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- Farstad, Britt Johanne, 1961-
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Alla borde ha en Edith Södergran i sig!
- 2017
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Ingår i: Tidningen Curie. - : Vetenskapsrådet. - 2001-3426. ; :19-jun
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- Farstad, Britt Johanne, 1961-
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Berättelser som förändrar världen
- 2017
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Ingår i: Tidningen Curie. - : Vetenskapsrådet. - 2001-3426. ; :3-apr
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- Farstad, Britt Johanne, Senior lecturer, 1961-
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Ecofiction for sustainable education
- 2024
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Engaged, interactive reading of speculative fiction, can create opportunities for young people in educational situations to feel that they can influence and act instead of getting stuck in powerlessness and resignation. By working with speculative fiction, scientific research results, sharing reading experiences and talking and formulating their thoughts and insights, students can both get a common frame of reference and find goals they want to work to achieve.
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- Farstad, Britt Johanne, 1961-
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En existentiell smäll : Att se världen ur nya perspektiv
- 2021
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Ingår i: Människan i en existentiell kultur. - Gävle : Gävle University Press. - 9789188145567 - 9789188145574 ; , s. 209-226
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Artikeln diskuterar Margareth Atwoods roman Syndaflodens år i ett didaktiskt perspektiv. Romanens huvudteman presenteras och studenternas syn på romanen som ämnesdidaktiskt verktyg diskuteras. Studenterna finner att romanen har hög grad av samhällsrelevans, den medvetandegör skeenden i samtiden och erbjuder en plattform därolika framtidsscenarion kan diskuteras. Atwoods roman aktualiserar samtidens problem som miljöhot, genetisk manipulation av djur och växter, övervakning, en accelererande teknologisering av tillvaron, samt kapitalism. Den utnyttjar mytologiska föreställningar och skapar en fiktiv bild av världen dömd för undergång. Läsandet av romanen öppnar för religiösa och existentiella frågeställningar och för ämnesövergripande didaktiska förhållningssätt där frågeställningarna kan behandlas med olika ämnesrelevanta metoder och perspektivval.
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- Farstad, Britt Johanne, Senior lecturer, 1961-
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Eve Revisited, Reimagined and Redeemed
- 2024
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Ingår i: HumaNetten. - 1403-2279. ; :52, s. 169-194
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article is a preliminary study on Marianne Fredriksson's (1927–2007) Bible-inspired novels. Fredriksson was a bestselling author, translated into many languages and loved by her many readers across the world. She was a prominent author, not only in Sweden, but around the world. Her books have been translated into 47 languages and sold more than 17 million copies. Despite her success, Fredriksson's writing remains virtually unexplored. Fredriksson’s novels where in the midst of important currents of ideas that took place during the 1980s and 1990s. In this article Fredriksson’s debut novel The Book of Eve (1980) is read in relation to a number of mindsets about Eve in religious, postbiblical reconstructions and philosophical contexts.
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- Farstad, Britt Johanne, 1961-
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Future urban environments in science fiction: Initiated thought experiments
- 2021
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Ingår i: Urban Transition - Perspectives on Urban Systems and Environments. - : IntechOpen.
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Is it possible that science fiction-films have influenced modern architecture and buildings in the real world? Ideas about the design and purpose of future cities often start with visions. Science fiction can be understood as a kind of thought experiment. The experimenter, the writer or filmmaker, begins with a hypothesis and sets up initial conditions. SF writers take notice of their colleagues’ work and results; they often borrow fundamental concepts from previous generations of writers. Authors elaborate on and transform these concepts, apply and test them in new situations, and add new ideas. I argue that our capacity to imagine things and phenomena that do not yet exist is important in the process of constructing and reorganizing human life and, hence, also urban environments. The concepts of “city” and “countryside”, both of which are often projected and experienced as opposites, with contradictions and conflicts built into them, are examined. Urban Transition through some of the most influential dystopian sf-movies with Metropolis is my starting point, films where the idea of the city can be said to be the main protagonist.
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- Farstad, Britt Johanne, 1961-
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Glaspärlespelaren : Nya världar, etik och androcentrism i Peter Nilsons science fiction-romaner
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis focuses on Peter Nilson’s (1937-1998) science fiction texts, and particularly on how narrative themes and structures in these texts are related to science as well as to the literary tradition of science fiction (SF). The primary texts are the novels Arken (The Ark, 1982), Äventyret (The Adventure, 1989), Rymdväktaren (The Space Guard, 1995), Nyaga (1996) as well as the short story “Kvinnan som ville ha barn med döden” (The Woman Who Wanted a Child With Death, 1987). Nilson was an established astronomer before publishing fiction, and in both novels and essays he joins “the two worlds” of the natural sciences and the humanities. My study of the reception of his work shows that his symbolic capital, his authority as a scientist, was transferred from one field of knowledge to another, thus increasing the value of his SF texts in critics’ eyes. Central to my analyses are the authorial strategies Nilson used when building bridges between natural science and the humanities, in a move evoking the Glass Bead Players in Herman Hesse’s novel The Glass Bead Game. My study shows that, unlike Hesse’s protagonists, the Glass Bead Players in Nilson’s texts accept, or even welcome, extreme consequences of scientific developments, such as the extinction of life as we know it.SF texts are traditionally categorized as either dystopic or utopic depending on the level of pessimism or optimism in their depictions of technology. I suggest instead that dystopic or utopic outcomes in modern SF novels depend on whether the texts build on an aleatoric or a teleological worldview. In aleatoric narratives, humankind is depicted as alone in the universe and thereby responsible for its own destiny. Teleological narratives feature superior, god-like forces from other worlds, which interfere with life on Earth and may elevate humans to higher levels of consciousness. The latter perspective, which is favoured in Nilson’s SF texts, entails that responsibility is removed from humankind since what happens is presented as meant to be. The tropes of the void and of creatio ex nihilo are recurrent in the examined texts, for instance through the use of myths and archetypes containing images of emptiness such as the “creation out of nothing”. Further, Nilson’s characters are often situated in a mental or physical “void” where their knowledge is of no use to them. My readings show that these voids are not empty but contain mythical and archetypal elements which activate obsolete religious ideas and gender models, such as the Logos vision: the creative power of words. This conservative tendency seems all the more surprising and problematic considering that the SF-genre is based on explorations of possible new worlds and beings.
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- Farstad, Britt Johanne, 1961-
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Introduction
- 2023
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Ingår i: Populating the Future. - Gävle : Gävle University Press. - 9789189593060 - 9789189593077 - 9789189593084 - 9789189593091 ; , s. 11-35
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- Farstad, Britt Johanne, 1961-
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Lilith – kvinnan, myten och förebilden
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Ingår i: Tidningen Curie. - : Vetenskapsrådet. - 2001-3426. ; :15-maj
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- Farstad, Britt Johanne, 1961-
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Människans största uppfinning?
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Ingår i: Tidningen Curie. - : Vetenskapsrådet. - 2001-3426. ; :31-maj
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- Farstad, Britt Johanne, 1961-
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Sagorna som räddade liv
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Ingår i: Tidningen Curie. - : Vetenskapsrådet. - 2001-3426. ; :2-maj
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Populating the Future : Families and Reproduction in Speculative Fiction
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Speculative fiction opens doors for imagining beyond what is possible, conventional or acceptable. Speculative fiction has an acute ear for the social, the scientific and for political developments and change, all of which are prominent topics. Reproduction and parenthood are pertinent social questions that are constantly renegotiated in various arenas. By investigating representations of family-making and reproduction in speculative fiction, the research presented in Populating the Future: Families and Reproduction in Speculative Fiction not only adds to the field of speculative fiction scholarship, but also contributes to the more general discussion about reproduction and parenting.Speculative fiction operates as thought laboratories that make connections between discourses visible. It highlights power structures that can be difficult to detach and represents difficult and abstract issues more concretely. As such, speculative fiction demonstrates the complex entanglement of reproduction with issues of gender, power and agency. By facilitating thought experiments and illustrating alternatives, speculative fiction also enables the representation of new family structures and reproductive technologies, thus paving the way for discussions about various practices and their possible consequences. Thanks to its multidisciplinary approach, this book will be of value to scholars and students of various disciplines, such as literature studies, philosophy, ethics, political science, the social sciences and gender studies. It will also be a useful resource in teacher training programmes, as well as to a more general audience interested in speculative literature, politics, society, gender and ethics.
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