ABSTRACT

This study focuses on the closing of the birthing clinic in Sollefteå hospital in January 2017, and the occupation of the ward that followed thereafter. Emphasis is put on the construction of rural identity in general, and rural female identity in particular, as the Other and aims to examine emancipatory potential in mobilizing resistance through vulnerability by studying the occupation in Sollefteå as a case of rural uprising.

The theoretical framework consists of Judith Butler’s reading of Simone de Beauvoir, explaining construction of othered identity, and rural identity using studies of Chris Philo, Joe Little, Paul Cloke, Terry Marsden, Patrick Mooney, Madeleine Eriksson, Bo Nilsson and Anna Sofia Lundgren. Val Plumwood’s theories of masculinist rationality is used to analyse the practical consequences, and the concept of mobilizing resistance through vulnerability is explained by Zeynep Gambetti, Leticia Sabsay and Judith Butler.

The study is built on feminist, activist research and finds an oppressive construction of rural citizens, and rural women in particular, as the Other, and as vulnerable in relation to the urban male norm, which leads to material impacts. However, people in Sollefteå and other rural regions take charge of their vulnerability as rural citizens and use it to mobilize resistance in order to fight back.

摘要

这项研究的重点是2017年1月关闭Sollefteå医院的分娩诊所，以及随后对病房的占领。重点放在一般的农村身份建设上，尤其是农村女性身份的建设上，其目的是通过研究索莱夫特奥的占领作为农村起义的案例，研究通过脆弱性动员抵抗力量的解放潜力。

该理论框架由朱迪思·巴特勒（Judith Butler）对西蒙娜·德·波伏娃（Simone de Beauvoir）的阅读，对其他身份的建构以及乡村身份的解释，包括对克里斯·菲洛（Chris Philo），乔·利特尔（Joe Little），保罗·克洛克（Paul Cloke），特里·马斯登（Terry Marsden），帕特里克·穆尼（Patrick Mooney），玛德琳·埃里克森（Madeleine Eriksson），博·尼尔森（Bo Nilsson）和安娜·索菲亚·隆格伦（Anna Sofia Lundgren）的研究。瓦尔·普拉姆伍德（Val Plumwood）的男子气概理性理论用于分析实际后果，而Zeynep Gambetti，Leticia Sabsay和Judith Butler解释了通过脆弱性动员抵抗的概念。

该研究是建立在女权主义者，激进主义者的研究基础之上的，发现农村公民尤其是农村妇女受到压迫，因为他们与他人一样，相对于城市男性规范而言是脆弱的，这导致了实质性的影响。但是，索莱夫特（Sollefteå）和其他农村地区的人们以农村公民的身份负责自己的脆弱性，并利用它来动员抵抗力量以进行反击。