NORPA (Nordic Parenting)

NORPA will arrange workshops-series in Iceland, Norway, and Sweden to advance interdisciplinary scientific knowledge on parenting in the Nordic countries. This will provide a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration between scholars and critical analysis of the nuances involved in Nordic parenting and how different Nordic welfare models and institutional discourses impinge on the lives of families. We focus on “non-normative” parenting and the gendered and heteronormative ideas that underpin the politics of Nordic parenting. The workshops are organized around specific themes: Institutional discourses and cultural context to parenting in the Nordic Countries; The politics of parenting; Imagining parenting in the future.