M Bissenbakker
Biographic Data
| ID | 44194 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Bissenbakker |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Bissenbakker |
| SIGNATURE | BISSENBAKKER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6516-2137 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Nationalt monogami og queer tilknytninger: Heteronormativitet og biomagt i dansk familiesammenføringslovgivning
Through the queer theoretical concepts of heteronormativity and compulsive monogamy, this article examines the notion of attachment in Danish family reunification law. From 2000 until today Danish migration law has been dominated by the understanding that applicants must prove a strong and unique connection to Denmark. The article argues for reading the attachment requirement in its changing forms in the context of shifting moral panics regarding…
Governing belonging through attachment: Marriage migration and transnational adoption in Denmark
Based on analysis of legal documents on family reunification and educational material concerning transnational adoption in Denmark, this article suggests that the concept of attachment may be conceptualized as a specific operationalization of belonging, and that belonging and biopower may be viewed as intertwined (rather than opposites). The analysis conceptualizes two modes of how belonging is operationalized through attachment. The belonging of…
Attachment as Affective Assimilation: Discourses on Love and Kinship in the Context of Transnational Adoption in Denmark
This article attempts to initiate a critical dialogue on the politics of love and attachment by investigating the way in which the concept of attachment governs the field of transnational adoption. We take our starting point in an analysis of a collection of background articles, teaching materials, and interviews produced by child psychologists as well as instructions to and testimonies from adopters. Reading the material through Sara Ahmed’s not…
The white tent of grief. Racialized conditions of public mourning in Denmark
In 2015, Danish-Palestinian Omar El-Hussein shot and killed two men in Copenhagen, before being killed himself by the police. Danish media immediately classified El-Hussein’s actions as ‘a terrorist attack’, and they became the object of extreme concern to the Danish public. In the following days, the two murder sites were momentarily turned into public memorial spaces. When the site of the killing of El-Hussein also became a site of mourning, ho…
Documenting Attachment: Affective border control in applications for family reunification
From 2002 to 2018, Denmark was the only country in the world to enforce a migration law demanding that couples seeking family reunification in Denmark documented their combined 'attachment' to the Danish nation. This article investigates the practice of documenting such national attachment through the so-called 'application packets'. Investigating the attachment requirement as a migration political tool with affective investments and implications…
Attachment Required: The Affective Governmentality of Marriage Migration in the Danish Aliens Act 2000-2018
Taking as its case the Danish “attachment requirement” (2000–2018), this article examines the way in which the biopolitical management of marriage migration has come to take the form of asserting national belonging. Although introduced as a tool for combatting “forced marriages,” the Danish attachment requirement did not purport to determinate the genuine character of love relationships but instead aimed at monitoring and predicting the national …
Smil! Melankoli og glædeskrav i Chaplins Smile
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Love Without Borders: White transraciality in Danish migration activism
Since 2000, Denmark has imposed some of the strictest immigration laws in Europe. Consequently, family reunification has become increasingly difficult for immigrants as well as for Danish citizens. In the fall of 2010, the Danish family reunification laws became subject to criticism and protest by a citizens' initiative called ?Love without Borders? (LWB). The article investigates how LWB managed to generate political momentum around love: an aff…
How to bring your daughter up to be a feminist killjoy: Shame, accountability and the necessity of paranoid reading in Lene Kaaberbøl’s The Shamer Chronicles
This article takes The Shamer Chronicles, the teenage fantasy series by the Danish author Lene Kaaberbøl, as an example of a queer feminist affect theoretical thought experiment. It shows how Kaaberbøl’s tetralogy allows us to link shame and paranoid/reparative reading with the figure of the feminist killjoy. The Chronicles can be read as a meditation on shame as a form of accountability and the shaming killjoy as a heroic figure who insists on p…
Shameful Separations and Embarrassing Proximities: Affective Constructions of Political (Il)Legitimacy in the Danish Debate on Prostitution
This article introduces various theories of shame as they figure within a queer theoretical framework. Drawing on E.K. Sedgwick's thinking, shame is presented as a theory of non-normative subject formation that holds potential for political activist thinking. Rather than regarding shame as an inner state of the subject or a mere social construct, this thinking enables an understanding of shame as performative acts that constitute the very positio…
Ikke et kulturelt kriseråb! – Inklusioner og eksklusioner i debatten om den litterære kanon
i januar 2006 offentliggjorde sin kulturkanon, affdte det som forudset en strre debat om svel indholdet som formlstjenligheden af en kulturel kanon. Det var dog ikke overvejelser angende kanonens knsrepraesentationer, der tog hovedparten af spaltepladsen. Dette skyldes mske, at debatten allerede havde rullet i forbindelse med Undervisningsministeriets litteratur
Attachment Required: The Affective Governmentality of Marriage Migration in the Danish Aliens Act 2000-2018
Taking as its case the Danish “attachment requirement” (2000–2018), this article examines the way in which the biopolitical management of marriage migration has come to take the form of asserting national belonging. Although introduced as a tool for combatting “forced marriages,” the Danish attachment requirement did not purport to determinate the genuine character of love relationships but instead aimed at monitoring and predicting the national …
Documenting Attachment: Affective border control in applications for family reunification
From 2002 to 2018, Denmark was the only country in the world to enforce a migration law demanding that couples seeking family reunification in Denmark documented their combined 'attachment' to the Danish nation. This article investigates the practice of documenting such national attachment through the so-called 'application packets'. Investigating the attachment requirement as a migration political tool with affective investments and implications…
Attachment as Affective Assimilation: Discourses on Love and Kinship in the Context of Transnational Adoption in Denmark
This article attempts to initiate a critical dialogue on the politics of love and attachment by investigating the way in which the concept of attachment governs the field of transnational adoption. We take our starting point in an analysis of a collection of background articles, teaching materials, and interviews produced by child psychologists as well as instructions to and testimonies from adopters. Reading the material through Sara Ahmed’s not…
The white tent of grief. Racialized conditions of public mourning in Denmark
In 2015, Danish-Palestinian Omar El-Hussein shot and killed two men in Copenhagen, before being killed himself by the police. Danish media immediately classified El-Hussein’s actions as ‘a terrorist attack’, and they became the object of extreme concern to the Danish public. In the following days, the two murder sites were momentarily turned into public memorial spaces. When the site of the killing of El-Hussein also became a site of mourning, ho…
Ikke et kulturelt kriseråb! – Inklusioner og eksklusioner i debatten om den litterære kanon
i januar 2006 offentliggjorde sin kulturkanon, affdte det som forudset en strre debat om svel indholdet som formlstjenligheden af en kulturel kanon. Det var dog ikke overvejelser angende kanonens knsrepraesentationer, der tog hovedparten af spaltepladsen. Dette skyldes mske, at debatten allerede havde rullet i forbindelse med Undervisningsministeriets litteratur
Shameful Separations and Embarrassing Proximities: Affective Constructions of Political (Il)Legitimacy in the Danish Debate on Prostitution
This article introduces various theories of shame as they figure within a queer theoretical framework. Drawing on E.K. Sedgwick's thinking, shame is presented as a theory of non-normative subject formation that holds potential for political activist thinking. Rather than regarding shame as an inner state of the subject or a mere social construct, this thinking enables an understanding of shame as performative acts that constitute the very positio…
Love Without Borders: White transraciality in Danish migration activism
Since 2000, Denmark has imposed some of the strictest immigration laws in Europe. Consequently, family reunification has become increasingly difficult for immigrants as well as for Danish citizens. In the fall of 2010, the Danish family reunification laws became subject to criticism and protest by a citizens' initiative called ?Love without Borders? (LWB). The article investigates how LWB managed to generate political momentum around love: an aff…
How to bring your daughter up to be a feminist killjoy: Shame, accountability and the necessity of paranoid reading in Lene Kaaberbøl’s The Shamer Chronicles
This article takes The Shamer Chronicles, the teenage fantasy series by the Danish author Lene Kaaberbøl, as an example of a queer feminist affect theoretical thought experiment. It shows how Kaaberbøl’s tetralogy allows us to link shame and paranoid/reparative reading with the figure of the feminist killjoy. The Chronicles can be read as a meditation on shame as a form of accountability and the shaming killjoy as a heroic figure who insists on p…
Smil! Melankoli og glædeskrav i Chaplins Smile
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Documenting Attachment: Affective border control in applications for family reunification
From 2002 to 2018, Denmark was the only country in the world to enforce a migration law demanding that couples seeking family reunification in Denmark documented their combined 'attachment' to the Danish nation. This article investigates the practice of documenting such national attachment through the so-called 'application packets'. Investigating the attachment requirement as a migration political tool with affective investments and implications…
Attachment Required: The Affective Governmentality of Marriage Migration in the Danish Aliens Act 2000-2018
Taking as its case the Danish “attachment requirement” (2000–2018), this article examines the way in which the biopolitical management of marriage migration has come to take the form of asserting national belonging. Although introduced as a tool for combatting “forced marriages,” the Danish attachment requirement did not purport to determinate the genuine character of love relationships but instead aimed at monitoring and predicting the national …
Attachment as Affective Assimilation: Discourses on Love and Kinship in the Context of Transnational Adoption in Denmark
This article attempts to initiate a critical dialogue on the politics of love and attachment by investigating the way in which the concept of attachment governs the field of transnational adoption. We take our starting point in an analysis of a collection of background articles, teaching materials, and interviews produced by child psychologists as well as instructions to and testimonies from adopters. Reading the material through Sara Ahmed’s not…
The white tent of grief. Racialized conditions of public mourning in Denmark
In 2015, Danish-Palestinian Omar El-Hussein shot and killed two men in Copenhagen, before being killed himself by the police. Danish media immediately classified El-Hussein’s actions as ‘a terrorist attack’, and they became the object of extreme concern to the Danish public. In the following days, the two murder sites were momentarily turned into public memorial spaces. When the site of the killing of El-Hussein also became a site of mourning, ho…
Governing belonging through attachment: Marriage migration and transnational adoption in Denmark
Based on analysis of legal documents on family reunification and educational material concerning transnational adoption in Denmark, this article suggests that the concept of attachment may be conceptualized as a specific operationalization of belonging, and that belonging and biopower may be viewed as intertwined (rather than opposites). The analysis conceptualizes two modes of how belonging is operationalized through attachment. The belonging of…
Nationalt monogami og queer tilknytninger: Heteronormativitet og biomagt i dansk familiesammenføringslovgivning
Through the queer theoretical concepts of heteronormativity and compulsive monogamy, this article examines the notion of attachment in Danish family reunification law. From 2000 until today Danish migration law has been dominated by the understanding that applicants must prove a strong and unique connection to Denmark. The article argues for reading the attachment requirement in its changing forms in the context of shifting moral panics regarding…
Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Danish (4 works) · Family reunification (4 works)