Sevil Sümer | Norwegian University of Science and Technology (original) (raw)

Papers by Sevil Sümer

madeleine kennedymacfoy and all FEMCIT partners. Section I: Introduction 1 Gendered Citizenship i... more madeleine kennedymacfoy and all FEMCIT partners. Section I: Introduction 1 Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: the Impact of Contemporary Women's Movements Key concepts in FEMCIT The overall problem addressed in FEMCIT concerns the lack of full gender-fair citizenship for women in Europe. FEMCIT has worked with a wider conceptualisation of citizenship than most of the existing literature in the field. We understand citizenship both as public rights and duties that are claimed and/or attributed to citizens and residents as a sign of recognition, and as practices and identities chosen, constructed and performed by citizens and residents in their daily lives (which may entail neither claims-making nor public recognition). Citizenship is about rights and status, but it is also about participation, identity and belonging. It comprises feelings and experiences of being included or excluded. Inspired by a (Nordic) social democratic tradition of incorporating social movements and organisations in politics, and the feminist approach to the public and personal as fundamentally entangled, FEMCIT addresses the bonds between and within groups of citizens, and between citizens, civil society and the public arena (Halsaa 2008). FEMCIT operates with a wide definition of women's movements in order to include women's mobilisation and organisation within different political regimes and across ethnic and national majority and minority populations (See WP7 report for a detailed account of how we apply these concepts). FEMCIT's empirical research comprises a variety of organisations: women only, gender-mixed, autonomous and semi-autonomous women's groups, and sometimes gay and lesbian movements and other gender-related movements. The term 'contemporary women's movement' embraces the wide range of women's collective organising since the 1960s, including but not only that by those who have self-defined as feminists (Halsaa 2009). We use the term 'impact' to denote women's movements' formative role in, and contributions to, social, political and cultural transformations in Europe that have meant that issues of gender equality and difference in public, as well as intimate and personal life, have increasingly been regarded as important. FEMCIT contains an embedded and a systematic historical-institutional approach to impact, and does not aim to assess women's movements' impact through a positivist approach to casuality (Halsaa 2009). For further discussion of FEMCIT's key concepts, see Gender-Fair Citizenship in Multicultural Europe-WP7. Overview of the FEMCIT research design FEMCIT's six thematic dimensions of citizenship aim to show the empirical breadth, depth and complexity of citizenship as it relates to women's lives. This involves developing analytical frameworks that: • incorporate the under-researched dimensions of multicultural, religious, bodily and intimate citizenship into the more established political, social and economic dimensions, and • identify and explore unrecognized or underdeveloped elements of the more established dimensions of citizenship. This does not mean just "adding women", or adding more dimensions, to the notion of citizenship, but requires the reworking of the concept of citizenship, through empirical, analytical and political assessments of core issues in relation to gendered citizenship.

Policy Futures in Education

Insecurity and intense competition for permanent academic positions appear to be common experienc... more Insecurity and intense competition for permanent academic positions appear to be common experiences for early career researchers across the globe. With academic precarity now firmly on the international research and policy agenda, this article looks comparatively at postdoc precarity in three European countries: Ireland, Norway and Switzerland. It suggests that the career prospects and status of these early career stage researchers depend to a large extent on societal variations in academic career structures and research funding models. The article underlines the implications of an increasingly competitive academic labour market on postdoc precarity and identifies both common and specific (national and/or disciplinary) challenges facing postdocs in these different contexts.

European Journal of Women's Studies

Our main goal in this article is to discuss the structural and persistent problems experienced by... more Our main goal in this article is to discuss the structural and persistent problems experienced by women academics, especially with respect to the gendered divisions of academic tasks and unequal divisions of care obligations in the domestic sphere. The analysis is based on reflexive thematic analysis of the open-ended questions of an online questionnaire on the academic work environment, work satisfaction, stress, academic duties and allocation of tasks, and thoughts on gender equality. Academics from different countries voice their lived experiences, frustrations as well as worries about their future. We aim to highlight how these issues are embedded in the structures of academic capitalism and argue against the tendency to individualise these issues in a bid to inspire an informed collective resistance.

Formålet med denne studien er å fremskaffe ny kunnskap om bakenforliggende institusjonelle og kul... more Formålet med denne studien er å fremskaffe ny kunnskap om bakenforliggende institusjonelle og kulturelle årsaker til den lave andelen kvinner i forskning og forskningsledelse ved tre forsknings‐ og utdanningsinstitusjoner: Havforskningsinstituttet (IMR), Høgskolen i Bergen (HiB) og Universitetet i Bergen (UiB).Norges Forskningsråd - Kjønnsbalanse i toppstillinger og forskningsledelse (BALANSE

Master's Thesis. Department of Sociology. University of Bergen.

European Gender Regimes and Policies, 2016

Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning, 2017

Artikkelen er et bidrag til forskningen som søker etter forklaringer på den skjeve kjønnsfordelin... more Artikkelen er et bidrag til forskningen som søker etter forklaringer på den skjeve kjønnsfordelingen i universitets-og høgskolesektorens karrierehierarki. Bidraget er basert på et forskningsprosjekt med mål om å fremskaffe ny kunnskap om institusjonelle og kulturelle prosesser som bidrar til den skjeve kjønnsfordelingen i faglige toppstillinger og forskningsledelse. Artikkelen bygger på en intervjuundersøkelse blant kvinnelige ansatte ved tre forsknings-og utdanningsinstitusjoner i Bergen. Analysen antyder at de siste tiårsreformer i høyere utdanning virker ulikt inn på kvinner og menns karriereforløp. Artikkelen argumenterer for at den lave andelen kvinner i forskningens lederposisjoner skyldes et komplekst samspill mellom Matteus-og Matilda-effekter, hvor institusjonaliserte «koder» og kjønnsstereotyper sammen skaper det artikkelen benevner «Medusa-effekten».

Gendered Academic Citizenship, 2020

This chapter summarizes the key findings of the book and the particular strengths of the Gendered... more This chapter summarizes the key findings of the book and the particular strengths of the Gendered Academic Citizenship (GAC) perspective. It discusses the main similarities and differences across the national contexts. The chapter ends by setting a comprehensive research agenda for the future using the gendered academic citizenship framework.

The major purpose of this research project was to study the dynamics of gender and family practic... more The major purpose of this research project was to study the dynamics of gender and family practices in two social contexts that are going through different transformations of modernity. The complex relationships between gender, family practices, and state policies were investigated through comparative and complementary analyses of historical developments, statistical trends, official documents, and face-to-face interviews. Social practices of a specific group – dual-earner, professional couples – formed the basis of the comparative approach.

Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning, 2014

Sosiologisk tidsskrift, 2004

... Contents. «Hvis hun er fornøyd, så blir jeg det også» Unge menn, maskulinitet og seksualitet ... more ... Contents. «Hvis hun er fornøyd, så blir jeg det også» Unge menn, maskulinitet og seksualitet (Page 299-322) By Sveinung Sandberg, Camilla Jordheim Larsen and Willy Pedersen. Deprofesjonalisering av helsesøsteryrket? (Page 325-341) ...

European Journal of Women's Studies, 2016

This article focuses on the resurgence of women’s movements in Turkey and Norway against the back... more This article focuses on the resurgence of women’s movements in Turkey and Norway against the backdrop of their historical trajectories and wider gender policies. Throughout the 2010s, both countries witnessed a similar set of conservative and neoliberal policies that intervened in women’s bodily rights. In both countries, women’s movements responded with mass mobilizations and influenced the political agenda. The proposed restrictions on abortion were interpreted as a restriction on women’s basic bodily rights in both countries. This article argues that a feminist, multidimensional reconceptualization of the concept of citizenship and a definition of abortion as an element of women’s bodily citizenship rights are useful to promote a strong and encompassing argument for mobilization. The comparative analysis shows that the right to control one’s own body has been a unifying issue for women’s movements in Turkey and Norway which are gradually becoming more inclusive.

NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 2014

ABSTRACT

madeleine kennedymacfoy and all FEMCIT partners. Section I: Introduction 1 Gendered Citizenship i... more madeleine kennedymacfoy and all FEMCIT partners. Section I: Introduction 1 Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: the Impact of Contemporary Women's Movements Key concepts in FEMCIT The overall problem addressed in FEMCIT concerns the lack of full gender-fair citizenship for women in Europe. FEMCIT has worked with a wider conceptualisation of citizenship than most of the existing literature in the field. We understand citizenship both as public rights and duties that are claimed and/or attributed to citizens and residents as a sign of recognition, and as practices and identities chosen, constructed and performed by citizens and residents in their daily lives (which may entail neither claims-making nor public recognition). Citizenship is about rights and status, but it is also about participation, identity and belonging. It comprises feelings and experiences of being included or excluded. Inspired by a (Nordic) social democratic tradition of incorporating social movements and organisations in politics, and the feminist approach to the public and personal as fundamentally entangled, FEMCIT addresses the bonds between and within groups of citizens, and between citizens, civil society and the public arena (Halsaa 2008). FEMCIT operates with a wide definition of women's movements in order to include women's mobilisation and organisation within different political regimes and across ethnic and national majority and minority populations (See WP7 report for a detailed account of how we apply these concepts). FEMCIT's empirical research comprises a variety of organisations: women only, gender-mixed, autonomous and semi-autonomous women's groups, and sometimes gay and lesbian movements and other gender-related movements. The term 'contemporary women's movement' embraces the wide range of women's collective organising since the 1960s, including but not only that by those who have self-defined as feminists (Halsaa 2009). We use the term 'impact' to denote women's movements' formative role in, and contributions to, social, political and cultural transformations in Europe that have meant that issues of gender equality and difference in public, as well as intimate and personal life, have increasingly been regarded as important. FEMCIT contains an embedded and a systematic historical-institutional approach to impact, and does not aim to assess women's movements' impact through a positivist approach to casuality (Halsaa 2009). For further discussion of FEMCIT's key concepts, see Gender-Fair Citizenship in Multicultural Europe-WP7. Overview of the FEMCIT research design FEMCIT's six thematic dimensions of citizenship aim to show the empirical breadth, depth and complexity of citizenship as it relates to women's lives. This involves developing analytical frameworks that: • incorporate the under-researched dimensions of multicultural, religious, bodily and intimate citizenship into the more established political, social and economic dimensions, and • identify and explore unrecognized or underdeveloped elements of the more established dimensions of citizenship. This does not mean just "adding women", or adding more dimensions, to the notion of citizenship, but requires the reworking of the concept of citizenship, through empirical, analytical and political assessments of core issues in relation to gendered citizenship.

Policy Futures in Education

Insecurity and intense competition for permanent academic positions appear to be common experienc... more Insecurity and intense competition for permanent academic positions appear to be common experiences for early career researchers across the globe. With academic precarity now firmly on the international research and policy agenda, this article looks comparatively at postdoc precarity in three European countries: Ireland, Norway and Switzerland. It suggests that the career prospects and status of these early career stage researchers depend to a large extent on societal variations in academic career structures and research funding models. The article underlines the implications of an increasingly competitive academic labour market on postdoc precarity and identifies both common and specific (national and/or disciplinary) challenges facing postdocs in these different contexts.

European Journal of Women's Studies

Our main goal in this article is to discuss the structural and persistent problems experienced by... more Our main goal in this article is to discuss the structural and persistent problems experienced by women academics, especially with respect to the gendered divisions of academic tasks and unequal divisions of care obligations in the domestic sphere. The analysis is based on reflexive thematic analysis of the open-ended questions of an online questionnaire on the academic work environment, work satisfaction, stress, academic duties and allocation of tasks, and thoughts on gender equality. Academics from different countries voice their lived experiences, frustrations as well as worries about their future. We aim to highlight how these issues are embedded in the structures of academic capitalism and argue against the tendency to individualise these issues in a bid to inspire an informed collective resistance.

Formålet med denne studien er å fremskaffe ny kunnskap om bakenforliggende institusjonelle og kul... more Formålet med denne studien er å fremskaffe ny kunnskap om bakenforliggende institusjonelle og kulturelle årsaker til den lave andelen kvinner i forskning og forskningsledelse ved tre forsknings‐ og utdanningsinstitusjoner: Havforskningsinstituttet (IMR), Høgskolen i Bergen (HiB) og Universitetet i Bergen (UiB).Norges Forskningsråd - Kjønnsbalanse i toppstillinger og forskningsledelse (BALANSE

Master's Thesis. Department of Sociology. University of Bergen.

European Gender Regimes and Policies, 2016

Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning, 2017

Artikkelen er et bidrag til forskningen som søker etter forklaringer på den skjeve kjønnsfordelin... more Artikkelen er et bidrag til forskningen som søker etter forklaringer på den skjeve kjønnsfordelingen i universitets-og høgskolesektorens karrierehierarki. Bidraget er basert på et forskningsprosjekt med mål om å fremskaffe ny kunnskap om institusjonelle og kulturelle prosesser som bidrar til den skjeve kjønnsfordelingen i faglige toppstillinger og forskningsledelse. Artikkelen bygger på en intervjuundersøkelse blant kvinnelige ansatte ved tre forsknings-og utdanningsinstitusjoner i Bergen. Analysen antyder at de siste tiårsreformer i høyere utdanning virker ulikt inn på kvinner og menns karriereforløp. Artikkelen argumenterer for at den lave andelen kvinner i forskningens lederposisjoner skyldes et komplekst samspill mellom Matteus-og Matilda-effekter, hvor institusjonaliserte «koder» og kjønnsstereotyper sammen skaper det artikkelen benevner «Medusa-effekten».

Gendered Academic Citizenship, 2020

This chapter summarizes the key findings of the book and the particular strengths of the Gendered... more This chapter summarizes the key findings of the book and the particular strengths of the Gendered Academic Citizenship (GAC) perspective. It discusses the main similarities and differences across the national contexts. The chapter ends by setting a comprehensive research agenda for the future using the gendered academic citizenship framework.

The major purpose of this research project was to study the dynamics of gender and family practic... more The major purpose of this research project was to study the dynamics of gender and family practices in two social contexts that are going through different transformations of modernity. The complex relationships between gender, family practices, and state policies were investigated through comparative and complementary analyses of historical developments, statistical trends, official documents, and face-to-face interviews. Social practices of a specific group – dual-earner, professional couples – formed the basis of the comparative approach.

Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning, 2014

Sosiologisk tidsskrift, 2004

... Contents. «Hvis hun er fornøyd, så blir jeg det også» Unge menn, maskulinitet og seksualitet ... more ... Contents. «Hvis hun er fornøyd, så blir jeg det også» Unge menn, maskulinitet og seksualitet (Page 299-322) By Sveinung Sandberg, Camilla Jordheim Larsen and Willy Pedersen. Deprofesjonalisering av helsesøsteryrket? (Page 325-341) ...

European Journal of Women's Studies, 2016

This article focuses on the resurgence of women’s movements in Turkey and Norway against the back... more This article focuses on the resurgence of women’s movements in Turkey and Norway against the backdrop of their historical trajectories and wider gender policies. Throughout the 2010s, both countries witnessed a similar set of conservative and neoliberal policies that intervened in women’s bodily rights. In both countries, women’s movements responded with mass mobilizations and influenced the political agenda. The proposed restrictions on abortion were interpreted as a restriction on women’s basic bodily rights in both countries. This article argues that a feminist, multidimensional reconceptualization of the concept of citizenship and a definition of abortion as an element of women’s bodily citizenship rights are useful to promote a strong and encompassing argument for mobilization. The comparative analysis shows that the right to control one’s own body has been a unifying issue for women’s movements in Turkey and Norway which are gradually becoming more inclusive.

NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 2014

ABSTRACT

This book develops the concept of academic citizenship, locating it in the context of Higher Educ... more This book develops the concept of academic citizenship, locating it in the context of Higher Education and Research Institutions (HERIs) affected by neo-liberalism and managerialism, and with the hyper-competition and individualization that has come to characterize academic institutions in the developed world. The book has an overall focus on the processes of inclusion/exclusion; privilege and discrimination and their consequences for women’s membership, recognition and belonging in such HERIs.

Gendered division of work and care is a key issue for families, welfare states, as well as supran... more Gendered division of work and care is a key issue for families, welfare states, as well as supranational actors, such as the European Union (EU). Even though EU has been emphasising work-family reconciliation and promoting support for working parents since 1990s, family policies and practices show a significant variation throughout Europe. This article adopts a gender regimes perspective, with a particular focus on the Nordic model, and analyses the shifting policy trajectories at the EU level. The review of the work-family reconciliation policies shows a diminishing focus on gendered division of labour and identifies weaknesses in conceptualising care as an element of social citizenship.

Master's Thesis. Department of Sociology. University of Bergen.

The major purpose of this research project was to study the dynamics of gender and family practic... more The major purpose of this research project was to study the dynamics of gender and family practices in two social contexts that are going through different transformations of modernity. The complex relationships between gender, family practices, and state policies were investigated through comparative and complementary analyses of historical developments, statistical trends, official documents, and face-to-face interviews. Social practices of a specific group – dual-earner, professional couples – formed the basis of the comparative approach.