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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Florin, Christina

Titel

Mitt beroende av samtiden

Ist Teil von

• Scandia, 2012, Vol.78 (2:S), p.33

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The paper is called My dependence on the present, and in it I reflect on how I have changed track a number of times during my research career. I came late to research, having just turned forty when I began my postgraduate studies, and this meant I did not feel bound to prove my loyalty to any particular school of thought-an independent researcher, no less! However, I had not been at Umea University long before the radical student milieu and lively research on women's issues had me in their grip and made me into a social historian and feminist. The turn came in the 1990s, when I worked on a project on Swedish schools with Ulla Johansson from the Department of Education. With this change came Pierre Bourdieu's cultural analyses, Yvonne Hirdman's gender theory, and Joan Scott's theories of language into veiw, all of which prodded me towards a greater interest in culture, power, and the body. Embarking on a project on the emotions and universal suffrage in which discourses were to be the focus, I found myself strangely drawn back to social history, armed with a fresh interest in social practices and the significance of experience for the people of the past. And now I am writing about women worldwide as part of an instructional-media project.