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- Hedlund, Erik, et al.
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Swedish-Irish cooperation in Liberia
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Ingår i: Military cooperation in multinational peace operations.. - Milton Park, Oxforshire : Routledge. - 9780415445894 - 9780415570138 ; , s. 153-165
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- Weibull, Louise, 1973-, et al.
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'Don't fight the blue elephant' : Humorous signs as protests and conductors of negotiations in Swedish Peace Support Operations
- 2013
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Ingår i: Res Militaris. - 2265-6294. ; 3:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article focuses on the role of ”applied” workplace humor (Mulkay 1988) as used by Swedish soldiers deployed overseas. The data primarily refers to workplace signs encountered at military compounds in Liberia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan and interviews with Swedish soldiers before, during, and after deployment. The article aims to compare signs found in two types of military contexts; high and – low-intensity conflict areas respectively, and the findings show that differences in the nature of operations (i.e. threat level and duties) is reflected in the messages’ content. Further, we see humorous exchanges during overseas missions as something that provide the scope for relieving various stresses arising from disillusions, and from being subordinated to rules, policies and designed roles, but also where barbed ideas inappropriate for ”serious” communication are vented (Fine 1988). Overall, the paper adds to the literature a description of humorous exchanges in two organizational settings where the need for sense making is always present.
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- Weibull, Louise, 1973-
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Emotion matters : Emotion management in Swedish Peace Support Operations
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The thesis makes an overall contribution to the qualitative research on soldiers’ experiences from service primarily in low-intensity mission areas, this operational environment being placed within a framework of emotion sociology. The central argument put forward states that even on this type of mission the emotional demands are considerable, and that the need for emotional management in Peace Support Operations (PSO) should therefore generally follow other demarcations than the formal military divisions of high and low intensity conflicts respectively. In contrast to the prevalent view stating that the successful soldier is someone with emotional control in the sense that he ‘lacks’ feeling towards what he is doing, this thesis argues that soldiers’ emotion management work when choosing, modelling, managing, and displaying the ‘right’ emotional expression is what it takes to get the job done. Further, the thesis argues that emotion management demands are not restricted to the tour of service. Returning home often involves feeling both cognitively and emotionally disorientated, even if the mission has been militarily quite uneventful. A new theoretical concept, Post-Deployment Disorientation (PDD), is introduced to explain and highlight the origin of these feelings. PDD is not a diagnosis, however, but a term reserved for a phenomenon invisible in statistics that likely confronts the majority of Swedish soldiers on return.The thesis comprises four essays and draws on qualitative data collected mainly from soldiers deployed to Kosovo and Liberia in 2006/2007. Two of the essays also include data from Afghanistan. Jointly, the four essays help us understand that from an emotion management perspective, serving abroad is both a varied and challenging experience. Nevertheless, the informants seem to muddle through many difficulties and the study broadly confirms Bolton’s (2005) accounts of the multi-talented emotional actor, who is quite capable of handling contradiction while negotiating feeling rules. However, this does not mean an adjustment with negligible effort or without substantial emotional costs.
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- Weibull, Louise, 1973-
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Kvinnan på väg in i ledet. : Intryck från mönstring och värnplikt hos en grupp kvinnor som mönstrat 1999-2002.
- 2005
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The Swedish Armed Forces has an expressed ambition to recruit more women. One component in this has been the establishment of special enlistment days for women. The expectations of the Armed Forces for this form of enlistment were both quantitative and qualitative. Firstly, more women would attend the tests and enlist as conscripts, and secondly, this form of enlistment would better prepare women for their service. The expectation that more women would enlist has already proven correct. The central question in this study is whether the special enlistment for women did in fact render the women better prepared for their service. The study was conducted using a questionnaire. The group studied comprised 320 women, of which about half attended the special enlistment for women and the rest ”ordinary” enlistment, i.e. together with men.The results of the study show that those women who underwent the special enlistment for women is basically satisfied with this form of enlistment. Most positive was to meet and get information from female officers and conscripts. The results also indicate that the special enlistment strengthens women on the personal level. For instance, the group of women who underwent separate enlistment report less sexual harassment during their service. The reason for this could be that after having spoken to women with experience of the military, they have more insight into the importance of ”setting boundaries” and ”opportunities to report”, etc. Thus, the question posed at the outset, whether the special enlistment for women provides a better preparation than ”ordinary” enlistment, can be answered in the affirmative.
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- Weibull, Louise, 1973-
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La gestion des émotions dans les opérations en faveur de la paix
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Ingår i: L’Année sociologique. - Paris : Presses Universitaires de France. - 0066-2399 .- 1969-6760. ; 61:2, s. 407-430
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Cet article aborde les diverses facettes de la gestion des émotionset de ses exigences au travers d’une étude qualitative portant sur les troupes suédoisesdéployées dans le cadre d’opérations en faveur de la paix, pour l’essentiel auKosovo et au Libéria. Il s’éloigne des traditions de recherche établies en sociologiedes émotions. L’analyse des données recueillies s’y réfère en effet à la typologieélaborée par Bolton (2005) à propos des émotions au travail. Cette typologie offre uncadre pluridimensionnel mettant en évidence la façon dont les règles de gestion dusentiment qui émanent de l’organisation, de la profession et de la société influent surla motivation, l’identité professionnelle, l’efficacité et la manière de servir. L’étudevalide une double hypothèse, la typologie de Bolton révèle certains aspects jusque-làrestés dans l’ombre des contraintes qui pèsent en la matière sur les acteurs militairesdes opérations en faveur de la paix ; les exigences de la gestion émotionnelle sont plusaiguës dans ce cadre d’activité que dans ceux dont a traité jusqu’ici la littérature.
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- Weibull, Louise, 1973-
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Post-Deployment Disorientation : The emotional remains of uneventful Peace Support Operations
- 2012
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Ingår i: Res Militaris. - 2265-6294. ; 2:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It is widely recognized that participation in high-intensity military missions abroad can result in discomforts, serious health conditions, and psychological consequences for the individual. This article, however, focuses on soldiers' experiences after service in two relatively calm mission areas. It aims to contribute to a discussion of the emotional price soldiers pay even when participating under these circumstances. It argues that although the general view among soldiers is that service abroad is a unique, rewarding and cherished experience, we should further recognize it as an accomplishment that also has other transformative properties. This is often manifested in what is here named 'Post-Deployment Disorientation' (PDD), invoking a different outlook on life and navigation in the social world. This article explores the soldiers' sense-making of this change by adopting an emotion-focused sociological perspective. Confirmation of assumptions made is presented through reference to interviews with 24 Swedish soldiers before, during and after their deployments to Kosovo and Liberia.
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