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Gender and Disability Research in the Nordic Countries

Gender and Disability Research in the Nordic Countries. Rannveig Traustad ó ttir Faculty of Social Science University of Iceland. Gender and Disability Research in the Nordic Countries. Overview The Nordic context policies and politics research and scholarship

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Gender and Disability Research in the Nordic Countries

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  1. Gender and Disability Research in the Nordic Countries Rannveig Traustadóttir Faculty of Social Science University of Iceland

  2. Gender and Disability Research in the Nordic Countries Overview • The Nordic context • policies and politics • research and scholarship • Main characteristics of scholarship on gender and disability • Empirical research • approaches and examples • Nordic situatedness and politics of location • Conclusion

  3. Background The Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway & Sweden Three self-governing regions The Faeroe Islands, Greenland & Åland Scandinavia Denmark, Norway, Sweden

  4. The Nordic Context Policy and Politics • Nordic welfare states and disability policy • Nordic welfare states and gender equality Research and Scholarship • Is there a Nordic Feminism? • Is there a Nordic model of disability?

  5. Gender & Disability Research • Feminist research • Nordic forum for research on women in the Nordic countries • NIKK, Nordic Institute for Women’s Studies and Gender Research • Nora, Nordic Journal for Women’s Studies • Disability research • NNDR, Nordic Network on Disability Research ????Nordic Institute for Disability Research • SJDR, Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research • Institutionalization of gender studies and disability studies in Nordic universities

  6. Gender & Disability Research in the Nordic Countries Main characteristics • Personal experience of disability • personal accounts and stories • Empirical studies • focus on everyday life • Theorizing • imported theories • Multidisciplinary • Disabled researchers and writers • Limitations

  7. Gender & Disability Research in the Nordic Countries Empirical Research • Main approaches • Feminist perspectives on disability issues • Intersectionarity • Main focus on everyday life and relation to welfare services • Families • Education • Employment • Lives and experiences of disabled women and men Cont.

  8. Gender & Disability Research in the Nordic Countries • Less prominent but growing • Body • Identity • Socialization • Discourse • Critique of • Welfare policies • Gender equality policies Cont.

  9. Gender & Disability Research in the Nordic Countries • Examples of recent research • History and generations • Childhood • Adolescence and young adulthood • Sexuality • Ethnicity • Fatherhood • Violence & abuse • Oppression

  10. Nordic Situatedness andPolitics of Location • How do we handle our located situatedness? • Empirical research • located in own country • lessons from others! • lessons for others? • Domination of UK and USA • important contributions • dominating and generalized • Non–English/Non–UK/USA • must decide if we locate us or generalize • problems of language and translations

  11. ConclusionLessons for Disability Studies • Disability is gendered • Intersectionality • importance of examining how disability intersects with gender, “race”, age, class... • Regional rooting and international dimensions/cooperation • Gender studies and feminist research • learning from theorizing and research practices

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