Kjersti Røsvik
Biographic Data
| ID | 6579872 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kjersti Røsvik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kjersti |
| FAMILY NAME | Røsvik |
| SIGNATURE | RØSVIK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South-Eastern Norway |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3335-7781 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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…
Mattering and social practice
This article explores how nonprofit organizations can enhance social inclusion among youth - drawing on Prilleltensky’s concept of mattering and Bourdieu’s theory of practice. 19 interviews with youth across five NPOs offering mentoring, work experience, cultural participation, and sport-based inclusion is analysed. Findings reveal a patterned inclusion process through three interconnected mechanisms: (1) relational safety and recognition constit…
The Negation of ‘Good’ Childhood
This article explores how young people with extensive involvement in the Norwegian Child Welfare Services (CWS) narrate a ‘bad childhood’ in relation to dominant cultural ideals of a ‘good childhood’. Based on eight life story interviews with youth aged 18–20, the study combines Butler's theory of performativity with Mertova and Webster's critical event narrative analysis to examine how young people make sense of instability, institutional encoun…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Mattering and social practice
This article explores how nonprofit organizations can enhance social inclusion among youth - drawing on Prilleltensky’s concept of mattering and Bourdieu’s theory of practice. 19 interviews with youth across five NPOs offering mentoring, work experience, cultural participation, and sport-based inclusion is analysed. Findings reveal a patterned inclusion process through three interconnected mechanisms: (1) relational safety and recognition constit…
The Negation of ‘Good’ Childhood
This article explores how young people with extensive involvement in the Norwegian Child Welfare Services (CWS) narrate a ‘bad childhood’ in relation to dominant cultural ideals of a ‘good childhood’. Based on eight life story interviews with youth aged 18–20, the study combines Butler's theory of performativity with Mertova and Webster's critical event narrative analysis to examine how young people make sense of instability, institutional encoun…
Norwegian (3 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Normative (2 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (2 works) · Performativity (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Social science (2 works)