Renita Thedvall. Foto: Juliana Wiklund

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E-post: renita.thedvall@score.su.se

Forskning

Renita Thedvall är docent i socialantropologi. Hennes forskning är placerad inom policy- och organisationsantropologi med särskilt fokus på byråkratins antropologi. Hon är särskilt intresserad av hur policys skapas och presenteras i form av modeller, indikatorer eller standarder och hur dessa sedan förstås och används. Hon har i olika projekt fokuserat empiriskt på sysselsättningspolicy, arbetslivsfrågor och sociala frågor. Hon har gjort fältarbete i organisationer som EU, Fairtrade International, kommunala socialkontor och förskolor där hon studerat EU-byråkraters, standardsättares, socialarbetares och förskolelärares arbete med att formulera, förstå och använda policys. Som del i hennes forskning har hon ett särskilt intresse av möten både som etnografiska objekt och som platser för etnografiskt forskning. Tillsammans med Jen Sandler har hon utforskat detta område i den redigerade volymen Meeting Ethnography. Meetings as Key Technologies of Contemporary Governance, Development and Resistance (2017, Routledge).

Utvalda publikationer

2019

• Thedvall, Renita. Fast Childcare in Public Preschools. The Utopia of Efficiency. London: Routledge.

2018

• Thedvall, Renita. Plans for Altering Work: Fitting Kids into Car-Management Documents in a Swedish Preschool. Anthropologica 60: 236-245.

2017

• Sandler, Jen and Renita Thedvall (eds). Meeting Ethnography. Meetings as Key Technologies of Contemporary Governance, Development, and Resistance. New York: Routledge Studies in Anthropology series
• Thedvall, Renita. Affective atmospheres of hope. Management model training in public reforms. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 6(2):87-99.

2015

• Tamm Hallström, Kristina and Renita Thedvall. Managing Administrative Reform through Language. Implementing Lean in Swedish Public Sector Organizations. Special issue ‘After NPM’ edited by Kajsa Lindberg, Barbara Czarniawska and Rolf Solli. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration.
• Thedvall, Renita. Managing preschool the Lean way. Evaluating work processes by numbers and colours. Special issue ‘Governing by Numbers: Audit Culture Revisited’ edited by Cris Shore and Susan Wright. Social Anthropology 23(1):42-52.
• Garsten, Christina, Jessica Lindvert and Renita Thedvall (eds). Makeshift Work in a Changing Labour Market: The Swedish Model in the Post-Financial Crisis Era. Northampton MA: Edward Elgar.
• Boström, Magnus, Åsa Casula Vifell, Mikael Klintman, Linda Soneryd, Kristina Tamm Hallström and Renita Thedvall. Social Sustainability Requires Social Sustainability: Procedural Prerequisites for Reaching Substantive Goals. Culture and Nature, 10(2):131-156.

2014

• Nyqvist, Anette och Renita Thedvall. Polarization and convergence of values at the intermediary position. In Organizing Value Plurality in Markets, Susanna Alexius and Kristina Tamm Hallström (eds). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

2013

• Thedvall, Renita. Punctuated entries: doing fieldwork in policy meetings in the EU. In Organizational Anthropology. Doing ethnography in and among complex organisations, Christina Garsten and Anette Nyqvist (eds). London: Pluto Press.

2012

• Thedvall, Renita. Negotiating impartial indicators. To put transparency into practice in the EU. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 18:2.

2009

• Thedvall, Renita. Tillfälliga byråkratier: Mötesformens betydelse för formandet av beslutsprocessen i metaorganisationer. NOS 11(2):48-63.

2008

• Thedvall, Renita. Rituals of Legitimation. Organising Accountability in EU Employment Policy. In Organizing Transnational Accountability. Mobilization, Tools, Challenges, Magnus Boström and Christina Garsten (eds). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

2007

• Thedvall, Renita. The EU’s Nomads. National Eurocrats in European policymaking. In Observing Government Elites: Up Close and Personal, R.A.W. Rhodes, Paul t’Hart and Milko Noordegraaf (eds). Basingstoke. Houndsmills: Palgrave.

2006

• Thedvall, Renita. Eurocrats at Work. Negotiating Transparency in Postnational Employment Policy. Avhandling i Socialantropologi, Stockholms universitet. Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology, 58.

2004

• Thedvall, Renita. “Do it yourself”: Making up the Self-employed Individual at a Swedish Public Employment Office. In Learning to be Employable. New Agendas on Work, Responsibility and Learning in a Globalising World, Christina Garsten and Kerstin Jacobsson (eds). Basingstoke, Houndmills: Palgrave.

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Forskningsanslag

2015

• Riksbankens Jubileumsfonds forskningsinitieringsstöd för en workshop och startande av ett nätverk om Mötesetnografi. Workshopen kommer att äga rum på University of Massachusetts, Amherst under hösten 2015 i samarbete med Jen Sandler. (Anslaget är placerat på Score).

Forskarnätverk

• Meeting Ethnography Network (koordinerat av Jen Sandler University of Massachusetts, Amherst och Renita Thedvall, Stockholm University).
• Ethnographic Research into Public Sector Reforms: an interdisciplinary research network across Denmark, the UK, and Sweden. Koordinator: Bagga Bjerge, Associate Professor, Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Konferens- workshopdeltagande

2015

• Hoping for Improvement. The Lean Model in the Swedish Public Sector, paper presented at the Reform as permanent condition. Ethnographic studies of administrative changes and reforms publication seminar organized by Bagga Bjerge, Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Aarhus University and Nina Holm Vohnsen, Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University, 7-8 december, Aarhus, Danmark.
• Writing Action. How to Fit Alterations into Action Plan Documents, paper presented at the panel Document-ing Power in an Age of Accountability organized by Kathleen Inglis, Simon Fraser University at the AAA (American Anthropological Association) conference, 18-23 november, Denver, USA.
• Meeting to Improve: Lean[ing] Swedish Public Preschools, paper presented at the Meeting Ethnography workshop organized by Jen Sandler, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Renita Thedvall, Stockholm University 8-10 oktober, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.

2014

• Meeting for Change: Lean[ing] Swedish Public Preschools, paper presented at the panel Meeting Ethnography: Anthropology in/of a ubiquitous policy context organized by Jen Sandler University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Renita Thedvall at the AAA (American Anthropological Association) conference, 3-7 december, Washington, USA.
• Free Commodity Exchange: Skype and Spotify and the Complexity of Market Relations written by Christina Garsten and Renita Thedvall and presented by Renita Thedvall in the theme Perspectives on markets at the Score International Conference on Organizing Markets, 16-17 oktober, Stockholm.
• Transparency by proxy: Knowledge, indicators, and legitimacy in market practice written by Christina Garsten and Renita Thedvall and presented by Christina Garsten in the theme The organization of legitimate markets at the Score International Conference on Organizing Markets, 16-17 oktober, Stockholm.
• Managing preschool the Lean way. Turning work process improvements into numbers, paper presented at the panel Governing by numbers: audit culture, rankings and the New World (Re)order organised by Cris Shore, University of Auckland, New Zeeland and Susan Wright, Århus University, Denmark at the EASA (European Association for Social Anthropology) conference, 31 juli-3 augusti, Tallinn, Estland.
• Meeting Ethnography workshop, 12 juni, Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.
• Political Chocolate. Branding it fairtrade, paper presented at the panel The commodification of (almost) everything, organized by Per Ståhlberg, Södertörn University and Renita Thedvall at the SANT (Swedish Anthropological Association) conference, 3-5 april, Linköping.

Styrelseuppdrag

• Biträdande föreståndare på Stockholms centrum för forskning om offentlig sektor (Score), Stockholms universitet och Handelhögskolan i Stockholm.
• Ledamot i styrelsen på Stockholms centrum för forskning om offentlig sektor (Score), Stockholms universitet och Handelshögskolan i Stockholm.
• Ledamot i institutionsstyrelsen Socialantropologiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet.

Förtroendeuppdrag

• Studierektor för grundnivån, Socialantropologiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet.
• Kassör i Sveriges antropologförbund (SANT) t o m april 2014.

Föreläsningar

2014

• Doktorandworkshop tillsammans med Jen Sandler, University of Massachusetts, Amherst om Ethnographic Research in Meeting-Intensive Settings, 9-10 juni, Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.

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