During this semester, the course “Intersectionality, in policy, research, and practice” will be supervised by Dr. Ingvars, a specialist on queer refugees, masculinities, sexualities, disabilities, racialization and activism. Drawing on their expertise, the lectures and discussions will examine how European legal structures, work cultures and moralities intersect with ideas of authenticity, civil rights, and emotional work done by people in marginalized positions. Providing a few examples, the reading material will focus on:
- moral performance expected of racialized queer refugees in Norway and Italy.
- intimate work done by Filipino cis-women and non-binary people in Denmark.
- safety networking done by queer sex-workers in Greece, Italy, and Denmark.
- (dis)abled positions and the affective sexual shame in Iceland.
- digital and moral surveillance of gig-workers in Sweden.
Collectively, the class will reflect how hegemonic structures operate through bordering gazes in everyday encounters to determine people’s intersectional positions and which resources can be employed to negotiate one’s well-being.
The class will take place over two days each week until the end of the semester. Each week will be dedicated to a specific topic. In the first class of each week, the professor will detail fundamental insights on intersectionality as they relate to the topic of the week. In the second class, students will present an empirical study on the topic, which will then be followed by screening of a film, a guest lecturer or group discussion. The aim is to inform and critically examine how one should operate in complex situations as a researcher, social worker, teacher or activist.
Dr. Árdís K. Ingvars holds over a decade experience in qualitative research on gendered displacement, sexualities and ableism. Her/Their research in Iceland, Greece, Italy, Germany and France, has focused on the construction of masculinities among refugee men participating in No Border activism, LGBTQI+ refugees who have been Dublin regulated, and cognitive impaired people involved in (dis)abled activism. She/They have been affiliated with department of Anthropology at Panteion University in Greece, GEXcel program at Karlstad University in Sweden, Migration and Diversity at Tübingen University in Germany, and RIKK at the University of Iceland. Currently she sits on the board of NFMM (Nordic Association for Research on Men and Masculinities).
- moral performance expected of racialized queer refugees in Norway and Italy.
- intimate work done by Filipino cis-women and non-binary people in Denmark.
- safety networking done by queer sex-workers in Greece, Italy, and Denmark.
- (dis)abled positions and the affective sexual shame in Iceland.
- digital and moral surveillance of gig-workers in Sweden.
Collectively, the class will reflect how hegemonic structures operate through bordering gazes in everyday encounters to determine people’s intersectional positions and which resources can be employed to negotiate one’s well-being.
The class will take place over two days each week until the end of the semester. Each week will be dedicated to a specific topic. In the first class of each week, the professor will detail fundamental insights on intersectionality as they relate to the topic of the week. In the second class, students will present an empirical study on the topic, which will then be followed by screening of a film, a guest lecturer or group discussion. The aim is to inform and critically examine how one should operate in complex situations as a researcher, social worker, teacher or activist.
Dr. Árdís K. Ingvars holds over a decade experience in qualitative research on gendered displacement, sexualities and ableism. Her/Their research in Iceland, Greece, Italy, Germany and France, has focused on the construction of masculinities among refugee men participating in No Border activism, LGBTQI+ refugees who have been Dublin regulated, and cognitive impaired people involved in (dis)abled activism. She/They have been affiliated with department of Anthropology at Panteion University in Greece, GEXcel program at Karlstad University in Sweden, Migration and Diversity at Tübingen University in Germany, and RIKK at the University of Iceland. Currently she sits on the board of NFMM (Nordic Association for Research on Men and Masculinities).
- Teacher: Ardis Kristin INGVARSDOTTIR