Stine H. Bang Svendsen
Stine H. Bang Svendsen
Associate Professor
Department of Teacher Education Faculty of Social and Educational SciencesBackground and activities
Stine H. Bang Svendsen’s research focuses on how sexuality, gender and race come to matter in current Nordic cultural politics and education. She is currently concerned with deveolping decolonial perspectives in and on education. She also writes about sexuality in Norwegian immigration policy, and the role of LGBT issues in new northern European immigration discourses and policies, and gender equality more generally. Dr. Svendsen's educational background is in American Studies (MA) and Gender Studies (BA), both from the University of Oslo. Her PhD is in gender studies of culture, from NTNU.
Research interests
Race, Racism and Coloniality in Education - Sexuality and Sex Education - LGBT Issues and Movements - Ethnic & Racial Diversity & Integration - Feminist Pedagogies - decolonial pedagogies
Current projects
LIM - Language, Integration, Media
DENOR - Decolonial Critique, Knowledge Production and Social Change in the Nordic Countries
Research groups
Education Policy & Social Justice
Concluded projects
Scientific, academic and artistic work
Displaying a selection of activities. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2020) Decolonial Options in Education – Interrupting Coloniality and Inviting Alternative Conversations. Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE). vol. 1 (4).
- (2019) A wager for life: Queer children seeking asylum in Norway. Nordic Journal of Migration Research. vol. 9 (4).
- (2018) Skeive ungdommers identitetsarbeid: SKAM etter homotoleransen. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. vol. 42 (3).
- (2016) Når jentene må inn i skapet: Seksuell trakassering og kjønnsfrihet i online dataspill. Norsk Medietidsskrift. vol. 23 (1).
- (2015) Grønn likestilling: Miljøpartiet de grønne og mulighetene for en grønn likestillingspolitikk :. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. vol. 39 (2).
- (2015) Alt annet enn sex? Om to pedagogiske tilnærminger til ungdom og seksualitet. St. Sunniva: Forum for Norsk Kvinnelig Teologforening.
- (2014) Learning racism in the absence of 'race'. The European Journal of Women's Studies. vol. 21 (1).
- (2012) Norwegian sexualities: Assimilation and exclusion in Norwegian immigration policy. Sexualities. vol. 15 (2).
- (2012) Affektivitet og postdiskursiv teori. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. vol. 36 (3-4).
- (2012) Elusive Sex Acts. Pleasure and Politics in Norwegian Sex Education. Sex Education : Sexuality, Society and Learning. vol. 12 (4).
- (2011) Sexuality in Norwegian Textbooks: constructing and controlling ethnic borders?. Ethnic and Racial Studies. vol. 34.
- (2011) Poststrukturalisme og kjønnsforskningsklasserommet. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning.
- (2010) Vendinger etter poststrukturalismen. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. vol. 34 (2).
- (2010) Homotolerance and Heterosexuality as Norwegian Values. Journal of LGBT Youth. vol. 7 (2).
- (2009) Grenser for seksualitet norske seksualitetsforståelser i familie- og innvandringspolitikk. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning.
- (2007) Familiesnakk i amerikansk presidentretorikk. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning.
Books
- (2018) Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice. The Gendered Dynamics of Power. Routledge. 2018. ISBN 978-1-138-23370-6. Routledge Research in Gender and Society.
- (2011) Sex och samlevnad. Perspektiv på undervisning. Studentlitteratur AB. 2011. ISBN 9789144060408.
- (2009) Seksualitet i skolen. Perspektiver på undervisning. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. 2009. ISBN 978-82-02-29707-7.
Part of book/report
- (2018) Becoming Family: Orientalism, Homonormativity and Queer Asylum in Norway. National Politics and Sexuality in Transregional Perspective: The Homophobic Argument.
- (2018) Transdisciplinary interventions. Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice. The Gendered Dynamics of Power..
- (2018) Becoming Queer after Homotolerance: Youth Affective Worlds. Youth Sexualities. Public Feelings and Contemporary Cultural Politics.
- (2018) Beautiful soldiers: Depicting a gender-inclusive Army. Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice. The Gendered Dynamics of Power..
- (2017) The Cultural Politics of Sex Education in the Nordics. The Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education.
- (2015) Feeling at Loss: Affect, Whiteness and Masculinity in the Immideate Aftermath of Norway's Terror. Affectivity and Race: Studies from Nordic Contexts.
- (2009) Norske seksualiteter - en innledning. Norske seksualiteter.
- (2009) Norskhet og seksualitet i skolen. Norske seksualiteter.
- (2008) Norske verdier: Homotoleranse og heteroseksualitet. Verdier.
Report/dissertation
- (2014) Affecting Change? Cultural politics of sexuality and "race" in Norwegian education. 2014. ISBN 978-82-4948-5.
- (2008) Undervisning om seksualitet ved ungdomsskolene i Trondheim kommune. 2008.