bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Պղնձի և ցինկի ռենտգենառադիոչափական նմուշարկումը դիֆերենցիալ զտիչների կիրառմամբ
Authors: Թամրազյան Արտյուշա
Published: October 2024

Բարդ նյութական կազմ ունեցող հանքանյութում պղնձի և ցինկի ռենտգենառադիոչափական նմուշարկման ժամանակ նրանց անալիտիկ գծերի անջատման համար կիրառվում է դիֆերենցիալ զտիչների մեթոդը: Արգելակման ճառագայթմամբ ռադիոակտիվ աղբյուրով առաջնային գրգռման ժամանակ զտիչների պատուհան են անցնում ինչպես աղբյուրի առաջնային, այնպես էլ ուսումնասիրվող միջավայրի երկրորդական ցրման ճառագայթները, ինչի արդյունքում էապես նվազում է անալիզի ճշտությունը: Նախկինում այդ ճառագայթներից զտիչների պատուհանը «մաքրելու» համար առաջարկվում էր չափումներ կատարել դատարկ ապարների վրա և ստացված արժեքը հանել հիմնական չափման արժեքից: Սակայն ուսումնասիրվող միջավայրի նյութական կազմի, խտության, կառուցվածքի և ցրման ճառագայթների փոփոխմանը բերող այլ գործոնների առկայության դեպքում այս եղանակը կիրառելի չէ: Հոդվածում առաջարկվում է ցրման ճառագայթների ազդեցության հաշվի առնման նոր եղանակ:
При рентгенорадиометрическом опробовании меди и цинка в рудах сложного вещественного состава для выделения аналитических линий этих элементов обычно применяются дифференциальные фильтры. При первичном возбуждении с радиоактивным источником тормозного излучения в окно дифференциальных фильтров входят рассеянные излучения как от источника первичного излучения, так и вторичные рассеянные излучения от исследуемых сред, что приводит к существенному уменьшению точности опробования. Для учета вклада мешающих излучений, т.е. для очистки окна дифференциальных фильтров от рассеянных излучений, сначала измеряются разности счета на пробе, не содержащий определяемый элемент и полученное значение вычитается из основного измерения. Однако, изменения вещественного состава, плотности, структуры исследуемой среды, а также наличие других факторов, приводящих к изменению рассеянных излучений, этот способ неприменим.
In X-ray radiometric testing of copper and zinc in ores with complex compositions, differential filters are typically used to isolate the analytical lines of these elements. During the primary excitation with a radioactive source of bremsstrahlung, both the scattered radiation from the primary source and the secondary scattered radiation from the studied materials enter the window of the differential filters, which significantly reduces the accuracy of the testing. To account for the contribution of interfering radiation and to clean the window of the differential filters from scattered radiation, the count differences are first measured on a sample that does not contain the element being determined, and the obtained value is subtracted from the main measurement. However, this method is not applicable due to changes in the material composition, density, structure of the studied material, as well as the presence of other factors that lead to changes in scattered radiation. This article proposes a new method for considering the influence of scattered radiation, free from the mentioned drawbacks.
Exploring Patriarchal Dominance in the Context of Colonialism in: The Story of Zahra and Things Fall Apart
Authors: Waleed Mansour Dr. Ashraf
Published: October 2024

This paper explores the intersection of colonialism and patriarchy, focusing on the double oppression women face in Hanan Al-Shaykh’s The Story of Zahra and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. The study examines how both novels portray women as victims of dual subjugation—colonial domination and patriarchal control—while highlighting the ways in which these systems reinforce each other. Using postcolonial feminist theory as a framework, the paper analyzes how patriarchal structures, deeply rooted in cultural traditions, are further intensified by the colonial experience, placing women at the bottom of the social hierarchy. The analysis reveals that, although colonialism is eventually dismantled at the political level, the enduring influence of patriarchy remains deeply entrenched within society, governing nearly every aspect of women’s lives. Both novels depict the physical, emotional, and psychological toll that this double oppression takes on women, often trapping them in cycles of violence and exploitation. The study ultimately argues that women’s liberation requires a dual revolution—against both the remnants of colonialism and the persistent grip of patriarchy—if true equality is to be achieved.
Current Situation of Hookworm Infections in the People of Cu M'lan Commune, Ea Sup District, Dak Lak Province
Authors: Trong Phan Van , Thanh Dang Dinh , Phuc Hoang Hai , Hong Pham Thi Thanh , Anh Nguyen Tuan
Published: October 2024

Hookworm infections are among the most common parasitic diseases worldwide, particularly in developing countries where sanitation conditions are poor and hygiene practices are inadequate. This disease can lead to serious health issues such as anemia, malnutrition, and negatively impact the quality of life of affected individuals. Objective: To determine the prevalence and intensity of hookworm infections among the residents of Cu M'Lan Commune, Ea Sup District. Research Subjects and Methods: A cross-sectional research design conducted in the community (aged 3 and above) living in Cu M'Lan Commune, Ea Sup District, Dak Lak Province, in 2024. Results: The prevalence of hookworm infections was 22.73%, with intensity remaining at a mild level (46.4 eggs/1g of stool). The infection rates among different ethnic groups (Kinh and minorities) and genders (males and females) were similar. The infection rate in the 16-59 age group was 26.59%, and it was higher among individuals with education levels below high school (25%) and those working in agriculture (27.24%) compared to other groups in the research area. Conclusion: The prevalence of hookworm infections in the area remains relatively high, but the intensity of infections is mild. The rate of hookworm infections is associated with education level and occupation.
ÍNDICE GLICÊMICO NA DIETA DE PACIENTES COM DIABETES MELLITUS TIPO 2: UMA REVISÃO DE LITERATURA
Authors: Silvestre Ana Cássia dos Santos , Maciel Janaina Araújo , Lima Lillian Tavares de , Figueiredo Ronildo Oliveira
Published: October 2024

O índice glicêmico (IG) é um recurso importante na nutrição, que ajuda a avaliar a qualidade dos carboidratos presentes nos alimentos. Ele permite classificar os carboidratos em três categorias: baixo, moderado e alto, o que pode ser fundamental para uma adequada intervenção nutricional. O objetivo deste artigo foi descrever a influência do índice glicêmico na dieta de pacientes com diabetes tipo 2, através de revisão de literatura, indexados em base de dados informatizados. Constatou-se, em grande parte dos artigos, que os pacientes com diabetes mellitus tipo 2 dispõem de diversas alternativas de dietas que incluem fontes adequadas de carboidratos, lipídios e proteínas, permitindo assim que adaptem suas escolhas alimentares de acordo com suas preferências pessoais, o que favorece uma maior adesão ao plano alimentar. Conclui-se que o tratamento da DM2, através da dietoterapia, oferece orientação dietética e nutricional adequada, reduzindo e contribuindo para uma melhora na condição da doença.
INCLUSÃO E DIVERSIDADE NA ESCOLA: ESTRATÉGIAS PEDAGÓGICAS PARA PROMOVER A INCLUSÃO DE ALUNOS COM NECESSIDADES ESPECIAIS EM TURMAS REGULARES
Authors: Lima Rafael Santos , Canzian Elis Regina Ventury , Camarinha Jaqueline Barbosa , Gomes Amanda Boaventura , Rocha Vera Lúcia de Oliveira , Barth Lia da Silva , Mesndes Linda Ester Pimentel Ramos , Ribeiro Sirlene da Silva , Paudarco Vanilda Nogueira de Carvalho , Pinto Carmen Lucia Almeida , Pires Valéria das Neves Ferreira , Herbst Sara Maria
Published: October 2024

A inclusão e a diversidade na escola são princípios fundamentais para garantir uma educação igualitária e acessível a todos os alunos, incluindo aqueles com necessidades especiais. Promover a inclusão em turmas regulares envolve a criação de estratégias pedagógicas que respeitem as diferenças e ofereçam oportunidades de aprendizagem para todos. Entre as principais estratégias, destaca-se a adaptação curricular, que permite a personalização dos conteúdos de acordo com as necessidades específicas de cada aluno. O uso de recursos pedagógicos adaptados, como tecnologias assistivas, também é crucial para garantir o acesso pleno às atividades educacionais. Além disso, metodologias ativas e colaborativas, como o trabalho em grupo e projetos interdisciplinares, favorecem a participação de todos os estudantes, independentemente de suas limitações. O apoio especializado, oferecido por profissionais como psicopedagogos e terapeutas, complementa o trabalho do professor em sala de aula. A formação continuada dos docentes é igualmente importante para capacitá-los a lidar com as demandas da inclusão. Por fim, a conscientização da comunidade escolar sobre a importância da diversidade é essencial para criar um ambiente acolhedor e inclusivo, onde cada aluno se sinta valorizado e capaz de aprender e desenvolver suas habilidades de maneira integral.
Mitigation of Legal Disputes on Business Contracts between Commercial Banks and Providers of Information Technology Goods and Services
Authors: Gautama Maria Patricia , Kanthika I Made , Markoni  , Zulfikar
Published: October 2024

This research aims to translate Financial Services Authority Regulations into the clauses of business contracts between commercial banks and providers of information technology goods and services by harmonizing agreements with contractual law principles, especially to reach mutual agreements to mitigate legal disputes. The harmonization process starts from the planning, preparation, implementation, and contract termination stages. The research method used in this article is normative legal research, which aims to research, study, and analyze laws and regulations relating to banking, the OJK, and business contracts between banks and providers of information technology goods and services. This research will use several approaches, including a case approach, a statutory approach, and a conceptual approach. The results of this research emphasize the importance of banks providing standard business contracts that comply with the provisions in MRTI SEOJK to facilitate initial identification and the need for harmonization of clauses that require negotiation with information technology providers. In mitigation efforts, the Bank has considered to accept and control the risks after obtaining approval from management.
Framtidsfixarna
Authors: Bergquist Magnus
Published: October 2024

The paper deals with sensemaking about the future in the form of a growing business of trend analyses and scenario planning companies. The idea of "a new economy" is associated with turbulence and complexity in economic life, which opens up for a need for pointers towards plausible and strategic relevant futures scenarios. In order to become successful scenario planners first have to describe the present and unstable and then present their interpretation of future scenarios as possible or strategically relevant for their customers. Management sensemaking is thereby changed from formal analyses (based on tables and figures) to narrative visions in the form of intriguing stories. The good story-tellers become the management gurus in the new economy.
Etnologen som de ohördas advokat
Authors: Liliequist Marianne
Published: October 2024

The author speaks for an ethnology which advocates the experience of people who are normally excluded from the political and public arena. Methods to make the text polyphonic are discussed, to create an open text subject to multiple interpretations. The collaborative production of ethnologist knowledge is manifest and that involves sharing the texts with the respondents and regarding them as collaborators.
Sida vid sida
Authors: Meurling Birgitta , Norlén Ann-Christine
Published: October 2024

This article is an empirical study of a segregated area in the town of Uppsala, and of the building intentions that failed. The planners focused on building different kinds of housing, not realizing that it would make a distinction between immigrants and Swedes. We argue that agents are needed on more than one level to form an integrated society and that the individual standpoint is the key. We focus on two examples of integration agents, the church and the school. Even though the Swedes in the area talked about the benefits of a multicultural society, they did not reach out to their immigrant neighbours because they did not see them as neighbours.
Börjes bravader
Authors: Nilsson Bo
Published: October 2024

This article is about different meanings of masculinity and "to be surprised". The point of departure is 25 interviews with men living in the countryside of northern Sweden. By creating a "faction" — a story about one man, but built on the compilation of the 25 interviews — I show how masculinity can be constructed during a holiday in a foreign country. The leading character goes through a fateful moment — a beauty contest — and this changes both his relation to the phenomenon "to be surprised" and his way of acting as a man. One reason for this is that he represent a lower class manhood, a protest masculinity.
En manlig identitet med kvinnliga drag
Authors: G. Olsson Claes
Published: October 2024

The article poses the question of what effect childhood experiences of male and female role models have on the choice of profession and on gender identity. For a man to choose a female-dominated profession can be considered a crossing of established gender boundaries. It does not, however, necessarily imply a politically conscious attempt to change prevailing gender patterns. Rather, it is about choosing an environment where one's gender identity can develop on its own terms in an interwoven blend of masculinity and femininity.
Anmälningar och notiser
Authors: Jacobsson Roger , Pettersson Helena
Published: October 2024

Recension av: Pierre Bourdieu: Konstens regler. Det litterära fältets uppkomst och struktur. Stockholm/Stehag: Brutus Östlings Bokförlag Symposion, 2000.
Roddy Reid & Sharon Traweek: Doing Science+Culture. How Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies are Changing the Way we Look at Science and Medicine. London: Routledge, 2000.
Scener ur ett kvinnorum
Authors: Larsson Helena
Published: October 2024

This essay is about refuge women from Afghanistan and the ways they learn to understand not only the Swedish language, but also cultural codes and interpretations of emotions. How do the women respond emotionally to the things around them? How can people from other cultures create emotional bonds between their new lives and the past? How do they learn to feel and make experiences in the new language?
Drawing on experiences as a teacher of this specific group of women my conclusion is that the process of understanding and becoming at ease in a new language and culture is much more complex than just mastering the language, because the feeling of homeliness in a specific language is based on how well one have made the world it expresses intelligible. Learning how to behave, feel and express feelings verbally as well as non-verbally in the new cultural settings makes social relations with people from the new environment most important.
Den ironiska höghastighetskulturen
Authors: Lundälv Jörgen
Published: October 2024

Ambulance crashes (Emergency Medical Vehicle Collision — EMVC) in our welfare state is ironically a social and culture phenomenon. Ambulance crashes as injury phenomenon is a complicated research area. Unfortunately this phenomenon has not been detected by researchers in a multidisciplinary perspective. This article claims that prospective qualitative studies is an interesting field for research concerning ambulance work and injury event. The aim of this article is to discuss some perspectives of ambulance staff and patients as vulnerable individuals in our modern culture of high-speed.
Dressed for Success
Authors: Andersson Therése
Published: October 2024

The aim of this article was to discuss the relationship between Hollywood film and fashion from a cultural studies approach of film studies, where the Academy Awards of 2005 have served as a point of departure. This relationship was further viewed in the context of contemporary popular press, and theoretical questions of spectatorship concerning female film stars and fashion as expressions for identity were considered. The discussion therefore paid attention to the joint history of the stars system and the fashion industry, in which the stars themselves have been placed as trendsetters and as icons of style, something that has been frequently represented through the popular press. In this context film stars have the blurred status of — at the same time — being produced images and private persons. This system of representation in conjunction with spectatorship, were discussed in relation to questions of identity and self-image, body and aesthetics, as well as reception and consumption.
Se lika ung ut som du känner dig
Authors: Lövgren Karin
Published: October 2024

Ageing is not only a biological and chronological process but also one that we interpret and from which we culturally construe meaning. This article is based on a recently commenced doctoral dissertation project on cultural conceptions of age and ageing and focuses on popular press aimed at women of 40 and over. Examples from journalistic material and ads that have been collected so far are hereby analysed. The author also refers to interviews conducted with people working with advertising and magazine publishing.
Two different patterns of age and ageing representations are characteristic of the media examples in question. One of them makes us of associations between ageing and the gaining of experience, wisdom and maturity while the other portrays ageing as something we ought to fight and delay at all cost through the consumption of cosmetic products. When the ads claim that you can "look as young as you feel", they latch on to a differentiation between experienced, inner age and the age we feel others ascribe to us. Ads speak a language of transformation, promising to improve our lives. The promise in ads on anti wrinkle creams is that you can conquer time and take years off your appearance.
Bolagsstämman
Authors: Mörck Magnus , Tullberg Maria
Published: October 2024

The elaborate ritual form of annual general meetings held by shareholders of large corporations is studied in the context of a project dealing with masculinity and power. Observations from 35 meetings in Sweden show how the basic ritual has been developed by new acts like showing video presentations of the company. The meetings have become more spectacular, but the visual shows tend to turn the shareholders into spectators, a highly contradictory position, since they are in fact supposed to be the ones in control. The business elite is a male homosocial group with a strict dress code that tends to exclude women by their appearance. Although the meetings are controlled by the board and the inner circle of shareholders, there is also an interesting form of free speecha llowed. Asking critical questions adds excitement to the meetings and creates an ambivalence about power and control, a negotiating of masculinities within the ritual.
Barnkalas på McDonald's
Authors: Brembeck Helene
Published: October 2024

In this article birthday party rituals at McDonald's are studied as hybrids of orderings of different actors: the company eager to create loyal customers, or at least to offer an event worth paying for, the parents wanting some relief, the children wanting to play and have fun, the staff eager to perform their professionalism, and the marketing agency wanting to promote their event concept. What looks like a smoothly running event following a consistent party manual, appears to consist of several competing orderings, or programs and anti-programs (Latour, 2000), offering different peak moments, sacrifices and gains for the actors involved.
Ritualer och sakraliserade glassamlingar
Authors: M. Ekström Karin
Published: October 2024

Rituals related to possession and care of collector's glass objects are discussed in this article which is based on interviews with 24 glass collectors. The purpose of the article is to describe the rituals collectors use and create in their home environment. The visual display is very important among glass collectors. The light is continuously emphasized as important. Transformation from glass objects for usability to art glass is evident. Rituals related to dusting and cleaning are noticable. The glass collector's objects were exhibited in a museum. The glass objects were considered sacred in collector's homes before the exhibition, but even more so after the exhibition. The exhibition reinforced the value of the glass collected.
Bröllopskoordinatorn som ceremonimästare
Authors: Salomonsson Karin
Published: October 2024

The growing interest in the 'white and lavish' wedding is not to be mistaken. It can be seen in the expanding bridal industry, with its special magazines, bridal shows, internet pages and vast number of products and services for the 'perfect wedding'. To be able to navigate this market a relatively new service has been imported from the USA, the wedding planner. Through interviews, this article explores the ways in which the wedding planner describes his or her work, contact with clients, and what they see as their main task — staging dreams, creating a 'personal' wedding and providing security. What role do the wedding planner play as trendsetter and/or defender of ritual norms?
"Ödmjuk design"
Authors: Bhatt Robert
Published: October 2024

In this article I talk about the experience of contributing as an ethnologist in the multidisciplinary development of a technical aid for people suffering from dementia. From the viewpoint of a near graduate of the Cultural Analysis Programme in Umeå I discuss some theoretical and practical problems that one inevitably come to face as a scholar in this field wanting to produce concrete, recognisable artefacts for groups outside the academic society.
As an example I address the problem of tailoring together methods to suit the heterogeneous needs of project members from different fields such as computer scientists and medical experts without giving up the professional integrity sustained in ethnographic work conducted under "normal" conditions. For this purpose I explain my inspiration by methods common in other fields such as focus groups and the use of video documentation. I also try to frame the project and my participation in it from a critical standpoint. Objection could be made for instance about the way our cooperative efforts set experts knowledge above the reasoning of potential users and reproduce physiological discourses about dementia.
Språk, utbildning och "utveckling" i det postkoloniala Senegal
Authors: Elfving Karin
Published: October 2024

This article deals with the language situation in postcolonial Senegal from a Cultural Studies and postcolonial theories perspective. Ever since independence, French has been maintained as the only language of teaching, whereas the national languages are used mainly in private context. Educational problems in Senegal have by the majority of the country's linguists been referred to the language situation. Today a third initiative of introducing the national languages in 155 of the public schools is being tried out.
Based on interviews with students from a private high school situated in the centre town of Dakar and a public one situated in the suburb of Pikine, this article discusses how the language norm of Senegalese schools influences ideas on "development" and power in the "globalised" society. Their way of arguing on national languages and French are analyzed in relation to categories such as social class, sex and ethnic belonging. The conclusion of this article is that a structure where French is the only language of teaching results in an educational system which is maintaining social hierarchies rather than having an effect of equalization.
Anmälningar och notiser
Authors: Forsemalm Joakim , Ers Agnes , Söderholm Lindelöf Karin , Åberg Magnus , Holst Kjaer Sarah , Karlsson Eva , Henriksson Greger , Rastbäck Sara , Gerber Sofi , Garberding Petra , Kanematsu Makiko , Leon René , Hörnfeldt Helena , Hyltén-Cavallius Lotta , Ohlsson Björn , Berglund Sara , Hyltén-Cavallius Sverker , Jacobsson Roger , Markusson Winkvist Hanna
Published: October 2024

"Doktoranderna har ordet. Etnologin och framtiden: Upprop för en mer samordnad nationell forskarutbildning"
"Metamorfoser i juni 2006"
Recension av: Tobias Hübinette, Comforting an Orphaned Nation. Representations of International Adoption and Adopted Koreans in Korean Popular Culture. Department of Oriental Languages, Stockholm University, 2005, 265 s. Diss.
Bekännelser
Authors: Lennartsson Rebecka
Published: October 2024

Buying sex is in Sweden rapidly coming to signify a disturbed male. The discourse of the deviant sex-buyer whould be understood in the light of the therapy society, that increasingly manufactures new diagnoses and new clients, turning behaviour that earlier was seen as evidence for a lack of character or morals into addictions, and describing the clients as victims. For the first time in history, the buying male part of prostitution is called into question. This discourse holds a capacity for change in masculinity and sexuality. Sex buyers also tend to seek help, stating that their sexual behaviour causes them anxiety and distress. These experiences are understood as a lack of manliness, and analyzed and treated with a therapy constructed to fit men. While women's despair always is comprehended structurally, men's anguish can only be understood as personal. But what if the sex buyer feels bad, not because of a lack of masculinity, but because of hegemonic masculinity itself?
Iscensättning av läkekonster i folkhemmet
Authors: Eklöf Motzi
Published: October 2024

The image of the doctor established by cultural and medical history is that of a great authority who was held in high esteem during a large part of the 20th century but whose halo became somewhat tarnished during the final 25 years. The question is whether this image is generally valid. In whose eyes was the doctor a great authority and in what respect? With the aim of studying the image of the doctor and his supposed antithesis — the quack — from a folk perspective, Swedish burlesque comedy published from 1930 through the 1950s has been studied here. In this genre originating from the folk humor of the Middle Ages, in the spirit of Rabelais, and scoffed at by the upper classes of society, the quack has a more prominent role than the doctor, and he uses the same agents, although they are simpler and more twisted. A medical moral that can be extracted from the theatre productions is that the doctor is hardly credited with better curative powers than the quack. On the other hand, the new generation's doctor represented a promise for the future regarding higher ethical standards and thereby better medicine right from the start. That relatively little importance was attributed to practical healing arts and treatment capabilities in the creation of the medical profession's ethos certainly contributed to the fact that people also turned to other types of practitioners.
En koloniverksamhets gränsarbete
Authors: Samuelsson Tobias , Samuelsson Marcus
Published: October 2024

Swedish summer camps were created in a time when great differences existed between the rural and urban parts of Sweden. The summer camps were organised to save children from the un-healthy cities and to restore traditional values that had been lost through the urbanisation and the move from the traditional life close to nature on the country-side.
Today, more than 100 years later, this dichotomy between the traditional life, a life close to nature and the unnatural life in the city, is still widely used by summer camps.
We are arguing that this can be analysed through the use of the borderwork theory. This article focuses on how a process of borderwork is undertaken in one Swedish summer camp to create difference between the summer camp and the surrounding world.
Different aspects of the summer camp praxis and rhetoric are examined in this article. The investigation unveils that there is an immanent and reoccuring aspect of border work in the organisation of the summer camp as well as in the camp leaders' talk about the summer camp. The life at the summer camp is put forward as traditional, closer to nature and containing a closer community feeling. A reoccuring distinction between "us" and "them", between the summer camp world and the outside world is produced through this borderwork.
Rummets betydelse för den museala utställningen
Authors: Pettersson Richard
Published: October 2024

The museum exhibition relation to the visitor has been a major topic in museology research for a long time now. But in the recent, focus has been laid on the specific room whereupon the exhibition itself is located. This has raised some intricate questions: is the room itself interacting with the message making in the exhibition? And how are the visitors — which are dealing with the total interpretation of the room and the exhibition — dealing with this "message"? Are the visitors passive receptors or are they interacting with the meaning making in the exhibition room? These are complex questions which are creatively and thoughtfully analyzed from different angles in the following three separate articles from Eva Sofia Johansson, Louise Ahmt and Märit Simonsson.
Paradigmskiftets primat
Authors: Bränström Öhman Annelie
Published: October 2024

Fundamental changes in our assumptions of the world is seldom recognized in broad daylight. Or, to put it with a famous quote from T S Eliot's poem "The hollow men" (1925): "This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper". The same pattern can be recognized in both the rhetorical and theoretical performance of a paradigm shift in academia. In this article it is argued that the silence surrounding the integration of the so called "Excellence"-concept in Swedish universities, can serve as an illustrative example of how the "already-there"-ness of paradigm shifts shuts up a critical debate before it even has been articulated. This is explained by the fact that we usually notice a paradigm shift not by its arrival but by its presence, because we are academically trained to think of change and development in terms of conflicting claims. According to this logic, old assumptions of, for instance, knowledge are predestined to be conquered by new and stronger ideas. As it is pointed out in the end of the article, the hidden gender agenda of this thought pattern yet passes embarrassingly unseen.
"That was me"
Authors: Kaijser Lars
Published: October 2024

This article focuses on how iconic figures like Paul McCartney relate to their own biographies. During the 1970's, McCartney was reluctant in his relation to the Beatles. The eighties changed this. The nineties saw a McCartney who more openly made use of his own history. The Beatles became an iconic, visual, narrative and affective resource, which came to use in concerts as well as in record production. Central to McCartney's use was also an ambition to get recognition for his contributions to the Beatles, largely dismissed since the murder of John Lennon, which credited Lennon as the creative genius of the band.
En helt spesiell kjærlighet
Authors: Flinterud Guro
Published: October 2024

The British artist Morrissey started his career in the early 1980s as the singer in the band The Smiths, and has since become a cult icon with a still growin fan base. This article looks at the icon from a fan point of view. My vantage point for studying fandom is the assumption that fandom arises when someone recognises their own views and opinions in something or someone else. Hence, each fandom must be studied on its own terms, be it sports fans, music fans, or fans of different teams and musicians. I claim that Morrissey fandom is, among other things, based on an identification with being different and with loneliness. In the article I look at how this is expressed by different fans. I analyse their use of Morrissey's lyrics to make sense of their lives and emotions, and I also look at how Morrissey's language and use of italics and capital letters in the album sleeves communicate different meanings to the fans.
Komma hemifrån
Authors: Berg Magnus
Published: October 2024

The article discusses the expansion of the concept of "home" as a consequence of modern, long-range tourism. The material consists of fifteen blogs written by young Swedish travelers who have visited some of the most popular tourist destinations in Thailand for a shorter period of time. The blogs construct a sort of familiarization of contexts situated far away from Sweden which incorporates them with the idea of "home". The communication in the blog shows that journeys do not go to Thailand itself, understand as a specific and non-Swedish historical, economic and social context about which the blogs has close to nothing to say. Instead the blogs are exclusively focused on the "tourist zone" in Thailand. The tourist zone is a context constructed only to meet the tourist's demand for leisure, relaxation and hedonism. It is therefore a generalized zone that could be found on many places outside Thailand. Familiarity, and the ongoing process of education to familiarity, with the tourist zone in Thailand appears as a training in Sweden normality. In that sense Thailand, or rather a very peculiar version of Thailand, could be said to be incorporated with everyday life in Sweden. The theoretical sources of the article are of postcolonial and critical tourism research origin.
Svensk synd och japansk oskuld?
Authors: Danielsson Jonas , Ng Jenna
Published: October 2024

This article comparatively explores the issue of censorship in relation to the film cultures of Swedish sin and Japanese pink film ("pinku eiga") post-World War II until 1980. The two film cultures reflect similar ethos-chilling misogynism, explicit sexuality and graphic violence, and a number of films in that era were landmark cases in pushing the boundaries of censorship. Tracing the role of censorship specifically in the contexts of gender equality in Sweden and the war defeat in Japan, the article also reflects on the ideological premises and cultural agenda of censorship.
En forskare i räddningsjacka
Authors: Eliasson Linda
Published: October 2024

In this article the author reflects upon her field study where she follows a group of firefighters in their work. The purpose of her research is to study the interaction between the public and the professionals, such as firefighters, police and medics, at the incident site. However, when following the firefighters three different places become central to the study: the fire station, the incident site and the fire engine. Being on these different places does not only affect what the researcher is able to observe, it also affects the role of the researcher, especially when it comes to inclusion and participation. In trying to increase her sense of belonging on the field the researcher uses different strategies, where the most significant one is to dress in a way that is similar to the firefighters. By wearing a rescue jacket at the incident site the researcher is practicing and impression management that does not only legitimize her presence at the site, the jacket also makes it possible to practice field work in a way that would not have been possible without it.
Individualitet, gemenskap och modernitet i tre heterosexuella parrelationer
Authors: Martinsson Lena
Published: October 2024

The present article treats the significance of heterosexual relationships in the development of individuality and the fulfilment of the quest for fellowship in modern society. Three couples are described, each of whom has created various organizing principles in order to manage their shared everyday life. However, these principles serve to legitimize the man's individuality at the cost of the woman's. The woman proves more adaptable than the man, thereby facilitating his desire for individuality. Concurrent with the rising divorce rate and wider opportunities for women to become individualized, the increased involvement of men in the raising of children can be interpreted as an awareness of the need for stable relationships. This does not imply that male dominance in the relationships has disappeared. In couples, less credence is given to the woman's own individuality than the man's, which can undermine her chances of contending for a position of greater equality both within the relationship and in society at large. However, these women gain confidence in their individual capacity from their surroundings and from their children. Each has succeeded in her own way in defining certain boundaries and in resisting the subordination process within the relationship. The significance of resistance in both this context and on a social level is emphasized in the present article.
Den kultiverade spektatören eller striden om den goda smaken
Authors: Nordmark Dag
Published: October 2024

Historical studies concerning the composition, social recruitment and behaviour of theatre audiences appear to possess a certain ethnological interest, in that they further elucidate particular cultural patterns. The present essay concerns theatre audiences in a number of small Swedish towns during the first half of the 19th century, and discusses both some of the factors which influenced their composition, and the antagonistic relationship which existed between different audience groups. The latter is interpreted as a struggle for cultural hegemony, comparing both aesthetic values and forms of behaviour in the auditorium.
Ungdom och multikulturalism
Authors: Ehn Billy
Published: October 2024

Extensive immigration to Sweden during the last twenty-five years has resulted in a widespread rhetoric of multiculturalism. At the same time, many Swedes are suspicious and even hostile towards immigrants. In this battle between multiculturalism and xenophobic Swedish nationalism, young people are a special target. In this paper I discuss how teenagers living in a highly multi-ethnic district south of Stockholm respond to these two scenarios. How do they experience ethnic and cultural diversity in their everyday lives? What does ethnicity mean to them in their own process of identity construction? How is ethnicity expressed and managed in different social situations? Can one see any signs of a developing cosmopolitan, "syncretic", youth culture? One of my conclusions from the interviews with some thirty teenagers of mixed origins is that ethnicity and multiculturalism among them is operationalized mainly through the de-emphasizing of ethnic difference and the creation of culturally "neutral", bridging, arenas of interaction. Official Swedish multiculturalism seems here to have been transformed into a public non-culturalism.
Medieetnografiska kulturstudier
Authors: Bolin Göran
Published: October 2024

In his article Göran Bolin discusses the implications of introducing a specific concept of media ethnography as has been suggested by Kirsten Drotner. Against a historical background of audence studies within the field of (mass) communication studies and related disciplines he argues — against Drotner's and others' holistic demand for media ethnography to comprise all aspects of everyday life — that to make sense media ethnography has to be grounded in both the active uses of media by its audience and in the media themselves. In this discussion examples from a study of young people's use of extremely violent films on video — so-called "video nasties" — are used to emphasize the theoretical dilemma of ethnographic research on media audiences.
En akademisk trettioårskris?
Authors: Löfgren Orvar
Published: October 2024

During its thirty year history Cultural Studies has developed from an interdisciplinary meeting ground and a "street-urchin of Academia" to a discipline, with its own traditions and routines. Such a process often involves a rather unconscious framing of research and teaching — a tendency to overlook some aspects and to overexploit others.
The paper takes a critical look at this transformation, especially at the way in which interests in "everyday life" has been narrowed down considerably. Latterly, too much research in Cultural Studies has tended to favour a "reading of culture", focusing on the symbolic and expressive aspects of consumption, as well as the aesthetic dimensions of creativity.
Kroppens förvandlingar
Authors: Frykman Jonas
Published: October 2024

Alternative medical practices have expanded rapidly since the late 1960s. In the present article, this is viewed as one of the many cultural forms through which life-policy questions are brought onto the social and political agenda. It could be regarded as a metasocial commentart, on of the many arenas wherein people attempt to delineate another type of relationship between themselves and society. The emphasis is placed more upon "being" than on "becoming", a tendency which fits in well with the overall debate concerning identity-formation during the late modern era. The article further argues that during the first half of the century, ordinary or "school" medicine bore the Utopian message of a modern welfare society, a society in which there ought not exist any differences based on family, social background or financial status. The much-discussed "medicalization" had in fact much to say about matters such as equality and modernity.
Ungdomskulturen och det Andra
Authors: Sernhede Ove
Published: October 2024

The article deals with white, male-dominated youth subcultures and their fascination with black expressive cultures. From the early days of jazz to the contemporary hip-hop scene white youth styles in music, dance, clothing and verbal communication have been inspired by black culture. Research in this field has been carried out within the traditions of cultural studies. The basic assumption is that Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean music cultures — in the identity work of white youth — represents a tempting "otherness". The identification with black music and black lifestyles is regarded as a metaphor for resistance and as a search for counter values within the realm of politics, aesthetics and sexuality. The article also discuss how this multi-ethnicity is related to the "new racism" and the youth culture as a whole.
Kulturbegreppet, kritiken och praktiken
Authors: Öhlander Magnus
Published: October 2024

Inspired by postmodernism, criticism has been directed against the tendency in the field of cultural studies to apprehend culture as an homogeneous entirety. This criticism is usually rubricized as "the reflexivity and representation debates". The assumption that culture is a priori common for a given group of people is the result fo the definitions which the concept has been given, but also of the way in which the researcher collects his material. The purpose of the present article is to examine and discuss the criticism of the concept of culture and its relevance for ethnological methodology. The article touches upon the problem of the ontology of the concept of culture and its connection with the ambition of interpreting and seeking implications in people's life-worlds. Re-defining culture is not an effective enough way of unburdening the concept of these presumtions of homogeneity. Instead, this article proposes employing the term cultural phenomena. The degree to which homogeneity/complexity is to be found in a given culture is an empirical question. Finally, the article presents some thoughts on how the field between ethnography's descriptive and more interpretive components can be opened up to scrutiny.
Anmälningar och notiser
Authors: Jönsson Lars-Eric , Arvastson Gösta , Fruitman Stephen
Published: October 2024

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Marika V. Lagercrantz: Den andra rollen. Ett fältarbete bland skådespelare, regissörer och roller. Stockholm, Carlssons Bokförlag, 1995. (Diss.)
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"Fyrtiotalisterna" och deras döttrar
Authors: Brembeck Helene
Published: October 2024

The present article treats the view of motherhood held by two generations of middle-class women: the so-called generation of 1968, and those born in the 1960s. As parents, the generation of 1968 had taken on an ambitious project ⁠— to "free" their children from authoritarian structures, teach them to penetrate and reveal the abuse of power, grow less egoistic and display a greater degree of solidarity. In contrast, the maternal role which these women assume (based on the symbiosis between mother and child, where the child often had the last say), seems remarkably reactionary. Two dominant perceptions of the day can have contributed to this situation: the conviction that equality in couple relationships could easily be achieved by parents exchanging roles with one another, and the dominant socio-psychologically/psychoanalytically coloured discourse dealing with the fact that it was the "duty" of each mother to correctly understand and fulfill every need expressed by the child from the moment of its birth. These perceptions were not challenged by the mothers during the course of the interviews. However, that the mother-child symbiosis is nowadays taken somewhat less for granted and has been made the object of reflection can be noted in the interviews conducted with mothers born during the 1960s. Motherhood, in the form of a symbiotic relationship between mother and child, can even be perceived as a threat to the self, an obstacle to individual liberty. The members of the younger generation appear to be struggling to be allowed to "be themselves" in an entirely different manner ⁠— even in terms of their maternal role.
Pilgrimer, turister och mångfaldens organisation
Authors: Ronström Owe
Published: October 2024

Taking as its point of departure an essay by sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, the present article discusses some aspects of the organization of cultural and social diversity in contemporary Sweden. One of the most central projects of modernity has been the search for identity. Among the metaphors used to describe the identity-seeking personality engendered by modern society is that of the pilgrim. The strategy of the pilgrim was deferred gratification, and his goal to systematically mould the world into a desired shape. Such a project presupposed a constant, formable world. However, in a postmodern society, the rules of the game have been changed and continue to change all the time. Out of this impermanent condition emerge new life strategies (eg. those of the flaneur, the vagabond, the tourist, the player), based upon fragmentary, non-continual relationships. Individuals are temporarily united in groups bearing distinct characteristics and struggling for visibility with one another, to create increased social, cultural and political room. In this struggle, aesthetic, expressive forms stressing sensuality, play and desire are placed in the foreground, forms dedicated to creating and maintaining cultural identity as well as communicating them. The result of this can be that that which is thereby dramatized acquires the character of something faked and inauthentic, lacking serious intention. The author claims that it is necessary to discover new ways of describing and explaining this serious game through the ways in which it acts toward the world, using forms, expressions and meanings which perhaps more than anything else characterize mankind's relationship with its surrounding.