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Motherwork and Space: Social and Political Participation of Mothers in Sweden’s racialised Suburbs

Twum, Jonelle LU (2020) GNVM03 20201
Department of Gender Studies
Abstract
This thesis engages with the motherwork of racialised migrant mothers in Sweden’s racialised suburbs. It employs theories of racial geographies, particularly black women’s geographies and motherwork to investigate the articulations of motherwork in space. Deploying a black feminist lens on empirical material from a Swedish-Somali mothers’ group engaged in community activism, the thesis argues that motherwork is operationalised as a subject position of space and social transformation. To examine this argument, three dimensions of motherwork are considered. First, motherwork as a subject position of space, as the mothers studied constitute themselves as knowledgeable agents through their experiences in and of their residential area. Next, it... (More)
This thesis engages with the motherwork of racialised migrant mothers in Sweden’s racialised suburbs. It employs theories of racial geographies, particularly black women’s geographies and motherwork to investigate the articulations of motherwork in space. Deploying a black feminist lens on empirical material from a Swedish-Somali mothers’ group engaged in community activism, the thesis argues that motherwork is operationalised as a subject position of space and social transformation. To examine this argument, three dimensions of motherwork are considered. First, motherwork as a subject position of space, as the mothers studied constitute themselves as knowledgeable agents through their experiences in and of their residential area. Next, it focuses on the mothers’ community-based activities concerning safety-creation as practices of motherwork. Lastly, it presents the transformative potentials of the mothers’ motherwork to normative understandings of racialised suburbs and subject categories such as “Black Muslim mothers” and “migrant mothers”. Ultimately, motherwork is formulated by the mothers as public, collective and political. (Less)
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author
Twum, Jonelle LU
supervisor
organization
course
GNVM03 20201
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Motherwork, Racialised suburbs, Black women’s Geographies, Geographies of Motherwork.
language
English
id
9020993
date added to LUP
2020-06-25 10:01:12
date last changed
2020-06-25 10:01:12
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  abstract     = {{This thesis engages with the motherwork of racialised migrant mothers in Sweden’s racialised suburbs. It employs theories of racial geographies, particularly black women’s geographies and motherwork to investigate the articulations of motherwork in space. Deploying a black feminist lens on empirical material from a Swedish-Somali mothers’ group engaged in community activism, the thesis argues that motherwork is operationalised as a subject position of space and social transformation. To examine this argument, three dimensions of motherwork are considered. First, motherwork as a subject position of space, as the mothers studied constitute themselves as knowledgeable agents through their experiences in and of their residential area. Next, it focuses on the mothers’ community-based activities concerning safety-creation as practices of motherwork. Lastly, it presents the transformative potentials of the mothers’ motherwork to normative understandings of racialised suburbs and subject categories such as “Black Muslim mothers” and “migrant mothers”. Ultimately, motherwork is formulated by the mothers as public, collective and political.}},
  author       = {{Twum, Jonelle}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Motherwork and Space: Social and Political Participation of Mothers in Sweden’s racialised Suburbs}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}