We will bring together senior and junior researchers from different disciplines based in four Nordic countries, and experts in either everyday resistances, welfare service provision and/or in institutional ethnography. Our aim is to identify innovative theoretical, methodological and empirical approaches to study how the Nordic welfare state operates and can be improved from the standpoint of its service users.
Instructions
Before the workshop, please prepare a five minutes presentation of yourself that briefly explains who you are and how your own research relates to the topic of the workshop. Send one (1) PowerPoint slide you will use for the presentation of yourself. The organisers will collect all slides in one file so we can quickly move from one presentation to the next.
The deadline for your text and PowerPoint slide is August 1st, 2022. Please upload your files to the Box folder that you have been invited to via email. If you encounter any difficulties, do not hesitate to contact Lisa Lindqvist at lisa.lindqvist@kau.se.
Program
August 15: Goal of the day - Getting to know each other
12.00–13.00 Lunch
13.00–13.15 Welcome by the organising committee
13.15–15.00 Introduction
Who are we and why are we here? Five-minute individual presentations. Please, see the instructions for information on what to prepare before you arrive.
15.00–15.30 Break
15.30–17.30 World café concerning our joint interests
19.00 Dinner
August 16: Goal of the day - Develop a common understanding of the three "pillars" of the workshops
09.00–11.00 (Including a short break) understanding intstitutional ethnography
We divide into two groups depending on our previous experience with Institutional Ethnography. You decide yourself where you think you belong.
- An introduction to Institutional Ethnography (IE) for those who are new to IE
- “Experienced group” for those who have experience with IE from their own research or have read extensively
11.00–11.30 Summing up institutional ethnography
11.30–12.30 Lunch
12.30–14.00 Open lecture: Everyday resistance in the welfare state by Stellan Vinthagen. Room: 1B 309 Sjöströmsalen
Everyday resistance is a concept developed to investigate how disadvantaged people in subtle and discreet ways resist injustices, power abuse or acquire resources. In the context of the welfare state, this can be when users of various services navigate the system in creative ways to resist the dominance of those in more powerful positions, such as school teachers, child protection officers or prison guards. In this lecture Stellan Vinthagen will present the theoretical framework for analysing everyday resistance he developed together with Anna Johansson in the book “Conceptualizing ‘everyday resistance’: A transdisciplinary approach” (2020). The framework consists of four dimensions (repertoires, relations, space and time) and Stellan Vinthagen will discuss what this can mean in the Nordic welfare state context.
Stellan Vinthagen is professor of sociology at the University of Gothenburg and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. He does research in the areas of resistance, activism, theory of power as well as social movements.
14.00–14.30 Break
14.30–16.00 Research with “service users” To understand their resistances
Presentations of best practices and worst fears from three participants with experience in this area.
16.00–17.00 Working groups and other collaboration, Part I
17.00–19.30 Outdoor recreational activity
19.30 Dinner
August 17: Goal of the day - Getting working groups and other collaboration up and running
09.00–10.30 Working groups and other collaboration, Part II
10.30–10.45 Break
10.45–11.30 Working groups
11.30–12.00 On our way to workshop 2, the organising committee
12.00–12.45 Lunch and closing of the worshop
Registration
Registration for invited guests only. Register by June 22 latest.
Registration form (Karlstad University)
Organising committee
Majken Jul Sørensen, Associate professor of Sociology, Østfold University College, Norway
E-mail: majken.j.sorensen@hiof.no
Marjo Kuronen, Professor of Social Work University of Jyväskylä, Finland
E-mail: marjo.l.a.kuronen@jyu.fi
Rebecca Waters Boldsen Lund, PhD University of Oslo, Norway
E-Mail: r.w.b.lund@stk.uio.no
Satu Heikkinen Associate professor in Sociology Karlstad University, Sweden
E-mail: satu.heikkinen@kau.se
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