Erika Alm
Biographic Data
| ID | 327533 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erika Alm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erika |
| FAMILY NAME | Alm |
| SIGNATURE | ALM E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8049-595X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The gender minority stress model and/or cisnormativity? The need for pluralistic theoretical perspectives in improving trans health and medicine
The minority stress model has become a well-used framework to explain and analyse health among LGBTQ people, and specifically among transgender and gender-diverse people (TGD), when it is sometimes called 'the gender minority stress model'. Scholars have argued the need for critical discussions about some of the assumptions underlying the gender minority stress model and how it has been used and discussed. Drawing on a pluralistic understanding o…
A conversation about the state in pandemic times: Necropolitics and the legacy of social democracy in Sweden and Nicaragua
Established ideas about state responsibility and state violence are placed in a new light in times characterized as states of emergency. The following conversation addresses the role of the state in the safeguarding of public health, taking its departure in media debates and political debates about state responsibility in two countries that have been criticized for not taking strong enough measures to protect the very futuriority of the nation in…
Waiting for and in gender-confirming healthcare in Sweden: An analysis of young trans people’s experiences
The role of waiting and temporality has been explored in relation to gender-confirming healthcare for adults. However, young people's experiences have been lacking, both in previous research and in the public debates on young trans people's access to gender-confirming medical procedures. This paper explores young trans people's experiences of waiting for and in gender-confirming healthcare in the Swedish context. The analysis draws on 16 semi-str…
Roundtable on the impact of Covid and Open Access on Gender Studies Journal
International audience
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: A Policy Analysis of the Swedish Guidelines for Trans-Specific Healthcare
Introduction Sweden has one of the world’s longest histories of providing subsidized gender-confirming medical procedures for people with trans experiences. However, until 2015, Swedish trans-specific healthcare lacked formal guidelines. Methods In this study, we analyse the Swedish guidelines for trans-specific healthcare from 2015 using Bacchi’s approach: “What’s the problem represented to be?” Following this approach, we analyse problem repres…
(Un)safe spaces, affective labour and perceived health among people with trans experiences living in Sweden
Lack of safe space has been connected to ill health among people with trans experiences. This study analyses trans people's experiences of being in public, semi-public and community spaces using the analytical concept of safety/unsafety in relation to perceived health. The analytic framework draws on the concepts of cisgenderism, orientation, lines and comfort. The material analysed consisted of 18 individual interviews with people with trans exp…
It was like I had to fit into a category: Care-seekers' experiences of gender regulation in the Swedish trans-specific healthcare
The few previous studies investigating regulation of gender in trans-specific healthcare are mainly based on text material and interviews with care-providers or consist solely of theoretical analyses. There is a lack of studies analysing how the regulation of gender is expressed in the care-seeker's own experiences, especially in a Nordic context. The aim of this study is to analyse narratives of individuals with trans experiences (sometimes call…
Ungendering Europe: Critical engagements with key objects in feminism
This introduction presents the points of departure for the themed section ‘Ungendering Europe: Critical Engagements with Key Objects in Feminism’ and introduces the eight articles included in the collection
Negotiating the (bio)medical gaze - Experiences of trans-specific healthcare in Sweden
The rainbow flag as friction: Transnational imagined communities of belonging among Pakistani LGBTQ activists
This article analyzes the frictions the rainbow flag creates between transnational, national and translocal discourses and materialities. It focuses on the ambivalent role that the transnational 'rainbow' space plays for community building for LGBTQ activists in in Pakistan. The rainbow flag can function as a way to mobilize an imagined transnational community of belonging, enabling people to politicize their experiences of discrimination as a de…
Cultural products in flux: An Introduction
not available
Cisnormativitet och feminism
Detta nummer av TGV samlar texter som pa olika vis undersoker forhallandena mellan a ena sidan akademisk feminism och feministiska rorelser, och a andra sidan transstudier och transaktivistiska ror
Somatechnics of Consensus: Situating the Biomedicalisation of Intersex
This article makes an inquiry into how the orientation towards consensus shapes the somatechnics of intersex ( Ahmed 2006 , 2007 ; Sullivan 2009a , 2009b ). The article takes its departure in the concept of somatechnics and the theoretical framework of biomedicalisation ( Clarke et al 2003 ), two theoretical perspectives that transgress the standoff between discursive and material approaches and challenge the notion that there is such a thing as …
Kroppen som form
The article takes as its departure the fact that the word form is commonly used, in everyday language as well as in scientific discourse, when discussing the body. Within the philosophical tradition the concept of form has been used in more specific and elaborate ways. Alm wishes to explore the possibilities of the concept as an analytic instrument, specifically as a means of critically approaching the discourse of the body conceptualised by dich…
Från redaktionen
Negotiating the (bio)medical gaze - Experiences of trans-specific healthcare in Sweden
The gender minority stress model and/or cisnormativity? The need for pluralistic theoretical perspectives in improving trans health and medicine
The minority stress model has become a well-used framework to explain and analyse health among LGBTQ people, and specifically among transgender and gender-diverse people (TGD), when it is sometimes called 'the gender minority stress model'. Scholars have argued the need for critical discussions about some of the assumptions underlying the gender minority stress model and how it has been used and discussed. Drawing on a pluralistic understanding o…
It was like I had to fit into a category: Care-seekers' experiences of gender regulation in the Swedish trans-specific healthcare
The few previous studies investigating regulation of gender in trans-specific healthcare are mainly based on text material and interviews with care-providers or consist solely of theoretical analyses. There is a lack of studies analysing how the regulation of gender is expressed in the care-seeker's own experiences, especially in a Nordic context. The aim of this study is to analyse narratives of individuals with trans experiences (sometimes call…
The rainbow flag as friction: Transnational imagined communities of belonging among Pakistani LGBTQ activists
This article analyzes the frictions the rainbow flag creates between transnational, national and translocal discourses and materialities. It focuses on the ambivalent role that the transnational 'rainbow' space plays for community building for LGBTQ activists in in Pakistan. The rainbow flag can function as a way to mobilize an imagined transnational community of belonging, enabling people to politicize their experiences of discrimination as a de…
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: A Policy Analysis of the Swedish Guidelines for Trans-Specific Healthcare
Introduction Sweden has one of the world’s longest histories of providing subsidized gender-confirming medical procedures for people with trans experiences. However, until 2015, Swedish trans-specific healthcare lacked formal guidelines. Methods In this study, we analyse the Swedish guidelines for trans-specific healthcare from 2015 using Bacchi’s approach: “What’s the problem represented to be?” Following this approach, we analyse problem repres…
Waiting for and in gender-confirming healthcare in Sweden: An analysis of young trans people’s experiences
The role of waiting and temporality has been explored in relation to gender-confirming healthcare for adults. However, young people's experiences have been lacking, both in previous research and in the public debates on young trans people's access to gender-confirming medical procedures. This paper explores young trans people's experiences of waiting for and in gender-confirming healthcare in the Swedish context. The analysis draws on 16 semi-str…
Ungendering Europe: Critical engagements with key objects in feminism
This introduction presents the points of departure for the themed section ‘Ungendering Europe: Critical Engagements with Key Objects in Feminism’ and introduces the eight articles included in the collection
Cisnormativitet och feminism
Detta nummer av TGV samlar texter som pa olika vis undersoker forhallandena mellan a ena sidan akademisk feminism och feministiska rorelser, och a andra sidan transstudier och transaktivistiska ror
Kroppen som form
The article takes as its departure the fact that the word form is commonly used, in everyday language as well as in scientific discourse, when discussing the body. Within the philosophical tradition the concept of form has been used in more specific and elaborate ways. Alm wishes to explore the possibilities of the concept as an analytic instrument, specifically as a means of critically approaching the discourse of the body conceptualised by dich…
Från redaktionen
Somatechnics of Consensus: Situating the Biomedicalisation of Intersex
This article makes an inquiry into how the orientation towards consensus shapes the somatechnics of intersex ( Ahmed 2006 , 2007 ; Sullivan 2009a , 2009b ). The article takes its departure in the concept of somatechnics and the theoretical framework of biomedicalisation ( Clarke et al 2003 ), two theoretical perspectives that transgress the standoff between discursive and material approaches and challenge the notion that there is such a thing as …
Cisnormativitet och feminism
Detta nummer av TGV samlar texter som pa olika vis undersoker forhallandena mellan a ena sidan akademisk feminism och feministiska rorelser, och a andra sidan transstudier och transaktivistiska ror
Negotiating the (bio)medical gaze - Experiences of trans-specific healthcare in Sweden
The rainbow flag as friction: Transnational imagined communities of belonging among Pakistani LGBTQ activists
This article analyzes the frictions the rainbow flag creates between transnational, national and translocal discourses and materialities. It focuses on the ambivalent role that the transnational 'rainbow' space plays for community building for LGBTQ activists in in Pakistan. The rainbow flag can function as a way to mobilize an imagined transnational community of belonging, enabling people to politicize their experiences of discrimination as a de…
Cultural products in flux: An Introduction
not available
Ungendering Europe: Critical engagements with key objects in feminism
This introduction presents the points of departure for the themed section ‘Ungendering Europe: Critical Engagements with Key Objects in Feminism’ and introduces the eight articles included in the collection
(Un)safe spaces, affective labour and perceived health among people with trans experiences living in Sweden
Lack of safe space has been connected to ill health among people with trans experiences. This study analyses trans people's experiences of being in public, semi-public and community spaces using the analytical concept of safety/unsafety in relation to perceived health. The analytic framework draws on the concepts of cisgenderism, orientation, lines and comfort. The material analysed consisted of 18 individual interviews with people with trans exp…
It was like I had to fit into a category: Care-seekers' experiences of gender regulation in the Swedish trans-specific healthcare
The few previous studies investigating regulation of gender in trans-specific healthcare are mainly based on text material and interviews with care-providers or consist solely of theoretical analyses. There is a lack of studies analysing how the regulation of gender is expressed in the care-seeker's own experiences, especially in a Nordic context. The aim of this study is to analyse narratives of individuals with trans experiences (sometimes call…
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: A Policy Analysis of the Swedish Guidelines for Trans-Specific Healthcare
Introduction Sweden has one of the world’s longest histories of providing subsidized gender-confirming medical procedures for people with trans experiences. However, until 2015, Swedish trans-specific healthcare lacked formal guidelines. Methods In this study, we analyse the Swedish guidelines for trans-specific healthcare from 2015 using Bacchi’s approach: “What’s the problem represented to be?” Following this approach, we analyse problem repres…
A conversation about the state in pandemic times: Necropolitics and the legacy of social democracy in Sweden and Nicaragua
Established ideas about state responsibility and state violence are placed in a new light in times characterized as states of emergency. The following conversation addresses the role of the state in the safeguarding of public health, taking its departure in media debates and political debates about state responsibility in two countries that have been criticized for not taking strong enough measures to protect the very futuriority of the nation in…
Waiting for and in gender-confirming healthcare in Sweden: An analysis of young trans people’s experiences
The role of waiting and temporality has been explored in relation to gender-confirming healthcare for adults. However, young people's experiences have been lacking, both in previous research and in the public debates on young trans people's access to gender-confirming medical procedures. This paper explores young trans people's experiences of waiting for and in gender-confirming healthcare in the Swedish context. The analysis draws on 16 semi-str…
Roundtable on the impact of Covid and Open Access on Gender Studies Journal
International audience
The gender minority stress model and/or cisnormativity? The need for pluralistic theoretical perspectives in improving trans health and medicine
The minority stress model has become a well-used framework to explain and analyse health among LGBTQ people, and specifically among transgender and gender-diverse people (TGD), when it is sometimes called 'the gender minority stress model'. Scholars have argued the need for critical discussions about some of the assumptions underlying the gender minority stress model and how it has been used and discussed. Drawing on a pluralistic understanding o…
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Health care (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)