The Child as the Other

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.

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.

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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”.

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