Interview with Nancy Fraser
Nancy Fraser is a Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science of the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, New York, USA, and is considered one of the leading theorists within the 1990s recognition theoretical turn. She works with analyses of contemporary societal developments from a normatively informed position. Her analytical framework is applicable to current, empirical studies o…
Navigating the field of temporally framed care in the Danish home care sector
The organisational and temporal framing of elderly care in Europe has changed in the wake of new public management reforms and standardised care services, the strict measurement of time and work schedules have become central aspects of care work. The article investigates the crafting of care in this framing: how care workers approach the services specified in their rotas and navigate between needs, demands and opportunities in the daily performan…
Neo-liberalism Meets the Nordic Welfare State—Gaps and Silences
It seems an impossible task to write critically and reflexively about the contemporary status of research on neo-liberalism. This can be blamed on both the broad, elusive usage of neo-liberalism as
New Public Management, care and struggles about recognition
New Public Management (NPM) is usually perceived as a homogeneous discourse. However, when we examine it by looking at micro-politics in municipalities and understand its consequences drawing on the voices of home helpers, the picture is more complex and ambiguous. NPM is seen as disciplining paid public elderly care by limiting and forming the understandings applied through two combined but different logics: a usually dominant logic of details a…
An Old Map of State Feminism and an Insufficient Recognition of Care
Feminists have documented that care suffers from insufficient valorization due to its associations with the private and the feminine. Traditionally, they have argued that its recognition should be achieved by the state and/or through the professionalizing of care. When considering state-organized elderly care in one of the Scandinavian countries, Denmark, these strategies seem inadequate. This is a fundamental problem for feminist theory inspired…
A View from the Inside: Recognition and Redistribution in the Nordic Welfare State from a Gender Perspective
The Nordic model is often seen as having succeeded in gaining recognition for care-giving work and as embodying a potentially women friendly state model owing to the availability of publicly provided care for the elderly and pre-school children. This simple story neglects one particular group of women - publicly employed home-helpers and the valorization of their care-giving work. Applying Nancy Fraser's dual theory of justice gives us a normativ…
Gender and the state: From differences between to differences within
The article argues from a Nordic, feminist and poststructuralist position that feminist state theories need to be developed methodologically. This claim is based on both theoretical arguments as well as empirical arguments arising from a case study on care politics in Denmark. In contrast to answering questions about the essence of the state, the aim of the article is to provide some analytical tools for studying the state. First, it focuses on t…
Coexisting principles and logics of elder care: Help to self‐help and consumer‐oriented service
Healthy and active ageing has become an ideal in W estern societies. In the N ordic countries, this ideal has been supported through a policy of help to self‐help in elder care since the 1980s. However, reforms inspired by N ew P ublic M anagement ( NPM ) have introduced a new policy principle of consumer‐oriented service that stresses the wishes and priorities of older people. We have studied how these two principles are applied by care workers …
The Political Construction of Elder Care Markets: Comparing Denmark, Finland and Italy
In Europe over the last two decades, marketization has become an important policy option in elder care. Comparative studies predominantly adopt an institutional perspective and analyze the politics and policies of marketization. This analysis takes a step back and examines the fundamental ideas underpinning the policies of marketization, using the ‘What's the problem?’ approach by Carol Bacchi. The central question is how the market was discursiv…
How Welfare Professions Contribute to the Making of Welfare Governance: Professional Agency and Institutional Work in Elder Care
Welfare governance in elder care has undergone significant changes, but we know less about the processes and actors of making welfare governance. This is problematic, as the concern for process is a key strength of the welfare governance perspective. Based on a case study of elder care in Denmark, and drawing on studies of professions, the aim is to analyse how welfare professions contribute to the making of welfare governance. Our analysis shows…
Rethinking Global Care Chains through the Perspective of Heterogeneous States, Discursive Framings and Multi-Level Governance
In investigating global and regional care chains, scholars have traditionally adopted a sociological bottom-up approach, but more attention has recently been focussed on the role of the state. Despite this new attention to states and how they condition care chains, the existing frameworks cannot grasp the complexity of potential struggles and tensions within states and at the various state levels. In outlining a broad and tentative analytical fra…
A Perceptive and Reflective State
A perceptive and reflective state? Such a state might not exist yet, but it refers to an ideal for state-provided care which can protect both the caregiver and recipient of care from emotional overload and indifference. Such an ideal introduces new lines of enquiry to contemporary theories of care and their sociological orientation. It is argued that theories of care need to be combined with insights from political science concerning power and di…
Mellem kærlighed og arbejde - Omsorgsteori: Traditioner og centrale temaer
This is a survey of feminist theories of care, its main themes and an argument about some of its shortcomings. Various ways of understanding care and how it has been related to gender are presented. The author argues that there exists a British and a Scandinavian tradition which have had two different analytical and normative orientations. Converging traditions, which, however, neglect the theorization of knowledge, feelings and power
Mellem kærlighed og arbejde - Omsorgsteori: Traditioner og centrale temaer
This is a survey of feminist theories of care, its main themes and an argument about some of its shortcomings. Various ways of understanding care and how it has been related to gender are presented. The author argues that there exists a British and a Scandinavian tradition which have had two different analytical and normative orientations. Converging traditions, which, however, neglect the theorization of knowledge, feelings and power
A Perceptive and Reflective State
A perceptive and reflective state? Such a state might not exist yet, but it refers to an ideal for state-provided care which can protect both the caregiver and recipient of care from emotional overload and indifference. Such an ideal introduces new lines of enquiry to contemporary theories of care and their sociological orientation. It is argued that theories of care need to be combined with insights from political science concerning power and di…
Empowerment og disempowerment? - To historier om hjemmehjælperfeltet
Hvordan skal udviklingen af en omsorgspolitik på hjemmehjælperfeltet tolkes? Som empowerment eller som disempowerment? Er italesættelse bedre end tavshed? Diskursanalysen af professionalisme, omsorg og køn diskuterer udviklingen af omsorgsarbejdet i perioden 1943-1995
Recognition, Redistribution and Representation in Capitalist Global Society: An Interview with Nancy Fraser
Nancy Fraser is a Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science of the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, New York, USA, and is considered one of the leading theorists within the 1990s recognition theoretical turn. She works with analyses of contemporary societal developments from a normatively informed position. Her analytical framework is applicable to current, empirical studies o…
A View from the Inside: Recognition and Redistribution in the Nordic Welfare State from a Gender Perspective
The Nordic model is often seen as having succeeded in gaining recognition for care-giving work and as embodying a potentially women friendly state model owing to the availability of publicly provided care for the elderly and pre-school children. This simple story neglects one particular group of women - publicly employed home-helpers and the valorization of their care-giving work. Applying Nancy Fraser's dual theory of justice gives us a normativ…
Gender and the state: From differences between to differences within
The article argues from a Nordic, feminist and poststructuralist position that feminist state theories need to be developed methodologically. This claim is based on both theoretical arguments as well as empirical arguments arising from a case study on care politics in Denmark. In contrast to answering questions about the essence of the state, the aim of the article is to provide some analytical tools for studying the state. First, it focuses on t…
Interview med Nancy Fraser: Anerkendelse, omfordeling og repræsentation
Lighed og Anerkendelse
New Public Management, care and struggles about recognition
New Public Management (NPM) is usually perceived as a homogeneous discourse. However, when we examine it by looking at micro-politics in municipalities and understand its consequences drawing on the voices of home helpers, the picture is more complex and ambiguous. NPM is seen as disciplining paid public elderly care by limiting and forming the understandings applied through two combined but different logics: a usually dominant logic of details a…
Nye styringsformer og anerkendelseskamp - den vrede hjemmehjælper
New forms of Governance and Struggles about Recognition – the angry Home Helper? Struggles about recognition of care have evolved during the last decade in Western Europe. In Denmark struggles can be found within the field of elderly care and publicly employed home helpers. This mobilization seems to be related to the prevalence of a new form of governance, New Public Manage- ment (NPM), and is investigated from a top-down and a bottom-up perspec…
An Old Map of State Feminism and an Insufficient Recognition of Care
Feminists have documented that care suffers from insufficient valorization due to its associations with the private and the feminine. Traditionally, they have argued that its recognition should be achieved by the state and/or through the professionalizing of care. When considering state-organized elderly care in one of the Scandinavian countries, Denmark, these strategies seem inadequate. This is a fundamental problem for feminist theory inspired…
Europeanization, Care and Gender
This collection addresses the complexity of care arrangements in contemporary Europe, developing new insights into debates about the care crisis, gender equality, the division of work and the reconcil
Concluding Remarks
This book has focused on varieties of care in present-day diversified Europe. If at times care has been seen as something personal, intimate, familial and private, the chapters in the book display the fact that the idea of care can no longer exclusively be understood as personal and intimate, nor within a nation-state container, but needs a transnational perspective encompassing broad and complex processes of Europeanization and globalization. Th…
Europeanization, Care and Gender: Global Complexities
Neo-liberalism Meets the Nordic Welfare State—Gaps and Silences
It seems an impossible task to write critically and reflexively about the contemporary status of research on neo-liberalism. This can be blamed on both the broad, elusive usage of neo-liberalism as
Tavshed som magt og afmagt
Hvorfor beskæftige sig med tavshed? Fordi tavshed kan indikere både fraværet af magt, afmagt og magt. Tavshed er således ikke en entydig størrelse, og der er også identificeret forskellige former for tavshed i den internationale forskning. Men der savnes i forskningslitteraturen dels en specifik forståelse af tavshed som en proces, dels konkrete analysestrategier til at identificere forskellige former for tavshed i tekster. Derfor fokuseres der i…
Trajectories of Change in Danish Long Term Care Policies—Reproduction by Adaptation through Top-Down and Bottom-Up Reforms
Omsorg, styring og køn gennem tavshed og italesættelse
The governance of care consists of both things said and not said. Whereas care has increasingly entered the political agenda, there is a simultaneous process of silencing parts of care in political discourses both nationally and within the EU. This constitutes a paradox – and a condition of possibility. Through bricolage various new elements in the governance of care such as New Public Management and Europeanization are discussed inspired by theo…
Dette nummers samlede anmeldelser
I dette nummer er følgnde bøger blevet anmeldt:Peter Edelberg: Storbyen trækker. Homoseksualitet, prostitution og pornografi i Danmark 1945-1976. Jurist- og Økonomforbundets Forlag, 2012.Helma Lutz: The New Maids – Transnational Women and the Care Economy. Zed Books, 2011.Sofie Danneskiold-Samsøe, Yvonne Mørck og Bo Wagner Sørensen: ‘Familien betyder alt’ Vold mod kvinder i etniske minoritetsfamilier. Frydenlund, 2011
Coexisting principles and logics of elder care: Help to self‐help and consumer‐oriented service
Healthy and active ageing has become an ideal in W estern societies. In the N ordic countries, this ideal has been supported through a policy of help to self‐help in elder care since the 1980s. However, reforms inspired by N ew P ublic M anagement ( NPM ) have introduced a new policy principle of consumer‐oriented service that stresses the wishes and priorities of older people. We have studied how these two principles are applied by care workers …
Navigating the field of temporally framed care in the Danish home care sector
The organisational and temporal framing of elderly care in Europe has changed in the wake of new public management reforms and standardised care services, the strict measurement of time and work schedules have become central aspects of care work. The article investigates the crafting of care in this framing: how care workers approach the services specified in their rotas and navigate between needs, demands and opportunities in the daily performan…
The Political Construction of Elder Care Markets: Comparing Denmark, Finland and Italy
In Europe over the last two decades, marketization has become an important policy option in elder care. Comparative studies predominantly adopt an institutional perspective and analyze the politics and policies of marketization. This analysis takes a step back and examines the fundamental ideas underpinning the policies of marketization, using the ‘What's the problem?’ approach by Carol Bacchi. The central question is how the market was discursiv…
Rethinking Global Care Chains through the Perspective of Heterogeneous States, Discursive Framings and Multi-Level Governance
In investigating global and regional care chains, scholars have traditionally adopted a sociological bottom-up approach, but more attention has recently been focussed on the role of the state. Despite this new attention to states and how they condition care chains, the existing frameworks cannot grasp the complexity of potential struggles and tensions within states and at the various state levels. In outlining a broad and tentative analytical fra…
Dilemmas of Care in the Nordic Welfare State: Continuity and Change
Strangers in care: Using literature to re-theorise care for the oldest old
Regulated fragmentation organises care of the vulnerable older people into elements provided by the caring family, professionals, care workers from public/private providers and volunteers. In this exploratory article, I consider the role of the stranger in modern care management, a role that has up to now been neglected or been understood largely in terms of a migrant worker. Using literature, applying discourse analysis and drawing upon Simmel a…
Political science (22 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (17 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (12 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works)