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  • 1.
    Aronsson, Peter
    Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Department of Culture Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Uses of the Past: Nordic Historical Cultures in a Comparative Perspective2010In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 2, p. 553-563Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

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  • 2.
    Arvanitakis, James
    et al.
    Graduate Research School, Western Sydney University, Australia.
    Fredriksson, Martin
    Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Department of Culture Studies – Tema Q. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Schillings, Sonja
    Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany.
    Bellamy’s Rage and Beer’s Conscience: Pirate Methodologies and the Contemporary University2017In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 09, no 3, p. 260-276Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Over the last decade piracy has emerged as a growing field of research covering a wide range of different phenomena, from fashion counterfeits and media piracy, through to 17th century buccaneers and present-day pirates off the coast of Somalia. In many cases piracy can be a metaphor or an analytical perspective to understand conflicts and social change. This article relates this fascination with piracy as a practice and a metaphor to academia and asks what a pirate methodology of knowledge production could be: how, in other words, researchers and educators can be understood as ‘pirates’ to the corporate university. Drawing on the history of maritime piracy as well as on a discussion on contemporary pirate libraries that disrupt proprietary publishing, the article explores the possibility of a pirate methodology as a way of acting as a researcher and relating to existing norms of knowledge production. The methodology of piratical scholarship involves exploiting the grey zones and loopholes of contemporary academia. It is a tactical intervention that exploits short term opportunities that arise in the machinery of academia to the strategic end of turning a limiting structure into an enabling field of opportunities. We hope that such a concept of pirate methodologies may help us reflect on how sustainable and constructive approaches to knowledge production emerge in the context of a critique of the corporate university. 

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  • 3.
    Axelsson, Bodil
    Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Department of Culture Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    History in Popular Magazines: Negotiating Masculinities, the Low of the Popular and the High of History2012In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 4, p. 275-295Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This article explores how the low of the popular and the high of history intersect to negotiate masculinities in the nexus of politics and war in a Swedish history magazine. It investigates the content of the magazine’s form and argues that it produces a kaleidoscopic take on the past which begs the reader to go along with the ads to buy another book, travel to one more historical site, buy a DVD or go to the movies, to turn the page, or to buy another issue of the magazine. Two articles, biographical in their outset, provide the basis for an analysis on how masculinities are negotiated by displaying political and military leaders in contradictory ways and enabling multiple entrance points for the contemporary reader and spectator. Articles on great men produce cultural imaginaries of warlords and political leaders by drawing on layers of historically contingent ways for men to act in public and private spheres and connecting late modern visual celebrity culture to the cults of fame in earlier centuries.

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  • 4.
    Bjurström, Erling
    Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Department of Culture Studies – Tema Q. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Whose Canon?: Culturalization versus Democratization2012In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 4, no 14, p. 257-274Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Current accounts – and particularly the critique – of canon formation are primarily based on some form of identity politics. In the 20th century a representational model of social identities replaced cultivation as the primary means to democratize the canons of the fine arts. In a parallel development, the discourse on canons has shifted its focus from processes of inclusion to those of exclusion. This shift corresponds, on the one hand, to the construction of so-called alternative canons or counter-canons, and, on the other hand, to attempts to restore the authority of canons considered to be in a state of crisis or decaying. Regardless of the democratic stance of these efforts, the construction of alternatives or the reestablishment of decaying canons does not seem to achieve their aims, since they break with the explicit and implicit rules of canon formation. Politically motivated attempts to revise or restore a specific canon make the workings of canon formation too visible, transparent and calculated, thereby breaking the spell of its imaginary character. Retracing the history of the canonization of the fine arts reveals that it was originally tied to the disembedding of artists and artworks from social and worldly affairs, whereas debates about canons of the fine arts since the end of the 20th century are heavily dependent on their social, cultural and historical reembedding. The latter has the character of disenchantment, but has also fettered the canon debate in notions of “our” versus “their” culture. However, by emphasizing the dedifferentiation of contemporary processes of culturalization, the advancing canonization of popular culture seems to be able to break with identity politics that foster notions of “our” culture in the present thinking on canons, and push it in a more transgressive, syncretic or hybrid direction.

  • 5.
    Eldelin, Emma
    Linköping University, Department of Culture and Communication, Swedish Studies and Comparative Literature. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    An Amateur's Raid in a World of Specialists?: The Swedish Essay in Contemporary Public Debate2010In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 2, p. 449-469Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The point of departure of this paper is a lecture by Edward Said, in which he claimed it necessary for today’s intellectuals to respond to modern specialization by assuming an attitude of amateurism in public life. It can be argued that there is a historical connection between the public role of the learned amateur and the essay as a form of expression and communication. Among recent advocates of the essay, the decline of this genre in modernity has sometimes been explained by the increasing public confidence in experts and specialists. According to this view, the development of modern society has made it less legitimate for essayists to serve as generalist commentators on society and culture. However, the growing tension between amateurism and professionalism goes back at least to the nineteenth century, and it has marked the ambiguous relation of the essay and the essayist to academia and institutional discourse ever since. This paper discusses what has become of this public role of essayists in late modernity. Some examples of essayists and essayistic writing of later decades, chiefly from Sweden, serve as illustrations of a general line of argument, even though there are also comparisons between the essay in Sweden and in other countries. Among the examples of Swedish essayists put forward here are Kerstin Ekman and Peter Nilson. The reception of these writers suggests that the essayist, adopting the role as amateur, driven by devotion and interest for the larger picture, might still be a vital part of public culture today. However, it is also clear that writers like Ekman and Nilson have gained at least part of their authority from being acknowledged in other fields or genres – Ekman as a distinguished novelist and Nilson as a trained astronomer.

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  • 6.
    Fjelkestam, Kristina
    Linköping University, Department of Culture and Communication, Swedish Studies and Comparative Literature. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Gendering Cultural Memory: Balzac's Adieu2013In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 5, p. 239-249Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    In this essay I examine the en-gendering of cultural memory in Honoré de Balzac´s story Adieu (1830), which proceeds from a repressed trauma originating inhistorical events. Balzac wrote the story in the spring of 1830, i. e. at a time whenthe French discontent with the Restoration regime was soon to explode in the JulyRevolution. The story is considered to claim that the Restoration regime’s repressionof revolutionary history will recieve serious consequences in the present. Butthe question is how the now of the Restoration can best be linked to the then of theRevolution and the Empire? How can history be represented in a productive way,without silencing traumatic memories? My suggestion is that the abyss betweennow and then has to be met with an ethically informed respect for difference. Stéphanie,the protagonist, dies when Philippe creates an exact replica of the traumaticsituation in which they were separated many years ago. She then became a sexslave to the retiring French army, dehumanized during the hard Russian campaign,an experience that also dehumanized her. This Philippe refuses toacknowledge, since he wants to retrieve the woman he knew. That can of coursenever happen, but in insisting on it, I would claim that he actually renders Stéphanieslife after the trauma impossible. Instead of emphasizing the distinction betweenpast and present, Philippe overlooks it, with the severe consequence of Stéphanie’sdeath. In my analysis I relate to pertinent discussions in the interdisciplinaryfield of cultural memory studies (an expanding field of research within thewider frame of cultural studies), but since it rarely discusses gender aspects I findit essential to relate also to feminist scholars who continually have scrutinizedissues concerning memory and history writing.

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  • 7.
    Fornäs, Johan
    et al.
    Department of Media and Communication Studies, Södertörn University, Sweden.
    Fredriksson, Martin
    Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Department of Culture Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Culturalisation at an Australian–Swedish Crossroads2012In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 4, p. 249-255Article in journal (Refereed)
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  • 8.
    Fornäs, Johan
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Department of Culture Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Fredriksson, Martin
    Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Department of Culture Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Johannisson, Jenny
    Swedish School of Library and Information Science, Borås, Sweden.
    Culture Unbound Vol. 1 Editorial2009In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 1, p. 1-5Article in journal (Other academic)
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  • 9.
    Fornäs, Johan
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Fredriksson, Martin
    Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Department of Culture Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Johannisson, Jenny
    Swedish School of Library and Information Science, Borås, Sweden.
    Culture Unbound Vol. 2 Editorial2010In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 2, p. 5-8Article in journal (Other academic)
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  • 10.
    Fornäs, Johan
    et al.
    Department of Media and Communication Studies, Södertörn University, Sweden.
    Fredriksson, Martin
    Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Department of Culture Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Johannisson, Jenny
    Centre for Cultural Policy Research, the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, Borås, Sweden.
    Editorial, Culture Unbound, vol. 42012In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 4, p. 5-10Article in journal (Other academic)
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  • 11.
    Fornäs, Johan
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Department of Culture Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Fredriksson, Martin
    Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Department of Culture Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Johannisson, Jenny
    Swedish School of Library and Information Science, Borås, Sweden.
    What’s the Use of Cultural  Research? Editorial theme introduction2009In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 1, p. 7-14Article in journal (Other academic)
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  • 12.
    Fornäs, Johan
    et al.
    Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden.
    Fredriksson, Martin
    Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Department of Culture Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Stead, Naomi
    University of Queensland, Australia.
    Editorial, Culture Unbound, Volume 52013In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 5, p. 7-13Article in journal (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    We are proud to present the fifth volume of Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research. This time we have some important news to share. First, the journal’s scholarly success has been financially rewarded, in that Culture Unbound has received two different publishing grants: one from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) and the other from the Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS). Together these two grants cover most of the costs for Martin Fredriksson’s work as executive editor, which forms the core of our rather minimal costs. The remaining expenses are covered by our three collaborating host institutions at Linköping University: the Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden (ACSIS), the Department of Culture Studies (Tema Q) and the Swedish Cultural Policy Research Observatory (SweCult).

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  • 13.
    Fredriksson, Martin
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Department of Culture Studies – Tema Q. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Fornäs, Johan
    Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden.
    Hemmungs Wirtén, Eva
    Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Department of Culture Studies – Tema Q. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Stead, Naomi
    University of Queensland, Australia.
    Publishing for Public Knowledge2015In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 7, p. 558-564Article in journal (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Academic publishing is a strange business. One might hope and expect that most scholars, regardless of discipline, would see it as one of their major academic du-ties to share their findings, and to interact with their peers and the general popu-lace, via literal public-ation – the making-public of new knowledge. But even with such lofty ideals, the realpolitik of where, when, and how academics publish their scholarly work – based on the contemporary pressures and tensions of funding environments, the quantification and metricisation of scholarly work, and mecha-nisms for recognition and career reward – can lead to some curious and even per-verse effects.

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  • 14.
    Fredriksson, Martin
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Department of Culture Studies – Tema Q. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Fornäs, Johan
    Södertörns Högskola.
    Johannisson, Jenny
    Högskolan i Borås.
    Culture Unbound Vol. 3 Editoria2011In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 3, p. 5-10Article in journal (Other academic)
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  • 15.
    Fredriksson, Martin
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Department of Culture Studies – Tema Q. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Miranda, Alejandro
    University of Trento.
    Mobility, Mediatization and New Methods of Knowledge Production2017In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 9, no 3, p. 222-227Article in journal (Other academic)
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  • 16.
    Godhe, Michael
    Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Culture, Society and Media Production - KSM. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    After Work: Anticipatory Knowledge on Post-Scarcity Futures in John Barnes’s Thousand Cultures Tetralogy2018In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 10, no 2, p. 246-262Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    What would happen if we could create societies with an abundance of goods and services created by cutting-edge technology, making manual wage labour unnecessary – what has been labelled societies with a post-scarcity economy. What are the pros and cons of such a future? Several science fiction novels and films have discussed these questions in recent decades, and have examined them in the socio-political, cultural, economic, scientific and environmental contexts of globalization, migration, nationalism, automation, robotization, the development of nanotechnology, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence and global warming. In the first section of this article, I introduce methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives connected to Critical Future Studies and science fiction as anticipatory knowledge. In the second and third section, I introduce the question of the value of work by discussing some examples from speculative fiction. In section four to seven, I analyze the Thousand Culture tetralogy (1992–2006), written by science fiction author John Barnes. The Thousand Cultures tetralogy is set in the 29th century, in a post-scarcity world. It highlights the question of work and leisure, and the values of each, and discusses these through the various societies depicted in the novels. What are the possible risks with societies where work is voluntary?

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  • 17.
    Godhe, Michael
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Culture, Society and Media Production - KSM. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Goode, Luke
    Media and Communication, the University of Auckland, New Zeeland.
    Beyond Capitalist Realism - Why We Need Critical Future Studies2017In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 9, no 1Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This paper introduces the interdisciplinary field of Critical Future Studies (CFS).

    CFS investigates the scope and constraints within public culture for imagining and

    debating different potential futures. It interrogates imagined futures founded – often

    surreptitiously – upon values and assumptions from the past and present, as

    well as those representing a departure from current social trajectories. CFS draws

    on perspectives from various disciplines including sociology, political studies,

    intellectual history, cultural history, media and cultural studies, utopian studies,

    science and technology studies, and philosophy. CFS also engages with discourses

    and ideas from the natural sciences (including popular science), computing and

    economics. And, given our concern with public culture, CFS aims to contribute

    constructively to vigorous and imaginative public debate about the future – a futural

    public sphere – and to challenge a prevalent contemporary cynicism about our

    capacity to imagine alternative futures while trapped in a parlous present. To that

    extent, we propose CFS as a programme of engaged and open-ended social critique,

    not as a solely academic endeavour. Our paper begins by describing the relationship

    between CFS and mainstream Future Studies. Subsequently, we discuss

    the contemporary context for Critical Future Studies. Here we make the case that

    CFS is a timely and even urgent project at our current historical juncture, arguing

    also for the significance of both utopian and dystopian imaginings. We then go on

    to discuss methodologies within CFS scholarship. Finally, we conclude by reflecting

    on the values underpinning CFS. Overall, this paper not only describes CFS

    as a field of research but also serves as an invitation to cultural scholars to consider

    how their own work might intersect with and contribute to CFS.

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  • 18.
    Godhe, Michael
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Culture, Society and Media Production - KSM. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Goode, Luke
    Media and Communication, the University of Auckland.
    Critical Future Studies: A Thematic Introduction2018In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 10, no 2, p. 151-162Article in journal (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Introduction theme issue Culture Unbound

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  • 19.
    Hemmungs Wirtén, Eva
    Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Department of Culture Studies – Tema Q. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    The Patent and the Paper: a Few Thoughts on Late Modern Science and Intellectual Property2015In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 7, no 4, p. 600-609Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Marie and Pierre Curie’s decision not to patent the discovery (1898) and later isolation (1902) of radium is perhaps the most famous of all disinterested decisions in the history of science. To choose publishing instead of patenting and openness instead of enclosure was hardly a radical choice at the time. Traditionally, we associate academic publishing with “pure science” and Mertonian ideals of openness, sharing and transparency. Patenting on the other hand, as a byproduct of “applied science” is intimately linked to an increased emphasis and dependency on commercialization and technology transfer within academia. Starting from the Curies’ mythological decision I delineate the contours of an increasing convergence of the patent and the paper (article) from the end of the nineteenth-century until today. Ultimately, my goal is to suggest a few possible ways of addressing the hybrid space that today constitute the terrain of late modern science and intellectual property. - See more at: http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article.asp?DOI=10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1573600#sthash.zbZHFZXG.dpuf

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  • 20.
    Hillström, Magdalena
    Linköping University, Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture, Department of Culture Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Contested Boundaries: Nation, People and Cultural History Museums in Sweden and Norway 1862–19092010In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 2, p. 583-607Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    It has become commonplace to assert that museums embody, perform and negotiate national identities. Many researches in museum history have stressed a close relationship between nation building and the origin and formation of the modern public museum. Museums, it is argued, contributes to the construction and repre-sentation of the ethnical and historical distinctiveness of the nation’s self’. This article explores the ambiguities of the concept when applied to the establishment of cultural history museums in Sweden and Norway during the latter half of the 19th century. It shows that the relation between nation building and early museum building in the Scandinavian context was more intricate than earlier has been assumed. Museum founders like Artur Hazelius, who opened the Scandinavian-Ethnographic Collection in 1873 (renamed Nordiska museet 1880), was deeply influenced by Scandinavianism, a strong cultural and political force during the 19th century. Union politics played an important role for museum politics, as did the transitions of the concepts of “ethnography” and “nation”. At the very end of the 19th century the original concept of “nation” meaning people and culture gradually was subordinated to the concept of “nation” as state and political territory. In early 20th century museum ideology cultural history museums were strongly connected with “nations” in the modern sense. Consequently, efforts to “nationalise” the folk-culture museum were made both in Norway and Sweden. A contributory force was, naturally, the dissolution of the Swedish-Norwegian union in 1905.

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    Contested Boundaries: Nation, People and Cultural History Museums in Sweden and Norway 1862–1909
  • 21.
    Karlsson, Mattis
    Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Culture, Society, Design and Media.
    On Being Here: A Conversation on Methodology2018In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 9, no 3, p. 342-344Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
    Abstract [en]

    This paper is a response to the social anthropologist’s frustration of not being there. It is, to make further use of your own words, an attempt to deal with my own chronic disciplinary identity crisis. It is a response written in recognition of your situation and in recognition of the symptoms that you so eloquently describe.

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  • 22.
    Lindgren, Anne-Li
    et al.
    Linköping University, The Tema Institute, Department of Child Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Sparrman, Anna
    Linköping University, The Tema Institute, Department of Child Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Blogging Family-like Relations when visiting Theme and Amusement Parks: The Use of Children in Displays Online2014In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 6, no 55, p. 997-1013Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This paper combines sociological perspectives on family display, internet studies on family and private photography and a child studies perspective on the display of children. The paper proposes that blogging practices related to visits to theme and amusement parks in Sweden provide a new arena for people to displayfami-ly-like relationships. In the different displays,adults mainly use pictures of chil-dren in the blogs to demonstratetheir ability to perform family-likerelationships. The paper suggests that thisform of child-centred display,a visualized child-centredness, done during the park visit as well as in the blogging, is part of the construction of contemporary childhoods and what it means to be a child today and has not been theorized in earlier research on the display of family-like rela-tions.

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  • 23.
    Lundberg, Anna
    Linköping University, The Tema Institute, The Department of Gender Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    “Will We be Tested on This?”: Schoolgirls, Neoliberalism and the Comic Grotesque in Swedish Contemporary Youth Theatre2013In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 5, no 11, p. 133-152Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This article is based on an ethnographic participation study of the production of a play called All about the ADHD and A+ Children of Noisy Village (Ännu mer om alla vi ADHD- och MVG-barn i Bullerbyn) staged at one of Sweden’s most prom-inent playhouses for children’s and youth theatre: ung scen/öst. Within the familiar setting of the classroom, the play takes on the challenging task of questioning and scrutinizing the complex and tangled situation of contemporary neoliberal ideas and practices, their connections to capitalism and their impact on everyday school-life. This in front of an audience consisting mainly of individuals who were not even born at the time when the political map was radically re-drawn in Berlin in 1989, and who have grown up during a period when neoliberal governance has gained increasing influence in Swedish culture and society. The play mediates its dense, political content and its descriptions of teenagers’ everyday lives through a large portion of good old-fashioned entertainment, with music, singing and bi-zarre, laughter-provoking situations. The main research question to be answered in the article is: In what ways are the abstract contemporary economic-political manifestations of power and govern-ance expressed in this good-humored play for youth, and how can this be read from a feminist perspective? Hence, the article circles around three nodes that in-tersect in various ways: theatre, economic-political issues and feminist perspec-tives. The theoretical framework of the article is primarily based on a merger be-tween, on the one hand, feminist social science and, on the other, feminist cultural analysis.

  • 24.
    Martinez, Victoria Van Orden
    Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Culture, Society, Design and Media.
    This is not an Onion: Ongoing Dialogue as Layers that Envelop and Enhance Research2023In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 15, no 3Article in journal (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Most people will be familiar with the metaphor of the onion, which tells us that layers must be peeled away to reveal the core or heart of an issue. This extended article works in the opposite way, by starting with an issue – really, quite a few issues – and adding layers that reveal the complexity of the issues and the importance of engaging in dialogue about them. The core issue here is the question of how researchers and practitioners within and outside of academia can better engage in open dialogue about the challenges and opportunities of bridging research praxes across pluralities of knowledge. Among the related issues and concerns that spring from this central issue are research ethics and shared authority, metrics, value, recognition, and citizen science and research.

  • 25.
    Mitchell, Sarah
    Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Department of Child Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    (Extra)Ordinary Swedish Dads: Branding the‘Exceptional’ Swedish Nation through VisualRepresentations of ‘Everyday Fatherhood’2021In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 13, no 2, p. 155-179Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    From 2016 to 2019, the Swedish Institute circulated a photo exhibition entitled‘Swedish Dads’ to approximately 50 countries where it was seen by tens of thousandsof people. This state-funded and state-sanctioned exhibition was intended torepresent the Swedish state in the international arena. The exhibition was adaptedbased on the Swedish Dads photobook produced by Swedish photographer, JohanBävman. The question is what happens when an artistic photobook is transformedinto a narrative about Swedish fatherhood and how this narrative changes as itcomes to represent the Swedish state in the international arena.The aim of this article is to contribute interdisciplinary knowledge in termsof how particular representations of fatherhood are constructed and used inthe marketing of certain norms and values in the international arena. Thisinterdisciplinary approach makes it possible to address broader kinds of questionsand to extend knowledge beyond disciplinary boundaries (Strang and McLeish2015). To do this, I examine how representations of what I call ‘everyday fatherhood’are used to brand the Swedish nation as ‘exceptional’. Thematic analysis and visualdiscourse analysis were combined in analyzing the material, which consisted ofthe photographs and texts used in the Swedish Dads photobook and the SwedishDads exhibition, as well as key informant interviews.The analysis highlights that while the Swedish Dads photobook emphasizedthat Swedish Dads are not so special, the Swedish Dads exhibition conveyed theopposite message, i.e., that Swedish Dads – and by extension, the Swedish state –are in fact exceptional. By showing how images of the ordinary and the everydaycan be used to achieve larger political objectives in the international arena, 

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  • 26.
    Sparrman, Anna
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Department of Child Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Hrechaniuk, Yelyzaveta
    Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Department of Child Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Anatoli Smith (Ivanova), Olga
    Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Department of Child Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Andersson, Klara
    Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Department of Child Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Arzuk, Deniz
    University College London, UK.
    Annerbäck, Johanna
    Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Department of Child Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Bodén, Linnea
    Stockholm university, Sweden.
    Blaise, Mindy
    Edith Cowan University, Western Australia.
    Castañeda, Claudia
    Coleman, Rebecca
    Bristol Digital Futures Institute (BDFI); University of Bristol, UK.
    Eßer, Florian
    University of Osnabrück, Germany.
    Finn, Matt
    University of Exeter, UK.
    Gustafsson, Daniel
    Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Department of Child Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Holmqvist, Peter
    Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Department of Child Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Josefsson, Jonathan
    Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Department of Child Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Kraftl, Peter
    University of Birmingham, UK.
    Lee, Nick
    University of Warwick, UK.
    Lesnik-Oberstein, Karín
    University of Reading, UK.
    Mitchell, Sarah
    Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Department of Child Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Murris, Karin
    University of Oulu, Finland; University of Cape Town, South Africa.
    Orrmalm, Alex
    Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Department of Child Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Oswell, David
    University of London, UK..
    Prout, Alan
    University of Leeds, UK.
    Rosen, Rachel
    University College London, UK.
    Runswick-Cole, Katherine
    University of Sheffield, UK.
    Sjöberg, Johanna
    Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Department of Child Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Smith, Karen
    University College Dublin, Ireland.
    Spyrou, Spyros
    European University, Cyprus.
    Bond Stockton, Kathryn
    University of Utah, USA.
    Taylor, Affrica
    University of Canberra, Australia.
    Zehavi, Ohad
    Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Israel; Tel Aviv University, Israel.
    Zotevska, Emilia
    Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Department of Child Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Child Studies Multiple: Collaborative play for thinking through theories and methods2023In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 15, no 1Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This text is an exploration of collaborative thinking and writing through theories, methods, and experiences on the topic of the child, children, and childhood. It is a collaborative written text (with 32 authors) that sprang out of the experimental workshop Child Studies Multiple. The workshop and this text are about daring to stay with mess, “un-closure” , and uncertainty in order to investigate the (e)motions and complexities of being either a child or a researcher. The theoretical and methodological processes presented here offer an opportunity to shake the ground on which individual researchers stand by raising questions about scientific inspiration, theoretical and methodological productivity, and thinking through focusing on process, play, and collaboration. The effect of this is a questioning of the singular academic ‘I’ by exploring and showing what a plural ‘I’ can look like. It is about what the multiplicity of voice can offer research in a highly individualistic time. The article allows the reader to follow and watch the unconventional trial-and-error path of the ongoing-ness of exploring theories and methods together as a research community via methods of drama, palimpsest, and fictionary.

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    Zabalueva, Olga
    Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Culture, Society, Design and Media. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Multimedia Historical Parks and the Heritage-based “Regime of Truth” in Russia2022In: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, ISSN 2000-1525, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 14, no 2, p. 83-106Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This article focuses on the 2013–2016 exhibitions in Moscow Manege which were later transformed into a network of entertainment centres (“historical parks”) Russia–my (hi)story. The exhibitions are built on multimedia technologies and include no authentic artefacts/museum objects. There is a growing network of such centres all over Russia, all organized in a similar manner, appealing to the visitor’s emotions and creating a relation of affect through the unravelling of a nationalistic historical narrative. Claimed to present “the objective picture of the Russian history”, the exhibitions are following the recent developments in Russian cultural policies and history curricula. By analysing narratives presented at the “historical park” exhibitions, in policy documents and in media, this article follows the changes in public attitude towards history, which heritage is perceived as ‘difficult’ and ‘contested’ and how the digital representations influence these perceptions. Based on this analysis I argue that the reduction of the museum mechanism to only digital and multimedia form can bring along very serious issues in different political contexts. Russian historical parks enterprise, which combines the methods of fostering patriotism by the means of historical narrative templates both from the 19th and the 20th centuries, enhanced with the 21st-century technology in a form of “multimedia museums,” is only one of such examples.

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