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- Jansson, David, 1967-
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The haunting of the South : American geopolitical identity and the burden of Southern history
- 2007
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Ingår i: Geopolitics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1465-0045 .- 1557-3028. ; 12:3, s. 400-425
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The evocative figure of a South haunted by its troubled past is a staple of representations of the region, and such representations not only create a problematic identity for the region but simultaneously produce a privileged national identity through the process of internal orientalism. This article connects internal orientalism with the notion of the double Janus to explain the similarities between America's attitude toward Southern history and its assertion that Japan and Germany bear historical burdens of their own. The inward-looking face of the double Janus is informed by the discourse of internal orientalism and gives Americans an opportunity to judge an internal spatial Other (the South), particularly with regard to the region's history (as a result American geopolitical identity is cleansed from the historical burdens that are construed as Southern). This practice as a righteous judge of the Other serves the US hegemon and its outward-looking face of the double Janus in that the rhetorical practices deployed to discuss Japanese and German history have been honed through the assessment of the burdens of Southern history.
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- Jansson, David, 1967-
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The head vs. the gut : emotions, positionality, and the challenges of fieldwork with a Southern nationalist movement
- 2010
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Ingår i: Geoforum. - : Elsevier BV. - 0016-7185 .- 1872-9398. ; 41:1, s. 19-22
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This essay explores the inner process of researching a group that is proudly white, conservative, fundamentalist Christian, and Southern. The recent attention to emotions in scholarship has not extended to the subject of fieldwork with right wing movements. I discuss my experience interviewing members of the League of the South and explore the extent to which my positionality shaped the interactions that I had with League members and informed my emotional response to the fieldwork.
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- Jansson, David, 1967-
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The Other Vietnam Syndrome : The Cultural Politics of Corporeal Patriotism and Visual Resistance
- 2016
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Ingår i: ACME. - 1492-9732. ; 15:2, s. 418-439
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article argues that the emergence of the U.S. counterculture contemporaneously with the Vietnam antiwar movement produced a visual coding of antiwar thought and action as dirty, messy, and most of all ‘hippie’, as a result of the visual differences between the most visible elements of the movement and the U.S. mainstream. This coding of antiwar sentiment as visually Other was seized upon by the right as part of the process of remembering this era of U.S. history, and this visual coding has over time evolved into a ‘regime of visuality’ that delegitimizes opposition to war and introduces a kind of corporeal patriotism where one’s loyalty to the state can be measured by an evaluation of one’s appearance. Whereas the Vietnam syndrome was an expression of elite disdain for public opposition to ‘the use of force’ (i.e. military invasions), the other Vietnam syndrome (OVS) constitutes a regime of visuality that links visual deviance to opposition to war, with the intention of delegitimizing both and placing deviant-looking protesters outside the body of the ‘legitimate’ public. The article provides historical and theoretical overviews of the OVS and discusses implications for contemporary protest movements.
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- Jansson, David, 1967-
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The work of southering : "Southern justice" and the moral landscape of uneven racism
- 2017
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Ingår i: Southeastern Geographer. - : Project Muse. - 0038-366X .- 1549-6929. ; 57:2, s. 131-150
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article seeks to stimulate a discussion about the ways in which scholars may reproduce the identity discourse of internal orientalism (here called “southering”) and the moral landscape of uneven racism in the process of critiquing injustice in the southeastern states. It points to the problems with making explicit and unsubstantiated comparisons on issues such as racism between the “South” and “North” and highlights discursive forms that risk triggering reader interpretations (such as the idea of “Southern distinctiveness”) that may be inconsistent with the intentions of the author. It ends by considering a few strategies for minimizing the communication of unintended messages, including more precision with regard to temporal and spatial boundaries, using a form of the “contrapuntal method” where generalizations about “the South” are accompanied by statements describing the status of the problem in question in the rest of the country, employing a materialist definition of racism as well as a dialectical analysis that focuses on process and relation.
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- Jansson, David, 1967-
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Transmotion in the folkhem : Automobility, epistemicide, and the post-Anthropocene
- 2024
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Ingår i: Spatial Futures. - Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9789819997602 ; , s. 415-449
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The West’s conceptualization of sovereignty of motion (and the mobility of agents) is best represented by automobility. Travel by passenger car symbolizes the modern, atomistic, and allegedly autonomous subject while sidestepping the enormous environmental damage caused by automobility. The automobile emerged as the dominant mode of transportation in Sweden just as romantic notions of the folkhem (“people’s home”) were being imagined as a collective solution to the disturbances caused by industrial capitalism. The imaginary folkhem navigated the car’s ubiquity’s social and environmental externalities by capitulating to automobility. Thus, instead of forcing the automobile to conform to already-existing physical infrastructure and social relations, social relations were reshaped to accommodate the car, resulting in a “car society” (bilsamhälle). In contrast, transmotion, as expressed by Sámi communities, embodies a kind of sovereignty that differs from the West’s understanding of the term as “rule over” people and nature. Transmotion is a capacious concept that extends beyond “movement” understood strictly as “mobility.” It is a moving with, a co-creation with nature. Transmotion is cooperative and relational; it expresses a “solidarity” or “reciprocity” with nature. It is a counter paradigm to Sweden’s automobility-as-national project that has shaped regional inequities and environmental risk in the late Anthropocene.
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- Jansson, David, 1967-
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Truth, gender, and the Southern way : Femininity, masculinity, and Southern identity in the U.S.
- 2004
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- As part of a larger research project investigating the relationship between American national identity and Southern identity, I conducted interviews with black Southerners in Lynchburg, Virginia, and members of a Southern nationalist organization called the League of the South. This paper explores the gendered aspect of the approach of each group to the question of Southern identity. The majority of the people associated with the Legacy Museum of African American History in Lynchburg are women, and I will discuss the extent to which this is a reflection of the lessons black women have historically learned regarding the importance of contributing to their communities and making a difference. For the League of the South members, the fight to preserve their vision of Southern identity involves specific roles for men and women – women must pass on “Southern values” through their domestic activities, while men must fight for the cause in the public arena. Some women activists within the organization are therefore conflicted about their roles, as they yearn to join the fight but are fighting for a cause that would confine them to the home. I will discuss these and other gendered contradictions within the Southern nationalist ideology.
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- Jansson, David, 1967-
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“We are going through a deep dark valley” : Social anxiety and the success of the art of Haddon Sundblom and Warner Sallman
- 2015
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- American artists Haddon Sundblom and Warner Sallman were the creators of some of the most famous images of the 20th century. They both also happen to have roots in the same small municipality in the Åland Islands archipelago. Sundblom created the famous images of Santa Claus for Coca-Cola’s yearly Christmas advertisments, and Sallman painted the famous “Head of Christ” image of Jesus. The purpose of this paper is to seek an explanation for the astounding success of their images. I begin by reviewing some letters sent by American immigrants from Åland back home to their relatives in the municipality of Föglö, where Sundblom’s and Sallman’s fathers came from, during the period 1933-1951. These letters eloquently express the tensions and anxiety faced by the general population during this time of depression and war. The paper then proceeds to examine the social psychological dynamics experienced by Americans during this period through a consideration of the historical literature. The tentative argument presented in the paper holds that the images of Sundblom and Sallman represented two kinds of gods: a god of commercialism (Santa) and a god of Christianity (Jesus), both figures being made more accessible and comforting than they previously had been experienced by consumers of these images.
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