Lena Martinsson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 258445 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lena Martinsson |
| PRENOMES | Lena |
| SOBRENOME | Martinsson |
| ASSINATURA | MARTINSSON L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0265-4983 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 6 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Travelling Artefacts
This paper, by using manga comics and the veil as examples, argues that increased scholarly attention to artifacts involved in political struggles could add new insights to previous research on resistance and social change. The paper examines how the recognition of artifacts is entwined with different expressions and techniques of power and resistance. These artifacts, which are recognizable around the globe, acquire different meanings and become…
The adult in the room
This discussion takes as its starting point recent right-wing protests and -rhetoric, forming part of a conservative moral panic surrounding Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) and LGBTQ+ pride events, and in particular the harm these are proclaimed to be causing children. While mobilizing the figure of the child for political purposes is not a recent phenomenon, the momentum and number of fellow travelers the instrumentalization of vulnerable innocence…
Privileged underdogs
In this article, we focus on a Swedish upper class digital space called The Good Society, where texts, videos and discussions are published. In this digital space the elite comes out publicly as underdogs in relation to the supposed hegemony of political correctness and the Swedish welfare ideology. The upper class take the position of protectors against the feminization of society and the crisis of masculinity. We argue that this space can be un…
School knowledge and teacher authority - politicisation and depoliticisation of compulsory education instigated by a right-wing nationalist parental intervention
The article explores differing conceptions of, or a struggle concerning, the role of compulsory education, the understanding of knowledge, and the authority of teachers. It is based on a discourse theoretical analysis of emails, online media, and parliamentary data from Sweden, initiated by a parent who is active in the nationalist party, the Sweden Democrats. He criticised a teacher for being leftist by not representing the storming of the US Ca…
Conferencing in times of climate crisis and Covid-19
This article employs a holistic understanding of environmental, social, and economic sustainability to explore the interaction between neoliberalism, climate crisis, digitalization, and academic work with a focus on its everyday aspects. Drawing our experience of organizing an online conference during the Covid-19 pandemic and our dialogue with conference participants, we first problematize the presumed disembodiment of digital exchange and sugge…
Inledning
Är akademisk frihet patriarkal
I artikeln undersöks en radikal högermobilisering där genusvetenskap liksom jämställdhetsintegrering, hbtqi- och, antirasistisk arbete i akademin uppfattas som hot mot den akademiska friheten. Studien visar hur högerkonservativa politiker med en egen genuskonservativ politik, både vill styra över ämnet genusvetenskap och exkludera det från universitetet. Den akademiska friheten gäller inte genusforskare. Studien följer även en akademisk organisat…
Fight pandemics with protective masks or gender?’ Emerging collective identities and anti-gender movements on Twitter during the Covid-19 crisis in Sweden
The focus of this article is the formation of collective identities and mobilization of grassroots anti-gender movement in Sweden in connection to the intensification of activities on Twitter during the initial period of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020. This loosely connected network understands itself as being outside of what is described as a dominant gender order in Sweden, where feminists, gender perspectives and work for LGBTQ-rights su…
When gender studies becomes a threatening religion
The transnational anti-gender movement often has a strong connection to conservative religious organisations. However, even if the anti-gender movement is easy to recognise in Sweden, it is impossible for it to propagate significant opposition to gender mainstreaming and gender studies by using the Church as a reference due to white Swedish people’s established and neo-colonial image of Sweden as exceptional, secular, modern, and a gender equal a…
Civil Servants Talk Back - Political Subjectivity and (Re) Constructions of the Nation
This article discusses the emergence of political subjectivity and politicization among social workers and teachers. We present situations that have induced teachers and social workers to become politically active and examine what their struggle might imply for these unaccompanied children. We also ask how the nation state is interpellated and transformed. Drawing on Laclau, Mouffe and Biesta, we find that political subjectivity emerges in situat…
Gender Equality and Beyond
The social-democratic-inspired “Nordic model”, with its agenda for gender equality, has been an important example for the development of political interventions to transform society but at the same time, it has been functioning as an emerging gender normalising and stabilising structure. The last decade it has also become focused by antigender movements and ethno-nationalistic parties both as emblematic for the Nordic nations as well as a threat …
Sekularitet - förstahet genom religion och kön
Secularities – firstness through religion and gender In this article we explore how positing religion as other simultaneously makes secularism a firstness. How is secularism embodied and reproduced as an objective and neutral space – a firstness. The secular subject is often represented as free and rational in contrast to an imagined religious, traditional, and often Muslim other. By studying Swedish contemporary debates about freedom of speech, …
Ett försvar för genusforskning är ett försvar för demokratin
Fokus på genusforskares betydelse i samhället
The rainbow flag as friction
This article analyzes the frictions the rainbow flag creates between transnational, national and translocal discourses and materialities. It focuses on the ambivalent role that the transnational 'rainbow' space plays for community building for LGBTQ activists in in Pakistan. The rainbow flag can function as a way to mobilize an imagined transnational community of belonging, enabling people to politicize their experiences of discrimination as a de…
Challenging the Myth of Gender Equality in Sweden
Challenging the myth of gender equality in Sweden
Challenging the Myth of Gender Equality in Sweden
Sweden is often considered one of the most gender-equal countries in the world and held up as a model to follow, but the reality is more complex. This is the first book to explode the myth of Swedish gender equality, both offering a new perspective for an international audience, and suggesting how equality might be rethought more generally. While the authors argue that the gender-equality mantra in Sweden has led to a society with increased oppor…
Challenging the Myth of Gender Equality in Sweden
This is the first book to explode the myth of Swedish gender equality, offering a new perspective for an international audience and suggesting how equality might be re-thought more generally.
Challenging the myth of gender equality in Sweden
Sweden has the reputation of being one of the most gender-equal countries in the world, and it is often held up as a model for other societies but the reality is much more complicated, as this volume shows. The first book to provide a thorough analysis of the myth of Swedish gender equality, this volume shows how that dominant idea has become a form of nationalism that ultimately excludes those who fall outside the social norm.
Challenging the myth of gender equality in Sweden
Sweden ranks as one of the world's most gender-egalitarian countries, based on a firm belief that men and women should share power and influence equally. An extensive welfare system makes it easier for both sexes to balance work and family life. However, the Government recognises that there is still room for improvement in many areas. (Sweden.se, Official source for facts about Sweden)
Challenging the Myth of Gender Equality in Sweden
Hotande politisering
Den privilegierades kris
Stökiga platser, utbildning, ekonomi och politik i globala diskurser om förändring
In this article, I have shown how different economic discourses, with different understandings of education and children's roles, exist in a single Pakistani village. The plurality of discourses is seen as a condition for political activity. It is obvious for the villagers that life can be organized in different ways. As a nation, Pakistan, also displays a variety of discourses, one of which, the neoliberal discourse for development aid is an exa…
When gender studies becomes a threatening religion
The transnational anti-gender movement often has a strong connection to conservative religious organisations. However, even if the anti-gender movement is easy to recognise in Sweden, it is impossible for it to propagate significant opposition to gender mainstreaming and gender studies by using the Church as a reference due to white Swedish people’s established and neo-colonial image of Sweden as exceptional, secular, modern, and a gender equal a…
Fight pandemics with protective masks or gender?’ Emerging collective identities and anti-gender movements on Twitter during the Covid-19 crisis in Sweden
The focus of this article is the formation of collective identities and mobilization of grassroots anti-gender movement in Sweden in connection to the intensification of activities on Twitter during the initial period of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020. This loosely connected network understands itself as being outside of what is described as a dominant gender order in Sweden, where feminists, gender perspectives and work for LGBTQ-rights su…
The rainbow flag as friction
This article analyzes the frictions the rainbow flag creates between transnational, national and translocal discourses and materialities. It focuses on the ambivalent role that the transnational 'rainbow' space plays for community building for LGBTQ activists in in Pakistan. The rainbow flag can function as a way to mobilize an imagined transnational community of belonging, enabling people to politicize their experiences of discrimination as a de…
Civil Servants Talk Back - Political Subjectivity and (Re) Constructions of the Nation
This article discusses the emergence of political subjectivity and politicization among social workers and teachers. We present situations that have induced teachers and social workers to become politically active and examine what their struggle might imply for these unaccompanied children. We also ask how the nation state is interpellated and transformed. Drawing on Laclau, Mouffe and Biesta, we find that political subjectivity emerges in situat…
Gender Equality and Beyond
The social-democratic-inspired “Nordic model”, with its agenda for gender equality, has been an important example for the development of political interventions to transform society but at the same time, it has been functioning as an emerging gender normalising and stabilising structure. The last decade it has also become focused by antigender movements and ethno-nationalistic parties both as emblematic for the Nordic nations as well as a threat …
School knowledge and teacher authority - politicisation and depoliticisation of compulsory education instigated by a right-wing nationalist parental intervention
The article explores differing conceptions of, or a struggle concerning, the role of compulsory education, the understanding of knowledge, and the authority of teachers. It is based on a discourse theoretical analysis of emails, online media, and parliamentary data from Sweden, initiated by a parent who is active in the nationalist party, the Sweden Democrats. He criticised a teacher for being leftist by not representing the storming of the US Ca…
Sekularitet - förstahet genom religion och kön
Secularities – firstness through religion and gender In this article we explore how positing religion as other simultaneously makes secularism a firstness. How is secularism embodied and reproduced as an objective and neutral space – a firstness. The secular subject is often represented as free and rational in contrast to an imagined religious, traditional, and often Muslim other. By studying Swedish contemporary debates about freedom of speech, …
Individualitet, gemenskap och modernitet i tre heterosexuella parrelationer
The present article treats the significance of heterosexual relationships in the development of individuality and the fulfilment of the quest for fellowship in modern society. Three couples are described, each of whom has created various organizing principles in order to manage their shared everyday life. However, these principles serve to legitimize the man's individuality at the cost of the woman's. The woman proves more adaptable than the man,…
Förändring som norm
The aim with this article is to discuss the normalisation of change in relation to a capitalistic discourse. The speech about the flexible human being and the changing world is very common in industries and in the rhetoric about economic growth. Change is described as a natural force that you both are a part of and have to adapt to. However, the speech about flexibility, as a human quality, exists parallel to understandings of identities such as …
Aspekter på genus, vänskap och reflexivitet
Social mångfald? Om förutsägbar bildning och om demokrati som sätter värden på spel
The object of this article is to analyse the liberal discourse repeated in a report from the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education. The aim of the report was to evaluate the work to recruit young people from working class or non-academic backgrounds to the universities. The goal is to create social diversity at the universities. Social diversity is understood as good because it brings students from different backgrounds together and makes …
Översättningar i rörelse
An artistic researcher and an ethnologist/gender researcher meet to discuss issues of translation in their respective transnational research projects, translations that never are quite synonymous, but creates gaps and constant alternative linguistic spaces
Stökiga platser, utbildning, ekonomi och politik i globala diskurser om förändring
In this article, I have shown how different economic discourses, with different understandings of education and children's roles, exist in a single Pakistani village. The plurality of discourses is seen as a condition for political activity. It is obvious for the villagers that life can be organized in different ways. As a nation, Pakistan, also displays a variety of discourses, one of which, the neoliberal discourse for development aid is an exa…
Den privilegierades kris
Challenging the Myth of Gender Equality in Sweden
Challenging the myth of gender equality in Sweden
Challenging the Myth of Gender Equality in Sweden
Sweden is often considered one of the most gender-equal countries in the world and held up as a model to follow, but the reality is more complex. This is the first book to explode the myth of Swedish gender equality, both offering a new perspective for an international audience, and suggesting how equality might be rethought more generally. While the authors argue that the gender-equality mantra in Sweden has led to a society with increased oppor…
Challenging the Myth of Gender Equality in Sweden
This is the first book to explode the myth of Swedish gender equality, offering a new perspective for an international audience and suggesting how equality might be re-thought more generally.
Challenging the myth of gender equality in Sweden
Sweden has the reputation of being one of the most gender-equal countries in the world, and it is often held up as a model for other societies but the reality is much more complicated, as this volume shows. The first book to provide a thorough analysis of the myth of Swedish gender equality, this volume shows how that dominant idea has become a form of nationalism that ultimately excludes those who fall outside the social norm.
Challenging the myth of gender equality in Sweden
Sweden ranks as one of the world's most gender-egalitarian countries, based on a firm belief that men and women should share power and influence equally. An extensive welfare system makes it easier for both sexes to balance work and family life. However, the Government recognises that there is still room for improvement in many areas. (Sweden.se, Official source for facts about Sweden)
Challenging the Myth of Gender Equality in Sweden
Hotande politisering
Fokus på genusforskares betydelse i samhället
The rainbow flag as friction
This article analyzes the frictions the rainbow flag creates between transnational, national and translocal discourses and materialities. It focuses on the ambivalent role that the transnational 'rainbow' space plays for community building for LGBTQ activists in in Pakistan. The rainbow flag can function as a way to mobilize an imagined transnational community of belonging, enabling people to politicize their experiences of discrimination as a de…
Gender Equality and Beyond
The social-democratic-inspired “Nordic model”, with its agenda for gender equality, has been an important example for the development of political interventions to transform society but at the same time, it has been functioning as an emerging gender normalising and stabilising structure. The last decade it has also become focused by antigender movements and ethno-nationalistic parties both as emblematic for the Nordic nations as well as a threat …
Sekularitet - förstahet genom religion och kön
Secularities – firstness through religion and gender In this article we explore how positing religion as other simultaneously makes secularism a firstness. How is secularism embodied and reproduced as an objective and neutral space – a firstness. The secular subject is often represented as free and rational in contrast to an imagined religious, traditional, and often Muslim other. By studying Swedish contemporary debates about freedom of speech, …
Ett försvar för genusforskning är ett försvar för demokratin
When gender studies becomes a threatening religion
The transnational anti-gender movement often has a strong connection to conservative religious organisations. However, even if the anti-gender movement is easy to recognise in Sweden, it is impossible for it to propagate significant opposition to gender mainstreaming and gender studies by using the Church as a reference due to white Swedish people’s established and neo-colonial image of Sweden as exceptional, secular, modern, and a gender equal a…
Civil Servants Talk Back - Political Subjectivity and (Re) Constructions of the Nation
This article discusses the emergence of political subjectivity and politicization among social workers and teachers. We present situations that have induced teachers and social workers to become politically active and examine what their struggle might imply for these unaccompanied children. We also ask how the nation state is interpellated and transformed. Drawing on Laclau, Mouffe and Biesta, we find that political subjectivity emerges in situat…
Inledning
Är akademisk frihet patriarkal
I artikeln undersöks en radikal högermobilisering där genusvetenskap liksom jämställdhetsintegrering, hbtqi- och, antirasistisk arbete i akademin uppfattas som hot mot den akademiska friheten. Studien visar hur högerkonservativa politiker med en egen genuskonservativ politik, både vill styra över ämnet genusvetenskap och exkludera det från universitetet. Den akademiska friheten gäller inte genusforskare. Studien följer även en akademisk organisat…
Fight pandemics with protective masks or gender?’ Emerging collective identities and anti-gender movements on Twitter during the Covid-19 crisis in Sweden
The focus of this article is the formation of collective identities and mobilization of grassroots anti-gender movement in Sweden in connection to the intensification of activities on Twitter during the initial period of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020. This loosely connected network understands itself as being outside of what is described as a dominant gender order in Sweden, where feminists, gender perspectives and work for LGBTQ-rights su…
Political science (17 obras) · Sociology (17 obras) · Gender Studies (15 obras) · Gender equality (9 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Politics (9 obras) · Social and Educational Sciences (8 obras) · History (7 obras) · Mythology (7 obras) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (7 obras)