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  • 1.
    Agnidakis, Paul
    Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi.
    Ethnology: Theories and methods2018In: The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology: Topic: Theory and method / [ed] Hilary Callan, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2018, 1, p. 1-13Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Ethnology is a disciplinary field that is more or less interwoven with anthropology. Its main focus is the analysis of various cultures and cultural expressions, usually within a national context. In practice, ethnologists favor an approach toward culture from the individual perspective, with a key interest in how single ordinary individuals, seen as active cultural beings, think and act in their everyday lives. This implies that they are both shaped by and contributors to the shaping of cultures in their everyday lives. However, within ethnology, culture viewed as a bidirectional phenomenon is not merely regarded as an individual process. Rather, it is regarded as something that occurs in collective social contexts. When analyzing culture, ethnologists usually employ a combined focus on its ideational and folkloric aspects as well as aspects of materiality, locality, and identity. Ethnology's general methodological approaches comprise ethnographic fieldwork as well as studies of artifacts and sociocultural structures.

  • 2.
    Agnidakis, Paul
    Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, Uppsala universitet, Sverige.
    Etnologi: Kontinuitet och anpassning av ett kulturvetenskapligt ämne2018In: RIG: Kulturhistorisk tidskrift, ISSN 0035-5267, E-ISSN 2002-3863, Vol. 101, no 1, p. 1-18Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Ethnology. The Adaptability and Continuity of a Discipline

    This article discusses the development throughtime and space of ethnology as a multifaceted disciplinaryfield. The objective of the article,however, is to challenge possible pre-assumptionsof ethnology as an incoherent i.e. variable and inconstant discipline, due to national limitations andtheoretical and methodological responsiveness, byproposing some core aspects regarding focalpoints,perspectives and methods that may beconsidered as prominent and unifying amongstethnologists both in Sweden and abroad. The articleargues for a general and continuing disciplinarianfocus on culture as a pluralistic, complexand individual-based phenomenon, as well as fundamentalinterest in the functions, social structures,constructions and experiences of cultures.Furthermore, the article describes how both earlierand later generations of ethnologists in generalhave chosen to study culture based on a selectionof recurring perspectives that comprise boththe intangible and tangible aspects of culture, aswell as the spatial and social contexts in whichcultures are formed and maintained. Finally, thearticle highlights how different types of ethnologicaldata are collected and analyzed via a combinationof constantly developed methods of culturalanalysis, though rooted in a disciplinarian tradition. In conclusion, despite a continuous progressionand adjustments within ethnology in regardto perspectives and methods over time and space,this has more often resulted in additions ratherthan replacements. For this reason, it seems relevantto define ethnology as a coherent discipline,designated by both adaptation and continuity.

  • 3.
    Agnidakis, Paul
    Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, Uppsala universitet, Sverige.
    Folkfest kring lokalhistoriska betydelser: Kulturarvsbetonade festivaler för främjandet av lokal identitet på postindustriella mindre orter2018In: Tidsskrift for kulturforskning, ISSN 1502-7473, E-ISSN 2387-6727, Vol. 17, no 2, p. 45-65Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Celebrating local history – Cultural heritage festivals in post-industrial small towns as prerequisites for local identification

    Many minor post-industrial communities in Sweden, such as Surahammar and Timrå, struggle with financial difficulties and socio-cultural challenges due to the industrial decline and increased dependency on immigration from neighboring cities. In the light of this, arranging annual local festivals with a focus on cultural heritage can be seen as an opportunity to strengthen local identity as well as its inhabitant’s coexistences and sense of belonging. This article aims to analyze two local festivals, viewed as platforms for the production, communication and experiences of local cultural heritage values. Empirically resting on data collection and analysis of mainly ethnographic fieldwork, comprising interviews and observations, the article argues that these post-industrial local festivals involves identificational negotiations in regard to both the ritualized communication and implementation of local cultural heritage values. In conclusion, these festivals confirms a clearly industrial linked local cultural heritage but at the same time challenges it through enlargements, sufficiently vigilant connected to a local past in order to allow for inclusive local identifications, regardless of e.g. spatial origins.

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  • 4.
    Agnidakis, Paul
    Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, Uppsala universitet, Sverige.
    Place as Cultural heritage?: Towards a norm critical and norm creative spatial cultural heritage production2014Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 5.
    Agnidakis, Paul
    Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, Uppsala universitet, Sverige.
    Trans-local identities: Regional belonging and communality in rural Post-Industrial/agricultural Sweden2014Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 6.
    Agnidakis, Paul
    et al.
    Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, Uppsala universitet, Sverige.
    Gunnarsdotter, Yvonne
    Hansen, Kjell
    Stiernström, Arvid
    Waldenström, Cecilia
    Slutvärdering av Landsbygdsprogrammet 2007-2013: Axel 3: Förbättra livskvalitet på landsbygden; Axel 4: Leader - genomföra lokala utvecklingsstrategier2016Report (Other academic)
  • 7.
    Agnidakis, Paul
    et al.
    Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, Uppsala, Sverige.
    Lagerqvist, Maja
    Strandin Pers, Annika
    I riktning mot en normkreativ kulturmiljövård: Metodutveckling utifrån exemplet Statens fastighetsverk i Sverige2018In: Kulturstudier, ISSN 1904-5352, E-ISSN 1904-5352, Vol. 9, no 1, p. 167-198Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [sv]

    Utifrån tvärvetenskapliga perspektiv och metoder, hämtade från etnologin och kulturgeografin, och med en empirisk utgångspunkt i tre kulturmiljöer som förvaltas av Statens fastighetsverk (SFV) i Sverige, analyserar artikeln historiebruk i form av kulturarvsproduktion och föreslår ett applicerbart normkritiskt samt i förlängningen normkreativt angreppssätt för att möjliggöra alternativa, varierade och mer inkluderande historieskildringar kring kulturmiljöer. Genom att utveckla och integrera dessa synsätt och verktyg vill artikeln argumentera för att man får tillgång till nya berättelser om platsen; berättelser som går utöver den traditionella, „normala“ historien om staten, enskilda byggnaders materiella utformning och den sociokulturella och ekonomiska eliten. En långsiktig effekt blir att det möjliggör ökad mångfald och inkludering både i fråga om förmedling och representation av platser som komplexa rumsliga och sociokulturella helheter.

  • 8.
    Agnidakis, Paul
    et al.
    Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, Uppsala universitet, Sverige.
    Lagerqvist, Maja
    Kulturgeografiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet, Sverige.
    Strandin Pers, Annika
    Normkritisk kulturmiljöpraxis: Exemplet Rosersberg2015Report (Other academic)
  • 9.
    Agnidakis, Paul
    et al.
    Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, Uppsala universitet, Sverige.
    Lagerqvist, Maja
    Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, Uppsala universitet, Sverige.
    Strandin Pers, Annika
    Normkritisk kulturmiljöpraxis: Exemplet Statens fastighetsverk2017Report (Other academic)
  • 10.
    Ahlsved, Kaj
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Idrottspropagandans klingande former: Helsingfors gymnastikklubbs uppvisningsverksamhet 1875–19002021In: Finsk tidskrift : kultur, ekonomi, politik, ISSN 0015-248X, E-ISSN 2670-2541, no 7-8, p. 9-40Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 11.
    Ahlsved, Kaj
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Sang som våpen: Historier om sangens slagkraft2023In: Puls: Journal for Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology, E-ISSN 2002-2972 , Vol. 8, p. 112-115Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 12.
    Anderson, Elizabeth
    et al.
    University of Glasgow, UK.
    Maddrell, AvrilUniversity of the West of England, UK.McLoughlin, KateUniversity of Glasgow, UK.Vincent, AlanaUniversity of Glasgow, UK.
    Memory, mourning, landscape2010Collection (editor) (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    This volume sheds twenty-first-century light on the charged interactions between memory, mourning and landscape. A century after Freud, our understanding of how memory and mourning function continues to be challenged, revised and refined. Increasingly, scholarly attention is paid to the role of situation in memorialising, whether in commemorations of individuals or in marking the mass deaths of late modern warfare and disasters. Memory, Mourning, Landscape offers the nuanced insights provided by interdisciplinarity in nine essays by leading and up-and-coming academics from the fields of history, museum studies, literature, anthropology, architecture, law, geography, theology and archaeology. The vital visual element is reinforced with an illustrated coda by a practising artist. The result is a unique symbiotic dialogue which will speak to scholars from a range of disciplines.

  • 13.
    Andersson, Daniel
    et al.
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of language studies.
    Cocq, Coppélie
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Humlab.
    Ro, trygghet och tröst: naturen som sammanhang2014In: Naturen för mig: nutida röster och kulturella perspektiv / [ed] Lina Midholm, Katarina Saltzman, Göteborg: Institutet för språk och folkminnen, 2014, p. 183-190Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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    Ro, trygghet och tröst: naturen som sammanhang
  • 14.
    Andersson, Maja
    et al.
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Eriksson, Nicolina
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Politisk representation i lokaltidningen: "Ettans" makt2019Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    This study, Political representation in the local paper - the power of the front page, shows how the local paper Västerbottens-kuriren chooses, consciously or unknowingly, to represent politics on the front page during the election period of 2018. Given the premises that journalists must adhere to, could affect the reporting of politics.

    The method for this study was a quantitative content analysis where a frequency count is used based on headline, preamble and to some extent image use on the front page. 

    The study concluded that the newspaper had some political news, but that they were majorly excluded from appearing in the most visible article on the front page. The most common subjects that were on the front page were personal articles, or culture and entertainment oriented, which indicates a greater exposure to "softer" news. Of the political articles, the topic "other" was most prevalent, but also economics and business was a frequently recurring political topic. It was also shown that there was a gap in July when the frequency of political articles was reduced. The most widely used framing used by the political articles was game framing, which indicates a repetitive behavior on the part of journalists which, in the worst case scenario, could lead to skepticism against both politics and against the newspaper from the public.

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    "Ettans" makt
  • 15.
    Andersson, Sandra
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Vad gör det för skillnad?: Fyra organisationers integrerade arbete med kvalitativ jämställdhet2017Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [sv]

    Det finns väldigt många sätt att arbeta både med jämställdhet i stort och med kvalitativ jämställdhet. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur fyra olika verksamheter integrerar arbetet med kvalitativ jämställdhet i verksamheten. Utifrån detta arbetades det fram en frågeställning om hur jämställdhetsarbetet beskrevs, motiverades och vad det visade på för förståelse av genus och jämställdhet. Metoden jag använt mig av är semistrukturerade intervjuer. I själva analysen har jag utgått från teorier om jämställdhet och jämställhetsarbete, makt, genus och perspektiv på organisationer. Resultatet visar på att det finns många olika sätt att arbeta med jämställdhet och också flera olika anledningar som motiverade till ett jämställdhetsarbete. De offentliga organisationerna framhävde motiv om rättvisa och demokrati medan de privata organiastionerna dessutom lyfte fram ett ekonomiskt perspektiv som viktigt. Alla informater menade att det fanns en stor fördel att arbeta med kvalitativ jämställdhet. Slutsatsen blir att det finns många olika sätt att arbeta integrerat med kvalitativ jämställdhet, men för att det ska få någon genomgripande effekt måste det vara ett långsiktigt arbete.

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  • 16.
    Appelblad, Håkan
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social and Economic Geography.
    Vindelälvsloppet: en avspegling av löparvågen2008In: Svensk Idrottsforskning: Organ för Centrum för Idrottsforskning, ISSN 1103-4629, Vol. 17, no 3Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 17.
    Arnell, Linda
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Work.
    Narrating family: talk about a troublesome girlhood in the Swedish context2017In: Nordic girlhoods: new perspectives and outlooks / [ed] Bodil Formark, Heta Mulari, Myry Voipio, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, p. 161-178Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    In this chapter Linda Arnell examines how conceptions and norms regarding families and family patterns influence girls' lives and the constructions of their subjectivity. Arnell focuses on 18-year-old Amanda's narrative about her families and her troublesome upbringing. The narrative is understood as a continuous creation in relation to a broader societal narrative that occurs in intra-action with the researcher, and in relation to discursive possibilities and constraints. Through this one narrative the chapter examines how normative ideas about family can be understood as regulatory power structures that are ever-present in a complex and troubled narrative about family, girlhood, and a girl with experience of acting out.

  • 18.
    Arnesson, Johanna
    et al.
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Carlsson, Eric
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    To see and be seen: gynaeopticism and platform surveillance in influencer marketing2023In: Everyday life in the culture of surveillance / [ed] Lars Samuelsson; Coppélie Cocq; Stefan Gelfgren; Jesper Enbom, Gothenburg: Nordicom, 2023, p. 67-88Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The focal point of this chapter is surveillance practices in relation to social media influencers and digital marketing. The aim is to examine how the idea of surveillance can be expanded to include both social and technological aspects that work at individual, peer, and top-down levels. Drawing on examples from the Swedish influencer industry, we discuss and problematise how surveillance can be understood in such a context and how different dimensions of surveillance are manifested, exploited, and contested. The chapter concludes that participatory and gendered peer- and self-surveillance are an inherent part of influencer culture, and that the commercial success of influencers depends upon these practices. Similarly, platform surveillance and data mining connected to digital advertising can be understood as part of a contemporary commercialised surveillance culture that is closely related to both digital technology and the political economy of the influencer industry.

  • 19.
    Aronsson, Peter
    Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Linnæus University, Sweden.
    Grete Swensen (ed.), Å lage kulturminner. Hvordan kulturarv forstås, formes og forvaltes [‘Making cultural heritages. Perceiving, shaping and preserving cultural heritage’], Oslo: Novus Forlag 2013, ISBN 9788270997336, 370 pp.2015In: Journal of Northern Studies, ISSN 1654-5915, E-ISSN 2004-4658, Vol. 9, no 1, p. 148-151Article, book review (Other academic)
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  • 20.
    Arvidsson, Alf
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Inledning2019In: Spaningar i kultursektorn / [ed] Alf Arvidsson, Umeå: Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, Umeå universitet , 2019, p. 7-18Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 21.
    Arvidsson, Alf
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Kulturanalys och metakultur2022Book (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Kultur är ett begrepp för hur människor tillsammans försöker bygga meningsfullheter, skapa gemensamma symboler och symbolsystem samt hitta berättelser, föremål och handlingar som kan fungera som gemensamma utgångspunkter. Behovet att analysera de fenomen som benämns kultur är stort och varierat, och kulturanalys har vuxit fram som ett kunskaps­område i motsvarande utsträckning. 

    Denna bok är en introduktion till etnologisk kulturanalys med särskild betoning på metakultur, det vill säga olika former för "kultur om kultur", reflektioner och kommentarer till den egna kulturen som den upplevs av deltagarna själva. Med begreppet metakultur blir det också möjligt att analysera särskilda områden som populärkultur, kulturarv och konstarter med ett bredare kulturanalytiskt perspektiv.

    Kulturanalys och metakultur vänder sig till studenter och forskare inom etnologi, kulturanalys, kulturstudier, museiutbildningar och närliggande områden.

  • 22.
    Askaner, Jennifer
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Att återta kunskap, att återta kraft: En etnobotanisk studie om hur traditionell kunskap om jämtländska läkeväxter tolkas, brukas och förs vidare idag2021Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    To regain knowledge, to regain power: An ethnobotanical study of how traditional knowledge about medicinal plants in Jämtland is interpreted, used and passed on today is an essay that explores different meanings of people's relationships with plants, traditional knowledge, trade, sustainability and local identity. It does this through the knowledge and stories shared by six persons with a common interest in medicinal plants in county Jämtland, Sweden. The interviewees illustrate different aspects of their relationships with plants. Through this, the thesis demonstrates how the knowledge about the medicinal plants is incorporated into the participants in the form of a doing. It also explores how this knowledge is traded and how trade includes various aspects of learning where the traditional knowledge is formed based on personal context and in relation to nature. How humans and nature interact and how nature gives man peace and health through continuous relationships is also prominent. The value of preserving this knowledge and how examples, such as the importance of sustainability, become a valued interpretation in a contemporary context. This is also true in regards to how nature can affect people's identity creation and how local identity can be linked to plants. 

    Keywords: medicinal plants, traditional knowledge, local identity, sustainability, trade, ethnobotany. 

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    Att återta kunskap, att återta kraft
  • 23.
    Axelsson, Per
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of historical, philosophical and religious studies. Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Várdduo – Centre for Sámi Research.
    Några trender inom urfolkshälsoforskningen, anno 20182021In: Psykisk hälsa och välmående på svensk sida av Sápmi: en antologi / [ed] Åsa Össbo & Patrik Lantto, Umeå: Várdduo-Centrum för samisk forskning, Umeå universitet , 2021, 1, p. 7-15Chapter in book (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    The chapter discusses a few international trends in indigenous health research until 2018, such as historical trauma. Studies conducted on Sami wellbeing have yet to include discussions on historical trauma. Until now they have mainly been based on theories of acculturation.

  • 24.
    Axelsson, Per
    et al.
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Centre for Sami Research. Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR).
    Storm Mienna, Christina
    Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Odontology. Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Centre for Sami Research.
    Health and physical wellbeing of the Sámi people2019In: Routledge handbook of indigenous wellbeing / [ed] Christopher Fleming and Matthew Manning, Routledge, 2019, p. 13-22Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This chapter describes the health and physical wellbeing of the Sámi people living in Norway, Sweden, Finland and on the Kola Peninsula in Russia. Drawing on a review of the literature, we note that cancer and cardiovascular diseases are examples of conditions that, hitherto, have been thoroughly studied in the Sámi population in relation to physical wellbeing. Generally, studies conclude that the health and living conditions of the Sámi people are good and close to the level of the non-Indigenous benchmark population. However, it is also obvious that knowledge of the Sámi health situation differs between countries, partly due to national laws and policies that circumscribe opportunities to conduct relevant research involving Sámi communities. To understand the current wellbeing of the Sámi people, it is crucial to understand the effects of colonization. As such, this chapter provides a historical background to the present situation. Finally, the chapter aims to identify future challenges that may affect the wellbeing of the Sámi people of northern Europe.

  • 25.
    Axelsson, Per
    et al.
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Centre for Sami Research.
    Wisselgren, Maria J.
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Demographic Data Base.
    Sweden in 1930 and the 1930 census2016In: The History of the Family, ISSN 1081-602X, E-ISSN 1873-5398, Vol. 21, no 1, p. 61-86Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The primary goal of censuses has always been to collect reliable information on the state’s population and provide a basis for governmental decision-making. This study examines the categories used in the 1930 census and links them to the context in which they were generated. We treat the census as a tool of state power, which can be discerned from the definitions of its categories and the way in which statistics are collected and used. The guiding question of the study was “how does the 1930 census differ from previous censuses and how can these differences and changes be explained?” We find that as in earlier censuses, Statistics Sweden used extracts from the parish books on the individual level to collect information for the 1930 census, but also used diverse supplementary sources including tax registers, income tax returns and language surveys. Thus, unlike in most countries, Sweden did not send out census takers or questionnaires to the population. Many of the new or updated variables we see in the 1930 census such as income, wealth, and number of children born, can be related to the political and social debate concerning the poor working class and the establishment of the welfare state. The inclusion of categories such as ethnicity, religion, and foreign nationality can be seen as part of a normative approach wanting to control, monitor and correct deviant elements of the Swedish population. Sweden has several extraordinary longitudinal population databases built on the country’s excellent parish registers dating back to the 18th century. While the Swedish censuses have rarely been used as sources of data for historical analysis, this work demonstrates that the 1930 census has great potential to support new research.

  • 26.
    Bala, Paulo
    et al.
    Iti / LARSyS, Instituto Superior Técnico, U. Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
    Sanches, Pedro
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Informatics. Iti / LARSyS, Instituto Superior Técnico, U. Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
    Cesário, Vanessa
    Iti / LARSyS, Instituto Superior Técnico, U. Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
    Leão, Sarah
    Instituto Superior Técnico, U. Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
    Rodrigues, Catarina
    Instituto Superior Técnico, U. Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
    Nunes, Nuno Jardim
    Iti / LARSyS, Instituto Superior Técnico, U. Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
    Nisi, Valentina
    Iti / LARSyS, Instituto Superior Técnico, U. Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
    Towards critical heritage in the wild: analysing discomfort through collaborative autoethnography2023In: CHI '23: proceedings of the 2023 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems / [ed] Albrecht Schmidt; Kaisa Väänänen; Tesh Goyal; Per Ola Kristensson; Anicia Peters; Stefanie Mueller; Julie R. Williamson; Max L. Wilson, New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023, article id 771Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    As we engaged in designing digital interventions for intercultural dialogues around public cultural heritage sites, we saw an opportunity to surface multiple interpretations and points of view of history and shine a critical lens on current societal issues. To do so, we present the results of a collaborative auto-ethnography of alternative tours accompanied by intercultural guides, to explore sensory and embodied engagements with cultural heritage sites in a southern European capital. By focusing on the differences in how we experienced the heritage sites, we analyse the duality of discomfort, a common concept in HCI, in that it can both be deployed as a resource for designing systems that can transform people's understanding of history or it can be a hindrance for engagement, having an unequal effect on individuals.

  • 27. Barber, Fionna
    et al.
    Hansson, HeidiUmeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of language studies.Dybris McQuaid, Sara
    Ireland and the North2019Collection (editor) (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Ireland and the North is an edited collection engaging with the relationship between Ireland and the Nordic countries. As a spatial and geographical point of reference for the formation of political and cultural identities in Ireland, the idea of 'the North' encourages the identification of overlooked connections between Ireland and the Nordic countries, which, like Ireland, are also small nation states on the periphery of Europe. Importantly, the book employs a double conceptualisation of 'the North' to include Northern Ireland. Moving beyond the nation state as a key framework for analysis of human activity, this collection engages with the transnational and transcultural in a mapping of connectivity and exchange.  Chapters are drawn from a wide-ranging field of study that includes art history, literary history and theory, archaeology, antiquarianism, and media studies in addition to political analysis. Relationships explored are imaginary and material exchanges, civic and personal linkages, literary adaptation and appropriation, transfers of cultural artefacts, political institutions and ideas. With three sections on Material Culture, Political Culture and Print Culture, the book moves beyond the predominant literary paradigm in Irish Studies to make a significant contribution to the expanding and developing field.

  • 28.
    Barrett, James
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of language studies. Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Humlab.
    Reading with the Body: interpreting three dimensional media as narrative2011In: The projected and prophetic: humanity in cyberculture, cyberspace, and science fiction / [ed] Jordan J. Copeland, Oxford UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2011, 1, p. 21-31Chapter in book (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    This chapter argues that virtual online worlds are sites for the realization of narrative, in a form of reading that is posthuman and performative. The in-world avatar is the embodiment of an interpreting agent in the virtual world. Such devices accomplish a number of functions in terms of narrative realisation. The avatar contributes to the realisation of narrative through the navigation of the spatial attributes, the setting up of perspective in terms of Point of View (POV) in the reading, and as a character agent in the narrative architecture of the virtual world. Such characteristics are in the cybernetic relationship between the virtual world as a text, and the responses that can be made to it in reception. Architecture becomes the grammar of reading in the virtual world, with design and code, copyright and address directing narrative. The body of the avatar and the body of the person operating it are joined across the spaces of the digital and the physical in the navigation of the virtual three-dimensional.

  • 29.
    Barrett, Jim
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Humlab. Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of language studies.
    Reading with the body: interpreting three dimensional media as narrative2020In: The projected and prophetic: humanity in cyberculture, cyberspace, and science fiction / [ed] Jordan J. Copeland, Brill Academic Publishers, 2020, p. 21-28Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This chapter argues that virtual online worlds are sites for the realization of narrative, in a form of reading that is posthuman and performative. The in-world avatar is the embodiment of an interpreting agent in the virtual world. Such devices accomplish a number of functions in terms of narrative realisation. The avatar contributes to the realisation of narrative through the navigation of the spatial attributes, the setting up of perspective in terms of Point of View (POV) in the reading, and as a character agent in the narrative architecture of the virtual world. Such characteristics are in the cybernetic relationship between the virtual world as a text, and the responses that can be made to it in reception. Architecture becomes the grammar of reading in the virtual world, with design and code, copyright and address directing narrative. The body of the avatar and the body of the person operating it are joined across the spaces of the digital and the physical in the navigation of the virtual three-dimensional.

  • 30.
    Berg, Linda
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS).
    Stamhustru: Om eurocentriska myter, kön och ”personlig utveckling” i teveserien Ett annat sätt att leva2012In: Om ras och vithet i det samtida Sverige / [ed] Tobias Hübinette, Helena Hörnfeldt, Fataneh Farahani & René León Rosales, Tumba: Mångkulturellt centrums förlag , 2012Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 31.
    Berg, Linda
    et al.
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS).
    Carbin, Maria
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS).
    Solidariska selfies: anti-rasistiskt engagemang i en digitaliserad samtid2015In: Digital politik: sociala medier, deltagande och engagemang / [ed] Eric Carlsson, Simon Lindgren, Bo Nilsson, Göteborg: Daidalos, 2015, p. 113-130Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 32.
    Berg, Linda
    et al.
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS).
    Carbin, Maria
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS).
    Troubling solidarity: anti-racist protest in a digitalized time2018In: Women's Studies Quarterly, ISSN 0732-1562, E-ISSN 1934-1520, Vol. 46, no 3-4, p. 120-136Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Racist hate crimes have increased in Sweden since 2006 when reports started, but they have also been followed by a variety of protests. This article analyzes the so-called #HijabUppropet (#HijabOutcry), a call initiated by Muslim feminist activists in response to a racist attack on a Muslim woman, which encouraged all "sisters" in Sweden to temporarily veil themselves in solidarity. The hijab outcry was widely heard and both celebrated and debated. Drawing on postcolonial feminist theory, this article shows how the initial protest against racism was partly reduced to a matter of being for or against the veil and the right to choose. Despite intentions to normalize the veil, the flow of comments and pictures on social media turned veils into examples of odd, exotic, and beautiful elements that enrich Swedish culture. The white secular subject was again reinstalled as the ideal and it seemed as though Muslim women could not pass as agents of Swedish feminist solidarity. Yet, at the same time, the debate in the aftermath of the hijab outcry had the effect of initiating an uneasy feeling of not belonging among white non-Muslim participators. This was a feeling that might affect future acts of solidarity—confronting a Swedish context of secular pride and whiteness—where Muslim women must struggle to be recognized as political subjects.

  • 33.
    Berg, Linda
    et al.
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS).
    Carbin, Maria
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS).
    Turister i andras känslor?: Med slöjan som plattform2013In: Bang, ISSN 1102-4593, no 4, p. 47-51Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 34.
    Bergnehr, Disa
    et al.
    Linnéuniversitetet.
    Åström, Berit
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of language studies.
    Introduction2021In: Single parents: representations and resistance in an international context / [ed] Berit Åström; Disa Bergnehr, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, p. 1-28Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The introductory chapter introduces the reader to the characteristics of the single parent group in the Western world and discusses the applied terms single mother, solo mother and single father in relation to previous research. It outlines the book and summarises each chapter with a brief discussion of the main results. The concluding discussion illuminates central themes throughout the book, mainly by juxtaposing how the genders are represented, and by stating that single parenthood is far from unambiguous, neither in practice nor in how it is represented. It is divided along the lines of gender and socioeconomic status where age, sexuality, and the reason for the singleness come into play.

  • 35.
    Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Hanna
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology. Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS).
    Hennes egen tid: Internet som en arena för sexuell frigörelse2012In: Tanten, vem är hon?: En (t)antologi / [ed] Marianne Liliequist & Karin Lövgren, Umeå: Boréa Bokförlag, 2012, p. 165-181Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 36.
    Blom, Felicia
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Trendig aktivism: En multimodal kritisk diskursanalys av Balenciagas marknadsföring av kollektionen Winter 222023Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    Balenciaga was one of the most influential fashion brands of 2022. Due to the attention the brand gets in traditional and social media, and their tendency to address political issues during their fashion shows, I consider it relevant to analyse what the brand communicates ideologically. Hence, this study aims to investigate what ideological values are portrayed through audio-visual elements in Balenciaga’s marketing of the Winter 22 collection. A multimodal critical discourse analysis was made on the Winter 22 runway show and campaign video – with support from theories concerning semiotics, discourse, ideology, hegemony, and brand positioning.  

    The study resulted in four ideological discursive main themes: climate, flight, celebrities, and fashion. Throughout the material a climate discourse was seemingly produced using extreme weather such as snowstorm, flooding, and drought. Grave-looking models walking through a snowstorm in impractical clothing, and the reading of a pro-Ukraine poem gave rise to a flight discourse – a flight caused by climate change or war. The campaign video had a visual focus on celebrities known for their work in popular culture or sports. A fourth pervading theme was fashion, showing a fixation on appearance despite harsh circumstances. These main discourses were used in a marketing genre implicating Balenciaga used climate change and social and political issues to generate more sales. Altogether, in the marketing of the Winter 22 collection Balenciaga used discourses regarding climate, flight, celebrities, and fashion to reproduce the western society’s hegemonic ideologies such as capitalism, materialism, consumerism, individualism, and elitism.

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  • 37.
    Boekraad, Maria Doeke
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of historical, philosophical and religious studies.
    Reflections on ethic for ethnically non-indigenous researchers2016In: Agon Pohjoinen Tiede- ja Kulturuurilehti, ISSN 1799-1900, no 2Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    What constitutes ethical behaviour within and among research related to First Nations? This text was born out of an urge to explore the challenges faced by ethnically non-indigenous researchers who wish to study a living indigenous culture in a way that contributes not only to increasing knowledge but also to improving indigenous communities' living conditions. The present article does not to seek to provide conclusive answers. Instead, it aspires to discuss some issues raised in relevant decolonizing literature and reflect on the challenges they raise.  The texts provides an overview over past and present critical discussions on research ethics in projects related to the indigenous Sami people in Scandinavia. It gives special attention to the perspectives of ethnically non- indigenous master- and doctoral students.

  • 38.
    Bonnevier, Jenny
    et al.
    Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden.
    Åström, Berit
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of language studies.
    Introduction: speculative ficion, critical kinship studies, and the fiction of N.K. Jemisin2023In: Kinship in the fiction of N.K. Jemisin: relations of power and resistance / [ed] Berit Åström; Jenny Bonnevier, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023, p. 1-22Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 39.
    Bränström Öhman, Annelie
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Julen: en motståndsrörelse2018In: Västerbottens-Kuriren, ISSN 1104-0246Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 40.
    Bränström Öhman, Annelie
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies. Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS).
    Paradigmskiftets primat2008In: Kulturella perspektiv: svensk etnologisk tidskrift, ISSN 1102-7908, Vol. årg 17, no 2Article in journal (Other academic)
  • 41. Bulgakova, Tatiana
    et al.
    Sundström, Olle
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of historical, philosophical and religious studies. Umeå University, Arctic Research Centre at Umeå University.
    Repression of shamans and shamanism in Khabarovsk Krai: 1920s to the early 1950s2017In: Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Stalin's Soviet Union: New Dimensions of Research / [ed] Andrej Kotljarchuk & Olle Sundström, Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2017, p. 225-262Chapter in book (Refereed)
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  • 42.
    Bäckström, Sara
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Allt kött är hö: En kulturanalytisk studie om hur produktion och konsumtion av animalier legitimiteras i samtal om klimat och hållbarhet2019Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [sv]

    Syftet med studien är att beskriva och analysera hur aktörer inom animalieindustrin legitimerar sin verksamhet, detta med utgångspunkt i de logiker som uttrycks och verkar i aktörers utsagor i samtal om hållbarhet och klimat. Analysen sker genom ett logikperspektiv som fokuserar på hur fortsatta investeringar i animalieproduktion som idé motiveras och ges legitimitet i en samtid där konsumtion och produktion av animalier sägs vara oförenligt med ett hållbart klimat. Vidare studeras gränsdragningar och positioner aktörerna skapar i samtal om kött och klimat och hur hållbarhet som kulturellt begrepp konstrueras. Studien baseras huvudsakligen på #Köttpodden av Svenskt Kött och digitala utsagor från LRF:s och Svenskt Kötts hemsidor. Resultatet av studien är att aktörerna använder olika logiker för att legitimera fortsatt produktion och konsumtion av animalier. Hållbarhet kulturaliseras i aktörernas utsagor för att överensstämma med egna befintliga sammanhang, vilket legitimerar fortsatta investeringar i animalieproduktion vilken föreställs vara en hållbar praktik.

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  • 43.
    Carbin, Maria
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS).
    Postcolonialism: theoretical and critical perspectives on2016In: The Wiley Blackwell encyclopedia of gender and sexuality studies / [ed] Nancy A. Naples, New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016, 1, p. 1-6Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The term postcolonialism has been applied to signal a historical condition, an era, and also, perhaps most commonly, to describe critical perspectives or theories. When postcolonialism signals a critical theory, or perspective, it has come to mean interrogations of the knowledge production of the West. At the center of the analysis is a critique of how the Western self has been constructed, and how Western institutions have been producing knowledge about what they perceive to be other places, and other peoples, thereby constructing the center and the margins. In his groundbreaking work Orientalism, literary theorist Edward Said explores how the Western project of civilization, modernization, progress, and enlightenment is built upon the premise that there is some other (the Oriental) that is seen as the opposite. Orientalism can be characterized as a hegemonic discourse that builds upon the idea that European culture and identity are superior to all others. Postcolonial scholars scrutinize colonial discourses and decolonizing projects all over the world. Scholars like Homi Bhabha and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak have developed the work of Orientalism in various ways, by deconstructing identity and introducing class, gender, and global capitalism into the analysis of colonial discourse.

  • 44.
    Carlquist, Jonas
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of language studies.
    Läsning och användning av böcker2022In: Kodex: boken i medeltidens Sverige / [ed] Jonas Nordin, Lund: Mediehistorisk arkiv , 2022, p. 263-297Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 45.
    Carlsson, Eric
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies. Umeå universitet.
    Alla kan bli bättre: om självpresentationer på sociala medier och Jantelagens skendöd2017In: Du ska inte tro att du är något: om Jantelagens aktualitet / [ed] Anders Johansson och Maria Jönsson, Umeå: Bokförlaget h:ström - Text & Kultur, 2017, 1, p. 38-58Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 46.
    Carlsson, Eric
    et al.
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Carbin, Maria
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS).
    Nilsson, Bo
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Från realism till post-sanning och tillbaka igen?: Nyhetsbransch, museer och högre utbildning mot fejkade nyheter och faktaresistens2018In: Kulturella perspektiv - Svensk etnologisk tidskrift, ISSN 1102-7908, no 1-2, p. 39-48Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    From realism to post truth? News, museums and higher education against fake news and fact resistance

    Recently, the problem with fake news, fact resistance and the growing digital, global circulation of disinformation have caused debates and worries, and posed a challenge for several institutions of knowledge in society. In this article, we discuss how the news industry, museums and higher education confront the challenges of the ‘post truth’ era. We can see a mobilization by these institutions in Sweden: The news industry has initiated so-called fact checking sites, the major museums create exhibitions about false news and educate youth in digital literacy and many universities have launched initiatives to legitimize scientific knowledge production, thereby safeguarding professional authority. However, these initiatives are faced with dilemmas concerning how concepts of knowledge, truth and facts are negotiated and understood. This article discusses such epistemological issues in general, and focuses in particular on the risk of falling into the trap of so called neorigorism.

  • 47.
    Carlsson, Eric
    et al.
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Nilsson, Bo
    Umeå University, Faculty of Arts, Department of culture and media studies.
    Ligister här, demokratikämpar där2011In: Glänta, ISSN 1104-5205, no 3-4Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
    Abstract [sv]

    Medan sociala medier sägs utlösa demokratiska revolutioner utanför Europas gränser utformas lagar som inskränker elektronisk kommunikation på hemmaplan. Eric Carlsson och Bo Nilsson blottlägger en paradoxal logik i den mediala retoriken och efterfrågar andra lösningar på demokratins problem än den tekniska.

  • 48. Castro, Alfredo
    et al.
    Marner, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Teacher Education, Department of Creative Studies.
    Skolan suddar i bilden1992In: Västerbottens-Kuriren, no 6/11Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
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  • 49.
    Castro, Alfredo
    et al.
    Umeå University, Faculty of Teacher Education, Department of Creative Studies.
    Marner, Anders
    Umeå University, Faculty of Teacher Education, Department of Creative Studies.
    Skolan suddar i bilden1992In: Västerbottens-Kuriren, no 6/11Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 50. Cheong, Pauline Hope
    et al.
    Fischer-Nielsen, PeterGelfgren, StefanUmeå University, Faculty of Arts, Humlab.Ess, Charles
    Digital Religion, Social Media and Culture: Perspectives, Practices and Futures2012Collection (editor) (Refereed)
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