To Örebro University

Rapporten sammanfattar erfarenheter och insikter om den ideella delningsekonomins förutsättningar utifrån en pilotstudie av fem icke-vinstdrivande delningsinitiativ i Örebro. Rapporten syftar till att bidra till en diskussion kring möjligheterna att etablera, upprätthålla och skala upp ideell delning i Örebro liksom i andra liknande lokala miljöer. Studien belyser utmaningarna med att säkerställa den materiella infrastruktur och de kompetenser som behövs för att driva ideell delning. Studien belyser vidare den centrala roll som samhällsrelationer spelar för att möjliggöra delningspraktiker, inklusive betydelsen av sociala mötesplatser samt initiativens beroende av samarbete med kommun, givare och andra aktörer. Sammantaget visar resultaten att det finns en underutnyttjad potential i lokalsamhället för att stärka och växla upp delningsmodeller.

This article explores the role of reflexivity in shaping how individuals engage with consumption reduction. We shed light on how 'reducers' -those who deliberately strive to limit their consumption-reflect on their practices, emotions, and identities in everyday life. Building on Archer's modes of reflexivity and Davidson's climate emotion framework, we investigate how internal conversations influence both motivations and strategies for reducing consumption. The study draws on a qualitative design involving 25 Swedish participants committed to consumption reduction. The findings reveal that individuals engage in reflexive work to different degrees and in diverse ways. Some rely on communicative reflexivity, seeking external validation and adjusting their practices to align with social expectations. Others demonstrate meta-reflexivity, critically questioning prevailing norms and their own contradictions, while several practice autonomous reflexivity, independently developing and sustaining reduction strategies. These varied reflexive orientations shape how participants balance ethical aspirations, social pressures, and emotional sustainability in their everyday negotiations of consumption.

This article draws on qualitative interviews with childfree women in Sweden to explore how they make sense of ageing in a society where parenthood shapes expectations of support, companionship and care in later life. Theories on filial obligations, the generational contract, and intergenerational solidarity, ambivalence and conflict are used to analyse how these women navigate social norms and construct alternative narratives on ageing. The findings suggest that ageing and loneliness emerge as key themes for childfree women already in their thirties, prompted by societal warnings that infer a relational deficit, epitomized by the admonition: ‘You will be alone when you get old’. Yet rather than viewing ageing without children through a lens of loss or deficit, the women emphasized alternative sources of connection and kinship outside traditional and biological family structures. By employing different techniques of neutralization, they were able to challenge societal assumptions about ageing, loneliness, family, and familial support, thereby demonstrating moral responsibility and undermining the moral authority of those questioning their childfree decision. The article contributes to the growing body of research on childfreeness by foregrounding loneliness and shifting the conversation toward a more inclusive understanding of ageing without children.

This article draws on 20 qualitative interviews with women between 60 and 78 years of age who migrated from Turkey to Sweden some 40 years ago. It focuses on how they understand, reproduce and challenge both pre- and post-migration gender norms. By analysing the narratives of the 20 women, we investigate how they negotiate work, care and housework with their partners over the course of their lives. Furthermore, we examine how the Turkish diaspora in Sweden influences the ways the interviewed women do and redo gender. The findings show that the interviewed women used implicit and explicit negotiations to change, reconstruct and renegotiate gender norms. Doing and redoing gender is a central aspect of these negotiations, since the interviewed women are ambivalent about gender norms. The conclusion is that the women had one foot in traditional gender norms by “knowing their places” but had adapted to more egalitarian norms over the years.

This article aims to demonstrate a concrete example of how to apply an intersectional life course perspective into the study of ageing migrant women. The empirical material is based on a qualitative in-depth interview study conducted with 20 Turkish-born women who have migrated to Sweden in their early to mid-adulthood years. Despite increasing urgings from gerontologists to include intersectionality in studies on migrants, research often neglects how age, gender, and migration status interact, failing to recognise the diverse experiences of racialised older migrants. The analysis shows that the intersection of age, gender and migrancy generates racialised and gendered experiences of later life which renders the women in different positions of power. The analysis also reveals the importance of agential capacity through the mobilisation of resources, negotiation, and resistance. By cross-fertilising two perspectives, the study suggests that intersectional life course could shed light on the experiences of ageing migrant women, thus, sensitising gerontological research to diversity and heterogeneity.

This article elaborates on how Turkish-born women in Sweden do old age in relation to gender and migrancy and aims to understand the fluid process of doing over their life course. It draws upon 20 in-depth and semi-structured interviews with Turkish-born women aged 60-78 and aims to address the tensions between agency and intersecting power positions. Theoretically, the article relies on critical feminist gerontology and doing old age to address the negotiations and performances of the interviewed women. The findings show that there are several ambivalences and dilemmas in how the women do old age in a transnational setting. Intergenerational and gendered old age care comes to fore as a significant negotiation site. The women negotiate identity categories with both imagined others and the social actors in their lives (such as their children) over their life course, which implies the situated and relational aspect of doing old age.

This article elaborates on how sense of belonging is constructed over the life course of individuals by mapping out the affective and material dimensions of belonging in a translocal context. Specifically, it focuses on Turkish-born women who migrated to Sweden in their early to mid-adulthood and have lived in Sweden for 40 years on average. It asks how they make sense of their belonging as they age in Sweden and aims to shed light on the complex and fluid nature of translocal subjectivities. The empirical material consists of 20 in-depth semi-structured interviews with women aged 60 to 78. The analysis shows that belonging is informed by interconnected affective and material dimensions as individuals change and re-negotiate their situated life stories. The article concludes that belonging is temporally located over the life course and is constructed on a translocal scale which transcends national borders.

This thesis explores Turkish-born women’s experiences of ageing in a translocal setting by looking into the narratives of women who lived in Sweden for 40 years on average. It is based on semi-structured in-depth interviews with 20 Turkish-born women who are between the ages 60 and 78. The overall aim of the thesis is to contribute to new knowledge about the diversified later life experiences of ageing migrant women from an intersectional life course perspective. The following research questions have guided the analysis: How do Turkish-born women con-struct their sense of belonging after almost 40 years in Sweden? How did the migration to Sweden influence the women’s understandings of gender norms? How do they make sense of ageing and care in a migration context? And how can we explore the complex power dynamics that have been produced over the life course of ageing migrant women? The study incorporates a cross-fertilisation of intersectional and life course perspectives to emphasise the simultaneous influence of agency and structural forces to reveal the racialised and gendered experiences of migrant women. The analysis shows that sense of belonging is constructed at a translocal scale that extends national borders and has a temporal nature. The women construct their sense of belonging through family and kin ties and become rooted in certain localities through negotiations and re-negotiations over the years. Care and work come to the fore as important sites of such negotiations as the women age in Sweden. Both care and work arrangements carry gendered patterns as they do and undo gender by performing household work, paid work and care for family and kin. The analysis shows that the women often have one foot in traditional gender norms while having another foot in gender equal norms. Moreover, the ‘doing’ of gender extends to old age. The women do age through negotiating intergenerational and gendered care with other actors in their lives. The study suggests an intersectional life course perspective to expand our gerontological imagination.