‘No thought of gender’: bodily norms in Swedish rescue services incident reporting

Katherine Anne Blackburn Harrison

doi:10.1111/gwao.12070

‘No thought of gender’: bodily norms in Swedish rescue services incident reporting

Katherine Anne Blackburn Harrison

Department of Communication

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Abstract

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) play an increasingly important role in the preventative and planning work carried out by rescue services, but to date there has been little research investigating how these technologies may be involved in the gendering of the organization. In this study, I seek to complement existing analyses of the gendered rescue service by focusing on a web portal used to collect, process and publish data about accidents in Sweden. Through the figuration of the 'modest witness' I suggest how an apparent absence of gender in the accident reporting process may actually be part of a wider organizational process of gendering in which only certain bodies are allowed to be visible and allowed to witness officially.

Original language	English
Journal	Gender, Work and Organization
Volume	22
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	211-220
Number of pages	10
ISSN	0968-6673
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12070
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2015

Keywords

Faculty of Humanities
firefighter
gender
body
modest witness
Haraway
database
ICT

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