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Cultural Tensions in Feminism: Balancing Tradition and Liberation in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North
Authors: Mansour Dr. Ashraf Waleed
Published: October 2024

This article explores the tension between Western feminist ideals and the traditional values held by Muslim/nativist feminists, using Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North as a lens. It critiques both extremes-Western feminism's imposition of secular individualism and Eastern patriarchy’s rigid cultural practices-highlighting how both approaches contribute to women's oppression. The novel reveals that true women's empowerment cannot be achieved through total freedom or strict adherence to tradition. Instead, the article advocates for a middle path that reconciles cultural values with gender equality, proposing a balanced approach that preserves women’s dignity and autonomy while respecting their cultural identity. It suggests that an Islamic feminist framework can provide this solution by reinterpreting religious texts to address gender injustices without abandoning faith. Ultimately, this approach offers a way to bridge the divide between tradition and modernity, offering women the respect and rights they deserve.
A EXTINÇÃO DAS OBRIGAÇÕES PRIVADAS EM REGIME FALIMENTAR E O CRÉDITO TRIBUTÁRIO: (IN)COMPATIBILIDADES E PONTES ENTRE REGIMES ESPECIAIS
Authors: Carvalho Mathews Francisco Alves de
Published: October 2024

Trata-se de pesquisa centrada no alcance do instituto da extinção das obrigações do falido, calcada em um regime próprio, e o crédito público tributário, dotado de especificidades quanto as obrigações dele decorrentes, tanto em seu eixo teórico, quanto prático. Demonstra-se, no primeiro momento, os fundamentos teóricos do regime falimentar e da teoria das obrigações dentro do direito moderno, avançando-se para os meios em que este regime procede com a extinção das obrigações sob seu comando. Na sequência, investiga-se as especificidades envolvidas no âmbito do crédito público, delineando-se os meandros de sua própria teoria das obrigações, afastada da regra geral e erigindo-se sob um panorama próprio. Por fim, averígua-se sobre a lógica de extinção das obrigações no regime falimentar e sua (in)compatibilidade com o crédito privado. Como resultados, observou-se que o instituto, muito embora permita afetar todas as obrigações privadas, encontra-se limitado a esse eixo, não atingindo a extinção de obrigações advindas do crédito público tributário.
Legal Awareness and Community Participation in Village Development Planning in Plakaran Village, District Grumpy Sampang Regency
Authors: Saifuddin  , Ansori  , Mukhlis  , Jufri Muwaffiq , Boemiya Helmy
Published: October 2024

Village development is the implementation of the ideals of the Indonesian state to improve the welfare of village communities. In order to carry out village development so that it can run well, regularly and effectively, it must be done by first making a village development plan. In carrying out village development planning, village communities must be involved. The focus of the research is Legal Awareness and Community Participation in Village Development Planning in Plakaran Village, District Grumpy Sampang Regency, using social and legal research methods, while the results of this research are that the implementation of village development in Plakaran village does not fully involve the community, whereas community involvement will provide new values ​​and new ideas that are in accordance with community needs, so with community involvement in planning to implementation of village development will provide legal awareness to the community so that they can work together to build a better village.
Den gröna slaktaren
Authors: Jönsson Håkan
Published: October 2024

Even in the older of industries: food production, there is a lot of talk about a new time, rapid changes and selling experiences instead of products. As an example of the new type of "value added products", the article examines the concept "The Green Butcher": a range of cured meats with a low content of fat. The author argues that the green colour partly explains the Green Butcher's success. By being green, it combines the two main experiences that are commercialised in the food business: the rational and controlled body and the hedonist person. This seems to be a contradiction, and so it is. But it is the same contradiction as our bodies must try to contain in a time in which it is the thin, controlled body that is supposed to have all the great hedonistic experiences. The green butcher (but not its colourless competitors) therefore provides an opportunity to consume a solution to an always present problem.
Från John Donne till Derek Walcott
Authors: J. Granqvist Raoul
Published: October 2024

In this essay Raoul J. Granqvist (Umeå University) discusses the expansion and problematization of English studies and the English literary canon with readings from Donne, Shakespeare and Walcott. He contends that the awarding of the Nobel Prizes to Soyinka and Walcott, respectively, must be studied against the empowering reactions of the once-colonies to speak their words, sing their songs; that decolonization has also had an impact on fragmentizing the literary canon itself. Donne's "Mistress Going to Bed", for instance, with its vivid but colonial allusions to a woman's body is a case in point that postcolonial theory has helped unlocking. Granqvist defines his profession, thus enlarged, as containing "a postnational, pacificistic credo". It is a challenge and a utopia, he concludes.
Adoptionsfrågan i koreansk populärkultur
Authors: Hübinette Tobias
Published: October 2024

Korea is the country in the world that has sent away the largest number of children for adoption overseas. Since the end of the Korean war, 150,000 children have been adopted to a dozen Western countries. Overseas adoption was for a long time considered a secretive embarrassment by the Korean government, but through media exposure at the end of the 1980s, the problem or issue of Korea's overseas adoption (ibyangmunjê) has almost been institutionalized in political debate.
The phenomenon has also left its mark in popular culture. The subject has figured in TV dramas, musicals, comic, movies and songs. This article examines overseas adoption as a theme in especially movies and pop songs and, in light of John Fiske's theory of popular culture as a way of establishing a discourse, studies the creation of a discourse on adopted Koreans.
När en sjukdom skiftar namn
Authors: Axelsson Per
Published: October 2024

With examples from the history of polio this study examines the creation of disease terminology. When the epidemologist Ivar Wickman in 1907 discovered that poliomyelitis was an infectious disease and that it could be transmitted by healthy carriers, he proposed a new term for the disease, Heine-Medins disease. He thereby dedicated the disease to his mentor, the paediatrician Karl Oskar Medin, and the German orthopaedist Jacob von Heine. Contemporary medical scientists accepted his proposal and during the 1910s a great amount of work on Heine-Medins disease was published. Moreover the study shows that the term Heine-Medins disease did not reach the public sphere. The results are related to Ludwik Flecks framework of "thought-styles".
Deltagarforskningens försåtliga retorik
Authors: Ljuslinder Karin
Published: October 2024

This article discusses the personal experience of the discrepancy between the rhetoric and the practice in a participatory action research-study. The project is a collaboration together with disabled women in Nicaragua. During a project-planning trip I suddenly realized that my thoughts about the how to carry out the collaboration work not at all corresponded with the urgent need of basic assets that the women expressed. This insight became an important alarm block to me of the need to deepen the reflections about the asymmetrical power relations between researcher and target group and also to, once again, consider what the concept of participation stands for.
I samlarens själ
Authors: M. Ekström Karin
Published: October 2024

The paper is related to commercial culture in that a private collection is displayed in a public/commercial place where the collection is viewed by museum visitors. Collecting represents consumption in that collectible items are acquired, displayed, and disposed of. Collecting also represents production. A collector produces and redefines his/her collection over time, for example by arranging it differently. The collector also produces him/herself as a collector and relates him/herself to other collectors and collections. Collectors are embedded in consumer culture. In the article, an exhibition on collecting "The collector's soul" at Gävleborgs museum is discussed and related to theories on collecting. Also, the author who is a collector reflects upon experiences related to exhibiting her own collection of glass vases in the museum.
Anmälningar och notiser
Authors: Johansson Barbro , Brembeck Helene , Knuts Eva , Jacobsson Roger
Published: October 2024

Recensioner av: Nick Lee: Childhood and Society: Growing Up in the Age of Uncertainty. Buckingham, Philadelphia: Open University Press, 2001 & Nick Lee & Rolland Munro (eds.): The Consumption of Mass. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001
Gottdiener, Mark (ed.): New Forms of Consumption; Consumers, Culture and Commodification. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publisher, 2000.
Merryn Hutchings, Márta Fülöp och Anne-Marie Van den dries: Young People's Understanding of Economic Issues in Europe. Stoke on Trent, UK and Sterling USA: Trentham Books, 2002.
Ann Satterthwaite: Going Shopping. Consumer Choices and Community Consequences. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001.
Karin Becker, Erling Bjurström, Johan Fornäs, Hillevi Ganetz (red.), Medier och människor i konsumtionsrummet. Nora: Nya Doxa 2002.
Hudkänsla
Authors: Sturesson Witt Linda
Published: October 2024

Pimples can, when they appear, claim much more space in life than just the spots in the face. For the one who is badly affected, pimples become central for the way in which the person acts, feels and experiences the world. The many hours in front of the mirror is a socialisation into a stigmatised identity where the critical gaze of others and a feeling of shame are constantly present. The affected ones go to any length to take control over body, skin, face and looks. If different cures or heavy makeup is not enough, all kinds of body micro-practices are set to work: using one's hair or hands to cover up or avoiding bright lights. As an acne person one experiences the world through the pimples, sensitizing oneself to situations, norms and the cultural interpretations of others.
Bastu med tillhörande moské
Authors: Gunnarsson David
Published: October 2024

This article is based on experiences and interviews in connection with fieldwork undertaken for my thesis about the guided tours of the mosque at Södermalm in Stockholm. I have looked at how different actors talk about the sauna in the mosque — situated in the basement next to a gym — and how they contextualize it.
I describe how it can either represent a Swedish sauna or a hammâm, which is a tradition with its roots in Muslim societies. I use the concept of context in much the same sense as Arjun Appadurai, to capture the allusions through which the local is connected to the translocal. Furthermore, I briefly discuss the implications of private and public space raised by the presence of the sauna, and endorse the idea that in the use of the concept of public/private we should consider that a place or a situation is not seen the same way in this respect, by different actors. Finally, the suggestions is made, that one possible way to look at the mosque as place is to investigate the history of how it was built, and the considerations involved at that particular time.
Muslimska moderskap i 2000-talets Sverige
Authors: Ask Jenny
Published: October 2024

Being a mother is often presented to be a Muslim woman's primary obligation in life, according to religious texts. In my study I explore the meanings of motherhood among some Muslim mothers living in Sweden today. In this paper I primarily reflect upon two women's different ways of presenting their identities as Muslims and mothers. Ellen is a Swedish convert and Sabah is a migrant from Iraq. Both women are deeply religious but present their Muslim identities in different ways. Despite the variety of experiences, religious beliefs and the presentation of self in all of the performed interviews, I have found two common themes. First: The construction and upholding of boundaries. Second: The regulation of female sexuality and the importance of virginity. One questions to explore further so far, is how boundaries concerning religion, gender and sexuality are constructed and negotiated within different contexts.
Den falska återkomsten
Authors: Ekström Anders
Published: October 2024

In the 1980s and 1990s, theoretical developments in the human and social sciences were influenced by a much debated "cultural turn". One outcome of this in historical research was a renewed interest in the concept of "cultural history". In an anthology published in 1989 by the American historian Lynn Hunt, "the new cultural history" was launched as a critique of some of the basic conceptions of social history and the Annales school. The main purpose of this article is to review the theoretical debates that motivated the new cultural history, and to discuss some of its key concepts, most notably the concepts of culture and representation. However, since recent discussions in Scandinavia and elsewhere has been as much concerned with the general historiography of cultural history, I also explore the ways in which the "new" cultural history can be related to the "old" cultural history of the 18th and 19th centuries. In conclusion, I argue that the turn towards cultural analysis in historical research has been the productive outcome of a particular kind of transdisciplinarity rather than developments within the established disciplines.
"Det viktiga är en maskulin touche!"
Authors: Nordberg Marie
Published: October 2024

Masculinity is today commodified and used as a marketing concept in beauty business. Taking point of departure in a hair dressers show where masculinity is presented as a selling concept, it is argued that hairstyles, hairdressers' fashion shows, hairstyling magazines and hairdresser and barber salones can be seen as performative arenas and practices that produce men, masculinity, femininity and the gender dichotomy. Two common discourses in the male beauty business are highlighted in the article, "laddishness" and "gender bending". In the hair style magazine C-book a bourgeois and queer chic concept is offered, while in the magazines Hair styles and Hair Trends it is a chic middle classed working class masculinity that is sold. Constructions of sexuality and ethnicity in hair dressing and in hairdressers' magazines are also discussed. Finally it is argued that hair dressing, by the normalisation of certain hair styles, can be understood as cultural cloning and a construction of sameness that reproduce the social order.
Vardagsestetik, sinneserfarenhet och den kulturella kroppen
Authors: Elam Katarina
Published: October 2024

Today the human body is exposed, exhibited and explored in many different ways. We are, it seems, obsessed by the ways our culture challenges the boundaries for bodily capacity and beauty. In this article though, another perspective is taken. The purpose here is conversely to discuss how the body perceives and interacts with the surrounding world in a completely interconnected sense. The significance of language is obvious, which means that different kinds of narrative art are important to consider. Our conceptions, attitudes and expectations, are all foundational for what we see and apprehend. This means that art, TV and other cultural objects will have some kind of impact on our bodily perception and understanding. Traditional aesthetics usually limit this discussion to the intellectual and "high" senses, that is, sight and hearing. When considering everyday aesthetic experiences though, it is necessary also to include touch, smell and taste.
Den rosa overallen
Authors: Ambjörnsson Fanny
Published: October 2024

The subject of this article is babies' clothes and the colour pink. Based on 20 interviews as well as participant observations among mothers and fathers on parental leave in the Stockholm region, connections between choices of children's clothing and the view on child rearing concerning gender, are discussed. Even though the parents mostly would dress their children according to dominating, contemporary gender conventions (pink and red for girls and blue, grey and green for boys), most of them still had a negative attitude towards the colour pink. For girls, pink was considered oppressive and old fashioned, and for boys degrading. Pink was such a common theme in the interviews that I tend to think of it as, in Sherry Ortner's terminology, a key symbol — a central figure that contains messages of fundamental values in a group or in a society. In this case, pink becomes a reflection of the parents' models of equality and gender relations. But the colour also reflects how a certain group of people, through the rhetoric of equality, construct themselves as modern, urban middle class parents.
Nostalgi och samvete
Authors: Lundgren Anna Sofia
Published: October 2024

People often have strong feelings about changes in the cities. This article deals with questions on how notions of the city can be analysed in relation to nostalgia to enhance the fact that nostalgic views are always constructed in the present, and that they depend on the very changes between past and present which they criticize. Three kinds of nostalgia are discerned. Restorative nostalgia which proposes to rebuild the lost "home" and patch up the memory gaps. Reflective nostalgia which dwells in longing and loss, the imperfect process of longing. To understand the way the informants talk about what they want cities to be — whether they talk about qualities in the past or hopes for the future — I also use Renato Rosaldos term imperialistic nostalgia to indicate how nostalgia can be said to both indicate and effectively hide a responsibility. The tenderness that accompanies the nostalgic feeling draws away the attention from the sometimes fundamental inequality and inherent question of guilt possibly surrounding the remembered event.
Politik och emotioner
Authors: Fredriksson Jan
Published: October 2024

In this article Jan Fredriksson examines what we could call the emotional basis or emotional conditions of politics. We are used to looking at emotions as something that primarily belongs to the human nature and nothing that has to do with our behaviour as citizens. Although we are conscious of that emotions can make us behave irrational it is expected that we as good citizens in public life can control our expressions of emotions. Maybe that is the reason that so much of the research that has been done about the conditions of politics focuses on politics as a sphere of activities ruled by interest and rational thinking, where emotional affects are considered as either rhetorical or clanger. According to my opinion the understanding of emotion and emotional expressions as a cultural phenomenon might be an important tool in the analysis of politics.
Sparbössor och silverskedar
Authors: Hagström Charlotte
Published: October 2024

Gift-giving is part of the ceremonial behaviour in many celebrations associated with rites of passage. In this article I discuss the gifts children receive at christening parties. Even though some parents emphasize that they do not want "typical" christening presents, like pewter savings-boxes or silver photography frames, they often find that the guests nevertheless have brought such gifts. An explanation for this is that the "typical" christening gifts may be perceived as necessary: without them the christening doesn't feel "right". Another common gift is a coffee silver spoon, which is to be followed by others of the same type at future birthdays. These are often godparents' gifts and can thus be considered as a materialised manifestation of a relation that is meant to last. Although the christening of a child is a religious act it is also an event which serves to create a sense of family community and belonging and to build relations. The gifts the child receives has, like all gifts, a value not only for the gift-receiver but also for the gift-giver.
Löftesrika ringar
Authors: Knuts Eva
Published: October 2024

Wedding rings have strong networks of actors that want them to circulate in wedding rituals, on market places and in human minds. Rings are seen as a "natural" part of wedding ceremonies but are not needed when you get married. Wedding rings are artefacts that get a lot of attention in wedding magazines and hold a strong position at the moment.
Wedding rings help to stabilize relations, subjects and the wedding ritual. This object externalizes values which are embedded in social processes and makes it visible and negotiable but it is also an object with materiality.
The wedding ritual becomes more legible with material objects and the objects get a deeper meaning through the ritual, a "win-win" situation.
Den kommunikativa processen och maktens mekanismer — hur sätter man fingret på den "kulturen"?
Authors: Jacobsson Roger
Published: October 2024

Recension av: Martin Kulhammar & Jean-François Battail (red.), Det vanställda ordet: Om den svåra konsten att värna sin integritet. Stockholm: Carlssons, 2006.
Hos vem hör jag hemma?
Authors: Andræ Marika
Published: October 2024

Is it possible to characterize young adults as a homogeneous group with distinct attitudes towards their parents? This article provides examples of theories of psychology and sociology which indicate a flawed relationship between teenage daughters and their fathers. The primary material examined is a couple of contemporary Swedish novels for young adults. Within these stories, we get a picture of a relationship more denoted by gender patterns than child and parent opposition. One theory of young adults' problems today is the thesis of a "narcissistic" approach that makes the process of becoming an adult more difficult. This article shows how the postulations of the theory changes, when gender and power is included. In the fiction studied, the daughters are more mature than their fathers, which makes the separation and dependence pattern distinct from the traditional view of the child/parent relationship.
"Revolution, Grrrl-Style, Now!"
Authors: Udéhn Johanna
Published: October 2024

In this article I examine the feminist so called Riot Grrrl movement from the perspective of theatricality or, more specifically, what can be refered to as theatrical resistance in todays popular culture. Being an offshoot from the punk movement, Riot Grrrl highly revolves around visual markers or style, used both as a means to express individuality and as a significant tool within a wider political strategy. Characteristic of this style ⁠— and the same goes for its analogous rhetoric (for example the language typical of the so called zines, or selfmade magazines, which play an important part in the movement) ⁠— is a spectacular fusion of opposites, leading to what can be seen as "strategic indetermination". In my article I take a deeper look at some instances of this, subversive and theatrical, strategy within the Riot Grrrl movement, and with special consideration of its feminist implications.
Den dialogiska uppgiften
Authors: Vallström Mikael
Published: October 2024

The main purpose of this article is to discuss how ethnology can do better justice to experiences of the past in everyday life and dialogue. Above all attention is drawn to the dialogic nature of cultural and historical phenomena, and to the tasks of responsibility. The point of departure is an ethnographic description of a journey together with real enthusiasts of local history, visiting traces of what is considered as an important cultural heritage, such as remnants of the first settlers. As it seems, the travelling and the conversation itself makes the history "present", and thus it also appears in a dialogic context, that is unpredictable and impossible to control. Furthermore the article also discusses the scientific and social implications of this unpredictability, especially how it can be possible to maintain it in an ethnographic text. The ultimate task is then considered to be to create a public space for this kind of experience, since it is a matter of the existential conditions of social and cultural life. The discussion mainly connects to Michail Bachtins concept of "the dialogical" and the ethic philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, but pays also attention to Jacques Derrida's views on different perceptions of time and heritage. Finally the article argue that the consequences of the dialogical point of view is that we need to consider a new understanding of our role as ethnologists in public space, that recognizes the political content of the experiences of unpredictability, i.e. a content that call the normal conception of time and culture in question, that even may be subversive, but also strives towards dialogic understanding.
Byxan och (polis)kvinnan
Authors: Kroon Ann
Published: October 2024

This article concerns the gendered history of women's police uniforms. In Sweden, the first police women "on the beat" in the 1950s had to wear culottes instead of proper trousers, while today all police uniforms are gender neutral. Tracing the historic symbolism of "phallic trousers" as belonging only to men, and how they gradually became introduced as a garment also for women, it is argued that trousers can be used as a material and visual point of reference, through which it is possible to analyse some important social changes regarding gender throughout the 20th century. Overall, the article purports the idea that when trousers gradually were introduced as an item of cothing to (most) women, this was implicitly accompanied by an increased attention to the body as marker of gender.
Anmälningar och notiser
Authors: Jacobsson Roger , Arvidsson Alf
Published: October 2024

Recension av: Thomas Karlsohn, Passage mellan medier: Vilém Flusser, datorn och skriften. Göteborg: Folkuniversitetets akademiska press, 2006 och Klinkmann, Sven-Erik: På drömmarnas marknad, Ikoner, fantasibilder och klichéer i populärkulturen. Gidlunds förlag, Hedemora, 2006.
Resenären som aldrig kom fram
Authors: Andersson Åsa , Kalman Hildur
Published: October 2024

The articulation of homelessness is a recurrent theme in late 20th century narratives of travels between classes ⁠— whether in academic dissertations, autobiographies or in the literary genre. Travellers of an elder generation not only seem to have arrived, but they also seem to be more content with having travelled. This difference is analysed in terms of subjective class identity ⁠— concerning one's own thoughts and experiences of belonging, and objective class identity ⁠— as defined from a structural perspective and concerned with material factors like income, but also with factors such as status stemming from education and/or profession. We identify the late 20th century traveller's problem of arrival and experience of seemingly impossible class identification with an era marked by political ideas of class struggle. Further, we suggest that having a subjective identity as being of the working class, simultaneously as objectively having travelled between classes, may result in problems concerning the use of power. When being situated in a position of power, the subjective identity might come to work as a rhetorical device, to the extent that it obscures the fact that one both possesses and exercises power.
"Blindsaken"
Authors: G. Olsson Claes
Published: October 2024

In the present article I discuss a field of research in need of further development, namely the history of the relationship between society and those of its members with physical disabilities. Inspiration comes mainly from international disability research and disability studies. Using examples from the visually impaired ⁠— the so-called "blind question" ⁠— my aim is to point out the complexity lying within the common terms for reduced physical ability. How well do we really understand the implications of categorizing an individual as "blind"? Finally, I provide several examples from the source material with which I am now working, reports from blindness inspectors and stories of how the blind lived their lives in the first few decades of the twentieth century. Here too, the dominant discourse on the view of the blind emerges clearly.
Stirra i taket ⁠— och andra kulturanalytiska övningar på sjukhus
Authors: Ehn Billy
Published: October 2024

The author breaks his right foot and is transported to hospital. At the same time he is moved to an alternative everyday life. During some days of passive waiting for operation in the bed, staring at the ceiling, he is reflecting on his experiences as a patient together with three other men in a hospital ward. In a kind of an instant cultural analysis he is writing down ethnographic "field notes", just to have something to do.
One thing that surprises him is how familiar the hospital life seems. Yet he has not been there as patient since he was a child. He realizes that during many years he has been indirectly learning the hospital culture through media, film and literature. Quickly he gets used to the new everyday routines and the silent expectations in this special working place. He is also fascinated of the microculture that immediately develops among the four male strangers in the ward, for example through vivid story-telling and informal rules for passing the borderline between the confronting private and public social spheres.
Vägen till Metropolis
Authors: Ericsson Tom
Published: October 2024

From the Middle Ages to the abolition of the guilds in the nineteenth century travelling was central within the European handicrafts. Each person who would become a master artisan had during his formation to learn his profession from other master artisans. Therefore, apprentices and journeymen worked for shorter or longer periods in the workshops of older master artisans either at home or in another European country. This article shows that the traditional educational pattern within the handicrafts continued in Sweden long after the abolition of the guilds and the introduction of the free trade, and many Swedish craftsmen migrated to the European capitals where they could gain experiences from foreign experts, which they could bring back and introduce in Sweden. Compared to the mass emigration to United States, which took place at the same time, this is an example of what the American historian and sociologist Charles Tilly has called "career migration". The Swedish artisans wanted to improve their skill and this is the reason why they migrated.
Att analysera utställningen som ett multimodalt medium
Authors: Johansson Eva Sofia
Published: October 2024

In this article the author describes how she chose to analyze the exhibition Trafficking, at the Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg, as a multimodal medium. Meaning-making is understood through Gunther Kress & Theo van Leeuwen's book Multimodal Discourse, and the author discusses how different aspects of modes like light, sound and materials contribute to the overarching message of the exhibition. She also attempts to deduce the origins of her interpretations through Kress' and van Leeuwen's terms provenance and experiential meaning potential, i.e. that the interpretation of a specific meaning originates either in recognizing the sign from another time, place or sphere, or from personal experience. In either case the sign conveys meaning and values that are connoted with that time, place, sphere or experience. The exhibition is characterized by dim lights and uncanny sounds, which are aspects that emphasize the horrifying theme of the exhibition, and make sure that the message is never belittled.
Formens betydning
Authors: Ahmt Louise
Published: October 2024

The underlying basis for the analysis is a theory by Camilla Mordhorst and Kitte Wagner Nielsen. They argue that the form of an exhibition will always be the carrier of a certain content, which is historically determined. The form of an exhibition is not necessarily identical to the content, which the exhibition seeks to express. Therefore it is possible for the form and content of an exhibition to be in conflict. With this in mind an account of the modern and the post-modern form of exhibition is given. The analysis of the travelling exhibition Kaos von Linné takes it points of departure in the account of the two forms of exhibition. The analysis demonstrates both how the modern and the post-modern form of exhibition can influence present exhibitions. In this ways the analysis shows how the interplay between the form and the content of the exhibition have an impact on the total expression of the exhibition.
Nyttan av den akademiska friheten
Authors: Rider Sharon
Published: October 2024

The university is like a corporation insofar as it aims to meet the needs of the society in which it operates. In this respect, the widespread notion that academic research and teaching can and ought to be audited and assessed in a manner comparable to the criteria used by corporations, such as quality assurance, reaching new markets and so forth, makes good sense, and attempts at making it more efficient and productive understandable. But in emphasizing the similarities in order to achieve these ends, there is a temptation to belittle or ignore fundamental differences in the aims and ideals of university teaching and research, on the one hand, and the purposes and function of businesses, on the other. The ideal toward which all academic research and training aims, whether or not it always succeeds in living up to this ideal, is to seek truth and solutions to theoretical and practical problems regaardless of whether or not the results of that endeavor are considered interesting or desirable by society or various interest groups. Corporation, on the other hand, must always take into account whether or not their products and services meet the needs, preferences and demands of their business partners, clients and customers. Scientific excellence is by definition an internal affair, something that can not be predicted, defined or measured using non-scientific criteria. The use of such criteria to determine and steer what constitutes valuable research has a destructive influence on the autonomy of science and therefore ultimately on the uses to which it could be put.
Det excellenta universitetet
Authors: Öhman Anders
Published: October 2024

In this article I discuss the change in the universities in Sweden in recent years. Today the trend is not to ask questions of how knowledge develops and changes immanently in different disciplines, but to ask what knowledge means for its commercial or societal use. According to Bill Readings in his book The University in Ruins, this is a change from the university of culture to the university of excellence. The university of culture belonged to an era when national culture still was regarded as the main priority for the university. In the university of excellence, which rises as a consequence of globalization, there is no such idea. The notion of excellence is empty of meaning, and its function is only to measure productivity without any consideration of content or value. It is not possible to return to the university of culture, but one should never cease to ask for content and value in the universities. This is one way to counter the university of excellence.
Frank Sinatra och de narrativa fälten
Authors: Klinkmann Sven-Erik
Published: October 2024

The article argues for an understanding of popular icons such as Frank Sinatra as best seen through the concept of moving narrative fields, adopted from a theory of literary modes, put forward by Robert Scholes. The positive and negative poles of an icon such as Sinatra corresponds to the metaphor of glow and pain, used by Daniel Herwitz to describe the status of popular icons in general. In Sinatra's case, as the article makes clear, a highly complex representation emerges, consisting of both mimetic and imaginary elements. The Sinatra icon is understood as a representation of coolness, romance and loneliness. Stereotypes associated with Sinatra are above all the romantic and swinging crooner/seducer and the loner/saloon singer. The narratives used in connection to Sinatra involve e.g. the film genre of film noir, but also other fictional genres such as the fairy tale, the soap opera, the Bildungsroman, the melodrama and the allegory. Besides an analysis of the narratives concerning Sinatra characterized by the modal approach, questions of artefacts are also addressed, artefacts which do not easily fit into any given modal context. Such "floating" artefacts associated with the Sinatra icon, discussed in the text, are cigarettes, tobacco smoke, the Fedora hat and, briefly, the microphone. A critique is also offered of attempts to formulate a "totalizing", homogenous narrative of the Sinatra icon.
A Little Death Around the Eyes
Authors: Holst Kjær Sarah
Published: October 2024

This article discusses the relationship between pre-romantic Anglo-Saxon literature, iconology in late modern music industry, artistry performance and heroin abuse in Pete(r) Doherty's musical universe. Through the concept of 'autofiction' which include internet media, self-performativity, intertextuality with previous art-production in literature and music, autobiography and body, this article investigates how Doherty builds his legacy and iconology by positioning himself in a recognizable script of culturally unaccepted libertine masculinity. Still, this script is partly transgressed by installing pre-romantic notions of duality between the 'lost boy' and 'found boy'. The male figures in Doherty's texts speaks from below, and parallel to, a patriarchal hierarchy, which is why his lyrics are interpreted as a way to debate norms and ideals in a bourgeoisie society.
Att omförhandla staden
Authors: Högdahl Elisabeth
Published: October 2024

This article discusses place, identity and migration, using two women's stories as example. Anna from Sweden is living in Brussels, Belgium and Fatima from Dubai is living in Malmö, Sweden. They have been moving to their respective new environments under different circumstances and for different reasons. Anna from Sweden have moved to Brussels out of curiosity and good working possibilities in the EU-parliament, and Fatima has come as a refugee to Malmö from Dubai. She is living in the suburb of Rosengård, an area with bad reputation. The purpose of the article is to discuss the relation between place and identity, and how places become "negotiation partners" in identity processes. The women have different possibilities to make these negotiations, but it is interesting to also see the similarities between their thoughts and actions in their respective environments. The article discusses the concept of place and space as well as identity, but also refers to Zygmunt Bauman's critical discussion on globalisation as well as it discusses cosmopolitan visions of the future. The women have different possibilities to visualise themselves not only in their respective local context but also in Europe and the rest of the world.
För Sverige i tiden?
Authors: Lundgren Anna Sofia , Eriksson Ann-Catrine , Ljuslinder Karin , Svens Christina , Arvidsson Alf , Nilsson Bo
Published: October 2024

The theme of this issue of Kulturella Perspektiv is cultural perspectives on the Swedish royal family. Academic cultural approaches to monarchies and royal families are unusual, maybe because royalties are generally considered to be outdated political symbols. However during the last two decades there has been a growing interest within Nordic research on the royal families' mass media exposure. This is in line with a far more extended tradition in Great Britain comprising studies on the relations between monarchy and media, as well as on ideas on nationalism and national identity. Many of the articles in this issue touches on questions of mass media and nationalism in a similar way. Since studies on monarchies and the royal family are rare even in an international perspective we have found another quite new interdisciplinary field of research that serves our purposes well — celebrity studies. Celebrity studies focuses on both the production and the consuming of celebrities, on how audiences, groups or individuals use and reproduce celebrities. Since royalties are losing in political power they are no turned into high-rank celebrities with unquestionable fame since birth. But how is royal celebrity performed and what kind of values are connected with it? All articles, except one, focus on representations of the Swedish royal family, in painted portraits, an annual tv-show, satire and humour programmes, a theatre play etc. One common theme in the articles is the dichotomy of private/public. Different understandings of private/public is used and/or constructed for various reasons.
Att äga rum
Authors: Sjöholm Carina
Published: October 2024

In this article the phenomenon of literary tourism is approached through the Foucauldian concept heterotopias. A heterotopia is a bridge between worlds, a physical place or a representation of a place, where transgression is possible. This can be applied to literary tourism, where the tourist goes between his or her own experiences of reading, into the more public experience which is formulated through guide books and other enunciations of the tourist discourse. The main example is a series of literary walks in Cornwall, connected to the novelist Daphne du Maurier. The literary experience is related to the physical experience and the corporeality of the reading act.
Den bortvända kvinnan
Authors: Ehn Billy
Published: October 2024

Having collected seventy-six photographs and paintings of women seen from behind the author is reflecting on the meaning of this motive. Why have the photographers and the painters, mostly men from four centuries, chosen to represent the women by their backs? Are the women just (secretly) observed from behind, or are they actively turning away from the gaze of the onlooker? The author decides for the second interpretation and makes a connection to experiences of averted women in his own childhood and marriages. The conclusive question is: How subjective may a cultural researcher be doing reflexive interpretations?
Terapeutiska utflykter
Authors: Berg Linda
Published: October 2024

Narratives about Europeans entering so called pre-modern cultures have a long tradition, and "tribe-tv" based on arranged visits from Europeans to "the world's remotest tribes" has become a growing genre today. In the documentary Tribal Wives, six British women were described as experiencing cultures that had "hardly changed in centuries" and getting one month to reflect over their habits and priorities in life. In search for contrasts between female lives, love and heterosexual contracts the program turns into self-representations based on Eurocentric imaginations. Tribal Wives becomes a therapeutic journey (set by BBC) aiming to heal modern souls, an adventure to pre-historic land with forgotten truths for the modern woman to bring back to the future.
Självskada och berättelser om psykiatrin
Authors: Johansson Anna
Published: October 2024

The aim of this article is to examine the construction of psychiatry and patienthood in personal accounts of self-harm. Drawing on interviews and dialogues from Internet message boards, I show that the relationship between psychiatry and the self-harming patient is often critically framed. Psychiatry is said to pay too much attention to acts of self-harm instead of trying to understand the patient's thoughts and feelings. This particular construction of psychiatry enables different identities for the patients. On the one hand, they are defined in terms of their problematic behaviours and thus positioned as entirely pathological. On the other hand, this also opens up for agency and acts of resistance against the asymmetrical power relations in psychiatric care.
Anmälningar och notiser
Authors: Jacobsson Roger
Published: October 2024

Recension av: Christer Lindberg, Samhället som tanke: Claude Lévi-Strauss och den franska strukturalismen. Lund: Arkiv förlag, 2009.
På väg mot en etnologisk könsmedvetenhet
Authors: Lundgren Britta , Lövkrona Inger
Published: October 2024

This issue of Kulturella Perspektiv deals with peasant and working class culture, ritual and religion, sexuality, modernity and individualism ⁠— all of them significant fields of research through which ethnologists and anthropologists contribute to the scholarly dialogue. But how is the construction of sex made visible in this dialogue? Research into gender, ie. the cultural and social meanings our biological affiliation both creates and is assigned, is the common denominator in all the present articles.
The challenge to the cultural sciences is to theoretically and empirically deepen insight into how femininity and masculinity are created, in relation to each other and to power mechanisms both on the personal, individual plane and in society as a whole.
The following contributions by social anthropologist Lena Gemzöe, folklorist Karin Lützen and ethnologists Lissie Åström, Christer Eldh and Lena Martinsson each provide material from diverse fields of research for a continued gender-theoretical discussion among ethnologists and anthropologists.
Anmälningar och notiser
Authors: Liliequist Marianne , Jonsson Kjell
Published: October 2024

Recension av: Helene Brembeck: Efter Spock. Uppfostringsmönster idag. Göteborg 1992. Skrifter från Etnologiska föreningen i Västsverige 15. (Diss.)
Lena Gerholm och Tomas Gerholm: Doktorshatten. En studie av forskarutbildningen inom sex discipliner vid Stockholms universitet. Stockholm: Carlsson bokförlag, 1992.
Såpoperan och dess brukare
Authors: Liliequist Marianne
Published: October 2024

To many women the soap-opera constitutes an important part of the material used in their identity work. The concentration of the soap-opera on the private sphere and relationships make it highly appreciated amongst the experts on the labour of relations, the women. The author has followed several women's soap-opera watching for a considerable time. In conversations with these women, certain topics have crystallized, themes which deal with women's living conditions and visions today. The author advocates a research perspective where an ideology-critical attitude toward the offering of TV series is combined with a sympathetic reading of the soap-opera.
Biografen som mötesplats
Authors: Sjöholm Carina
Published: October 2024

The subject of this study is a medium — the cinema — and a situation — going to the movies. It is more specifically the latter, i.e. the cinema as an arena for cultural confrontations, which is discussed. It is reasonable to suppose that cinema-going at the time (the 40s and 50s) played an important role in cultural complexity, which among other things included a longing for the city (or that which was separated from the countryside), and the creation of a public sphere. Cinema-going became an element in a learning process, both an exercise in reflexivity where one could see oneself mirrored in the others, and the creation of media competence.
To go to the movies was to be a part of a festivity pattern, where the film in itself was not the most important thing. By coming together, and to a certain extent in the reception of the film, youth gained a feeling of possibility. These meetings became a marketplace for exchange and negotiation. As far as I can see it was a creative and dynamic meeting, where one was trained to see the arriving future — an era different from the past.