I often ask feminist questions in critical childhood studies research contexts. However, in the co-authored article “De/gendering violence and racialising blame in Swedish child welfare: what has childhood got to do with it?” (2021), children and childhoods are highlighted in relation to common feminist debates.
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Protective Solutions in Child Welfare? Insights from a Finnish-Swedish co-writing project
In 2018, I had the amazing opportunity to visit University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland. One of the results from this visit is the joint publication “Gender- and power sensitivity, securitisation and social peace: rethinking protection for children exposed to post-separation violence”.
Continue reading “Protective Solutions in Child Welfare? Insights from a Finnish-Swedish co-writing project”Why anthropology? (Serendipity)
Updated 2021/08/14
“But why anthropology?”. I was asked the question shortly before finishing my doctoral thesis. It is rather uncommon to refer to so many anthropological studies in a thesis that is not based on ethnography and is, in addition to this, written within the field of child welfare social work. In social work, it is more common to refer to sociologists, psychologists, and political scientists. So why anthropology?
Continue reading “Why anthropology? (Serendipity)”Barns röst?
Informanters autentiska röst har länge problematiserats, så även barns, bl. a. av barndomsforskaren Spyros Spyrou.1 För att förstå denna problematisering räcker det att föreställa sig hur “barns röster” cirkulerar och modifieras genom otaliga kanaler.
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Academia-Art
I not only use creative expressions that help me in my writing or to communicate the message of my texts. I have also experimented with a small project that I call Academia-Art (2019-2020) which is visible below. It raises questions about the reuse of knowledge and has also helped me to express challenging experiences in academia. Below, I describe this in Swedish, the language of my academic contexts.
Continue reading “Academia-Art”Dissertation review
“…this research advances the field considerably in terms of our understanding of issues of responding to diversity, children’s participation and to understanding how knowledge cultures determine outcomes.”
“A well-rehearsed section of the thesis takes the reader through the notion of episteme, simply stated as what is understood as knowledge at any one time. For many this is a given but for the critical scholars the questions: who’s knowledge? How? What knowledges are subjugated? Why? become epistemological concerns.”
Williams 2020
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I was very pleased to read Professor Charlotte Williams’ review of my dissertation. Williams is a leading scholar in social work and she is internationally recognised for her research on ethnic diversity, multiculturalism, racism, and social justice issues in the context of welfare regimes and practices.
Continue reading “Dissertation review”Speaking bodies – silenced voices
My article “Speaking Bodies – Silenced Voices: Child Protection and the Knowledge Culture of ‘Evidencing’” is now freely accessible for downloading.
This study is a “write-back” because it was partially inspired by a comment at a seminar, where I presented a work in progress (now another published article).1
Continue reading “Speaking bodies – silenced voices”Barn, epistemiska orättvisor och moralisk status
Det har skrivits mycket om barn som sociala aktörer och barns rättighet att komma till tals. Båda diskussionerna brukar mynna ut i talet om barn som kunskapsaktörer – att barn har kunskap om och agens i sin miljö men undermineras som kunskapsaktörer.
Continue reading “Barn, epistemiska orättvisor och moralisk status”Social change in developmental times?
My first independent scholarly work is published!
…And it is published in Time & Society, one of my favourite peer-reviewed journals! What is the article about, then?
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