Earlier this spring, our research group met in Malmö to work collaboratively on manuscripts-in-progress, but also to look at transcripts of interviews with data that we had not analysed before. One of these stood out for us, because it differed … Continued
Why is Shuri, the little sister of T’Challa in the Black Panther movie not perceived as a ‘new’ tech geek? That was one of the things discussed at a research seminar at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, where … Continued
Have you heard of Emmanuelle Charpentier? Last year (2020) she was the Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry, together with Jennifer Doudna, for the discovery of the gene scissor CRISPR/Cas9. In this blog Eva Silfver explores the gendered portrayal of Professor … Continued
In a previous post on this blog, Eva Silfver discusses her ‘intellectual journey’ around ‘race’. In this post, Andreas Ottemo reflects further on what terminology to use in discussing race and racism in a Swedish context. As Eva points out, … Continued
There is always a risk of trying to deconstruct something when you’re not an expert yourself. It is even more dangerous, when the same object is something beloved and cherished around the world. Nonetheless, in this post Maria Berge will … Continued