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Social Movements in 1980s Sweden
This open access book discusses the emergence and development, and in some cases also the disappearance, of social movements and activism in Sweden during the 1980s. Its aim is to nuance and problematize the image of the 1980s as unilaterally dominated by right-wing politics and neoliberalism, as well as the idea of a conflict-free Scandinavian model. The 1980s have often been described as a period when the influence of radical-left movements during the 1970s diminished. Instead, this book argues that the 1980s was a decade in which new radical social movements emerged in opposition to the prevalent political order, including the nuclear disarmament movement, the women's movement, anti-fasci...
The Politics and Ethics of Representation in Qualitative Research
This book offers insights on politics and ethics of representation that are relevant to researchers concerned with struggles for justice. It takes moments of discomfort in the qualitative research process as important sites of knowledge for exploring representational practices in critical research. The Politics and Ethics of Representation in Qualitative Research draws on experiences from research processes in nine PhD projects. In some chapters, ethical and political dilemmas related to representational practices are analyzed as experienced in fieldwork. In others, the focus is on the production of representation at the stage of writing. The book deals with questions such as: What does it m...
Anti-Muslim Racism on Trial
This book constitutes a critical engagement with debates on the possibilities and limits of fighting racism with the help of criminal law. With in-depth analyses of cases of anti-Muslim violence in Sweden—a mosque fire, hate speech and of a series of assaults—Anti-Muslim Racism on Trial sheds light on issues central for understanding the ways in which racism is approached in court. It also illustrates the different forms that Islamophobia can take. Departing from a definition of law as a knowledge regime that embodies the power to decide on the meaning of the acts on trial and to establish a valid version of these events, the author explores the possibility of justice and recognition in court. From within a post-Holocaust and post-colonial context, this book recounts the complex and ambiguous history of laws against racism, examining the ways in which racist practices change in a society where certain manifestations of racism have come to be treated as crimes. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and criminology with interests in Islamophobia, race and ethnicity and violence.
Kampen om välfärdsarbetets värde
Tilldelades Rudolf Meidner-priset 2021 På våren 2003 genomförde Kommunal en omfattande strejk för högre löner. De röda jackorna med parollen Vi tar fajten! syntes överallt i Sverige. Frågan om vad välfärdsarbetet egentligen är värt ställdes på sin spets, liksom vilka möjligheter och begränsningar som omgärdar kommunalares fackliga kamp. Strejken utspelade sig i hjärtat av den offentliga välfärdssektor som varit central för det socialdemokratiska samhällsbygget. Därmed blottades spänningar inom arbetarrörelsen kring prioriteringar, strategier och lojaliteter. I den första bok som skrivits om Kommunalstrejken undersöker Kristin Linderoth hur några av de som själva...
Genusvetenskapliga forskningsmetoder
Äntligen en grundbok i genusvetenskapliga forskningsmetoder på svenska! Med förankring i genusvetenskapens tvärvetenskapliga karaktär synliggör denna antologi det genusvetenskapliga områdets bredd och djup med kortfattade och pedagogiska exempel från olika fält. Boken inleds med en presentation av genusvetenskapliga nyckelbegrepp som intersektionalitet, reflexivitet, situering och skala som alla ger viktiga metodologiska verktyg i forskningsprocessen. Även analytiska förhållningssätt med betydelse för metodologi diskuteras – exempelvis vad queer, trans eller transnationell feministisk forskning innebär. I bokens andra del står det praktiska hantverket i fokus. Här presente...
Folk i rörelse
I år firar den svenska demokratin hundra år. Många ser detta som slutet på en given utveckling. Kjell Östberg skriver istället levande om hur vår demokrati är ett resultat av att människor sluter sig samman i kamp för att gemensamt skapa förändring, från Sundsvallsstrejken 1879 till Fridays for future idag.
Gated Bayesian Networks
Bayesian networks have grown to become a dominant type of model within the domain of probabilistic graphical models. Not only do they empower users with a graphical means for describing the relationships among random variables, but they also allow for (potentially) fewer parameters to estimate, and enable more efficient inference. The random variables and the relationships among them decide the structure of the directed acyclic graph that represents the Bayesian network. It is the stasis over time of these two components that we question in this thesis. By introducing a new type of probabilistic graphical model, which we call gated Bayesian networks, we allow for the variables that we includ...
Remapping Cold War Media
Why were Hollywood producers eager to film on the other side of the Iron Curtain? How did Western computer games become popular in socialist Czechoslovakia's youth paramilitary clubs? What did Finnish commercial television hope to gain from broadcasting Soviet drama? Cold War media cultures are typically remembered in terms of an East-West binary, emphasizing conflict and propaganda. Remapping Cold War Media, however, offers a different perspective on the period, illuminating the extensive connections between media industries and cultures in Europe's Cold War East and their counterparts in the West and Global South. These connections were forged by pragmatic, technological, economic, politic...
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Video Games and the Mind
Can a video game make you cry? Why do you relate to the characters and how do you engage with the storyworlds they inhabit? How is your body engaged in play? How are your actions guided by sociocultural norms and experiences? Questions like these address a core aspect of digital gaming--the video game experience itself--and are of interest to many game scholars and designers. With psychological theories of cognition, affect and emotion as reference points, this collection of new essays offers various perspectives on how players think and feel about video games and how game design and analysis can build on these processes.
