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- Bosse, Jocelyn, et al.
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Spectres of Intellectual Property in the Soviet Union: The Development and Recognition of the Inventor’s Certificate
- 2023
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Ingår i: Pólemos. - 2035-5262 .- 2036-4601. ; 17:2, s. 293-316
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- After the October Revolution in 1917, the legal protection for inventions in the Soviet Union underwent a series of transformations. One of the key changes was the emergence of the "inventor's certificate" as a socialist alternative to patents, whereby inventions were declared to be state property, but inventors were entitled to recognition and compensation. Patents were generally available in parallel to inventor's certificates, but the latter remained the preferred mechanism for encouraging the worker-inventor and mass inventing activity, as well as promoting the free flow of information that capitalist patent systems had failed to achieve. However, as the Soviet Union started to pursue membership of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, several socialist countries sought to amend the treaty to recognise their inventor's certificates as equivalent to patents. This sparked a debate amongst Paris Union members, during which the socialist countries portrayed the inventor's certificate in a manner analogous to Schrödinger's cat: it simultaneously was and wasn't a patent. While the debate was never fully resolved by the Paris Union members, this article revisits the history and international debates about the Soviet protection of inventions to consider what the uncertainty about the inventor's certificate might reveal about the circulation of technical information and the nature of global intellectual property law.
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- Martínez, Victoria Van Orden, 1974-
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Afterlives : Jewish and Non-Jewish Polish Survivors of Nazi Persecution in Sweden Documenting Nazi Atrocities, 1945-1946
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation examines how Jewish and non-Jewish Polish survivors of Nazi persecution who came to Sweden in 1945 as ‘repatriates’ and were associated with the Polish Research Institute in Lund, Sweden (PIZ) were engaged in transnational social and political processes during the early postwar period, including documenting Nazi persecution and contributing to postwar humanitarian and justice efforts. PIZ, a transnational initiative that documented the experiences of Polish survivors of Nazi persecution for history and justice in 1945 and 1946, was one of the few such initiatives undertaken by survivors who were refugees in a country not directly involved in the Second World War. It is also noteworthy as one of the few survivor historical commissions of the early postwar period that involved and documented both Jewish and non-Jewish survivors and their experiences. The dissertation examines some of the specific ways the survivors contributed to social and political processes taking place in the postwar period; what role the survivors’ vulnerability, agency, and various forms of structural support had in their activities and efforts; and what part gender and other differences played in the actions of the survivors and continue to play in their discursive and historiographical interpretations and constructions. The findings demonstrate how the Polish survivors associated with PIZ, although living in Sweden in layered states of precarity and vulnerability, deployed their past activism and networks of resistance and support, and applied their knowledge, ethics, and practical strategies to improve their conditions and pursue justice. In doing so, this dissertation contributes new insight that begins to fill gaps in existing Swedish and international research on the Second World War and Holocaust, survivor historical commissions and documentation centers, displaced persons in the postwar era, post-conflict relations between Jewish and non-Jewish Poles, migrant knowledge, and postwar humanitarian and justice efforts.
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- Dahlin, Johanna, 1979-
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Hur stor är en gruva? : Överlappandeproblemområden i en handläggningsprocess
- 2021
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Ingår i: Nordisk Administrativt Tidsskrift. - : Djoef Forlag. - 2246-1310. ; 98:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Planerna på en järnmalmsgruva i Kallak utanför Jokkmokk i Norrbottens län har mött stortmotstånd, men har också ivriga förespråkare. Denna artikel analyserar de kontroversiellaplanerna genom att studera handläggningen av ansökan om bearbetningskoncession.Ärendet har handlagts i flera omgångar och två gånger hänskjutits till regeringen för beslut. Iskrivande stund, åtta år efter att ansökan gjordes, saknas ännu beslut i ärendet. Genom endiskussion av fallet Kallak vill jag belysa hur djupt politiska grundantaganden kommer in iförvaltningsprocessen och påverkar hur olika instanser agerar i ärendet. Artikeln bygger påen analys av material som har producerats och inkommit i processen i form av skrivelser ochyttranden. Handläggningsprocessen visar att frågan om att bevilja en bearbetningskoncessionär svåravgränsad och knuten till ett antal andra överlappande problemområden.Med den här artikeln vill jag bidra med förståelse för hur handläggningen i det här fallet intealls är konsensusdriven, teknisk fråga, utan hur konflikter mellan olika preferenser, värdenoch världsbilder kommer till uttryck i beslutsprocessen.
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- Dahlin, Johanna, et al.
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Revitalizing Traditional Agricultural Practices: Conscious Efforts to Create a More Satisfying Culture
- 2021
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI. - 2071-1050. ; 13:20
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper investigates how non-industrial agrarian traditions and practices are reworked and recontextualized in a contemporary context. Explorative in its nature, the paper uses in depth interviews with practitioners in eastern Sweden, several of whom are engaged in work to keep practices of the past alive, to discuss how the concept of revitalization can bear on sustainability. Traditional practices are revived as an alternative to industrialized agriculture, and as having a bearing on resilient cultivation systems as well as social relations. They are seen as means of increasing food security and reversing the negative biodiversity development caused by increased monoculture. We understand tradition as a process of negotiation and adaptation to the present, where revivals to some extent necessarily change the traditions that they attempt to revive. Tradition is thus a dynamic concept, always made in the present, never fixed but constantly evolving. In the challenges created by climate change and environmental degradation, it is increasingly voiced that true sustainability requires a transformation of the cultural system. In many cases, people are turning to tradition for sustainable alternatives to industrialized ways of life and to protect a diversity threatened by a dominant and unsustainable lifestyle.
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- Dahlin, Johanna, 1979-
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The Continental Archipelago of Norilsk
- 2021
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Ingår i: Karib - Nordic Journal for Caribbean Studies. - Stockholm : Stockholm University Press. - 1894-8421 .- 2387-6743. ; 6:1, s. 1-10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn made famous the image of the Soviet prison system Gulag as an archipelago. In this paper, Solzhenitsyn’s idea of the Gulag archipelago is juxtaposed with French Caribbean writer and philosopher Édouard Glissant’s notion of archipelagic thinking. The focus is on the mining city Norilsk in Northern Siberia, one of the “islands” in this penal geography, a city that was largely built using forced labour. It is a long way from the Caribbean to Siberia, but both archipelagos (real and conceptual) share a history that can be termed colonial. While the system that created this penal archipelago of the Gulag was, in Glissant’s terms, a manifestation of thoroughly continental thinking, complete with grand, universalizing tendencies, it may also be possible to sense the diversity and interconnectedness that he attributed to the archipelago. The case of Norilsk is examined through the 2017 documentary A Moon of Nickel and Ice by Canadian film-maker Françoise Jacob. Glissant’s ideas are used to open up and pose questions, rather than to provide definitive answers.
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- Gruvaeus, Axel, et al.
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Revitalization of Food in Sweden-A Closer Look at the REKO Network
- 2021
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI. - 2071-1050. ; 13:18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Can parts of the future food system include bi-weekly opportunities to purchase uneven stocks of produce at semi-remote locations? Current development in the Swedish food system suggests so. In the last few years, the Swedish Alternative Food Network REKO has grown at an explosive pace. This anthropological article describes and discusses the organizational structure and motivations of the network, as well as discusses it from a revitalization perspective. From a netnographical and policy analysis perspective it is shown how the network uses social media and policy to convey a low bureaucracy, end to end, commercial space for local food-understood as a more "simple" way to achieve direct relationships in the food supply chain and thus create opportunities for local food networks. By adopting a view of the conventions and values of this Alternative Food Network as representing a parallel system aiming at facilitating direct relationships between ends in the food supply chain, the REKO initiative can be understood as a feasible model for a more satisfactory culture without needing to replace the mainstream food supply. The findings of the research deepen the understanding of REKO in Sweden by pointing towards how it can be understood as a sign of change of consumer preference and of prioritization of official policy concerns. The article also points towards how grass root movements can replicate success rapidly using policy documents capturing experiences and best practices spread online through social media.
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- Nilsson Dahlström, Åsa, 1967-, et al.
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Pathfinders for the future? : Indigenous rights and traditional knowledge in Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI. - 2071-1050. ; 13:20
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Indigenous peoples have for the past decades increasingly argued that not only is their traditional knowledge to be recognized in the management of their traditional territories, but that Indigenous control and self-governance over territories and natural resources are crucial for long-term sustainability of the land and cultural revitalisation of its people. In recent years, the Saami in Sweden have also presented themselves as pathfinders, offering advice and solutions for a more sustainable future not only for the Saami society, but for all of Sweden. This paper investigates how Saami claims for rights and stewardship in environmental management are related to Saami cultural revitalisation, within a Swedish colonial framework. It is based on an investigation of the Saami policy positions expressed in policy documents and opinion pieces produced by organisations representing the Saami, linking claims for rights and environmental stewardship with cultural revitalisation and a more sustainable development for all.
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- Wagrell, Kristin, 1986-
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"Chorus of the Saved" : Constructing the Holocaust Survivor in Swedish Public Discourse, 1943-1966
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this dissertation I examine how the Holocaust survivor has been constructed in Swedish public discourse during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. This is done using a Foucauldian-inspired genealogical method through which an eclectic collection of sources—newsreels, films, radio programs, television programs and newspaper articles—is analyzed. The theoretical underpinnings of this analysis are based on Ian Hacking’s concept of discourse where the classification of survivor ‘types’ has a direct bearing on the expressions possible for those who are classified, i.e. individuals with Holocaust experience. The overarching research question of the dissertation therefore asks: how did a Holocaust survivor ‘type’ develop in Sweden during the 1940s, 50s and 60s? The main thrust of the argument presented in the dissertation is that the concepts of ‘silence’ and ‘excess’ have always disciplined the ways in which Holocaust survivors have been conceived of as both victims and witnesses in Swedish public discourse. The communication of Jewish suffering by survivor-witnesses has both been framed as a dangerous, destructive force which could instigate unnecessary conflict while it, at the same time, has been positioned as a remedy to collective forgetfulness as well as a solution to rising levels of xenophobia and antisemitism. How survivors have been constructed historically also demonstrates the flawed logic of a historical progressivism within which Holocaust memory is seen to steadily go from silence to interest/increased knowledge. What the research presented in this dissertation shows is that this process is not determined by historical progression but by the underlying problematization of Holocaust survivors’ utility.
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- Wirtén, E. H., et al.
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Culture unbound Vol. 11 Editorial
- 2019
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Ingår i: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research. - : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 2000-1525 .- 2000-1525. ; 11:1, s. i-ii
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