Marit Haldar
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3674568 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Marit Haldar |
| PRENOMES | Marit |
| SOBRENOME | Haldar |
| ASSINATURA | HALDAR M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3505-1073 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Never Been nor Seen Reality – Text Matters
This methodological article introduces the Cultural Translation Method (CTM), a qualitative research approach that uses analogue and digital texts as primary, socially saturated and accumulated data sources to explore cultural ideals in childhood and family life. CTM challenges two dominant assumptions in qualitative research: that fieldwork must involve physical presence (“being there”) and that interviews are the most authentic data form. Inste…
Wise choices in physiotherapy
This article examines Choosing Wisely (CW) – a campaign to reduce the overuse of healthcare services through the development and spreading of testing and treatment recommendations. Since its launch in 2012 by the American Board of Internal Medicine, CW has become an international and inter-professional campaign. Taking its spread into physiotherapy as our case, we explore how a highly general CW recommendation from the Norwegian Physiotherapist A…
The technology multiple
In this article, we explore how a very simple telepresence robot avatar becomes a technology multiple when interacting with humans. Based on Mol’s notion of the body multiple, we explore how AV1 – a social telepresence robot avatar designed to act as a substitute in schools for homebound students – becomes a technology multiple. The analysis is based on 105 interviews, including interviews with homebound students and kindergarteners in Norway usi…
Five Misconceptions About Interview Modes or
New technology brings new methodological opportunities. While long limited to face-to-face interviewing, today's interview researchers can choose from a plethora of options, including email, instant messaging, telephone, and video interviews. Consequently, the issue of interview modes and their relative strengths and weaknesses has received increased attention. In this article, we take stock of existing writings on interview modes in qualitative …
Multi-site domestication
This article advances domestication theory by developing the concept of multi-site domestication.Whereas domestication theory traditionally focuses on the 'taming' of technologies at a single site (most often, the household), the concept of multi-site domestication captures how technologies often require different taming processes across multiple institutional settings.In this article, we apply the concept to understand the multi-site domesticati…
Ethics Beyond the Checklist
In this article, we aim to contribute to current discussions about ethical conduct in qualitative research practice. We provide examples of how ethics is a recurring issue throughout a research process and not just an issue to safeguard procedurally. The examples on which we build our argument are based on three research projects from two countries, namely, Norway and Denmark, focusing on three different groups, namely, the elderly, parents, and …
Living happily alone in Plato’s cave? On loneliness, technology and the metaphysics of presence
In a lot of research on loneliness and technology, there is an underlying premise that actual, physical presence is more real than 'virtual' presence. This premise is rarely explicit, yet it implies a hierarchy of reality, where the 'here and now' is always on top. In this theoretical paper, we examine this latent hierarchy and the understandings of presence and mediation it implies. We point towards potential consequences of this understanding f…
Activation by technology
Modern welfare agencies are increasingly offering clients digital tools in their service delivery. Since young people are prolific users of digital technology, this trend should be to their advantage. However, the quantitative study presented in this article investigates how citizens under the age of 30 use public digital services, compared to those over 30. The study found that clients were less active than older clients in using a digital plan …
Problematizing loneliness as a public health issue
This article presents an analysis of discourses in recent UK policy on loneliness reduction. We use Carol Bacchi’s ‘what is the problem represented to be’ approach (WPR) to explore how the problem of loneliness produces specific solutions, subject positions, and forms of responsibility. Our findings suggest loneliness is understood as a public health threat that both emerges from and causes ill health. Using Foucault’s concept of governmentality,…
Skjermet av skjermen
I denne artikkelen skal jeg i dialog med Julia Kristeva og Simone de Beauvoir analysere en bestemt case om en eldre kvinne som bodde på et sykehjem og nærmet seg døden. Artikkelen undersøker kvinnens forhold til kommunikasjonsteknologien Komp, som er utviklet med formål om å gi eldre mulighet til å kommunisere virtuelt med sine pårørende. Mens Komp er utviklet for å motvirke sosial isolasjon, viser denne historien hvordan teknologien også kan tje…
Student at a distance
‘Homebound’ children are unable to attend school for illness-related reasons. To lessen their predicament, schools have begun experimenting with ‘telepresence robots’ that can enable remote participation. While promising, we know little about the use of telepresence robots in practice. To begin to redress this, we draw on 159 semi-structured interviews to explore the experiences of 37 child users of the robot ‘AV1’ in Norwegian schools. The child…
Panacea or poison? Exploring the paradoxical problematizations of loneliness, technology and youth in Norwegian and UK policymaking
Purpose Loneliness’ impact on health and wellbeing has emerged as a public health issue in several countries. Young people are increasingly understood as a ‘risk group’ and intervention target for loneliness-reduction. This research paper aims to present a discourse analysis of policies and political speech about young people and loneliness. Design/methodology/approach Using discourse analysis inspired by Carol Bacchi’s “What is the Problem Repre…
Educational purity and technological danger
This article contributes to the sociology of education and technology by providing a cultural analysis of scepticism towards new technologies in school, using reactions to the telepresence robot ‘AV1’ as its case. AV1 is designed to connect ‘homebound’ students with their ‘school-based’ teachers and classmates. Despite its idealistic purpose, the robot has been met with significant scepticism by Norwegian school workers. To understand why, the ar…
Mothers constructing six-year-olds
Research on ethnicity and social class in primary school has shown how school produces social inequality and seems to suffer from a lack of professional diversity competence. Less work has examined how a democratic, equality-oriented curriculum puts hierarchies and differences into play. Our study is based on an ethnographic text material in form of a home–school correspondence from two ethnically and socioeconomically different parts of Oslo, No…
Deltakelse og verdighet
A tale of the digital future
Schools are central in sustaining and extending values in society and therefore in shaping future society. While the global trend of education digitalization, commonly is presented as a depoliticized project of improvement, this paper seeks to uncover the values of the digital school as expressed in the strategy for the digitalization of the Norwegian education system. Inspired by Bacchi’s‘WPR approach, the findings reveal that digitalization inv…
Varm teknologi mot ensomhet blant eldre
Artikkelen undersøker hvordan ensomhet blant eldre er forsøkt motvirket ved bruk av digital teknologi: Kommunikasjonsløsningen Komp er en skjerm med kun én knapp og en tilhørende app man kan bruke til å sende bilder, meldinger og opprette videosamtaler med skjermen. Den er utviklet spesielt for eldre brukere uten digital kompetanse og skal motvirke ensomhet gjennom økt digital sosial kontakt. Utviklerne kaller den en «varm teknologi» fordi de men…
Can Computers Automate Welfare
Information-driven automated systems that deliver services proactively to citizens in need are heralded as the next level of digital government. There is, however, concern that such systems make welfare services less accessible to some citizens. This study uses the case of Norway's child benefit system to discuss the general obstacles to having welfare policies implemented by proactive digital systems. Norway's automated child benefit system uses…
Helseprioriteringer i endring
In 1987 came the world's first national health priority white paper, and it was Norwegian. The report was followed up by two new reports in 1997 and 2014, respectively. This article analyzes assumptions for prioritization work based on these three reports. A definite change in the NOUs is that the sociological perspective is replaced by an economic utility perspective, and that an ethic-philosophical perspective is replaced by a more individual-o…
Family as text
This article examines how different Norwegian families display family and parenthood ideals in one of the most gender-equal countries in the world. Empirically, the article is based on an ethnographic material in the shape of so-called ‘travel diaries’. The diaries are written by Norwegian school children and their parents with the purpose of describing how everyday family life unfolds. The diaries are analysed within a discursive framework and b…
Legitimating the illegitimate
Although the sociology of medicine has developed a rich body of research on patients' experiences and how they handle their illnesses, few analyses have examined doctors' concepts of disease. Building on previous research findings that doctors consider some diseases to be more worthy than others, this article focuses on how these differences in disease prestige are articulated and made logical. We presented a focus group panel of doctors a table …
Where are the children? Exploring the boundaries between text and context in the study of place and space in four different countries
In this article, we demonstrate how the cultural conceptions of a team of five researchers from different cultural and national backgrounds can be used as a source of knowledge during a collective, self‐reflexive analytical process. While collectively analysing texts describing daily life produced by first‐grade children and their parents in China, Norway, South Africa and the United States, the research team engaged in a collectively negotiated …
The other Chicago school - a sociological tradition expropriated and erased
Occupying a central place in the creation myth of sociological science is the world's first sociology department at the University of Chicago: a faculty hosting reform-minded men developing theories focused on process and change - especially involving immigrants and other poor urban dwellers. A special concern for these theorists was with investigating, measure and solving social problems of the city. The legend tells that these men relied for da…
Governing the liberated child with self-managed family displays
The 1990s witnessed the replacement of psychological perspectives seeing children as 'becomings' to a view of them as 'beings'. This is challenged by the Foucauldian concept of governmentality understood as technologies of self-making actors capable of monitoring and controlling their own behaviour. This concept is central in the present study of so-called teddy-diaries, which are texts written by first graders and their parents and circulated am…
Knowledge of love
This article reports research on young people's conceptualisations of love and romance through a gender perspective. The data are stories written by 12-year-old girls and boys in Norway who were asked to fantasise about their future love life. Their narratives are explored through discourse analysis and semiotics and analysed within a sociological framework. The article has two major aims. The first is to contribute to the methodology of collecti…
Problematizing loneliness as a public health issue
This article presents an analysis of discourses in recent UK policy on loneliness reduction. We use Carol Bacchi’s ‘what is the problem represented to be’ approach (WPR) to explore how the problem of loneliness produces specific solutions, subject positions, and forms of responsibility. Our findings suggest loneliness is understood as a public health threat that both emerges from and causes ill health. Using Foucault’s concept of governmentality,…
Family as text
This article examines how different Norwegian families display family and parenthood ideals in one of the most gender-equal countries in the world. Empirically, the article is based on an ethnographic material in the shape of so-called ‘travel diaries’. The diaries are written by Norwegian school children and their parents with the purpose of describing how everyday family life unfolds. The diaries are analysed within a discursive framework and b…
The other Chicago school - a sociological tradition expropriated and erased
Occupying a central place in the creation myth of sociological science is the world's first sociology department at the University of Chicago: a faculty hosting reform-minded men developing theories focused on process and change - especially involving immigrants and other poor urban dwellers. A special concern for these theorists was with investigating, measure and solving social problems of the city. The legend tells that these men relied for da…
Five Misconceptions About Interview Modes or
New technology brings new methodological opportunities. While long limited to face-to-face interviewing, today's interview researchers can choose from a plethora of options, including email, instant messaging, telephone, and video interviews. Consequently, the issue of interview modes and their relative strengths and weaknesses has received increased attention. In this article, we take stock of existing writings on interview modes in qualitative …
Knowledge of love
This article reports research on young people's conceptualisations of love and romance through a gender perspective. The data are stories written by 12-year-old girls and boys in Norway who were asked to fantasise about their future love life. Their narratives are explored through discourse analysis and semiotics and analysed within a sociological framework. The article has two major aims. The first is to contribute to the methodology of collecti…
A tale of the digital future
Schools are central in sustaining and extending values in society and therefore in shaping future society. While the global trend of education digitalization, commonly is presented as a depoliticized project of improvement, this paper seeks to uncover the values of the digital school as expressed in the strategy for the digitalization of the Norwegian education system. Inspired by Bacchi’s‘WPR approach, the findings reveal that digitalization inv…
Legitimating the illegitimate
Although the sociology of medicine has developed a rich body of research on patients' experiences and how they handle their illnesses, few analyses have examined doctors' concepts of disease. Building on previous research findings that doctors consider some diseases to be more worthy than others, this article focuses on how these differences in disease prestige are articulated and made logical. We presented a focus group panel of doctors a table …
Teddy Diaries
In this article, we show how circulated diaries can be used as a source of knowledge about the display and normative standards of family life. The par ticular strength of the data lies in the circulation among members of a local public before reaching the researcher. This keeps researcher intervention low, while the data remain socially and culturally saturated. In addition, the method allows for comparative cultural research, which is illustrate…
Educational purity and technological danger
This article contributes to the sociology of education and technology by providing a cultural analysis of scepticism towards new technologies in school, using reactions to the telepresence robot ‘AV1’ as its case. AV1 is designed to connect ‘homebound’ students with their ‘school-based’ teachers and classmates. Despite its idealistic purpose, the robot has been met with significant scepticism by Norwegian school workers. To understand why, the ar…
Varm teknologi mot ensomhet blant eldre
Artikkelen undersøker hvordan ensomhet blant eldre er forsøkt motvirket ved bruk av digital teknologi: Kommunikasjonsløsningen Komp er en skjerm med kun én knapp og en tilhørende app man kan bruke til å sende bilder, meldinger og opprette videosamtaler med skjermen. Den er utviklet spesielt for eldre brukere uten digital kompetanse og skal motvirke ensomhet gjennom økt digital sosial kontakt. Utviklerne kaller den en «varm teknologi» fordi de men…
Governing the liberated child with self-managed family displays
The 1990s witnessed the replacement of psychological perspectives seeing children as 'becomings' to a view of them as 'beings'. This is challenged by the Foucauldian concept of governmentality understood as technologies of self-making actors capable of monitoring and controlling their own behaviour. This concept is central in the present study of so-called teddy-diaries, which are texts written by first graders and their parents and circulated am…
Socializing relations in the everyday lives of children
The text material analysed in this article consists of 20 teddy-diaries that circulated between the families of 6-year-old children in Beijing, China and in Oslo, Norway. The circulation process makes teddy-diaries highly normatively saturated domestic stories from families with 6-year-old children. A quantitative analysis of these texts inspired by Membership Categorization Analysis (MCA) developed by Harvey Sacks (1972) reveals what is deemed s…
Teddy Diaries
In this article, we show how circulated diaries can be used as a source of knowledge about the display and normative standards of family life. The par ticular strength of the data lies in the circulation among members of a local public before reaching the researcher. This keeps researcher intervention low, while the data remain socially and culturally saturated. In addition, the method allows for comparative cultural research, which is illustrate…
Knowledge of love
This article reports research on young people's conceptualisations of love and romance through a gender perspective. The data are stories written by 12-year-old girls and boys in Norway who were asked to fantasise about their future love life. Their narratives are explored through discourse analysis and semiotics and analysed within a sociological framework. The article has two major aims. The first is to contribute to the methodology of collecti…
Socializing relations in the everyday lives of children
The text material analysed in this article consists of 20 teddy-diaries that circulated between the families of 6-year-old children in Beijing, China and in Oslo, Norway. The circulation process makes teddy-diaries highly normatively saturated domestic stories from families with 6-year-old children. A quantitative analysis of these texts inspired by Membership Categorization Analysis (MCA) developed by Harvey Sacks (1972) reveals what is deemed s…
Governing the liberated child with self-managed family displays
The 1990s witnessed the replacement of psychological perspectives seeing children as 'becomings' to a view of them as 'beings'. This is challenged by the Foucauldian concept of governmentality understood as technologies of self-making actors capable of monitoring and controlling their own behaviour. This concept is central in the present study of so-called teddy-diaries, which are texts written by first graders and their parents and circulated am…
Where are the children? Exploring the boundaries between text and context in the study of place and space in four different countries
In this article, we demonstrate how the cultural conceptions of a team of five researchers from different cultural and national backgrounds can be used as a source of knowledge during a collective, self‐reflexive analytical process. While collectively analysing texts describing daily life produced by first‐grade children and their parents in China, Norway, South Africa and the United States, the research team engaged in a collectively negotiated …
The other Chicago school - a sociological tradition expropriated and erased
Occupying a central place in the creation myth of sociological science is the world's first sociology department at the University of Chicago: a faculty hosting reform-minded men developing theories focused on process and change - especially involving immigrants and other poor urban dwellers. A special concern for these theorists was with investigating, measure and solving social problems of the city. The legend tells that these men relied for da…
Legitimating the illegitimate
Although the sociology of medicine has developed a rich body of research on patients' experiences and how they handle their illnesses, few analyses have examined doctors' concepts of disease. Building on previous research findings that doctors consider some diseases to be more worthy than others, this article focuses on how these differences in disease prestige are articulated and made logical. We presented a focus group panel of doctors a table …
Helseprioriteringer i endring
In 1987 came the world's first national health priority white paper, and it was Norwegian. The report was followed up by two new reports in 1997 and 2014, respectively. This article analyzes assumptions for prioritization work based on these three reports. A definite change in the NOUs is that the sociological perspective is replaced by an economic utility perspective, and that an ethic-philosophical perspective is replaced by a more individual-o…
Family as text
This article examines how different Norwegian families display family and parenthood ideals in one of the most gender-equal countries in the world. Empirically, the article is based on an ethnographic material in the shape of so-called ‘travel diaries’. The diaries are written by Norwegian school children and their parents with the purpose of describing how everyday family life unfolds. The diaries are analysed within a discursive framework and b…
Mothers constructing six-year-olds
Research on ethnicity and social class in primary school has shown how school produces social inequality and seems to suffer from a lack of professional diversity competence. Less work has examined how a democratic, equality-oriented curriculum puts hierarchies and differences into play. Our study is based on an ethnographic text material in form of a home–school correspondence from two ethnically and socioeconomically different parts of Oslo, No…
Deltakelse og verdighet
A tale of the digital future
Schools are central in sustaining and extending values in society and therefore in shaping future society. While the global trend of education digitalization, commonly is presented as a depoliticized project of improvement, this paper seeks to uncover the values of the digital school as expressed in the strategy for the digitalization of the Norwegian education system. Inspired by Bacchi’s‘WPR approach, the findings reveal that digitalization inv…
Varm teknologi mot ensomhet blant eldre
Artikkelen undersøker hvordan ensomhet blant eldre er forsøkt motvirket ved bruk av digital teknologi: Kommunikasjonsløsningen Komp er en skjerm med kun én knapp og en tilhørende app man kan bruke til å sende bilder, meldinger og opprette videosamtaler med skjermen. Den er utviklet spesielt for eldre brukere uten digital kompetanse og skal motvirke ensomhet gjennom økt digital sosial kontakt. Utviklerne kaller den en «varm teknologi» fordi de men…
Can Computers Automate Welfare
Information-driven automated systems that deliver services proactively to citizens in need are heralded as the next level of digital government. There is, however, concern that such systems make welfare services less accessible to some citizens. This study uses the case of Norway's child benefit system to discuss the general obstacles to having welfare policies implemented by proactive digital systems. Norway's automated child benefit system uses…
Skjermet av skjermen
I denne artikkelen skal jeg i dialog med Julia Kristeva og Simone de Beauvoir analysere en bestemt case om en eldre kvinne som bodde på et sykehjem og nærmet seg døden. Artikkelen undersøker kvinnens forhold til kommunikasjonsteknologien Komp, som er utviklet med formål om å gi eldre mulighet til å kommunisere virtuelt med sine pårørende. Mens Komp er utviklet for å motvirke sosial isolasjon, viser denne historien hvordan teknologien også kan tje…
Student at a distance
‘Homebound’ children are unable to attend school for illness-related reasons. To lessen their predicament, schools have begun experimenting with ‘telepresence robots’ that can enable remote participation. While promising, we know little about the use of telepresence robots in practice. To begin to redress this, we draw on 159 semi-structured interviews to explore the experiences of 37 child users of the robot ‘AV1’ in Norwegian schools. The child…
Panacea or poison? Exploring the paradoxical problematizations of loneliness, technology and youth in Norwegian and UK policymaking
Purpose Loneliness’ impact on health and wellbeing has emerged as a public health issue in several countries. Young people are increasingly understood as a ‘risk group’ and intervention target for loneliness-reduction. This research paper aims to present a discourse analysis of policies and political speech about young people and loneliness. Design/methodology/approach Using discourse analysis inspired by Carol Bacchi’s “What is the Problem Repre…
Educational purity and technological danger
This article contributes to the sociology of education and technology by providing a cultural analysis of scepticism towards new technologies in school, using reactions to the telepresence robot ‘AV1’ as its case. AV1 is designed to connect ‘homebound’ students with their ‘school-based’ teachers and classmates. Despite its idealistic purpose, the robot has been met with significant scepticism by Norwegian school workers. To understand why, the ar…
Multi-site domestication
This article advances domestication theory by developing the concept of multi-site domestication.Whereas domestication theory traditionally focuses on the 'taming' of technologies at a single site (most often, the household), the concept of multi-site domestication captures how technologies often require different taming processes across multiple institutional settings.In this article, we apply the concept to understand the multi-site domesticati…
Ethics Beyond the Checklist
In this article, we aim to contribute to current discussions about ethical conduct in qualitative research practice. We provide examples of how ethics is a recurring issue throughout a research process and not just an issue to safeguard procedurally. The examples on which we build our argument are based on three research projects from two countries, namely, Norway and Denmark, focusing on three different groups, namely, the elderly, parents, and …
Living happily alone in Plato’s cave? On loneliness, technology and the metaphysics of presence
In a lot of research on loneliness and technology, there is an underlying premise that actual, physical presence is more real than 'virtual' presence. This premise is rarely explicit, yet it implies a hierarchy of reality, where the 'here and now' is always on top. In this theoretical paper, we examine this latent hierarchy and the understandings of presence and mediation it implies. We point towards potential consequences of this understanding f…
Activation by technology
Modern welfare agencies are increasingly offering clients digital tools in their service delivery. Since young people are prolific users of digital technology, this trend should be to their advantage. However, the quantitative study presented in this article investigates how citizens under the age of 30 use public digital services, compared to those over 30. The study found that clients were less active than older clients in using a digital plan …
Problematizing loneliness as a public health issue
This article presents an analysis of discourses in recent UK policy on loneliness reduction. We use Carol Bacchi’s ‘what is the problem represented to be’ approach (WPR) to explore how the problem of loneliness produces specific solutions, subject positions, and forms of responsibility. Our findings suggest loneliness is understood as a public health threat that both emerges from and causes ill health. Using Foucault’s concept of governmentality,…
Five Misconceptions About Interview Modes or
New technology brings new methodological opportunities. While long limited to face-to-face interviewing, today's interview researchers can choose from a plethora of options, including email, instant messaging, telephone, and video interviews. Consequently, the issue of interview modes and their relative strengths and weaknesses has received increased attention. In this article, we take stock of existing writings on interview modes in qualitative …
Never Been nor Seen Reality – Text Matters
This methodological article introduces the Cultural Translation Method (CTM), a qualitative research approach that uses analogue and digital texts as primary, socially saturated and accumulated data sources to explore cultural ideals in childhood and family life. CTM challenges two dominant assumptions in qualitative research: that fieldwork must involve physical presence (“being there”) and that interviews are the most authentic data form. Inste…
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