Synnøve Økland Jahnsen
stipendiat
Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning
Stilling: stipendiat
Telefon: 55 58 89 89
E-post: Synnove.Jahnsen@skok.uib.no
Besøksadresse: Allegt. 34
- Sosiologi
- Kjønnsforskning
Synnøve er PhD stipendiat i sosiologi og ansatt ved Senter for Kvinne- og Kjønnsforskning (SKOK)
Synnøve har en Mastergrad i sosiologi fra universitetet i Bergen. Matergraden har tittelen Women who cross borders - Black Magic? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Norwegian newspaper coverage of Nigerian women in prostitution in Norway.
Education
2007 Poststudies, Human rights, The Faculty of Law, UiB
2007 Master in Sociology at the University of Bergen, Norway.
2004 Bachelor in Culture and Social science at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Exchange programs
2010/11 NFR scholaship, Columbia University, New York
2010/11 NFR scholarship, Rutgers University, New Jersey
2006 Erasmus scholarship, Exchange student at UC Berkeley, USA.
2003/4 Nordplus Scholarship, Exchange student at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark
1998/9 Hordaland county municipality highschool Exchange program in Cardiff, Wales
Project experience
2009 – 2010 Thought as Action: Gender, Democracy, Freedom (SKOK, UiB)
2007 – 2008 Independent Researcher for the project ” Prostitusjon i Norden”.
2008 Associate assistant, Digipub, Institutt for Medievitenskap, (Jostein Gripsrud. UiB)
2008 Associate assistant FORPRO (Forum for studies of professions and dialog). HIB
Work experience
2008 – 2009 Specialist Consultant, Privacy Ombudsman for Research (NSD)
2007 – 2008 Teaching assistant, the department of Sociology, UIB.
Voluntary work/ organisation and leadership experience
2010/12 “Vestlandsavd.”, The Norwegian Sociological Association
2007/8 “Replikk” Journal for social and humanistic sciences
2006/7 Fagutvalget i sosiologi, Student Utvalget SV- Fakultetet
2004/6 “AKA” an academic magazine for students
2003/4 “Reportageholdet” Student radio in Copenhagen.
Women who cross borders - Black Magic? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Norwegian newspaper coverage of Nigerian women in prostitution in Norway." VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG 2009
På nett med menn som kjøper sex: analyse av nettforumet på sexhandel.no. endret versjon publisert på sexhandel.no 2009
"-Norge er ikke en øy"; Mediedekningen av kriminaliseringsdebatten i Norge ” i Charlotta Holmström og May-Len Skilbrei, red., Prostitusjon i Norden. Forskningsrapport, TemaNord-rapport 2008.
På nett med menn som kjøper sex: analyse av nettforumet på sexhandel.no. i Charlotta Holmström og May-Len Skilbrei, red., Prostitusjon i Norden. Forskningsrapport, TemaNord-rapport 2008.
Women who cross borders - Black Magic? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Norwegian newspaper coverage of Nigerian women in prostitution in Norway. Master`s thesis, Department of Sociology, The University of Bergen 2007.
Kvinner som krysser grensen - sort magi?" in Det ideelle offer, red. Liv Jessen. Koloritt Forlag. Oslo 2007.
Innlegg: Norway's Dilemma - Criminalizing the Purchase of Sexual Services, seminar “Legislative Solutions to Stop Trafficking in Women” arr: The Nordic Council of Ministers, Support Programme for Non-Governmental organisations in the Baltic Sea Region and Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Tallinn, Estland 07.11.2008.
Presentasjon:”På nett med menn som kjøper sex; holdninger til sexkjøp, blandt menn som kjøper sex, på avslutningskonferanse for forskningprosjektet ”Prostitusjon i Norden”. Stockholm 17.10.2008.
Gjesteforelesning: Conseptualizing the prostitute body; Globalisering, velferd og helse: teoretiske og empiriske utfordringer (v/ Lise Widding Isaksen). UiB. 09.09.2008.
Presentasjon av paper: Women who cross borders – black magic? Conceptualizations of Trafficking, Oslo. 23.05.2008
Kronikk: Kvinner som krysser grenser, Fett 2009, nr 1.
Kronikk: Rachel fra Nigeria som vår tids Albertine. Albertine 02.2009.
Kronikk: Kjetterske forskere. Bergens tidende 18.11.2008.
Kronikk: Kontroll og nærhet til salgs/Closeness and controle for sale NIKK magasin 2.2008.
Kronikk: ”Syndefloden”som skremte Media-Norge. Bergens Tidende 04.11.2008.
Kronikk: Kulturbyens grunnmur slår sprekker. Bergens Tidende 17.04. 2008.
Kronikk: Når det vi frykter, blir synlig. Aftenposten. 03.02. 2008.
Kommentar: Makt er for sosiologer som vann for biologer, i AKA, nr 26. 2005.
Intervju: Forskere stenges ute, Klassekampen 28.07.2009
Intervju: Norske sexkjøpere forsvarer sin forbrukeradferd. Norden. 03-2009
Intervju: Norske gatejenter føler seg oversett. Bergens Tidende 04.11.2008.
Annen formidling: Forstyrrer offentlig orden. Forskning.no 16.10.2008
Intervju: Sexkøbere på linien NIKK magasin 2.2008.
Intervju: Kampen om opinionen NIKK magasin 2.2008.
Intervju: Mobilising public opinion NIKK magasin 2.2008.
Presentasjon av masteroppgave: Ferskvaremøte SF avd. Vestlandet. 2008.03.06.
Intervju: Hore og offer, av Ida Gudjonsson. Kilden 18.01.2008
Intervju: Sexmarknad i endring, av Lise-May Spissøy, Nrk radio Hordaland .01.11.2007
Intervju: Fristerinner eller moderne slaver, av Kristin Haug. Klassekampen, .18.10.2007
Intervju: Fritt valg eller strukturell tvang? av Pål-Stian Misje. Samviten. 10.04.2007
Innlegg: Kvinner som krysser grenser Feministisk forskermaraton. SF avd. Vestlandet, 07.03.2007
Innlegg: Presentasjon av masteroppgave, Studentmaraton på SKOK, UiB. 17.02.2007
Innlegg: Kvinner som krysser grenser: sort magi? Sosiologforeningens Vinterseminar 27.01.2007
Innlegg: Masteroppgave Kvinner som krysser grenser, Forum For Sosiologistudenter 07.12.2006
KVIK101: Introduksjon til kjønnsforskning
KVIK201: Kjønnsteori
The increased attention on organised crime and the exploitation of migrants in the sex industry have caused several countries to re-examine their existing legal frameworks and prostitution policy. The concerns over the sexual exploitation of young girls seem to harbour a cause in which otherwise strange bedfellows can reconcile their differences in a common cause. Even though there are fierce debates on appropriate legal and social measures to approach prostitution, the calls for intervention seems increasingly receptive to the idea that it is the consumers and demand side of sexual commerce that represent a social problem in need of state action.
Most popularly known as the “the Swedish model” and more recently also increasingly termed the “Nordic Model” the unilateral criminalising of the client is now frequently descried and commented on as a women friendly policy and a way to fight organised crime and trafficking across and within state borders. In 2009 the Norwegian government introduced a new law that criminalises the purchase of sex.
In my ongoing PhD-project I aim to investigating the spaces and relations where policy texts and their discourses enter and study the social activities it generates and becomes part of. The project has an interest in not only the policy of the Norwegian law, as in what it aims to do and why. It is particularly interested in the question of how, looking at local as well as national practices.
My material includes ethnographic fieldwork with organised crime units in Norway, parole officers and social outreach workers. I have conducted interviews, gathered policy documents, researched media reports and analysed public debates.
Thought as Action: Gender, Democracy, Freedom
The main goal of the project is to produce new knowledge on the question of democracy and freedom in a technological, globalized world, with the aim of approaching these questions from a gender perspective. The project participants will pursue theoretical and interdisciplinary inquiries, working from the vantage point of their respective disciplines. An overarching hypothesis for the whole project is that there is a crucial interrelationship between thought and action and that we need to understand and rethink the conceptions of possibility for freedom and democracy from a gender perspective. This knowledge may again be of use to the international research community and policy makers alike.
The project participants' shared interest in theoretical questioning has led us towards a more rigorous interrogation of the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of some of the concepts that are currently being marshaled in the name of democracy and freedom, among them "citizenship", "human rights", "subject", "sexed bodies", etc. But above all we wish to explore the possibility of developing and discovering new modes of thinking that are compatible not only with the present, but that will allow us to think future configurations of gender democracy and freedom.
Prostitusjon i Norden
The research project “Prostitution in the Nordic Countries”, was conducted by the Nordic Gender Institute – NIKK and commissioned by the Nordic Council of Ministers for Gender Equality. The aim of the project was to present and discuss research on prostitution and human trafficking for sexual purposes in the Nordic countries and the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland. The project has compiled data on the extent of prostitution, as well as on both the legal and the social treatment of these issues. The report also presents results from quantitative and qualitative studies on attitudes to prostitution and human trafficking for sexual purposes. The project comprised eleven Nordic researchers from various disciplines and from all the Nordic countries.