A joint initiative between the University of Bergen
and CMI – Chr. Michelsen Institute
Welcome to a panel discussion on the care crisis in the Nordic context.
Photo: wayra via canva.com Care is an essential element of society and a crucial service of social, economic and political institutions. Thus, care is political. Care is also work, both formal and informal, paid and unpaid, recognized and not.
While care is a fundamental feature of how families, societies and economies are organised, care is largely devaluated or even neglected in social and economic policy, and therefore carries many injustices and inequalities.
This seminar will attend to some of the most prominent and pressing issues on the care crisis in the Nordic context, especially focusing on labour and inequality.
A light lunch will be served.
Anette Fagertun is a social anthropologist with a PhD from University of Bergen, 2009. Since 2015, Fagertun has been employed as Associate Professor in Social Science at the Centre for Care Research west and Department of welfare and participation, FHS, HVL.
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Lise Widding Isaksen has doing research on the institutional interaction between the state, the family and (global)markets from a gender,class and ethnicity perspective. Recently she has been working with projects on gender, globalization, citizenship, transnational care and the transformations of the Nordic welfare states.
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Associate Professor Heidi Haukelien (PhD) heads the Centre for Care Research South at USN, and holds a senior research position at Telemark Research Institute. She has extensive experience from anthropological studies of welfare- and healthcare services at the municipal-, specialist- and political level.
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Hanne Marlene Dahl is a Professor at Roskilde University, Denmark. She has been the Director of the Danish National Research School: Welfare, State and Diversity, an editorial board member of two Danish scientific journals, and participated in national, European and international research projects. Dahl has published widely in international journals and is also co-editor of the book, Europeanization, Care and Gender.
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Halvard Vike is Professor of Anthropology at the University College of South-Eastern Norway and Telemark Research Institute, Norway. He has more than 25 years of experience with ethnographic work in political contexts in Norway, and been much involved in applied research in local arenas. His main area of interest is the emergence and transformation of political institutions and states.
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Anette Fagertun is a social anthropologist with a PhD from University of Bergen, 2009. Since 2015, Fagertun has been employed as Associate Professor in Social Science at the Centre for Care Research west and Department of welfare and participation, FHS, HVL.
See personal page: Anette Fagertun – Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (hvl.no)
Lise Widding Isaksen has doing research on the institutional interaction between the state, the family and (global)markets from a gender,class and ethnicity perspective. Recently she has been working with projects on gender, globalization, citizenship, transnational care and the transformations of the Nordic welfare states.
See personal page: Ann Elise Widding Isaksen | University of Bergen (uib.no)
Associate Professor Heidi Haukelien (PhD) heads the Centre for Care Research South at USN, and holds a senior research position at Telemark Research Institute. She has extensive experience from anthropological studies of welfare- and healthcare services at the municipal-, specialist- and political level.
See personal page: Heidi Haukelien – Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge (usn.no)
Hanne Marlene Dahl is a Professor at Roskilde University, Denmark. She has been the Director of the Danish National Research School: Welfare, State and Diversity, an editorial board member of two Danish scientific journals, and participated in national, European and international research projects. Dahl has published widely in international journals and is also co-editor of the book, Europeanization, Care and Gender.
See personal page: Hanne Marlene Dahl — Roskilde University Research Portal (ruc.dk)
Halvard Vike is Professor of Anthropology at the University College of South-Eastern Norway and Telemark Research Institute, Norway. He has more than 25 years of experience with ethnographic work in political contexts in Norway, and been much involved in applied research in local arenas. His main area of interest is the emergence and transformation of political institutions and states.
See personal page: Halvard Vike – Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge (usn.no)
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