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Cathrin Wasshede

Teacher, researcher
PhD

 




 


 


Room:  F313
Phone:+46 31 786 5830
E-mail: Cathrin.Wasshede@socav.gu.se

Presentation

CATRIN WASSHEDE has a PhD in sociology and works in the Department of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg. Her dissertation, Passionate Politics: Resistance to Heteronormative Gender Power is about the way in which young left-wing political activists in Gothenburg offer resistance to dominating norms around gender and sexuality. Questions that are raised are: What are they resisting? What alternatives are presented? What strategies do they use? What happens when ideals are not easily transformed into practice? Cathrin Wasshede shows that resistance is always practised within existing orders and that resistance cultures involve new orders. The passionate politics that the activists perform means that boundaries are displaced and that new possibilities arise. The public defence was held on 9 April 2010.

Specialist Fields

Her research interests are gender and sexuality, resistance and social movements.

Current research

During the period 2010 - 2012 she will be participating in a research project called ”The inner city as public sphere: Urban transformation, social order and social change”, where she will be focusing on sustainable urban development and urban citizenship from the perspectives of gender, sexuality, family and social sustainability. For more details about the research project, see Håkan Thörn.

Teaching and tutoring

Cathrin Wasshede’s specific expertise in relation to teaching and tutoring is located in the fields of feminist theory, queer theory and postcolonial theory, but she also teaches on courses such as organisation and leadership, alienation, outsiderness and modernity, social psychology and on the Psychology and Human Resource Management, Labour Relations Programmes and Teachersprogramme.

Miscellanious

Cathrin is a member of the programme-council for Preschoolteacher education.

Selected publications

Wasshede, Cathrin (2010) Passionerad Politik. Om motstånd mot heteronormativ könsmakt. Malmö: Bokbox Förlag

Wasshede, Cathrin (2005) ”Skägg och kjol? Unga aktivistmän om maskulinitet och femininitet”, i Johansson, Thomas (red), Manlighetens omvandlingar. Ungdom, sexualitet och kön i heteronormativitetens gränstrakter. Göteborg: Daidalos

Wasshede, Cathrin (2006) ”Motståndspraktiker – unga aktivister i närkamp med heterosexualitet”, i Sandell, Kerstin & Mulinari, Diana (red), Feministiska interventioner. Berättelser om och från en annan värld. Stockholm: Atlas

Wasshede, Cathrin (2010, forthcoming) ”Skägg och kjol på Avenyn”, i Holgersson, H., Thörn, C., Thörn, H. & Wahlström, M. (red), Göteborg: studier av en stad i förändring. Göteborg: Glänta Produktion

Wasshede, Cathrin (2010, forthcoming) ”Beard and skirt – gender bending in public space”, i Holgersson, H., Thörn, C., Thörn, H. & Wahlström, M. (eds), (Re-)Searching Gothenburg. Göteborg: Glänta Produktion Glänta Produktion

Articles in popular science journals
Wasshede, Cathrin (2001) ”Avvikande könstolkning”, i Lambda Nordica, nr. 4, vol 7

Wasshede, Cathrin (2008) ”Fotboll, falukorv och öl? Om motsägelsefulla maskulinitetspositioner i den utomparlamentariska vänstern”, i Fronesis, nr. 25-26

 

Publications

2012

  • Cathrin Wasshede (2012).
    From the hidden homophile in the darkness to rainbow families in the streets - a story of liberation? , GUP 155351

2011

  • Håkan Thörn; Cathrin Wasshede; Tomas Nilson (2011).
    Space for urban alternatives? Christiania 1971-2011 , GUP 144608

  • Cathrin Wasshede (2011).
    "Bøssehuset - Queer Perspectives in Christiania" , GUP 146254

  • Cathrin Wasshede (2011).
    "Introduction: From 'Social Experiment' to 'Urban Alternative' - 40 Years of Research on the Freetown" , GUP 146253

2010

  • Cathrin Wasshede (2010).
    Beard and skirt - gender bending i public space , GUP 144447

  • Cathrin Wasshede (2010).
    Double-edged craving for legitimacy: queer strategies and urban citizenship , GUP 144449

  • Cathrin Wasshede (2010).
    Passionerad politik. Om motstånd mot heteronormativ könsmakt. , GUP 120589

  • Cathrin Wasshede (2010).
    Skägg och kjol på Avenyn , GUP 144446

2008

  • Cathrin Wasshede (2008).
    Fotboll, falukorv och öl eller kjol och hårspännen? Om motsägelsefulla maskulinitetspositioner i den utomparlamentariska vänstern 1404-2614, GUP 69108

2006

  • Cathrin Wasshede (2006).
    Motståndspraktiker - unga aktivister i närkamp med hetrosexuelitet , GUP 36117

2005

  • Cathrin Wasshede (2005).
    Skägg och kjol. Unga aktivistmän om maskulinitet och femininitet , GUP 33650

2004

  • Cathrin Wasshede (2004).
    "Makt, motstånd och ambivalens - om unga utomparlamentariska akivisters motstånd mot dominerande normer kring kön och sexualitet". , GUP 115245

  • Cathrin Wasshede (2004).
    "Motstånd och ambivalens - unga aktivistmän i närkamp med heterosexualitet." , GUP 115243

2001

  • Cathrin Wasshede (2001).
    Avvikande könstolkning , GUP 47115

Contact Information

Department of sociology

P.O. Box 720, SE 405 30 GÖTEBORG

Visiting Address:
Sprängkullsgatan 25

Phone:
+46 (0)31-786 0000

Fax:
+46 (0)31-786 4764

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