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- Martin, Benjamin, et al.
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The Curated UNESCO Courier 1.0 : Annotated Corpora for Digital Research in the Global Humanities
- 2024
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In: Journal of Open Humanities Data. - : Ubiquity Press. - 2059-481X. ; 10:20, s. 1-13
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The monthly magazine of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, founded in 1948 as The UNESCO Courier, represents an extraordinary resource for research on global themes in the humanities. We present the Curated Courier 1.0, a package of digital text corpora, text analysis tools, and supplementary material that aims to make the complete archive of this publication from 1948 to 2020 machine-readable, accessible, and reusable for digital text analysis. One corpus compiles the text of all articles, which we carefully reconstructed and linked to a comprehensive curated metadata index while excluding additional text (masthead, photo captions, letters to the editor, and so on). A second corpus brings together the complete text of all issues. This article first presents the value of Courier as a source for digital research in the global humanities. Second, it outlines how we created the curated corpus and discusses some challenges we met. Third, it offers examples of tools researchers might use to explore and utilize the annotated corpus and discusses a few approaches that we have developed and tested.
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- Ulfgard, Maria
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För att bli kvinna - och av lust : en studie i tonårsflickors läsning
- 2002
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- As part of the development of the teaching of literature in school, it is also important to reflect upon what pupils read outside school. This thesis deals with the spare time reading of twenty 15-16-year-old girls which has been examined during a two-year period. Empirical material related to young girls’ reading is examined in a variety of scholarly methods. Young girls’ reading is studied in the light of reception theory; novels are analysed by means of narratology; young girls’ lives are charted from perspectives drawn from cultural sociology and social psychology; finally, all aspects of the empirical material are tested by means of theories derived from gender studies. For the purposes of the thesis the initial question has been broken down into three segments: To what extent the girls actually engage in reading in their spare time, what they read, and what importance they attach to their reading. Another aim, which focusses attention on the connection between the girls’ lives and their reading, has been to find out to what extent the girls’ choice of literature is determined by geographical, social, cultural, and religious factors and by the teaching of literature at school. The third aim has been to find out how gender is constructed in the books that the girls choose to read, how they construct gender while reading these books, and how they construct gender in their own lives. The results of the study suggest that pleasure is a strong factor governing the girls’ reading and that there is a strong connection between the girls’ construction of their identity, including the formation of gender, and their choice of literature and the development of their reading. The study shows that the fiction chosen by the girls themselves mirrors their lives and that the social, cultural and religious factors have an influence on their reading. The relevance of the results of the thesis to the teaching of literature in Swedish schools is discussed. A dialogue is initiated with Läroplanens värdegrund, Lpo 94 and with Kursplan 2000, the Swedish syllabus currently used.
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- Hedenborg-White, Manon, et al.
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The Scythe and the Pentagram : Santa Muerte from Folk Catholicism to Occultism
- 2017
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In: Religions. - : MDPI. - 2077-1444 .- 2077-1444. ; 8:1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Santa Muerte is establishing a presence among practitioners of contemporary occultism in Europe and North America. The occult milieu is highly different from the Mexican cult of Santa Muerte, having a strong heritage of secrecy and tradition as social capital and being mostly middle-class in orientation. Nonetheless, this Catholic folk saint with a mostly pragmatic, popular, and grassroots cult is becoming increasingly popular among occultists. Based on a survey of three recent books on Santa Muerte geared towards an Anglophone, occult audience, it is therefore the aim of this article to understand how and why the Skeleton Saint is attracting adherents in the occult milieu, by analyzing the underlying causes of this growing trend, as well as the conditions shaping it. It is the overall argument of this article that the beginning reception of Santa Muerte in occultism is a result of perceived needs and demands specific to the occult milieu rather than characteristics inherent in the symbol itself, and that an analysis of the ways in which she is spreading outside of her original sociocultural context must be guided by an understanding of the novel one she is integrated in.
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- Hedenborg White, Manon
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To Him the Winged Secret Flame, To Her the Stooping Starlight : The Social Construction of Gender in Contemporary Ordo Templi Orientis
- 2013
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In: The Pomegranate. - : Equinox Publishing. - 1528-0268 .- 1743-1735. ; 15:1-2, s. 102-121
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Based on fieldwork in the United States, the article analyses the social construction of gender in contemporary OTO. The article addresses an important and often neglected area of study in research on Western esotericism, and discusses how the notion of binary gender is both created and challenged in interactions between OTO members. Thelemic divinity as presented in Liber AL is envisioned as consisting of a divine father, Hadit, mother Nuit, and Ra-Hoor-Khuit, their divine offspring. Despite the gender polarity constructed thus, contemporary OTO members stretch the boundaries of binary gender through a plethora of deities, personal gender performances and acceptance of different sexual orientations and lifestyles. The creativity and innovation of contemporary OTO members' gender constructions demonstrates the necessity of greater methodological diversity in research on Western esotericism, in order to allow an understanding of esoteric traditions as lived religions.
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- Keshavarz, Mahmoud
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Design and the Question of History
- 2015
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In: Journal of Design History. - : Oxford University Press. - 0952-4649 .- 1741-7279. ; 28:4, s. 451-452
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Review (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Readers of this volume should be prepared to confront sets of provocative argument, polemic and advocacy discussed extensively in the form of three separate yet interrelated essays by scholars of design philosophy, history and education: Clive Dilnot, Tony Fry and Susan Stewart. Published as the first book in Bloomsbury’s series Design, Histories, Futures, the volume appears as a framework for the other titles to come. It is challenging and dense, but ultimately a forceful and inspiringly articulated set of essays arguing that design as a discipline, practice and discourse has neglected what history means in general and exploring how history is made and remade by design in particular. While differing in the politics of their entry into the discussion of history and design, all three authors share the same ontological ground: that design and designing are embedded in history, and direct possibilities of making history within the past, present and future.
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- Keshavarz, Mahmoud, 1985-
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"Free Translation" as a Critical Method in Socio-Political Design Actions
- 2012
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In: Human Cities / Civil Society Reclaims Public Space. - : Urbani izziv - publikacije. ; , s. 77-83
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Practice-based researchers in the design field usually adopt anthropological methods for ‘observing’ or ‘studying’ the field in order to come up with some ‘design solutions’ for a provocative co-designing of socio-political spaces. Usually such approaches move in the direction of legitimization of the ‘design knowledge’. What designers in socio-political action research do is an act of translation, which in various stages of the action gets different shapes (e.g. between their own knowledge and participants’ knowledge). Translation always tries to fill the cracks between an unknown space and a known one. Therefore translation becomes a functional and hierarchical bridge for those who do not know the origin’s language. But such a bridge has many cracks, which in a ‘good translation’ are not visible to readers but only to the translator. Therefore the translator, by hiding these cracks, never allows readers to engage in the work. However these cracks are fundamentally important for understanding the positioning and self-reflexivity occurring during the research. This paper draws a retrospective reflection upon the process of collaboration with women rights activists in Iran and Sweden. By adopting a new politics of translation called ‘free translation’ 5, I argue that action research in the design field needs such a re-situational method for formulating actions in other contexts, where the first language is not familiar with the second, third and so on. A free translation brings up questions of ‘qualification’, ‘power’ and ‘legitimization’ and opens a space for more engagement by intensifying the cracks in disciplines, knowledge and contexts.
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- Keshavarz, Mahmoud
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Uncræft : “The Unqualified”, “The Illegal” and the Making Practices of Roma
- 2014
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In: Asylstafetten hantverk crafts / politik politics. - Malmö : Studio Malmö. - 9789187577062 ; , s. 14-26
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- I juli 2013, Malmö, tog en grupp asylsökande och papperslösa migranter initiativet till en vandring från Malmö till Stockholm – Asylstafetten. Vandrarna krävde att deras berättelser om migration, asyl och papperslöshet skulle höras och transformeras till handling. Ett flertal aktiviteter organiserades under den 34-dagars långa marschen, där hantverks-workshoppar ingick. Genom texter och konversationer med deltagare i vandringen, porträtterar den här publikationen flera skildringar av dessa workshoppar; platserna de intog, utövandet och idéerna de frambringade liksom dess kommande politiska potential.
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- Martin, Benjamin, et al.
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Nature and Culture in the Age of Environmental Crisis : Digital Analysis of a Global Debate in The UNESCO Courier, 1948-2020
- 2023
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In: Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications. - : University of Oslo Library. - 2704-1441. ; 5:1, s. 274-286
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study uses digital text analysis, focusing on LDA topic modeling, to conduct a historical investigation of the relationship between the concepts of nature and culture found in the pages of the official magazine of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, The UNESCO Courier, between 1948 and 2020. The relationship between the concepts of nature and culture has historically been at the core of concerns about the environment and sustainability; Courier offers a means of charting a global conversation on these concepts. After presenting the corpus and our methods, the paper documents three approaches to LDA topic modeling that we have tested, through which we seek to make topic modeling useful for the field of conceptual history. Our empirical findings suggest that the concepts of nature and culture have come to be increasingly close over the course of the last six decades, while the stakes of the very distinction between the concepts have changed radically. Our methodological tests support the argument that topic modeling can be a valuable tool for conceptual history, albeit one that must be handled with care.
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Neutrality in Twentieth-Century Europe : Intersections of Science, Culture, and Politics after the First World War
- 2012
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Whether in science or in international politics, neutrality has sometimes been promoted, not only as a viable political alternative but as a lofty ideal – in politics by nations proclaiming their peacefulness, in science as an underpinning of epistemology, in journalism and other intellectual pursuits as a foundation of a professional ethos. Time and again scientists and other intellectuals have claimed their endeavors to be neutral, elevated above the world of partisan conflict and power politics. This volume studies the resonances between neutrality in science and culture and neutrality in politics. By analyzing the activities of scientists, intellectuals, and politicians (sometimes overlapping categories) of mostly neutral nations in the First World War and after, it traces how an ideology of neutralism was developed that soon was embraced by international organizations.This book explores how the notion of neutrality has been used and how a neutralist discourse developed in history. None of the contributions take claims of neutrality at face value – some even show how they were made to advance partisan interests. The concept was typically clustered with notions, such as peace, internationalism, objectivity, rationality, and civilization. But its meaning was changeable – varying with professional, ideological, or national context. As such, Neutrality in Twentieth-Century Europe presents a different perspective on the century than the story of the great belligerent powers, and one in which science, culture, and politics are inextricably mixed.
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