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- Asklund, Helen, 1975-, et al.
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Hästflickan i rörelse : Generationsberättelser om hästboksläsning
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Hästflickan i rörelse: Generationsberättelser om hästboksläsningI vår forskning om hästböcker har vi kommit att intressera oss också för hästboksläsarna. I syfte att få kunskap om varför människor läser hästböcker har vi intervjuat cirka 60 unga och vuxna. Ett delresultat utifrån intervjuer med flickor 9-12 och i vissa fall deras (ibland hästintresserade) föräldrar presenteras. Där framkommer att flickorna i många fall är bokslukare, om än tämligen genretrogna. Ett tydligt samband mellan identiteten som hästtjej och läsare framträder, då läsningen ofta har spin-off-effekter på lekmönster. Orsakerna bakom hästboksläsningen handlar om identifikation i termer av ett flickskap som i stallkulturen står utanför normen och som präglas av mod och beslutsamhet, men där även spänning och kunskapsinhämtning nämns. Hästbokens status har höjts i både skolan och på bibliotek, där den tidigare har haft dåligt rykte, något som kan ses som att större uppmärksamhet ägnas åt något som intresserar många flickor.
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- Asklund, Helen, 1975-, et al.
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Intersectional Perspectives on Horse Stories : Pia Hagmar’s Series on Millan
- 2021
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Ingår i: Book of Abstracts: Equine Cultures in Transition Conference. ; , s. 3-3
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper focuses on horse stories as depictions of identity formation withinequestrian cultures. The material used is Pia Hagmar’s three books on Millan,published 2012-2014. In these stories, the construction of girlhood interconnectswith the becoming of a person used to handle the large and potentially dangerousanimal, which is the horse. In Susanna Hedenborg´s study of the horse story genre(2013), she shows the image of a non-traditional girl, used to hard and dirty work,but also a classical fearful and shy girl outside of the interaction with horses. InHelen Asklund’s study, the investigation uncovers a construction of girlhood incontrast with antagonistic characters (Asklund 2013). This paper uses anintersectional perspective to explore how the main characters in Pia Hagmar’sseries about Millan and their identities are shaped by their interaction with bothhorses and fellow humans of both sexes within equine cultures, a milieu whichallows re-negotiations of what being a girl implies. Adults are positively portrayedas caring providers of knowledge about horses or as facilitators of the ridinginterest through financial support, or negatively as dysfunctional persons unable toact as adults. Boys of similar age and with an interest in horses are portrayed asgood friends, sometimes more, but the girls are, first and foremost, interested inhorses. Between girl characters, there are often conflicts and jealousy. The studyaims at mapping out the formation of identity by highlighting power asymmetriessuch as gender, age, species, class and sexuality.
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- Fagerström, Cecilia, Docent, 1973-, et al.
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Feeling hindered by health problems at age of 60 and above
- 2008
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Ingår i: International Nursing Research Conference : Facing the Challenge of Health Care Systems in Transition. - Jerusalem.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Reduced capacity to perform activities in daily living (ADL capacity) is not the only thing significant for people and their life satisfaction, the importance people attach to being able to perform a specific activity is also crucial. Personal interests may have an impact on the importance of an activity. The ADL scale provides information about functional impairment, but it provides no understanding of the time or effort it takes to perform a certain activity or if a specific individual has to give up valuable activities. More knowledge is therefore needed about what makes people to feel hindered by their health problems in daily living. The aim of this study was to investigate how people (n=958) aged 60–96 years feel hindered in daily living in relation to their ADL capacity, health problems, social and financial resources, sense of coherence, and life satisfaction. The data is taken from a questionnaire and a medical examination which were carried out in a baseline survey in one of the four including centres (Blekinge) of the longitudinal multi-centre cohort study The Swedish National study on Ageing and Care (SNAC). Response rate was 61%. Data indicated that in people with preserved ADL capacity, feeling hindered in daily living meant, above all, fatigue. At the same time, for people with impaired ADL capacity, feeling insecure about available help and about going outdoors were factors that contributed to people feeling hindered by health problems. Accordingly, when nurses, as well as other health professionals, plan to carry out interventions for preventive and rehabilitative purposes, as well as when making follow ups as ADL capacity declines, they should be aware of the fact that different factors are associated with the feeling of being hindered in daily life in people with or without impaired ADL capacity.
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- Hanstock, Helen, 1989-, et al.
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A heat-and-moisture exchanging mask may increase the physiological demands of submaximal exercise in -15 degrees Celsius.
- 2020
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Ingår i: Book of Abstracts of the 25th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science – 28th - 30th October 2020. - 9783981841435 ; , s. 75-76
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- INTRODUCTION: Winter endurance athletes such as cross-country skiers have an increased prevalence of asthma (Eriksson et al., 2018, Scand J Med Sci Sport). Heat-and-moisture exchangers (HMEs) such as masks and mouthpieces with a filter to facilitate warming and humidification of inspired air may protect the airways from injury during exercise in cold, dry climates. However, if there is evidence of impaired exercise capacity, athletes will likely avoid using such devices. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of an HME mask (AirTrim Sport, Vapro AB, Västerås, Sweden) on heart rate (HR), breathing rate (BR), muscle oxygenation (SmO2) and perceived exertion at fixed submaximal workloads. METHODS: 23 active, healthy participants without asthma aged 31 ± 8 years (15 men, 8 women) performed a familiarisation test followed by two experimental trials with and without HME in a randomised, crossover design. All tests were performed at a 4% gradient on a motorised treadmill and consisted of a submaximal incremental warm-up followed by a maximal, self-paced 4-min running time trial (TT). During the familiarisation test, participants wore a portable oxygen uptake system (Metamax 3B, Cortex Biophysik, Leipzig, Germany) with the TT used to derive VO2peak. Submaximal VO2 was interpolated to derive speeds estimated to elicit 65, 70, 75 and 90% of VO2peak. In two subsequent trials performed in a climate chamber at -15 degrees Celsius, participants ran for 5 min at speeds equivalent to 65, 70 and 75% VO2peak, 3 min at 90% and 12 min at 65% VO2peak. HR and BR were monitored via a chest harness (LifeMonitor, Equivital, Cambridge, UK); mean SmO2 from the right and left quadriceps was derived using near infra-red sensors (MOXY, Fortiori Design, Hutchinson MN, USA). Data were summarised as 1 min epochs, taken from 90 to 30 s before the end of each stage. Borg 6-20 rating of perceived exertion (RPE) was reported 1 min before the end of each stage. Data were analysed using repeated-measures ANOVA and linear mixed models. The study was approved by the regional ethical review board and conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki. RESULTS: HR was 2.5 beats/min higher during the HME trial (95% CI: 0.3 - 4.6, p=.03). In the male participants only, SmO2 was lower during the HME trial than control (-2.3%, 95% CI: -0.1 - -4.5, p=.04). The female participants reported higher RPE (0.65 AU) during the HME trial (p=.009). There was no difference in BR between the HME and control trials. CONCLUSION: Despite potentially small increases in dead space and resistance to breathing, an HME did not affect BR during submaximal exercise in -15 degrees C. However, higher HR during exercise with an HME, as well as lower SmO2 in the male participants and higher RPE in the female participants, indicates slightly higher physiological stress during steady-state exercise with an HME. It would therefore be relevant to investigate whether an HME affects maximal exercise capacity in sub-zero temperatures.
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- Manderstedt, Lena, 1966-, et al.
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Riders as Readers. A Pilot Study on the Horse Story Genre and its Readers
- 2021
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Ingår i: Book of Abstracts. - : Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet. ; , s. 23-23
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents the results of a pilot study including a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews with riders about their reading of horse stories. The data has been collected at an equestrian center in Sweden. The informants are active at the riding center and thus of various ages, although approximately 75 percent are 20 years old or more. They have been asked questions on their reading habits when it comes to horse stories, at present or at earlier stages in their lives. Interviews are ongoing but results are expected to come in the next couple of months. The purpose of the interviews is foremost to enter more deeply into the informants’ reading of horse stories.Tentative results show that 80 percent of the informants read horse stories in the age between 8 to 12 years. 75 percent of the adults report that they used to read horse stories either every day or between one and three times per week in that particular age. 60 percent state that horse stories were important for them since they got the opportunity to dream away, identify themselves with the characters and relate to their own experiences from the equestrian settings, to learn new things about horses and riding and, finally, as a reaction to the fact that they could not spend as much time in the stable as they would have preferred. In addition, a majority of the informants suggest that horse stories could be used at equestrian centers, for both educational and relaxational reasons.
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- Persson, Ann-Sofie, 1969-, et al.
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In the Company of Horses : Girlhood in Pia Hagmar’s Series about Klara
- 2021
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Ingår i: Book of Abstracts. ; , s. 26-26, s. 26-26
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper deals with the literary representation of the relationship between humanand horse, in parallel to the main character’s construction of identity as a girl. Thematerial used will be Pia Hagmar’s series on Klara, which consists of eighteenbooks published between 1999 and 2008. Previous studies (Hedenborg 2013;Asklund 2013) have focused on the identity construction of the horse girl in relationto norms, hard work and her peers. This paper will take a slightly differentorientation, concentrating on the relationship Klara develops with different horsesalong the series, and their impact on her identity as a girl. The main theoreticalframework will be ecocriticism and its entanglements with posthumanism andanimal studies. From an ecocritical standpoint, the anthropocentric perspectivedominates human discourse about other beings, and within this logic, a way ofunderstanding the animal other is to impose anthropomorphism, assigning humantraits to it, explaining its behavior via words, feelings and explanatory modelsproper to humans. Within posthumanism and animal studies, there is a questioningof traditional dichotomies, such as nature-culture, suggesting the upheaval ofanthropocentrism and working towards a greater equality between human andnonhuman animals. Donna Haraway’s notions of companion species andsignificant otherness will be used to talk about the interspecies relationshipsdeveloped within the series. Identity formation in relation to another species is whatis at stake in this paper, where the aim is to show how Klara’s identity formationis interconnected with the horses that she encounters.
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- Persson, Ann-Sofie, 1969-, et al.
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`When We Ride Together, She’s More like a Friend than a Mum´ : Mothering Variations in Three Horse Story Series by Pia Hagmar
- 2024
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This article analyzes how the horse story setting problematizesthe conception of the good mother and normative mothering, by elucidatinghow the gazes of the young main characters on their mothers function inrelation to the notion of the good mother, how this influences the motheringand how the mothering characters challenge this notion. Mothering is seenhere as caring practices, which can be performed by people other than moth-ers. The analysis of three horse story series by Pia Hagmar, the books onKlara (1999–2008), the books on Millan (2012–2014) and the books on Juli(2019–2021), shows that the series depict motherhood and mothering at theintersection between the conception of the good mother and the good horseperson. The common denominator is nurturing traits that make personalneeds take the back seat – for the traditional good mother to the benefit ofher children, for the good horse person to the benefit of the horse. Hagmarnormalizes the presence of several mothering characters in addition to theirmothers around the horse girls. Furthermore, these characters, who func-tion as mothering variations, contribute to the creation of a solid caringenvironment, reducing the demands on mothers who try to be everythingto their children. Although the daughters’ views of their mothers are some-times critical, Hagmar allows the mothers to be imperfect, partly incompe-tent, or simply women with their own agency,interests and needs outside ofmotherhood. In addition, a mother-daughter relationship built on a commoninterest in horses allows for a friendship with a common focus – the horse.
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