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This article argues that a perpetrator-based definition of sexual harassment that highlights corrupt aspects of sexual harassment may contribute to a shift in focus from the experience of the harassed, to the actions of the harasser. This argument is based on an analysis of testimonies of sexual harassment from the #metoo call by the Swedish police in 2017, which reference abuse of power and quid pro quo elements. By introducing the recently developed analytical framework of 'sexual corruption', we show how a perpetrator-based definition of sexual harassment may contribute to attributing responsibility to harassers. Identifying sexual harassment that includes the abuse of power and quid pro quo elements as corruption centers on the role of the abuse of power and, thus, the responsibility of the person abusing their position of power. Moreover, this shift bypasses discussions of whether or not the situation was experienced as 'unwelcome' by the harassed, the severity of the act, and questions of coercion and consent. Identifying instances of sexual harassment that include the abuse of power and quid pro quo elements as corruption also closes off attempts to portray it in terms of 'jokes' or banter, which is common in the police context. The article contributes with analytical tools that enable a shift from tracing the experience of the harassed to centering on the actions and responsibility of the harasser., Funding Agencies|Swedish Crime Victim Fund; Forte The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare

What do tests performed on human bodies tell us? Hormones and genetics have become increasingly central to contemporary understandings of identities and kinship. In this article, narratives around hormone and genetic testing are examined through two examples: the use of DNA testing in migration control and hormone testing in sports. In the name of “fair sport” and “fair migration”, people are being tested because of regulations by the federation or by the state. Testing is said to produce better knowledge, where knowledge without testing is unreliable and defined as a problem which constitutes a risk to fair participation or belonging. In the narratives examined in this article, there is a simultaneous stabilization and destabilization of identity, gender and race. We argue for a slightly different articulation of molecularization, compared to how it has previously been conceptualized in canonized scholarly work. When considered as strategic and entangled with gender, race, and sexuality, molecularization appears as not only a development within or from biopolitics but also as a part of necropolitics. The relation between politics and molecularization is here centred on control by knowing the individual through biological tests, a form of control which we call testinaming., Det är hormonerna. Dnr 2020-01220 (Vetenskapsrådet)

I forskningsprojektet Skada skedd: Urfolkssamhällens erfarenheter av och rekommendationer för energiproduktion har vi undersökt hur energi- och annan utvinningsindustris verksamhet historiskt påverkat och fortsätter att påverka urfolk, samt vilka slags förändringar urfolk vill se i interaktioner med dessa industrier. Samiska forskningsdeltagare rekommenderar att företag som på allvar utövar socialt ansvar genom att främja jämlik dialog och ömsesidig förståelse ska premieras. Bolagen behöver kommunicera sitt sociala ansvar, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) till samebyar eller samiska organisationer. De behöver också efterleva sin CSR-kommunikation så att det stämmer överens med deras faktiska handlingar i interaktioner med samiska organisationer, föreningar eller samebyar. Samer vill se ökad kunskap om samiskt samhälle, historia, kultur och samiska perspektiv hos bolag. Samer skulle också vilja se en samordnande organisation för bolags CSR i Sverige som även skulle kunna implementera och hantera CSR-certifiering. I en internationell jämförelse undersökte vi erfarenheterna av utvinningsindustriers CSR hos samer i Sverige och Adnyamathanha och Arabunna-folken i södra Australien. Trots stora skillnader mellan Sverige och södra Australien vad gäller rättigheter, näringar, politiska situationer och klimat, visar studien ändå stora likheter i hur utvinningsindustriers sociala ansvar kommuniceras och följs, och de aboriginska forskningsdeltagarna vittnar om hur fina ord inte efterlevs i praktiken., In the research project Damage Done: Indigenous communities’ experiences of and recommendations for energy production, we have studied how the activities of the energy industry and other extractive industries have affected and continue to affect Indigenous peoples, and what changes Indigenous people themselves would like to see in interactions with these industries. Sámi research participants recommend that companies that encourage dialogue on equal terms and reciprocal understanding, thus showing strong social responsibility practices, should be rewarded. Companies need to communicate their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to Sámi communities or Sámi organisations and comply with this in their interactions with Sámi representatives. Sámi people would like corporations to demonstrate greater knowledge of Sámi history, society, culture and worldviews and they would like to see an organisation tasked with coordinating CSR in Sweden, including implementing and administering a system for CSR certification. In an international comparison, we examined the experiences of CSR in extractive industries, held by representatives of the Adnyamathanha and Arabunna peoples of South Australia. Despite significant differences between Sweden and South Australia in terms of rights, livelihoods, the political situations and climates, the study shows great similarities in how extractive industries communicate about and comply with CSR.

Intragroup conflict, or lateral violence, in Indigenous and local communities is a heated topic. While there is some research on lateral violence in Indigenous communities in Australia, there is currently no such research in Sámi and local communities in Sweden. This chapter explores manifestations and underlying causes of lateral violence, using analysis based on cultural, structural, and extractive violence, and employs an international comparative approach to discuss situations in the Swedish part of Sápmi compared to those in Australia. The Sámi are the Indigenous People of Sweden. Many Sámi communities are finding it increasingly difficult to maintain traditional livelihoods such as reindeer herding. This creates external pressures for Sámi communities and can contribute to increased intragroup conflict. First Australian communities also experience external pressures caused by extractivism. This chapter theorizes that there is a strong connection between external pressures caused by extractive activities on Indigenous lands and lateral violence in Indigenous and local communities, and suggests that by addressing the causes of lateral violence, conflict transformation—where both the contextual and relational aspects of conflicts are emphasized—could be a way forward., Lateral Violence: Effects of external pressures on Indigenous and local communities

This note tells a story of working participant observation. It shares a narrative of how working as a housekeeper, as part of a project about dignity and decent work, opened up the researchers to stories beyond the work tasks. The note weaves a tale around one particular worker, and highlights how as researchers, being embedded, and embodied within their research allowed for insights and reflections that a "common" interview would not have gained. It highlighted the positives and tensions of being "in between" an insider and an outsider as a researcher. The note concludes with a reminder or perhaps a caution that we are all, bodies, minds, our "selves," part of the research process and the necessity to be reflexive, thoughtful, and engaged with our research remains essential as we look to expand how we gain knowledge into (service) work and employment.

During the Garden Lupine’s two centuries of presence in Sweden, its apprehension has been marked by cultural reconfigurations – from an appreciated garden plant, through being a token for Swedish midsummer to being deemed an invasive alien species and ecological threat. With the purpose of deepening the understanding of how environmental management works as a nexus of nature and culture, this article analyzes ‘The Great Lupine Combat Day’, to show how the lifecycle of plants and culturally imbued actions and preferences interact. By employing ethnographic methods and qualitative source material to enable a cultural analysis of the traditionalization of eradicating invasive species, the article shows how this annual event ties together an established annual calendar, the life cycle and visuality of plants, biodiversity crises, an idealized aesthetics feature of Swedish nature, and eradication practices. In essence, the management of the Garden Lupine serves as a reminder of how nature is always culture.

This open access book examines the supervision of undergraduate degree projects, with a particular focus on how supervision may contribute to developing student independence and academic literacies. Based on an extensive research project, it uses examples from focus group interviews as well as actual supervision situations, taken from different higher education programmes at several universities in Sweden and Russia. The authors discuss issues such as supervisors’ perceptions and understandings of student independence, the relationship between supervisor and student, the significance of emotions in the supervision process, different supervision tools to foster independence, and the supervisor’s role not only as a guide and helper but also as an assessor of the students’ work. The book will appeal to scholars within the field of teaching and learning in higher education, as well as those from other disciplines who are interested in developing their own supervision practice.

This chapter employs narrative analysis to examine how people who live in the shadow of carbon-intensive industries imagine a just transition to net-zero emissions. The analysis rests upon an interview study with local politicians, civil servants, union representatives, and citizen groups in the Swedish west-coast city of Lysekil, home to Scandinavia’s largest oil refinery. By mapping stories of climate (in)justice told in view of Sweden’s efforts to decarbonize, this chapter illustrates the cultural dimensions of carbon lock-ins and why some people resist transformative change. In the city of Lysekil, the refinery is not only an important source of local employment but also deeply entangled with community identity and sense of place. However, the chapter also points to the multiple interpretations of just transitions to climate neutrality and the power of narrative to open-up possibilities for decarbonized futures.

Background Folk biology commonly contains knowledge of many more taxa than those of immediate economic importance. Species with little or no practical use are, however, often overlooked by ethnobiological research. An example are a few Myxomycetes taxa which played an important role in the folk biology and beliefs of pre-industrial Sweden and adjacent Nordic countries, Denmark, Norway and Finland. Such organisms are not of less interest for the understanding of human-biota relationships; local knowledge about the entire biota in a given environment should therefore be studied to comprehend the full range of folk biology. Methodology This qualitative study analyses and reviews historical data available in archives and published ethnographic collections as well as scattered and fragmentary notes in the literature using a historical ethnobiological approach. Results Peasants in the Nordic countries recognized three taxa of myxomycetes. Scrambled egg slime, Fuligo septica (L.) F.H.Wigg., in particular attracted interest and is known by many local folk names. This slime had no practical value or use, yet it was well known in folk biology and associated with a supernatural malevolent being which in the shape of a hare or cat stole milk or butter on behalf of a witch. The belief in evil origins of slime became the cause of violent actions such as whipping and burning of the organism. Two other taxa, Lycogala epidendron (L.) Fr. and Mucilago crustacea F.H.Wigg., have also been observed in folk biology, but data on how they were perceived and treated is sparse. Conclusions The sudden appearance of strange shapes and clear colours of myxomycetes in damp weather created both fear and curiosity; these odd organisms required explanations, interpretations and actions. Our example of the economically irrelevant myxomycetes in Sweden and nearby Nordic countries indicates that interpretations in pre-industrial societies of natural phenomena and various organisms, connections with be

”Kostymen sys i det tysta”, är en undersökning av den textila artefaktens roll i dödsritualer (såsom begravningar och minnestunder) och hur den kan öka ritualens performativa verkan hos deltagarna samt ge dem en ökad agens i det rituella rummet. Förutom frågeställningen tar arbetet avstamp i ett antal intuitivt formulerade hypoteser som vuxit fram i min hantverkspraktik. De berör textiliernas relationella egenskaper, deras potential att erbjuda de deltagande i ritualen ett större utrymme för fysiskt engagemang samt de biologiskt nedbrytbara materialens möjlighet att i en rituell kontext minska det existentiella avståndet mellan människan och den fysiska världen omkring henne. Metoderna är flera: dels tillverkningen av en fysisk gestaltning i form av en begravningskista helt i mjuka, biologiskt nedbrytbara material – en textil rituell artefakt vars normbrytande karaktär blottlägger de gränsdragningar som finns i det samtida rituella rummet. Den är tillverkad med tekniker hämtade från traditionell möbeltapetsering i en utforskande, experimentell och intuitiv process. Den andra metoden är att genom litteraturstudier och samtal ge gestaltningen en såväl historisk som samtida kontext. Dessa metoder står i dialog med varandra genom projektet, vilket utmynnar i skrivandet av denna text. Skrivandet är i sig är en tredje metod: att lägga samman de teoretiska och de praktiska perspektiven och sätta ord på dem är slutfasen av det sökande efter egen förståelse för vad projektet egentligen handlar om: vad behovet att göra min egen kista bottnar i, att utövandet av ett hantverk har mycket gemensamt med rituella praktiker, och att en mer levande dödskultur kan ha betydelse för människors värderingar och vilja att ställa om till ett hållbart sätt att leva. Utifrån dessa både teoretiska, praktiska och konstnärliga undersökningar landar jag i slutsatsen att textila artefakter kan ha potential att förstärka den rituella upplevelsen hos de sörjande, förutsatt att textilierna laddas m, “The suit is sewn in silence” is an investigation of the role of the textile artifact in death rituals (such as funerals and memorial services) and how it can increase the performative effect of the ritual on the participants and give them increased agency in the ritual space. In addition to the question of the thesis, the work is based on a number of intuitively formulated hypotheses that have emerged in my craft practice. They concern the relational properties of textiles, their potential to offer the participants of the ritual a greater opportunity for physical engagement, and the possibility of biodegradable materials, used in a ritual context, to reduce the existential distance between people and the physical world around us. The methods are several: on the one hand, a physical embodiment through the making of a burial coffin made entirely of soft, biodegradable materials – a textile ritual artifact whose norm-breaking character exposes the boundaries within contemporary ritual spaces. It is made using techniques derived from traditional furniture upholstery in an exploratory, experimental process. The second method is to give the design a historical and contemporary context through literature studies and interviews. These methods are in dialog with each other throughout the project, resulting in the writing of this text. Writing is itself a third method: bringing together the theoretical and the practical perspectives and putting them into words is the final phase of the search for my own understanding of what the project is really about; why I felt the urge to make my own coffin, that the practice of a craft has much in common with ritual practices, and that a more vibrant death culture can have an impact on people's values and willingness to transition to a sustainable way of life. Based on these theoretical, practical and artistic investigations, I come to the conclusion that textile artifacts can have a potential to enhance the ritual experience of mourner

The lack of secure housing has increasingly become an urban phenomenon around the world. This book is situated in a time of growing housing precarity manifested in the uneven distribution of housing, where the waiting time for apartments are long and income requirements exclude people from the regular, rented and privately owned housing market. This thesis approaches the gendered dimension of urban living conditions and the problematic expectations and conditions that not the least women face while waiting for their own home, centering the question of what it means to be a woman in an insecure housing situation. Based on in-depth interviews, this ethnological thesis examines women’s experiences in the temporary housing market in Stockholm, with the ambition to provide a deeper understanding and insight into what it means to navigate and deal with the everyday challenges that housing precarity entails and its gendered dimensions. The theoretical framework combines feminist phenomenology and theories about temporality and alienation, emphasizesing relationships, invisible borders and tensions that materialize between female autonomy, housing, and private life. Taking a historical account on the housing market in Sweden, this thesis problematizes how the housing market in Stockholm has been and continues to be characterized by shortages. Here, the concept of housing “lines” allows us to understand the pathways that exist between the expectations of adulthood, urban living conditions, and longing for a home. While the city often carries notions and expectations of liberation, career development, and autonomy, the findings show how female tenants balance between the expected free, independent, urban normative femininity and at the same time parry the risk of sexual violence in the temporary housing market. This involves the risk of being exposed to molestation which leads to limited mobility and spaces of maneuvering in securing housing. Through digital observations, by

This thesis investigates contemporary inpatient psychiatric care. The study aims to describe and analyse how pastoral power – a form of power characteristic of psychiatric care – is exercised in a contemporary neoliberal context that includes hegemonic ideals of individual autonomy. Specifically, it examines how pastoral power is expressed, its consequences for patients and staff in the inpatient psychiatric ward studied, and how it relates to other forms of power exercised within the institution's framework and broader society. The empirical material for this study comprises observations conducted at a psychiatric ward, as well as interviews with patients and staff, mind maps and questionnaires all related to the same ward. Additional data consists of contextualizing material in the form of laws, governmental reports and more operational texts. The study employs an abductive approach, allowing for analyses that emerged from the interplay between the empirical material and theory. Analytical tools are informed by the theories of power developed by Michel Foucault and Nikolas Rose, along with Erving Goffman’s insights on social interaction and Arlie Hochschild’s theory of emotional labour. Psychiatry has long grappled with the fundamental issue of balancing patient autonomy against the necessary restrictions that often accompany care. This challenge is especially pronounced in a context where neoliberal ideals of patient self-determination are increasingly emphasised. The thesis underscores the necessity for inpatient psychiatric care to constantly navigate the delicate balance between making patients involved and autonomous while also implementing limitations to promote health. This intricate balance is reflected in the design of the ward’s physical space, the structuring of time, and the dynamics of social relationships, all of which contribute to a complex, ambiguous, and, at times, challenging everyday experience for both patients and staff. The ward is analysed

The role of the President of the United States of America is frequently referred to as the most important job in the world with American influences felt globally in media, strategic alliances, celebrities, culture, currency, music and food. Following on from the uprising and conviction, President Trump created and sold ‘Mug Shot Edition’ Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). This paper aims to use those NFTs to identify how Donald Trump chose to present himself after he was found guilty in court for using and paying for a porn star and hiding the funds. A visual analysis of the NFTs will help determine the images, ideas and symbols found on the cards and the thoughts, emotions and values they elicit and promote. With media playing an ever-increasing and changing role in people's everyday lives it is interesting to observe the messages, beliefs and self-promotion required for people in these high-ranking appointments. This study aims to interpret and understand how a former President who was found guilty of paying and hiding payment to a porn star, while married, sees and promotes himself on his NFT’s.

Denna uppsats undersöker ickelokala fotbollssupportrar, alltså supportrar som inte delar geografisk plats med den klubb de följer. I relation till dessa analyseras den identitetsskapande process som leder fram till att bli supporter. Därtill undersöks det uttryck som supporterskapet tar sig i ickelokala supportrars tillvaro. Det huvudsakliga materialet för undersökningen har samlats in genom intervjuer med ickelokala supportrar bosatta i Sverige. Ytterligare material utgörs av netnografiskt sådant, som hämtats från Facebooksidor för specifika klubbar där ickelokala supportrar är aktiva. Sammantaget ger materialet inblick i både ickelokala supportrars egna perspektiv på supporterskapet och i det vis på vilket det utövas, i såväl fysiska som digitala miljöer. I analysen nyttjas teoretiska begrepp hämtade från Pierre Bourdieu för att undersöka den process genom vilken en individ blir supporter. Uppsatsen finner att denna process i regel utgörs av tre steg: att initialt bli introducerad till klubben, att bli engagerad, och slutligen att bli supporter. I relation till respektive steg finner uppsatsen att olika kapitalsorter spelar in i att möjliggöra processens fortlöpande. Dessa kapitalsorter inkluderar kulturellt kapital, exempelvis i form av kunskap om klubben, och socialt kapital i form av bland annat kontaktnät och deltagande i diskussioner kring klubben. Sammantaget är de alltså symboliska kapital i relation till supporterskapet. Undersökningen finner att en individs symboliska kapital spelar in i att möjliggöra framväxande av emotionella band till klubben, något som kännetecknar att processen fram till att bli supporter är fullbordad. I relation till utövande av supporterskap och det uttryck som det tar sig i ickelokala supportrars tillvaro, analyseras detta utifrån de teoretiska begreppen plats och rum. Undersökningen finner att platser som anses särskilt betydelsefulla för en klubb, däribland arenan och vissa pubar, ofta finns i dess geografiska närhet och att d

The purpose of this master thesis is to provide an insight into the challenges small counties are facing in regard to unemployment, housing and declining number of inhabitants and what can be done to reverse this development. I proceed from cultural analytics because it gives me the necessary tools to problematize and put a light on the questions surrounding peri-urban challenges. The ambition is to show that even though many small communities are struggling there are things to be done to mitigate the negative trends surrounding these issues and that there is a way to achieve a thriving community outside the metropolitan areas. I will also show that by implementing changes in how counties are communicating could make them more informative and attractive for individuals who are thinking about relocating. The theories that I aim to use are interactionism, phenomenology, representation and technography. These theories will serve as a base for bringing forth the set arguments. The methods I have employed are observations and semi structured interviews. I have made several field studies where I have observed the coming and goings of ordinary people in small communities, how they go about their lives and how they interact with each other and the material things around them. The interviews have given me valuable information into the aspects of life in small communities, told by the very people who live there. It has given me information surrounding the challenges that small communities are facing in a globalized world. The interviews have also given me an insight into issues that are important to them and why they matter. My conclusion is that even though much is done to reverse the effect of outflux more needs to be done. Keywords: Northland, safety, nature, influx, outflux, future, cultural analysis, ethnology

Utvecklingsarbetet som ligger till grund för detta examensarbete, handlar om hur jag samtalar språkutvecklande med de allra yngsta barnen i förskolan, toddlarna. Utvecklingsarbetet utgick från samtalet som en grundläggande del i att utveckla ett verbalt språk. Då samtalandet innefattar både verbal och icke-verbal kommunikation så används även begreppet språkande. Den övergripande målsättningen för utvecklingsinsatsen var att utveckla mig själv till en medvetet språkutvecklande förskollärare till toddlarna, de som är 1-3 år gamla. Delmål för utvecklingsarbetet var att granska och utveckla min repetoar för samtalande mellan mig och barn i förskolans ateljé, samt att pröva självreflektion som ett sätt att förbättra min språkutvecklande teori-praktik i förskolan. Som metod användes autoetnografi med självreflektion och kreativt skrivande, kombinerat med videoinspelade dokumentationer. De delar av texten som är kursiverade, är de självreflekterande texter som utgör empiri för mina upplevelser och känslor. Videoinspelningarna utgjorde empiri för hur mitt kroppsspråk och verbala språk användes. Utifrån dessa texter och granskning av videosekvenser upptagna vid tre tillfällen i den aktuella förskolans ateljé, analyserade jag mina upplevelser och det kroppsliga och verbala språk som förekom. Analys visade att barnantal, mitt sätt att använda min kropp. andra vuxna och de organisatoriska förutsättningarna hade inverkan på pedagogisk takt och språkutvecklande medvetenhet i samtalandet med barnen. Ateljén och dess artefakter likaså. Granskning och analys av empirin kunde även visa att jag behövde utveckla mitt sätt att vidga barnens verbala språk på, som att använda korrekt grammatik, bisatser, fler sätt att fråga på. ett mer nyanserat vardagsspråk och fler synonymer. Resultatet av utvecklingsarbetet blev att jag, genom autoetnografi och självreflektion blev självmedveten om hur jag kan komma i pedagogisk takt med barnen och att jag behöver vidareutveckla mina kunskaper om mi

Touch mediates relations between self-other, writers, and readers; it is material and affective. This paper is the outcome of writing touch as a collaborative activity between eight women writers across different times and locals. In sharing experiences of touch during and beyond the pandemic, we engage with collaborative writing articulated here as colligere, involving the assembling of writing in a holding space. The meanings and feelings of touch arise from our distinct writer positionalities as we think, work, and write in and about life, research, organizations, and organizing. We suggest that writing that reflects on/through touch presents epistemic vulnerability and openness to unknowing in the nexus of intercorporeal relationships. Writing touch contributes to writing and doing academia differently, particularly by offering sensorial encounters that reframe the ethico-political conditions of academic knowledge creation.

This paper probes the relationship between nationalism and belonging. In the context of the enactment of the ‘Nation-State Law’ in Israel, it addresses a twofold question: how do members of the Druze community articulate the minority group’s sense of belonging to the national community, and what do their constructions of belonging suggest about how Druze might shape and secure their belonging in the Jewish nationalist project? Our analytical approach draws on theoretical accounts of the politics of belonging and nationalist projects centred on culture and political values; civic identifications and attachments; and the racialized positioning of social groups. The analysis of 18 semi-structured interviews evoked four metaphors through which we elaborate the impact of the Nation-State Law on Druze belonging and explore the implications for Druze engagement with this Jewish nationalist project. We envision the possibility of Druze pursuing a transversal intersectional political project of belonging as non-Jews in Israel.

Little is known about restaurant professionals’ views on wine sustainability and how these beliefs are embedded in cultural norms of wine quality. Using wine spaces as an entry point, this ethnographic study sought to explore the norms and practices that guide restaurant professionals in their assessment of wine quality and sustainability. The article depicts wine spaces as emblems mediating a particular wine culture with its own norms which guide such assessment. These spaces provide professionals with a setting to accumulate culinary capital as curators, and so wine spaces can be understood as the realm of experts. The results show that incorporating sustainability in wine assessment is challenging for restaurant professionals. First, there are inherent conflicts between environmental and sociocultural sustainability. Second, some norms and practices ingrained in heritage and tradition act as barriers to the adoption of, for example, more sustainable packaging. Third, the perceived sensory attributes of more sustainable wines are sometimes considered detrimental to wine quality. However, we argue that in their role as curators and intermediaries, restaurant professionals can use their expert status to challenge norms and give sustainability the same importance as other parameters such as acidity, tannins, and overall balance., Från hemleverans av is till elberoende kylskåp - matförvaring och hållbarhetsföreställningar från 1920-tal till 2020

During recent decades, geek culture has become increasingly visible, and the geek has left the cultural margins, becoming more popular than ever. At the same time, nostalgia has emerged as a central component of geek culture. Framed by a post-structural understanding of gender and race and drawing on cultural theorist Svetlana Boym’s distinction between reflective and restorative nostalgia, this article explores how and why geeks nostalgically long for a time when they were largely marginalized. We combine readings of Swedish online geek podcasts and YouTube channels with ethnographic visits to geek conferences and pop-cultural “geek fairs,” such as Comic Con and SciFiWorld. We argue that geek nostalgia represents a clinging on to a “constitutive wound,” allowing the geek figure to mobilize masculine victimhood in ways that simultaneously underpin geek privilege and allow the geek to continue operating as a white male gatekeeper of geek culture.

In a contemporary popular cultural Swedish context, gender equality and economic equality seem to be increasingly formulated in financial terms, through narratives centered around succeeding on the stock market, owning assets or practicing venture capitalism. In this context, self-help books in financial speculation targeting women are marketed with a gender equality narrative. In this article, we focus on how values of feminism, gender equality and economy are shaped and maintained by such books. By effectively hiding power relationships and presenting financial freedom as an attainable goal for everyone and through a condensed narrative of happiness and balance in the future, we read the fantasy of financial freedom as cruel optimism through Lauren Berlant's perspective. The fantasy of financial freedom also produces a feminist subject who, with her investments, both can and should maintain control over her own life and her family as well as navigate around the vulnerabilities of life.

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Mattering as a central part of well-being has not been studied in the context of newly arrived young migrants in Swedish schools. Neither have studies on mattering included material and spatial conditions. This article draws on data collected from ethnographic fieldwork to address this. The theoretical contribution is based on the combination of the concept of mattering with Ahmed’s feminist and postcolonial theory of orientation and a critical view of lived experience as social and bodily orientation devices. Combining these theoretical frameworks, we explore social, spatial and material conditions for mattering in newly arrived youths’ everyday school lives. The overall outcome of our analysis illustrates that mattering is not only a question of social relations but also related to spatial and material dimensions. A conclusion is that Swedishness as an unspoken norm of whiteness is ‘built into the walls’ of Swedish schools and that (in)directly discriminates newly arrived young migrants.

The governance of Indigenous people is in many contexts a combination of political ambitions to promote self-governance, and more traditional policies and governance practices. These combinations often carry unintended contradictions and exclusionary processes. In this article, we investigate the consequences of one such contradiction: the aspiration for self-determination and self-governance on the one hand and the aspiration for broader political influence in decisions about resources to Sámi sport on the other. Since legitimation of governance structures and practices is essential for their overall functionality, we constructed the research question: What strategies are used to legitimise the policy and governance practices of Sámi sport? To explore this research question, we employed Sámi sport in Finland as an empirical case. Results show that authorisation as a legitimation strategy is prominent and used at institutional and individual levels. Moral evaluation as strategy is based on authoritative actors' personal choice. Inclusion and integration in mainstream policy is seen as a rational legitimation strategy, which is supported by narratives where smallness and uniqueness are dominant.

I den här uppsatsen synliggörs effekterna av ett varumärkesbyte på en pappersfabrik. Fältet beträds med en autoetnografisk approach, då jag själv har behörighet till platsen som arbetare. Jag undersöker vilken effekt varumärkesbytet har på identiteten hos medarbetarna och hur de bemöter förändringen på arbetsplatsen ett år efter namnbytet på fabriken trätt i kraft. Genom ett fenomenologiskt perspektiv presenteras både fabrikens och arbetarnas berättelse och jag berör både minnet och ritualens sfär i mötet mer mitt fält. Med Korsnäs som forna fabriksnamn och nyckelsymbol möter jag Korsnäsaren som levd erfarenhet och som identitetsbegrepp samt Korsnäsandan som gemenskap och minnesrum. Hur alla dessa erfarenheter skapar arbetsplatsen som livsvärld och slutsatsen blir dess effekt på människan namnbytet berör.

I denna uppsats analyseras ritualer, aktörer och det materiella på ett stickcafé beläget i ett mindre samhälle på Sveriges landsbygd. Dessa element betraktas, i uppsatsen, som ett sätt att skapa gemenskap, där gemenskapen träder fram genom dessa aspekter. Syftet med uppsatsen var att undersöka hur relationer, både mellan människor, och människor och material, bidrar till ett skapande av gemenskap, samt hur de praktiseras. De frågor som behandlas i uppsatsen är följande: Vad finns det för praktiker inom stickcaféet? Vilka olika aktörer finns inom gruppen, mänskliga och icke-mänskliga? Hur framställs gemenskap utifrån dessa praktiker? Uppsatsens metod och material bygger på deltagandeobservationer, samt intervjuer med personer som medverkar på stickcaféet. Den teoretiska grunden är en aktör-nätverksteoretisk ram och ritual som analysverktyg. Resultatet visar att flera olika aspekter är beståndsdelar som gestaltar stickcaféet både som ritual och som gemenskap. Rituella praktiker bildar upprepning och sammanhang på stickcaféet. Dessa praktiker skapar även kraftfält som stärker samhörigheten och gemenskapen mellan gruppmedlemmarna. Det materiellas agens visar sig även ha en central betydelse i stickcaféets gemenskap. Resultatet är viktigt för att få en djupare förståelse för gemenskapens olika beståndsdelar på detta stickcafé.

This essay presents how a newly created non-binary folk costume named Bäckadräkten will change and challenge traditions regarding Swedish folk costumes from the eighteenth century. Bäckadräktens background as a tool to invent a new type of non-binary folk costume is presented. Different parts of Bäckadräktens clothing as a non-binary dress is compared to traditional folk costumes regarding male and female dressing as a mean of status concerning marriage and age. Traditionally folk costumes usually derive from a specific region in contrast to Bäckadräkten with its background from the queer or non-binary community. Bäckadräkten can be used in different ways, colours and materials. It can be seen as a new type of folk costume for everyone who wants one and can be used in full scale or just as a part combined with other types of dresses. The founder of Bäckadräkten is the artist Fredy Clue and they want it to be a folk costume for everyone, not only non-binary or queer. The analysis regarding Bäckadräkten is made by using ANT Action Network Theory and Queer Theory and focus on non-binary. The view of Bäckadräkten as a rhizome with a big and growing connected network is discussed. Seven people has been interviewed about their view regarding both folk costumes and Bäckadräkten.

Att knyta nya vänskapsrelationer som vuxen kan vara utmanande. Dels för att möjligheternaför sociala interaktioner förändras genom livet men även för att relationer mellan vuxnaställer högre krav. Nu har appar som Gofrendly trätt in i bilden som en potentiell lösning fördessa utmaningar. Gofrendly är appen för kvinnor som vill ha ut mer av sitt sociala liv ochträffa nya vänner. Denna uppsats syftar till att undersöka hur vänskapsappen Gofrendly kan användas för attskapa och främja kvinnliga relationer, för att skapa en förståelse för hur normer inom appenkan påverka hur användarna knyter nya vänskapsrelationer. Materialet har samlats in genomnetnografi som metod, där observationer på appen har genomförts samt intervjuer genomappens chattfunktion. Materialet har vidare analyserats genom posthumanistisk teori samtBourdieus teori om habitus. Begreppet rum har använts för att avgränsa appen och visa på hurGofrendly fungerar som en social arena som skiljer sig, men samtidigt samverkar medvärlden utanför. Genom den posthumanistiska teorin kan vi se på appens funktioner somspelregler som användarna måste förhålla sig till, och utifrån de spelreglerna har jag tittat påhur användarna orienterar sig i appen och därmed visar sitt habitus. Genom att studeraGofrendly som ett rum med egna spelregler samt titta på appen genom de valda teorierna, harjag sett hur användarna agerar utifrån de ramar som Gofrendly byggt upp. Det blir äventydligt hur användarna blir påverkade av appen på samma sätt som användarna påverkar den

Syftet med denna uppsats är att se hur tv:n fungerar som en storyteller och vilka versioner av folklore, urbana sägner som den för vidare. Jag tittar på hur Supernaturals (2005-2020) pilotavsnitt integrerar folklore och urbana sägner i avsnittet samt hur den förhåller sig till den traditionella folkloren, hur de använder sig av folkloristiskt material och vilken mening materialet tillskrivs. Metoden som används är närstudier av S1:e1 Pilot som sändes första gången 2005. Teoretiska utgångspunkterna som används vid analysen för att svara på studiens frågeställningar är integration, skildring och parodi enligt Jeffrey A.Tolbert och Michael Dylan Fosters The Folkloresque:Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World (2016). Av studien framgår det att S1:e1 håller sig väl med de originalsägner och spökhistorier som integreras i avsnittet samt användningen av folkloristiskt material ökar igenkännandet som bidrar till en känsla av tradition samtidigt som det laddas med nya meningar.

Uppsatsen är en textanalys av sägner som beskriver fenomenet att lantmätare som mätt orätt och bönder som ändrat ägogränser ansågs bli lyktgubbar efter döden. Syftet är att försöka få fram hur detta iscensattes i mötet mellan det moderna och det traditionella samhället. Dessutom ingår en analys av hur sägnerna återspeglade synen på äganderätt och gränsförhållanden i det agrara samhället under 1800-talet.

Drawing on a vast array of oral, ethnographic, and documentary material, Collins (Univ. of Minnesota), once a recipient of the Carnegie Scholar Award for innovative research in international security and a consultant to various international organizations, gives readers a stark reminder of the consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Collins’s intimate engagement with the Central Asian republics emerging since the 1990s informs this uniquely comprehensive study of the recent history of regional Islamic groups with broad political agendas. The men and women whom Collins interviewed became the primary agents of the disruptions throughout Central Asia and spilling into the Syrian war, making this massive work the most valuable resource for scholars and policy makers concerned with political Islam. The book’s underlying lesson of how state repression in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras has led to religious mobilizations is no doubt intended to sharpen analysis of the region as a primary strategic and security concern. It also serves notice about a new wave of persecution awaiting Muslims, who are confronted by the same conditions as the Central Asian Islamist movements, which have contributed to the Tajik and Afghan civil wars and the foreign fighters in Syria.

The present paper explores how the video games of Minecraft and Super Mario become enacted through children's play, material settings and toys in a Swedish preschool. Ethnographic methods, including participant observations and informal conversations, have been used and the empirical materials produced have been analyzed with methodological resources from Actor-Network Theory. The analysis focuses on how Minecraft and Super Mario become enacted through relations between children's bodies, physical movements as well as material interiors and exteriors of the preschool. Moreover, the analysis shows how multiple versions of the games of Minecraft and Super Mario become enacted in the preschool setting depending on what elements become active in a particular situation. On the whole, the findings of the paper question grand narratives on active and passive gameplaying children, featuring children and local settings as producers of digital popular culture.

The practice of envisioning the future has deep roots in the past. Across the continent of Africa, there are traditions of oral storytelling, griots, folklore, and indigenous speculation that offer guidance on how to live in the present and orient towards better futures. Whilst these traditions can act as navigational compasses, they are not prevalent in conventional futuring methodologies. Rather, we are surrounded by perspectives of thinking about the future as a projection of current trends. In this perspective, we offer a new heuristic, the Entangled Time Tree, to the body of futuring approaches for how to acknowledge multiple pasts and alternative ways of conceptualizing futures. We recognise that in a decolonial approach, it is necessary to consider a multiplicity of pasts that lead to diverse presents and futures; a recognition that we see reflected in Africanfuturism and in traditional storytelling that further offer diverse ways of understanding temporality and futures. We propose that the diverse forms of storytelling across the African continent constitute critically underexplored forms of knowledge for enabling a decolonial approach to futuring through three mechanisms -stories as power, stories as healing, and stories as diversification. We argue that centering these stories will allow the exploration of more just and ecologically sustainable futures. We recognise that this is just a first, but we hope a promising, step towards a longer term commitment of creating more diverse, imaginative visions and pathways of a decolonial future that will be useful not only on the African continent, but globally.

Artikeln erbjuder en metod för att analysera ras, med fokus på vithet, i museiutställningar.

Review of: Eva Silvén, Friktion. Ernst Manker, Nordiska museet och det samiska kulturarvet, Lund: Nordic Academic Press 2021, ISBN 9789188909909, 320 pp.

Celebrations of local volunteering as a way to cope with cutbacks are frequent. Not least are such celebrations apparent within the media, where descriptions of local initiatives are sometimes seen as the solutions to downward spiralling trends in Swedish rural areas. The paper explores the media production of meaning around rural resilience as they covered initiatives where rural populations mobilised to 'save' threatened local service for their supposed public interest. Using the concepts of 'patchy resilience' and 'cruel optimism', the paper points at how the representations attach rural areas and identities to a stereotypical rural imagery while also representing a resilience ideal that risks glorifying neoliberal responsibilisation.

Purpose: As sharing on social media has become an integrated part of everyday life, health and public health actors have started to show interest in the potential of people’s peer-to-peer sharing of health-related personal information (HRI) for health interventions. In this article we focus on how people make sense of sharing HRI on social media. Methods: Twenty-two people between the ages 40 and 60 who had taken part in a regional health intervention were interviewed. Using theories about social media sharing, we explore their understandings and negotiations about whether, how much, and how to share HRI and discuss the results in relation to peer-to-peer sharing as a strategy in interventions. Results: We identified three aspects that were perceived as particularly risky: loss of control, effects on identity, and affecting others negatively, along with strategies that were used to manage risks in practice: avoiding sharing, allocating, and embedding HRI. Conclusions: By allocating and embedding HRI, people can unlock motivating affordances for health work. However, strategies to manage risks can also be counterproductive. For actors to provide equality in health promotion, initiatives that include social media sharing need to be mindful of the sometimes counterproductive effects this may have on people’s engagement.

Based on fieldwork among young Danish women aged 16-20, this thesis investigates the impact of the menstrual etiquette on their embodiment, perceptions and interactions with their menstruation. Through an analysis of menstrual pain, shame and activism, this thesis shows how young Danish women are forced by cultural norms to conform to the menstrual etiquette and keep their menstrual experiences hidden. In this study, I draw on theoretical frameworks regarding pain and embodiment to explore the role of menstrual pain. By analyzing the fieldwork, the findings reveal how the young women’s experiences of intense period pain forces them to become aware of their bodies. Conforming to the menstrual etiquette, the young women hide their pain to avoid being judged. Furthermore, by utilizing theories on shame and menstrual concealment when diving into the concept of menstrual shame, I uncover how the menstrual etiquette enforces the taboo surrounding menstruation, leading the young women to embody shame. Shame becomes particularly evident when the young women accidentally expose their menstruation through menstrual products and blood. Fearing this shame, the young women conform to the menstrual etiquette by hiding their menstruation and helping each other to do so. Finally, I examine how these young women perform acts of everyday menstrual activism. As acts of defiance, by refusing to hide their menstrual experiences, the young women are motivated by the desire to normalize menstruation among their peers. These acts are not without consequences for the women, as they risk being judged for their actions, while also fighting their own embodied shame. Nonetheless, they are inspired by the broader menstrual movement and wish to contribute to breaking the stigma. Conclusively, this thesis emphasizes the necessity of understanding menstrual experiences through a cultural and gendered lens. Moreover, these insights can be applied to further academic and political action at all level

Utformningen av en säker arbetsmiljö är en hög prioritet för många industriella före- tag. Någonting som utgör en stor riskfaktor i just industriella miljöer är de ljud som produceras av diverse maskiner, bland dem gaffeltruckar. I tidigare forskning har fokus främst legat på reduktionen av ljud i denna typ av miljö då auditiv överstimu- lering har visats orsaka hörselsvårigheter, hörselskador samt mental stress. I denna studie har syftet varit att identifiera lösningar för optimering av ljud producerat av gaffeltruckar för att på så sätt minimera mängden onödigt ljud utan att någon information går förlorad. För insamling av material genomfördes två etnografiska observationstillfällen och en intervju med en truckförare. Materialet analyserades därefter med hjälp av grounded theory. Under denna process kunde några teman identifieras. Två av dessa användes i för att utforma en modell som användes för att utvärdera behovet av ljud för gaffeltruckar i olika moment. Denna modell syftar till att uppnå en balans mellan frekvensen av moment som kan uppstå vid truckkör- ning samt mängden auditiv kontroll operatören besitter i varje given situation. Den slutsats som kunde dras var att situationer som förekommer med högre frekvens även kräver högre auditiv kontroll från operatören, och för lägre frekventa situatio- ner krävs mindre kontroll. För vissa av de scenarion som har undersökts kunde inte denna balans uppnås med det befintliga ljudsystemet. I dessa fall föreslogs möjliga lösningar, vilka främst avsåg en ökning i auditiv kontroll för operatörerna., The creation of a safe workplace is an important topic for many industrial com- panies. Part of this process is managing the levels of noise produced by various machines present at industrial worksites, among which forklifts are common. These machines pose a considerable safety concern, not only due to their size and weight, but also because they produce a substantial amount of noise. In previous studies the focus has primarily been on reduction of sound as auditory overstimulation has proven to cause hearing difficulties and mental distress in individuals who work in noisy environments. In the current study the aim has been to identify solutions for optimization of forklift auditory output in an attempt to minimize any unnecessary noise while maintaining the flow of information. Two ethnographic observations and an interview with an operator were performed in order to gather data for the analysis. The method utilized for the analysis was grounded theory. During this process a few themes could be identified, two of which were utilized to compose a model that was used to evaluate the need for sounds in different scenarios. The model aims to strike a balance between the frequency with which these scenarios occur while driving a forklift and the amount of auditory control given to the driver in each situation. The study concludes that high frequency situations call for more auditory control from the operator and low frequency situations for less control. For some of the examined scenarios this balance could not be achieved with the current system. Possible solutions were proposed and mainly pertained to an increase in auditory control for the operators.

This study analyzes the evolution and impact of Icelandic mythology surrounding the Yule Lads and their family, with a specific focus on how these stories affected their beliefs and behaviors from the early 1900s to the present. These folklore figures include the thirteen Yule Lads, their mother Grýla, their father Leppalúdi, and their cat. Icelandic texts from the 13th century describe these characters as terrifying, with Grýla renowned as a cannibalistic figure in Icelandic history. The study intends to explore how stories and anxieties about the Yule Lads have evolved throughout time. The main question is how traditions and myths involving Yule Lads and Grýla have changed over the past century. What roles did these personalities play in early twentieth-century Icelandic Christmas traditions, and what changes have happened since? Additional inquiries investigate the causes of these shifts and their influence on modern Icelandic culture. The study combines historical analysis of folklore collections with present-day interviews to get insight into the cultural importance and history of these stories.

Under 1500- och 1600-talet invandrade tusentals finska bönder till Sverige varav många bosatte sig i Värmland. En del av de så kallade skogsfinnarnas matkultur har kommit att leva kvar och sedan utvecklats såsom motti/nävgröt och skrädmjöl, och idag anses de vara en viktig värmländsk tradition. Syftet med denna uppsats är att utifrån intervjupersoners och informanters berättelser undersöka hur nävgröt och skrädmjöl konstrueras och bevaras som en tradition och ett matkulturarv i Värmland, samt att belysa hur konstruerandet och bevarandet kan förstås utifrån en lokal och regional identitet. Materialet består av intervjuer med fem personer som på olika sätt aktivt brukar och bevarar nävgröt och skrädmjöl i offentliga sammanhang i Värmland, samt arkivmaterial där olika informanter lämnat information om skrädmjöl och/eller nävgröt. Uppsatsen visar hur nävgröt och skrädmjöl genom människors mer eller mindre aktiva val konstrueras som en tradition och ett matkulturarv, samt hur deras och platsens lokala och regionala identitet formas och framställs genom matkulturen.

Denna kulturhistoriska studie undersöker hur husmoderssemestern under folkhemsepoken, 1930–1960, organiserades, genomfördes och mottogs. Uppsatsens empiri utgår från ett brett urval av arkivmaterial, allt från frågelistsvar och föreningshandlingar till politiska utredningar. Vald metod har varit bricolagemetoden där det spridda materialet sammanförts för att lyfta en mer komplex sida av historien. Genom att tillämpa ett genusperspektiv utifrån Yvonne Hirdmans hushållskontrakt och Fanny Ambjörnssons resonemang om normer undersöker jag skälen till uppkomsten av husmoderssemestern, under vilka förväntningar och viljor den etablerades och förbereddes, samt vad husmödrarnas egna reaktioner och upplevelser av semestrandet blev. Resultatet av denna studie visar hur husmoderssemestern var ett semesterfenomen menat åt sämre bemedlade husmödrar. På semestern separerades husmodern från familjen och fick vistas på ett semesterhem specifikt anpassat åt husmödrar. Husmoderssemestern kunde å ena sidan vara ett sätt för kvinnan att hållas kvar i hemmets sfär, men å andra sidan utgjorde husmoderssemestern en unik möjlighet till självreflektion. Detta kom att bestrida folkhemmets husmodersideal om den moderna, rationaliserade och kunniga husmodern.

Under det tidiga 1900-talet hade kafferepet sin storhetstid. Allra vanligast var kafferepen i vardagslag, där kvinnor fick en paus i sin arbetsdag för att dricka kaffe, äta kakor och samtala med sina väninnor. Syftet med undersökningen är att analysera hur kafferep i hemmen under 1900-talets första decennier uppfattades och genomfördes, samt i relation till vilka företeelser som kafferepet får sin mening. Vidare är syftet att belysa hur ideal och praktiker i kafferepet kan förstås som kulturyttringar i förhållande till tidsanda, ritual och kvinnors livssammanhang. Detta görs med utgångspunkt i frågelistan Kafferep och kaffebjudning (LUF148), tidningen Husmodern och etikettsböcker utgivna av tidskriften, samt annat arkivmaterial från det tidiga 1900-talet. I materialet framträder berättelser om hur kafferepet var en betydelsefull bjudning med gemenskapen i fokus, men också hur det på olika sätt var socialt villkorat och fungerade som en klassmarkör. Framförallt var kafferepet en tillställning av stark rituell karaktär. Därtill tar undersökningen fasta på att kafferepet var en het politisk fråga som dök upp i olika samhällsdebatter i såväl moraliska argumentationer runt sekelskiftet 1900 – till diskussioner om produktivitet och modernitet i välfärdsstaten Sverige.

Denna uppsats handlar om hur tangodansen som praktik bli till genom intra-aktiva utbyten mellan mänskliga och materiella kroppar, samt vad som krävs för att uppnå ett tillstång av flow. De icke-mänskliga aktörer som undersökts i denna studie är musiken, skorna, kläderna och golvet, där även rummet har inkluderats. Vidare kan dessa kroppar genom detta inta-aktiva utbyte också smälta samman och skapa något som inte kan existera utan de olika aktörernas samarbete. I denna sammansmältning går det att uppnå ett tillstånd av flow som bara kan infinna sig då ingen av aktörerna skaver mot varandra och skapar distraktioner från den kroppsliga närvaron i dansen.

Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka kvinnliga yrkesmusikers erfarenheter av moderskap och musicerande. Empirin består av intervjuer med sju stockholmsverksamma frilansmusiker, samt boken Musiker & Mamma (2017) — en antologi skriven av musicerande mammor. Uppsatsen undersöker musicerande och modrande som praktiker, samt hur dessa utövas i vardagslivet. Vidare analyseras hur kvinnorna i materialet positioneras av diskurser, samt hur olika praktiker och handlingsrepertoarer konstrueras genom detta. En central slutsatsär att musicerandet villkoras på ett omvälvande sätt genom moderskapet, vilket riskerar att förstärka strukturella exkluderingsmekanismer. Samtidigt leder dessa erfarenheter till unika former av modrande och konstnärliga praktiker. Uppsatsen avslutas med förslag på hurvillkoren kan förbättras för kvinnor som musicerar och modrar.