Paper short abstract:

How does trust relate to experiences of respect and visibility in society? Can you be threatened by national security systems? If so, how does that affect your possibility to trust people supported by the same security systems? How does this affect the building of trust?

Paper long abstract:

How does trust relate to experiences of respect and visibility in society, politics and everyday life?

Can you be threatened by national security systems? If so, how does that affect your possibility to trust people supported by the same security systems? Do they understand and show respect for your needs or do they respond in a way that accumulate stress and mistrust? How does such a situation affect a persons building of trust?

Research has shown health systems in Sweden has a history of misusing trust. Racialzed women could be sterilized secretly while in hospital for stomach surgery. An ongoing mistrust among sami persons against cultural appropriation and registration of cultural heritage sites results in few registrations in the security system for sacred places or graves. “Its better that they become overrun by a forest machine, than that They will steal them.” (interview 2021)

It shows clearly that the idea of a Swedish ownership and use of the artefacts and the cultural heritage sites, is worse than that they are destroyed.

In this workshop I will put a questionmark on the relation between trust and social and political representation. If you are not respected or represented in the norm for “humanity” “society” or “social needs”, are you even surrounded by an everyday human to human respect?