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  • 1.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Social Work. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Edebalk, Gunnar (2022): Äldreomsorgen: en aktuell historia. Studentlitteratur2023In: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, ISSN 1104-1420, E-ISSN 2003-5624, Vol. 30, no 2, p. 667-671Article, book review (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Det börjar nu bli möjligt att se bakåt på en tid präglad av en pandemi som drabbade den äldre befolkningen särskilt hårt. Coronakommissionens delbetänkande Äldreomsorgen under pandemin (SOU 2020:80) visade med tydlighet på de strukturella bristerna. Per Gunnar Edebalk har skrivit boken Äldreomsorgen: en aktuell historia (2022a) och dess ämne ter sig alltså särskilt angeläget. Det saknas inte forskning om äldreomsorgens historia (se t.ex. Trydegård & Thorslund 2010, Trydegård 2013, Brodin 2005; Blomqvist & Winblad 2019). En hel del av den forskningen står Edebalk själv för (se t.ex. Edebalk 1991, 2016). Som Edebalk skriver så har det saknats en sammanhållen historik över den moderna äldreomsorgens historia. Det som står i fokus för Edebalks historieskrivning är den offentligt organiserade äldreomsorgen som tar sin början med 1918 års fattigvårdsförordning och avslutas med beslutet om biståndsbedömt trygghetsboende som trädde i kraft 2019. Som avslutning diskuterar Edebalk möjliga vägar framåt för äldreomsorgen.

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  • 2.
    Ågren, Axel
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Social Work. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Social Work. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    The social world of dying older men: between autonomy and ‘bad deaths’.2023In: Ageing, Men and Social Relations: New Perspectives on Masculinities and Men’s Social Connections in Later Life / [ed] Paul Willis, Ilkka Pietilä and Marjaana Seppänen, Bristol: Policy Press, 2023, p. 139-152Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The aim of this chapter is to critically examine dominating points of departures and perspectives within the social science literature which addresses issues of masculine identities, autonomy and social relations among dying older men. The literature and arguments that we present in this chapter relate mainly to men involved in heterosexual relationships. Throughout the chapter we will highlight identified complexities when studying death and dying of older men, neglected perspectives and potentials for future research on these issues.

  • 3.
    Ågren, Axel
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Social Work. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Social Work. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Narratives on dying older men in public discourse2022In: Book of Abstracts: Narratives and Counter-Narratives of Aging and Old Age: Reflexivity in Aging Studies, 2022, p. 8-8Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Research on men and masculinity focuses on values and characteristics of masculine identity, which is often associated with autonomy, being active and in control, physically strong andresourceful. Moreover, social gerontology tends to focus on aging “successfully” and only to aminor extent acknowledge the “dark side” of aging, such as illness, impaired physical and mentalabilities, dependency and death. This is of relevance in relation to dying older men, where issuesof being dependent, frail and not being autonomous do not align with ideals of masculine identities. Meanwhile, current societal views on a “good death” focus on enabling autonomy and notdying alone. This in turn raises the issue of how to understand cases when men express autonomy to the degree of challenging norms of “good death”, i.e., wanting to die alone of expressionswills to end one’s life. Consequently, the issue of older men who are dying highlight severalcomplex and potentially conflicting narratives, on societal, organizational and individual levels. Inthis study we will analyze how the issues of dying and masculinity are treated in public discourseabout the death of older men. The point of departure is to scrutinize what types of narratives thatare prevalent and how the current narratives of “good death”, “successful aging” and the “fourthage” are dealt with in the chosen cases. Moreover, attention will be drawn to who´s perspectivesdominate in the narratives. Is it professionals, relatives, dying older men, policymakers or religious authorities who are given a voice?

  • 4.
    Ågren, Axel
    et al.
    Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Social Work.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Social Work. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Wallroth, Veronika
    Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Social Work.
    Caring Masculinities – is There a New Man in Town?2021Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 5.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Social Work. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Rights, Responsibilities And Claims making: A Case Study Of The Representation Of Elder Care In The Media2021Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Public opinion regarding the organization of welfare and elder care, as well as how the right to care is articulated, are issues that have mainly been studied as expressions of individual attitudes or conflicting ideologies. By contrast, and departing from an understanding of the importance of context and societal rhetoric, this study is designed as a case study of the rhetorical landscape of elder care in public discourse in Sweden. The study circles around a TV documentary about problems in elder care that was aired in early 2020, just before the pandemic. The analysis focuses on how the issues were framed in the documentary but also on how different actors in news media and on the TV-channels Facebook page reacted to the claims in the documentary and how different actors used the documentary for their own aims.

    The study departs from a discourse analytical perspective and the analytical focus is on how the rights to elder care and the rights of users of elder care are articulated in relation to what the problems of the organization of elder are represented to be.

  • 6.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Social Work. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Rights, Responsibilities And Claims making: A Case Study Of The Representation Of Elder Care In The Media.2021Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 7.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Social Work. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    The articulation of citizenship and the right to care in public discourse in Sweden2021Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 8.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Social Work.
    Conflicts Around Elder Care in Mass Media:: A Case Study of a Swedish TV-Documentary and the Reactions to it in Public Discourse2020In: Interacões: Sociedade e as novas modernidades, ISSN 2184-3929, no 39, p. 41-66Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Public opinion regarding the organizationof welfare and elder care are issues whichhave mainly been studied as expressions ofindividual attitudes or conflicting ideologies.By contrast, and departing from anunderstanding of the importance of contextand societal rhetoric, this study exploresa media event in the form of a Swedish TVdocumentary about problems in elder careand the reactions to it that were publishedin printed news media. The study departsfrom a discursive psychological perspectiveand focuses on what is taken for granted withregard to how elder care should be organized,and which conflicts are articulated in thedifferent articles and opinion pieces thatwere published during the month followingthe broadcast.The study also shows how elder care is not asingular issue, but always interconnected withissues such as citizenship, identity, migration,and the legitimacy of the political and legalsystem. It was found that right to formalcare for older people to a large extent wasarticulated as a right by virtue of citizenship.

  • 9.
    Jönson, Håkan
    et al.
    School of Social Work, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
    Harnett, Tove
    School of Social Work, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Department of Social Work, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden.
    Ethnically profiled nursing home care in Sweden – from culture to lifestyle: Äldreboenden med etnisk profil i Sverige–från kultur till livsstil2018In: European Journal of Social Work, ISSN 1369-1457, E-ISSN 1468-2664, Vol. 21, no 2, p. 235-246Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The paper investigates presentations of ethnically profiled nursing homes in Sweden, and in particular what categories these nursing homes target and what problems they are suggested to solve. The findings relate to the construction of older immigrants and to shifting ideas on responsibilities of the Swedish welfare state. Data consisted of 68 articles from newspapers and journals between the period of 1995 and 2015 that were analysed using qualitative methods. Guided by a social constructionist approach focusing on claims-making, two comprehensive ‘problem frames’ were identified: the language and culture frame and the choice of lifestyle frame. The main finding of the paper was that, since about 2007, descriptions of ethnically profiled nursing homes have come to be included in a broader category of profiled nursing homes such as ‘all inclusive’ and ‘hotel-concept’, within a system that focuses on choice based on special needs, lifestyle and interest. The paper concludes that, although this way of framing ethnically profiled nursing homes works against the construction of older immigrants as a problematic category, there is a risk that the emphasis on choice of lifestyle conceals or justifies inequalities based on social class.

  • 10.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    et al.
    University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
    Jönson, Håkan
    Lund University, Sweden.
    Carlstedt, Elisabeth
    Lund University, Sweden.
    Harnett, Tove
    Lund University, Sweden.
    Nursing homes with lifestyle profiles - part of the marketisation of Swedish eldercare2018In: International Journal of Care and Caring, ISSN 2397-8821, E-ISSN 2397-883X , Vol. 2, no 1, p. 49-63Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Swedish nursing home residents are very frail, but a new trend is for nursing homes to adopt a lifestyle profile. Based on interviews with 16 representatives of care organisations, this study investigates the reasons for adopting profiles in this way. The analysis shows that the existence of lifestyle profiles is strongly linked to a market discourse centred on freedom of choice. It is concluded that lifestyle profiles are used as a differentiation strategy in order to justify marketisation, exposing the Swedish eldercare system – which does not permit competition on the basis of price or standards of care – to market forces.

  • 11.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Institutionen för socialt arbete, Göteborgs universitet, Sweden.
    Ældre mennesker og aldring i medier2018In: Gerontologi: Perspektiver på ældre mennesker / [ed] Frode F. Jacobsen & Stinne Glasdam, Köpenhamn: Gads , 2018Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 12. Nilsson, Magnus
    A celebration to those that built society2017Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 13.
    Heikkinen, Satu
    et al.
    Department of Social and Psychological Studies, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Department of Social Work, University of Gotheburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
    Ageism and Power: Explicit and Implicit Assumptions on Power in the Literature on Ageism2017Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 14.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Institutionen för socialt arbete, Göteborgs universitet, Sweden.
    Nationalism and the Moral Economy of Ageing2017In: Framing Age: Contested Knowledge in Science and Politics / [ed] Iris Loffeier, Benoît Majerus and Thibauld Moulaert, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge , 2017, p. 79-94Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 15.
    Harnett, Tove
    et al.
    Socialhögskolan, Lunds Universitet, Sweden.
    Jönson, Håkan
    Socialhögskolan, Lunds Universitet, Sweden.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Institutionen för socialt arbete, Göteborgs universitet, Sweden.
    Eldercare with a profile – outlines for a typology2016Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 16.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Institutionen för socialt arbete, Göteborgs universitet, Sweden.
    On the notion of “freedom of choice” as a legitimator of profiled nursing homes2016Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 17.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Institutionen för socialt arbete, Göteborgs universitet, Sweden.
    The importance of Ideology and temporality in the articulation of the relation between older people and society2016Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 18.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Karlstad universitet, Sweden.
    Nationalism and the moral economy of ageing.2015Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 19.
    Heikkinen, Satu
    et al.
    Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för sociala och psykologiska studier, Sweden.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Gothenburg University, Sweden.
    Older Workers in an Ageing Society: Critical Topics in Research and Policy2015In: Gender, Work and Organization, ISSN 0968-6673, E-ISSN 1468-0432, Vol. 22, no 5, p. 532-533Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 20.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för sociala studier, Sweden.
    Ageism as ideology? A discussion of the relevance of ideology as a concept for the understanding of ageism2014Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 21.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för sociala studier, Sweden.
    On the Moral Economy of Ageing and the Nation as Context and  Battleground2014Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 22.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för sociala och psykologiska studier, Sweden.
    Svein Olav Daatland & Per Erik Solem, Aldring og samfunn: Anföring i socialgerontologi. Fagbokforlaget, 20112014In: Sociologisk forskning, ISSN 0038-0342, E-ISSN 2002-066X, Vol. 51, no 2, p. 164-166Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 23.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för sociala och psykologiska studier, Sweden.
    Intertwined Notions of Older People and the Nation/State as Community2013Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 24.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    et al.
    Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för sociala studier, Sweden.
    Hagberg, Jan-Erik
    Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, NISAL - National Institute for the Study of Ageing and Later Life. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Jeppsson-Grassman, Eva
    Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, NISAL - National Institute for the Study of Ageing and Later Life. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    To age as a man: Ageing and masculinity in a small rural community in Sweden2013In: Norma, ISSN 1890-2138, E-ISSN 1890-2146, Vol. 8, no 1, p. 58-76Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This study aims to add to knowledge on the relation between ageing and masculinity in society by looking at how older unmarried and childless men in a small Swedish rural community articulate their masculinity in relation to being old. The study is based on interviews with eleven men. An intersectional perspective is used to analyse how age and gender interplay in the self-presentations as well as how their identity is articulated in relation to the rural context. The interviewed men articulate their identity through the use of a logic we call ‘what I have done is who I am’. This reaffirms the rural aspect of their masculine identity as well as the work-centred values of midlife as a reference point in the identity construction in old age when their bodies to a diminishing degree can live up to the physically defined masculinity of the rural context. In this situation, the local rural community is important for the way the men perform both age and masculinity in their daily lives. The men’s place integration can have a mitigating effect as it makes it possible to have their physically defined rural masculinity accepted as the ‘truth’ of who they are. To be known, to have their history known, we argue is central for the resignification of the old, devalued, body as a masculine body. Their continued place integration is a resource in that it can sustain their self-presentation as men defined by their stoic work character and not by their age.

  • 25.
    Hagberg, Jan-Erik
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, NISAL - National Institute for the Study of Ageing and Later Life. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Karlstads universitet, Sweden.
    Jeppsson Grassman, Eva
    Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, NISAL - National Institute for the Study of Ageing and Later Life. Linköping University, Faculty of Educational Sciences.
    To age as a man: Ageing and masculinity in a small rural community in Sweden2013In: Norma, ISSN 1890-2138, E-ISSN 1890-2146, Vol. 8, no 1, p. 58-76Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This study aims to add to knowledge on the relation between ageing and masculinity in society by looking at how older unmarried and childless men in a small Swedish rural community articulate their masculinity in relation to being old. The study is based on interviews with eleven men. An intersectional perspective is used to analyse how age and gender interplay in the self-presentations as well as how their identity is articulated in relation to the rural context. The interviewed men articulate their identity through the use of a logic we call ‘what I have done is who I am’. This reaffirms the rural aspect of their masculine identity as well as the work-centred values of midlife as a reference point in the identity construction in old age when their bodies to a diminishing degree can live up to the physically defined masculinity of the rural context. In this situation, the local rural community is important for the way the men perform both age and masculinity in their daily lives. The men’s place integration can have a mitigating effect as it makes it possible to have their physically defined rural masculinity accepted as the ‘truth’ of who they are. To be known, to have their history known, we argue is central for the resignification of the old, devalued, body as a masculine body. Their continued place integration is a resource in that it can sustain their self-presentation as men defined by their stoic work character and not by their age.

  • 26.
    Krekula, Clary
    et al.
    Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för sociala studier, Sweden.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för sociala studier, Sweden.
    Age, Time and Identity2012Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Age is an organising principle for both social relations and for welfare policy. In recent years age has come to be increasingly politicized as debate over the growing number of elderly in society and how society will manage the costs of future elderly care has gained momentum. The politicization of age is not new, however. Different social movements throughout history have been shaped by and have had age as a point of departure for political mobilization. Examples of such political organisation include pensioner organisations, pensioners' political parties, and interest groups for elderly workers. Also young people have organised themselves in different political contexts on the basis of a commonality in age. A distinction between old and young has also been made within political parties whereby one has repeatedly argued for renewal and change to increase representation of younger members. The aim of this presentation is to investigate and discuss the articulation of age as a political identity by way of examples of current political organisations. In this case, our focus is primarily upon old age as a political identity

  • 27.
    Aartsen, Marja
    et al.
    Faculty of Social Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands .
    Béland, Daniel
    Johnson-Shoyama School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan, Canada .
    Edmondson, Ricca
    School of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.
    Ginn, Jay
    Institute of Gerontology, Department of Social Science and Medicine, King’s College, London, United Kingdom .
    Komp, Kathrin
    Department of Sociology, Umea University, Sweden.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för sociala studier, Sweden.
    Perek-Bialas, Jolanta
    Warsaw School of Economics, Jagiellonian University, Poland .
    Sorensen, Penny
    Faculty of Social Sciences, East Anglia University, United Kingdom .
    Weicht, Bernard
    Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands .
    Ageing in the light of crises: Economic crisis, demographic change, and the search for meaning2012Report (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Old age has many images, with the one of a crisis regaining momentum. While images of activity and opportunity gained ground during recent decades, this trend now seems to reverse. The current economic crisis drains the financial resources of older people, which increases old age poverty. Moreover, governments react to the double-pressure of economic crises and population ageing through budget cuts, which reduces support systems for older people. It, moreover, centers public discourses more strongly on social problems associated with old age. Both developments underline the needs associated with old age and draw our attention away from the potentials of old age. In other words, they bring discussions on old age back to the topic of crises. This working paper discusses how the economic crisis affects older people, how governments, labour markets, and families react to the double-pressure of population ageing and economic crisis, and how individuals perceive their old age. It concludes with reflections on the implications of growing crisis-centrism in discussions on old age. Such crisis-centrism can lead us to overlook social inequalities in old age and to neglect the subjective character of the perception of old age. The public image of old age might, thus, be stronger associated with the idea of crisis than what older people’s lived experience suggests.

  • 28.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för sociala studier, Sweden.
    Plural Masculinities: The remaking of the self in private life2012In: Critical Discourse Studies, ISSN 1740-5904, E-ISSN 1740-5912, Vol. 9, no 2, p. 191-193Article, book review (Other academic)
  • 29.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för sociala studier, Sweden.
    Single older men in rural Sweden: Norms of masculinity2012Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    In this paper we focus on older men in rural areas who have remained unmarried and childless throughout their lives. The rural context has consequences for the ways that gender structures the lives of people throughout the life course, both materially and socially. Norms of masculinity remain strong in rural areas and there is less room for deviations than in urban areas. This is not least connected to the scarcity of meeting places, and above all to that of alternative spaces. Despite this, studies of rural masculinity have to a little extent explored the importance of age and ageing for the ways that masculinity is lived and articulated in rural areas. In this study, we explore the ways that unmarried and childless older men talk about relationships and childlessness in relation to norms of masculinity and heterosexuality, notions of ageing, growing old and approaching death

  • 30.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för sociala studier, Sweden.
    Ageing and masculinity in the rural2011In: The Gerontologist, ISSN 0016-9013, E-ISSN 1758-5341, Vol. 51, no Suppl_2, p. 339-339Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The rural context has consequences for the ways that gender structures the lives of people throughout the life course, both materially and socially. Norms of masculinity remains strong in rural areas and there is less room for deviations than in urban areas. This is not least connected to the scarcity of meeting places, and above all to that of alternative spaces. Men in rural areas who have remained unmarried throughout their lives and live without a partner tend to live in the areas where they were born. The identity and ways of living of unmarried men is often tied to the places where they live, but it is also connected to notions of heterosexuality and couplehood. In this paper I will explore the ways that unmarried and childless older men talk about relationships and childlessness in relation to norms of masculinity and heterosexuality, notions of ageing, growing old and approaching death.

  • 31.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för sociala studier, Sweden.
    Ageing Single Men in Rural Areas2011Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 32.
    Andersson, Janicke
    et al.
    Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Society, Diversity, Identity.
    Lukkarinen Kvist, Mirjaliisa
    Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Society, Diversity, Identity.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Avdelningen för sociala studier, Karlstads universitet, Sweden.
    Närvänen, Anna-Liisa
    Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Society, Diversity, Identity. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Att leva med tiden: samhälls- och kulturanalytiska perspektiv på ålder och åldrande2011 (ed. 1)Book (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Att leva med tiden handlar om vad ålder och åldrande kan betyda i olika sammanhang och hur betydelsen förändras över tid och rum. I boken diskuteras olika samhälls- och kulturvetenskapliga perspektiv på ålder och åldrande. Boken belyser vilka konsekvenser vetenskapliga sätt att se på åldrande kan få i analys av, och relation till, vardagsliv, vetenskaplig verksamhet och i det offentliga livet. Förutom historiska tillbakablickar presenteras också teorier om ålder, normalitet och identitet samt ålder ur ett intersektionellt perspektiv.

  • 33.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Det blev inte av : äldre ensamstående män utan barn på landsbygden: rapport nr 3 från forskningsprojektet Boende, åldrande, livslopp på landsbygden2011Book (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Sverige har det gjorts få studier av vad det innebär att åldras på landsbygden. Den övervägande majoriteten av forskningen om äldre människor och deras livsvillkor produceras med empiriskt material, såväl som frågeställningar, som tar sin utgångspunkt i de förutsättningar som det urbana livet ger. Det urbana fungerar normerande och livet på landsbygden uppfattas ofta i termer av vad som saknas där i förhållande till livet i staden. Kunskapsutvecklingen om livet i glesbygd har därmed kommit att hamna i skymundan (SOU 2006:106). Denna studie är ett bidrag till forskningen om att åldras på landsbygden och i fokus är livet och livsvillkoren för äldre ensamstående män utan barn utifrån ett genusperspektiv. För studien har elva ensamstående barnlösa män på landsbygden intervjuats.

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  • 34.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för sociala studier, Sweden.
    I don’t wanna live forever… but apparently I am!2011Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 35.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, NISAL - National Institute for the Study of Ageing and Later Life. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    De ældre i det offentlige samtalerum og som kategori i massmedier2010In: Gerontologi.Aldring og ældre i forskning og udvikling, Vol. 26, no 1, p. 4-7Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 36.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för sociala studier.
    Our elderly and the social construction of older people in the public sphere2010Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 37.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Society, Diversity, Identity. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Ageism and Anti-ageism in Public Policy2009Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    This paper analyses the anti-ageist rhetoric of a recent Swedish government investigation whose stated aim is to formulate a policy against ageism. The article discusses ageism and anti-ageism as implicated in an intricate relationship with each other from a discourse theoretical approach through an analysis of the discursive logics that operate in the text.

    The goal of old age policy is, according to the proposals of the investigation, to make itself redundant through the elimination of ageism. Negative stereotypes and discrimination because of old age are thus made the basis of governmental policy on old age. The logic behind this is an understanding of older people as an artificial category because of its heterogeneity, and that age alone should not form the basis for government policy.

    The report argues that old age is changing and that this is related to new generations of older people; the first teenagers. The new generation of older people are said to be constituted by an active life style that will challenge established norms and ways of living in old age.

    But, counter to this dissociation from the decline narrative of ageing runs a parallel construction of older people as a category from an administrative perspective. From the logic of the administrative perspective older people, as a category, is defined by a negative deviation in relation to the generalized adulthood of the non-old.

    The paper discusses the different discursive logics that are used to articulate older people as a category in the investigation, and how the logics undermine the legitimacy and validity of each other. The analysis of these logics offer an interesting and fruitful way of understanding how older people as a category is constructed in public discourse.

  • 38.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Society, Diversity, Identity. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Jönson, Håkan
    Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Äldre i massmedierna: Osynliga eller förknippade med problem2009In: Åldrande, åldersordning, ålderism / [ed] Håkan Jönson, Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press , 2009, 1, p. 96-104Chapter in book (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Vilken är den massmediala bilden av äldre? Givetvis finns det inte en utan många. Dessutom är det inte självklart vad som menas med äldre. Ordet äldre har i princip två olika men sammanlänkade betydelser. Den ena avser en relation; att vara äldre än något eller någon. Den andra betydelsen handlar om benämnandet av en kategori människor. I Sverige syftar "de äldre" vanligen på personer som fyllt 65 år, men betydelsen är beroende av sam-manhang och relationer. När "de äldre" pekas ut som den ekonomiska krisens vinnare avses för det mesta ålderspensionärerna. En tidningsartikel som anger att våldtäktsmannen ofta är "en äldre man", handlar däremot inte om män över 65 år utan här står begreppet i relation till offret som är "en yngre kvinna". Inom idrotts- och nöjesvärlden används ofta lokala "ålderstrappor", den som anses gammal i ett sammanhang kan vara ung i ett annat. Under år 2005 och 2006 kommenterades exempelvis den 33-årige fotbollsspelaren Zinedine Zidanes spel i termer av att han var gammal, trött eller slut. När han gjorde något briljant resulterade detta i uttryck som "än kan gubben" och paradoxalt nog "där såg vi lite av den gamle Zidane". När man uppnår en för sammanhanget kritisk ålder – som idrottsperson, nöjes-profil, politiker, industriledare etc. – tenderar alltså ens handlingar att tolkas som något man gör på grund av eller trots åldern. Som mediekonsument kan man öka sin åldersmedvetenhet genom att exempelvis notera i vilken ålder (och för vilket kön) som åldrandet kommenteras. Prova med sportkröni-korna i kvällspressen eller kändisporträtten i SJ:s tidning Kupé! Zidane pen-sionerade sig för övrigt efter fotbolls-VM 2006.

    I detta kapitel ska vi i huvudsak ägna oss åt massmedial rapportering om "äldre" med betydelsen personer över 65 år, men de kontextuella betydelserna vi kommenterat ovan bör hållas i minnet. Vi återkommer till dem i slutet.

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    Äldre i massmedierna : Osynliga eller förknippade med problem
  • 39.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Society, Diversity, Identity .
    Ageism in anti-ageist policy2008In: 6th International Symposium on Cultural Gerontology. Extending Time, Emerging Realities, Imagining Response,2008, 2008Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

               

  • 40.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för sociala studier, Sweden.
    The Discourse of Ageism within Anti-ageist Policy2008Conference paper (Other academic)
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    Nilsson, Magnus
    Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Society, Diversity, Identity. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Våra äldre: Om konstruktioner av äldre i offentligheten2008Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    This is a study of how ‘older people’ as a linguistic and social category, and ageing as a process, is constructed in three interrelated publics. The aim of the thesis is to study and critically investigate the different ways in which ‘older people’ as a category is understood and represented in relation to ongoing negotiations about the meaning of later life as a stage of life. The increased significance of mediated publics for the formation and maintenance of social and collective identities, as well as their role as spaces for deliberation on the organization of society, is a starting point for the study and has bearing on the choice of data. The study is based on three contrastive sets of empirical material; newspaper articles, texts from a pensioner’s party, and a government report on the future old age policy of Sweden. The studied texts were published during the period 2002 – 2004. The publics have been studied as in a dialogical relation with each other. This strategy highlights the relations between different constructions of the category. The differences between the publics are significant. At the same time the analysis also shows overlaps of arguments and in the way that the category is understood between the publics. The ways that ‘older people’ are constructed in the material is related to different notions about older people and their societal status. But also to ideas about society and the nation as an imagined community. The study shows, among other things, that ‘older people’ is a category that is spoken about, rather than to. ‘Older people’ rarely functions as a subject in the studied material. In relation to this, the category is constructed as an object for the care and responsibility of the national community.

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  • 42.
    Jönson, Håkan
    et al.
    Socialhögskolan, Lunds universitet, Sweden.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, NISAL - National Institute for the Study of Ageing and Later Life. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Are Old People Merited Veterans of Society? Some Notes on a Problematic Claim.2007In: Outlines: Critical Practice Studies, ISSN 1399-5510, E-ISSN 1904-0210, Vol. 9, no 2, p. 28-43Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The article shows how merit has been used to highlight pensioners as a special population in the claims-making activities of the senior rights movement in Sweden, as well as in debates about issues concerning old age. Simply put, merit refers to the claim that pensioners have built the society and they are entitled to special treatment – for instance welfare, reverence – for this reason. Merit is concluded to be a rhetorical tool with the potential of countering images of older people as a burden to the young. It portrays seniors as a population worthy of welfare and reverence. Social movements that emphasize merit among seniors will however risk isolation, since such claims to some extent have become associated with populist attacks on immigrants, politicians and other groups labeled as non-merited.

  • 43.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för sociala studier, Sweden.
    Who and what counts as old?2007Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 44.
    Jönson, Håkan
    et al.
    Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Society, Diversity, Identity . Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Society, Diversity, Identity . Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Äldre i massmedierna: osynliga eller förknippade med problem2007In: Socionomen : facktidskriften för kvalificerat socialt arbete, ISSN 0283-1929, p. 26-29Article in journal (Other academic)
  • 45.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för sociala studier, Sweden.
    Pensioner and "elderly" as political identities2005Conference paper (Other academic)
  • 46.
    Jönson, Håkan
    et al.
    Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies.
    Vi der byggde landet2005In: Gerontologisk magasin : om aldring og eldre, ISSN 0800-2509, no 2Article in journal (Other academic)
  • 47.
    Nilsson, Magnus
    Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Society, Diversity, Identity .
    Fear of rape as a regulating and constraining discourse in public places.2004In: Interanational Conference on Critical Discourse Analysis,2004, 2004Conference paper (Other academic)
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