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  • 1.
    Balkmar, Dag
    et al.
    Linköping University, The Tema Institute, The Department of Gender Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Joelsson, Tanja
    Linköping University, The Tema Institute, The Department of Gender Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Burning Rubber, Marking Territory: Technology, Auto-Erotic Desires and Violating Mobility2009In: Gender Delight: Science, Knowledge, Culture and Writing…for Nina Lykke, Åsberg, Cecilia, Harrison, Katherine, Pernud, Björn, Gustavsson, Malena (eds.), Linköping: Tema Genus , 2009Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 2.
    Balkmar, Dag
    et al.
    Linköping University, The Tema Institute, The Department of Gender Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Joelsson, Tanja
    Linköping University, The Tema Institute, The Department of Gender Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Den bioniske mannen på autoerotiska äventyr - mäns risktagande i trafikrummet2010In: Norma (Nordic Journal for Masculinity Studies), ISSN 1890-2138, Vol. 5, no 1, p. 27-44Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    “The bionic man goes autoerotic – theoretic keys towards a refined understanding of men’s risk taking in public space”

     

    Gender construction in relation to mobility and movement gives rise to intriguing questions regarding the interfaces between men, masculinity, technology, “danger” and risk-taking, especially when discussing issues of traffic safety. How can we conceptualize men’s risk taking practices within the traffic realm? By drawing on research from feminist science and technology studies, the authors suggest and develop the figuration the bionic man for how to understand cars and other mobile vehicles such as mopeds as extensions of the (male) body. The construction of masculinity is seen to be interlinked with the use and mastering of motor vehicles. This theoretical frame work is further analysed by introducing the concept of autoeroticism as a meaningful way for understanding the profound embodied and emotional relation between men, technologies of movement and risk taking. The authors argue that the emotional aspects of driving cars and riding mopeds need to be regarded as both vital and crucial aspects when studying men’s risk taking in traffic space.

  • 3.
    Balkmar, Dag
    et al.
    Linköping University, The Tema Institute, The Department of Gender Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Joelsson, Tanja
    Linköping University, The Tema Institute, The Department of Gender Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Feeling the Speed - the Social and Emotional Investments in Dangerous Road Practices2012In: Gender and Change: power, politics and everyday practices / [ed] Maria Jansdotter Samuelsson, Clary Krekula, Magnus Åberg, Karlstad: Karlstad University Press, 2012, p. 37-52Chapter in book (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Research on gender aims to contribute towards a better society with the help of scientific tools. Change is therefore a key concept in gender studies. With a wide range of theoretical frameworks, methodological approaches and empirical materials from Sweden, Norway and Iceland, this book investigates how gender relations are shaped, reproduced, and challenged. Collectively, the papers in this volume point to where we are heading in terms of gender relations. Where are the seeds to change, and how does power make possible or impede on change?

  • 4.
    Balkmar, Dag
    et al.
    Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Linköping University, The Tema Institute, The Department of Gender Studies.
    Joelsson, Tanja
    Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Linköping University, The Tema Institute, The Department of Gender Studies.
    Kör så det ryker! Teoretiska reflektioner om samspelen mellan män, maskulinitet, rumslighet och våldsam mobilitet2008In: Genusrelationer och förändringsprocesser: Nordisk feminism och genusforskning 2008,2008, 2008Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Att förstå hur genus görs i relation till mobilitet ställer spännande frågor om gränssnitten mellan män, maskuliniteter, ålder, teknik, -farlighet- och risktagande, inte minst i förhållande till trafiksäkerhet, våld och kroppslig integritet. Feministisk teknologiforskning (FTS) och transportforskning med genusperspektiv uppmärksammar hur bilar eller mopeder kan förstås som en förlängning av (mans)kroppen där kopplingen till görande av maskulinitet är sammanvävt med användandet och bemästrandet av motorfordon. Mot bakgrund av nollvisionen är det dock uppseendeväckande hur lite trafiksäkerhetsarbetet uppmärksammat överrepresentationen av män som -vållande- av dödsolyckor (90 %) eller uppmärksammat (auto)mobilitet som ett sätt att göra kön. Texten tar upp mäns kroppslighet i trafiken med utgångspunkt i feministiska teorier om våld och teknologi, och knyts samman med en diskussion kring (auto)mobilitet. Bidraget öppnar upp för en kritisk diskussion kring bilismens normativa ställning, inte minst hur bilnormativiteten formar och skapar subjektiva upplevelser och identitet, samt hur praktiker knutna till dessa möjliggör och producerar våldsam mobilitet.

  • 5.
    Joelsson, Tanja
    Linköping University, The Tema Institute, The Department of Gender Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Breaking bored - negotiating spatial boredom and masculinity in the Volvo greaser culture2015In: Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, ISSN 0966-369X, E-ISSN 1360-0524, Vol. 22, no 9, p. 1252-1268Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    In this article I discuss how the experience of boredom becomes a vital part of the narratives and practices of a group of young greasers in a peri-urban community in Sweden. The ethnographic material originates from fieldwork carried out among the local Volvo greasers, aged between 15 and 19 years, at the local youth centre and the car park in a peri-urban community in Sweden in 2010. The aim of the article is to understand how place, personhood and social relations are intertwined in the greaser culture by introducing the concept of spatial boredom, which strives to illuminate the greasers active engagement and negotiation with the experience of boredom. In light of this, the semantics of spatial boredom - the communitys geographical placement as boring, reactive rather than active, static rather than dynamic - a symbolic link to femininity, domesticity, safety, routine and hence immanence is established. The orientation towards a dangerous, masculine-coded public space is reinforcing a split between both the feminine and the masculine and the public and the private.

  • 6.
    Joelsson, Tanja
    Linköping University, The Tema Institute, The Department of Gender Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Breaking bored: Boredom and risk-taking practices among neighbourhood oriented greaser youth in Sweden2012Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    In this paper I explore how the concept and experience of boredom becomes a vital part of the narratives and practices of young vehicle and neighbourhood oriented men and women – the greasers – in a periurban community in Sweden. How can the boredom they express and experience in relation to their (risk-taking) practices as well as to the social geography of their peers be understood from a feminist theoretical perspective? In which ways do they use boredom as an in-group strategy and how is boredom linked to (out-group) social identity? How are gender, age and place entangled in the social construction of boredom?

     

    Keeping in mind Dalle Pezze & Salzani’s (2009) important note that boredom in fact lies at the center of contemporary society and should therefore be of vital importance for theorists concerned with theorizing society, I want to broaden the scope in order to understand why boredom has become a viable feeling and experience of young males (most notably in their teens or young adulthood) by bringing together de Beauvoir’s concepts immanence and transcendence, Ziehe’s understanding of  the need for potentiating the banality of existence and Stephen Lyng’s concept of edgework (voluntary risk-taking). At a more theoretical level I argue that the (for the most part negative) depictions of boredom in research do not take into account the complex ways feelings and experiences of boredom can be used as a social and cultural resource among young people. My aim is then to use and in some ways revise de Beauvoir’s, Ziehe’s and Lyng’s theoretical contributions by specifically addressing boredom as a backdrop for my research subject’s practices. In this theoretical endeavor, I critically address how the cultural and social construction of boredom and masculinity are tightly intertwined.

     

    The ethnographic material I draw upon in this paper originates from the fieldwork I carried out in a periurban community, Samplinge, in Sweden in year 2010. The field work consisted of participant observation of regular visitors aged between 15 to 18 years old (fifteen boys and seven girls) at the local youth center and a central meeting place in the community in the evenings – the local shop’s entrance courtyard – as well as six group interviews and twelve individual interviews with the same visitors. These visitors are known as the local greasers. I have also conducted what I call ride alongs where I have been a passenger in some of the greasers’ cars. Also, seventeen pupils from grade nine in the local high school – not regular visitors of the youth center – were interviewed, in groups of two (thirteen interviews) or individually (four interviews). All in all thirty five interviews have been executed. 

  • 7.
    Joelsson, Tanja
    Linköping University, The Tema Institute, The Department of Gender Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Breaking bored: Boredom, gender and risk-taking among young greasers in Sweden2012Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    In this article the author discusses how the experience of boredom becomes a vital part of the narratives and practices of a group of young greasers in a peri-urban community in Sweden. The greasers’ risk-taking practices with vehicles (drifting and speeding) can be understood in a more nuanced way by introducing boredom as an analytical tool, intersected with an analysis of conceptions and norms around gender, age and place. Boredom is understood to be a material resource for the young people to draw upon and can be analysed as a discursive spatial strategy, denoting the greasers active engagement with an experienced boredom that is both imposed upon them externally and (re)created by themselves.

     

    Understanding boredom in the way outlined above breaks with the colloquial and scholarly understanding, where boredom is most commonly depicted as a negative mental state of specific individuals (most of the psychological research goes under this rubric) or as a negative condition of Western postmodern societies (most of the sociological, philosophical and literary research can be placed here). Rather than perceiving and conceptualising boredom as an inherent spatial characteristic, boredom is negotiated in relation to place. From this angle, the greasers engage with the stereotypical notion of their community as boring and backwards by creating a counter image. The greasers take action, quite literally, against the notion of a backward and boring rurality enforced upon them and their community, by claiming and occupying public space and by practicing risk taking with their vehicles.

     

    A large part of how the young expressed themselves around drifting or speeding is all about “having fun”. “To have fun” is for the greasers intertwined with perceptions and experiences of boredom in two distinctive ways: a) when you have fun in the right way (with vehicles or by joking about accidents) you can opt for a greaser identity which per definition is non-boring and b) this fun-loving identity makes it possible to use boredom as a resource where risk-taking appears to be the ”natural” outcome – which in turn function to remedy experiences of boredom.

     

    At a more theoretical level, the discursive spatial strategies are discussed in relation to dominant and normative forms of masculinity. Analysing the risk-taking practices as violations in a much broader sense than the narrow scope of traffic violations, permit a framework that can be connected to the reproduction of (affective) inequality. Within this framework, boredom is understood as a discursive spatial strategy that re-create intersectional power differences related to age, gender and place. To be more specific, the discourse on boredom upholds dominant and normative forms of masculinity by appropriating public space (and thus distancing oneself from the femininized private space) and exercising and encouraging violations with vehicles.

     

    The ethnographic material I draw upon in this paper originates from the fieldwork I carried out in a periurban community, Samplinge, in Sweden in year 2010. The fieldwork consisted of participant observation of regular visitors aged between 15 to 18 years old (fifteen boys and seven girls) at the local youth center and a central meeting place in the community in the evenings – the local shop’s entrance courtyard – as well as six group interviews and twelve individual interviews with the same visitors. These visitors are known as the local greasers. I have also conducted what I call ride alongs where I have been a passenger in some of the greasers’ cars. Also, seventeen pupils from grade nine in the local high school – not regular visitors of the youth center – were interviewed, in groups of two (thirteen interviews) or individually (four interviews). All in all thirty five interviews have been executed.

  • 8.
    Joelsson, Tanja
    Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, The Department of Gender Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Space and Sensibility: Young Men’s Risk-Taking with Motor Vehicles2013Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    In this ethnographic study of “Volvo greasers” [Volvoraggare] in a peri-urban community in Sweden, risk-taking practices with motor vehicles, such as speeding and drifting, are explored and analyzed in relation to age, gender, class and place. Young men’s risk-taking with motor vehicles regularly generates public debate as a traffic safety issue, often resulting in various policy suggestions, such as curfews or raising of the driving licence age. Seldom are these suggested solutions based on critical ethnographic research where intersections of age, gender, class and place are highlighted. The study is based on ethnographic fieldwork, that is, participant observation, and informal and formal interviews, with greaser men and women between the ages of 15 and 19, as well as formal interviews with pupils at the local high school and with youth centre staff in the local community.

    The study has two overarching aims. The first is empirical: to make visible an under-studied area of contemporary youth culture in Sweden – the (Volvo) greasers. In order to understand how the greasers’ risk-taking with vehicles is manifested, talked about and practised, the thesis critically engages with the contexts of the risk-taking practices and their effects at both the material and the discursive levels. The second aim is theoretical. Through contextualization as an analytical tool, a theoretical contribution of the thesis is the development of a situated concept of risktaking. The thesis illustrates how intersecting norms and conceptions around age, gender, class and place are practised at the local level, thus highlighting the social character of risk--‐taking practices. A central analytical notion is the greasers’ negotiation of place, developed through the concept of spatial boredom, which affects their construction of personhood and their social practices. In light of this, the thesis suggests that situated risk-taking with motor vehicles benefit from being formulated as violations, which furthers the understanding of young people’s risk-taking practices with motor vehicles and paves the way for more multi-faceted discussions in theory, as well as in practice and policy-making around traffic safety.

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