bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Good Enough to Teach? A Study of EMI Lecturers’ Language Skills and Metadiscourse
Authors: Mees Inger Margrethe , Denver Louise , Jensen Christian , Werther Charlotte
Published: November 2022

In a study conducted at the Copenhagen Business School, 1,794 students completed questionnaires on lectures given by 31 non-native English-speaking lecturers in 12 EMI programmes. They were asked to rate the lecture, the lecturer and the lecturer’s language. Statistical analyses revealed a correlation between the students’ perceptions of the lecturers’ general lecturing competence (defined as knowledge of subject and teaching skills) and their perceptions of their English language proficiency (Jensen et al. 2013). In return for their assistance, each lecturer received a feedback sheet on how to improve their communicative effectiveness. The feedback was given by experienced tutors of English who had extensive experience of teaching and assessing English in an everyday ELF context. This paper sets out to investigate what sort of recommendations were provided, concentrating on the 24 lecturers whose L1 was Danish. An examination of the tutors’ comments showed that they could be divided into two main categories: formal language skills and pragmatic or metadiscursive features. The observations on language features are presented using a slightly adapted version of Lavelle’s (2008) “good-enough-to-teach-model”, whilst the comments on metadiscourse could be divided into four categories: sequential structure, hierarchical structure, connectives, and “fillers”. Although some ELF research has suggested that effectiveness in ELF settings depends more on pragmatic ability than on language proficiency (Björkman 2010; Jenkins et al. 2011: 301), the analyses of the tutors’ comments to the 24 lecturers in the present study show that both aspects should be attributed importance.
Small Actors, Important Task: Independent Publishers and their Importance for the Transmission of French and Romance Language Fiction to Sweden Since the Turn of the Millennium
Authors: Hedberg Andreas
Published: November 2022

Starting from a description of today’s Swedish book market, which has seen a steady decline of French and other Romance languages as source languages for translated literature, this article investigates the importance of independent publishers for the transmission of non-anglophone fiction. In qualitative interviews, representatives of independent presses were asked to describe their business models and their relationships with big publishing houses. They were also asked to elaborate on the role of French and other Romance language fiction in Sweden today. The article’s understanding of the book market is very much based on work done by literary sociologists, such as Pascale Casanova, Hans Hertel and Johan Svedjedal. 

The results indicate that independent presses stepped in during the late 1990s, when the big publishing houses showed less and less interest in French and Romance language literature in translation. These independent publishers, with the help of clear niches, expert skills and perseverance, and in cooperation with media, showed that it was still possible to yield a profit publishing these kinds of translations. As a result, the major publishing houses once again took notice of French and other Romance language literature, engaging in competition with the smaller actors whose creation they had once brought about.
Le critique Stig Strömholm comme médiateur littéraire
Authors: Johnsson Hans-Roland
Published: November 2022

In this article we describe the activity of the critique and essayist Stig Strömholm in the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet in the section called Under Strecket. The dataset consists of 147 articles between 1960 and 1995, and our presentation is mainly concerned with his numerous articles on French literature. As a critic, Strömholm represents a particularly (if not unique) case, since nearly all of his articles deal with literature written between the 17th and 19th century. Furthermore, Strömholm – who during the period in question pursued a career as professor of law – did not take part in the general literary discussion in Sweden and did not have much contact with neither his readers nor the editorial staff of Svenska Dagbladet (who paid for the articles). So, from a linguistic and economic point of view, these articles can be seen as being written in a kind of isolation. From an ideological point of view, the articles reflect a standpoint that could be described as closed to Jansenism, with Pascal and Racine as models. On the other end of the ideological spectrum, we find authors from the Romantic Movement, such as Hugo.
Scaffolding writing development: How formative is the feedback?
Authors: Saliu-Abdulahi Drita
Published: November 2022

This paper contrasts students’ perceptions of feedback practices on written texts and their utilization of the feedback against formative assessment pedagogy. It uses observations of nine lessons of English writing in combination with semi-structured interviews of 39 first year upper secondary students in Norway. The findings show that students in general appreciate the feedback, but have diverging views about the different types and forms of feedback provided. The majority want to have one-to-one discussions with the teacher about their texts in addition to written feedback, and to receive more specific comments on both content and language. Most are content to use feedback in a delayed fashion, as a reference point for future writings. This is a result from the working routine in the classrooms where feedback in most cases comes with a grade – without a strict requirement to follow-up comprehensively, with the exception of correcting language errors. The findings highlight the primacy of form in the feedback provided and, in more than one way, poor quality formative feedback from the students’ perspective. It concludes that in order to maximize the formative potential of feedback there is a need to make it more usable, e.g. by giving it to ungraded texts and asking students to produce improved work based on feedback.
Mazo (de) y otros recursos de intensificación en el lenguaje juvenil madrileño: factores lingüísticos y sociales
Authors: Enghels Renata , Roels Linde
Published: November 2022

This paper investigates three main strategies used by Spanish teenagers to intensify their language, namely by suffixation and affixation of the base, and by recurring to the lexical intensifier mazo. For this purpose, all occurrences of these intensifiers in the Corpus Oral de Lenguaje Adolescente de Madrid (COLAm) are analyzed. Rather than describing the behavior of each individual category, this article aims at providing a better understanding of both the internal (morphosyntactic and semantic-pragmatic) and external (sociolinguistic) factors that determine the alternating use of the three strategies within the paradigm of intensifiers. The analysis also looks into the grammaticalization process that has given rise to the use of mazo as a highly frequent and versatile intensifier in teenage talk.
Asimetría derivativa de unidades nominativas de idiomas estructuralmente diferentes
Authors: Noskova Anna , Fatkhutdinova Venera
Published: November 2022

El objetivo planteado en el artículo es revelar el entorno de problemas vinculados al estudio de fenómenos asimétricos en sistemas de derivación de las lenguas tipológicamente diferentes. El objeto directo de la investigación son las correlaciones interlingües de unidades nominativas derivadas y su conjunto. En la investigación se usan los materiales de tres idiomas: el español como lengua de tipo flexivo- analítico, el ruso como flexivo- sintético y el tártaro como aglutinante-analítico. Las causas de la asimetría derivativa interlingüe pueden ser los siguientes: 1) correlación desigual de léxico base y derivado en vocabulario de cada lengua; 2) distinciones sistemático-estructurales entre idiomas de tipos morfológicos diferentes, que se manifiestan en juego individual de medios y modelos derivativos; 3) intensidad diferente de procesos derivativos, desproporción en realización de relaciones de derivación consecutiva y coderivación; 4) carácter específico del mecanismo de conciencia lengual que responde por forma interior de derivado. La asimetría derivativa interlingüe, tanto en lo formal-estructural, como en la semántica, se manifiesta en el sistema de formación de palabras y unidades complejas, una de las cuales es la cadena derivativa. El análisis comparativo de derivados que entran en la cadena derivativa, permite presentar claramente el grado de correspondencia o discorrespondencia estructural de las relaciones derivativas. La asimetría derivativa en idiomas diferentes refleja el carácter específico de procesos de categorización y nominación de medio ambiente. El estudio de relaciones de simetría y asimetría en sistemas derivativos de lenguas estructuralmente diferentes nos permite ahondar en el estudio de los mecanismos internos de estas tres lenguas y su expresión.
Étude contrastive du verbe suédois älska dans un corpus de textes alignés en série
Authors: Ramnäs Mårten
Published: November 2022

Cette étude a pour but de présenter un nouveau corpus multilingue et de donner un exemple de son utilisation. Le nouveau corpus, appelé Corpus Langues Romanes Comparées (CLRC), contient quatre langues romanes (le français, l’italien, l’espagnol, le portugais) et le suédois. Pour illustrer l’intérêt de ce type de corpus, nous prendrons comme point de départ un verbe suédois fréquent (älska) pour chercher à mettre en évidence les différents équivalents auxquels ont eu recours les traducteurs pour rendre ce verbe suédois en français, en italien, en espagnol et en portugais. Ensuite, quelques verbes attestés comme équivalents dans les langues romanes seront, à leur tour, l’objet de la même analyse contrastive.
The role of previous foreign language knowledge when translating from Italian as an unknown language into L2 English or L3 Spanish or French
Authors: Smidfelt Linda , Van de Weijer Joost
Published: November 2022

The aim of the present study is to examine and describe Swedish upper secondary students’ use of their background languages while translating a text from Italian, a language unknown to them, into either their L2 English or their L3 French or Spanish. The assumption here is that searching for similarities between these languages is a natural feature of language learning and that intercomprehension can lead to at least limited understanding of an unknown language. The written translations were analysed quantitatively by calculating translation accuracy in the different languages and qualitatively by means of a retrospective questionnaire on the translation process. A psychotypology questionnaire was also included to examine the participants’ perceptions of the similarities between the languages involved. The majority of the participants stated that they perceived Spanish to be more similar to Italian than any of the other languages involved in the study. Moreover, the results show that the students in the group that translated into Spanish translated the text more accurately than those who translated into French and English. The comments in the retrospective questionnaire show that the students reflected on similarities between the languages on a lexical level, but also on structural and phonological similarities. Contextual cues were also important for the participants’ inferences and translations.
Estudio longitudinal de la representación social del teatro en una cohorte de 25 dramaturgos argentinos de entre 35 y 45 años
Authors: Rimoldi Lucas
Published: November 2022

With the aim of contributing to the understanding of the recent trends and transformations of the Argentinean independent theater system, this work deepens its analysis by means of a longitudinal panel design on a cohort formed by 25 writers/directors/actors who were born as artists towards 2000, extending the interval considered until 2020. The social representation on the theater of this group expresses some modifications of the system itself, as a certain turn towards the commercial and an acceptance of realism even in the advanced areas that at the beginning of the interval were defined precisely by their rejection. The cohort concept allows us to define common characteristics in a field invested with symbolic climate, while the life course helps to visualize non-normative idiosyncratic factors that explain influences of change and play in relation to the cohort effect. Our approach allows us to avoid simple biographism without obliterating the life of those who create. As regards different activities and dimensions of the selected subjects, we deal with a complex theoretical object. From an interdisciplinary perspective, our framework integrates the sociology of literature, concepts from sociology and social psychology, aimed at updating and demystifying the approaches that are deployed on Argentine theater.
Amadeu de Freitas e os mistérios de “Lesboa”
Authors: Curopos Fernando
Published: November 2022

Os anos 1919-1939 são considerados como os anos dourados da cultura homossexual na Europa ocidental. Em Portugal, sê-lo-ão de maneira relativa, devido à paulatina chegada ao poder das forças reacionárias do Estado Novo. Embora já houvesse, em Lisboa, uma subcultura homossexual visível, a cena lésbica continuava fechada entre quatro paredes. Contudo, há muito que as lésbicas eram objeto de fantasmas e os autores dos Anos Loucos darão continuidade às fantasias eróticas finisseculares. Amadeu de Freitas não será o único a escrever sobre o tema mas será com certeza o primeiro a apontar para a realidade de uma comunidade lésbica em Lisboa. Com efeito, o seu romance A Mulher Redimida (1938) pode ser considerado como um verdadeiro romance à clef no qual encena a vida de mulheres do Portugal da época, praticando assim um verdadeiro outing.
On ‘Crisis’ and the pessimism of disciplinary discourse in foreign languages: An Australian perspective
Authors: Brown Joshua , Caruso Marinella , Arvidsson Klara , Forsberg-Lundell Fanny
Published: November 2022

This article investigates how the disciplinary discourse on the contemporary state of foreign languages in universities hastily refers to these disciplines as being in ‘crisis’. This practice is nearly as old as the Humanities itself, and has been employed periodically since at least the 1940s. Despite a period of increasing foreign language enrolment in the first decade of the twenty-first century in Australia, calls of ‘crisis’ came from across the languages sector. In tracing the use of the term ‘crisis’, we show how the sector has long been characterised by such alarmist terminology, even when reality suggests otherwise. The article traces this usage in the recent disciplinary discourse in foreign languages. A topical report of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, which shows increased language enrolment over the period 2002-11, leads one to believe that things at universities may not be as bad as first thought. This finding has implications for language enrolments not just in Australia, but around the world.
Les "portugays(es)" du 7e art : du muet au plus que parlant
Authors: Curopos Fernando
Published: November 2022

Nous nous proposons d’effectuer un balayage diachronique de la représentation de l’homosexualité, tant féminine que masculine, dans le cinéma portugais. Étant donné la situation périphérique du Portugal et de son 7e art, son cinéma sera, durant tout le XXe siècle, pauvre en nombre de productions. Alors que le cinéma des années 1920 ouvrait une brèche en ce qui concerne la figuration de personnages homosexuels, la dictature de l’État Nouveau sera radicale en la matière, censurant toute représentation des sexualités non normatives à l’écran. Il faudra donc attendre la Révolution des OEillets et l’effervescence culturelle de la Noite lisboète pour que pointe une cinématographie queer, rapidement prise de cours par les tensions politiques et l’apparition du SIDA. Dès lors, la représentativité des queers sera tributaire des changements d’ordre politique et sociaux, avec des avancées notables à partir des années 2000.
Comparison of the impacts of different multimodalities on incidental l2 vocabulary learning
Authors: Çekiç Ahmet , Demirezen Mehmet
Published: November 2022

Multimodality of input in incidental L2 vocabulary learning has recently been a topic of interest among language acquisition researchers, yet the results have been somewhat contradictory. This study seeks to compare the impacts of two different multimodalities on incidental L2 vocabulary learning, namely, reading-plus-watching (experimental group I) vs. reading-plus-listening (experimental group II), as compared to the reading only condition, which is included as a control measure. Experimental group I watched and read the transcriptions of four news texts with electronic glosses for the target words, while experimental group II read and listened to the same news texts again with electronic glosses for the same 20 target words. Next, the two experimental groups swapped roles with a new set of four news texts glossed for another group of 20 target words. The control group only read the same eight news texts without glosses. The results suggest that reading-plus-listening can be a more conducive multimodal presentation for incidental vocabulary learning as compared to reading-plus-watching. The results also challenge the validity of some principles of the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning in incidental L2 vocabulary learning, while providing supporting evidence for some other principles.
Posesivos pleonásticos, redundancia y énfasis: de nuevo sobre la construcción una mi amiga en las variedades mexicano-centroamericanas
Authors: Pato Enrique
Published: November 2022

En este trabajo se lleva a cabo una revisión y actualización en la descripción de la construcción posesiva enfática con artículo indefinido + posesivo + nombre (del tipo una mi amiga), un rasgo sintáctico documentado en las variedades del español de Centroamérica (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica y Panamá) y del sur de México (Yucatán y Chiapas). El estudio responde a una serie objetivos concretos: (1) establecer con precisión, y por primera vez, la distribución geográfica del fenómeno en español actual, así como su frecuencia de uso; (2) describir este rasgo (persona, género y número del posesivo, tipos de nombres poseídos y otros rasgos caracterizadores) haciendo uso de uno de los corpus más amplios recopilados hasta la fecha (916 casos en total); y (3) comparar los resultados obtenidos con los datos de los trabajos previos. Asimismo, se considera el fenómeno como un ejemplo más dentro de lo que se ha denominado ‘redundancia’ (Bosque 2004) en la lengua española, en este caso concreto dentro de la serie de los posesivos pleonásticos.
Possessives in indefinite nominal phrases: A comparison between Italo-Romance and Daco-Romance
Authors: Silvestri Giuseppina
Published: November 2022

Southern Italian dialects exhibit a peculiar morphosyntactic device in licensing possessives in non‑definite noun phrases, i.e. the insertion of the functional element de followed by the definite article. This strategy shows striking similarities with the functional element A(-) employed in Romanian to introduce a possessive or a noun phrase marked as a genitive when it is not linearly preceded by a noun phrase marked as definite. This paper proves that an identical syntactic structure is detectable in both groups of varieties which stems from the definiteness requirements of the genitive.
El posesivo en construcciones de valor locativo de la lengua gallega: innovación lingüística e interferencia a partir del análisis de corpus contemporáneos
Authors: Silva-Domínguez Carme
Published: November 2022

El presente artículo ofrece una aproximación a la alternancia, en la lengua gallega, entre estructuras con valor locativo en las que el elemento modificativo es de (excepcionalmente a) + pronombre personal (construcción tradicional) y aquella otra, innovadora, en la que aparece el posesivo en femenino. Partiendo de que la expansión del posesivo a este tipo de unidades tiene un fundamento analógico, se estudia el proceso de avance de la innovación a través de ejemplos procedentes de dos corpus fundamentales: el Tesouro Informatizado da Lingua Galega y el Corpus de Referencia do Galego Actual. Las conclusiones se contrastan con otras dos compilaciones de materiales textuales: el Corpus Oral do Instituto da Lingua Galega y el Corpus ESLORA de español oral, este último pertinente dada la situación de contacto de lenguas existente en Galicia. El punto de partida del análisis es una visión más preocupada por la explicación del proceso de cambio que por la determinación del origen endógeno o exógeno de este, aunque esta cuestión también es abordada. El Atlas Lingüístico Galego, cuya información sobre el fenómeno se analiza, permite testimoniar que la innovación estaba ya presente en hablas populares gallegas de los años 70 del siglo XX. Del análisis de los corpus se concluye que un determinado tipo de estructuras, aquellas nucleadas por los adverbios diante, detrás / atrás y por la preposición tras, presentan la innovación de manera más precoz (en el primer tercio del siglo XX) y pueden haber servido de vía de entrada para el posesivo, por la diversidad de construcciones que admiten tradicionalmente. El avance porcentual de la construcción innovadora y su diversificación a la práctica totalidad de estructuras locativas se produce en el último tercio del siglo XX. El español de Galicia presenta las mismas tendencias constructivas que caracterizan a la lengua gallega.
Introduction Culture on the move: Towards a minorization of cultural difference
Authors: Filipovic Zlatan
Published: November 2022

This Special Issue would not have been possible without the enduring effort of the contributors whose patience has been paramount to what, at times, must have seemed as an endless unfolding of revisions before we could find the right pitch and I’m indebted to all of you for your commitment and support. Special thanks also is due to the Institute for American Universities and Professor Maria Van Liew whose initiative for a conference on the topic in Barcelona 2018 provided a much appreciated catalyst for the volume. School of Education and Communication at Jönköping University and its research focus in Communication, Culture and Diversity with Professor Ylva Lindberg at the helm have also been instrumental in providing continuous suport for the project as well as my own Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Gothenburg with its established research field in Transcultural Studies. I also owe a debt of gratitude to the editorial team at Moderna Språk and our brilliant Anna Gudmundson, above all, whose attentive eye, appreciation and tireless enthusiasm have made this volume finally see the light of day.

Most of all, however, I want to thank my awesome wife Maria and my son and daughter, Mies and Dalia Belle, whose love and joy are the foundational pillars of all my endeavours. Zlatan Filipovic, July 2020.
River writing and “the tyranny of beginnings:” Autobiographies along rivers
Authors: Karlsson Hammarfelt Linda
Published: November 2022

Many contemporary autobiographical texts that depict a transcultural self prominently feature waterscapes in the foreground. The present study focuses on how rivers are functionalized in two autobiographical accounts: the essayistic Flodernas bok (The book of rivers, 2012) by the Swedish poet and essayist Nina Burton, and the autofictional novel Am Fluß (2014) by Esther Kinsky. Both combine the literary representation of travels along rivers with an exploration of European cultural history, but also the history of the self.Using Schmitz-Emans’s (2008) concept of ‘water writing’ for studying ‘riverlike’ writing modes and discussing the findings against the backdrop of research on the cultural significance of water, this article demonstrates how both texts challenge the presumed linearity of rivers by focusing on how they are embedded in a global circuit of waters. It shows that a river’s ability to transgress national borders makes ‘river writing’ attractive for autobiographical enterprises. Finally, both texts emphasize the relationship between man and water as well as that between man and the environment through water. This relatedness of humans and landscape through the fluid element indicates that the self is not sovereign, stable and hovering above its environment, but rather an embedded entity, interwoven in complex fluid networks of interaction.
The uncapturable contours of an author: Ambiguous postures in French media of transnational Francophone writers Fatou Diome and Alain Mabanckou
Authors: Lindberg Ylva
Published: November 2022

The Francophone authors Fatou Diome (Senegalese origins) and Alain Mabanckou (Congolese origins) are at the centre of this study on author postures in audio-visual media. The purpose of the study is to determine how transnational authors position themselves inside a central dominating culture and language, in this case France and French. Eight media samples for each author have been collected on Internet. The selection of the material was based on the most recent examples, a variety of modality-rich French media contexts, a representative view of the authorships and moments where identity positionings were activated. The theoretical framing leans on anterior results related to the circulation and reception of Francophone authors in Scandinavia and Sweden. Previous findings point Francophone authors as categorized through dichotomies, such as exotic-authentic, national-transnational and local-global. These oppositional terms have been used as analytical tools in the analysis of the data samples, in order to uncover how the author relates to these categories, takes advantage of them, and/or breaks with them in their construction of an author posture. The results show that Diome and Mabanckou adopt conscious strategies in order to avoid definitions, as well as to renegotiate concepts, such as ‘national’ and ‘migrant’. Mabanckou’s and Diome’s appearances in the media sample shed light on how transnational authors cultivate a posture in movement, and develop strategies of ‘reversibility’, ‘renegotiation’, ‘rebellion’, and ‘transgression of borders’.
Modernity and the transformation of the Spanish national(ist) speech
Authors: Raja-I-Vich Antoni
Published: November 2022

La construcción discursiva de la identidad española ha sufrido varias transformaciones radicales a lo largo de la historia como ha sucedido en la mayor parte de los países europeos. En este artículo deseamos exponer cómo la identidad española no se puede consolidar de forma discursivo-académica en las épocas antigua y medieval ya que en el mundo premoderno el referente identitario para la mayor parte de la población de los reinos cristianos medievales e incluso modernos era la Iglesia Católica, no la nación. Las dificultades en la coexistencia con las minorías judía y musulmana son dos ejemplos claros de los resultados de dicha construcción identitaria.Con la profunda secularización de las sociedades occidentales el discurso nacionalista español, aunque también el catalán, el vasco y el gallego, han centrado el aspecto prioritario de su identidad en el hecho lingüístico-cultural, sea este particularista o generalista. Pero la intención primaria del presente texto es exponer una detallada evolución de los problemas de las élites peninsulares en la consecución de la identidad homogénea que se creía real debido a la construcción discursiva.
Complexidade linguística e correção no desempenho oral de uma tarefa argumentativa
Authors: Santos Sara
Published: November 2022

Na sequência de um estudo anterior relativo aos efeitos da manipulação da complexidadecognitiva na produção oral de uma tarefa monológica de transmissão de informação (Santos2018a), este trabalho teve como objetivo investigar o impacto do aumento das exigênciascognitivas no desempenho oral de uma tarefa argumentativa. A variável independente foi ofator “±poucos elementos” da Hipótese da Cognição (HC) de Robinson (2001, 2003, 2005,2010, 2011, 2015) e as variáveis dependentes foram medidas gerais e específicas de correçãoe medidas de complexidade linguística (complexidade sintática e diversidade lexical).Participaram no estudo trinta e três aprendentes chineses de português como línguaestrangeira. Os resultados demonstraram que a manipulação da complexidade cognitiva datarefa foi significativa ao nível da diversidade lexical. A Hipótese da Cognição foiconfirmada, apenas, no que respeita a esta dimensão da produção oral. A análise correlacionalentre as medidas de complexidade linguística e de correção não confirmou efeitos decompetição entre as duas dimensões, rejeitando-se, por isso, as premissas da abordagem daCapacidade Limitada de Atenção (CLA) de Skehan (1998, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2018). Osdados desta investigação são discutidos, tendo em conta os resultados obtidos no estudorealizado anteriormente com outro tipo de tarefa, ou seja, uma tarefa de transmissão deinformação (Santos 2018a).

Following a previous study on the effects of manipulating cognitive complexity on the oralproduction of a monologic information-giving task (Santos 2018a), this research work aimsto investigate the impact of increasing the cognitive demands of an argumentative task. Theindependent variable chosen was the “± few elements” of the Cognition Hypothesis proposedby Robinson (2001, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2015) and the dependent variables were generaland specific measures of accuracy and measures of linguistic complexity (syntacticcomplexity and lexical diversity). Thirty-three Chinese learners of Portuguese as a foreignlanguage participated in the study. The findings showed that increasing task complexity ledto a more lexically diverse speech. The Cognition Hypothesis was confirmed only in respectto lexical diversity. A correlational analysis between accuracy and complexity measures didnot confirm trade-off effects, as predicted by the Limited Attentional Capacity approach(Skehan 1998, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2018). The findings of this work are compared with thefindings of a previous study with a different task type, i.e., an information-giving task (Santos2018a).
El placer como estrategia política: la postpornoficción gonza de Gabriela Wiener
Authors: Mateo Del Pino Ángeles
Published: November 2022

El siguiente trabajo se estructura en dos partes. En la primera, se establece un contraste entre los términos erótico y pornográfico, a partir del cual se hace un recorrido por la pornografía, para detenerse en los años setenta del siglo XX, década en la que se producen acalorados debates dentro del feminismo, entre quienes defienden la pornografía y quienes la condenan. Esto dio lugar en los ochenta a una reivindicación del placer femenino y de las dimensiones políticas de la vida erótica, lo que igualmente pondrá de relieve Annie Sprinkle con sus performances y con su manifiesto Post Porn Modernist (1991). Este será el origen de la postpornografía, que cuestiona los códigos estéticos, políticos y discursivos de la pornografía mainstream, rompe con el binarismo sexo/género y apuesta por nuevas narrativas de placer. En la segunda parte, retomando el concepto de “porno gonzo” y de postporno, analizaremos la obra Sexografías (2008) de Gabriela Wiener (Lima, 1975), cuya escritura se revela como una experiencia política construida a base de relatos detallados en los que construye y deconstruye la subjetividad, articulando un discurso crítico que cuestiona la realidad. Escritura de postpornoficción en la que emerge sin tapujos una sujeto deseante.

The following work is structured in two parts. In the first, a contrast is established between the terms erotic and pornographic, from which a tour of pornography is made, to stop in the seventies of the twentieth century, a decade in which heated debates within feminism take place, between those who defend pornography and those who condemn it. This gave rise in the 1980s to a demand for female pleasure and the political dimensions of erotic life, which Annie Sprinkle also highlights with her performances and her Post Porn Modernist manifesto (1991). This will be the origin of postpornography, which questions the aesthetic, political and discursive codes of mainstream pornography, breaks with the sex/gender binarism and opts for new narratives of pleasure. In the second part, taking up again the concept of “gonzo porn” and postporn, we will analyse the work Sexographies (2008) by Gabriela Wiener (Lima, 1975), whose writing reveals itself as a political experience built on detailed accounts in which she constructs and deconstructs subjectivity, thus articulating a critical discourse that raises doubts about reality. Post-pornographic writing in which a desiring subject emerges in an unabashed way.
Die Schwedische Akademie und der Nationalsozialismus
Authors: Tiozzo Paulus
Published: November 2022

This article is an empirical study of the reception of National Socialism by a selection of members of the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy. Its purpose is firstly to offer an explanation how impressions of the German political field during the 1920s and 1940s affected the evaluation of German Nobel Prize candidates. Secondly, it offers a critical overview of the ambivalent relationship that the members had to the Nazi ideology. Although they were all essentially critical, they sympathised with certain elements of it, including a fascination for Adolf Hitler. All these conclusions are derived from an analysis of original documents, including letters, reviews, reports and protocols from the archives of the Swedish Academy.
An introductory overview on representation of dissident sexualities, abjection, and subversion in queer Gothic fiction
Authors: Dos Santos Andrio J. R.
Published: November 2022

Queer Gothic may be considered one of the most recent subgenres of Gothic literature, being understood as a type of fiction in which body, gender and sexuality assume a central role. I approach the representation of queer sexualities in queer Gothic works, basing my analysis on the theory of abjection, as well as on other authors who work with Gothic fiction and Queer Studies, such as Judith Butler (1990), William Hughes and Andrew L Smith (2009) and Paulina Palmer (2016). My analysis consists of drawing a critical panorama, then commenting on Gothic works such as The Monk (1796), by Matthew Gregory Lewis, and The Fall of the House of Usher (1839), by Edgar Allan Poe, culminating in contemporary works such as the novel The Lazarus Heart (1998), by the trans author Poppy Z. Brite. It is possible to consider that in the aforementioned works Queer desires are articulated with supernatural or psychological phantasmagorias, assuming a liminal aspect which denounces the fragmentation of the Queer subject in face of hegemonic society. On the other hand, the representation of Queer sexualities has subversive potentials, while the hegemonic discourse imposes on them the stigma of abjection.
How Municipalities Can Enhance Citizen Participation? – Exploring the Views of Participants and Non-Participants
Authors: Jäntti Anni , Kurkela Kaisa
Published: November 2022

In this study, we scrutinise how municipalities can enhance citizen participation as arenas for local democracy. We combine the aspects of institutional structures with citizens’ expectations and viewpoints by analysing citizens’ views on the barriers to and catalysts for participation. We outline the possibilities and map the role of municipalities in enhancing citizen participation. This qualitative study utilises empirical data consisting of 160 essays written by university students. In their essays, students reflect on their roles as participants and think about possible obstacles to participation. The data is analysed using inductive qualitative content analysis. In the analysis, three categories were identified to illustrate and interpret the societal, personal and instrumental-processual factors that affect citizens’ willingness and abilities to participate at the local level. Municipalities can easily address the instrumental-processual factors, whereas affecting societal and personal factors is more difficult. The role of municipalities in enhancing citizen participation is thus restricted, yet important.
Regional Political Leadership in Sweden and Finland: Do Institutional Conditions Affect Influence Over Regional Development?
Authors: Sundqvist Emily
Published: November 2022

Leading regional development is a key task for regional council representatives. Regional councils are responsible for fostering self-sufficient strategic development in cooperation with a range of stakeholders, including businesses, universities, NGOs and public authorities. However, little attention has been paid to investigating the conditions for regional political leadership, and the relationship between the regional councils’ institutional capacity and politicians’ perceived influence on regional development is somewhat unexplored. The aim of this article is thus to study whether institutional conditions affect the perceived influence of politicians.

A comparison is made in three types of regional councils in Sweden and Finland, employing a survey of 930 representatives. These councils share a similar responsibility for regional development, but they operate within different institutional conditions. Findings show that institutional conditions matter to some extent, with a higher institutional capacity strengthening the assembly’s position and increasing perceived influence at an individual level, though not necessarily increasing the regional councils’ possibilities to exercise strategic leadership. Moreover, regional councils with a higher institutional capacity are more autonomous organisations, while a lower degree of authority makes the regional councils more dependent on the state level.
Towards a Data-Driven Public Administration: An Empirical Analysis of Nascent Phase Implementation
Authors: Broomfield Heather , Reutter Lisa
Published: November 2022

This paper aims to demystify the concept of data-driven public administration and lay bare the complexity involved in its implementation. It asks the overall research question of what challenges are encountered and problematised in a nascent phase of data-driven public administration implementation. The analysis is based on a multi-method research design, including a survey, follow-up interviews with practitioners and an analysis of key policy documents in the context of the Norwegian public sector. It highlights areas of both discrepancy and harmony between what has been prioritised at the policy level and the reality of implementation on the ground. In addition, unseen issues are discussed in order to broaden this perspective. Data-driven administrative reform touches upon everything from organisational culture to technical infrastructure and legal and regulatory frameworks. The complexity laid out in the analysis thus has implications for theory and practice. Nordic countries provide an interesting object of investigation, as they hold vast amounts of data and are highly digitalised, yet, in common with many other governments, they are still in a nascent phase of implementation. This paper should therefore be relevant to other jurisdictions and it provides a call to arms for civil servants and public administration scholars to engage more deeply in this phenomenon.
Social Representations in Street-Level Bureaucracies – Production and Reproduction of Knowledge Within Public Administration
Authors: Brauer John , Johansson Björn , Bruhn Anders
Published: November 2022

The concept of street-level bureaucracy is central to understanding public administration because it pinpoints the role of individual civil servants in the realization of policy. An issue in need of further illumination is that of knowledge production and reproduction in street-level bureaucracies. This article seeks to examine these issues by linking street-level bureaucracy with the theory of social representations. Social representations offer a social-psychological understanding of how individuals make sense of their reality in day-to-day interaction. The aim of this article is to describe and demonstrate how an integration of these two concepts can enrich the analysis of street-level bureaucracies. The synthesis is also demonstrated by presenting an analysis of social representations of unemployment among two groups of street-level bureaucrats.
The Contingency of Leadership – A Case Study of Municipal Trajectory Management
Authors: Andersen Ole Johan
Published: November 2022

The paper elaborates on the contingency of leadership, referring to specific circumstances that require deliberate interventions, while challenging efforts to implement concerted action. This applies particularly when issues are at stake. The paper suggests that the notion of trajectory, which lies at the heart of the pragmatist Anselm Strauss’ interactionist theory of action, merits further consideration. Empirically, the paper draws on experiences from a case study of an innovative project consisting of the building of premises for a library and a concert hall, called ‘Stormen’, in Bodø municipality, located in Northern Norway. Several controversial issues bore on the process. Although the municipal leadership managed to bring the project to a successful conclusion, trajectory management was rather demanding. The paper should consequently serve the analytical purpose well of discussing how and why contingencies, anticipated as well as unanticipated, challenge the performance of leadership.
Innovation Support in Swedish Municipalities – Challenges on the Way to Increased Innovation Capacity in Public Organisations
Authors: Lidman Linda , Gustavsson Maria , Fogelberg Eriksson Anna
Published: November 2022

Public sector innovation and innovation capacity have gained increased attention in research and policy in recent decades, but empirical knowledge is still limited. This article focuses on initiatives to systematically support innovation in the public sector, with the aim of exploring challenges related to the organisation of innovation support in Swedish municipalities. The study is based on three case studies of municipal innovation support operations and 23 qualitative interviews with participants within these operations. The findings show how different innovation support strategies were chosen, ranging from suggestion box setups to idea coaching and training using service design methodology. Regardless of strategy, the initiatives faced challenges related to a lack of direction on what to innovate and implementation phases not being part of the innovation support. Other challenges related to managers being involved too late in the innovation processes and difficulties securing a commitment to work with innovation within the organisation. These findings point to both the general challenges of supporting change in organisations and the specific challenges of introducing innovation and setting up innovation support in public sector organisations.
The Co-creation Paradox: Small Towns and the Promise and Limits of Collaborative Governance for Low-Carbon, Sustainable Futures
Authors: Vedeld Trond
Published: November 2022

Co-creation is considered a ‘near perfect strategy’ for resolving complex and unruly public problems, such as climate change. Based on data collected among small Scandinavian towns, this article investigates the role of co-creation in the urban governance of climate- and sustainability responses by looking at their vertical and horizontal integration in the wider polycentric governance framework. The article has a two-fold aim. First, it develops an analytical framework for investigating how small towns and municipalities navigate in a range of governance contexts based on two strains of theories on collaborative governance and urban climate governance. Second, it applies this framework to a comparative study of small towns to analyse how co-creation plays a strategic role across types and scales of governance in relation to an evolving climate agenda. The article finds that new forms of public leadership in each of the three municipalities and towns is a main factor in the ‘remaking’ of collaborative planning arenas, triple helix partnerships, business alliances, city networks and collaborative pilot projects, much in a similar manner as observed in global cities. Co-creation is extensively employed as a proactive policy- and leadership instrument. However, the nature of response is uneven across the cases compared. A co-creation paradox is suggested: limited municipal politico-administrative leadership and capacity correspond to a low level of ability to engage in co-creation of solutions. This implies that those organisations with the most need for co-creation may have the least capacity to do so.
The Battle of Little Rock: Hannah Arendt’s Politics of Childhood and Education
Authors: Conekin-Tooze Edie ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: November 2022

Hannah Arendt’s 1959 essay critiquing forced integration, “Reflections on Little Rock,” is widely debated, but less has been said about the positions she takes on education and childhood in this essay. Drawing on archival and historical materials, this article posits an answer to why notoriously obstinate Arendt accepted Ralph Ellison’s critique of her stance on parents of integrators: Ellison’s portayal of these parents aligned with Arendt’s requirement in “The Crisis in Education” that parents introduce children to the old world. It then explicates the problem this acceptance poses for Arendt’s insistence on an apolitical childhood arbitrarily demarcated at age eighteen. It also finds that this position is further undermined by the biographies of the teenage integrators themselves. Finally, it proposes viewing politics as a process of “becoming”—an idea found in Arendt’s work. This would permit political participation for maturing teenagers, while protecting younger children from the harshness of politics.
Is antibiotic prophylaxis necessary after endoscopic ultrasound–guided fine-needle aspiration of pancreatic cysts?
Authors: Hakim Seifeldin , Gjeorgjievski Mihajlo , Khan Zubair , Cannon Michael E. , Yu Kevin , Patil Prithvi , DaVee Roy Tomas , Guha Sushovan , Badillo Ricardo , Jamil Laith , Thosani Nirav , Ramireddy Srinivas
Published: November 2022

Background/Aims: Current society guidelines recommend antibiotic prophylaxis for 3 to 5 days after endoscopic ultrasound–guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) of pancreatic cystic lesions (PCLs). The overall quality of the evidence supporting this recommendation is low. In this study, we aimed to assess cyst infection and adverse event rates after EUS-FNA of PCLs among patients treated with or without postprocedural prophylactic antibiotics.Methods: We retrospectively reviewed all patients who underwent EUS-FNA of PCLs between 2015 and 2019 at two large-volume academic medical centers with different practice patterns of postprocedural antibiotic prophylaxis. Data on patient demographics, cyst characteristics, fine-needle aspiration technique, periprocedural and postprocedural antibiotic prophylaxis, and adverse events were retrospectively extracted.Results: A total of 470 EUS-FNA procedures were performed by experienced endosonographers for the evaluation of PCLs in 448 patients, 58.7% of whom were women. The mean age was 66.3±12.8 years. The mean cyst size was 25.7±16.9 mm. Postprocedural antibiotics were administered in 274 cases (POSTAB+ group, 58.3%) but not in 196 cases (POSTAB– group, 41.7%). None of the patients in either group developed systemic or localized infection within the 30-day follow-up period. Procedure-related adverse events included mild abdominal pain (8 patients), intra-abdominal hematoma (1 patient), mild pancreatitis (1 patient), and perforation (1 patient). One additional case of pancreatitis was recorded; however, the patient also underwent endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.Conclusions: The incidence of infection after EUS-FNA of PCLs is negligible. Routine use of postprocedural antibiotics does not add a significant benefit.