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  • 1. Berger, Sune
    et al.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, Department of Geography and Tourism.
    Råbock, Imber
    Demografiska och infrastrukturella aspekter på sjukhusplaneringen i Värmlands län2003Report (Other academic)
  • 2.
    Braunerhielm, Lotta
    et al.
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Ryan Bengtsson, Linda
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Ljungberg, Emilia
    Introduction to Special Issue: Placemaking Beyond Cities.: Geomedia perspectives on everyday life in small towns and rural communities2024In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, no 1, p. 1-13Article in journal (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    This special issue of Culture Unbound directs attention beyond cities, to small towns and rural communities, and the practices taking place there. Referring to a previous special issue on ‘Rural Media Spaces’ from 2010, this special issue revisits the notion of ‘the rural’ versus ‘the urban’ through the concept of placemaking and geomedia. In a mediatized society, placemaking practices cannot be understood without simultaneously understanding different media practices and how they affect place. A geomedia perspective on placemaking beyond cities, therefore, brings new perspectives on media representations of small towns and rural communities, related to the materialization of space and how we engage with and perceive the world. Geomedia also includes a focus on layers of digitalization and new media in the relations between place and practice.

    The issue brings together researchers from a wide range of subjects, and the articles in this volume address empirical examples from different rural places and small towns in Sweden and internationally. Taken together, a manifold of issues relating to media and placemaking beyond cities are covered, for example, inclusion/exclusion, representation, resistance, community building, belonging, and identification.

  • 3.
    Evansluong, Quang
    et al.
    Umeå University, University of Gothenburg.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Karayianni, Eva
    University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus.
    Digital ethnicity affordances: from a liability to an asset in immigrant entrepreneurship2023In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, ISSN 1355-2554, E-ISSN 1758-6534Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    PurposeThis paper aims to understand how immigrant entrepreneurs use digital opportunities to overcome the liability of newness and foreignness and how an immigrant's ethnicity can be digitally performed as an asset in business.Design/methodology/approachThe study adopts an inductive multiple case study approach using social media content. The data consist of over 3,500 posts, images and screenshots from Facebook, Instagram and the webpages of seven successful Vietnamese restaurants in Sweden. Grounded content analysis was conducted using NVivo.FindingsThe findings suggest that digitalising ethnic artifacts can mediate and facilitate three digital performances that together can turn ethnicity from a liability to an asset: (i) preserving performance through digital ethnicising, (ii) embracing performance through digital generativitising and (iii) appropriating performance through digital fusionising. The results support the introduction of a conceptual framework depicting the interwoven duality of horizontal and vertical boundary blurring, in which the former takes place between the offline and online spaces of immigrant businesses, and the latter occurs between the home and host country attachment of the immigrant businesses.Originality/valueThis study responds to calls for understanding how immigrant entrepreneurs can overcome the liability of foreignness. It offers a fresh look at ethnicity, which has been seen in a negative light in the field of immigrant entrepreneurship. This study illuminates that ethnicity can be used as a resource in immigrant entrepreneurship, specifically through the use of digital artifacts and digital platforms.

  • 4.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, Department of Geography and Tourism.
    Annanhet: en påverkansfaktor i den kvalitativa forskningsprocessen2004In: Om geometodologier: kartvärldar, världskartor och rumsliga kunskapspraktiker / [ed] Katarina Schough & Lennart Andersson, Karlstad: Karstad University Studies , 2004, Vol. 2004:68Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 5.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, Department of Geography and Tourism.
    Attityder till positiv särbehandling2012In: Jämställdhet, mångfald och svenska räddningstjänster: Om föreställningar och förändringsviljor / [ed] Lars-Gunnar Engström, Liselotte Jakobsen & Clary Krekula, Karlstad: Karlstad University Press, 2012, p. 113-122Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 6.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, Department of Geography and Tourism.
    Attityder till ökad mångfald2012In: Jämställdhet, mångfald och svenska räddningstjänster: Om föreställningar och förändringsviljor / [ed] Lars-Gunnar Engström, Liselotte Jakobsen & Clary Krekula, Karlstad: Karlstad University Press, 2012, p. 91-99Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 7.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication.
    Den genuskodade räddningstjänsten. : En studie av jämställdhetens förutsättningar.2015Report (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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  • 8.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication.
    En brandstation för alla. : En delutvärdering av ett jämställdhets- och mångfaldsprojekt2014Report (Other academic)
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  • 9.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Genusperspektiv på regionala utmaningar, regionalpolitik och demografisk utveckling i en nordisk kontext: En kunskapsöversikt2020Report (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Nordens befolkningsstruktur är under förändring. En åldrande befolkning, migration och urbanise-ring leder till utmaningar för såväl arbetsmarkna-den som välfärden i stort. Den könssegregerade arbetsmarknaden, det traditionellt ojämställda omsorgsansvaret och kvinnor och mäns olika flyttmönster, gör det till utmaningar som det är angeläget att belysa utifrån genusperspektiv. Syftet med denna rapport är att på en övergripande nivå sammanställa kunskap som finns om den demografiska utvecklingen i Norden, utmaningar kopplade till den och särskilt visa på genusperspek-tivets tillämpning och betydelse för frågorna.Utmaningarna återfinns i hela Norden, men präglas av regionala förutsättningar och skillnader mellan rurala och urbana områden. Därför har rapporten särskilt fokus på frågor om regionala utvecklings- och policyfrågor kopplat till demografi och urbanisering. Frågeställningar inom temat handlar bland annat om mobilitet, pendling, försörjningsstrategier samt regionala utvecklings-strategier. Underlaget till kunskapsöversikten har hämtats från både policydokument och forskning.

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  • 10.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Home and away: Immigrant’s home-making processes and media use for integration2019Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Home as concept is profoundly symbolic and imbued with positive desires. Therefore, it needs to be discussed in relation to issues of power, hierarchies and control. In this presentation the migration-home nexus will be discussed, why also location/dislocation, home and away are important matters to grasp the relationship between humans, space, mobility, integration and feelings of home.

    In migrating practices the processes of homing is accentuated, since migration entails leaving one(s) home behind, searching for a new place called home. The connection between identity and a specific geographical place can however be ambiguous, since we are becoming more and more mobile – physically and virtual. Connections and relations to other places and people ranging over geographical borders can be as important for sense of belonging and togetherness, as connections to places and people in the neighborhood. Home-making processes and feelings of home, in relation to the use of different media for these purposes, are therefore important perspectives to bring into studies of migration and integration.

    In this paper, the relation between home-making, belonging, integration and media use will be discussed, based on an ongoing qualitative study on immigrants/refugees feelings of home and belonging in a small Swedish town.

    The preliminary results indicate that the very opposition between home and away can be questioned. Rather they are enacted in affective, material and symbolic relation to each other and the homing is practiced through different medias to make away present in home, to feel at home.

  • 11.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Incorporating the Swedish tourism sector in crisis management and communication: – methods and strategies for preparedness and collaboration in rural areas2021Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The Swedish tourism sector is constantly growing, with new trends as ”vacation at home” and increasing numbers of international tourists visiting the Swedish nature. Investments in nature tourism and the right of access to private land have added to many international tourists in the Swedish countryside. Nature tourism is in many ways unique, meaning that visitors are not part of an organized activity. This coincides with increased societal risks and vulnerabilities owing to a changed climate, like large forest fires or extreme weather (storms, rain, flooding, heat etc.). What will happen when a risk event occur in the countryside? How prepared is the society, and how prepared are the visitors?The conditions for crisis communication is changing with social media, apps and digitalization of information. This can increase the possibility to reach nature tourists in the countryside, who are not reached by domestic information/news updates (TV and radio). Crisis management and communication is an established field in tourism research. However, obstacles and possibilities for digitalization in the tourism sector in relation to the specific conditions of nature-based tourism needs more attention.The aim of this study is to generate new knowledge and methods for incorporating the Swedish countryside tourism sector in crisis management and communication. Crisis management and risk preparedness and awareness, and collaborations and relations between the tourism sector and other crisis management actors (municipalities and public authorities) are in focus, as well as the nature tourists themselves.

  • 12.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Integration of social dimensions in climate resilient urban planning: A case of waterfront areas2017Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Urbanization demands sustainable planning and building, to handle the strain of a growing population. Strong urbanization is considered as a driver for vulnerability, and climate resilience has become a key concept. The UN 11th Sustainable Development Goal in Agenda 2030 states that cities should be made inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, making green and public spaces accessible in particular for women, children, elderly and people with disabilities. Yet, a social sustainable analysis is often lacking in planning aiming for the climate resilient city.

    The waterfront area is a place where the tensions between “green cities”, climate resilience and social sustainability will bring the matters to a head, why we will use planning in waterfront areas as an example in our discussion. Waterfront areas have in many cities become areas of revitalization and planning ideals of concentration and competiveness, often with attractive, high cost housing aiming for environmental sustainability and “the green city”. These are areas planned to handle multiple climate effects, e.g. flooding and rising sea-level, while the local physical milieu, for example feelings of inclusion and safety, often get less attention in these processes.

    The presentation builds on ongoing work that bring together literature of social sustainable perspectives - including topics like accessibility, safety, inclusion/exclusion, gender and justice - with climate resilience planning research, since there is a lack of research addressing these issues together. These fields need to be connected, in theory and practice, to reach a planning with both climate change resilience and social sustainability in mind.

  • 13.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, Department of Geography and Tourism.
    Jämställdhet "light" eller på riktigt?2011In: I&M: Invandrare & Minoriteter, ISSN 1404-6857, no 6, p. 33-36Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 14.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, Department of Geography and Tourism.
    Kartan och verkligheten2010In: I&M: Invandrare & minoriteter, ISSN 0346-6566, no 4, p. 13-16Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
    Abstract

    Fördomar och schablonbilder av hur invandrare är spelar än i dag en stor roll i utformningen av den kommunala integrationspolitiken och praktiken. Målet är att alla ska betraktas som (jäm)lika, ändå skapas det en olikhetspraktik i vardagen.

  • 15.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Knocking on the Doors of Integration: Swedish Integration Policy and the Production of a National Space2020In: Journal of International Migration and Integration, ISSN 1488-3473, E-ISSN 1874-6365, Vol. 21, no 3, p. 861-877Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This article contributes to theoretical discussions on how immigrant integration is produced as a part of redefining national policy to local everyday practice, and what this tells us about the society in which the policy is formed. Integration is from this perspective a way to understand imagined social communities, how they are produced, who is considered to belong, and who is not. Document analysis and interviews with immigrants, local politicians, and officials in small- and medium-sized Swedish towns give insights into both what taken-for-granted assumptions the integration policy builds on and reproduces, and what consequences the integration policy have for the persons the policy is intended for. It is shown that the Swedish integration policy is itself a part of the production of a Swedish space as a container with closed doors, where immigrants are not given equal access and possibilities. This is created by putting sameness and difference at the core of the integration policy and by describing integration as an act of entering the Swedish space.

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  • 16.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, Department of Geography and Tourism.
    Kultur, heder och döda kvinnor: massmediala berättelser om De Andra2002In: Socialistisk debatt nr 3/4 2002Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 17.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, Department of Geography and Tourism.
    Likhetens rum - olikhetens praktik: om produktion av integration i fyra svenska kommuner2010Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    What is integration? How is integration achieved and to whom is it directed? And how is integration implemented in respect to immigrant women? This thesis examines ideas concerning integration and the policy and practice of integration on the basis of a set of policies which include Swedish society as “multicultural”, with the focus on immigrant women. Integration as a political project exists at a national level in Sweden but also in most of Sweden’s municipalities. This study concentrates mainly on the local level. Four medium-sized Swedish municipalities with differing conditions, political governance, geographical location and immigration history have been selected for a study of how integration is implemented and how ideas about integration also produce and reproduce both local and national space.

    Various political documents on integration and interviews with politicians, officials and immigrant women form the basis of a study of how integration is achieved as seen from the positions of different actors at the municipal level and how similarities and differences are constructed and expressed in the example of integration. Conceptions regarding similarities and differences on the basis of gender and ethnicity in an imagined Swedish space, but also in more local spaces, have been central to an understanding of the phenomena studied in the thesis, given that at the core of a policy of integration lie differences that need to be integrated.

    The theoretical points of departure in the thesis are the ideas of Henri Lefebvre regarding the production of space, which are combined with theories inspired by gender theory and phenomenology to illustrate the individual and physical aspects of the process. A model of the complexity of creating spatiality is devised from this theoretical basis and is used throughout the thesis both as an analytical tool and as an instrument for creating structure.

    On the basis of the study it is concluded that integration may be likened to a space of similarity, as integration is construed by means of different metaphors as a move from something “outside” to Sweden, as a room to be entered. The policy and practice of integration, as it has so far functioned, is shown to be based on a (dis)similarity paradox in that integration is constructed on a discourse of similarity at the same time as assumptions and constructions of difference are a fundamental point of departure for the policy objectives.

     

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  • 18.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Division for Social Sciences.
    Mediernas syn på De Andra: En medieanalytisk studie i samband med mordet på Fadime2002Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 20 credits / 30 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    Detta är en uppsats som har som syfte att undersöka vad våra medier har för roll i skapandet av våra bilder av De Andra. Den bygger på en medieanalytisk studie av fyra olika tidningar i Sverige i samband med mordet på Fadime. Syftet är också att studera i vilken mån bilderna som förmedlas liknar tidigare mediala bilder av olikheter från oss själva. De undersökta tidningarna är Aftonbladet, Expressen, Svenska Dagbladet samt Dagens Nyheter.För att uppfylla syftet har både kvantitativa och kvalitativa metoder använts. Utifrån en analysnyckel, återkommande ord, begrepp och kategorier, även symboler och associationer i tidningarna, har tidningsartiklarna granskats och kategoriserats. Huvudindelningen utgår från två olika motsatta diskurser, som innehåller en mängd påståenden under varje diskurs. Vidare har flera tidningscitat ur olika artiklar presenterats och diskuterats.För att uppfylla uppsatsens syfte har några teorier arbetats ut för att kunna dra slutsatser utifrån undersökningens resultat. Uppsatsens teoretiska perspektiv innefattar tre huvuddelar, vilka tar upp Konstruktionen av De Andra, Medier och Genus. Gemensamt för alla tre kapitel är att de har sin utgångspunkt i den postkoloniala teoribildningen. Förenklat handlar om att belysa kolonialismens effekter på platser, identiteter, kulturer och samhällen. Den ifrågasätter eurocentrisk kunskapsproduktion och kunskapsförmedling. Vidare är den kritisk till den koloniala diskursens historiebeskrivning och representation av olika platser, identiteter, kulturer och samhällen. Denna teori har stor betydelse även för vårt samhälle än idag. Den ger insikt i vad våra föreställningar om De Andra bygger på, hur dessa uppkom och hur dessa bevaras eller förändras, samt varför.Uppsatsens undersökning visar bland annat att det finns en skillnad mellan de fyra olika tidningarna, och det antas att den kan bero på tidningarnas politiska tillhörighet. Artiklarnas uttryckta åsikters fördelning mellan de två diskurserna pekar på faktumet att det huvudsakligen förmedlas en stereotyp bild av De Andra. Tidningsartiklar som utgår från att det finns ett övergripande förtryck av kvinnan som tema är få, likaså de som gör kopplingar till behovet av samhälleliga åtgärder. Vidare framkommer iakttagelsen att olika bilder av De Andra inte får lika stort utrymme, utan att vissa beskrivningar favoriseras. Undersökningen visar också att det är en kulturrasistisk bild som är den överrepresenterade i de analyserade tidningarnas artiklar. De Andra framställs som kollektiva, traditionella och förtryckande, medan Vi framställs som individuella, moderna och jämställda.I uppsatsens slutsatser menas bland annat att mediernas beskrivning av De Andra är stereotyp. Undantaget är den ”svenska” kvinnan, som här får utgöra motsats till den ”invandrade” kvinnan, och därmed framställs i positiv dager. Denna uppsats ären av få som gör kulturgeografiska kopplingar mellan medier, kön och etnicitet. I den mån som den ändå är jämförbar med tidigare undersökningar av mediernas beskrivning av De Andra, så är likheterna i beskrivningarna ganska stora. Skillnaden är dock att religion inte ses som en så vanlig komponent i De Andras handlande iföreliggande undersökning. I tidigare undersökningar har religion ofta setts som en av huvudkomponenterna i De Andras väsen och natur.Resultatet av den gjorda studien är i mångt och mycket nedslående. Inte minst på grund av detta finns det mycket arbete kvar att göra på området i, särskilt med tanke på de främlingsfientliga vindar som blåser på många håll i Europa idag. Hur vi skapar och upprätthåller våra bilder av De Andra blir allt viktigare.

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  • 19.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, Department of Geography and Tourism.
    Mediernas syn på De Andra: En medieanalytisk studie i samband med mordet på Fadime2002Report (Other academic)
  • 20.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, Department of Geography and Tourism.
    Myter och fördomar i medierna2002In: i&m nr 4 2002Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 21.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Problematiseringar av regional utvecklingsdiskurs utifrån ett genusperspektiv2022In: Regioner och regional utveckling i en föränderlig tid / [ed] Ida Grundel, Stockholm: Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi , 2022, p. 101-120Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 22.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Production of National Space and the Every Day Practice of Local Integration Policy2019Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    In Sweden, the system for the establishment of immigrants receiving residence permit is centralized to national level. However, local and regional authorities, as well as NGOs, are important for implementing integration on a local level. Even more so since immigrants themselves have identified belonging as the “ultimate mark” of integration. The place, people in the neighborhood and local practice therefore become as important as practical resources provided.

    This presentation contributes to discussions on how integration is produced as a part of redefining national policy to local everyday practice, and what this tells us about the society in which the policy and practice are formed. The study shows that there is an unclear perception of what integration policies should achieve – who should be integrated and what the objectives of the policy are. The national definition of integration has locally partly been redefined.

    Integration is in this presentation a way to understand imagined social communities, how they are produced and who is considered to belong and who is not. Interviews with immigrants, local politicians and officials in small and medium-sized Swedish cities give insights into both what taken-for-granted assumptions the integration policy builds on and reproduces, and what consequences the integration practices have for the persons the policy is intended for. Stereotyped perceptions about immigrant women and men are shown to be important factors in how local integration policies and practices are formed, which also forms the image of the receiving society and the Swedish society at large.

  • 23.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication.
    Spaces of Similarity – Practices of Difference: Swedish politics of integration and immigrated women’s organizations2013Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This paper focuses Swedish local integration politics and the specific ways immigrated women active in different women’s associations meet the Swedish society and local authorities and on how negotiations on similarities and differences are made, with a special focus on immigrant women's situation.

    Four Swedish municipalities have been selected for this study on how integration is implemented and how ideas about integration produce and reproduce both local and national space. The empirical material of the paper consists of interviews with politicians and officials, as well as with immigrant women in various associations and organizations.

     

    The paper concludes that integration may be likened to a space of similarity, as integration is construed by means of different metaphors as a move from something “outside” to Sweden, as a room to be entered. The policy and practice of integration is shown to be based on a (dis)similarity paradox in that integration is constructed on a discourse of similarity at the same time as assumptions and constructions of difference are a fundamental point of departure for the policy objectives. The paper also concludes that the template of immigrant women make real immigrant women unseen and faced out. Their associations are regarded as a space between home and society, why they are often given additional support, with the logic that immigrated women need help to come out of their homes. These facts are something the interviewed immigrated women are aware of and try to navigate through in their everyday life.

  • 24.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Spaces of the in-between: home, away and local integration policies2018Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Integration policies have been highly discussed in many Western countries over the last decade, both in academia and among politicians and practitioners - and the debates have received new actuality with what was called the “refugee-crisis” in the fall of 2015. In this paper, integration policies in Sweden is discussed, in relation to local practical work for immigrant/refugee integration and immigrants/refugees own struggles to make themselves feel belonging and at home in their new places. The question of local integration policies and their actual impacts on the urban living conditions of immigrants and refugees is addressed.

    The presentation departs from an ongoing study on integration and feelings of home and belonging in a small town in the middle of Sweden. The discussion builds on interviews with immigrants, politicians and officials.

    Feelings of home and belonging to a place is an important perspective to bring into studies of integration. At the same time, the connection between identity and a specific geographical place can be ambiguous, since we are becoming more and more mobile – physically and virtual. Connections and relations to other places and people ranging over geographical borders can be as important for our sense of belonging and togetherness, as connections to places and people in the neighborhood. We are not as place bound today as earlier at the same time as physical and mental borders seem to increase in importance. This relation between home and away and its meaning for local work and policies for integration will be discussed.

  • 25.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Städers och stadsplaneringsverktygens framväxt i Sverige2019In: Samhällsplaneringens teori och praktik / [ed] Forsberg, Gunnel, Liber, 2019, p. 160-168Chapter in book (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Under flera hundra år har stadsbyggandet i Sverige skett på ett planerat och medvetet sätt. Olika tider har haft sina planeringsideal och dessa olika ideal går att spåra i dagens städer, även om mycket också har rivits och omvandlats. I detta kapitel diskuteras planeringsverksamhetens framväxt och utveckling i Sverige, hur den är kopplad till samhällsförändringar och olika tiders regleringar av byggande vilket förklarar varför städer ser ut som de gör.

  • 26.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, Department of Geography and Tourism.
    The (dis)similarity paradox in Swedish Integration Policies: the case of immigrant women as templates2012In: Gender and change: power, politics and everyday practices / [ed] Jansdotter Samuelsson, Maria; Krekula, Clary; Åberg, Magnus, Karlstad: Karlstad University Press, 2012, p. 149-164Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 27.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    The gender coded labour market in peripheral regions2023Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    An ageing population, migration and urbanisation are leading to challenges for both the labour market and the welfare sector in sparsely populated areas, in cities and municipalities with a declining population, and for peripheral regions. Society and the local labour market therefore needs to find new ways to utilise the skills that are available locally, in order to enable satisfactory services for its citizens in the long term. The gender segregated labour market has in Sweden (and elsewhere) been addressed as both a problem and a solution. A gender-segregated labor market is more vulnerable to global and national labor market changes, and traditional notions of who is suitable for different occupational sectors mean that it becomes more difficult to use the local workforce effectively in times of labor market changes. This is in line with studies that have shown a connection between an integrated labor market and regional development. Countering traditional gender career choices has been highlighted as a solution, both for businesses and for public service. Is a gender equal labour market the future of peripheral regions, and why are we not already there? 

    This presentation is based on three different studies that in different ways engage with the labour market in Swedish peripheral regions, from a gender and intersectional perspective. 

  • 28.
    Grip, Lena
    et al.
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Benes, Florian Sascha
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Sociala aspekter på hållbar planering2019In: Samhällsplaneringens teori och praktik / [ed] Forsberg, Gunnel, Liber, 2019, p. 77-85Chapter in book (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    I plan- och bygglagens (PBL) portalparagraf slås fast att bestämmelserna i lagen syftar till att ”med hänsyn till den enskilda människans frihet, främja en samhällsutveckling med jämlika och goda sociala levnadsförhållanden och en god och långsiktigt hållbar livsmiljö för människorna i dagens samhälle och för kommande generationer” (SFS 2010:900 1 kap. 1§). Social hållbarhet framhålls i detta som lika viktigt som ekologisk hållbarhet. I detta kapitel ges en introduktion till vad social hållbarhet kan betyda och handla om i planeringssammanhang, framför allt med fokus på urban utveckling.

  • 29.
    Grip, Lena
    et al.
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Braunerhielm, Lotta
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Ryan Bengtsson, Linda
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Hoppstadius, Fredrik
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Persson, Erik
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Health, Science and Technology (starting 2013), Centre for Climate and Safety (from 2013).
    Crisis communication with tourists of the grid.: Incorporating the Swedish tourism sector in crisis management and communication – methods and strategies for preparedness and collaboration in rural areas2021Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Our changing climate foretells a future with continued large forest fires and extreme weather events, such as devastating storms, heavy rainfall, flooding, heat and drought. This project focuses on preparedness for this kind of events taking place while large, spread-out, and often uncertain, numbers of visitors are roaming the Swedish countryside – not seldom voluntarily or involuntarily of the grid. The conditions for crisis communication is changing with social media, apps and digitalization of information. Obstacles and possibilities for digitalization in the tourism sector in relation to the specific conditions of nature-based tourism needs more attention.

    Tourists are a vulnerable group in crisis situations, since they are not acquainted with neither the place nor how to find information about the crisis and how to keep themselves safe. In parallel, the Swedish tourism sector is constantly growing, with new trends as ”vacation at home” and increasing numbers of international tourists visiting Swedish nature, and nature-based tourism is believed to see a significant increase in post-pandemic travel, as more visitors seek uncrowded destinations. A crisis can be devastating in nature tourist areas. Despite this, the tourism sector is often viewed as peripheral and is in some cases not even included in crisis preparedness planning.  

    The aim of this study is to generate new knowledge and methods for incorporating the Swedish countryside tourism sector in crisis management and communication. Crisis management and risk preparedness and awareness, and collaborations and relations between the tourism sector and other crisis management actors (municipalities and public authorities) are in focus, as well as the nature tourists themselves.

  • 30.
    Grip, Lena
    et al.
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Engström, Lars-Gunnar
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Social and Psychological Studies (from 2013).
    Krekula, Clary
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Social and Psychological Studies (from 2013).
    Karlsson, Stefan
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Social and Psychological Studies (from 2013).
    The woman as problem and solution: Analysis of a gender equality initiative within the Swedish Rescue Services2016In: NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, ISSN 0803-8740, E-ISSN 1502-394X, Vol. 24, no 2, p. 95-109Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The aim of this article is to study how problem definitions of gender equality affect the possible outcomes of gender equality initiatives. The Swedish Municipal Rescue Services were chosen as the empirical example because they offer a workplace where women are greatly under-represented despite years of gender equality efforts. The article analyses how reasoning around gender equality shapes and constructs problem formulations around gender and equality. This article contributes to the debate on the conditions of gender equality founded on gender equality definitions, and how this relates to the potential for change. The gender equality efforts within the Rescue Services are problematized based on Bacchi’s policy analysis model. We do so by analysing the applications attracted by a call for a gender equality initiative within the Municipal Rescue Services—A Fire Station for Everyone. The article argues that, to some extent, the problem definitions in this case undermine gender equality initiatives as they place women—whom they wish to recruit to the Rescue Services to make it more gender equal in a numerical sense—in a paradoxical position as both problem and solution. Nor do they problematize power issues. It is stated that the given problem descriptions do not leave a lot of room for change, but that the method used to analyse the problem descriptions can be an important tool for understanding why gender equality initiatives may struggle to achieve their intended objectives.

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  • 31.
    Grip, Lena
    et al.
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Evansloung, Quang
    Umeå University.
    From Disadvantage to Advantage: Digital performance of ethnicity in migrant entrepreneurship2021Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Immigrant entrepreneurship literature has discussed ethnicity mainly as a source of disadvantage which triggers many immigrants decide to be self-employed as a way to enter the labor market. However, when immigrants embark on their entrepreneurial journey, ethnicity can be utilized as a commodity and a resource in several ways.   

    Based on netnography research, this study examine seven successful Vietnamese restaurants in Sweden. For these entrepreneurs the Vietnamese ethnicity is a resource responding to customers’ expectations of an exotic and authentic food experience. However, to run popular restaurants the entrepreneurs also need the knowledge of the host community, and we relate this to Georgios Transnational habitus skill, the “ability to use mobility, connectivity, and transnational association to achieve certain goals” (Georgiou 2019:73). Although ethnicity as a resource has been discussed in the entrepreneurship literature, little is known about how immigrant entrepreneurs turn ethnicity from disadvantage to advantage. Therefore, we focus on how ethnicity is used and digitally performed in immigrant’s businesses, as a part of the process of transforming ethnicity from a disadvantage to an advantage.

    Our point of departure is that digital technologies has become an integrated part of the social production of space through mediating socio-spatial relations (Ash et al., 2018). In this study, the use of social media is therefore central for the understanding of the production of space and performance of ethnicity and how the ethnicity is used as an asset. Visual content of Facebook, Instagram and webpages of the restaurants are the main empirical material. However, we are interested in more than the content of images themselves, as we understand them as a part of the social context and relationships for which they are produced, that is, the social relation between immigrants and their new home-place, and the relation between restaurant owners and their customers.

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  • 32.
    Grip, Lena
    et al.
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Evansluong, Quang
    Gothenburg Research Institute, Gothenburg University .
    Homification and Ethnicitization as Strategies turning Ethnicity from Disadvantage to Advantage2019Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Immigrants are portrayed as disadvantaged due to discrimination in the labor market and social exclusion in the host country. In immigrant entrepreneurship literature, ethnicity has been viewed as a disadvantage. Research has mainly discussed how immigrant’s disadvantages lead to business creation. Discussion on immigrant’s advantages is scarce. This study explores the process of transforming ethnicity from a disadvantage to an advantage. To fulfill this purpose, we draw upon a case study of 10 luxurious, high-end Vietnamese restaurants in Sweden. Visual content and text analysis of home pages and social media is performed to understand how, and which, ethnic markers are used to express exclusiveness. Observations and ‘mystery shopper’ experience are used as supplement. As a theoretical lens, we adopt international institutional and immigrant entrepreneurship literatures and theories of production of space. The initial findings indicate that ethnicity is transformed from a liability to an asset through a distinctive fusionizing process. This process comprises of two sub-processes: (1) ethnicitizing of home and (2) homing of ethnicity. The ethnicitizing of home produces a space that gathers and displays the most distinguished features of the given ethnicity. The homing of ethnicity is the outcome of not only diversifying but also, harmonizing ethnic values with local values.

  • 33.
    Grip, Lena
    et al.
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Evansluong, Quang
    Lunds universitet.
    Jacob, Dimitry
    Fusionizing ethnicity as a journey from liability to advantage: A study of Vietnamese restaurants in Sweden2019Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Traditional ethnic businesses are often associated with ‘sweat shops’ – a token of low-quality and low-tech or as mainly targeting the ethnic enclaves and remaining foreign to the local population. Strictly speaking, ethnicity has been viewed as a disadvantage. The last decades, however, witness changes in ethnic businesses, relating to the expansion of high-tech firms or as a unique case, of high-end ethnic restaurants. This study explores the process of transforming ethnicity from a liability to an asset. For this purpose, we draw upon a case study of 10 luxurious, high-end Vietnamese restaurants in Sweden. Primary visual content analysis of home pages and social media is performed to understand how, and which, ethnic markers are used to express exclusiveness. Observations and ‘mystery shopper’ experience are used as supplement. As a theoretical lens, we adopt international institutional and immigrant entrepreneurship literatures and theories of production of space. The initial findings indicate that ethnicity is transformed from a liability to an asset through a distinctive fusionizing process. This process comprises of two sub-processes: (1) ethnicitizing of home and (2) homing of ethnicity. The ethnicitizing of home produces a space that gathers and displays the most distinguished features of the given ethnicity. The homing of ethnicity is the outcome of not only diversifying but also, harmonizing ethnic values with local values.

  • 34.
    Grip, Lena
    et al.
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Grundel, Ida
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Hemmahörighet i Värmland och i världen2016In: Värmländska utmaningar: politik, ekonomi, samhälle, kultur och medier. / [ed] Lennart Nilsson & P O Norell, Göteborg: SOM-institutet , 2016, p. 247-270Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 35.
    Grip, Lena
    et al.
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication.
    Grundel, Ida
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication.
    Regional Development, Sense of Place and Belongingness: a Swedish perspective2015Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    In Sweden discussions on regional identity and regional belonging have become more and more integrated with perspectives of the meaning of culture and local communities as important for regional development and growth. In local, regional and national policies cultural diversity is emphasized as a potential for development and growth. Sweden is today a multi-cultural society where its citizens have backgrounds from all over the world. However, there is a distance in regional politics between policies of cultural diversity for local and regional development and the actual citizens. It is therefore not clear how policies of cultural diversity are to be applied in practical regional planning. Research shows that immigrants in Sweden often have a feeling of exclusion and that they do not belong there and that they aren’t accepted as they are. There seems to be a gap between policies and the actual situation in everyday life of inhabitants in Swedish regions.

    Research on sense of place and migration is extensive, but there is still not much done on the influence of place in relation to issues of integration. The meaning and importance of place has not been emphasized enough in immigration studies. Therefore, this paper will – from a Swedish perspective - discuss the sense of place and belonging related to a person’s identity and background, with the aim to contribute to an understanding of who feel belongingness where. This discussion is mainly based on a survey conducted in the region of Värmland in Sweden. The results show that persons with a Swedish background feel more at home in the place where they live, in the municipality where they live, as well as in the region of Värmland, than persons with a foreign background. Not surprisingly people having lived more than ten years or their whole life at the same place feel more at home in as well the local, regional as the national level. This can in turn be related to Swedish integration policy and the situation of immigrants in Sweden experiencing a sense of exclusion and thereby a lack of sense of belonging to a certain place. But we can also see that other factors, like if you live in the city or in the countryside), are important for a sense of place and feeling at home. Our results will be discussed in relation to issues of urban, regional and social sustainable development.

  • 36.
    Grip, Lena
    et al.
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Jansson, Ulrika
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Social and Psychological Studies (from 2013).
    Obstacles and Possibilities with Collaboration in Municipal Public Sector: A study of collaboration between the rescue service and home-help services2016In: The 2016 RSA Annual Conference Building Bridges: Cities and Regions in a Transnational World, Karl-Franzen University, Graz, Austria. 3rd-6th April 2016, 2016Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    The aim of collaboration in municipal public sector is to ensure welfare and safety for its citizen, as well as to ensure economic sustainability in the municipality. Different forms of collaboration in the public sector can be an important part of sustaining a satisfactory service, especially in regions with a declining population, but also to give a faster and better service in all kind of regions. In this study we put focus on collaboration between municipal rescue service and home-help service, a collaboration that can be placed in civil and societal contingency and preparedness for unexpected events.

    Both the rescue service and the home-help service are highly gendered sectors. The point of departure for this study is that the gender coding of occupations and competences lay down conditions for the collaboration, why it is important to shed light on these codings and how they effect an effective collaboration and sustainable implementation. Our understanding is that gender is a social construction that is produced and reproduced through interaction. This construction have effect on how we are “made” as men and women, how we are formed as individuals, and how the society is both symbolic and structurally organized around what is conceived and perceived as male and female duties, occupations and places.

    The results of this study build on 30 interviews with staff in rescue services and home-care services (both employees and heads of these services). The results show that collaborations differ between municipalities, both what is included in the collaboration and how it is staged and performed, and that the processes of collaboration are complex and that they challenge ideal of organization, contents, responsibilities and who or whom should do different work tasks. We can see that conceptions of gender in male and female dominated work are often reproduced and reinforced in many of the studied cases, which hinder an effective service. But we can also notice that the collaboration by home-care service staff is perceived as a possibility for increased status and better resources when they collaborate with the rescue service.

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  • 37.
    Grip, Lena
    et al.
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Jansson, Ulrika
    Göteborgs universitet.
    'The right man in the right place' - the consequences of gender-coding of place and occupation in collaboration processes2022In: The European Journal of Women's Studies, ISSN 1350-5068, E-ISSN 1461-7420, Vol. 29, no 2, p. 250-265Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Society needs to find new ways to utilise its resources in the best possible way in order to enable satisfactory services for its citizens in the long term. This is particularly important in sparsely populated areas, and in cities and municipalities with a declining population. This study contributes to this field by analysing a project for collaboration between the rescue service and the home-care service that has been introduced in a number of Swedish municipalities. The collaboration is intended to ensure welfare and safety for citizens, to guarantee a more efficient use of municipal resources, and to contribute to improved emergency management and civil protection. The rescue service and the home-care service are two clearly gender-coded occupations that also operate on gender-coded workplaces and places of work. An overarching aim has therefore been to study gendered obstacles and possibilities of the collaboration. In our analysis of the empirical data - interviews with persons involved in the collaboration - place emerged as an important aspect of the collaboration processes, and is therefore elaborated in this article to contribute with knowledge of how conceptions and gender-coding of places and occupations affect sustainable and well-functioning collaboration processes. The results show that collaboration processes between municipal services are complex and challenge ideals of the organisation, content and responsibility of work and who should perform certain work tasks. Notions of gender and gender differences are reproduced through the collaboration, which affect the efforts of municipalities to ensure welfare and safety for citizens.

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  • 38.
    Grip, Lena
    et al.
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Jansson, Ulrika
    Nationella sekretariatet för genusforskning, Göteborgs universitet, Sverige.
    "The right man in the right place": The consequences of gender-coding of place and occupation in cooperation process2022Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Society needs to find new ways to utilise its resources in the best possible way in order to enable satisfactory services for its citizens in the long term. This is particularly important in sparsely populated areas, and in cities and municipalities with a declining population. This study contributes to this field by analysing a project for collaboration between the rescue service and the home-care service that has been introduced in a number of Swedish municipalities. The collaboration is intended to ensure welfare and safety for citizens, to guarantee a more efficient use of municipal resources, and to contribute to improved emergency management and civil protection. 

    The rescue service and the home-care service are two clearly gender-coded occupations that also operate on gender-coded workplaces and places of work, which in our research project proved to be an important aspect of the (un)success of the collaboration processes. Furthermore, we argue that too little attention has been paid to the ways place affect the doing of gender in organisational studies. An overarching aim of the paper is therefore to contribute to gender studies of workplace and places of work, and more specific to discuss gendered obstacles and possibilities of the collaboration, in relation to place and work. 

  • 39.
    Grip, Lena
    et al.
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication.
    Jansson, Ulrika
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Social and Psychological Studies.
    The Unchallenging Method is a Good One: about Measures for gender Equality and Diversity in the Swedish Rescue Service2013Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Gender equality in the Swedish Rescue Services has been a political directive since the 1990ies, but has led to few visible changes. The Swedish Rescue Service is still a male-dominated organization with a traditional focus on firefighting. The call for change is made with references to new economic realities, conceptualizations of risk, and directives for gender and ethnic equality. The overriding concern of this paper is discursive constructions of equality work in relation to political directives on increasing equal opportunities in the Swedish Rescue Services. Gender is treated as a prevailing power structure and as an integral part of organizational practices. The paper is based on a questionnaire about the practical work made on equality in the Swedish Rescue Service, answered by over 1000 persons working in the Swedish Rescue Service. The questionnaire contains a large amount of open comments, which is analyzed in this paper. The result shows that two thirds of the respondents have a mainly positive attitude towards gender equality in the Rescue Service, but that the measures for equality are considered as "wrong methods". Our analysis discusses that only methods that doesn’t challenge the present organization are considered as acceptable.

  • 40.
    Grip, Lena
    et al.
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Karlsson, Stefan
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Social and Psychological Studies (from 2013).
    Räddningsutbildades karriärval: En genus- och mångfaldsanalys av yrkesverksamhet bland alumner från SMO och RUB-utbildningar.2021Report (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Sedan utbildningen Skydd mot olyckor, SMO startades 2003 har andelen examinerade kvinnor varit runt 16 procent. Det har funnits en förväntan att andelen kvinnorsom jobbar inom operativ räddningstjänst ska öka i takt med att antalet SMO-utbildade kvinnor ökar, men dessa förväntningar har inte infriats i den grad som motsetts. Det har rest frågor om varför det ser ut på detta sätt, och vad det är för faktorer som ligger till grund för kvinnornas karriärval. I föreliggande undersökning har vi närmat oss dessa frågor genom att undersöka karriärval bland hela gruppen examinerade från SMO under åren 2007-2016 i en enkätundersökning samt några kompletterande intervjuer. Detta ger en bred bild av olika karriärval och omfattar såväl dem som valt att aldrig söka sig till räddningstjänsten till dem som jobbat där en kortare tid och sedan sökt sig till annat arbete, samt dem som arbetat inom räddningstjänsten sedan sin utbildning, i en eller flera räddningstjänstorganisationer. I undersökningen ingår också de personer som examinerats från Påbyggnads-utbildning i räddningstjänst för brandingenjörer (RUB) under motsvarande år. Brandingenjörer inom kommunal räddningstjänst är en grupp som det i dagsläget finns ganska lite kunskap om, inte minst i fråga om jämställdhet och mångfald, och genom undersökningen ges ett bidrag till en inledande förståelse för denna grupps karriärval och syn på räddningstjänsten som arbetsplats.

    Rapporten bygger på ett utrednings- och forskningsuppdrag från MSB att ta fram en forskningsinriktad studie, som kan utgöra ett underlag för beslut om inriktning och handlingsplan för stöd till kommunal räddningstjänst i arbetet för ökad jämställdhet och mångfald.

    Studien landar i fyra förbättringsområden för räddningstjänsten som organisation, men där även MSB har en viktig roll att spela: Kompetensutvecklings- och karriärmöjligheter, Jämställdhet och mångfald, Organisation och ledning, samt Koppling mellan utbildning och arbete. Alla dessa fyra områden innehåller viktiga förklaringsfaktorer till varför såväl kvinnor som män väljer att inte jobba inom räddningstjänsten trots att de lagt kraft och energi i utbildning för ett arbete inom organisationen. Det är också viktiga områden att jobba vidare med för att fler inte ska välja att sluta.

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  • 41.
    Grip, Lena
    et al.
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, Department of Geography and Tourism.
    Mekonnen, Tesfahuney
    Integrationism - Viljan till Detsamma: Integration(s)politikens paradoxer2007In: Nordisk Samhällsgeografisk Tidskrift, Vol. nr 43/07Article in journal (Other academic)
  • 42.
    Grip, Lena
    et al.
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication.
    Strid, Sofia
    Intersektionella gränser2017In: Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, ISSN 1654-5443, E-ISSN 2001-1377, Vol. 38, no 3, p. 3-8Article in journal (Other academic)
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  • 43.
    Grip, Lena
    et al.
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, Department of Geography and Tourism.
    Tesfahuney, Mekonnen
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, Department of Geography and Tourism.
    Jämlikhet utan likhet2006In: i&m - Invandrare & Minoriteter nr 5/06Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 44.
    Grip, Lena
    et al.
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication.
    Örnebring, Henrik
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication.
    Möller, Cecilia
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication.
    Journalism as Livelihood: gender, space and mobility2015Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Despite a large body of research on how journalistic work has changed in the past few decades, very little attention has been paid to what journalists do outside work (e.g. their lifestyles, personal networks, family situations, overall work and life situation), nor to how journalists negotiate their work lives and their private lives, despite the fact that such factors also may have an impact on the ability of journalists to fulfil some kind of public/democratic function. Such questions are arguably becoming more and more salient as journalistic work is becoming more mobile, more contingent, and more insecure.

    In this paper we propose a multi-disciplinary approach to analyzing the interplay between journalistic work and lifestyles/life situation that combines intersectional feminist theories and methods in human geography with media studies through the concept of livelihood (rather than paid work, profession, occupation, etc.) at the center. We argue that this concept better captures aspects of mobility, place restraints, contingency and mutual interrelation between the public and private spheres in relation to journalistic work. The livelihood concept provides a tool for critically analyzing the gendered spaces and mobilities of journalism and the consequences for men’s and women’s daily life.

  • 45.
    Jansson, Ulrika
    et al.
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Education, Department of Culture and Gender studies. Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Education, Centrum för genusforskning.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication.
    Jämställdhetsarbete i dagens räddningstjänster2012In: Jämställdhet, mångfald och svenska räddningstjänster: Om föreställningar och förändringsviljor / [ed] Engström, Lars-Gunnar; Jakobsen, Liselotte; Krekula, Clary, Karlstad: Karlstad University Press, 2012, p. 23-35Chapter in book (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Två tredjedelar av respondenterna håller med om att dagens jämställdhetsarbete i huvudsak är positivt. Grupper som utmärker sig som mindre positiva är heltidsanställda brandmän, SMOutbildade och unga personer.I kommentarer kring det jämställdhetsarbete som bedrivs i dagens räddningstjänster antas detta arbete ta fokus från kärnverksamheten och göras med fel metoder. Lika villkor och likabehandling föreställs vara den "rätta metoden". Det finns också kommentarer om att ökad jämställdhet är positivt och viktigt. Runt en tredjedel av respondenterna känner inte alls till MSB:s handlingsplan för ökad jämställdhet och mångfald i det kommunala säkerhetsarbetet. Bland räddningspersonal i beredskap saknar mer än hälften kännedom om den. På större arbetsplatser är kännedomen större än på mindre arbetsplatser. I kommentarer kring MSB:s handlingsplan finns föreställningar om att fokuseringen på jämställdhet innebär att räddningstjänstens verksamhet och uppdrag hotas på olika sätt, att MSB:s direktiv inte är trovärdiga och att det är kvinnorna som är "problemet" eftersom de inte söker sig till yrket.

  • 46.
    Jansson, Ulrika
    et al.
    Göteborgs universitet.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Kompetens och kön i Värmland: En fråga om närhet, nätverk och magkänslor2023Report (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
    Abstract [sv]

    Vem eller vilka som antas ha rätt och nödvändig kompetens i rekryterings- ochkompetensförsörjningsprocesser villkoras av föreställningar och normer om könoch genus. Rapporten redogör för en studie inom projektet AttraktionskraftVärmland, och syftar till att belysa hur föreställningar om kompetens och könpåverkar kompetensförsörjning och rekrytering till högre tjänster i Värmland. Föratt bidra till mer jämställd kompetensförsörjning i Värmland görs analyser urgenusperspektiv på flera sätt. Genusvetenskaplig forskning används för attsynliggöra villkor och strukturer så att medvetenheten om könsmärkta premisserkan öka.Det empiriska materialet består av intervjuer med fyra kategorier av informantersom på olika sätt jobbar med rekrytering i/till privat och offentlig sektor iVärmland: personer på rekryteringsföretag, HR-funktioner, anställande chefer ochnyligen anställda chefer. Resultaten presenteras i två delar.

    Den första delen fokuserar olika moment i rekryteringsprocesser där de könsmärkta premissernadiskuteras i avsnitten ’Att hitta och nå kandidater?’, ’När kandidaten är funnen?’,’Spelar nätverk roll?’, ’Jämställd rekrytering?’, samt ’Genusmedvetnarekryteringsprocesser?’. Summariskt visas hur både kompetensbaserad rekryteringoch nätverksrekrytering inbegriper moment som är starkt könsmärkta, men utanatt det problematiseras. Rekryterares och chefers föreställningar, nätverk ochpraktik återskapar normer om kompetens som gynnar män. Ojämställdheten inomrekryteringsprocesser görs till en fråga om kvinnors föreställda brister, exempelvisavsaknad av ”rätt” utbildning, erfarenhet eller egenskaper.

    I den andra delen fokuseras plats och platsers betydelse för bådekompetensförsörjning och rekryteringsprocesser i avsnitt om ’Ett närsyntvärmländskt näringsliv?’, ’Hemvändare’, ’En arbetsmarknad i förändring?’,’Pandemin, en ny nyckel till kompetensförsörjningen?’, samt ’Kompetensbrist iVärmland?’. I korthet konstateras att det finns föreställningar om Värmland somslutet och lite “närsynt”, vilket kommer till uttryck i preferenser för det kända ochetablerade. Detta missgynnar inflyttare och personer som inte redan har ettuppbyggt nätverk lokalt. Samtidigt finns en medvetenhet om att detta inte ärlångsiktigt hållbart, samt att en mer jämställd rekrytering krävs – både för att lockaett bredare spektrum av personer och kompetenser, samt för att skapa merattraktiva arbetsplatser. Rapporten konstaterar dock i båda resultatdelarna att detråder brist på kunskap och genusmedvetna strategier för jämställdkompetensförsörjning.

    Ett sammanfattande resonemang förs om hur rekryteringar ochkompetensförsörjning görs genom olika former av närhet. Den geografiska närheten, som i regional ”närsynthet”, gör att personer med värdefull kompetens inte alltiduppmärksammas eller får erbjudanden om tjänster. Den professionella närhetengynnar personer som känner varandra, som har arbetat ihop tidigare, och som kangå i god för att en viss person skulle ”passa in” i en organisation. Den emotionellanärheten utgörs av magkänslor och känslor av likhet, som också antas skapaförutsättningar för en bra rekrytering. Nätverksnärhet kommer främst till uttryckgenom manliga nätverk, och mellan rekryterare och chefer, där homosocialahandlingar återskapar mäns kompetenser som de ”nödvändiga”. De olikaformerna av närhet i rekryteringsprocesser innebär både inkludering ochexkludering med tydliga könsförtecken som behöver synliggöras för merjämställda processer. Som region behöver Värmland också bli bättre på att skapaförutsättningar för olika kompetenser och människor från andra delar av Sverigeoch världen.

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  • 47.
    Jansson, Ulrika
    et al.
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Social and Psychological Studies.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication.
    "Rätt man på rätt plats!": Kommunala sambruksprocesser ur ett genusperspektiv2016Report (Other academic)
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  • 48.
    Krekula, Clary
    et al.
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, Department of Social Studies.
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, Department of Geography and Tourism.
    Exkluderande praktiker.: Om diskriminering, kränkningar och organisationens beredskap till förändring2012In: Jämställdhet, mångfald och svenska räddningstjänster: Om föreställningar och förändringsviljor / [ed] Lars-Gunnar Engström, Liselotte Jakobsen & Clary Krekula, Karlstad: Karlstad University Press, 2012, p. 101-111Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 49.
    Krekula, Clary
    et al.
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Social and Psychological Studies (from 2013).
    Karlsson, Stefan
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Social and Psychological Studies (from 2013).
    Engström, Lars-Gunnar
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Social and Psychological Studies (from 2013).
    Grip, Lena
    Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).
    Communicating equality through policy documents: On legitimacy, double logic and stable translations2019In: Gender, Work and Organization, ISSN 0968-6673, E-ISSN 1468-0432, Vol. 26, no 11, p. 1606-1620Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This article discusses gender mainstreaming (GMS) as a strategy to implement gender equality in public work organizations by analysing discourse in terms of the theoretical notions of translation and circulation in organizations to shed light on how gender equality and the mainstreaming strategy are formulated in the documents which govern the Swedish fire and rescue services. More specifically, it looks at how the goals regarding gender equality are circulated and translated. The results show that gender equality as a practice is created in the translation of national goals in terms of the local context and its specific gender equality challenges. Furthermore, the article discusses how vague formulations in the documents are stabilized through circulation between the government and the public agency in question. The results indicate the central role played by maintaining stable translations over time and the presence of a double logic of change in the processes, as well as the importance of legitimizing gender equality initiatives.

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