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Sara Edenheim

Associate professor in History and Senior lecturer at Umeå Centre for Gender Studies.

Research qualifications: Docent

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Samhällsvetarhuset, Plan 4

Feminist theory and critical policy analysis, focusing on the development of the welfare state and its on-going changes, with a specific focus on temporality and history as constitutive for identitarian claims.

In my dissertation I introduced leading feminist theories to the field of history, and also carried out a policy analysis that went beyond the more common discourse analysis. The methodological challenge concerned the Nietzschean concept of genealogy and how this could be applied on a policy analysis. Using the theoretical concepts of abjection and interpellation (Butler, 1993; 1997) I was able to not only criticize, but also to understand, the limits of liberal identity politics within late modernity.

The study of New Public Management in relation to welfare states has become a more pronounced focus over the years. My on-going research project, Being tolerant (financed by The Swedish Research Council), is a genealogical study of the concept tolerance as used in a Western tradition: its transition from defining the medieval church's relation to other religions and unwanted minorities to becoming a secularized political discourse, symbolizing a modern democracy. Today, tolerance is mainly used in political discourse, together with concepts such as "gender equality" and "diversity", and is considered a central democratic virtue. It positions the "good" and the "bad" citizen in relation to each other and is used to identify threats towards liberal democracies. This very specific and late modern use of the concept of tolerance serves a specific function in present-day liberal democracies, especially in relation to strategies of societal changes. Using the case-study of a Swedish governmental agency and the theoretical framework of Wendy Brown, this project focuses on the specific functions of tolerance as praxis in late modernity, especially in relation to the latest governmental use of relating intolerance to so called 'vulnerable populations' and the implementation of Early Warning Signals, issuing from the policy field of National Security.

My interest in the philosophy of history has led me to engage in the emerging field of so called queer temporalities, where my article "Lost and Found – The Queer Archive-of-Feelings and its Historical Propriety"(differences, 2013; see also Lychnos, 2013 for a shorter Swedish version), is an investigation into the epistemology of the archive as a place and idea within Western thinking and organisation of temporality. I do this in dialogue with French and American debates concerning the possibilities of new forms of archives (e.g., Halberstam, 2005 Cvetkovich, 2003; Didi-Huberman, 2000) and I provide a critical reading of these debates from a (queer) psychoanalytical point of view, following French philosopher Alain Badiou and American literary scholar Lee Edelman.

My aim is to generate a place for critical policy analysis and feminist theory on temporality within Nordic research – a perspective that exists internationally but that has never been part of a Nordic canon. I also put forward a critique of neoliberal identity politics by politicizing that which is usually taken most for granted: time itself.

Feminist philosophy: time, history and the transformation of thought, Huddinge: Södertörns högskola 2023 : 57-66
Edenheim, Sara
Tillbakablickar mot framtiden
Edenheim, Sara
Vad är en kvinna?: Språk, materialitet, situation, Göteborg: Daidalos 2021 : 123-151
Edenheim, Sara
Humanvetenskapernas verkningar: kunskap, samverkan, genomslag, Stockholm: Dialogos Förlag 2021 : 173-199
Edenheim, Sara
History of the Present, Duke University Press 2020, Vol. 10, (2) : 281-304
Edenheim, Sara
Lambda Nordica, Föreningen Lambda Nordica 2020, Vol. 24, (2-3) : 29-52
Edenheim, Sara
Lambda Nordica, Föreningen Lambda Nordica 2020, Vol. 25, (1) : 117-121
Edenheim, Sara
Ikaros, Helsinki: Ikaros 2019, Vol. 4 : 28-30
Edenheim, Sara
Feministiskt perspektiv
Edenheim, Sara
Žižek som samtidsanalytiker, Hägersten: Tankekraft 2018 : 195-207
Edenheim, Sara
Plats för makt: en vänbok till Monika Edgren, Göteborg: Makadam Förlag 2018 : 26-35
Edenheim, Sara
Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, Vol. 38, (4)
Edenheim, Sara
Discover Society, Social Research Publications 2017, Vol. 47
Edenheim, Sara
Feministiskt Perspektiv
Edenheim, Sara
Glänta, (2) : 18-23
Edenheim, Sara
Gränser, mobilitet och mobilisering: Boundaries, mobility and mobilisation : Nationell konferens för genusforskning = Swedish conference for gender research, Göteborg: Nationella sekretariatet för genusforskning 2016 : 99-
Edenheim, Sara
Australian feminist studies (Print), Vol. 31, (89) : 283-304
Edenheim, Sara
Gendered citizenship and the politics of representation, Palgrave Macmillan 2016 : 61-83
Edenheim, Sara; Rönnblom, Malin
Filosofi på liv och död: texter om psykoanalys, Göteborg: Göteborgs förening för filosofi och psykoanalys 2015 : 29-37
Edenheim, Sara
Lambda Nordica, (2-3) : 125-148
Edenheim, Sara
Subaltern, Umeå: Bokförlaget h:ström - Text & Kultur 2015, (1) : 57-59
Edenheim, Sara
Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, Vol. 35, (1) : 99-121
Edenheim, Sara; Rönnblom, Malin
The European Journal of Women's Studies, London: Sage Publications 2013, Vol. 20, (3) : 233-248
Carbin, Maria; Edenheim, Sara
Scandia, Vol. 79, (2)
Edenheim, Sara
Lychnos, Uppsala: Lärdomshistoriska samfundet 2013 : 229-239
Edenheim, Sara
What is theory?: answers from the social and cultural sciences
Edenheim, Sara
Differences. A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Duke University Press 2013, Vol. 24, (3) : 36-62
Edenheim, Sara
Scandia, Vol. 78, (1) : 11-34
Edenheim, Sara
Scandia, Vol. 78, (2) : 137-138
Edenheim, Sara
Scandia, Sekel Bokförlag 2012, Vol. 78, (2, Supplement) : 22-32
Edenheim, Sara
Det heter feminism!: 20 anspråksfulla förslag för att förändra världen, Stockholm: Hallongrottan 2012 : 22-27
Edenheim, Sara; Rönnblom, Malin
NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, Taylor & Francis Group 2012, Vol. 20, (4) : 227-229
Edenheim, Sara; Rönnblom, Malin
Glänta, (2-3) : 17-31
Rönnblom, Malin; Edenheim, Sara
Glänta hardcore, 05
Edenheim, Sara
Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, TGV 2010, (4) : 108-118
Edenheim, Sara
Scandia, Scandia 2010, Vol. 76, (1) : 187-189
Edenheim, Sara
In Experts We Trust: Knowledge, Politics and Bureaucracy in Nordic Welfare States, Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark 2010 : 35-58
Edenheim, Sara
Fronesis, Tidskriftsföreningen Fronesis 2008, (25-26)
Edenheim, Sara
Forum för teoretiska interventioner, Malmö: Forum för teoretiska interventioner 2007, Vol. 2-3 : 67-117
Edenheim, Sara
Forum för teoretiska interventioner, Malmö: Forum för teoretiska interventioner 2007, Vol. 1 : 56-79
Edenheim, Sara
Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, Vol. 4 : 98-102
Edenheim, Sara
Kvinnovetenskaplig tidskrift, Lund: Forum för kvinnliga forskare och kvinnoforskning 2006, Vol. 27, (2-3)
Edenheim, Sara; Persson, Cecilia
Kvinnor och våld: En mångtydig kulturhistoria
Edenheim, Sara