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- Sörum, Niklas, 1977, et al.
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Platsar kulturen i den nya staden?
- 2017
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report is based on culture and cultural heritage as key aspects of the sustainable city. In Gothenburg, cultural planning has been part of urban development since 1998 and the Culture Administration is responsible for preparing cultural impact assessments (KKA). In view of the fact that Gothenburg is in a development phase and plans several major projects with effects on urban spaces and city life, the report studies two areas of the city: Klippan (specifically Sockerbruket) and Lindholmen (specifically Karlavagnsgatan). Both are facing changes, among other things related to strong economic pressures. Participants in the study are cultural practitioners active at the sites and, to a certain extent, civil servants in the field of culture. The ambition is to identify, conceptualize and understand the role of urban culture in city development. We have applied a culture analytical perspective with interviews and discussions as primary materials, supplemented with photo and film. The results show that for cultural workers, the physical environment is a prerequisite for their work, which is linked to unique qualities, low rents, old-age housing and historical presence. Cultural work is identity-creating and characterized by dedication and connections to the site, history and people. Cultural and artistic activities take time to build and cultural professionals need a long-term perspective in their activities with time for reflection. Today there are no relevant decision-making mechanisms and representative bodies that can carry on culture’s action. In summary, it is emphasized that cultural sustainability and the role of culture in the sustainable city is about relating to change and the maintenance of continuity and endurance; a processual dialogue with the contemporary, past and future, where cultural workers have a central role and task to fill. The report presents results from the pilot project Culture and Heritage in Sustainable Urban Development: a collaboration between the Centre for Consumer Science at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg City Museum and the Cultural Strategy Department at the Culture Administration, Gothenburg City, in the framework of Mistra Urban Future’s focus on culture and heritage’s role in sustainable urban development.
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Territories, Environments, Politics : Explorations in Territoriology
- 2022
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This collection seeks to illustrate the state of the art in territoriological research, both empirical and theoretical. The volume gathers together a series of original, previously unpublished essays exploring the newly emerging territorial formations in culture, politics and society.While the globalisation debate of the 1990s largely pivoted around a ‘general deterritorialisation’ hypothesis, since the 2000s it has become apparent that, rather than effacing territories, global connections are added to them, and represent a further factor in the increase of territorial complexity. Key questions follow, such as: How can we further the knowledge around territorial complexities and the ways in which different processes of territorialisation co-exist and interact, integrating scientific advances from a plurality of disciplines? Where and what forms does territorial complexity assume, and how do complex territories operate in specific instances? Which technological, political and cultural facets of territories should be tackled to make sense of the life of territories? How and by what different or combined methods can we describe territories, and do justice to their articulations and meanings? How can the territoriological vocabulary relate to contemporary social theory advancements such as ANT, the ontological turn, the mobilities paradigm, sensory urbanism, and atmospheres research? How can territorial phenomena be studied across disciplinary boundaries? Territories, Environments, Politics casts a fresh perspective onto a number of key contemporary socio-spatial phenomena. Refraining from the attempt to ossify territoriology into some disciplinary straightjacket, the collection aims to illustrate the scope of current territoriological research, its domain, its promises, its theoretical advancements, and its methodological reflection in the making.Scholars interested in social research will find in this collection a rich and imaginative theoretical-methodological toolkit. Students in human geography, anthropology and sociology, socio-legal studies, architecture and urban planning will find Territories, Environments, Politics of interest.
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The atomized body : The cultural life of stem cells, genes and neurons
- 2012
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Just like the first theories in physics viewed atoms as independent and surrounded by a void, our bodies’ microscopic constituents are often portrayed as disconnected from the body as a unified organism, and from its cultural and social contexts. In The Atomized Body the authors examine the relations between culture, society and bioscientific research and show how our bodies’ singularized atoms indeed still are socially and culturally embedded. In today’s medicine, the biosciences are entangled with state power, commercialism, and cultural ideas and expectations, as well as with the hopes and fears of individuals. Therefore, biomedicine and biotechnology also reshape our perceptions of selfhood and life. From a multidisciplinary perspective, with authors from art science to ethnology, this volume discusses the biosciences and the atomized body in their social, cultural and philosophical contexts.
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The Playful Undead and Video Games: Critical Analyses of Zombies and Gameplay
- 2019
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book explores the central role of the zombie in contemporary popular culture as they appear in video games. Moving beyond traditional explanations of their enduring appeal – that they embody an aesthetic that combines horror with a mindless target; that lower age ratings for zombie games widen the market; or that Artificial Intelligence routines for zombies are easier to develop – the book provides a multidisciplinary and comprehensive look at this cultural phenomenon. Drawing on detailed case studies from across the genre, contributors from a variety of backgrounds offer insights into how the study of zombies in the context of video games informs an analysis of their impact on contemporary popular culture. Issues such as gender, politics, intellectual property law, queer theory, narrative storytelling and worldbuilding, videogame techniques and technology, and man’s relation to monsters are closely examined in their relation to zombie video games. Breaking new ground in the study of video games and popular culture, this volume will be of interest to researchers in a broad range of areas including media, popular culture, video games, and media psychology.
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- Thorgrimsdottir, Sigrun, 1984
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Living with the past, for the future. The entanglements of ethics, aesthetics and old houses in times of environmental challenges.
- 2018
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Ingår i: International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Conference Coimbra, October 4-8th 2018.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The material world is ephemeral and alive, houses grow old, wood rots, paint flakes off. To slow down this deterioration maintenance is crucial, houses need tender loving care. Maintaining an old house is a project that many take on as a responsibility to contribute to the sustainability of life on earth, a project that entails negotiation and conversation with tradition and ideas about ‘pastness’ and history worth continuing. This paper presents preliminary investigations into the discourse of maintenance and repair of ordinary older buildings and the entanglements of heritage, aesthetical preferences, politics and increasing environmental concerns embedded in everyday life. The paper explores the continual practices of maintenance, mending and repair of older private houses as everyday heritage practices. Furthermore, it investigates how the aesthetical appreciation for ageing material and practices such as the acquisition of sustainable skills and knowledge for endurance are intertwined with ethics. This appears in everyday choices such as ways of inhabiting and represents homeowners’ engagement in the production of their tomorrow. The paper is part of an ongoing phd work within the research project Maintenance matters: Exploring common contexts of heritage (e)valuation. The purpose of the project is to explore building-as-heritage in the antroposcene and enduring values and meanings found within common contexts of ‘maintenance and repair’.
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- Thorgrimsdottir, Sigrun, 1984
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Repairing, sharing, and caring for old houses in times of environmental challenges
- 2019
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Ingår i: SIEF2019 14th Congress program.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Instagram is a platform for stories. In fact, many of its users identify as ‘visual storytellers’. This paper presents explorations of this platform as a site to conduct qualitative research through a study of narratives of care for old buildings in Sweden marked with the hashtag #byggnadsvård.
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- Thykier Makeeff, Tao
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Homeric Hipsters : Religion and Reception in the Marketing of Greek Male Grooming Products
- 2017
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Ingår i: Thersites. - 2364-7612. ; 6, s. 351-364
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper investigates the use of Ancient Greek imagery in the marketing of male grooming products. Based on a case study of the cosmetics brand HOMMER, the paper analyses how elements such as scent and product ingredients combined with a visual profile and storytelling, provide consumers with elements for an experientially based identity creation. Based on psychological and archaeological theory, the athour argues that the intersection between product, advertising and consumer constitutes a play with identity and the potential for multisensory "time travel." By identifying the elements of a product poster, the visual narrative of a single product, a beard wipe, is shown to contain all the elements of the dominant Modern Greek national narrative and more, tying Greek notions of ancient and modern history to anglo-saxon sailor symbolism and the Neo-hipster phenomenon.
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- Tikkanen, Karin Westin, 1979
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Att välja väg
- 2015
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Ingår i: Legatus Mensae. - 0284-6004. ; 1*/2015, s. 5-8
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