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.
Biopolitics of Childhood
Tag: child welfare
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”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.
Continue reading “Barns röst?”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
Updated
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”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?
Continue reading “Social change in developmental times?”Turning a Dissertation into Art
Featured image: Dissertation cover image – PhD dissertation “Child (Bio)Welfare and Beyond: Intersecting Injustices in Childhoods and Swedish Child Welfare”.
Some people have asked about the dissertation cover image.
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