Rebecca Lund

• Lund, Rebecca (2020). Becoming a Professor Requires saying NO: Merging quality and equality agendas in a Norwegian gender balance project., In Lawton Smith Helen; Colette Henry & Henry Etzkowitz (ed.),  Gender, Science and Innovation New Perspectives.  Edward Elgar Publishing.  ISBN 9781786438966.  chapter 3.  s 35 - 57
• Katila, Saija; Laamanen, Mikko; Laihonen, Maarit; Lund, Rebecca; Meriläinen, Susan; Rinkinen, Jenny & Tienari, Janne (2019). Becoming academics: embracing and resisting changing writing practice. Qualitative research in organization and management.  ISSN 1746-5648.  s 1- 16 . doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/QROM-12-2018-1713 Show summary

  The purpose of this paper is to analyze how global and local changes in higher education impact upon writing practices through which doctoral students become academics. The study explores how norms and values of academic writing practice are learned, negotiated and resisted and elucidates how competences related to writing come to determine the academic selves. The study uses memory work, which is a group method that puts attention to written individual memories and their collective analysis and theorizing. The authors offer a comparison of experiences in becoming academics by two generational cohorts (1990s and 2010s) in the same management studies department in a business school. The study indicates that the contextual and temporal enactment of academic writing practice in the department created a situation where implicit and ambiguous criteria for writing competence gradually changed into explicit and narrow ones. The change was relatively slow for two reasons. First, new performance management indicators were introduced over a period of two decades. Second, when the new indicators were gradually introduced, they were locally resisted. The study highlights how the focus, forms and main actors of resistance changed over time. The paper offers a detailed account of how exogenous changes in higher education impact upon, over time and cultural space, academic writing practices through which doctoral students become academics.

• Lund, Rebecca (2019). Exploring "whiteness" as ideology and work knowledge: thinking with institutional ethnography, In Rebecca Waters Bolden Lund & Ann Christin Eklund Nilsen (ed.),  Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic Region.  Routledge.  ISBN 9780429019999.  8.  s 101 - 114 Show summary

  In this chapter, I will think about race and “whiteness” with Dorothy Smith and institutional ethnography (IE). Engaging critically with excerpts from interviews I did with Finnish feminist academics, I explicate how I became institutionally captured when themes of race and whiteness were introduced by my research participants. I reengage with the interview excerpts through the conceptual resources of work knowledge, standpoint, and ideological code. I provide contextualisation and interpretation of the interviews, explicating what I perceive to be a central contradiction surrounding the “race question” in contemporary feminist studies, here specifically in the Finnish context. I point towards the white body as an ideological code which, (often) unknowingly, mediates and coordinates discourse. I conclude this chapter and suggest how I might have used IE to design a study of whiteness in the Nordics and as a result create new knowledge.

• Lund, Rebecca; Meriläinen, Susan & Tienari, Janne (2019). New Masculinities in Universities? Discourses, Ambivalence and Potential Change. Gender, Work & Organization.  ISSN 0968-6673.  26, s 1376- 1397 . doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12383 Show summary

  In this article, we explore forms and possible implications of new masculinities in universities, and elucidate how they relate to hegemonic masculinity.‘New masculinities’ coins a particular tradition of naming in Nordic masculinity studies.In the Nordic context, gendered social relations are shaped by State policies and equality discourses, which are increasingly embracing father-friendly initiatives. New masculinities refers to the increased involvement of men in caring practices and especially in fathering. Our empirical study comprises in-depth interviews with young male academics in a Finnish business school. We elucidate, first, the ambivalence and struggles between masculinities in the dis-courses of these men and, second, how the construction of masculinities is specific to societal, sociocultural and local contexts. Relations of class, and middle-class notions of the‘good life’ in particular, emerge as central for understanding the experiences of these men. Beyond the Nordic countries, we argue that while the change potential of caring masculinity stems from particular contexts, the concept of new masculinities is helpful in capturing the ambivalence and struggles between hegemonic and caring masculinities rather than dismissing the latter as subordinate to the former.

• Lund, Rebecca & Tienari, Janne (2019). Passion, care, and eros in the gendered neoliberal university. Organization.  ISSN 1350-5084.  26(1), s 98- 121 . doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508418805283 Show summary

  In this article, we respond to Emma Bell and Amanda Sinclair’s call for reclaiming eros as non-commodified energy that drives academic work. Taking our point of entry from institutional ethnography and the standpoint of junior female academics, we highlight the ambiguity experienced in the neoliberal university in relation to its constructions of potential. We elucidate how potential becomes gendered in and through discourses of passion and care: how epistemic and material detachment from the local is framed as potential and how masculinized passion directs academics to do what counts, while feminized and locally bound care is institutionally appreciated only as far as it supports individualized passion. The way passion and care shape the practices of academic writing and organize the ruling relations of potentiality are challenged through eros, an uncontrollable and un-cooptable energy and longing, which becomes a threat to the gendered neoliberal university and a source of resistance to it. By distinguishing between passion, care, and eros, our institutional ethnography inquiry helps to make sense of the conformity and resistance that characterize the ambiguous experience of today’s academics.

• Sørensen, Majken Jul; Nilsen, Ann Christin Eklund & Lund, Rebecca (2019). Resisting the ruling relations: Discovering everyday resistance with Institutional Ethnography, In Rebecca Waters Bolden Lund & Ann Christin Eklund Nilsen (ed.),  Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic Region.  Routledge.  ISBN 9780429019999.  16.  s 203 - 213 Show summary

  Resistance is a concept that may seem out of place in studies of Nordic welfare societies. However, several studies depict how people in these societies act in ways that, whether explicitly or not, question the current state of affairs in ways that may be understood as resistance. This chapter explores how insights developed within the field of everyday resistance studies can inform institutional ethnography (IE) studies in the Nordic countries in ways that sensitise us to discover acts of resistance. With reference to two empirical studies, we argue that resistance can be traced in oppositional or critical talk, in tacit acts of non-compliance or in the “twisting and bending” of regulations, as well as in acts that are explicitly aimed at opposing ruling.

• Lund, Rebecca (2018). The Social Organization of Boasting in the Neoliberal University. Gender and Education.  ISSN 0954-0253. . doi: 10.1080/09540253.2018.1482412
• Lund, Rebecca & Magnussen, May-Linda (2018). Intersektionalitet, virksomhedskundskab og styringsrelationer. Institutionel Etnografi og hverdagens sociale organisering. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning.  ISSN 0809-6341.  42(4), s 268- 283 . doi: https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.1891-1781-2018-04-05 Show summary

  Med denne artikel argumenterer vi for, at Institutionel Etnografi – en udforskningsmetodologi udviklet af den feministiske sociolog Dorothy Smith (2005) – giver et særligt bud på, hvordan intersektionel analyse kan gøres. Institutionel Etnografi fokuserer analysen på en eksplicitering af den sociale organisering, der genererer specifikke udfald for forskellige sociale grupperinger. I vores optik leverer Institutionel Etnografi en radikal intersektionel analyse, der påviser, hvordan kategorier er et produkt af, og et udtryk for, historiske materielle processer, der igen former menneskers muligheder og begrænsninger. Den Institutionelle Etnografi undgår derved den problematiske mekaniske overførsel fra identitetskategori til social erfaring, som indimellem bliver resultatet af såvel socialkonstruktivistiske som poststrukturalistiske analytiske praksisser. I denne artikel gennemgår vi de centrale begreber i Institutionel Etnografi, og hvordan disse blev udviklet af Dorothy Smith med henblik på at udfordre objektiverende/abstraherende processer i forskningen og andre institutionelle processer. Vi viser, hvordan Institutionel Etnografi – rodfæstet i en specifik social ontologi og feministisk standpunkts epistemologi – tager analytisk afsæt i erfaringen for derefter at undersøge, hvordan erfaringen er blevet formet i tekstuelle processer, som er fravristet det lokale og konkrete. Den konkrete erfaring forbliver omdrejningspunktet for analysen, og dermed bliver køn, klasse, race og andre intersektionelle relationer ikke reduceret til ‘diskrete variabler’, der i værste fald skjuler individer, handlinger, interaktion og sociale relationer.

• Magnussen, May-Linda; Lund, Rebecca & Wallevik, Hege (2018). Et kjønnet rom for akademisk skriving. Den vitenskapelige publiseringens sosiale organisering, sett fra ståstedet til kvinnelige førsteamanuenser ved Universitetet i Agder. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning.  ISSN 0809-6341. . doi: 10.18261/issn.1891-1781-2018-01-02-06 Full text in Research Archive.
• Lund, Rebecca & Tienari, Janne (2015). Institutional Ethnography: An Alternative Way to Study M&As, In Annette Risberg; David R. King & Olimpia Meglio (ed.),  The Routledge Companion to Mergers and Acquisitions.  Routledge.  ISBN 9780415704663.  14.
• Lund, Rebecca (2012). Publishing to Become an "Ideal Academic": An Institutional Ethnography and a Feminist Critique. Scandinavian Journal of Management.  ISSN 0956-5221. . doi: 10.1016/j.scaman.2012.05.003

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• Lund, Rebecca & Nilsen, Ann Cristin (ed.) (2019). Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic Region. Routledge.  ISBN 9780367030353.  224 s.
• Lund, Rebecca (2015). Doing the Ideal Academic - Gender, Excellence and Changing Academia.  ISBN 9789526062969.

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• Lund, Rebecca; Koskinen-Sandberg, Paula & Suopajärvi, Tiina (2020). Editorial. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research.  ISSN 0803-8740.  28(1)
• Lund, Rebecca (2019). Gypsy Feminism: An Interview with Laura Corradi. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research.  ISSN 0803-8740.  27(2), s 139- 143 . doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2019.1603171
• Lund, Rebecca (2019). Review: Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice: The Gendered Dynamics of Power Edited by Agnes Bolsø, Stine H. Bang Svendsen and Siri Øyslebø Sørensen.. Gender, Work & Organization.  ISSN 0968-6673.  26(4)
• Lund, Rebecca; Koskinen-Sandberg, Paula & Suopajärvi, Tiina (2019). Editorial. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research.  ISSN 0803-8740.  27(3)
• Lund, Rebecca; Koskinen-Sandberg, Paula & Suopajärvi, Tiina (2019). Editorial. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research.  ISSN 0803-8740.  27(4)
• Lund, Rebecca; Koskinen-Sandberg, Paula & Suopajärvi, Tiina (2019). Editorial. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research.  ISSN 0803-8740.  27(2)
• Lund, Rebecca; Koskinen-Sandberg, Paula & Tiina, Suopajärvi (2019). Editorial. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research.  ISSN 0803-8740.  27(1)

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