Ylva Odenbring
Biographic Data
| ID | 263496 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ylva Odenbring |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ylva |
| FAMILY NAME | Odenbring |
| SIGNATURE | ODENBRING Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8221-8980 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
I couldn’t Even Be in the Corridors During Breaks Because I Didn’t Feel Safe”
LGBTQ+ students are exposed to student violations and discriminatory acts in secondary school to a much higher degree than non-LGBTQ+ students. In this article, we investigate how different spaces in school interact with processes of social inclusion and exclusion and how this affects LGBTQ+ students’ experiences of belonging and safety at secondary school. The analyses in the article are presented as movements through classrooms, corridors, cant…
"A vaccine for everyone? Biosexual citizenship, LGBTQ+ health and sexual practice in HPV vaccination policy-settings for "high-risk groups
In this article we draw upon the notion of biosexual citizenship to examine claims and assumptions about (LGBTQ+) health and sexuality, HPV transmission and the HPV vaccine in policy-actors' accounts about the potential need for men who have sex with men, trans people and people living with HIV to access the HPV vaccine. Building on interviews with public health officials and LGBTQ + health organisation employees in Sweden, the article shows how …
Gender, sex and equal health
Since autumn 2020, boys in the fifth year of school (11-year-old students) in Sweden have been offered human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination for free. Drawing from individual interviews with 21 school nurses working in primary schools in one of Sweden’s regions, the aim of this study was to explore nurses’ strategies and experiences of informing students and their guardians about the new vaccination programme, HPV and sex. Drawing on feminist th…
The needle pricking and two modes of 'doing good' in the Swedish school-based human papillomavirus vaccination programme
In this article, we draw on science and technology studies literature on care practices to analyse school nurses' work with human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in schools, in the context of a new vaccination policy including all children in the fifth grade in Sweden. Drawing on 21 interviews with school nurses working in municipalities across a larger Swedish region, we focus on the mundane work of handling the vaccination and supporting the c…
Violence, Victimisation and Young People
Trapped Between
Research with a specific focus on bisexual students’ schooling experiences is still quite rare, and studies focusing on bisexual students’ positive schooling experiences are even more uncommon. The present study addresses this scarcity by analyzing interviews with students from a lower secondary school in Sweden. In the article, the center of analysis is one key informant, a male bisexual student who has had positive experiences of ‘coming out’ a…
They don't even think about what the girl might think about it
This study explores teenage students’ views on sexting, with particular regard to image sharing, as well as how this shapes gender relations at a rural lower secondary school in Sweden. Among the boys at the school, students’ sexting practices have created a hegemonic and homosocial peer culture. Homosociality is expressed by boys’ sharing images of girls with their male peers without the girls’ consent. The girls express how the exchanging of ex…
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…
Strong boys and supergirls? School professionals’ perceptions of students’ mental health and gender in secondary school
During the first decades of the twenty-first century, adolescents’ perceived stress has been reported to be an important factor in explaining the health problems among students in Swedish schools. Based on interviews with key professionals working in the student welfare team in three secondary schools, the present article aims to contribute new knowledge concerning how the school professionals describe and explain students’ mental health with reg…
Gender and social class in Nordic early childhood educational ethnography – a meta-analysis
This article provides a meta-analysis of what characterises existing ethnographic research on gender and class in the context of Nordic early childhood education. The encompasses research on education and gender or social class in the Nordic countries published in Nordic and non-Nordic scientific journals as well PhD theses published in the Nordic countries. The analysis suggests that even though Nordic countries have a reputation for being ‘role…
Playful space invaders
The current article links masculine leisure with bodily performances and playfulness connected to global neoliberal expressions of gender, class and ethnicity. This study draws from an analysis of a skateboard video of young white middle-class men skateboarding in an urban environment in one of Sweden’s greater metropolitan areas. An interview with the young man who created the video was also conducted. The analysis brings together lines of inqui…
Standing alone
Studies worldwide indicate that sexual minority students often face different forms of bullying in everyday life at school, and young people growing up in communities with conservative values, such as in rural areas, are often in a particularly vulnerable position. Nonetheless, there is an absence of studies addressing the everyday lives of sexual minority students in rural schools. Drawing on interviews with students in the ninth grade of a rura…
Tough-Girl Femininity, Sisterhood and Respectability
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…
If they're allowed to wear a veil, we should be allowed to wear caps”
The Absent Victim
The present study examines how a number of Swedish schools define and categorize students who have been exposed to different forms of violent or abusive acts in school. The study will shed light on how categorizations and forms of explanation used in the schools by professionals emerge from central institutional and professional discourses. The data are gathered from interviews with key officials and observations from school health team meetings.…
The Daily Life and Reality Behind Child Poverty in Sweden
Today, approximately 12% of children growing up in Sweden are living in what could be defined as child poverty. Although the number of children living in poverty has slightly decreased during recent years, social exclusion and segregation between different groups in society have increased. The present study will shed a light on the reality of how children and adolescents living in poverty experience their daily lives. Analytically, the study expl…
Violence in urban schools
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…
Mental Health, Drug Use and Adolescence
Today, an increasing number of students are suffering from different kinds of mental health problems. Still, we know little about how professionals in secondary school and other professionals in society handle and collaborate around these issues. The findings from the present study make an important contribution to the research field regarding professionals’ efforts to meet the needs of vulnerable students. The present study investigates how scho…
The many faces of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
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 ‘at risk’
The present article focuses on how the so-called War on terror discourse has merged into the educational system and brought about a securitization of education. As a part of efforts to prevent young people from becoming radicalized into terrorism, the educational system is expected to be able to detect individuals ‘at risk’ and deploy methods to prevent radicalization from happening. Through the critical discourse analysis of a collection of educ…
A strong commitment
The focus of the present study is on how educators and students create a ‘sense of belonging’ and school identity. The ethnography was carried out at an independent Christian school with children and students aged six to sixteen years. This study’s aim is to contribute knowledge about how the identity of a school has become an important factor in the context of the marketisation of education. The identity of the school is articulated as a school …
Blaming and Framing the Family
Juridik eller socialpedagogik
Legal perspectives or Social Pedagogy? Schools strategies of handling harassmentsThe present study explores how Swedish schools define and categorize situations when students have been exposed to different forms of abusive acts and violence at school. The empirical study is designed as case studie of two urban secondary schools situated in areas with different socioeconomic conditions. One of the schools is located in a suburb in one of the most …
Youth victimisation, school and family support
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
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…
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…
If they're allowed to wear a veil, we should be allowed to wear caps”
Tough-Girl Femininity, Sisterhood and Respectability
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
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…
Standing alone
Studies worldwide indicate that sexual minority students often face different forms of bullying in everyday life at school, and young people growing up in communities with conservative values, such as in rural areas, are often in a particularly vulnerable position. Nonetheless, there is an absence of studies addressing the everyday lives of sexual minority students in rural schools. Drawing on interviews with students in the ninth grade of a rura…
The Absent Victim
The present study examines how a number of Swedish schools define and categorize students who have been exposed to different forms of violent or abusive acts in school. The study will shed light on how categorizations and forms of explanation used in the schools by professionals emerge from central institutional and professional discourses. The data are gathered from interviews with key officials and observations from school health team meetings.…
Youth ‘at risk’
The present article focuses on how the so-called War on terror discourse has merged into the educational system and brought about a securitization of education. As a part of efforts to prevent young people from becoming radicalized into terrorism, the educational system is expected to be able to detect individuals ‘at risk’ and deploy methods to prevent radicalization from happening. Through the critical discourse analysis of a collection of educ…
The needle pricking and two modes of 'doing good' in the Swedish school-based human papillomavirus vaccination programme
In this article, we draw on science and technology studies literature on care practices to analyse school nurses' work with human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in schools, in the context of a new vaccination policy including all children in the fifth grade in Sweden. Drawing on 21 interviews with school nurses working in municipalities across a larger Swedish region, we focus on the mundane work of handling the vaccination and supporting the c…
They don't even think about what the girl might think about it
This study explores teenage students’ views on sexting, with particular regard to image sharing, as well as how this shapes gender relations at a rural lower secondary school in Sweden. Among the boys at the school, students’ sexting practices have created a hegemonic and homosocial peer culture. Homosociality is expressed by boys’ sharing images of girls with their male peers without the girls’ consent. The girls express how the exchanging of ex…
Playful space invaders
The current article links masculine leisure with bodily performances and playfulness connected to global neoliberal expressions of gender, class and ethnicity. This study draws from an analysis of a skateboard video of young white middle-class men skateboarding in an urban environment in one of Sweden’s greater metropolitan areas. An interview with the young man who created the video was also conducted. The analysis brings together lines of inqui…
The Daily Life and Reality Behind Child Poverty in Sweden
Today, approximately 12% of children growing up in Sweden are living in what could be defined as child poverty. Although the number of children living in poverty has slightly decreased during recent years, social exclusion and segregation between different groups in society have increased. The present study will shed a light on the reality of how children and adolescents living in poverty experience their daily lives. Analytically, the study expl…
The many faces of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
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…
A strong commitment
The focus of the present study is on how educators and students create a ‘sense of belonging’ and school identity. The ethnography was carried out at an independent Christian school with children and students aged six to sixteen years. This study’s aim is to contribute knowledge about how the identity of a school has become an important factor in the context of the marketisation of education. The identity of the school is articulated as a school …
Youth victimisation, school and family support
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 …
Trapped Between
Research with a specific focus on bisexual students’ schooling experiences is still quite rare, and studies focusing on bisexual students’ positive schooling experiences are even more uncommon. The present study addresses this scarcity by analyzing interviews with students from a lower secondary school in Sweden. In the article, the center of analysis is one key informant, a male bisexual student who has had positive experiences of ‘coming out’ a…
Strong boys and supergirls? School professionals’ perceptions of students’ mental health and gender in secondary school
During the first decades of the twenty-first century, adolescents’ perceived stress has been reported to be an important factor in explaining the health problems among students in Swedish schools. Based on interviews with key professionals working in the student welfare team in three secondary schools, the present article aims to contribute new knowledge concerning how the school professionals describe and explain students’ mental health with reg…
Violence in urban schools
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…
Youth victimisation, school and family support
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
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…
Youth ‘at risk’
The present article focuses on how the so-called War on terror discourse has merged into the educational system and brought about a securitization of education. As a part of efforts to prevent young people from becoming radicalized into terrorism, the educational system is expected to be able to detect individuals ‘at risk’ and deploy methods to prevent radicalization from happening. Through the critical discourse analysis of a collection of educ…
A strong commitment
The focus of the present study is on how educators and students create a ‘sense of belonging’ and school identity. The ethnography was carried out at an independent Christian school with children and students aged six to sixteen years. This study’s aim is to contribute knowledge about how the identity of a school has become an important factor in the context of the marketisation of education. The identity of the school is articulated as a school …
Blaming and Framing the Family
Juridik eller socialpedagogik
Legal perspectives or Social Pedagogy? Schools strategies of handling harassmentsThe present study explores how Swedish schools define and categorize situations when students have been exposed to different forms of abusive acts and violence at school. The empirical study is designed as case studie of two urban secondary schools situated in areas with different socioeconomic conditions. One of the schools is located in a suburb in one of the most …
The many faces of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
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 Daily Life and Reality Behind Child Poverty in Sweden
Today, approximately 12% of children growing up in Sweden are living in what could be defined as child poverty. Although the number of children living in poverty has slightly decreased during recent years, social exclusion and segregation between different groups in society have increased. The present study will shed a light on the reality of how children and adolescents living in poverty experience their daily lives. Analytically, the study expl…
Violence in urban schools
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…
Mental Health, Drug Use and Adolescence
Today, an increasing number of students are suffering from different kinds of mental health problems. Still, we know little about how professionals in secondary school and other professionals in society handle and collaborate around these issues. The findings from the present study make an important contribution to the research field regarding professionals’ efforts to meet the needs of vulnerable students. The present study investigates how scho…
Strong boys and supergirls? School professionals’ perceptions of students’ mental health and gender in secondary school
During the first decades of the twenty-first century, adolescents’ perceived stress has been reported to be an important factor in explaining the health problems among students in Swedish schools. Based on interviews with key professionals working in the student welfare team in three secondary schools, the present article aims to contribute new knowledge concerning how the school professionals describe and explain students’ mental health with reg…
Gender and social class in Nordic early childhood educational ethnography – a meta-analysis
This article provides a meta-analysis of what characterises existing ethnographic research on gender and class in the context of Nordic early childhood education. The encompasses research on education and gender or social class in the Nordic countries published in Nordic and non-Nordic scientific journals as well PhD theses published in the Nordic countries. The analysis suggests that even though Nordic countries have a reputation for being ‘role…
Playful space invaders
The current article links masculine leisure with bodily performances and playfulness connected to global neoliberal expressions of gender, class and ethnicity. This study draws from an analysis of a skateboard video of young white middle-class men skateboarding in an urban environment in one of Sweden’s greater metropolitan areas. An interview with the young man who created the video was also conducted. The analysis brings together lines of inqui…
Standing alone
Studies worldwide indicate that sexual minority students often face different forms of bullying in everyday life at school, and young people growing up in communities with conservative values, such as in rural areas, are often in a particularly vulnerable position. Nonetheless, there is an absence of studies addressing the everyday lives of sexual minority students in rural schools. Drawing on interviews with students in the ninth grade of a rura…
Tough-Girl Femininity, Sisterhood and Respectability
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…
If they're allowed to wear a veil, we should be allowed to wear caps”
The Absent Victim
The present study examines how a number of Swedish schools define and categorize students who have been exposed to different forms of violent or abusive acts in school. The study will shed light on how categorizations and forms of explanation used in the schools by professionals emerge from central institutional and professional discourses. The data are gathered from interviews with key officials and observations from school health team meetings.…
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…
Violence, Victimisation and Young People
Trapped Between
Research with a specific focus on bisexual students’ schooling experiences is still quite rare, and studies focusing on bisexual students’ positive schooling experiences are even more uncommon. The present study addresses this scarcity by analyzing interviews with students from a lower secondary school in Sweden. In the article, the center of analysis is one key informant, a male bisexual student who has had positive experiences of ‘coming out’ a…
They don't even think about what the girl might think about it
This study explores teenage students’ views on sexting, with particular regard to image sharing, as well as how this shapes gender relations at a rural lower secondary school in Sweden. Among the boys at the school, students’ sexting practices have created a hegemonic and homosocial peer culture. Homosociality is expressed by boys’ sharing images of girls with their male peers without the girls’ consent. The girls express how the exchanging of ex…
The needle pricking and two modes of 'doing good' in the Swedish school-based human papillomavirus vaccination programme
In this article, we draw on science and technology studies literature on care practices to analyse school nurses' work with human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in schools, in the context of a new vaccination policy including all children in the fifth grade in Sweden. Drawing on 21 interviews with school nurses working in municipalities across a larger Swedish region, we focus on the mundane work of handling the vaccination and supporting the c…
Gender, sex and equal health
Since autumn 2020, boys in the fifth year of school (11-year-old students) in Sweden have been offered human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination for free. Drawing from individual interviews with 21 school nurses working in primary schools in one of Sweden’s regions, the aim of this study was to explore nurses’ strategies and experiences of informing students and their guardians about the new vaccination programme, HPV and sex. Drawing on feminist th…
"A vaccine for everyone? Biosexual citizenship, LGBTQ+ health and sexual practice in HPV vaccination policy-settings for "high-risk groups
In this article we draw upon the notion of biosexual citizenship to examine claims and assumptions about (LGBTQ+) health and sexuality, HPV transmission and the HPV vaccine in policy-actors' accounts about the potential need for men who have sex with men, trans people and people living with HIV to access the HPV vaccine. Building on interviews with public health officials and LGBTQ + health organisation employees in Sweden, the article shows how …
I couldn’t Even Be in the Corridors During Breaks Because I Didn’t Feel Safe”
LGBTQ+ students are exposed to student violations and discriminatory acts in secondary school to a much higher degree than non-LGBTQ+ students. In this article, we investigate how different spaces in school interact with processes of social inclusion and exclusion and how this affects LGBTQ+ students’ experiences of belonging and safety at secondary school. The analyses in the article are presented as movements through classrooms, corridors, cant…
Sociology (19 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Narrative (7 works) · Pedagogy (7 works)