About the project
The PhD project is focusing on citizenship, feminism and Norwegianness, and studies participation, identity and belonging in a multicultural Norway. The project is exploring the relationship between ethnic minority and ethnic majority women's organizations in Norway, and analyzing the feminist discourse and processes of inclusion and exclusion within the women's movement. It also study funding conditions for women's organizations and explore the ways in which state financial support schemes contribute to create opportunities and constraints for women's organizations' critical advocacy. In addition, I focus on lived citizenship through a study of identity work at the intersections of nationality, gender and religion.
Research on feminist discourse and practice in the women's movement as well as studies of identity work among religious women is linked to a wider institutional and discursive context and discussed in relation to the concept of Norwegianness.
The project combines a bottom-up and a top-down approach to link discourses, institutions and identities. The empirical material primarily includes qualitative interviews with members of minority and majority women's organizations, and Christian and Muslim women in Norway.
Financing
The Norwegian Research Council and EU. Period: 2007 - 2011.