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- Tängh Wrangel, Claes, 1980-
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The Use of Hope : Biopolitics of Security During the Obama Presidency
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Through a compilation of four research articles, this PhD thesis investigates ‘hope’ as a biopolitical technology. It interrogates the use of hope by the United States security apparatus, on the one hand, to pre-empt processes of radicalisation and, on the other hand, to prepare the subject of security to cope with permanent insecurity. The dissertation analyses the security dis- course of the Obama Administrations 2009 – 2016, paying particular atten- tion to strategic narratives of hope across three principal domains of US secu- rity: diplomacy, development and military. The thesis thereby renders visible a set of ambiguous relations between hope and insecurity in US foreign poli- cy during the Obama period: between hate and hope in the domain of (public) diplomacy; between despair and hope in the domain of development; and between fear and hope in the military domain. To analyse the respective strategic narratives, the thesis employs a theoretical framework drawn from Giorgio Agamben’s theory of biopolitics, through which hope appears as a means of governing the future, a technology employed to regulate processes of subjectification. The dissertation’s theoretical ambition is to question a central assumption undergirding important critique of the post-9/11 biopoliti- cal condition: namely that practices of security are inherently at odds with hope, operating through discourses and practices of fear and suffering to reduce the capacity to hope within the global populace. By analysing the appropriation of hope by US security discourse, the thesis explores how prac- tices of security works through hope to achieve security. US security dis- course achieves this by means of constituting a particular form of hopeful life: an individualised and resilient form of neoliberal life who is called to embody an indistinction between fear, despair, hate and hope.
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- Axelsson, Annika
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Faktorer som influerar barns språk-, läs- och skrivutveckling i didaktiska rum med särskilt fokus på föräldrar
- 2024
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The overall aim of this summary thesis is to shed light on influential factors on children’s language, reading and writing development in didactic rooms, with a particular attention to parental influences. The summary thesis comprises three studies with aims and research questions related to the overall aim. The theoretical framework includes the Bioecological model for human development and the Person-Process-Context-Time model. In study 1, extracts from retrospective life-history oriented interviews with parents (N=27) constituted the data. In study 2, qualitative interviews with parents (N=11), all mothers, were conducted. In these two studies, thematic analyses were used. Study 1 generated nine themes. These themes reflect influential factors on children’s language, reading and writing development at home, in preschool and preschool class: Child’s abilities and engagement; Genetics and parents’ abilities; More able siblings and peers; Involved parents and grandparents; Teacher competence, attitude and collaborations; Social climate in preschool and preschool class; Free play and child-initiated reading and writing activities; Toys and books; and Extra support provisions and stimulation. Study 2 generated six themes reflecting influential factors on children’s language, reading and writing development, as well as general parental support to children in school grade 1: Talk with children about school; Handle school-related problems; Have a positive attitude towards school; Guide children’s reading and writing; Coach specific training; and Collaborate with school staff about children’s reading homework. In study 3, research articles (N=106) were identified and included in a literature review. The review had nine interconnected phases and comprised a qualitative inductive content analysis. Study 3 generated 11 categories which constitute valuable reading aloud sessions at home, in preschool and school: Choose a place, book and extra material; Ensure appropriate group constellation; Support transition and create a routine; Consider when, how often and for how long; Communicate expectations and encourage engagement; Read in an appealing way and provide explanations; Include dialogues; Teach how to read; Encourage cosiness and empathy; Incorporate movement and play; and Cooperate with one another. The synthesis of the results reveals through which interactions, with which people, with which objects, in which settings and occurring situations, and during which time, children’s language, reading and writing development are being influenced. In all three studies, guiding principles set by the Swedish Research Council have been followed. Influential factors in didactic rooms at home, in preschool and school, as well as implications, limitations and suggestions for further research, are discussed. The summary thesis has relevance for parents, teachers in preschool and school, and politicians, as well as others interested in children’s language, reading and writing development. Keywords: bioecological model; children’s reading and writing development; content analysis; early childhood education and care; early years; grade 1; influential factors; parent perspective; preschool; preschool class; PPCT-model; reading aloud; thematic analysis
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- Persson Osowski, Christine, 1978-
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The Swedish School Meal as a Public Meal : Collective Thinking, Actions and Meal Patterns
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to study what role the Swedish school meal has as a public meal in Swedish culture. An additional aim is to study the meal patterns of children, including the school meal.An ethnological questionnaire with 192 informants was used to study people’s perceptions and memories of the school meal. The school meal was seen as part of the Swedish welfare state, but also as a second-class meal, which did not live up to the ideal, which was a meal with the same values as a meal served at home.Observations in school canteens (25 hours), interviews with the school meal staff (six informants) and focus group interviews with children in grade 4-5 (seven groups with a total of 52 children) were carried out at three schools in central Sweden. Firstly, the data was analysed as to how the teachers interacted with the children in relation to the pedagogic meal. The teachers took on three different roles: “the sociable teacher role”, “the educating teacher role” and “the evasive teacher role”. Secondly, the children’s understanding of food and meals in the school meal context was analysed. The results showed that the children used ideas from the adult world among their peers in the school meal situation. This included the implementation of institutional commensality, the telling of stories about food and the classification of foods in dichotomies.A questionnaire covering the meal patterns of the children and intake of some snack foods was also distributed to the children attending grade 4-5 at the three schools and their parents. Matched pairs (n=147) were analysed for agreement. Most children had a regular meal pattern, and there was general agreement between child and parent reports, except for sweets and chocolate.The expectations on the school meal are high. At the same time, there appears to be a social construction depicting the school meal in a negative way. In order to come to terms with the negative public view of the school meal, the social construction of the school meal needs to be addressed.
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- Dahlin Andersson, Camilla
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I händelse av delaktighet i en omvälvande innovationsprocess
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Innovation is desirable and many players, both individual and organized, as well as society at large, want to actively contribute to its development and to know its results. Increasingly complex but also controversial techniques are under development , new advanced technologies and services where we as individuals become increasingly coexistent with our machines and other artifacts, inside and outside our bodies.The interaction and settlement between social and material things creates a context of complexity. This is about innovation processes characterized by a transformative character which, despite some overlaps and touch points, are not properly captured in the concepts and theories of disruptive / radical innovation or the more process-oriented innovation theories of transformative and systemic innovation. On a higher level, this dissertation aims at further developing the understanding of the innovation process through an in-depth description of how transformative innovation is formed, developed, implemented and generates effects in a complex social context. Based on the purpose, the research question is formulated: How does transformative innovation develop in complex contexts?The dissertation takes a multidisciplinary approach by combining theories from the disciplines; innovation, business administration and sociology. The study can be seen as a contribution to the innovation technology discipline by considering innovation with an STS-inspired approach and introducing the translation perspective, transformation, action network, actor networks, space-time, actors and the collective. The process perspective has been studied over a long period of time between 2002-2016, through a case study on the development of the idea / concept "stem cell", with a major focus on embryonic and research at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, I have written my story from a theoretical and practical point of view. I highlight a process-methodological contribution in the form of innovation ethnography whose research role has practical implications for innovation management research.I have observed how knowledge development and innovation development in practice are integrated and that innovation management is about to act proactively and reactively continuously. I have developed the concept of transformative innovation and present a model of a transformative innovation process in which complexity plays an important role. The complexity is found in and around the processes, which contributes to the creation of complex contexts and is therefore considered an important aspect of the transformative concept. The transformative is linked to the innovation process as a result of the transnational collective and its actors / actors constant changing because of their participation in the idea / concept development.Keywords: Transformative innovation process, ANT, transnational collective, institutionalization, stem cells, KI, innovation ethnography.
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- Florin, Ulrika, 1964-
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Konstnärskap i samspel : om skapande arbetsprocesser i myndighetsledda samverkansprojekt
- 2015
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Artists in interaction: creation processes in official collaborative projects is a doctoral thesis that explores the creation processes of artists, when the project owner defines the purpose, theme and framework. The area is explored from the artists' perspective and the overall research question deals with the opportunities and obstacles that artists face when working in collaborative projects.To be able to explore the artists' working processes, in which sketches and models were tools, concepts from the visual research field were combined with knowledge theories that derive from the area of practice-based research. The knowledge theories draw on an updated understanding of ancient philosophy developed by, among others, the philosopher Martha Nussbaum. Rudolf Arnheim’s concepts of visual thinking are also vital for the interpretation of the visuals.The results indicate that skills in different sketching techniques build trust and enable communication. However, the artists experienced that it was more difficult to integrate the more indefinable parts of their knowledge, which relates to improvisation and intuition, even though this was highlighted as the most vital force in their working processes. The consequence is that the artists have not always followed their artistic intentions, which in some cases also meant compromising the quality of the works of art they produced. The collaboration between the artists and the project-owner representatives could be more enriching for both parties if the artists' implicit knowledge is respected as a resource and given some room, although this may involve certain risks.The study also provides results regarding the interpretation of models and sketches, and discusses in what way different sketches can support (or hinder) communication in different stages of a design process, i.e. what aspects are important to consider when sketches are used to support communication. Particularly interesting is that the findings demonstrate that spoken and written language has a significant impact on how sketches are interpreted; the use of verbal language is therefore an important factor in presentations built on visuals.
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- Johansson, Anna, 1975-
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Societal risk and safety management : Policy diffusion, management structures and perspectives at the municipal level in Sweden
- 2013
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This compilation thesis investigates risk and safety management at the Swedish local governmentallevel. It sets special focus on municipal implementation of overall international and nationalstrategies and objectives regarding holistic, cross-sectorial and multi-strategic risk and safetywork, and the prevention of accidents and injuries.The overall aim for this thesis have been to empirically map and provide an overview of theadministrative structures for, and the prevailing management perspectives applied in the societalrisk and safety management in Sweden, as well as to study the diffusion of strategic intentions forthis area down to the municipal level.Three different sources constitute the thesis empirical base: two different set of official planningdocuments, written by Swedish municipal officials on commission of the local politiciansand one set of data from a survey investigation with municipal officials representing differentdepartments/functions. The documents were investigated using content analysis, while datafrom the survey were analyzed using statistical measures.This thesis provides through its empirical works an outlook on the general characteristics andarchetypical features of the Swedish local level’s administrative structures and managementperspective on risk and safety management; and proposes a municipal typology and a set of valuecharacters for allocation and institutionalization of risk and safety-tasks. This thesis also suggestsa conceptual framework for overviewing risk and safety management’s systemic steering elementsin its framework report. Based on the findings made, it seems as if the local level’s compliance tothe strategic level’s ambitions for the risk and safety area is hindered by practical implementationdifficulties and that much work remains in order to reach stated strategic objectives regardingholistic, inter-sectorial and multi-strategic management approaches, and preventive risk andsafety work.
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- Knezevic, Zlatana, 1984-
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Child (Bio)Welfare and Beyond : Intersecting Injustices in Childhoods and Swedish Child Welfare
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The current thesis discusses how tools for analysing power are developed predominately for adults, and thus remain underdeveloped in terms of understanding injustices related to age, ethnicity/race and gender in childhoods. The overall ambition of this dissertation is to inscribe a discourse of intersecting social injustices as relevant for childhoods and child welfare, and by interlinking postcolonial, feminist, and critical childhood studies. The dissertation is set empirically within the policy and practice of Swedish child welfare, here exemplified by the assessment framework Barns Behov i Centrum (BBIC). It aims to explore how Swedish child welfare, as a field of knowledge, modes of knowing and knowing subjects, constitutes an arena for claims and responses to intersecting social justice issues.The material consists of BBIC primers and selected samples from, a total of 283 case reports from a Swedish social service agency. The case reports address assessments of children (0–12 years of age). This dissertation is based on four qualitative studies using discourse analysis, as well as analysis inspired by thematic and case-study methodology. Two studies focus on child welfare discourses in BBIC documents involving social problems and violence, and two studies are based on child welfare case reports.Studies I-II address child welfare policy and practice by analysing the conditions required for children to participate, in terms of children’s moral status and in terms of status of ‘evidencing’ needs for protection. Studies III-IV explore this further from the perspective of intersecting and embodied social injustices in childhoods. Together, the studies interconnect child welfare as a field of knowledge, modes of knowing and knowers with child welfare as a moral arena for claims to rights, recognition, and social justice.The synthesised findings point to child biowelfare, in which justice discourses are largely absent. Biowelfare is informed by a mode of knowing and ‘evidencing’ risks to children’s health and development, which are confined to scientific predicting-believing, seeing-believing by professionals and a moral economy of care, all of which constrain the idea that injustices are structural and intersecting. Biowelfare primarily responds to children as ‘speaking’ biological bodies, rather than as voices of justice. In this sense, injustices of an epistemological nature are interconnected with social injustices. When issues of justice are mobilised in case reports and policy, they come across as rather ‘unjust’, primarily confined to the sphere of the family home of racialised children and not connected to ‘general’ children. In addition to intersections of age, ethnicity/race and gender, class and health are fundamental to recognition and protection in biowelfare. Finally, the dissertation indicates the need for a moral economy which responds to intersecting social injustices such as racial, gender-based and ageist violence in childhoods, and violations of children’s bodily integrity.Key words: biowelfare, child protection, child welfare, critical childhood studies, critical social work, embodiment, epistemic injustice, epistemology, feminist theory, intersectionality, justice subjectivity, moral economy, moral subjectivity, participation, postcolonial theory, poststructural social work, social justice, violence
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- Kurdve, Martin
(författare)
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Chemical Management Services from a Product Service System Perspective : Experiences of fluid management services from Volvo Group metalworking plants
- 2010
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis analyses fluid management services (FMS) in metalworking industry and determines environmental and economic outcomes of FMS as compared to traditional, in-house, fluid management. Fluid management services, or as it is often called chemical management services (CMS), mean that the suppliers of chemicals are also involved in managing and maintaining the fluids in the use phase. Usually one supplier is responsible for managing all the different fluids on a site, but the management may be restricted to some processes or fluids only
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- Launberg, Anna
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Creating value from science : Interaction between academia, business and healthcare in the Uppsala PET Centre case
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Recent decades have seen greater focus, both national and global, on universities’ role in boosting economic growth. Besides teaching and conducting research, universities are urged to contribute directly to the economy by commercialising research findings and interacting with industry.This thesis explores the dynamics and effects of such interplay by concentrating on a particular case of interaction involving Uppsala University, Uppsala University Hospital and a large multinational corporation. More specifically, the aim of the study was to investigate how use of science and value creation from science are affected when actors belonging to disparate spheres interact closely. The thesis recounts the evolution of the Uppsala PET Centre, established as a University research institute in 1989, which has served both as a site for pre-clinical and clinical research and as an important resource in routine clinical work. The whole Centre was commercialised when a large firm acquired it in 2002, only to be decommercialised and returned to the University and the University Hospital less than a decade later.Using a network perspective, this thesis analyses the journey of the Uppsala PET Centre by studying interfaces between physical and organisational resources. The basic argument is that to understand the effects of inter-sphere interaction on science use, one must consider the materiality of science and differences between the interacting actor spheres in terms of preferences, norms and goals – ‘schemes of valuation’ in the present work. The study shows that the materiality of science has a restrictive impact on flexibility of science use, and different actors’ simultaneous use of science is therefore severely constrained. Because of these constraints, the actor spheres involved struggle to control physical scientific resources in ways aligned with their particular schemes of valuation. Sharing, turn-taking and efforts to separate overlapping use contexts become the means of managing the restricted scope for science use.Further, this thesis demonstrates that while interfaces containing physical resources are controllable and always result in some kind of value (albeit not necessarily on the scale expected), the outcomes of combinations of organisational resources connected with disparate schemes of valuation are impossible to anticipate and control.The thesis concludes that there are reasons to rethink our expectations of the short-term economic and social effects of university–industry interaction, a complicated affair that encompasses opportunities and unforeseeable challenges alike.
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