Ämnesnätverket i genusvetenskap för arbetet med den nya utbildnings- och examensstrukturen

The Centre for Gender Studies at Lund University has been given the responsibility of creating a network within Gender Studies in Sweden to facilitate the implementation of the Bologna Declaration of Higher Education. The Gender Studies network for the implementation of the new structure of education and degrees in Sweden has included all the departments/centres that offer courses on Bachelor s level and beyond. The network has had ten individual meetings and one large concluding meeting The network has consisted of ten participating departments from ten universities. The network has been focused its work upon learning outcomes, student mobility and inter-university co-operation We have outlined the changes carried out in relation to the new educational structure, the formulating of learning outcomes and the creation of the new advanced level of education, i.e. the masters level. The network has concluded that we differ in some ways as to how we state the expected learning outcomes, though the differences do not seem to pose an obstacle to student mobility. Four of the project participants offer education programmes at an advanced level and here we have noted a slight difference in the access requirements. We believe that the department/centres that have developed education at the advanced level can contribute to others, with advice and as models. The network has brought about discussions and an exchange of ideas and now as the network project has completed it work, by far the most obvious conclusion is that a dialogue within our field of education is continuously necessary. Nätverkets deltagare och projektets utfor

Teori i praktikken: et studie af begærsforskydninger blandt genusstudenter

This essay investigates the phenomenon of "shifts in desire" amongst students of gender studies at five universities in Sweden. Taking its starting point in a queerfeminist understanding of gender and sexuality and an ambition to challenge the predominant discourse of sexual essentialism I examine which aspects of gender studies my informants attach importance to when relating them to their shifts in desire. The essay combines a quantitative survey investigation, which reviels that shifts in desire, sexual pratices and/or gender identity are relatively common in relation to gender studies, with a qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with seven students with different expiriences of shifts in desire and/or gender identity. The analysis reveals that it is a combination of theoretical understanding and the norm divergence in the cirruculum and context of gender studies as well as the subversive and political potential of challenging the predominant discourse of sexual essentialism that facilitates the students' shifts in desire

Are there trans and queer methodologies? Methodological negotiations on gender and sexuality

Are there research methods and methodologies that are inherently queer or transfeminist in empirical research? This is a question I wrestle with often. And I am not alone, although methodological discussions are less central in queer and transfeminist knowledge production than in the wider feminist field. Transfeminist discussions of methodology often set our from a research ethics starting point; an early text here is Jacob Hale's "Suggested Rules for Non-Transsexuals Writing about Transsexuals, Transsexuality, Transsexualism, or Trans ____" from 1997, last updated in 2009. These are much more than a reference for future research. It is a concise analysis of methodological violence, a reflection of the experiences of people with different experiences of being trans in different research processes. It makes demands on the reflexivity, sensitivity and accuracy of non-trans researchers.Both, trans and queer research, grapple with a centering of certain subject positions. This is necessary, yet can lead to sexuality and gender identity being seen as detached from their intersections, as discussed not least by Cathy J. Cohen, and from the production of gender and sexuality as non-intersectional, as analyzed for example by Jules Gill-Peterson. Understanding queer and trans experiences as experiences marked by gendered oppression may render other mechanisms of oppression invisible. Whiteness, abelism and class norms within queer and trans communities need to be analysed more in the Scandinavian context. What does that entail when researchers and students set out to work with trans and queer communities? In addition, what kinds of methodological, theoretical and political negotiations are necessary to understand the role of the researcher – insider, outsider, on the fence

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Review of Göran Tagesson et al (eds), “Fokus Vreta kloster. 17 nya rön om Sveriges äldsta kloster” (Stockholm 2010)

Review of Göran Tagesson,Elisabet Regner, Birgitta Alinder & Lars Ladell (eds), “Fokus Vreta kloster. 17 nya rön om Sveriges äldsta kloster” (Stockholm 2010

chapter 7 The Politics of Women’s Digital Archives and Its Significance for the History of Journalism

"This book showcases various ways in which digital archives allow for new approaches to journalism history. The chapters in this book were selected based on three overall objectives: 1) research that highlights specific concerns within journalism history through digital archives; 2) discussions of digital methodologies, as well as specific applications, that are accessible for journalism scholars with no prior experiences with such approaches; and 3) that journalism history and digital archives are connected in other ways than through specific methods, i.e., that the connection raises larger questions of historiography and power. The contributions address cases and developments in Asia, South and North America and Europe; and range from long-range, big-data, machine-leaning and topic modelling studies of journalistic characteristics and meta-journalistic discourses to critiques of archival practices and access in relation to gender, social movements and poverty. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Digital Journalism.