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- Hagberg, Anders, 1958, et al.
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Gränsland/Twilight Zone part 1 and 2.
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In: Skövde Konsthall, February 23, 2023. Bari (Italy) Muratcentoventidue October 14, 2023..
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Artistic work (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Two new compositions by Anders Hagberg, commissioned by Carolina Jonsson for the two-part video, Gränsland 1 (2021), and Gränsland 2 (2023). The thematic starting point for these videos is a series of generic sculptures of children created in the 1940’s and 50’s. At this time just after the war, public art was often used to educate people and create a common narrative for a better future. The children in these sculptures, mostly naked young girls seen through the eyes of male artists, became symbols of hope for a better tomorrow, but also a symbol of health and the natural order of things. These sculptures got Carolina Jonsson thinking about how she, as a female artist, would choose to portray a child today, and how a child today would want to be portrayed. The answer, she realized, was anything but simple. In a time when we are surrounded by an unprecedented flow of images, and people´s self-awareness is at an all-time high, the child's encounter with the camera becomes ambivalent. The pure joy of a child playing is present, but also glimpses of insecurity, self-awareness, and self-control. This becomes especially visible in the second part, Gränsland 2, which was filmed earlier this year. Here the child has become a teenager. The teenager’s desire to be a child and to play is still apparent, but not without a conflict of interest, making the playing soft and beautiful as well as aggressive and frustrated. The music for Gränsland 1, is based on the rhythm and joy of the dancing child. The pulse and articulation were creating the starting point for a solo improvisation on Bass flute. Gränsland 2 is a soundscape for acoustic instruments, samples and electronics which has darker rhythmic elements with an underlying threat.
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- Jonsson, Anders, 1984, et al.
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Försvarsvilja som attityd och kulturfenomen.
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This work is a try to study the willingness in Sweden to defend the nation and to find out on what factors it is based. This will has in Sweden formerly been treated as if it was based on psychological and individual factors. We regard this will to defend the nation as a cultural phenomenon, based on the integration of two other cultural phenomena, the acceptance of the military structure among the people and the identification with their nation. We treat these two cultural phenomena as two historical processes, and we try to study them from their beginning up to date. In the last part of this work we analyse the situation today, and we try to tell which consequences the development has upon the will to defend the nation in Sweden.
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- Jonsson, Anders
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Stress efter traumatiska händelser. Ambulanspersonalens vardag
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Aims: Paper I: To examine the prevalence of posttraumatic stress reactions among ambulance personnel and to investigate whether different levels of Sense Of Coherence are related to different consequences of traumatic stress.Paper II: To uncover the essence of traumatic events experienced by Swedish ambulance personnel. Paper III: To investigate the association between daily work exposure to traumatic events and emotional and mental wellbeing, and if self knowledge influence how well you handle the effects of daily work exposure to such events.Paper IV: To uncover and deepen the understanding of the way ambulance staff experience and handle traumatic events, and to develop the understanding of the life world of the participants.Methods: Paper I & III: To estimate the prevalence of trauma related disorders (Paper I), a representative group of 362 ambulance personal was surveyed through use of Antonovsky s 13-item version of SOC-13 Scale. To measure reactions to traumatic events two instruments were used, Impact of Event Scale (IES-15) and the Post Traumatic Symptom Scale (PTSS-10). A correlate was established between posttraumatic symptoms using IES-15 and the Professional Self Description Form (Paper III).Paper II & IV In the study (Paper II) written stories from 52 ambulance personnel describing an experienced traumatic event were analysed by the van Kaam method. In the study ten ambulance personnel were interviewed. To reach a deeper understanding an interpretative Heideggerian approach was applied, based on an existential perspective (Paper IV).Results: Paper I & III: A total of 223 of the ambulance personnel reported that they had had experience of what they described as traumatic situations. Of those who reported a traumatic situation 15.2% scored 31 or more on the IES-15 sub scale. On the PTSS-10 sub scale 12.1% scored 5 or more, which indicates a relatively strong reaction. The study indicates that lower sense of coherence predicts post-traumatic stress. Other predictors for the extent of traumatic stress were longer job experience, age, physical and psychological workload (Paper I). There were significant differences on PSDF sub scales between those with or without posttraumatic symptoms (Paper III). Paper II & IV: Findings indicate that the ambulance personnel have a strong identification with the victims and it is impossible to prepare for events that are unforeseen and meaningless. To handle the overwhelming feelings of identification, the personnel have to gain understanding through talking about those feelings (Paper II). The findings show that post-traumatic stress symptoms, guilt, shame and self-reproach are common after duty related traumatic events (Paper IV).Conclusions: The mental health and emotional well being of ambulance personnel appears to be at risk in accident and emergency work. The high prevalence of PTSD symptoms in ambulance personnel indicates a normal inability to cope with posttraumatic stress caused by their daily work.
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