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‘No Thought of Gender’: Bodily Norms in S wedish Rescue Services Incident Reporting
Author(s) -
Harrison Katherine
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
gender, work and organization
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.159
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1468-0432
pISSN - 0968-6673
DOI - 10.1111/gwao.12070
Subject(s) - witness , service (business) , process (computing) , work (physics) , public relations , information and communications technology , business , internet privacy , political science , engineering , computer science , law , marketing , mechanical engineering , operating system
Information and communication technologies ( ICT s) 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 S weden. 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.