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- Burneva, Petya, 1986-
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The Future that is my Present : Temporariness and Insecurity in Swedish Academia
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis explores the question of what it means to be a temporary academic worker in the business studies discipline in Sweden. It presents how academics’ temporariness translates into insecurity and how they respond to it. The research is conducted using an open design, reflexive framework, and an abductive approach. It offers a narrative presentation of the lived experiences of temporariness and a critical interpretation of the multiplicity of the translation of those experiences into insecurity, as well as the responses to it. The rich empirical narrative offers a glimpse into the variety of lived experiences of the temporary academic workers and the multitude of opportunities for social action. It advances an understanding of the relationship of different individual, collective, organisational, and professional aspects with the lived experience of temporariness and temporariness as insecurity and as precarious work. It is argued that temporary academic work can be experienced as job field insecurity – the concern of involuntary exit from the professional field that is fuelled by challenges to professional identity, membership, and organisational citizenship; epistemic uncertainty; social and financial uncertainty, lack of alternatives; and the permeating imperatives for individual responsibility, self-improvement, and forward-living. The work discusses different ways in which the subjectivities of insecurity are navigated. It is argued that temporary academic work can be experienced as precarious work in certain circumstances, but also that some elements of the profession can be invoked in order to challenge precarious subjectivities.
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Civilsamhället och asylpolitiken, del 1 : Vittnesseminarium om Påskuppropet och Flyktingamnesti 2005
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I ett demokratiskt samhälle spelar ett levande och aktivt civilsamhälle en avgörande roll. Men vad krävs för att civilsamhället ska lyckas bidra till förändring av politiken? Vilka kampanjstrategier är framgångsrika för att få politiker att lyssna? Hur stor roll spelar den allmänna politiska debatten för vilka kampanjkrav som lyckas? Vilken roll spelar mediers bevakning och informationskanaler för civilsamhällets organisering och politiska påverkansmöjligheter?Denna rapport innehåller utskriften av ett tre timmar långt vittnesseminarium som hölls den 22 mars 2018 på Södertörns högskola där sex företrädare för de civilsamhällsorganisationer som tillsammans drivit kampanjerna Flyktingamnesti 2005 och Påskuppropet 2004–2005 diskuterar och berättar om sitt arbete. Rapporten ger nya infallsvinklar på svensk migrationspolitik och civilsamhällets roll i den, både i ett historiskt och nutida perspektiv.
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Civilsamhället och asylpolitiken, del 2 : Vittnesseminarium om civilsamhällets engagemang för uppehållstillstånd för ensamkommande flyktingungdomar, 2015-2018
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Denna rapport innehåller en utskrift av ett vittnesseminarium som hölls på Södertörns högskola den 8 november 2018 om det civilsamhällsengagemang som ägde rum åren 2015–2018 till förmån för ensamkommande ungdomar, främst från Afghanistan. Det är en fortsättning på temat migrationspolitiken och civilsamhällets roll där det första seminariet handlade om Påskuppropet och Flyktingamnesti 2005.Vid seminariet vittnade sex representanter från olika delar av civilsamhället om sitt engagemang för de ensamkommande ungdomarna och om händelseförloppet som ledde till stiftandet av den tillfälliga gymnasielagen. Dessutom beskrevs och diskuterades vilken roll sociala medier spelade för civilsamhällets organisering under den aktuella perioden.
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- Gullberg, Cecilia, et al.
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Doing the Right Things or Doing Things Right? Exploring the Relationship Between Professional Autonomy and Resources in Volunteering
- 2022
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Ingår i: Resourceful Civil Society. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783030990060 - 9783030990091 - 9783030990077 ; , s. 243-268
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter chronicles the organizing efforts of a group of Swedish medical professionals who volunteered on an ad hoc basis to provide health care for refugees in the fall of 2015. We show how different types of resources both enabled and constrained the autonomy of the professionals as they moved under the aegis of established civil society organizations and, as such, became bureaucratized. In the autonomous organizational setting, material resources were central, and professionals negotiated among themselves to establish working norms and guidelines for the acquisition and usage of resources. In the bureaucratized setting, with little to no room for negotiation, human resources were central, and regulations were imposed on the volunteering professionals by the civil society organizations.
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- Gullberg, Cecilia, et al.
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Inscriptions without boundaries : how action at a distance is enabled on social media
- 2021
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Ingår i: Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 0951-3574. ; 34:9, s. 57-79
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of inscriptions on social media in enabling action at a distance. The purpose is addressed by investigating how and by what mechanisms inscriptions on social media can shape action at a distance.Design/methodology/approach: We conduct a qualitative analysis of the Facebook page of a crowdfunded grassroots initiative, where the founders and their stakeholders interact.Findings: We identify two mechanisms by which inscriptions on social media can shape action at a distance: a flow of micro-level inscriptions and a joint stabilisation of inscriptions. By signalling achievement, creating a sense of closeness and highlighting powerful explanations, these mechanisms guide what action at a distance is taken and by whom. Action thereby becomes a mutual exercise between centres of calculation and distant peripheries, highly intertwined with the stability of inscriptions. The two mechanisms indicate the importance of the boundaryless nature of the inscriptions in shaping action at a distance.Originality/value: Our findings indicate new forms of inscriptions and, consequently, of novel conditions for action at a distance. These insights add to the literature on Web 2.0 and accounting, which has mainly revolved around the relationship between centres of calculation and distant peripheries that act upon each other rather than around the inscriptions that enable such action.
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- Gustafsson, Nils, et al.
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Medborgerligt engagemang på sociala medier
- 2022
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Ingår i: Engagemangets gestaltningar : Insatser i och utanför civilsamhället - Insatser i och utanför civilsamhället. - 9789144143071 ; , s. 271-306
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Vi lever i en tid som präglas av sociala mediers växande betydelse inom en lång rad områden, inte minst när det gäller medborgerligt engagemang. I detta kapitel skissar vi en översiktsbild av olika sätt att tänka kring sociala medier och medborgerligt engagemang, och ger också en kort inblick i vad medborgarundersökningen berättar om engagemang på sociala medier. Medborgerligt engagemang i sociala medier spelar en viktig roll för samhället. De sociala medierna utgör en infrastruktur för kommunikation och organisering som har blivit självklar inom många områden. De gör det lättare att engagera sig som individ i nätverk utan att ingå i formella organisationer. Samtidigt pekar forskning på att denna mer lösliga organisationsform kan leda både till snabbare och mer omfattande mobilisering, och till en begränsad uthållighet i engagemanget.
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- Gustafsson, Nils, et al.
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Medborgerligt engagemang på sociala medier
- 2022
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Ingår i: Engagemangets gestaltningar. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144143071 ; , s. 271-306
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Gustafsson, Nils, et al.
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Social media and civil society organizations : Exploring the institutionalization of positive emotional vocabulary
- 2018
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper explores how positive emotional vocabulary used on social media potentially alters rationalized and institutionalized ways to manage and account for civil society organizations. Based on a study of Swedish civil society, our initial findings indicate that these changes entail: 1) a replacement of previous forms of engagement based on shared negative experiences or contentious politics by strong positive emotional content, both in terms of management and accounting 2) the increasing importance of emotional language competence in terms of the usage of positive emotional vocabulary to manage both staff, board members, and volunteers 3) the increased possibility to express and be open about emotional states in the workplace, which is perceived as both enabling and challenging for managers. In sum, the paper points to an inflation in the usage of positive emotional vocabulary in established civil society organizations, indicating an emerging institutionalization process of positive emotional vocabulary as a means to organize civil society.
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- Gustafsson, Nils, et al.
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The populist allure of social media activism: Individualized charismatic authority
- 2020
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Ingår i: Organization. - : SAGE Publications. - 1461-7323 .- 1350-5084. ; 27:3, s. 431-440
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article argues that the type of individualized social media activism that has been conceptualized as ‘connective action’ has affinities to populism, and may have detrimental consequences for democratic procedures and the bureaucratic structures that enable them. We trace the normative allure of individualized digital engagement to the libertarian roots of techno-utopianism and argue that this, in combination with a form of mobilization fueled by digital enthusiasm, has potentially dire democratic and organizational consequences. Digital enthusiasm generated on social media platforms entails self-infatuation, here conceptualized as a form of individualized charismatic authority in the Weberian sense. This individualized form of charismatic authority is fundamentally focused on personalized engagement, and simultaneously interconnected through the technological affordances of social media platforms. If individualized charismatic authority becomes institutionalized as a legitimate and predominant manner of organizing, it may have large-scale implications for societal organizing at large by promoting populism. In sum, we argue that digital enthusiasm not only provides democratic opportunities for protest and contention in civil society, but that the fickleness of the individualized charismatic authority it generates may also put democratic procedures and respect for bureaucratic structures at risk.
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