Dorte Marie Søndergaard
Biographic Data
| ID | 4078743 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorte Marie Søndergaard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorte Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Søndergaard |
| SIGNATURE | SØNDERGAARD D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8859-8590 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The School Assemblage and Persistent School Absence – Analyses of Students in Pursuit of Viable Lives
In this article, we seek to gain knowledge about the phenomenon of persistent school absence. Situations where a student is absent from school for long periods are often characterized by high levels of frustration among adults and a tendency to blame either the school or the parents. However, in contrast to most research in school absence, we do not ask why some students become persistently absent from school. Rather, we take up the Deleuzo-Guatt…
Exploring Educational (Un)readiness Through the Concepts of Dispositive, Assemblage and Actor-network
Reworldings’
The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped life for all in countless ways. For young people, the pandemic accelerated the digitalization of school education and upended relations with peers, parents, and society as a whole. In this paper, we look beyond these immediate effects to explore how pandemic experiences, feelings, and thoughts suggest profound shifts in young people’s perspectives on and orientations towards the future. Our research comprises pa…
Sexualized, platformed female bodies in male online practices
Sexualized images of the bodies of girls and young women - in some cases taken without the knowledge of those depicted, in other cases exchanged as part of erotic or romantic interactions - sometimes turn up in closed groups on social media and on websites and other online platforms. In their efforts to mark and prove masculinity, the (presumably) male participants in these fora share, trade, and evaluate such imagery. The young women depicted ar…
Traveling imagery
How is the sexualized digital imagery that young people engage in enacted and spread? How are negotiations of normativity reshaped by analogue-digital involve- ment? This study travels through shady as well as easily accessible parts of the web, combining insights with analogue research approaches in trying to contemplate these questions in new ways. We use digital ethnography, analogue fieldwork, inter- views, and helpline cases to study how you…
Disassembling and Reassembling a Sports Talent
This article is rooted in an understanding of talent as something you do rather than something you either are or have. Talent is hereby seen as a phenomenon that comes into being through actions, rather than as an individualized, inherent capacity. Our perspective is informed by new materialist concepts that analyse talent development as an assemblage. Based on a case study focusing on Jamie, an injured badminton player, we argue that talent deve…
Psychology, Ethics, and New Materialist Thinking—Using a Study of Sexualized Digital Practices as an Example
The thrill of bullying. Bullying, humour and the making of community
Humour can be utilised to mark out the boundaries of social groups, to produce and restore dignity, but also to produce contempt, marginalise and exclude. Humour and ridicule can be used to influence hierarchies and positioning among children in the classroom and it can have strong effects in school groups saturated with bullying practices. Ridicule appears to be widespread, very much feared, and not easily amenable to adult interventions. With t…
New Materialist Analyses of Virtual Gaming, Distributed Violence, and Relational Aggression
Concerns about children's and teenager's use of computer games and their access to films with a high level of violence, coupled with concerns about the possible transfer of aggression from media to children are widespread. However, the question is whether aggression among children and youth necessarily stems from one clear point of origin. This article uses Karen Barad's agential realist conceptualizations of intra-active enactment of material-di…
Virtual materiality, potentiality and subjectivity
The ‘What Of’ and the ‘What If’ of Agential Realism – In Search of the Gendered Subject
The article explores Karen Barad’s theoretical framework, agential realism, to seek out theoretical perspectives that can be used as analytical approaches to empirical data. By selecting two pieces of data we aim to illustrate the analytical possibilities offered by this approach. The first piece of data stipulates an opening of ‘WHAT OF’ of the activities in a world of computer games: WHAT OF the myriad of real and virtual voices, sentiments and…
Bullying and social exclusion anxiety in schools
In this article, I develop a new conceptual framework, a new thinking technology, for understanding the bullying that takes place between children in schools. In addition, I propose a new definition of bullying. This new thinking technology reflects a shift in focus from individual characteristics to the social processes that may lead to bullying. The social approach theorises bullying as one of many reactions to particular kinds of social insecu…
Theorizing the complexities of discursive and material subjectivity
This article seeks to address the theoretical foundations of subjectivity as co-constituted by discursive and material/technological forces. Our ambition is to develop a conceptual framework that draws from Science and Technology Studies and related “new materialist” frameworks and poststructuralist analyses in order to develop analytics that embrace the complexities we face in our empirical work. We discuss the potentialities and weaknesses of t…
Who is ready for the results? Reflections on the multivoicedness of useful research
How is the usefulness of research assessed as university research becomes more and more commodified? The question is addressed through an analysis of how the results of a particular research project were received in a large private company that had provided the main funding for a research project on gender and top management, a project based on poststructuralist approaches. The ways in which the company received the research took many forms. Ther…
Intersektionalitet – udsat for teoretisk justering
Is the concept of intersectionality constructive? In relation to what, who, and where will it be constructive? Does the concept demand a research focus upon certain minoritized groups or is it possible to use the concept in analysing both minoritized and majoritized groups? Is the concept an answer to a longing for complexity or is it rather a way to reduce subjectification into mechanistic and rather inflexible structures? How are phenomena such…
Making Sense of Gender, Age, Power and Disciplinary Position
This article provides analyses of ways in which sociocultural categories interfere with more formal assessment practices in academic contexts. While arguing that university careers demand academic as well as cultural and social capabilities, the analyses set out to understand how discourses of sex/gender, age, power and disciplinary position intersect, and how these intersections affect mutual interpretations among academicians. The text opens in…
Academic Desire Trajectories
This article is an attempt to rethink the interconnectedness between discourse and subjective agency and to highlight methodological approaches to studies of gendering processes as a central part of it. The notions of desire, subjectification and biography are understood as mediated by narratives and metaphors, as a movement between the individual and her contexts. The transformative methodological project suggests conceptual retoolings as new an…
Subjektivering og nye identiteter - en psykologi i et pædagogisk felt
III. Theorizing Subjectivity
Poststructuralist approaches to empirical analysis
This article develops a range of concrete analytic approaches to empirical studies inspired by poststructuralist thinking. The analytic strategies offered provide examples of "putting deconstruction to work" in the context of the analysis of qualitative data. The discourse-destabilizing impacts are shown by examples derived from the author's own research and that of others. Among the analytic strategies, the author discusses the ways in which con…
Consensual and disensual university cultures
University cultures vary with respect to degree of cultural consensus and disensus. Levels of conflicts, patterns of meaning-making, and decision-making practices vary correspondingly. This empirically based article investigates how these variations make up the different premises for understanding gender segregation and for introducing gender equality discourses. Finally, the article also examines the way newcomers meet the multiplicity of standa…
Dette nummers samlede essays
Dorte Marie Søndergaard: "Kønsforskning: en udfordrer og fornyer i relation til vidensformer og forskningsstrukturer"Alexandra Bagger: "Kvindens logocentriske begær
Consensual and disensual university cultures
University cultures vary with respect to degree of cultural consensus and disensus. Levels of conflicts, patterns of meaning-making, and decision-making practices vary correspondingly. This empirically based article investigates how these variations make up the different premises for understanding gender segregation and for introducing gender equality discourses. Finally, the article also examines the way newcomers meet the multiplicity of standa…
Forskningstraditioner krydser deres spor - Kvalitative og kvantitative socio-kulturelle empiriske forskningsmetoder
The article takes up the discussion about qualitative and quantitative research methods as ostensibly incopatible approaches to empirical studies - an understanding which is broadly disseminated within a range of academic disciplines. The authors trouble this dualistic understanding through concrete discussions of methodological approaches conducted by as well qualitatively as quantitatively oriented reseachers. It is argued, that difference and …
Kønnet subjektivering
Dorte Marie Søndergaard introducerer Browyn Davies
Poststructuralist approaches to empirical analysis
This article develops a range of concrete analytic approaches to empirical studies inspired by poststructuralist thinking. The analytic strategies offered provide examples of "putting deconstruction to work" in the context of the analysis of qualitative data. The discourse-destabilizing impacts are shown by examples derived from the author's own research and that of others. Among the analytic strategies, the author discusses the ways in which con…
Bullying and social exclusion anxiety in schools
In this article, I develop a new conceptual framework, a new thinking technology, for understanding the bullying that takes place between children in schools. In addition, I propose a new definition of bullying. This new thinking technology reflects a shift in focus from individual characteristics to the social processes that may lead to bullying. The social approach theorises bullying as one of many reactions to particular kinds of social insecu…
Making Sense of Gender, Age, Power and Disciplinary Position
This article provides analyses of ways in which sociocultural categories interfere with more formal assessment practices in academic contexts. While arguing that university careers demand academic as well as cultural and social capabilities, the analyses set out to understand how discourses of sex/gender, age, power and disciplinary position intersect, and how these intersections affect mutual interpretations among academicians. The text opens in…
Academic Desire Trajectories
This article is an attempt to rethink the interconnectedness between discourse and subjective agency and to highlight methodological approaches to studies of gendering processes as a central part of it. The notions of desire, subjectification and biography are understood as mediated by narratives and metaphors, as a movement between the individual and her contexts. The transformative methodological project suggests conceptual retoolings as new an…
Consensual and disensual university cultures
University cultures vary with respect to degree of cultural consensus and disensus. Levels of conflicts, patterns of meaning-making, and decision-making practices vary correspondingly. This empirically based article investigates how these variations make up the different premises for understanding gender segregation and for introducing gender equality discourses. Finally, the article also examines the way newcomers meet the multiplicity of standa…
Who is ready for the results? Reflections on the multivoicedness of useful research
How is the usefulness of research assessed as university research becomes more and more commodified? The question is addressed through an analysis of how the results of a particular research project were received in a large private company that had provided the main funding for a research project on gender and top management, a project based on poststructuralist approaches. The ways in which the company received the research took many forms. Ther…
Traveling imagery
How is the sexualized digital imagery that young people engage in enacted and spread? How are negotiations of normativity reshaped by analogue-digital involve- ment? This study travels through shady as well as easily accessible parts of the web, combining insights with analogue research approaches in trying to contemplate these questions in new ways. We use digital ethnography, analogue fieldwork, inter- views, and helpline cases to study how you…
The thrill of bullying. Bullying, humour and the making of community
Humour can be utilised to mark out the boundaries of social groups, to produce and restore dignity, but also to produce contempt, marginalise and exclude. Humour and ridicule can be used to influence hierarchies and positioning among children in the classroom and it can have strong effects in school groups saturated with bullying practices. Ridicule appears to be widespread, very much feared, and not easily amenable to adult interventions. With t…
III. Theorizing Subjectivity
Disassembling and Reassembling a Sports Talent
This article is rooted in an understanding of talent as something you do rather than something you either are or have. Talent is hereby seen as a phenomenon that comes into being through actions, rather than as an individualized, inherent capacity. Our perspective is informed by new materialist concepts that analyse talent development as an assemblage. Based on a case study focusing on Jamie, an injured badminton player, we argue that talent deve…
New Materialist Analyses of Virtual Gaming, Distributed Violence, and Relational Aggression
Concerns about children's and teenager's use of computer games and their access to films with a high level of violence, coupled with concerns about the possible transfer of aggression from media to children are widespread. However, the question is whether aggression among children and youth necessarily stems from one clear point of origin. This article uses Karen Barad's agential realist conceptualizations of intra-active enactment of material-di…
Reworldings’
The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped life for all in countless ways. For young people, the pandemic accelerated the digitalization of school education and upended relations with peers, parents, and society as a whole. In this paper, we look beyond these immediate effects to explore how pandemic experiences, feelings, and thoughts suggest profound shifts in young people’s perspectives on and orientations towards the future. Our research comprises pa…
Sexualized, platformed female bodies in male online practices
Sexualized images of the bodies of girls and young women - in some cases taken without the knowledge of those depicted, in other cases exchanged as part of erotic or romantic interactions - sometimes turn up in closed groups on social media and on websites and other online platforms. In their efforts to mark and prove masculinity, the (presumably) male participants in these fora share, trade, and evaluate such imagery. The young women depicted ar…
The ‘What Of’ and the ‘What If’ of Agential Realism – In Search of the Gendered Subject
The article explores Karen Barad’s theoretical framework, agential realism, to seek out theoretical perspectives that can be used as analytical approaches to empirical data. By selecting two pieces of data we aim to illustrate the analytical possibilities offered by this approach. The first piece of data stipulates an opening of ‘WHAT OF’ of the activities in a world of computer games: WHAT OF the myriad of real and virtual voices, sentiments and…
Intersektionalitet – udsat for teoretisk justering
Is the concept of intersectionality constructive? In relation to what, who, and where will it be constructive? Does the concept demand a research focus upon certain minoritized groups or is it possible to use the concept in analysing both minoritized and majoritized groups? Is the concept an answer to a longing for complexity or is it rather a way to reduce subjectification into mechanistic and rather inflexible structures? How are phenomena such…
Gendered bodies in academia — an analytic approach to social meaning‐making among students
This article presents an analytic approach to the study of gender meaning in an academic context. In the presentation empirical material from an interview study among 29 Danish male and female university students is applied. The analytic approach is based on the conception of gender meaning as a culturally constructed phenomenon in continuous process. Current gender meaning is seen as a construction based on the idea of coherence between the gend…
Forskningstraditioner krydser deres spor - Kvalitative og kvantitative socio-kulturelle empiriske forskningsmetoder
The article takes up the discussion about qualitative and quantitative research methods as ostensibly incopatible approaches to empirical studies - an understanding which is broadly disseminated within a range of academic disciplines. The authors trouble this dualistic understanding through concrete discussions of methodological approaches conducted by as well qualitatively as quantitatively oriented reseachers. It is argued, that difference and …
Kønnet subjektivering
Dorte Marie Søndergaard introducerer Browyn Davies
Angels and Research
Consensual and disensual university cultures
University cultures vary with respect to degree of cultural consensus and disensus. Levels of conflicts, patterns of meaning-making, and decision-making practices vary correspondingly. This empirically based article investigates how these variations make up the different premises for understanding gender segregation and for introducing gender equality discourses. Finally, the article also examines the way newcomers meet the multiplicity of standa…
Dette nummers samlede essays
Dorte Marie Søndergaard: "Kønsforskning: en udfordrer og fornyer i relation til vidensformer og forskningsstrukturer"Alexandra Bagger: "Kvindens logocentriske begær
Consensual and disensual university cultures
University cultures vary with respect to degree of cultural consensus and disensus. Levels of conflicts, patterns of meaning-making, and decision-making practices vary correspondingly. This empirically based article investigates how these variations make up the different premises for understanding gender segregation and for introducing gender equality discourses. Finally, the article also examines the way newcomers meet the multiplicity of standa…
III. Theorizing Subjectivity
Poststructuralist approaches to empirical analysis
This article develops a range of concrete analytic approaches to empirical studies inspired by poststructuralist thinking. The analytic strategies offered provide examples of "putting deconstruction to work" in the context of the analysis of qualitative data. The discourse-destabilizing impacts are shown by examples derived from the author's own research and that of others. Among the analytic strategies, the author discusses the ways in which con…
Subjektivering og nye identiteter - en psykologi i et pædagogisk felt
Making Sense of Gender, Age, Power and Disciplinary Position
This article provides analyses of ways in which sociocultural categories interfere with more formal assessment practices in academic contexts. While arguing that university careers demand academic as well as cultural and social capabilities, the analyses set out to understand how discourses of sex/gender, age, power and disciplinary position intersect, and how these intersections affect mutual interpretations among academicians. The text opens in…
Academic Desire Trajectories
This article is an attempt to rethink the interconnectedness between discourse and subjective agency and to highlight methodological approaches to studies of gendering processes as a central part of it. The notions of desire, subjectification and biography are understood as mediated by narratives and metaphors, as a movement between the individual and her contexts. The transformative methodological project suggests conceptual retoolings as new an…
Intersektionalitet – udsat for teoretisk justering
Is the concept of intersectionality constructive? In relation to what, who, and where will it be constructive? Does the concept demand a research focus upon certain minoritized groups or is it possible to use the concept in analysing both minoritized and majoritized groups? Is the concept an answer to a longing for complexity or is it rather a way to reduce subjectification into mechanistic and rather inflexible structures? How are phenomena such…
Who is ready for the results? Reflections on the multivoicedness of useful research
How is the usefulness of research assessed as university research becomes more and more commodified? The question is addressed through an analysis of how the results of a particular research project were received in a large private company that had provided the main funding for a research project on gender and top management, a project based on poststructuralist approaches. The ways in which the company received the research took many forms. Ther…
Theorizing the complexities of discursive and material subjectivity
This article seeks to address the theoretical foundations of subjectivity as co-constituted by discursive and material/technological forces. Our ambition is to develop a conceptual framework that draws from Science and Technology Studies and related “new materialist” frameworks and poststructuralist analyses in order to develop analytics that embrace the complexities we face in our empirical work. We discuss the potentialities and weaknesses of t…
The ‘What Of’ and the ‘What If’ of Agential Realism – In Search of the Gendered Subject
The article explores Karen Barad’s theoretical framework, agential realism, to seek out theoretical perspectives that can be used as analytical approaches to empirical data. By selecting two pieces of data we aim to illustrate the analytical possibilities offered by this approach. The first piece of data stipulates an opening of ‘WHAT OF’ of the activities in a world of computer games: WHAT OF the myriad of real and virtual voices, sentiments and…
Bullying and social exclusion anxiety in schools
In this article, I develop a new conceptual framework, a new thinking technology, for understanding the bullying that takes place between children in schools. In addition, I propose a new definition of bullying. This new thinking technology reflects a shift in focus from individual characteristics to the social processes that may lead to bullying. The social approach theorises bullying as one of many reactions to particular kinds of social insecu…
Virtual materiality, potentiality and subjectivity
New Materialist Analyses of Virtual Gaming, Distributed Violence, and Relational Aggression
Concerns about children's and teenager's use of computer games and their access to films with a high level of violence, coupled with concerns about the possible transfer of aggression from media to children are widespread. However, the question is whether aggression among children and youth necessarily stems from one clear point of origin. This article uses Karen Barad's agential realist conceptualizations of intra-active enactment of material-di…
The thrill of bullying. Bullying, humour and the making of community
Humour can be utilised to mark out the boundaries of social groups, to produce and restore dignity, but also to produce contempt, marginalise and exclude. Humour and ridicule can be used to influence hierarchies and positioning among children in the classroom and it can have strong effects in school groups saturated with bullying practices. Ridicule appears to be widespread, very much feared, and not easily amenable to adult interventions. With t…
Psychology, Ethics, and New Materialist Thinking—Using a Study of Sexualized Digital Practices as an Example
Traveling imagery
How is the sexualized digital imagery that young people engage in enacted and spread? How are negotiations of normativity reshaped by analogue-digital involve- ment? This study travels through shady as well as easily accessible parts of the web, combining insights with analogue research approaches in trying to contemplate these questions in new ways. We use digital ethnography, analogue fieldwork, inter- views, and helpline cases to study how you…
Disassembling and Reassembling a Sports Talent
This article is rooted in an understanding of talent as something you do rather than something you either are or have. Talent is hereby seen as a phenomenon that comes into being through actions, rather than as an individualized, inherent capacity. Our perspective is informed by new materialist concepts that analyse talent development as an assemblage. Based on a case study focusing on Jamie, an injured badminton player, we argue that talent deve…
Sexualized, platformed female bodies in male online practices
Sexualized images of the bodies of girls and young women - in some cases taken without the knowledge of those depicted, in other cases exchanged as part of erotic or romantic interactions - sometimes turn up in closed groups on social media and on websites and other online platforms. In their efforts to mark and prove masculinity, the (presumably) male participants in these fora share, trade, and evaluate such imagery. The young women depicted ar…
Reworldings’
The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped life for all in countless ways. For young people, the pandemic accelerated the digitalization of school education and upended relations with peers, parents, and society as a whole. In this paper, we look beyond these immediate effects to explore how pandemic experiences, feelings, and thoughts suggest profound shifts in young people’s perspectives on and orientations towards the future. Our research comprises pa…
Sociology (23 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Epistemology (16 works) · Social science (13 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works)