bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A Study of Difference and Identification between Homonymy and Polysemy
Authors: Zheng Jing
Published: October 2024

Lexical ambiguity is an essential problem in practical and applied language processing, but a few relatively information is available about what causes and effect the problem of lexical ambiguity. After many linguistic and professional researched lexical relations for a long time, people found that homonymy and polysemy are two well-known semantic problems. This paper mainly discusses the homonymy and polysemy from the definition, cause of formation, the principles of distinction and semantic ambiguity. At the same time, some methods of distinguishing homonymous and polysemous words are offered in one part of thesis. It is valuable reference for English learning, English teaching and cross-cultural communication.
Analisis Literatur Tentang Model Pembelajaran Problem Based Learning Dalam Meningkatkan Hasil Belajar Ilmu Pengetahuan Alam
Authors: Aulia Lina , Aulia Lina , Arifah Iif , Juhji Juhji
Published: October 2024

The problem based learning model is an approach proposed to improve students' natural science learning outcomes. This study aims to investigate the influence of PBL on science learning outcomes in elementary schools through systematic literature analysis. The literature study method was used to analyze ten scientific articles related to PBL and science learning outcomes in elementary schools. The results of the analysis show that PBL is effective in stimulating interest in learning, strengthening critical thinking skills, and improving problem-solving abilities in a scientific context. The implication of this research is the need for support in training and professional development for educators, as well as further research to identify key factors that influence the success of PBL implementation. The integration of PBL into the science education curriculum needs to be strengthened through collaboration between education stakeholders. Thus, the use of PBL is expected to improve students' science learning outcomes in a holistic and sustainable manner.
It Takes a Village to Raise Professionals
Authors: Evenboer Els , Welmers van de Poll Marianne , Te Roller Margo
Published: October 2024

Bij complexe casuïstiek is structurele aandacht voor (gezamenlijk) professioneel leren op verschillende niveaus nodig, om de kwaliteit van zorg aan GMCP te waarborgen. Dat leren staat onder druk, doordat de beschikbare tijd van professionals steeds vaker op gaat aan directe behandeltijd. Bovendien is leren nog te veel gericht op individueel handelen, de dimensie van collectief handelen en onderliggende principes is onderbelicht. Professioneel reflecteren in verschillende, aanvullende vormen vraagt om structurele verankering in het handelen van organisaties. Professionals hebben een village nodig om gezamenlijk de ondersteuning aan GMCP effectiever te maken en zich gesterkt te voelen door reflectie en leren.
Abstract
In complex cases structural attention to (joint) professional learning at different levels is key, in order to guarantee the quality of care to FMP. This learning is under pressure because the available time of professionals is increasingly being used for direct treatment time. Furthermore, professional learning is too often focused on individual acting and lacks a focus on collective learning and the level of underlying principles. Professional reflection in various, complementary forms requires structural anchoring in the conduct of organizations. Professionals need a “village” to collectively make support to FMP more effective and to feel empowered through reflection and learning.
Influence of Celebrity Endorsement and Product Quality on Buying Interest Trought the Brand Image as an Intervening Variables: Case Study at Kopi Kenangan, Yogyakarta
Authors: Prasetia Rizky Edi , Lukitaningsih Ambar , Hutami Lusia Tria Hatmanti
Published: October 2024

The main objective of the study is to examine how celebrity endorsement, product quality, and brand image affect consumer’s interest in making purchases. The Research employs a quantitative approach and collects data from 14 individuals who are customer of Kopi Kenangan in Yogyakarta. Sampling method used is non-probability, specifically purposive sampling. Data is gathered by distributing an online questionnaire to the respondents and analyzed using the IBM SPSS application study’s findings can be summarized as follows: Celebrity endorsement (X1) do not have a significant positive impact on consumer’s purchase interest (Y), product quality (X2) has a significant positive influence on consumer’s purchase interest (Y), celebrity endorsement (X1) significantly affect brand image (Z) positively. The brand image variable (Z) Significant influence purchase interest (Y) In a positive way. Furthermore, the research suggest that brand image can act as an intervening variable, mediating the impact of celebrity endorsement and product quality on consumers purchase interest for Kopi Kenangan in Yogyakarta city.
Gräsrotsmuseer
Authors: Björkroth Maria
Published: October 2024

Community museums are a rising number of the museums around the world. This article based on a period of guest lecturing in Cape Town, South Africa discusses the work of creating new community museums from below. The article mentions the following museums: Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum, The District Six Museum, The South African Jewish Museum and The Boo-Kap Museum. The museum consists of activities and processes that engage people. If the museum fails to engage sustainable elaboration it dies. A museum that is ready and done, relatively quickly loses its relevance for the developing society. The growth of small and medium size community museums are an important signal to the museum society and governmental foundations to rethink their priorities.
Till Vladimir Gortans minne
Authors: Frykman Jonas
Published: October 2024

In developing regional identities in contemporary "New Europe", cultural heritage has been frequently used in creating a territorial definition of similarity and difference. People in the region of Istria are also "colonizing" themselves with images of what a true Istrian identity means. In this process the values of openness, multiculturalism and tolerance have been brought to the fore — rather than claims for homogeneity, authenticity and exclusion of the other. This partially is founded upon the extremely variational history during the 20th century. But it is also facilitated by the lack of a uniting "grand narrative". Instead material culture, art, monuments and landscape are being used as points of identification. This paper discusses the uses of monument from two different periods: The Medieval painting in the small town of Beram and the socialist partisan monument from the 50's in the very same place. The former is being used in a context where a "personal regionalism" can be constructed, while the latter is trying to compel citizens to think in terms of the state, and thus stops being culturally generative. Today's regionalism also paves the way for bringing up ontological issues and here the opaque and mythical is clearly rewarding to use.
Klick!
Authors: Willim Robert
Published: October 2024

This piece is a short examination of some occurences in an IT-company around the turn of the century 2000. The company Framfab was during some years one of the skyrocketing internet-consultancies in Sweden. In 1999 some of the employees in one of the offices started up a small project, which was to build robotsystems from Lego. This project became a part in a chain of events. There are connections between the Lego-project and the concept of one of the company's central products, and also between Lego and how images of Framfab was formed. A central question is how associations and mindfields around the concept of modularity emerged and became materialized.
This text is a short excerpt from a coming book, with the preliminary title Prefab Future which is to be published in Swedish during 2002.
Soffa på jobbet?
Authors: Andersdotter Gunnel
Published: October 2024

A group of software designers, all young men, want to buy sofas and television sets for the office. They want to use these as combined places and spaces for taking short breaks in, but also for work. The latter is something they already practice when bringing work home after office hours. The proposed introduction of these everyday pieces of furniture and technology into the project based development work is not granted. A process of negotiation starts between the young men and the department management. The article explores the implicit and explicit meanings that this process brings out, mainly what is considered as acceptable place and time for relaxation at work. An important issue is how the arguments link to the design and configuration of the office space, especially concerning sofas and chairs. But also how the arguments link to models and rhetorics concerning the organization and company culture. Marine metaphors are used as strong rhetorical means — implemented in talk, on paper, on the web, as well as in the architecture and furnishing — in order to, as management puts it, "sail" successfully on "the infocom sea".
"Are you experienced?"
Authors: O'Dell Tom
Published: October 2024

The realm of experience has become an important aspect of the new economy. This is apparent to the extent that the promise of some new experience is attached to everything from mobile telephones, and palm pilots to whale watching excursions and sightseeing trips of Vietnam's battlefields. It is at this point that the new economy meets and morphs into something that has been called the experience economy. Using a night of bowling as a point of departure, the following text argues for a need to frame the realm of experience as a cultural phenomenon and series of practices. Rather than viewing experience as something internally bound to the individual, the article argues for a need to consider what it is that is shared as people interact under the auspices of the experience economy.
Karriärens kropp
Authors: Salomonsson Karin
Published: October 2024

In connection with the research project Cultural aspects of labour market segregation I have been studying job-advertisments in newspapers and on the Internet, analysing these as one of the more important billboards of the new economy. Here we see key symbols of the new economical era culturally negotiated and translated into terms of flexibility, flow, team-work, projects, commitment and attitude. Especially I find the illustrations and personifications of successful employees interesting. Here we are introduced to some emblematical icons of a new way to imagine and represent work — young, beautiful, smart and creative people, having fun at work. Recently a change seems to have taken place in favour of choosing pictures of "ordinary" people — preferably with the right diversity mix — instead of white, middle class males dressed in silk ties. In the article I give a few possible answers to this, the most general being a shift in rhetoric from the careerist to the career itself. In a society formed by postsocial relations it is culturally just as accepted to have a passionate relationship with your career as with your beloved.
Kroppen värd att satsa på
Authors: Lundin Susanne
Published: October 2024

The last years the number of biotechnological companies have increased. Biology has become a valuable raw material that can be refined into medical and commercial products. My article is focusing on the links between our dreams of a healthy body, and the development of the biotech- and pharmaceutical industry. The human dreams about the body are illustrated with three comprehensive perspectives. First, it deals with the question that the body today is described in biological deterministic terms — we are our genes. Second, there exists a cultural awareness about the possibilities of genetechnology — we can change our genetic selves by for example removing hereditary diseases. Third, this interplay between the determinism of genetics and the potential of biomedicine makes demands on the pharmaceutical industry.
Anmälningar och notiser
Authors: Arvastson Gösta , Jacobsson Roger
Published: October 2024

Recension av: Mats Lindqvist: Is i magen. Om ekonomins kolonisering av vardagen. Stockholm: Natur och Kultur, 2001.
Carlo Ginzburg: No Island Is an Island. Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective. New York: Colombia University Press, 2001.
Gen-etik og samtykke
Authors: Høyer Klaus
Published: October 2024

In 1999 a new genomics company gained all commercial rights to a population based biobank in Västerbotten, Sweden. It has given rise to hardly any public discussion. The smooth introduction, according to the company, is a result of its development of a so-called ethical model aiming at solving all ethical problems related to genetic research in biobanks. This article, written from an anthropological perspective, suggests that the ethical model has social implications requiring further exploration.
Anmälningar och notiser
Authors: Jacobsson Roger
Published: October 2024

Recension av: Manuel Castells, Informationsåldern. Ekonomi, samhälle och kultur, I: Nätverkssamhällets framväxt, II: Identitetens makt, III: Ekonomi och kultur. Övers. Gunnar Sandin. Göteborg: Bokförlaget Daidalos, 1999-2000.
Hvordan forske på kultur og ny teknologi?
Authors: Stuedahl Dagny
Published: October 2024

The article discusses how Actor-Network Theory (ANT) delivers valuable perspectives for ethnological and folkloristic studies in the emerging research field culture and technology. By pinpointing to some main concepts in ANT, the article discusses shortly resemblances and differences between the ANT focus on communication, and the understanding of communicational processes in different periods of nordic cultural studies. The article highlights the ANT focus on negotiation as a relevant perspective on cultural processes as well, and proposes to explore the notion of tradition in relation to the ANT concepts translation, inscription and enrolment.
Kollektivt uppror
Authors: Björkroth Maria
Published: October 2024

In Christian tradition a carnival is held before lent. This essay describes the contemporary carnival in Martinique in the French West Indies. The Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday are called "fatty" and celebrated with different festivities. In the municipalities three queens are elected before the carnival; a young girl as mini-queen, a teenager as queen of the carnival and an elderly woman as queen mother. A king of the carnival named Vaval is constructed in a caricatured shape of a man. The first parade is dedicated to the queens, the second to Vaval and in this parade the queens are succeeded by Manawa's, men in female dresses. On the first day of the carnival, fat Monday, the most important participants in the parade are bridal couples and their train, with men as brides and bridesmaids and women as bridegrooms and best men. On the second day, fat Tuesday, red devils dominate the parades, and finally the carnival ends on Ash Wednesday with white female devils and the incineration of Vaval. During the carnival the traditions of different positions in heteronormative hegemony are elaborate. Finally the order of gender is strengthened until the next carnival.
Knallepulver, sockerbitar och mjältbrand
Authors: Lundälv Jörgen
Published: October 2024

Concepts such as horror, threat and anxiety have become important in media history and in the risk society. This study deals with arsenic poisoning, anthrax attacks and trading with poison in the old and the modern society. Terrorism has developed in society and affects individuals' lives and welfare. Terrorism has also become a part of the media coverage and crisis journalism. The horror of poisoning is a part of history and will continue to be constructed as leading prime time news in the future.
Aktiesparande — en dubbel subversion?
Authors: Nilsson Fredrik
Published: October 2024

During the last decades of the 1900's and the beginning of the 2000's, share investing has accelerated in a way that gives Sweden a unique position in an international perspective. The spread of share investing among ordinary people has attracted our interest. The overall purpose is to make a cultural analysis of the shareholders' motives, forms of expression and the new social communities that develop. If, as often assumed, a global economy and neoliberal values have colonized everyday life, is it possible for shareholders to become subversive agents, turning against a neoliberal hegemony?
The research can be theoretically formulated as an analysis of how connections between individuals and the share market are arranged as an interplay between actors. It certainly involves actors of different kinds whose actions can be said to contain different degrees of intention, but they are nevertheless involved as active actors who influence each other by changing possibilities and restrictions for new actions and values. Ethnography, where people alone are in focus, is replaced by a technography where neither persons — shareholders — nor objects — media, shares, computers, internet and the share-market — are allowed to have a preferential right of action or interpretation beforehand.
The project intends partly to seek an understanding of an empirical phenomenon and partly to further develop a cultural theoretical understanding of how economic, social and cultural spheres are connected.
Anmälningar och notiser
Authors: Jacobsson Roger
Published: October 2024

Recension av: Ulf Hannerz (red.), Flera fält i ett: Socialantropologer om translokala fältstudier. Stockholm: Carlsson Bokförlag, 2001.
"Kära kamrater!"
Authors: Åström Lissie
Published: October 2024

This article deals with a handwritten document containing "epistels" written by young women who 1895 left a boardingschool where they had studied domestic work. When leaving school they decided to write about their further experiences in a notebook, called the Wandering book (Vandringsboken). The intention was to pass this book from one person to another in a given order. The first epistel was written 1896, the last one 1937.
Analysing these texts I have tried to reflect bourgeois women's culture and its change during the period around the previous turn of the century — a period that in many respects, not least concerning women's situation, may be seen as socially significant and reformative. I put the following overall question to the material: in what ways did these women manifest themselves as "transitional women"? In other words, how did they handle the contradiction between on the one hand a traditional view of women's mission, and on the other hand thoughts of a different women's life in a new era. I discuss in what ways these epistel writing women seem to have managed the dilemma of defensiv- and offensivness and further, how they differ among themselves due to social position, marriage and type of education.
Förändring som norm
Authors: Martinsson Lena
Published: October 2024

The aim with this article is to discuss the normalisation of change in relation to a capitalistic discourse. The speech about the flexible human being and the changing world is very common in industries and in the rhetoric about economic growth. Change is described as a natural force that you both are a part of and have to adapt to. However, the speech about flexibility, as a human quality, exists parallel to understandings of identities such as woman, Asian etc as stable and predictable. There is also a common speech about heterogeneous groups as more creative than homogenous. Gender- and national identities tend to become trademarks or logos. The ideas of flexibility as a human quality and identities as stable and predictable are both articulated with a capitalistic discourse. The later one is then represented as a prerequisite for a positive social diversity, and self-fulfillment. It is very easy to forget that capitalistic principles are ground to several relations of subordinations.
The self-reflexive question if not a poststructuralist perspective, which questioned the idea of stable identities, is part of the process that normalises ideas about the flexible man is also raised and discussed in the article. One conclusion is that it is important to be aware of with what discourse speech about change is articulated with.
Polska femininiteter — globala idéer
Authors: Söderholm Lindelöf Karin
Published: October 2024

How are the feasible femininities or "ways of being a woman" in contemporary Poland formed by globalised ideas and movements, such as feminism or the anti-globalisation movement? To what extent do young Polish women regard themselves as being part of the world society or the European community? Do young women in Poland state a universal Femininity or do they rather stress national characteristics in their own constructions of womanliness? This article discusses these questions, based on empirical data (interviews, participant observations) from my ongoing dissertation work about gender identities and gender construction among a group of young, well-educated women in the Gdansk area in northern Poland.
Formbar kultur i förhandling för framtid
Authors: Pettersson Helena
Published: October 2024

This article deals with how co-workers in a multidisciplinary research arena can be analysed through the concept of boundary object and boundary work. A boundary object might be a scientific object or concept, in this article the concept of cultural sciences. The boundary object links persons with different disciplinary backgrounds together. This means that the boundary objects is exposed to negotiations and debating between different scientific arenas, disciplines and single individuals, including lay persons. In the scientific so called boundary work at Tools for Creativity, there is no explicit disciplinary culture, no expressed disciplinary identity. With the emergence of multidisciplinary research institutes, it is important to study how different members try to cooperate and negotiate knowledge claims, scientific skills and common goals. In the texts, there is firstly boundary works separating the external field from the internal arena of co-workers from different disciplines, taken from the discussion concerning the role of the cultural sciences in the activities and operations. In the boundary work, both those perspectives are negotiated. There are no doubts about the knowledge claims and the applications of information technology. The aims of the application can only be strengthened with the help from supplemented knowledge: the cultural sciences. Second, in an effort to integrate the latter, the knowledge perspectives of the cultural sciences are defined, criticized, called into question and eventually made agreeable to everyone. The concept of cultural science is extensively defined in the texts — "The Interactive Institute. Plans for a Swedish national laboratory for art, communication, and technology 1998 05 19" and the appendix — and is also a concept in the making. People inhibit different social worlds and scientific and multidisciplinary contexts, a heterogeneous group with different competences and research goals. Analysing a post-disciplinary research arena such as the Interactive Institute and Tools for Creativity is important for understanding practices within and perspectives on today's knowledge society. In analysing research norms, visions and demands in texts and daily work, one can achieve an understanding on how knowledge is being produced and negotiated as well as established.
Amélie mellan fantasi och turistisk verklighet
Authors: Klinkmann Sven-Erik
Published: October 2024

The point of departure of this article is the notion that the movie Amélie from Montmartre (2001) is situated in a liminal space between nostalgic fantasy and touristic reality. The director of the movie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, has stated that his film, much criticized for the allegedly too nostalgic, reactionary and ethnically and culturally too simplistic picture it gives of contemporary Paris and France, should really be seen as an attempt to recreate a nostalgia for a France which once was in his childhood, especially a nostalgia for its pictures, designs and artifacts. In order to understand the strong impact of the film both internationally and above all in France I examine the ways in which the movie and its ambivalent, partly realistic, partly fantasy-inspiret way of telling its story gets its emotional intensity from e.g. the immense collective memory pool of already constructed pictures, texts and music which connotes Paris and the Parisian way of life, including Montmartre where the story takes place. I discuss the ways in which the movie uses these different cultural tropes and vice versa how the city and its tourist industry has been able to use the movie's success to enhance these already strong images. Also the role of the soundtrack as a pastiche of older French popular music genres is discussed. The elements of magic, fairy tale, every day mysticism, serendipity and the emergence of the strange travelling garden gnome in the movie are read as expressions of a postmodern, highly fragmented and self-reflexive consciousness which the film projects on its audience.
Samtidspuls — om hälsobegreppets revitaliserande innebörder
Authors: Winroth AnnCristin
Published: October 2024

Contemporary notions of health are discussed in relation to social movements and as an expression of a growing medical pluralism. In the attempt to take the pulse of general debates on health, a tesselated picture of today's society appears. In rapid succession, themes about a growing number of elusive health problems and sick-listings appear from a working life that is termed stressful, fickle, and constantly lacking in time. Further, there are discussions that illustrate the confidence in new pharmaceuticals, in the benefits of biogenetic research, and the good future that is promised by them. Since the middle of the 1990s there are increasingly features on so called alternative treatments, which in their turn claim to show the way to a better life. By calling for individual body awareness, extended self-treatment, a calmer pace and the need for rest and reflection in a much too pressured and splintered daily life, modern man hopes to increase resistance to the side-effects of modern life styles. Hence, health is a plastic, spacious concept that holds a consistent understanding as well as a sensitivity to trends and potential for change. Lack of health is considered a threat in the present-day as well as in past societies.
Reflektioner över mediers materialitet
Authors: Jacobsson Roger
Published: October 2024

Recension av: Friedrich Kittler, Maskinskrifter: Essäer om medier och litteratur. Red. Otto Fischer och Thomas Götselius. Gråbo: Anthropos, 2003.
I skuggan av "M"
Authors: Brembeck Helene
Published: October 2024

Fears of McDonald's as a homogenizing force, which lies at the heart of the McDonaldization thesis, were followed by an interest in hybridity, creolization and glocalism. Recently researchers inspired by post-structuralism have criticized these concepts, advocating that culture should be understood as changing and in constant flux, that places occur where people's routes meet (Clifford 1997). Following British geographer Philip Crang (1996) a McDonald's restaurant could be understood as a cross-road for a number of tales about the company and its products. In this articles tales about the brand, the Golden Arches, are presented, the brand as conqueror, as destroyer. The company's use of postmodern marketing strategies is discussed and the new marketing concept Big love promising a new authenticity, openness and transparency is presented.
Work-shopping
Authors: Salomonsson Karin
Published: October 2024

Today people speak of a cultural turn in the economy. "Cultural economy" or "commercial cultures" are two of the terms being used to describe new processes of hybridity between production and consumption, work an leisure, popular culture and economy. In this article I focus on "work-shopping" as part of a consumption culture that shapes the job-market today. Job-hunting on web sites like cooljobs.com, monster.com, flipdog.com or careershop.com is not unusual and more and more people post their résumé in cyberspace to get to know their "market-value". Career-managing and career-counselling, an industry selling 'competence' and fringe benefits like kick-offs and conferences, takes work into the realm of the so called New Economy. Here the "collecting" of experiences becomes a vital part of a new work ethic that according to Zygmunt Bauman should be called an aesthetic of desire.
Älskling, jag krympte sakerna!
Authors: Mörck Magnus
Published: October 2024

This project is part of a larger effort to study commercial cultures. Printable downloads of artefacts like cars or paper dolls is a new phenomenon that has appeared on the Internet, mostly in the form of gifts. In the article some general theoretical questions are posed, relating to commodity form and hobbyism. Studying the circulation of these artefacts is done in the context of visual culture, but material and tactile aspects are also considered. If this is a case of gift-giving, there are still important influences from the commodity-form that shows up in the way the objects are constructed and displayed on the net. Most of the subject matter are cases of miniaturisation and a sample of writings on this matter is summarised and discussed.
Hur känns kultur?
Authors: Frykman Jonas , Löfgren Orvar
Published: October 2024

This special issue discusses the uses of emotions in cultural analysis. In the introduction we explore the embiguities of the verb "to feel", its double focus on the haptic and the emotional. The aim is to avoid the psychological tradition of seeing emotions as a neat category, that often gets trapped in fruitless discussions of the polarities of body and mind, inner and outer, conscious and unconscious, discursive and non-discursive.
The vagueness and openness of emotions often make them a good starting point for a cultural analysis. They signal that something is happening, something is arrested or transformed. What is it that make certain situations, places, objects and persons seem so emotionally charged? What kind of processes of intensification are at work here? A feeling may produce a situation of 'action readiness' and thus help us to understand a classic problem, how cultural change and transformation grows out of the given.
Allt é skit
Authors: Karlsson Petter
Published: October 2024

This article is about a youth/counterculture located in the southern part of Sweden and in Copenhagen that consist of what I call Kängpunkare. Kängpunkarna can be found elsewhere, but I wanted to study the people located here (where I live and work) in specific. The word derives from the Swedish term for the music that these people listen to, "kängpunk" (in English usually known as "d-beat punk", or "rawpunk"). It is not in the first hand a study of this kind of music, as much as about the people that live this music. Every aspect of their lives becomes permeated by punk ideology and senses. It is a culture that promotes decrepit, that sings strictly about how terribly bad things in society are and that has developed cultural strategies to survive happily with the economic limits that this kind of attitude to life has to offer. In the article I make comparisons to how some people respond to war and war-like situations, as an existential experience that can be used to gain emotional advantages.
Rörelse, kropp och känsla
Authors: Thelander Ida
Published: October 2024

On the basis of an empirical study of dance halls and dance experiences this article attempts to discuss the potential of body movement. Body movements are essential for the perception of our physical and mental self, as well as for our relation to other people. They bring us news about the surrounding world, which appears in an abundance of emotions. Dancing can be regarded as a deliberate and playful approach way of taking possession of emotions, and for a moment perceive oneself and the surrounding world differently. Formalised dance-steps and -figures constitute a framework to discover and explore emotions that one has no immediate access to otherwise. One example of this would be the macho body expression of a Balkan performing dance.
Dancing movements have the capacity to create manifold sensations of losing and finding oneself, as well as of feeling substantial, dissolved and suspended at the same time. The joint movement with others can give rise to a feeling of expanding the limits of the individual body, and becoming merged into the surrounding world. Dance movements give access to a special world, a sensual world, where the body observes and communicates emotions and multifaceted messages.
Lära sig lycka
Authors: Nilsson Anna
Published: October 2024

You can learn to be happy — just as well as you can learn to think logically or take care of a home, young authress, miss Tyra Hagström declares in February 1935. The article deals with statements like this, characteristic examples of the firm conviction that happiness is something accessible to all and possible if only the right actions are taken. The notion of happiness is quite problematic, and no one ever really manages to put into words a comprehensive definition of its essence. Paradoxically enough, the interwar years hold many notions of how to reach happiness. They include an emphasis on exercise and bodily movement, proclaiming the benefits of fresh air and marching. But they also show how a movement within the self, into the unconscious, was perceived to be a way to happiness and away from the evil of egocentricity and self-pity.
Det härliga livet
Authors: Elebro Sandra
Published: October 2024

Are Waerland was a famous health prophet in the 1930's and 40's. His message was that all diseases and sicknesses were caused by the unhealthy lifestyles of Modern Man. To reach out with his doctrine he emphasized how pleasant his diet was and how glorious the life as a Waerlandist would be. When Waerland described the tastes, looks and smells of vegetables he wanted to turn people into a totally new diet. But the enjoyment his followers experienced had more to do with the feeling of succeeding with keeping the strict diet and lifestyle rather than with the pleasures of eating the prescribed food. But inside the narrow frames they found great opportunities to enjoy life — all according to the gospel of Waerland. My study focuses on the ways in which enjoyment as an emotion was discussed and played out in the Waerland movement.
Lära sig bli invandrare
Authors: Runfors Ann
Published: October 2024

In this article I discuss what categorisation does to people. More precisely, I discuss the Swedish concept of invandrare/invandrarbarn — immigrants/immigrant children. A highly heterogeneous group of people are often grouped together and categorised as immigrants/immigrant children. While they may not have much in common in terms of culture, they are categorised, described and treated as immigrants/immigrant children by Swedish society. Do these shared experiences create common perspectives on society and a common identity as invandrare/immigrants? If so — how do you express yourself as a "Swedish immigrant girl" and "Swedish immigrant boy" respectively? This, together with related questions, form the basis of an ongoing research project among young adults concerning discourses on integration and transnational experiences, with an analytic focus on the perceived differences that emerge in Sweden today.
Möten på torget
Authors: Fundberg Jesper
Published: October 2024

This article is based on fieldwork carried out among men with a transmigrant background who work in a market in Stockholm, where they meet different kinds of people. One of the men in the market, called Mehmed, supports his family in Turkey by working eight months of the year in Sweden. I have interviewed Mehmed to get his view of his encounters with different people. The example in the article focuses on male strategies when a woman passes the market. The purpose of this study is to investigate how concepts such as gender, sexuality and transmigration are used and become relevant in these encounters.
Oskuld och klätterträd
Authors: Farahani Fataneh
Published: October 2024

Through a Foucauldian discursive analysis of the recorded interviews of some of the first generation Iranian immigrant women living in Sweden, the intent of this research is to study sexuality as gendered, historicized, and culturally constructed. I will examine the impact of contemporary Iranian Islamic cultural and legal practices, as well as the influence of the multi-faceted experience of migration and displacement in the construction and production of women's sexuality, and what they consider to be shifting across multiple and disjunctive socio-cultural relations. In this paper I focus on one of the notions that were raised by all the research participants, namely virginity. By deconstructing the virginity notion I aimed to show how virginity, as a physical technicality, not only govern women's sexuality but also shape all their movements and lives. The importance of preservation of virginity has also enormous impact on female movement and (female) childhood plays and further on their dreams and future plans. In these settings, virginity is the most significant and valuable gift a woman can offer to her husband. All other valuable qualifications such as her personality, beauty, education and wealth are regarded to be less valuable capital in comparison to her untouched body.
Kvinnokraft eller striptease?
Authors: Högström Karin
Published: October 2024

This article is about women who perform an oriental dance in Stockholm. The women themselves associate oriental dance with natural and powerful femininity, whereas to outsiders the dance is often associated with female sexual subordination. The dancers try to convey their interpretation of the dance in different contexts, while at the same time respecting the dividing line of what is regarded as serious oriental dance. There are different views among the dancing community about where and how the dividing line of serious dance should be drawn, and the women who dance use different strategies for positioning themselves as subjects, in order to avoid being viewed as sexual objects.
Rockspelande unga kvinnor — mediafenomen och feministisk praxis
Authors: Nordström Marika
Published: October 2024

Why is there at present a specific interest in young women who play rock music?
Since rock has been a male dominated arena, is the combination of rock and women a symbol for a step forward to (greater) gender equality? Or is this interest based on the fact that women who play rock are a marginalized, although growing, group in our society? I analyse this phenomenon by looking at media presentations such as commercials as well as my own interviews. My thesis focuses on young, female musicians who are active on the amateur popular music arena in Sweden today. Furthermore, they are all connected to two associations, whose main purpose is to make it easier for young women who want to enter the popular music arena. This entails that questions of feminism are important. There is a specific focus on the women as female musicians, which also manifests itself in concepts such as "girl bands/girl groups", which often tend to marginalize them and raise the issue of their competence.
En svårlöst ekvation
Authors: Dahlgren Johanna
Published: October 2024

In this article I have studied the view on the first female police who started patrolling the streets of Stockholm in 1958. Women in uniform, visible in public, were controversial because of the masculine character of police work. Women were considered to be more suited for handling cases involving women and children than patrolling the streets.
Svenska kvinnors internationella arbete under 1900-talet — en alternativ offentlighet?
Authors: Almgren Nina , Norrbin Camilla
Published: October 2024

This article outlines a planned research project concerning Swedish women in international politics. We are guided by the notion that international organisations and embassies can be understood as an alternative public arena for Swedish feminists. Using MP Cecila Nettelbrandt as an example, we wanted to show that troublesome politicians could be sent away from domestic politics and that Nettelbrandt in her turn used the international feminist co-operation and her commission as an ambassador as an alternative public arena.
Det enda privata rummet?
Authors: Edlund Ann-Catrine
Published: October 2024

This article deals with diary writing by women living in rural areas of northern Sweden in the early 20th century. In this particular social setting it is difficult to distinguish separate public and private spheres. A question raised here is whether a possible purpose of diary writing could consist of the establishing of a private sphere. Three diary writers are presented. Spatial dimensions in their life situations are discussed and related to the written space that the diary constitutes. The study takes its departure from a combination of new literacy theory and gender theory, with the concept of subjective identity in focus.
Postkolonialism och poetik
Authors: Heith Anne
Published: October 2024

Alejandro Leiva Wenger was born in Chile in 1976. When he was nine years old his mother emigrated to Sweden with Alejandro and his younger brother. Their father remained in Chile. The family settled in a multicultural suburb south of Stockholm. In 2001 Alejandro Leiva Wenger's first collection of short stories entitled In our honour was published. The stories provide a combination of poetological features of an experimental literary tradition and postcolonial themes. The stories are examples of contemporary realist prose portraying life in multicultural Sweden. In some of the stories this is reflected by the use of multiethnic youth language. Twentyfirst-century Sweden is portrayed as a society where the vision of the Swedish welfare state has collapsed. In this contemporary world ethnic, class, gender and age differences are at work in processes of segregation and marginalization.
Lådvinsalkoholism
Authors: Börjesson Mats
Published: October 2024

Addiction to alcohol is a well known problem category in our culture. During the last years, we have in Sweden seen an extension of that category; concerning the package "Bag-in-box". This article claims that categorisation is action and that it is an interesting field for research — in its own right. To get a story which is credible, the narrator have to present reality in certain ways — it has to be told by the right person, and it must be put in the proper way in order to be believed in. For this we have a number of ingredients and the article focuses on some of them, such as extreme-case formulations, addiction metaphors, category entitlement, and membership categorisation. The story about bag-in-box alcoholism shows many of these, which makes us believe in the severe- and realness of this problem.
Rapport från varumärkenas produktionsfält
Authors: Galli Raoul
Published: October 2024

From the viewpoint of an international advertising agency in Stockholm, this article sketches some important power lines that structure the social space within which "creators" and "curators" in the Swedish advertising industry perform their actions. Inspired by Pierre Bourdieu's field theory, Galli also examines the tense relation between a field of production specialized in constructing specific symbolic products known as brands, and a world of legitimate cultural production. In the field of brand production different sorts of recognized skills and resources render its possessors communicative capital, an active property expressed in objectified, institutionalized, and embodied states like awards, membership in field-specific boards and juries, and the bodily capacity to master social presentations. A study of "brand-day workshops" rounds off the text suggesting that institutional and individual agents in the field of power not only aim at perpetuating and controlling brand competition through advertising and branding, but also the more hidden dimension of already existing social distinctions and divisions.
"Jag känner mig lite manlig när jag bryter mot de manliga normerna"
Authors: Egeberg Holmgren Linn
Published: October 2024

This article is about cosmetics, masculinity and the esthetisation of the male body as an arena of meaning in relation to gender. Experiments with the appearance are challenging the border between femininity and masculinity, while at the same time new limiting borders are created. To be "unmanly" is talked about by the interviewed men as a new form of being manly. Cosmetics can show, apart from beautifying, that you are fashion conscious, equal to women and no homophobe. The growing care about appearance among men and the increased exposure of the male body is often called a feminisation. Here is argued that rather than being a feminisation in the form of an objectification, it should be understood as a successful project of masculinity, one of the expressions of hegemonic masculinity.
Forskaren i provrummet
Authors: Knuts Eva
Published: October 2024

When it comes to weddings, the subject of the author's forthcoming thesis, verbal and textual material is not enough to understand the feelings around choosing and wearing the wedding dress. Trying on the dresses was a methodological experiment to correct this and theoretically the approach owes to the actor network theory of Bruno Latour. As the author and her "bride's maid" entered the wedding gown boutique they had to take off their shoes before browsing through the racks of dresses. There was a vast amount of white, long and expensive dresses to select from. In the article, some of the bodily feelings that these elaborate dresses awoke are suggested. Wedding dresses are not just symbols; they do something by shaping the body and materially forcing the bearer to pay close attention when moving. They are both limiting and enabling in terms of the "inscriptions" of design. Sharp glass pearls can scratch the body and the fact that the wearer can not button the dresses herself creates a dependent position.
För ung för string?
Authors: Berggren Torell Viveka
Published: October 2024

Girls' clothes — especially string briefs — seen by adults as sexualizing fashion are debated among both adults and children. In this article letters to the editors of a daily paper, written by adults, are seen as connected to a large discussion about the threats against childhood. For many adults what they see as sexy garments for girls become examples of how sexual expressions from the adult world takes innocence out of childhood. Maybe adults would be less afraid if they knew how children themselves interpret girls' fashion? That question came up inspired by the so called new childhood research — where children are seen as active in creating their own meanings on different phenomena. The second half of the article is about string briefs as debated in the Swedish children's magazine "Kamratposten". The analysis here draws on the sociologist Fred Davis' theories that people through their use of clothes do not express their feelings of an inner personal identity, but first and foremost express and work on different ambivalences regarding social identity. Girls seem to debate and use string briefs to work on ambivalences about age and maturity, being a "groupmember" or not, the esthetisation fo the body and about how to express femininity. Partly the farment is used within age specific material practices, but the debate also reflects different adult feminist standpoints on fashion.