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As feminist comics circulate globally, understanding their transfer from local to international contexts is crucial. Original comics’ local feminism risks erasure in the translation process, favouring elements suiting the target culture. This study examines how Pénélope Bagieu’s comics work is reinscribed in the Swedish comics landscape. Selection and reception instances are analysed drawing on translation and cultural transfer studies. The study traces the selection instance by publishing houses and the reception of Bagieu and French feminist comics in Francophone and Swedish comics scenes. Results show increased recognition of French and Francophone female and feminist comics artists in Sweden after 2010. Incoming female comics artists often get niched in children’s literature, despite potential within the feminist comics landscape. Sweden shows unawareness of the gap between locally promoted feminist comics and the reception of imported equivalents. Selection and reception orchestration crucially impact how a work is received in the target culture. Awareness of incoming feminist comics artists’ works and their connections to works in the target culture can offer nuanced perspectives on cross-border development in the field., Ebook published online 30 September 2024.

By drawing on ethnographic and historical accounts of migrant smuggling and forgery from the smugglers’ perspectives, this essay shifts the focus from a state-centric understanding of smuggling as a criminal activity conducted by ‘greedy’ individuals and ‘mafia rings’, to a specific form of practice that operates through a series of concrete material techniques. It argues that smuggling recognises and reworks the material and technological features of borders which are vulnerable to reappropriation. These vulnerabilities inherent to the materialisation of abstract notions such as borders are understood and discussed as ‘reproducibility’, ‘repetition’, and ‘imitation’. Smuggling not only reconfigures the apparatus of borders to provide support for those who are denied access to mobility, but also can teach us something about a specific mode of critique that I call a material mode of critique. The material mode of critiquing borders goes beyond a discursive mode which mostly locates politicians, academics, and activists as the critics of border politics. This mode can open up new possibilities of thinking about and against borders.

This chapter is a scholarly play in four acts. It is inspired by a series of discussions between three legal researchers (Van Dijk, Epstein and De Vries) and a cultural theorist (Goriunova), about proposals to grant legal personhood to two types of non-human entities: nature and artificial intelligence. We queried whether doing so would help meet challenges such as environmental catastrophes and co-existence with opaque and unpredictable AI systems. In Act I (Divergences) Law and Critical Theory present their respective positions, but fail to gain any understanding of each other. Law defends a neutral legal pragmatism, while critical theory debunks all claims to neutrality. Act II and Act III present two fictional narratives: one plays out in a courtroom where a man is suspected of the murder of a river (Act II) and the other features an AI-system addressing the European Parliament (Act III). By discussing these counterfactual narratives in Act IV (Convergences), Law and Critical Theory are, at least partially, able to see how there could be cross-fertilization between their respective positions: one has to take into consideration how legal personhood operates both inside the court room as well as how it impacts the world outside; and one can travel towards an “enlarged pragmatism” that focuses on the possibilities of masks, fiction and play in expressing different voices, perspectives and ontologies.

Introduction. This thesis investigates the digitisation of Indigenous collections at the Museum of World Culture (Gothenburg, Sweden), with particular attention to Carlotta’s role in shaping the digital collections. Previous studies have shown that there is a need for more research on the practical aspects of digitisation efforts on Indigenous cultural heritage in Sweden. Method. The museum’s documentation—digitisation strategies, annual reports and other official documents—was explored. In addition, several interviews and participant observations were conducted. Qualitative content analysis was used to evaluate the empirical data Analysis. The qualitative analyses of this study’s empirical data used postcritical and postcolonial museological theories. Additionally, Bhabha´s Third Space theory was applied Results. The results show that the digitisation of collections at the museum according to the organisation´s plans, applying the recommended guidelines and considering the ethical implications that arise when working with Indigenous material has not been achieved. Moreover, the results show that Carlotta is not a suitable collections management system for Indigenous cultural heritage. Conclusion. This study concludes that the Museum of World Culture needs to adapt the goals of its digitisation processes to the type of collections and resources they have and incorporate a decolonisation computing approach. In addition, there is a need for official regulations or guidelines addressed to those working with Indigenous collections in Swedish libraries, archives and museums., The thesis was funded by the Swedish National Archives (Riksarkivet samfond 2023).

Syftet med denna studie är att nå fördjupad kunskap kring attityder till och upplevelser av arbetspendling. Uppsatsens frågeställningar är vilka direkta och indirekta svårigheter och utmaningar den enskilde upplever under sin arbetspendling. Kvalitativ metod har använts och tre personer ur skolans personal har intervjuats. Dessa primärdata har sedan analyserats med hjälp av Hägerstrands (1970) tidsgeografiska modell och Legrain et al. (2015) teori om objektiv och subjektiv stress. Tidigare forskning visar att arbetspendling har betydelse för människors vardag, matchning på arbetsmarknad och ekonomisk tillväxt. Arbetspendling kan genom ökad rörlighet skapa möjligheter för individer att hitta ett bättre boende och eller arbete. Arbetspendling kan ha negativa konsekvenser för individens välbefinnande och bidra till stress, trötthet och minskad livskvalité. Undersökningens resultatet visar att intervjuperson 1, som åker kollektivt har högre kapacitetsrestriktioner än vad intervjuperson 2 och 3 har som åker bil. Intervjuperson 1 har barn i både förskole- och skolåldern och är beroende av dessa verksamheters tider dvs. styrningsrestriktioner. Av intervjusvaren framgår att han är den mest stressade och missnöjda av de intervjuade. Analysen är att denna stress och missnöje grundar sig i att han inte har kontroll över rummet och över sin tidsanvändning. Av intervjusvar framgår att intervjuperson 1, som åker kollektivt behöver 2x70 minuter till sin överföring per dag. Intervjuperson 2 och 3 behöver 2x20 minuter. Intervjuperson 1 har lämnat över ansvaret för hämtning och lämning till och från dagis, skola och aktiviteter till annan familjemedlem. Både denna studie och tidigare forskning visar att tidtabellbelagda kollektiva transportmedel begränsar möjligheten att ta del av omgivningens utbud. Uppsatsens slutsatser är: att Intervjuperson 2 och 3 är beredda att ta den ökade kostnaden för att åka bil, då komforten är bättre och livskvalitén högre. Att den lägre nöjdheten hos

I denna studie undersöker vi hur individer som är verksamma inom kulturarvssektorn i Halland beskriver och förstår digitalisering av kulturarv i jämförelse med vad som står om digitalisering av kulturarv i Hallands fyra befintliga kulturplaner. För att undersöka detta gjordes kvalitativa intervjuer med nio kvinnliga personer som är verksamma inom kulturarvssektorn i Halland. Därefter gjordes en tematisk analys av transkriberingarna och Hallands befintliga kulturplaner. Den tematiska analysen resulterade i sex teman, förståelse för kulturarv, förståelse för digitalisering, förståelse kring digitalisering av kulturarv, tillgänglighet, relationen till den fysiska platsen och kunskap & ansvar. Genom dessa teman visade resultatet på att det finns kopplingar mellan intervjupersonernas förståelse för digitalisering av kulturarv och Hallands befintliga kulturplaner. Dessa teman representerar de kopplingar som vi anser finns mellan intervjupersonernas svar och Hallands kulturplaner. Tillgänglighet var den främsta gemensamma kopplingen mellan intervjupersonernas förståelse för digitalisering av kulturarv och Hallands befintliga kulturplaner, eftersom både respondenterna och kulturplanerna betonar tillgänglighet i relation till de andra av våra framtagna teman och benämns mest.

Since 1958, Moderna Museet has housed Sweden’s largest collection of Swedish and international modern and contemporary art. This thesis examines the 21st-century collecting strategies and policy development of Moderna Museet, with a focus on diversity and representation, using intersectional theory and queer studies. Through both quantitative and qualitative methods, including statistics, archival research, discourse analysis, institutional ethnography and interviews with five curators, this study reveals how acquisition policies align with the museum’s aim to diversify its Eurocentric and North American-oriented collection. Fisher’s exact (statistical) test shows differences between the Swedish and international collections, as well as significant gender disparities between donated and purchased artists, indicating a structural unequal pattern regarding donations. Gender and nationality emerge as disciplinary parameters and social constructions for artist registration within the museum database. The findings underscore the slow, systemic change in Moderna Museet, influenced by power structures, external factors, and the museum’s institutional history. In contrast to the 1990s, diversity in the 21st century is continually negotiated and pursued performatively and discursively, rather than implemented through a goal-oriented policy.

Vi lever i ett samhälle där teknik och internet tar alltmer plats i vårt dagliga liv, särskilthos barn. Detta bidrar till en tillgänglighet som kan vara positiv på många sätt, men somockså kan leda till en hel del utmaningar. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hurvillkoren sett ut för den ideella barnrättsorganisationen ECPAT Sveriges förebyggandearbete mot sexuell exploatering av barn på nätet. För att undersöka detta genomförs endiskursanalys. Studien har ett kvalitativt förhållningssätt och bygger på ECPATSveriges verksamhetsberättelser mellan åren 2005–2022. De identifierade diskurserna ärekonomisk diskurs, utbildningsdiskurs, juridisk diskurs, globaliseringsdiskurs ochteknisk diskurs. Diskurserna analyseras med en diskursteori inspirerad av MichelFoucault (1972). Resultaten av analysen visade att villkoren präglas av både utmaningaroch möjligheter som främst kännetecknas av den tekniska utvecklingen i samhället,attityder gentemot problematiken och barns digitala verklighet, samt samarbeten medolika institutioner, civilsamhällsaktörer och allmänheten. Vi kunde se en avsaknad kringtidigare forskning som behandlar kommersialisering av barnpornografi ochbetalningsmetoder, framförallt nya, som används vid köp av barnpornografi på nätet.Avslutningsvis önskas ytterligare forskning kring problematiken sexuell exploatering avbarn på nätet då det är ett stort och aktuellt samhällsproblem., We live in a society where technology and the internet take up a lot of space in our day-to-day life, especially for children. This contributes to an accessibility that can be positive in many ways, but that also can lead to a lot of challenges. The aim of thisstudy is to examine the conditions of the non-profit children’s rights organizationECPAT Sweden’s preventive work against sexual exploitation of children online, byconducting a discourse analysis. The study has a qualitative approach and is based onECPAT Sweden’s activity reports between the years of 2005-2022. The identifieddiscourses are economic discourse, education discourse, law discourse, globaldiscourse, and technical discourse. The discourses are analysed with a discourse theoryinspired by Michel Foucault (1972). The results of the analysis show that the conditionsare characterised by both challenges and opportunities which are mainly defined by thetechnical development in society, attitudes towards the problem and children’s digitalreality, and collaborations with various institutions, civil society actors and the public.We noticed a lack in previous research addressing the commercialization of childpornography and payment methods, especially new ones, that are used to purchase childpornography online. Finally, further research within the subject of sexual exploitation ofchildren online is requested as it is a major and current social problem.

This thesis draws on the theory of new materialism to posit an alternative approach to cultural heritage digitization. Modifying the method of critical digitization and synthesizing it with the method of thick description for the study of damaged cultural heritage, this thesis proposes the method weird digitization which seeks to challenge traditional selection criteria for cultural heritage digitization as well as challenging practices of mass digitization. Seeking to identify the cultural heritage objects that may be overlooked using traditional selection criteria as well as ones that may pose challenges to digitization, this approach seeks to highlight the value of damaged or otherwise “weird” cultural heritage while exploring how the digitization of these materials may practically be undertaken. This approach is practically assessed through the exploratory digitization and analysis of selected damaged photographs in the IKFF (Internationella Kvinnoförbundet för Fred och Frihet) collection housed within the KvinnSam (the Swedish National Resource Library for Gender Studies) archive at the Gothenburg University Library. The discussion explores the pragmatic, affective, and artistic benefits of such an approach to cultural heritage digitization.

Syftet med denna studie är att förstå hur studenter inom fakulteten teknik och samhälle påverkats av den påtvingade distansundervisningen. Studien handlar därmed om att undersöka vilka möjligheter, utmaningar och risker som tidigare studenter upplevt under covid-19 pandemin och dess digitala omställning. Undersökningen och resultaten ämnar att bistå som ett underlag inför ett eventuellt förbättringsarbete inom Malmö universitet. De risker som identifieras utifrån uppsatsens resultat kan likställas med potentiella lärdomar som bör tas hänsyn till för att kunna uppnå en lika hög kvalitet på den digitala undervisningen som den campusbaserade. Med hjälp av intervjuer som undersökningsmetod kan studien göra sig underrättad om hur en sådan digital omställning fungerar och upplevs. Totalt genomfördes åtta intervjuer, vilka omfattades av både studenter och lärare inom Malmö universitet. Resultatet och analysen visade att den digitala omställningen resulterade i flera omfattande risker som både påverkade studenternas motivation, engagemang, koncentrationsförmåga och sociala hälsa. Covid-19 pandemins hastiga och omfattande omställning visade även på en högre stressnivå för lärarna, där de varken fick tillräckligt med information inför omställningen eller tiden till att hinna anpassa och reformera kurserna. Följden av detta blev att studenterna upplevde lärarna till att ha bristande kunskaper inom de digitala verktygen som användes, vilket därtill ledde till en sämre kvalitet på undervisningen. Slutsatsen är att den påtvingade digitala undervisningen involverat flera utmaningar och risker som försvårat studiemotivationen och engagemanget. Fortsättningsvis upplevde universitetsstudenterna i denna studie att de minskade och försvårade kontakterna ledde till en försämrad hälsa och motivation.

1856 började Statens Järnvägar med gods- och persontrafik och någon gång under början av 1860-talet så uppstod önskemålet att ha uppvärmning i förstaklasskupéer under de kalla vintermånaderna. Därmed så infördes den första uppvärmningen i personvagnar. Systemet som infördes köptes in från företaget Lauenstein & Co, Hamburg, där man även köpte in de första personvagnarna till Statens Järnvägar. Värmesystemet etablerades i de svenska personvagnarna under det tidiga 1860-talet och kom senare att utvecklas för att bättre passa det skandinaviska klimatet. Värmesystemet som kom att bli det svenska systemet var i stället för att vara baserat på varmvatten, som i andra delar av Centraleuropa, baserad på uppvärmning av sand. Det kom att kallas för sandvärmesystemet. Cylindrar fylldes med uppvärmd sand som sedan placerades under sofforna i så kallade blecklådor. På utvalda stationer så fanns det ugnar och personal för att hantera uppvärmningen och utbyte av cylindrarna. Värmesystemet var i bruk under cirka ett årtionde innan det sedan byttes ut mot ångvärmen under 1870-talet. Eftersom det skrotades ifrån Statens Järnvägar under det tidiga 1870-talet så är det väldigt lite som eventuellt har överlevt och finns bevarat idag i de museala samlingarna., In 1856, the State Railways began transporting goods and passengers and sometime in the early 1860s, the desire arose to have heating in first class compartments during the cold winter months. Therefore, the first heating system was introduced in passenger carriages. The system that was introduced was purchased from the company Lauenstein & Co, Hamburg, where the first passenger coaches for the State Railways were also purchased. The heating system was established in the Swedish passenger carriages in the early 1860s and was over time developed to better suit the Scandinavian climate. The heating system that became the Swedish system, instead of being based on hot water as used in other parts of central Europe, was instead based on heated sand. It came to be called the sand heating system. Cylinders were filled with heated sand which was then placed under the sofas in so-called tin boxes. At selected stations there were ovens and staff to manage the heating and replacement of the cylinders. The heating system was in use for about a decade before being replaced by steam heating in the 1870s. Since it was scrapped from the State Railways in the early 1870s, very little has actually survived and is preserved today in the museum collections.

Idag är omkring 100 miljoner människor runt om i världen på flykt från krig och förföljelse. Nyhetsjournalistikens roll är att förse människor med information, men nyhetsjournalistiken är inte alltid en neutral spegel av verkligheten. Denna studie bygger på en kritisk diskursanalys och syftet är att analysera diskursen kring syriska och ukrainska flyktingar på ledarsidorna i Göteborgs-Posten och Sydsvenskan. Teorioch metod för studien bygger på Faircloughs tredimensionella modell som beskriver språkbruk utifrån tre aspekter: text, diskursiv praktik och social praktik. Denna studie fokuserar på att analysera text. Den diskursiva och sociala praktiken benämns och analyseras i mindre utsträckning. Studien visar på vissa skillnader i gestaltandet av syriska och ukrainska flyktingar, där syriska flyktingar har större tendens att framställas i en kontext av problematik och ukrainska flyktingar i behov av hjälp.

Syftet med vår studie är att undersöka svårigheterna i pedagogers arbete med flerspråkighet, i förhållande till målet i förskolans läroplan. Målet i Läroplan för förskolan: Lpfö 18, (Skolverket 2018) betonar att “Barn med annat modersmål än svenska ska ges möjlighet att utveckla både det svenska språket och sitt modersmål” (Lpfö 18 s. 8). Fokuset har även varit att tydliggöra hur pedagoger arbetar med flerspråkiga barn och hur barnen får de rätta förutsättningarna för att utveckla både sitt modersmål och det svenska språket. För att kunna få svar på syftet och frågeställningarna har vi använt oss av en kvalitativ studie, där vi har genomfört fyra semistrukturerade intervjuer med personer som är verksamma i förskolan. För att analysera vår insamlade empiri har vi använt oss av läroplansteorin med koppling till formulerings, - transformerings, - och realiseringsarenan för att kunna se hur pedagogernas arbete i förskolan främjar utveckling och lärande för flerspråkiga barn som inte har svenska som modersmål. Resultatet av studien visar att pedagogerna ser flerspråkighet som en tillgång i förskolans verksamhet men det framkommer även att det kan finnas svårigheter i arbetet med flerspråkighet. I pedagogernas arbete använder de sig av verksamma metoder för att flerspråkiga barn ska få de bästa förutsättningarna för att utveckla båda sina språk. Vår slutsats är att inte se flerspråkighet som ett hinder utan som en tillgång som öppnar upp dörrarna till nya möjligheter och till en gemenskap. En annan slutsats är att pedagogerna behöver vara flexibla i sitt arbete och uppmärksamma för ta tillvara på de olika språk som barnet besitter.

The Roma community has long been subjected to negative stereotypes and misrepresentations in the public sphere, leading to discrimination and prejudice. Roma youth in Glasgow, Scotland, supported by the Roma-led organisation Romano Lav, have taken an active role in challenging these negative portrayals through a participatory film project. One of the aims of this research is to explore how young Roma filmmakers are utilising cinematic storytelling to challenge harmful stereotyping of their community. The other one is to investigate the impact of participatory video projects on the film creators and their community. The study fits within the field of Communication for Development by addressing the transformative and empowering aspect of a film project. It aims to fill a gap in knowledge regarding self-representations of Roma and the role of participatory video in their community accounting for cultural specificity. It also adds an insight into the Romani youth’s attitudes and values, contributing this way to a broader knowledge of Scottish Roma while suggesting solutions for social change. By employing qualitative research methodologies, critical visual analysis and interviews, the study seeks to understand the experiences, perspectives, and motivations of the teenagers involved in the project. It is grounded in Paolo Freire’s theories linking participation and empowerment and Stuart Hall’s constructivist approach to representation. The analysis finds that the Roma youth use personal narratives, cultural traditions, and everyday experiences to construct new representations that challenge stereotypes. Moreover, it highlights the transformative impact of participatory video on the empowerment of the participants, its influence on strengthening communal identity and social bonds, and the film’s educational role in building a more equitable society. This study found that participatory video harnesses great potential for Roma self-representation and empowerment.

Publicly funded art institutions in Sweden are tasked with the mission of making contemporary art available and accessible to the citizens. This thesis investigates three cases of publicly funded art institutions in Sweden, namely Göteborgs Konsthall, Malmö Konsthall and Liljevalchs Konsthall. The study examines the exhibitions presented by the institutions during the fall of 2023 and how they are curated to be inclusive or exclusive towards visitor groups. By using a model of curatorial values in conjunction with a constructed model of the exhibition as social space, inspired by Henri Lefebvre’s concept “social space”, this research will reveal different strategies used by the institutions for mediating curatorial intentions through the exhibitions. Empirically the thesis is based on observations of three exhibitions and their visitors and interviews with exhibition hosts. The material is used to examine how the institutions work towards different audiences and how curatorial decisions influence visitor behaviour within the selected institutions. The results show that the three cases differ in curatorial decisions and values. Further, the social space model used indicates that institutions differ in how they award agency to visitors. The analysis shows that visitors, by acting in unpredictable ways, contribute to the social space of exhibitions in ways not intended by the curator. In conclusion, this study shows that the mission of the municipality-driven art institution is multifaceted and holds challenges when attempting to engage a broad audience while displaying exhibitions of high artistic integrity. The curatorial choices reflect in the audience and these choices therefore determine who will partake in the exhibition. The curator therefore plays a crucial role in how the exhibitions work with inclusivity.

This research delves into the realm of dark tourism, specifically examining four European sites with challenging cultural legacies: Auschwitz, Anne Frank's House, the Berlin Wall, and the Catacombs of Paris. Dark tourism includes visits to locations associated with themes of death, suffering, and catastrophe. The primary intention is to explore the motivations of tourists and navigate the ethical considerations. The study integrates survey data and qualitative analysis to uncover the diverse motivations of visitors, with 41 people participating in the survey. The results highlight a spectrum of reasons for exploration, including historical interest, curiosity and a willingness to understand. Ethical concerns emerge as influential factors while deciding either to engage with or avoid specific sites. The outcomes of this research contribute valuable insights to the understanding of dark tourism within the European landscape, unraveling the dynamics between memory, history and tourist experiences.

Email X (Twitter) Facebook LinkedIn PrintL’Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, communément appelée Francophonie, représente les pays et régions francophones du monde entier. Malgré les critiques persistantes sur sa nature bureaucratique, les origines de la Francophonie remontent à la création de la première agence multilatérale francophone au Niger, en mars 1970. Cette organisation est née d’un débat politique et d’un consensus., Publicerad 2024-03-20

Our bodies and food consumption are increasingly becoming markers of social identity in contemporary societies. We often participate in diet culture by monitoring and controlling our food intake through eating restrictions and physical exercise to keep a bulging body in check. This contemporary diet culture has been criticized for embodying impossible fitness ideals and producing a pathological obsession with food. In this article, we will analyze the growing contemporary phenomenon of intuitive eating (IE) as an alternative to diet culture and explore how it is explained, promoted, and legitimized on the social media platform TikTok. By using the Foucauldian concept of self-transformative practices, we illustrate how self-discipline is performed by IE content creators. The analysis shows that the IE approach is psychologized as part of a therapeutic discourse and, at the same time, it is a way for young women to resist the diet culture to become empowered in their self-transformation. The analysis illustrates how the IE approach can be understood as a part of a self-transformative project, and how achieving the position as an intuitive eater requires an increase in self-awareness. As such, we argue that the content creators produce a specific psychologized discourse of hunger and an affectively-disciplined subject, all represented as freedom from diet culture.

The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, commonly known as the Francophonie, represents French-speaking countries and regions worldwide. Despite enduring criticism about its bureaucratic nature, the Francophonie’s origins date back to the establishment of the first multilateral francophone agency in Niger in March 1970 and was born of political debate and consensus., Publicerad 2024-03-12

Cultural sociology can be useful for uncovering factors facilitating and hindering immigrant incorporation. The process of incorporation blends different logics and pressures, where the work of incorporation is divided between immigrants who pursue incorporation, and social groups (from nations, to communities, and from classrooms to corporations) that facilitate, hinder, and shape trajectories of inclusion. Cultural sociology has much to contribute to our understanding of the relation between immigrants and the role of others in the process of incorporation. In this essay, I first summarize underlying ideas in the cultural sociology of immigration and immigrant incorporation. I argue that incorporation entails two types of agency on the part of immigrants: mastery and change-making. I then bring three books, Elizabeth Becker’s (Mosques in the metropolis: incivility, caste, and contention in Europe. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2021), Nancy Foner’s (One quarter of the nation: immigration and the transformation of America. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2022), and Heba Gowayed’s (Refuge: how the state shapes human potential. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2022), into conversation with cultural theory, reflecting on how the theory challenges the books, and also how the books challenge the theory. I conclude with a proposal for a new approach to thinking about processes of incorporation as consisting of emplacement and acceptance. Adopting this approach contributes to cultural theory by eliminating the need for an outgroup in the construction of the social solidarity.

With the alignment of opinion and thought around the fear of climate change, one wonders whether literature is not being given a role in documenting or even projecting a world caught up in physical constraints. This impoverishment of imaginary reinforces the feeling of green-washing with a risk of reification; there is thus a need to explore the outlines of a decolonial ecology. In Haiti, marked by memories of a successful revolution with the installation of the world’s first black republic, the socio-historical violence caused by colonialism and dictatorship has accentuated the succession of natural disasters like the Earthquake in 2010. This is why a certain generation of French-speaking writers such as Frankétienne have proposed the canons of a spiralist aesthetic that finds in language a vitalist poetics with the promotion of a chaophony that can bypass the repetition of catastrophes and thwart the traps of discourse. This article presents Frankétienne’s chaophony and connects this poetic ambition to this spiralist aesthetic that renews the framework of decoloniality., Man kan läsa en presentation av artikeln på följande sidan: Premat, Christophe (2022). Contourner les catastrophes, le défi chaophone de Frankétienne. Stockholm University. Conference contribution. https://doi.org/10.17045/sthlmuni.21711032.v1

Over the past decade, a plethora of online safe spaces have emerged on social media and have gained significant popularity amongst Swedish youth. Focusing on social injustices, these safe spaces operate as accessible discussion forums for youth across the country and highlight some of the key issues faced by youth. This chapter examines how issues relating to online activism, anti-Blackness and decoloniality can be explored drawing on the concepts of Afro-Pessimism and Black Optimism. This is exemplified through empirical data from online safe spaces and how participants in these spaces conceptualize what activism is, how it relates to theories on decoloniality and anti-racism and how conflicting views are discussed and negotiated. The chapter pays particular attention to discussions of anti-Blackness and topics closely related to the Black Lives Matter movement, capturing the overlap with and influences from a global social movement. Further, the chapter illustrates how these safe spaces are conceptualized by the ‘adult’ world outside of them by analysing debates on anti-racism in news press. This section discusses how youth activism in general, and anti-racist youth activism, is framed as provocative, identity political and founded in distorted understandings of political theory.

This thesis focuses on the stories of activists in Kosovo and why and how they resist in a context where powerful actors increasingly use strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPP) as a new mode of exercising power. The thesis seeks to understand resistance and new ways of exercising resistance in the context of SLAPP. Resistance is conceptualized using Hannah Arendt’s notion of storytelling as an inspiration. The importance of storytelling as a new way of resisting SLAPP lawsuits and the role of social media today in raising public attention and awareness. A qualitative design is applied to understand the stories of activists. More specifically, the thesis uses social constructivism and the hermeneutic circle as a basis for the research. The thesis concludes by analyzing and discussing why and how actors resist and what they do to counter SLAPP. Five implications for resistance are drawn here: what provokes activism and resistance in the first place, natality as an occurrence that invokes resistance, storytelling as a mechanism for creating a common space and connecting others by creating alliances, establishing boundaries, and creating friend vs enemy positions at the end.

In the academic field of tourism, a relatively new type of tourism called Dark Sky Tourism is emerging. In this touristic field, there is a lack of studies focused on the individual tourist perspective. Therefore, this paper explores the perceived values of Dark Sky Tourism (DST). This study uses a deductive exploratory approach to understand the characteristics of DST in the context of experience value and perceived value and to connect it with two different value typologies. The data were collected through a netnographic research method by analyzing five different social media platforms. Subsequently, thematic analysis was utilized to analyze the data. The analysis resulted in five correspondent themes that were relevant throughout all of the collected data. These themes are as follows: (1) Aesthetic Significance, (2) Therapeutic Experiences, (3) Exploration and Curiosity, (4) Low-budget Appeal, and finally, (5) Nature and Heritage. The results of this study provide a holistic picture of what DST is all about and what individual Dark Sky Tourists value in DST. Future potential DST destinations can use this study to understand how to build an optimal DST experience.

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

Kapitlet handlar om berättelser om städning i etnografiskt intervjumaterial och skönlitteratur. Kapitlet diskuterar städningens (o)berättbarhet och relationen mellan produktiv och reproduktiv tid. Begreppet "obliven tid" introduceras som ett sätt att teoretisera städningens tid som en sorts icke-händelse. Även generationsproblematik och begreppet "reproduktiv framtidslighet" berörs i relation till städning. Exempel på skildringar av städning där barns och vuxnas tid gestaltas hämtas från Karl-Ove Knausgårds, Linda Skugges, Kerstin Thorvalls och Astrid Lindgrens författarskap., Denna bok utges gemensamt av Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland och Appell Förlag.Boken ingår även i Svenska barnboksinstitutets serie: Skrifter utgivna av Svenska barnboksinstitutet, 0347-5387; 167.

This report is written by students in the Ethnic and Migration Studies Master’s Programme, part of the Research Institute in Migration, Ethnicity, and Society (REMESO) at Linköping University, based on the Norrköping campus. REMESO is an internationally renowned institute that pursues research in migration and ethnic relations. The Master’s Programme is highly sought after, with students coming from all over the world to attend. Their interest in how migration transforms the world and how it influences other social phenomena has fuelled their work in this publication. In their first year of studies, students take the course Critical Cases in Ethnic and Migration Studies, led by Erik Berggren as course coordinator and Kenna Sim-Sarka. The course is designed for students to apply the theoretical knowledge and experiences gained throughout the first year’s courses to produce articles beyond an academic audience for the broader public. Each REMS report is based around a specific theme, with previous themes including migration and Covid-19, migration and Ukraine, and migration and democracy. The REMS report is one of the many ways in which we, as students, are trained to identify and analyse issues related to migration, integration, and diversity and to make research accessible to a wider audience. This year’s overarching theme is Migration and Culture, sparked by recent developments in Sweden’s and Norrköping’s politics of decreasing and cutting funds for cultural activities. Arts and culture are both areas of expression for migrant communities and people on the move, as well as those fighting against racism, discrimination, and exclusion. The current debate on “Swedish culture” and on a “Swedish cultural canon” recalls monolithic understandings of culture as a natural and immutable construct, contributing to the polarisation of views rather than the multiplication of perspectives and conceptions of it. Like culture, which can be visualised as a tapestry created from di

The American Climate Emergency Narrative reveals reveals how much of what has been called "climate fiction" casts ecological breakdown as an emergency for American capitalist modernity rather than for the planet. The book traces the origins of this narrative back to the arrival of settler capitalism in America, when the understanding of the planet and its people as extractable resources was established. Since then, this narrative has elided the violent history of the climate crisis while at the same time leveraging the military as a bulwark against the crises capitalism has caused, the people it has uprooted, even the ailing planet itself., Militarising the Anthropocene

This article takes as its starting point the realization that existing food regimes and the food systems that enable them are the main drivers of climate change. This, the article notes, is a systemic challenge, but also a profoundly cultural issue as the way that people eat is deeply connected to questions of identity and belonging. The article enters this field of inquiry by studying how the awareness that current food systems are unsustainable is being mediatized and narrated in popular fiction and film. This media often depicts humans in worlds where the current food system has collapsed, forcing also people in the Global North to move or otherwise adapt to a changing climate, and, in the process, to profoundly alter the way they eat. The article discusses two visual texts: Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer (2013), and John Hillcoat’s The Road (2009). The analysis of these texts shows that they employ food, eating and migration to make life in a future transformed by climate change comprehensible to the reader. The article also investigates how the fiction studied connects food and eating to the existing world-system and thus to the material history that is driving the climate crisis., Future Food Imaginaries in Global Climate Fiction

Denna studie undersöker potentialen för frodvuxen gran (Picea abies) som isoleringsmaterial i historiska byggnader, med syftet att utvärdera sambandet mellan densitet och värmeledningsförmåga. Bakgrunden till studien ligger i behovet av hållbara och effektiva isoleringsmaterial som kan användas för att förbättra energiprestandan i byggnader samtidigt som de bevarar deras historiska karaktär och estetiska värde. Frodvuxen gran har växt snabbt vilket lett till en lägre densitet än lägsta värdet som finns att tillgå i den svenska standarden för olika materials värmeledningsförmågor. Metodologin innefattade både laboratorieanalyser och fältstudier. I laboratoriedelen användes ett hot-disk instrument för att mäta värmeledningsförmåga sedan beräknades densitet och fuktkvot. Fältstudierna genomfördes för att identifiera praktiska tillämpningar och utmaningar vid användning av frodvuxen gran som konstruktionsmaterial. Dessa studier omfattade inspektioner av byggnader uppförda med frodvuxen gran och intervju med ansvarig för uppförandet av dessa byggnader för att utreda dess potentiella funktion som konstruktionsmaterial. Huvudresultaten från laboratorieanalyserna visade ett starkt samband mellan densitet och värmeledningsförmåga, vilket indikerar att frodvuxen gran med sin lägre densitet har förbättrade isoleringsegenskaper jämfört med senvuxen gran. Fältstudierna bekräftade att frodvuxen gran kan användas som konstruktionsmaterial i byggnader, men pekade också på dess benägenhet till större rörelser vid uttorkning vilket dock går att räkna på för att undvika att problem uppstår vid torkning. Slutsatserna visar att frodvuxen gran kan vara ett värdefullt tillskott till befintliga isoleringsmaterial tack vare dess förbättrade isoleringsförmåga. Studien rekommenderar vidare forskning för att undersöka långsiktiga nedbrytningseffekter och materialets fuktegenskaper, vilket är avgörande för dess praktis, This study investigates the potential of fast-grown spruce (Picea abies) as an insulation material in historic buildings, aiming to evaluate the relationship between density and thermal conductivity. The background of the study lies in the need for sustainable and efficient insulation materials that can be used to improve the energy performance of buildings while preserving their historical character and aesthetic value. Fast-grown spruce has a lower density then the lowest available in the Swedish standard for materials heat conductivity. The methodology included both laboratory analyses and field studies. In the laboratory part, a hot-disk instrument was used to measure thermal conductivity, followed by calculations of density and moisture content. The field studies were conducted to identify practical applications and challenges in using fast-grown spruce as a construction material. These studies involved inspections of buildings constructed with fast-grown spruce and interviews with those responsible for their construction to investigate its potential functionality as a construction material. The main results from the laboratory analyses showed a strong correlation between density and thermal conductivity, indicating that fast-grown spruce, with its lower density, has improved insulation properties compared to slow-grown spruce. The field studies confirmed that fast-grown spruce can be used as a construction material in buildings, but also pointed out its tendency to exhibit greater movement during drying, which can be accounted for to prevent issues during the drying process. The conclusions suggest that fast-grown spruce can be a valuable addition to existing insulation materials due to its improved insulation performance. The study recommends further research to examine long-term degradation effects and the material's moisture properties, which are critical for its practical use in buildings. Additionally, further research should investigate the ability of

Over more than a century of museum and heritage practices, it has been maintained that we need to protect and preserve the past for the benefit of future generations. Emerging discussions in Heritage Studies on heritage futures have started to challenge the axiomatic nature of this rhetoric, showing that preservation is not always the best (or sole) way to address the future in museum and heritage practices. Here we draw on these emerging discussions to address museum futures and other heritage futures. We elaborate on examples of possible futures in museums and heritage practices, including aspects of security policy and mobilization of civil societies in conflict situations, museum and heritage activism for the future, climate change and ways to embrace change to accommodate for sustainable futures. From our results we see variation in how futures are anticipated in museum and heritage practices, including addressing futures as: (1) unspoken and implicit; (2) as a contemporary agenda to act from; or (3) as an unfinished process that informs contemporary practices., Unesco chair on Heritage Futures

Studies across countries emphasizes that communication barriers can severely hinder access to health care services by migrants, leading to health inequities. The aim of this explorative research was to gain a deeper understanding of migrants’ perspectives on public health communication in Jönköping, Sweden. Empirical data has been gathered through multicultural focus groups with migrants from countries outside Europe, living in the county of Jönköping. The data has been analyzed using Braun & Clarke’s six step model for thematic analysis and from the theoretical framework of a Culture-Centered Approach to health communication, as presented by Mohan Dutta. The findings revealed communication barriers that hinder groups of migrants from accessing the public health communication and advice for improvement that could increase access and trust. The Swedish language, low digital use and limited digital skills as well as low trust towards the Swedish system are prominent obstacles that affect the communication processes in different layers. The participants express the need for a more flexible health system to increase access and prefer communication in native language verbally or printed. For those who use digital health communication, they want the Region to search engine-optimize in their native languages to ease the process of finding the right sources. Furthermore, authoritarian doctors as messengers of health communication are preferred. The health communication participants have received from the Region’s health communicators in their native language is presented to be a tool for increased trust and understanding. Their methods enable a participatory communication flow. To continue the development of participatory communication activities can be one way of combating the barriers faced by some groups of migrants. It is clear that a “one size fits all-communication approach”, with a focus on digital Swedish public health communication does not succeed to reach th

Large social media platforms have become integral to political discourse in the past decade, and increasingly the main source of news for large percentage of the public. This thesis investigates the development of a digital prototype designed to empower social media users against opinion manipulation through securitisation narratives. By leveraging user-centric design principles and integrating insights from securitisation theory, media studies, and human-computer interaction, the research aims to enhance user agency in recognising and responding to alarmist content. The study follows a user-centric methodological approach, including interviews, an ideation workshop, and iterative prototyping, to gather and apply user feedback throughout the design process. The final prototype features customisation options for content filtering, real-time alerts for potential manipulative content, and an engagement hub for further user education and involvement. These tools are intended to foster critical media consumption and resilience against distorted threat perceptions. The research highlights the importance of transparency, user control, and involvement with communities of practice in mitigating the impact of securitisations on public opinion.

Syftet med detta examensarbete var att dels undersöka den japanska bevarandeideologin genom traditionellt hantverk inom träkonstruktion, dels undersöka hur traditionellt hantverk kan integrera bevarandet av kulturhistoriska värden, både materiella och immateriella, utifrån en svensk kontext. I den japanska bevarandeideologin är både materiella och immateriella kulturarv integrerade, men i Sverige är det uppdelat. Därför är syftet också att titta på hur immateriellt kulturarv hanteras i Sverige. Undersökningen gjordes genom en litteraturstudie för att undersöka synsätt på bevarande i Japan och Sverige för att bättre förstå och ställa de mot varandra och diskutera värdet av det traditionella hantverket inom svensk kulturvård. Resultatet visar att det finns avgörande skillnader mellanden japanska och den svenska bevarandet. Traditionellt hantverk inom träkonstruktion betraktas som ett immateriellt kulturarv och nyttjas för bevarandet av det materiella kulturarvet i Japan. I Sverige är det svårt att definiera immateriellt kulturarv och därmed är det svårt att integrera det materiella och immateriella kulturarvet genom traditionellt hantverk., The purpose of this thesis was to partly investigate the Japanese conservation ideology through traditional craftsmanship in wood construction, and partly to investigate how traditional craftsmanship can integrate the preservation of cultural historical values, both tangible and intangible, based on a Swedish context. In the Japanese conservation ideology, both tangible and intangible cultural heritage are integrated, but in Sweden it is divided. Therefore, the purpose is also to look at how intangible cultural heritage is handled in Sweden. The research was done through a literature study to examine approaches to conservation in Japan and Swedenin order to better understand and contrast them and discuss the value of the traditional craft within Swedish cultural preservation. The result shows that there are decisive differences between the Japanese and the Swedish conservation. Traditional craftsmanship in wooden construction is considered an intangible cultural heritage and is used for the preservation of tangible cultural heritage in Japan. In Sweden, it is difficult to define intangible cultural heritage and thus it is difficult to integrate tangible and intangible cultural heritage through traditional crafts.

This study examines the dynamics of Spanish language teaching by analyzing both teachers’ and students’ experiences and perceptions. The study begins by presenting the purpose and research questions, followed by a review of previous research in the field. Theoretical perspectives such a sociocultural, dialogic, pragmatic, and multimodal perspectives are discussed, with a particular focus on contributions from Barbara Rogoff and Vygotsky. Methodologically, the study employs linguistics methods, including surveys and sampling, with careful ethical considerations. The results are analyzed based by teachers experiences and perceptions of ideal language teaching, lessons techniques, and time allocation between language skills. Furthermore, students’ perceptions of digital tools, the use of the target language in the classroom, and language use from a dialogic perspective are analyzed. The discussion encompasses both methodological and results- related aspects, and the conclusions highlight important insights and recommendations for future research in Spanish language teaching.

Uppsats: I denna uppsats analyseras kvinnlig ilska genom ett feministiskt perspektiv, med fokus på hur den porträtteras och tolkas i filmen Mean Girls, specifikt genom karaktären Regina George. Genom att tillämpa teorier om stereotyper, genus och postfeminism diskuteras olika tolkningar av Reginas ilska. Där betonas Reginas styrka och självständighet, medan andra ser hennes ilska som svag och okvinnlig. Uppsatsen utforskar även hur dessa tolkningar kan påverkas av samhälleliga normer och hur dessa förändras över tid, med en särskild reflektion över postfeministiska perspektiv. Genom att kontextualisera och studera stereotyper kring kvinnlig ilska uppmuntrar uppsatsen en diskussion kring etiska och samhälleliga aspekter såsom jämställdhet. Genom att integrera dessa perspektiv bidrar uppsatsen till en mer omfattande förståelse av kvinnlig ilska och dess relevans för samhälleliga frågor och den populärkultur vi lever i idag. Abstract Media Produktion: Jag vill återintroducera filmklassiker till den nya generationens ciniaster. Dagens filmsamhälle är trångt i och med den mängd filmer som produceras dagligen. Detta kan i sin tur leda till att de filmer som startade det hela lätt glöms bort i smeten. Filmstaden har därför valt att införa något de valt att kalla för “klassiker veckan”. En vecka i månaden väljer filmstaden ut en känd regissör från förr och visar denna personens filmer under veckans gång. Första regissören som valts är Alfred Hitchcock och hans två filmer Psycho och Vertigo. Jag har fått i uppgift att skapa rörliga teasers och affischer för denna klassiska filmvecka i marknadsföringssyfte.

I den här uppsatsen undersöks tecken på ålderism i deckarbokomslag. Hur fiktiva, äldre människor porträtteras påverkar bilden av äldre i samhället. I den här analysen upptäcktes en skillnad när det kommer till hur åldersgrupper representeras och att äldre människor tilldelas vissa egenskaper. Troligtvis för att göra dem intressanta. Gruppen människor sätts på så sätt djupare in i fack av stereotyper vilket bidrar till att förutfattade meningar förstärks. En grundregel inom visuell kommunikation är att vara medveten om vad som kommuniceras ut och varför. Att vara medveten om hur ålderism kan uttryckas ger därför kunskap om hur detta kan undvikas. Analysen utgår ifrån sociosemiotik, diskursteori och representationsteori för att undersöka samspelet mellan skaparens beslut och mottagarens uppfattning och på så sätt ta reda på vad som representeras. Materialet i analysen kommer ifrån tre olika topplistor och bokförlag för att få en spridd och rättvis representation av omslag till deckarböcker. Analysen går igenom gemensamma uttryck tillsammans med en djupare analys av omslagen innehållande pensionärer. På så sätt svarar den här uppsatsen på vad omslagen säger om samtidens diskurs och vad vi kan se för spår av ålderism i denna typ av media. Medieproduktionen Omslag: att representera berättelsen i bild är ett arbete där omslag till deckarböcker skapas med hjälp av semiotik och representationsteori.

Denna studie har genom ett användarcentrerat tillvägagångsätt med ett emotionellt perspektiv utforskat forskningsfrågan: Hur kan man genom produktdesign skapa en relation mellan användare och spirulina för att kunna förbättra luftkvaliteten i en begränsad kontorsmiljö? För att kunna besvara forskningsfrågan användes van Grop och Adams (2012) ACT-modell som bygger på de tre delarna Attract, Converse och Transact. Detta för att förenkla hur man bör tänka kring skapandet av en relation mellan användare och produkt. I teorin användes Don Normans (2004) tre nivåer, Visceral design, Behavioural design och Reflective design, samt Elizabeth Sanders (1992) tre kategorier, Useful, Usable och Desirable, för att ytterligare fördjupa förståelsen av den emotionella designen hos produkter. För att kunna undersöka frågeställningen delades metoderna in i två delar. Den första delen var en litteraturstudie, baserad på efterforskning kring spirulina, mikroalger och bioreaktorer. Denna del använde sig av expertintervju och marknadsundersökning för att samla in en grundlig kunskap om spirulinans behov. Utifrån detta bedömdes en panelbioreaktor vara bäst lämpad för att avlägsna CO2. Det framkom även att ljus och temperatur är viktigt för att kunna optimera odlingsparametrarna för spirulinan. Den andra delen utgick från användarnas perspektiv och fokuserade på den emotionella aspekten hos designbidraget. Här användes användarintervjuer och en workshop. Dessa visade att användarna föredrog enkla, mjuka och lugnande koncept där tillit är viktigt hos produkten. Resultaten från metoderna sammanställdes i en funktionsanalys, som sammanfattade spirulinans och användarnas behov. Genom idégenerering och prototypande togs ett slutgiltigt designbidrag fram: en väggmonterad panelbioreaktor med runda och enkla former som utstrålade lugn och tillit, med ett inbyggt ljus-och värmereglage och en smidig och intuitiv skördningsprocess. Slutsatsen som drogs var att man kan skapa en relation mellan användar, This study has, through a user-centered approach with an emotional perspective, explored the research question: How can product design create a relationship between users and spirulina to improve air quality in a confined office environment? To answer the research question, van Grop and Adams' (2012) ACT model was used, a model based on the three components: Attract, Converse and Transact. This model helped simplify how to think when creating a relationship between users and products. In the theory Don Norman's (2004) three levels: Visceral Design, Behavioral Design, and Reflective Design, as well as Elizabeth Sanders' (1992) three categories: Useful, Usable, and Desirable, further deepened the understanding of emotional design in products. To investigate the research question, the method was divided into two parts. The first part was a literature study based on research on spirulina, microalgae, and bioreactors. This part used an expert interview and market research to gather thorough knowledge about the needs of spirulina. From this, a panel bioreactor was deemed best suited for removing CO2. It also showed that light and temperature are important for optimizing the cultivation parameters for spirulina. The second part focused on the users' perspective and emphasized the emotional aspect of the design contribution. Here, user interviews and a workshop were used. These showed that users preferred simple, soft, and calming concepts where trust in the product is important. The results from the methods were compiled into a functional analysis, summarizing the needs of spirulina and the users. Through idea generation and prototyping, a final design contribution was developed: a wall-mounted panel bioreactor with round and simple shapes that conveyed calm and trust, featuring an integrated light and temperature control and a smooth, intuitive harvesting process. The conclusion drawn was that it was possible to create a relationship between users and spirulina.

Denna uppsats undersöker den representation av den asiatiska kulturen genom mat i filmen Turning Red. Syftet är att undersöka hur Disney Pixar representerar den asiatiska kulturen i filmen Turning Red, genom ett matperspektiv. Uppsatsen består av en analys av de visuella och kulturella element som finns i filmen. Undersökningen följer frågeställning : Hur representeras den asiatiska kulturen genom mat i filmen Turning Red? Metoden som används är en kvalitativ visuell analys där representationsteori av Stuart Hall appliceras för att kunna svara på frågeställningen. Resultatet visar att filmen som regisserades lägger en stor vikt på att inkludera olika maträtter som kan vara en tydlig representation av asiatisk kultur. Mat som representeras varierar i form av matlagning, servering, och även olika typer av rätter eller ingredienser. Detta skapar en uppfattning hos åskådaren av vad som innebär asiatisk kultur genom mat generellt. Medieproduktion : Min medieproduktion kommer efter sida 30. Det här projektet är en animerad reklamvideo för Kopan Street, en mysig kiosk i Köpenhamn som är känd för sin hotteok, en populär koreansk pannkaka. Denna animerade reklam syftar till att stärka Kopan Streets marknadsföring genom att lyfta fram den aptitretande maten och kioskens livliga atmosfär. Målgruppen är tonåringar upp till unga vuxna som älskar K-pop och koreansk kultur. Denna medieproduktion kan fånga nya kunder genom att marknadsföra den unika och förtjusande upplevelse som Kopan Street erbjuder., This essay examines the representation of Asian culture through food in the Turning Red film. The aim of the research is to examine how Disney Pixar represents Asian culture in the film Turning Red, through a food perspective. The essay consists of an analysis of the visual and cultural elements found in the film. The essay follows by the research question: How is Asian culture represented through food in the film Turning Red? The method used is a qualitative visual analysis where representation theory by Stuart Hall is applied to answer the question. The result shows that the film that was directed puts a lot of emphasis on including different dishes that can be a clear representation of Asian culture. Food represented varies in terms of cooking, serving, and also different types of dishes or ingredients. This creates a perception in the viewer of what Asian culture means through food in general. Media production : This project is an animated advertisement video for Kopan Street, a cozy bar in Copenhagen that is known for its delicious hotteok, a popular Korean pancake. This animated advertisement aims to boost Kopan Street’s marketing by highlighting the mouthwatering food and the bar’s vibrant atmosphere. The target group are teenagers and young adults who love K-pop and Korean culture. This media production seeks to attract new customers by showcasing the unique and delightful experience that Kopan Street offers.

This essay highlights the resonance that occurs between place, narrative, and storyteller. The study's object of knowledge is the phenomenon of genius loci and the oral storytelling tradition. Genius loci is the idea that a place has a spirit or aura that is created and effected by the actions and presence of humans. It is an intangible cultural heritage, rooted in the physical place. The subjects of study are the storytellers in The Land of Legends and their experiences of telling stories in culturally historic places. In the present study storytellers participated in focus groups and individual interviews to discuss and share their experiences. This essay argues that when the storytellers perform a local legend, on the site where the story is said to have taken place, it activates and becomes a part of the place genius loci. Storytelling has the ability to give people access to layers of cultural heritage that otherwise would remain hidden. The present study wants to show that oral storytelling and genius loci are important aspects of the intermediation, preservation, and development of our shared cultural heritage. This is a two years master’s thesis in Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies.

The purpose of this essay is to investigate two leading voices in the religion and secularizationdebate in Sweden during the 21st century, with a special focus on how the term secularisation isused. The investigation will be conducted using hermeneutics, and the method that will be usedis the hermeneutics of suspicion. The primary focus of this investigation is the source materialwritten by David Thurfjell and Christer Sturmark. The investigation has revealed thatThurfjell’s and Sturmark’s description of secularisation and religion in Sweden differs and thiscan be linked to their different backgrounds and starting points. The difference in theirdescriptions shows that the use of the concept of secularisation is not self-evident, it can varydepending on when during history it is used, but also who uses the term. The investigationrevealed the complexity of the concept of secularisation, a result that gives support to previousresearchers results within the field.

In the global context, where many minority languages are threatened by globalization and socio-political pressures, the preservation of these languages is crucial for maintaining cultural diversity and heritage. This research explores the intricate relationship between the Ladin language and the Ladin community in Val Gardena, highlighting their inseparability. Initially perceived as intertwined yet distinct entities, it became evident through this study that the language and community are essentially one, shaped significantly by geographical isolation not only from other Ladin-speaking villages but also from neighbouring valleys. This isolation has fostered unique perceptions of identity and belonging within the community.This research centers on a case study examining the Ladin community in Val Gardena. Local voluntary organisations are key in preserving the Ladin language. These organizations, which include cultural associations and educational institutions, play a great role in fostering a sense of community and belonging among Ladin speakers. This approach to language preservation emphasizes the importance of local initiatives in countering the forces of globalization and standardization, demonstrating the Ladin community's response to these challenges.The objectives of the research constituted of understanding the local context of Ladinia and the peculiarities of the linguistic policies in the area and understanding how the language is being preserved and promoted locally and how the local voluntary organisations are impacting this reality. The outcome of the research contains patterns identified in the local communities' way of life and how their communal voluntary groups and associations greatly impacted the situation in which Ladin among other endangered languages is found.

In this bachelor thesis of Global studies, I explore how cultural heritage can be used in anti-nationalistic resistance movements through contemporary art. Building upon previous research on the topic of nationalism in Sweden and the resistance movement Folk Musicians Against Racism, I add new perspectives through an interview study. The thesis conducts an analysis of three qualitative interviews with four cultural workers in Sweden, who use folk music in their respective artistic/activist work. Since their methods, practices and ideas relate to anti-racism, anti-nationalism and queer feminism, the study uses a theoretical framework within queer theory and critical race- and whiteness theory. I examine how the interviewees' thoughts on cultural heritage as being recreated in the present through a flow of exchange, can be used to deconstruct nationalist ideas about an 'authentic' national heritage. Additionally, the artists' aesthetical view of authenticity (as in sound or material) is compared to the political exclusionary view of 'authentic' Swedishness. The study aims to create an understanding for the need of an epistemic resistance against essentialist ideas about a nation's presumed monoculture. Drawing from the results of the interviews, such resistance can be created within community building, two-sided integration and the development of language through non-binary thinking.

Siya Kolisi is one of the most inspirational sports personalities in the world. As the first black rugby captain of South Africa’s national rugby union team, known as the Springboks, he led his team to two successive Rugby World Cup titles, in 2019 and 2023. Kolisi, who came from a disadvantaged background, uses his post-match interviews as a platform to inspire social change in South Africa. He also, with his wife, Rachel Kolisi, started the Kolisi Foundation, a non-profit organisation focusing on reducing inequality in South Africa. The research investigates how Siya Kolisi as a sport for development and peace (SDP) ambassador promotes social change in South Africa. The research is contextualised within the broader literature on SDP, sports ambassadors and hope with an application in the South African context. Through a thematic analysis, several themes are identified which Kolisi speaks to including hope, strength in diversity and the potential of sports ambassadors to make an impact beyond the sports field. These themes are then discussed within the South African context. In terms of the Kolisi Foundation, document analysis has been used, with the analysis informed further by material from Kolisi’s autobiography. As a result of Kolisi’s lived experience of poverty in South Africa, it is argued that his messages are amplified. However, the limitations of sport for development ambassadors will also be focused on. Further research in this area could include an investigation into how the South African public perceives the effectiveness of Kolisi’s influence beyond the rugby field and researching the significance and impact of a diverse Springboks team on national unity.