challenging the myth of gender equality in Sweden

Martinsson, Lena; Griffin, Gabriele; Nygren, Katarina Giritli

doi:10.46692/9781447325994.001

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“…In domestic discourses, Sweden is routinely portrayed as the most gender equal society on earth. Feminists have problematized this “gender exceptionalism” for locating gender inequality in the distant past, externalizing it onto racialized immigrant Others (Martinsson et al, 2016; Towns, 2002) or—in security discourse—the Russian geopolitical foe (Agius and Edenborg, 2019). As previously mentioned, Sweden has come to figure as an emblematic reference point in contemporary “culture wars” rhetoric (Colliver et al, 2018).…”

Section: Gendered Boundarymaking In International Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The story identified earlier—where the gender equal “we” (although not always explicitly defined) appeared to encompass a generalized Nordic or Western community contrasted to a patriarchal “them”—coexisted with a competing boundarymaking narrative. As participants discussed the articles, Sweden was often singled out as distinct from other Nordic countries and the rest of the world by being unusually concerned with gender equality, a rhetoric mirroring what feminists describe as “Swedish gender exceptionalism” (Martinsson et al, 2016). In many cases, this was an exceptionalism portrayed negatively.…”

Section: Feminism Gone Too Farmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Disinformation and gendered boundarymaking: Nordic media audiences making sense of “Swedish decline”

Edenborg¹

2021

Cooperation and Conflict

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This article examines how Russian geostrategic communication is entangled in global gender politics. The aim is to understand the resonance of disinformation in relation to culturalized, ethnicized and racialized narratives of gender, or “gendered boundarymaking.” The analysis is based on focus group discussions with Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian individuals, asked to share their impressions of news articles from the Russian media agency Sputnik, which all depicted Sweden as a warning example of multiculturalism and feminism gone “too far.” In the discussions, participants opposed a gender equal “self” to a patriarchal immigrant “other,” narrated Sweden as a country exceptionally concerned with gender, and tapped into competing temporalities of progress and decline. The article contributes to research on geostrategic communication by showing how disinformation efforts draw upon gendered national identities and debates about gender and immigration. More importantly, the article demonstrates that such gendered boundarymaking shapes audiences’ interpretations in crucial ways. Rather than viewing disinformation only from a state-centered lens of national security, in isolation from racism, Islamophobia, anti-feminism, and queerphobia within Western societies, research should acknowledge the interconnections between geostrategic communication and everyday boundarymaking. This will be pivotal to developing counterstrategies to disinformation, whether Russian or homegrown.

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Section: Gendered Boundarymaking In International Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Feminism Gone Too Farmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disinformation and gendered boundarymaking: Nordic media audiences making sense of “Swedish decline”

Edenborg¹

2021

Cooperation and Conflict

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“…Concerning the conceptualisation of GBV exclusively in contexts of forced migration, post-colonial feminist scholars (Abu-Lughod, 2011, 2013Fassin & Barnett, 2016;Martinsson and Griffin, 2016;Ozcurumez et al, 2021;Spivak, 1988Spivak, , 2012 have pointed out how the use of the concepts of "violence" and "women" contribute to reinforcing the positive image of male white saviours in humanitarian contexts who rescue black women from wild and uncivilised societies. While Nawyn (2010) has pointed out that the field of migration studies has not incorporated much of the findings related to GBV into mainstream research (Nawyn, 2010, p.758), Ozcurumez et al (2021)…”

Section: Current Discussion At the Cutting Edge Of Gender And Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender-based violence (GBV) against women with precarious legal status and their access to social protection in advanced welfare societies: an analytical contribution to reconstruct the research field and its institutional development

Matteo

Scaramuzzino

2022

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The aim of this paper is to map the emergence and development of a research field around the topic of “gender-based violence (GBV) against women with precarious legal status and their access to social protection in advanced welfare societies”. We explore the academic knowledge production around this topic as a specific research field by using bibliometric data. We investigate the place occupied by scholars who publish in well-established journals, and their disciplines, in order to understand the relevance of different disciplines and groups of researchers in the knowledge production within the field. Our methodology includes analysis of co-authorship, cross-country collaboration, and co-citation. The search strategy is informed by discursive practices and knowledge production by influential international civil society actors (CSAs) involved in framing welfare responses to GBV against women with precarious legal status. Our results suggest that the knowledge produced in the field increased in terms of number of publications between 2010 and 2021, indicating a process of institutionalisation. Disciplines oriented towards certain groups of professionals such as clinical psychology, medicine, health, nursing, and social work, affiliated mainly to institutions in the US, Canada, and the EU, have a prominent role in knowledge production in this field. In our conclusions, we discuss the implications of these results in relation to gender studies and migration studies, along with some limitations of the use of bibliometrics software combined with an intersectionality approach.

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“…As demonstrated by critical feminist scholarship, Nordic gender equality policies have been characterised by nationalism, participating in a sense of self-pride and thereby marginalising critical voices (Dahl et al 2016;Keskinen et al 2009;Martinsson et al 2016). In Finland, the traditional platforms of gender equality activism have remained white and, also because of how state bodies and policy areas are structured, issues of racism are discussed as a separate agenda (Keskinen et al 2009;Tuori 2009).…”

Section: New Platforms New Agendasmentioning

confidence: 99%