Malin Fævelen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6025939 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Malin Fævelen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Malin |
| FAMILY NAME | Fævelen |
| SIGNATURE | FÆVELEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Social Work, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) , Trondheim 7491 |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7438-7389 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exploring parents’ repertoire of everyday resistance in child welfare services — Towards a power-sensitive understanding of resistance
Tension between help and control is characteristic of many welfare services. Although resistance is a common reaction to control, it has received less attention in the social sciences than does power. This paper draws on the concept of everyday resistance to empirically and theoretically study how parents in contact with the Norwegian child welfare service (CWS) resist the well-meaning power of the service. The analysis demonstrates that parents …
Sensibility to the Role of Child Welfare Services in the Machinery of Stigma
Sensibility to stigma in child welfare systems is important to prevent harmful acts against marginalised groups in society. This case analysis centres around one family in the child welfare service (CWS) that could be considered marginalised across several dimensions. The empirical material consists of three separate in-depth interviews with the child, their parents and their caseworker. We explore how the stigma attributed to the family was enha…
Good parenting’ among middle-class families
This article investigates norms of parenting in the context of the Norwegian child welfare service (CWS).Research from both international and Norwegian contexts shows that current parenting ideals are built on middle-class values that are often taken for granted.However, there is limited knowledge about the interaction between the CWS and middle-class families.Through narrative positioning analysis, we explore how child welfare workers (CWWs) con…
Family involvement in child welfare services
In child welfare policies, as in contemporary society in general, great attention has been given to parenting roles and investing in ‘positive’ parenting practices. Several studies have suggested that socio‐economic factors frame parenting practices. There is broad evidence of a significant correlation between socio‐economic inequalities and child welfare intervention rates. Nevertheless, few studies have investigated parenting practices in a chi…
Sensibility to the Role of Child Welfare Services in the Machinery of Stigma
Sensibility to stigma in child welfare systems is important to prevent harmful acts against marginalised groups in society. This case analysis centres around one family in the child welfare service (CWS) that could be considered marginalised across several dimensions. The empirical material consists of three separate in-depth interviews with the child, their parents and their caseworker. We explore how the stigma attributed to the family was enha…
Family involvement in child welfare services
In child welfare policies, as in contemporary society in general, great attention has been given to parenting roles and investing in ‘positive’ parenting practices. Several studies have suggested that socio‐economic factors frame parenting practices. There is broad evidence of a significant correlation between socio‐economic inequalities and child welfare intervention rates. Nevertheless, few studies have investigated parenting practices in a chi…
Good parenting’ among middle-class families
This article investigates norms of parenting in the context of the Norwegian child welfare service (CWS).Research from both international and Norwegian contexts shows that current parenting ideals are built on middle-class values that are often taken for granted.However, there is limited knowledge about the interaction between the CWS and middle-class families.Through narrative positioning analysis, we explore how child welfare workers (CWWs) con…
Sensibility to the Role of Child Welfare Services in the Machinery of Stigma
Sensibility to stigma in child welfare systems is important to prevent harmful acts against marginalised groups in society. This case analysis centres around one family in the child welfare service (CWS) that could be considered marginalised across several dimensions. The empirical material consists of three separate in-depth interviews with the child, their parents and their caseworker. We explore how the stigma attributed to the family was enha…
Exploring parents’ repertoire of everyday resistance in child welfare services — Towards a power-sensitive understanding of resistance
Tension between help and control is characteristic of many welfare services. Although resistance is a common reaction to control, it has received less attention in the social sciences than does power. This paper draws on the concept of everyday resistance to empirically and theoretically study how parents in contact with the Norwegian child welfare service (CWS) resist the well-meaning power of the service. The analysis demonstrates that parents …
Welfare (4 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Norwegian (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Social Work (2 works) · Active listening (1 works)