Maria Bäckman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4046102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Bäckman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Bäckman |
| SIGNATURE | BÄCKMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3812-4511 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Living with an iconic aid
There are plenty of objects that are conspicuous in the way they signal to the surroundings that the user has some kind of physical impairment. Most obvious are perhaps wheelchairs, motorized wheelchairs, hearing aids and crutches. These objects can be described as aids in the sense that the purpose is either to mitigate the effects of reduced physical abilities or to compensate for the loss of a sensory faculty. The focus of this article concern…
Let’s Stick Together – Notes and Thoughts from Fieldwork
Queer Perspective on Sexuality and Normality in Folk Legends
Vita käppen – redskapet som hjälper och stjälper
The White Cane – A tool that both helps and hinders Bodies, shame, normality and the agency of objects Maria Bäckman The article discusses the attempts of visually impaired individuals tosometimes pass as seeing. The background is the resistance that many blind or visually impaired people testify they feel, during their ongoingrehabilitation, about a white cane. Often, on these occasions they provid descriptions of dramatic narratives in which th…
The Contract-labour Photographs of Gunnar Lundh. A Media History Study of a Photo Archive in Motion
The focus of this article is the work of photographer Gunnar Lundh, specifically the works collectively known as the statare photographs, images of rural contract labourers (or statare) that form part of a collection donated to the Nordic Museum in 1961. An overview of how these photographs have circulated in the Swedish public sphere indicates that three areas are particularly suitable for a targeted study of their use and reuse: i) social repor…
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Purpose To discusss the first concept car development project in the automotive industry managed by female engineers and designers. Design/methodology/approach An abiding concern in feminist discourses is to understand how and why women are excluded from certain positions and activities and how organizations become gendered. Drawing on the Russian literature theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, exceptional events such as concept car development projects in …
The Gendered Machine
This article examines the treatment in the media of the first concept car development project managed by female engineers and designers. The study is based on a critical discourse analysis methodology in which the production of social institutions and beliefs are conceived of as being based on written and spoken statements and utterances. The discursive production of statements not only has intangible effects but also implies material consequence…
Majoritet i minoritet
In the suburban setting discussed in this paper, teenagers representing a national majority turn out to be a local minority, surrounded by peers identified by various kinds of ethnic labels. Under such circumstances, the relative meaning of gender, sexuality, ethnic/national background, class, religious affinity and residential area, has to be continuously negotiated. The girls involved in the study can adopt a wide range of attitudes. Sometimes,…
Fördomsfullhet och tolerans i samlevnadsundervisningen
If the aim of the first sex education in Sweden was to implant a certain behaviour and a certain moral in the youth, then one of the main aims today can be said to be to shatter prejudice. This article discusses the topic of homosexuality in sex education. Sex education is often seen as a desirable meeting between an enlightened and broad-minded ideal of equality and a collection of prejudiced positions. The method the studied teacher uses is to …
The Gendered Machine
This article examines the treatment in the media of the first concept car development project managed by female engineers and designers. The study is based on a critical discourse analysis methodology in which the production of social institutions and beliefs are conceived of as being based on written and spoken statements and utterances. The discursive production of statements not only has intangible effects but also implies material consequence…
Living with an iconic aid
There are plenty of objects that are conspicuous in the way they signal to the surroundings that the user has some kind of physical impairment. Most obvious are perhaps wheelchairs, motorized wheelchairs, hearing aids and crutches. These objects can be described as aids in the sense that the purpose is either to mitigate the effects of reduced physical abilities or to compensate for the loss of a sensory faculty. The focus of this article concern…
Fördomsfullhet och tolerans i samlevnadsundervisningen
If the aim of the first sex education in Sweden was to implant a certain behaviour and a certain moral in the youth, then one of the main aims today can be said to be to shatter prejudice. This article discusses the topic of homosexuality in sex education. Sex education is often seen as a desirable meeting between an enlightened and broad-minded ideal of equality and a collection of prejudiced positions. The method the studied teacher uses is to …
Majoritet i minoritet
In the suburban setting discussed in this paper, teenagers representing a national majority turn out to be a local minority, surrounded by peers identified by various kinds of ethnic labels. Under such circumstances, the relative meaning of gender, sexuality, ethnic/national background, class, religious affinity and residential area, has to be continuously negotiated. The girls involved in the study can adopt a wide range of attitudes. Sometimes,…
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Purpose To discusss the first concept car development project in the automotive industry managed by female engineers and designers. Design/methodology/approach An abiding concern in feminist discourses is to understand how and why women are excluded from certain positions and activities and how organizations become gendered. Drawing on the Russian literature theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, exceptional events such as concept car development projects in …
The Gendered Machine
This article examines the treatment in the media of the first concept car development project managed by female engineers and designers. The study is based on a critical discourse analysis methodology in which the production of social institutions and beliefs are conceived of as being based on written and spoken statements and utterances. The discursive production of statements not only has intangible effects but also implies material consequence…
Vita käppen – redskapet som hjälper och stjälper
The White Cane – A tool that both helps and hinders Bodies, shame, normality and the agency of objects Maria Bäckman The article discusses the attempts of visually impaired individuals tosometimes pass as seeing. The background is the resistance that many blind or visually impaired people testify they feel, during their ongoingrehabilitation, about a white cane. Often, on these occasions they provid descriptions of dramatic narratives in which th…
The Contract-labour Photographs of Gunnar Lundh. A Media History Study of a Photo Archive in Motion
The focus of this article is the work of photographer Gunnar Lundh, specifically the works collectively known as the statare photographs, images of rural contract labourers (or statare) that form part of a collection donated to the Nordic Museum in 1961. An overview of how these photographs have circulated in the Swedish public sphere indicates that three areas are particularly suitable for a targeted study of their use and reuse: i) social repor…
Queer Perspective on Sexuality and Normality in Folk Legends
Let’s Stick Together – Notes and Thoughts from Fieldwork
Living with an iconic aid
There are plenty of objects that are conspicuous in the way they signal to the surroundings that the user has some kind of physical impairment. Most obvious are perhaps wheelchairs, motorized wheelchairs, hearing aids and crutches. These objects can be described as aids in the sense that the purpose is either to mitigate the effects of reduced physical abilities or to compensate for the loss of a sensory faculty. The focus of this article concern…
Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Automotive industry (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (2 works)