To write this text has been a long-ongoing project that started with a conference presentation long back in 2016 but now the chapter “The Child as the Other: Some Epistemological Considerations” is published in the anthology Feminist Philosophy: Time, history and the transformation of thought, edited by Synne Myrebøe; Valgerður Pálmadóttir and Johanna Sjöstedt. Take a look at it here.
Category: childhood studies
Biopolitics of Childhood
I am happy to announce a recent publication in The Routledge Handbook of International Critical Social Work: New Perspectives and Agendas, edited by Stephen A. Webb. Read more here.
De/gendering and racialising – what has childhood got to do with it?
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.
Continue reading “De/gendering and racialising – what has childhood got to do with it?”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”The never-ending story: Disciplines
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”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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