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The concept gender-neutral refers to the way a document “doesn’t take care” if it handles men or women. The
concept gender-blind on the other hand refers to the fact that gender-neutral document often handle all human as
the same and practice normative gender hierarchies in each situation of documentation. A gender-blind text will
in many situation practice a patriarchal hierarchy as normative.
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The concept: space of action is firmly based on the texts by Daudi, 1986, p 124; Holmer-Nadesen, 1996
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where men more often have the highest positions, strategies has been developed to promote
positive treatment of women in f eg employment processes3.
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One example is the so called Tham professorship from regulation (1995:36) that later was objected in the
lawsuit: Thamprofessur-målet, C- 407/98 at the EU-court.
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Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (New York: Bantham, 1952), p. 249
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Doing gender as a concept is primary used in organizational gender studies. It reefers from a study by West &
Zimmerman, 1987, p 137: In this study West & Zimmerman refer to the separation process between individuals
as boys and girls that could not refer to circumstance as biological.; Acker, 1992 develops the concept into a
defining of how things, not only human, will be gendered in an organization.
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Olwig, 2002 (landscape planner); see also the discussion of gendering the landscape or room, by Sassen, 1996
(political); McDowell, 1999 (geographer)
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Davies, B., 1999: Bronwyn Davies (pedagogue) refers to human beings as bodies of reading and writing their
perception of the landscape as physical and social room.
8
We use the concept society not only referred to human being but also to insects as bees and ants. In this paper I
will refer to the by human built societies.
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language in artefacts and symbols in the environment. The skill of communication can be
described in the intersection of language and culture as communicative competence9.
It is not enough to justify referring to someone as a “woman” just because she is, in fact, a woman – because
she is, by the same token, a Californian, Jewish, a mediator, a former weaver, my wife, and many others.
Similarly, the ways of formulating the context within which something occurred are multiple.10
The doings of the gendered individually is done in a gendered society within a gendered
language. Schegloff, face the trouble in formulating someone by categorizing a mind or a
body as a sex. A human being as a sex is a simplification that makes the humans complexity
indistinguishable. In the performed normalization of gender and sex as a description of
someone or something makes the effect of gendering invisible. The gendering effect will be
naturalized as innate, evident or taken for granted11. It will be a process of creating knowledge
that includes gendering as an aspect. The knowledge itself will be seen as gender-neutral and
is gender-blind. Gender as an aspect of all kinds of knowledge will be included and added in
the knowledge creation referred to as tacit knowledge12, situated cognition13, or as facienda14.
The knowledge is used as action knowledge that verifies different subject oriented power-
positions. The power-positions refer to the size in space of action for each and everyone who
use their competence of knowledge that is gendered. Accepted knowledge can be used as
normative. Normalised behaviour gives a person admission to certain rooms of inclusion in a
certain society or a certain group in one- or in multiple societies15. Individuals with small
space of action strive to get respectability in their society and thereby obtain a larger amount
of space in action in there lives16.
Different people have different experiences of the world; this is named situated knowledge17..
The learning process of situated knowledge can be described as biographical learning18.
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Carlgren, 1999, p 19: “kommunikativ kompetens” – a persons ability or capacity to make herself understood or
understand others way of communication.
10
Schegloff, 1997, p 165-166 (linguistic)
11
Joan, 2005: Gendering is a verbalization of sex and gender which is a process oriented form of sex and gender
thinking.
12
Polanyi, 1974, 1983 – this is knowledge used to fit in and used with discretion. The Swedish the concept “tyst
kunskap” in f eg Ellström, 1999, that refer to knowledge as un-spoken.; “Förtrogenhets kunskap” in f eg
Gustavsson, 2000, that refer to knowledge as organisational or professional culture training.
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Sierhuis & Clansey, 1997, that refer to knowledge as dynamically reconfigured – to the perceptual motor of
coordination, during transaction in an environment, within the person\s conceptions of context as a social actor.
14
Ramìrez, 2004, in the rhetorical science, facienda refers to knowledge about acting or actions as the red thread
in storytelling.
15
Ambjörnsson, 2002; Skeggs, 1997;
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Skeggs, 1997, 2004; Ambjörnsson, 2002; Krekula, 2006
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Harding, 1991 see also Haraway, 1997 and the discussion of objectivity.
Further look at the 1970: s when rapports of stories from women’s life were common and verified as valuable
because women often were overlooked in the historical documentation. See f eg Ekelöf, 1970, The value to
visualise situated knowledge has come back during the 2000: f eg in Sudbury, 1998, Kuosmanen, 2001,
Ambjörnsson, 2002, Juntti-Henriksson, 2008
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Alheit, 1995, 1996; Bron, 2005, 2005b
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“As a woman you are supposed to understand what it means to be a woman. Many of our end-users are
women, many are low educated, many have children and there are single mothers among them. But I, in my
life have not a clue about what this really means, because that’s not what my life is. How, shall I understand
and respect these women’s´ situation in my planning just because I am a woman?” 19
My informant points out the dilemma that turns up in lack of situated knowledge, together
with the preconceived notion that all people of the same sex can be grouped as alike20. She
communicates a wish to understand, the circumstances that aren’t obvious in her own
situation. She also implicitly voices an anger of being classified in the same category as a
lower class woman by her male and fellow workers. The informant expresses a perception of
non-respect or lack of respect in working situations referred to her as a woman. This woman
is not treated gender-neutral; she is pointed out as gender specific.
Now we have separated the dilemma of gendering in the daily work of city and landscape
planners into two separate concepts. It’s partly an organizational hierarchical problem in
organizations that work within the planning processes. Partly is it a problem that the
knowledge used in practice of the working field is gendered. The knowledge has been
discussed as following: Men’s knowledge is negotiated as normal and women’s knowledge if
negotiated is referred as situated knowledge21.
I is my allegation that we have some knowledge on these features. A lot of good research has
already been done to put the inequalities of the societies out in the open. Still there are a lot to
do and I hope to put a piece of the puzzle into place.
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This is a free translation from Swedish to English of an expression made by a source in an interview. The
informant is a woman in the age of about 28 and working in a project of infrastructural planning. The interview
occur in November 2004; Börebäck, 2008, bilaga 1: quotation 14.2.2
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This could refer to other hierarchies in the societies as well not only gender-class but also ethnicity, race, (dis)-
ability, …,f eg: Sudbury, 1998; Molina, 1997; of race and gender; Reyes de los, 2001, Reyes de los, Molina,
Mulinari, 2003; 2005, ethnicity- gender; Lundahl, 2001; Lindholm & Nilsson, sexuality-gender, Krekula, 2006
age-gender …
21
Friberg & Larsson, 2000, p 38; McElroy, 2002; Fenster, 1999
22
PBL, SFS 1987: 383- SFS 2001: 320; Miljöbalken, SFS 1998:808; Arbetsmiljölagen, 1977:1160-SFS
2008:297, Expropriationslagen: SFS 1972b:719; Vaglagen SFS 1971:948; Fastighetsbildningslagen 1970:988;
Ledningsrättslagen 1973:1144; Diskriminernigslagarna SFS 1986:442 ethnicity; SFS 1979:1118 men and
women; SFS 199:133 sexuality
23
SMB-direktivet 2001/42/EG
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how the society “is”. The aim for many feminist and gender researchers’ is criticising the
inequalities of the society. I admire their purpose, but very often I see how their results have
been used as normative instead of critical. I believe, that showing how things are have some
unforeseen limitations though what is, that is and will hardly be changed.
If we focus on the processes of what is going on, we can be critical to the way they are done
long before they will be permanent or even exist.
Phenomenography as a method has the purpose to visualize different qualitative variations of
a phenomenon24. Approaching different ways of categorising and finding aspects in the
material is basic and unprejudiced. The openness can be compared with the way sexuality, is
handled in queer theories25. You can never predict what will be the results in an analysis. The
result of the method is its comprehensiveness in varieties of the searched phenomenon.
3.3 Result
The results of the variation-study visualize different ways that individuals create space of
action to obtain to get a power-position. These power-positions were strived for, as a
expression of competence in their work – as self-interest and/or for others to acknowledge
their importance. The pattern reflects how the gendering interactively is a part of processes of
action. These processes are influenced by the performed actions of the individuals through
their reflection of what they learnt in action knowledge about the different power-hierarchies’
in the society the individual moved through.
24
Marton, 1981, Marton & Booth, 2000
25
Pinar, 1998; Ambjörnsson, 2006
26
Krekula, 2006; Carbin & Thornhill, 2004; Engstam, 2005; Hultman & Westerberg, 2005; Lykke, 2003; Reyes
de los, Molina & Mulinari, 2003; 2005 Ambjörnsson, 2004, m fl
27
Karlberg & Mral, 2003; Ramírez, 2003; Hellspong, 2004; Norrby, 1996, p 140-172
28
Lefebvré, 1991 p 33, 38-46; Franzen 2004, p 54-56
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The worker arguments in practice of the profession to reach a power-position, and for this
purpose use a certain action knowledge considered by the individual as useful in a specific
social- and physical room. This means that it includes the intersectional patterns that specify
the current subjective process oriented power-position. The intersectional pattern will be
specific in each situation and to each individual; even though the power-position is shown in
the relation to a bodily individual in a physical limited room or geographic space.
In the interpretation the space of action reflects the constituted power-hierarchies as a process-
oriented pattern of power-position in the physical and social rooms where they are handled.
The space of action constitutes a mirror from the surrounding society’s frames of references.
These frames of references are expressed as patterns in inclusion of the normative,
respectability and value of esteem. The inclusion reflects whom or what incorporated in the
process. The room, visualize where whom or what that is being described. These are
identified as attributes of the social or physical room it concern. The power is defined in
social artefacts and expressed as structural and cultural power-positions.
In spatial planning this includes two levels. It includes the practising individuals as part of an
organisation and as connecting link between different organisations that interact in working
processes. At the same time this has influence on all the knowledge and competence that will
be valued as important to these professionals using in their profession. This formulates two
different but parallel traces. The traces are defines as the condition in the practice of
profession and the professional planner. At the same time does it covers the ways of how the
working-material includes an active integration of sex and gender.
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Analysis of process oriented power-positions can be associated with the aim itself in the
physical planning as a profession. An example is the target to plan for an equal and available
society. The plans sets the frames for the physical room, the performing of the room will be
based on the knowledge and the competences that have highest value in the profession of
planning as a working field. It possible visualize the gendering processes during f eg official
meetings (as discrimination f eg) and express it in documents of planning.
The planner rarely (if ever) takes the decisions of what will be available, or what will be
sustainable or gender equal.
That is a political decision.
I will point out that the analyses of process based power-positions in the discussion of action
space also include a choice that illustrates in the plans. The question is always if the orders of
gender hierarchies are acceptable or it needs a renewal (an undoing of gender).
The organizations that deals with physical planning processes as well as their surroundings
will have to deal with a critical review in the phase of action, not in correlation to static view
of the world. The decision of gendering the future room will need your activity of acceptance
or opposition. Activities such as the conditions of planning will be detected as conscious
decisions related to the human life-condition in the future physical environment.
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