Rebecca Lund

• Lund, Rebecca Waters Boldsen (2023). Retrieving Materialism: The Continued Relevance of Dorothy Smith. Sociological theory. ISSN 0735-2751. 41(4), p. 301–313. doi: 10.1177/07352751231198129. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In this article, I argue that Smith’s continued relevance coincides with more recent retrievals of Marx-inspired materialism. This materialism and the associated understanding of human beings—the social, language, and world people share in common—certainly do not capture all there is to say about Smith’s eclectic and expansive social theory. However, the material dimension distinguishes her work from many other feminist sociologies and results in her continued relevance as a thinker who brings to the table another way of doing feminist sociology. I illustrate this by showing how Smith’s Marx-inspired materialism and its associated understanding of language offer a productive and timely alternative to the feminist social theory of anti-categorical intersectional theory and new materialist theory.

• Nilsen, Ann Christin Eklund; Lund, Rebecca Waters Boldsen & Magnussen, May-Linda (2023). Contextualizing institutional ethnography. In Luken, Paul & Vaughan, Suzanne (Ed.), Critical Commentary on Institutional Ethnography. IE Scholars Speak to Its Promise. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-3-031-33401-6. p. 137–151. doi: https:/doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33402-3.
• Lund, Rebecca Waters Boldsen (2023). Affective alignment and epistemic polarization: the case of feminist research in the neoliberalized university. Gender and Education. ISSN 0954-0253. 35(5), p. 437–453. doi: 10.1080/09540253.2023.2215067. Full text in Research Archive
• Aarseth, Helene; Bråten, Beret & Lund, Rebecca Waters Boldsen (2022). Kjønnsbalanse i tellekantenes tid. Epistemisk mangfold eller monokultur på speed? In Aarseth, Helene & Owesen, Ingeborg Winderen (Ed.), Kjønn og akademia: På vei mot BALANSE?. Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 9788245044102. p. 42–61. doi: 10.55669/oa160802. Full text in Research Archive
• Haaland, Hanne; Lund, Rebecca Waters Boldsen; Magnussen, May-Linda & Wallevik, Hege (2022). Professorkvalifiseringens affektive økonomi. Styring, følelser og motstand. In Aarseth, Helene & Owesen, Ingeborg Winderen (Ed.), Kjønn og akademia: På vei mot BALANSE?. Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 9788245044102. p. 171–193. doi: 10.55669/oa160809. Full text in Research Archive
• Magnussen, May-Linda; Lund, Rebecca Waters Boldsen & Mydland, Trond Stalsberg (2022). Uniformity Dressed as Diversity? Reorienting female associate professors. In Griffin, Gabriele (Eds.), Gender inequalities in tech-driven research and innovation : living the contradiction. Bristol University Press. ISSN 978-1-5292-1947-0. p. 109–123. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv2ngx5c4.12. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The Norwegian Research Council has, via the research programme Balanse Programmet, funded research as well as practice-oriented initiatives for increasing the representation of women in research leadership positions (Lund, 2020). In this chapter we explore the experience of female associate professors with practice-oriented equality promoting initiatives, specifically that of preliminary evaluations, at one Norwegian higher education institution. We investigate whether, how and with what consequences preliminary evaluations speed up female associate professors’ processes of becoming full professors. To make sense of the effects of this initiative, we use Sara Ahmed’s (2004, 2006) affective economy and Dorothy Smith’s (2005) concept of ‘ruling relations’ to explicate the affects and discourses that these preliminary evaluations hook into, activate, (re)produce and resist. We argue that these reveal a paradox because while they increase the amount of female research leaders they do so at the cost of diverse ways of doing and living academic work.

• Lund, Rebecca; Locke, Kirsten & Wright, Susan (2021). Rethinking gender equity in the contaminated university: A methodology for listening for music in the ruins. Gender, Work & Organization. ISSN 0968-6673. 28(3), p. 1079–1097. doi: 10.1111/gwao.12632. Full text in Research Archive
• Lund, Rebecca (2021). Invoking Work Knowledge: Exploring the Social Organization of Producing Gender Studies . In Luken, Paul & Vaughan, Suzanne (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-3-030-54221-4. p. 157–173. doi: https:/doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54222-1. Full text in Research Archive
• Morley, Louise & Lund, Rebecca (2020). The affective economy of feminist leadership in Finnish universities: class-based knowledge for navigating neoliberalism and neuroliberalism. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. ISSN 0159-6306. 42(1). doi: 10.1080/01596306.2020.1855567. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Women leaders are frequently treated as one class – a homogenised group with essentialised skills and competencies in binary relationship to male leaders. We explore how feminist ways of knowing gender and leadership, and circulations of affects, shape women’s diverse leadership practices and identities within the neoliberal, and neuroliberal academy in Finland – a Nordic country with a sophisticated gender equality policy architecture. We debate the (re)production of social and material inequalities through epistemic injustice by exploring what possibilities are emerging from the assemblages and relational potential of policy interventions, global speaking back to patriarchal power, the revisioning of gender, and the inclusion of women in higher education leadership. Theoretically, the study intersects feminist affect notions, neoliberalism, neuroliberalism, and epistemic inclusion/injustice. We conducted 10 interviews with middle-classed women university leaders in five universities. They described how, in the absence of possibilities to facilitate major structural changes, they applied their feminist knowledge and invested affective labour in the mediation of neoliberal and neuroliberal cultures. The politics of representation – counting more women into neoliberal universities, as one class, is not, we conclude, a counter-normative force. We need to consider how to apply feminist knowledge for leading post-gender universities and imagining alternative futurities.

• Lund, Rebecca (2020). Becoming a Professor Requires saying NO: Merging quality and equality agendas in a Norwegian gender balance project. In Smith, Helen Lawton; Henry, Colette; Etzkowitz, Henry & Poulovassilis, Alexandra (Ed.), Gender, Science and Innovation: New Perspectives. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISSN 1786438968. p. 35–57. doi: 10.4337/9781786438973.
• Katila, Saija; Laamanen, Mikko; Laihonen, Maarit; Lund, Rebecca; Meriläinen, Susan & Rinkinen, Jenny [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2020). Becoming academics: embracing and resisting changing writing practice. Qualitative research in organization and management. ISSN 1746-5648. p. 1–16. doi: 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.

• Nilsen, Ann Christin Eklund & Lund, Rebecca Waters Bolden (2019). Wrapping it all up: Future prospects of IE in the Nordics. In Lund, Rebecca Waters Bolden & Nilsen, Ann Christin Eklund (Ed.), Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic Region. Routledge. ISSN 9780429019999. p. 214–216.
• Lund, Rebecca & Tienari, Janne (2019). Passion, care, and eros in the gendered neoliberal university . Organization. ISSN 1350-5084. 26(1), p. 98–121. doi: 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.

• Lund, Rebecca; Meriläinen, Susan & Tienari, Janne (2019). New Masculinities in Universities? Discourses, Ambivalence and Potential Change. Gender, Work & Organization. ISSN 0968-6673. 26, p. 1376–1397. doi: 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.

• Sørensen, Majken Jul; Nilsen, Ann Christin Eklund & Lund, Rebecca (2019). Resisting the ruling relations: Discovering everyday resistance with Institutional Ethnography. In Lund, Rebecca Waters Bolden & Nilsen, Ann Christin Eklund (Ed.), Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic Region. Routledge. ISSN 9780429019999. p. 203–213. doi: %20https:/doi.org/10.4324/9780429019999. Full text in Research Archive 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 (2019). Exploring "whiteness" as ideology and work knowledge: thinking with institutional ethnography. In Lund, Rebecca Waters Bolden & Nilsen, Ann Christin Eklund (Ed.), Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic Region. Routledge. ISSN 9780429019999. p. 101–114. doi: https:/doi.org/10.4324/9780429019999. 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.

• Nilsen, Ann Christin Eklund & Lund, Rebecca Waters Bolden (2019). Introduction: conditions for doing institutional ethnography in the Nordics. In Lund, Rebecca Waters Bolden & Nilsen, Ann Christin Eklund (Ed.), Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic Region. Routledge. ISSN 9780429019999.
• Lund, Rebecca (2018). The Social Organization of Boasting in the Neoliberal University. Gender and Education. ISSN 0954-0253. doi: 10.1080/09540253.2018.1482412. Full text in Research Archive
• Lund, Rebecca Waters Bolden & Magnussen, May-Linda (2018). Intersektionalitet, virksomhedskundskab og styringsrelationer. Institutionel Etnografi og hverdagens sociale organisering . Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. ISSN 0809-6341. 42(4), p. 268–283. doi: 10.18261/issn.1891-1781-2018-04-05.
• Magnussen, May-Linda; Lund, Rebecca Waters Bolden & 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. 42(1-2), p. 85–103. doi: 10.18261/issn.1891-1781-2018-01-02-06.
• Lund, Rebecca & Tienari, Janne (2015). Institutional Ethnography: An Alternative Way to Study M&As. In Risberg, Annette; King, David R. & Meglio, Olimpia (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Mergers and Acquisitions. Routledge. ISSN 9780415704663.
• 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 (2019). Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic Region. Routledge. ISBN 9780367030353. 224 p.
• Lund, Rebecca Waters Bolden & Nilsen, Ann Christin Eklund (2019). Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic Region. Routledge. ISBN 9780429019999. 244 p.
• Lund, Rebecca (2015). Doing the Ideal Academic - Gender, Excellence and Changing Academia. Aalto University Publication Series. Science + technology. ISBN 9789526062969.

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• Norheim, Christine Lillethun & Lund, Rebecca Waters Boldsen (2023). Creative alliances and complaint collectives for diversity and equity work. And why mood work won't do the trick. .
• Blackmore, Jill & Lund, Rebecca Waters Boldsen (2022). Academic citizenship, collegiality and good university governance: a dedication to Associate Professor Julie Rowlands (1964–2021). Critical Studies in Education. ISSN 1750-8487. 63(5), p. 549–555. doi: 10.1080/17508487.2022.2135552.
• Lund, Rebecca Waters Boldsen; Blackmore, Jill & Rowlands, Julie (2022). Epistemic governance of diverse research practices and knowledge production: an introduction. Critical Studies in Education. ISSN 1750-8487. 63(5), p. 535–548. doi: 10.1080/17508487.2022.2136226. Full text in Research Archive
• Aarseth, Helene & Lund, Rebecca Waters Boldsen (2021). Rethinking Historical Materialist Feminism and its Psychosocial Conception.
• Wickstrom, Alice; Lund, Rebecca; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Meriläinen, Susan; Vachhani, Sheena J. & Pullen, Alison (2021). Feminist solidarity: Practices, politics, and possibilities. Gender, Work & Organization. ISSN 0968-6673. p. 1–7. doi: 10.1111/gwao.12689. Show summary

  Feminist solidarity is a way of being that is embedded in cultural traditions and movements that resist women's socio‐economic inequalities and patriarchal power. It unites women in, inter alia, a refusal to accept the ongoing prevalence of sexism and misogyny; the exploitation of women's labor, emotions, and bodies; physical and financial violence toward women; inequalities of work opportunities and entrenched gender pay disparities. Feminist solidarity is thus a form of organizing, which envisages a shared responsibility for the lives of others, working with care and intimacy, and toward social transformations that are made possible through “democratic engagement” (Segal, 2017, p. 228). It builds resistance across intersectional borders and often manifests when traditional avenues for resistance have become blocked. It emerges from the capacity to affect and be affected, through care, compassion, and empathy with and for others and as a means to engender allyship. Historically, the role of solidarity in feminist activism and practice has been contested yet never waning, with scholars and activists noting the numerous cases where solidarity and resistance have brought women together despite their differences across race, sexuality, as well as political and socio‐economic positions (Segal, 2013). It has, however, also been suggested that feminist activism has been disciplined, institutionalized, and intellectualized such that it no longer offers the necessary radical response to ongoing issues of injustice (Messer‐Davidow, 2002; Walby, 2011). Therefore, in this Gender, Work and Organization special issue, we ask: How can we organize for and with feminist solidarity?

• Hvenegård-Lassen, Kirsten; Staunæs, Dorthe & Lund, Rebecca Waters Boldsen (2020). Intersectionality, Yes, but How? Approaches and Conceptualizations in Nordic Feminist Research and Activism. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. ISSN 0803-8740. 28(3), p. 173–182. doi: 10.1080/08038740.2020.1790826.
• Koskinen Sandberg, Paula; Lund, Rebecca Waters Boldsen & Suopajärvi, Tiina (2020). Editorial. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. ISSN 0803-8740. 28(1), p. 1–3. doi: 10.1080/08038740.2020.1721170.
• Lund, Rebecca (2020). Tellekantene er ikke Nøytrale. De står i veien for at større mangfold av forskere når toppstillingene. [Internet]. Forskerforum.
• Lund, Rebecca & Munoz Garcia, Ana Luisa (2020). A feminist analysis of the connection between academic knowledge and activism.
• Lund, Rebecca (2020). Knowledge that counts? Epistemic Injustice and Feminist Knowledge Production.
• Lund, Rebecca (2020). The Affective Economy of Feminist Leadership in Finnish Universities: Knowledge for Navigating Neoliberalism and Neuroliberalism .
• Kjerstin, Gjengedal & Lund, Rebecca (2020). Forskarar har ein lei tendens til å bli gode i det dei blir målte på. [Internet]. Forskerforum.
• Lund, Rebecca; Koskinen-Sandberg, Paula & Suopajärvi, Tiina (2020). Editorial. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. ISSN 0803-8740. 28(4), p. 271–272. doi: 10.1080/08038740.2020.1836868.
• Koskinen Sandberg, Paula; Lund, Rebecca Waters Boldsen & Suopajärvi, Tiina (2019). Editorial. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. ISSN 0803-8740. 27(3), p. 149–151. doi: 10.1080/08038740.2019.1637580.
• Lund, Rebecca; Koskinen-Sandberg, Paula & Suopajärvi, Tiina (2019). Editorial. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. ISSN 0803-8740. 27(4), p. 215–217. doi: 10.1080/08038740.2019.1678846.
• 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).
• 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 (2019). Gypsy Feminism: An Interview with Laura Corradi. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. ISSN 0803-8740. 27(2), p. 139–143. doi: 10.1080/08038740.2019.1603171.
• Lund, Rebecca Waters Boldsen (2023). CONCEPTUALISING AND OPERATIONALISING ‘SUSTAINABLE EDUCATION’ (COSE). Circle U and Erasmus+ programme of the EU.
• Cini, Andrea; Funova, Adéla; Kaur, Sandeep; Larsen, Kathrine H.; Matar, Melissa & Lund, Rebecca Waters Boldsen [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2023). Conceptualising and operationalising ‘sustainable education’ (Circle U. Think and Do Tank on the Future of Higher Education Insight Paper). Circle U.. Full text in Research Archive

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