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    Policy Tensions Between Discourses on Internationalisation and Gender in Swedish Higher Education
    (Higher Educ Policy, Springer Nature, 2025-01-16) Simonsson, Angelica; Angervall, Petra
    One emphasised discourse in Swedish higher education policy is internationalisation, which is in line with EU recommendations to ensure a sustainable knowledge system. This knowledge system, perhaps especially in Sweden, also emphasises the importance of gender equity. In this study, we are interested in the recontextualisation between discourses of internationalisation and gender in Swedish higher education (HE) at both national and local levels. We use critical discourse analysis to examine two different examples: (1) discourses in national HE policy, and, (2) discourses at a Swedish university and one of its departments. Overall, we find that government discourses on HE are recontextualised in ways that support national, standardised interests rather than local university needs. Although these discourses emphasise the importance of both internationalisation and gender through articulations of mobility, sustainability and equity, there are strong individualistic aspirations in line with a meritocratic system. These patterns are even more pronounced at the local university level, where these discourses join to promote certain successful departments and academic subjects. In conclusion, the findings illustrate how the recontextualisation between internationalisation and gender discourses legitimises the prevailing gender divide — not the other way around — but also that this recontextualisation can create tensions and changes.
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    Transversal Movements between Gender and Environment: Interdisciplinarity in Higher Education
    (Feminismo/s, 2025-01-21) Widegren, Kajsa
    Gender and environmental political analysis have had many common goals, articulated as, for example, ecofeminism. The two conceptscan be thought of together, for example in regard to the unequal gendered vulnerability to the effects of climate change. However, in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, gender-specific indicators were integrated into most of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), though not into the goals directly aimed at ecological sustainability. This is one example of how gender is being marginalized in relation to environmental issues. A crucial context for combining gender and environmental studies is higher education and interdisciplinary education. The aim of this paper is to analyse syllabus texts that describe the content of courses with a joint focus on gender and environmental studies. Syllabi were retrieved through the Swedish admission system, which lists all courses and programmes offered at Swedish universities for the coming academic years. Using a qualitative method, intertextual relations of syllabi were mapped and the concepts of gender and environment analysed. The focus on intertextual relations between syllabi and theoretical, scholarly, disciplinary and policy contexts places syllabi in the wider context of interdisciplinary higher education, with its implicit structures of disciplinary centring, marginalization and transversal shifting of perspectives, which also points to the disciplinary status of Gender Studies in academia. More than half of the syllabi found were for courses and programmes offered at Gender Studies departments (or their equivalent). In these contexts, gender and environment were articulated within a frame of meta-theoretical accounts of disciplinary power, scrutinizing categorizations and conceptualizations in, for example, Natural Sciences. In the courses taught in other disciplines, gender was merely a perspective on the core concepts of, for example, developmental studies and relied more on empiricist notions of gender as a preconceived category.