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- Burga, Estella, et al.
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Nuestras Madres : Forming Political Subjects en la mesa
- 2017
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Ingår i: Architecture and Culture. - : Routledge. - 2050-7828 .- 2050-7836. ; 5:3, s. 53-56
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- NUESTRAS MADRES is an artwork by the art collective IDA performed at the AHRA Architecture and Feminisms Conference (2016), which consisted of a collective ritual and a poetry reading. The ritual created a safe space where a group of participants sat around a table taking turns in sharing their stories about their mothers while embroidering their mothers’ names on a single tablecloth. These were synthesized into a poem and presented the following day. IDA investigates issues in private and public space connected to knowledge production and gender normativity. Even though the role of mothers and their knowledge is usually connected to the private sphere, the knowledge of our mothers and their mothers shared en la mesa - over the table - is important in the construction of political subjects. How has this knowledge helped us survive in society as women, queer, indigenous, working class, Muslim, immigrant - as human beings?
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- Horbyk, Roman, et al.
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Fake News As Meta-Mimesis: Imitative Genres and Storytelling in The Philippines, Brazil, Russia And Ukraine
- 2021
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Ingår i: Popular Inquiry: The Journal of Kitsch, Camp and Mass Culture. - 2489-6748. ; 1, s. 30-54
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We propose to consider “fake news” as a genre with its own conventions and narrative devices dependent on those of mainstream journalism. Departing from genre theory, “culture jamming” practice and Barnhurst and Nerone’s (2002) concept of journalist modernism rooted in Louis Althusser’s idea of form as the principal expression of ideology, we intend to highlight empirically how mainstream media storytelling is hacked, imitated and hijacked by “fake news” in the four countries that are known to have populist leaders and significant circulation of viral disinformation. Focused on empirical cases from Brazil under Bolsonaro, the Philippines under Duterte, Russia under Putin and Ukraine under Zelensky, this article draws significant comparisons between different cultures and traditions of journalist storytelling in the global peripheries concluding that while “fake news” can be subverting mainstream or integrating with it, even the most distant cases share the common basis of meta-mimesis, imitation of other texts. By way of distancing from the overpublicised cases of Donald Trump or Brexit, we also contribute to de-Westernizing media studies.
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- Löfgren, Isabel
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From Ecstasy to Melancholy : An epistolary journey recounting Flusser’s unrealized proposal for the Art & Communication nucleus in the 1973 XII Bienal de São Paulo
- 2020
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Ingår i: Flusser Studies. - : Flusser Studies. - 1661-5719. ; :30
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article presents a brief commentary about Vilém Flusser’s activity as a technical advisor for the 1973 XII Bienal de São Paulo through an archive of unpublished correspondences from 1970-1974. This archive reveals Flusser’s persona as a prolific letter writer and gives us a glimpse on his attempt to turn “theory into praxis” by articulating a complex and forward-looking communicological proposition to reorganise the Bienal in line with developments in new media art practices and telecommunications infrastructures at the time. The aim was to critique notions of art display, spectatorship and production, through a utopian, radical, and collective laboratory with artists using communicative practices. Most of the letters were written between 1971-1973 while Flusser was working in Europe, in part to garner international approval and participation for the event. The correspondences also testify to a period of inflection in Flusser’s approach to the visual arts and for the ambitious outlook on artistic practices and their discursive potential for social and political transformation. I suggest that Flusser has used a curatorial approach as a means to embed his philosophy in everyday life through the medium of the art exhibition. Flusser’s work was cut short due to funding issues and other contingencies before the proposition could be fully realized, leading ultimately to his permanent second exile in Europe in late 1973.
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- Löfgren, Isabel, et al.
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Mãe Preta (Black Mother)
- 2018. - 1
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Bok (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- MÃE PRETA | BLACK MOTHER is an artistic research and exhibition project by Brazilian artists Isabel Löfgren and Patricia Gouvêa. The project aims to trace the connections between the representation of motherhood in slavery visual archives, media archives and the voices of black women and mothers in Brazil today through works in performance, photography, mixed media and video. The publication is an anthology with essays by renowned scholars and authors and is also a caatalogue of artworks and exhibition documentation. Collaborating authors are: sabel Löfgren, Patricia Gouvêa, Temi Odumosu, Alex Castro, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Júlio César Medeiros da Silva Pereira, Martina Ahlert and Qiana Mestrich.
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- Löfgren, Isabel
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Permission to Remember : The Wonderful Harbor and the Tourism of Pain
- 2016
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Ingår i: Hjärnstorm. - 0348-6958. ; :123-124, s. 91-102
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Forskningsöversikt (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- In preparation for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, urban renewal in Rio de Janeiro's harbor area unearthed archaeological remains regarding the city's slave past, such as the old harbor, Cais do Valongo, used in the early 19th century to disembark thousands of captive Africans in Brazil. The article recounts efforts made by the state as well as civil society in upholding the . memory of slavery in Rio de Janeiro's colonial downtown vis-a-vis current perspectives on race, memory and cultural heritage in contested sites that reveal the enduring legacy of slavery in former slave societies. The article focus on cultural initiatives that show the inner conflicts between the need to memoralize slavery as historical reparation against the state's spectacularization of these monuments and archaeological findings for the sake of creating an image of the city for global events.
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- Löfgren, Isabel
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Practicing a Politics of Artistic and Communicative Trans Care : Casa Chama and Transvestigender Rights in Brazil
- 2021
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Ingår i: Global Perspectives on NGO Communication for Social Change. - New York : Routledge. - 9781032037134 - 9781003188636 ; , s. 179-196
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Transgender, transsexual, transvestite, nonbinary, and gender fluid—or transvestigender1—individuals in Brazil constitute the most marginalized population in terms of human rights, social policy, and cultural acceptance. In public discourse and media, trans individuals are often portrayed as gender nonconforming and are culturally and politically stigmatized. Casa Chama is a non-governmental organization (hereafter NGO) based in São Paulo, Brazil, that functions as both a shelter and a network for trans individuals. Based in principles of organizational mutual aid (Spade, 2020) and an ethics of care, the “casa” [house] provides a safe working environment and space for cultural events. In embracing a “family” philosophy guided by Casa Chama’s motto “quem acolhe é acolhido, quem é acolhido acolhe” (those who care are cared for, those who are taken care of, provide care) (Casa Chama, 2021), the NGO connects social change networks and provides a platform to amplify trans voices and promote political participation.
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- Löfgren, Isabel
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Satellite Lifelines : Media, Art, Migration and the Crisis of Hospitality in Divided Cities
- 2020. - 1
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Isabel Löfgren takes us to the Stockholm high-rise suburbs to show us how art projects and transnational media intermingle with the multicultural urban reality. In this book, she discusses the architecture of her project Satellitstaden, where her artistic interventions with the satellite dishes on façades highlight the voices of its inhabitants through participatory and co-generative artistic processes. In these peripheries, satellite subjects emerge, orbiting around multiple identifications, foregrounding the notion of spatial justice, the subaltern and the importance of grassroots movements. The book outlines a philosophy of hospitality in response to the turn in Europe against refugees, which Löfgren considers to be a crisis of hospitality, not a crisis of migration. Löfgren discusses the ethics that govern the relationship between guest and host, the self and Other. Who has the right to belong? On what terms? She argues for a hospitable turn in art, urban planning and media, in which guest-host relationships are performed, mediated and problematized. We urgently need to re-imagine the ethics of hospitality and habitability for the near future. The 2020 pandemic forces us to reassess our philosophy and practice of human contact, re-engineering how we relate to the Other, and what hospitality means in the face of a global halt.
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- Löfgren, Isabel
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Semiotics of Care And Violence : Memetization And Necropolitics During the Brazilian 2018 Presidential Elections in the Action #Mariellemultiplica
- 2022. - 1
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Ingår i: Critical Meme Reader II. - Amsterdam : Institute of Network Cultures. - 9789492302908 - 9789492302915 ; , s. 51-73
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Brazil, memes and forms of memetic communication have become a second language, opening up new forms of expression, action and organization. These stem from increasingly polarized positions in society providing the opening for a process of endemic memetization of political discourse. For conservative groups in Brazil, memes have also become a medium of political education and beyond that, images, memes and memetic gestures on social media have become the site of political tensions. In 2018, the general elections that put Jair Bolsonaro in power and the unsolved political assassination of leftist Rio de Janeiro city councilor Marielle Franco, ambushed by armed militia are two of the most significant political events of 2018 in Brazil that precipitated a memetic battle between conservatives and progressives. When we look specifically at the narrower genre of ‘humorous’memes from Bolsonaro supporters, we often see memes promoting violence ‘for laughs’: for instance, making fun of city councilor Marielle Franco’s political assassination as astrategy for promoting and reinforcing Bolsonaro’s violent discourse and necropolitics that has since been normalized and sanctioned by large portions Brazilian society even beyond the electoral period. By contrast, when we look at tactical media by Marielle Franco's supporters claim for justice, we find memetic forms taking shape as artivism and collective actions, such as #MarielleMultiplica. The chapter unpacks how memes became important political tools that articulate extreme-right necoropolitical discourse on the one hand, and how leftist discourses of care and protection were mobilized regarding the assassination of Marielle Franco in widely different modes of production, distribution and circulation of meanings.
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- Löfgren, Isabel
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What would a Swedish mine be without a party? On metals, minerals, and love during the “green” transition : Climate propaganda in The Swedish Mine advertising campaign
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Media Studies. - : Nordicom. - 2003-184X. ; 5:1, s. 194-218
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article contributes to the growing field of critical studies about the visual politics of the green transition by highlighting the role of communication and the creative industries in promoting “green” ideologies. “The Swedish Mine” advocacy advertising campaign, launched in 2021, is presented as a case study to illustrate how lifestyle advertising genres are used to leverage the emotional engagement of progressive, mining-sceptical urban audiences to increase the social acceptance of intensified mining despite increasing climate awareness. Using visual culture studies, feminist, and critical race theory approaches to analyse the campaign materials, I explore how the campaign aestheticises “green” industrial progress by tokenising multiculturalism, fetishising consumption, and romancing national identity. As a counterpoint, I examine how social media reactions and activist responses illustrate tensions between mining acceptance and mining resistance in Swedish society. I conclude by positioning the campaign rhetoric in various forms of climate propaganda and highlighting the limits of the engineering of public consent for a “green” transition when such attempts use emotions as sites of “cognitive extraction” to cover technological and capitalist imperatives that ultimately promote Sweden as a leading mining nation.
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Mediatisations North and South : Epistemological and Empirical Perspectives from Sweden and Brazil
- 2024
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Between 2019 and 2023, media researchers from Södertörn University in UNISINOS and Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM) in Brazil, engaged in a collaborative effort to explore Scandinavian and South American perspectives on mediatisation, connecting universities from opposite sides of the world.The project aimed to promote a nuanced understanding of mediatisation theory from different cultural perspectives and media studies traditions, dismantle epistemological barriers, and provide new insights into societies undergoing the process of mediatisation.The chapters presented in this volume are grounded on the mobility of researchers across both countries where a productive knowledge exchange contributed to diversify epistemological, empirical, and methodological approaches to mediatisation theory, and provide new perspectives on mediatisation theory in contested media scenarios in Sweden, Brazil, and beyond.
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- Sandström, Angelica, et al.
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Distinct aberrations in cerebral pain processing differentiating patients with fibromyalgia from patients with rheumatoid arthritis
- 2022
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Ingår i: Pain. - : Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health). - 0304-3959 .- 1872-6623. ; 163:3, s. 538-547
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The current study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to directly compare disease-relevant cerebral pain processing in well-characterized patient cohorts of fibromyalgia (FM, nociplastic pain) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA, nociceptive pain). Secondary aims were to identify pain-related cerebral alterations related to the severity of clinical symptoms such as pain intensity, depression, and anxiety. Twenty-six patients with FM (without RA-comorbidity) and 31 patients with RA (without FM-comorbidity) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging while stimulated with subjectively calibrated painful pressures corresponding to a pain sensation of 50 mm on a 100-mm visual analogue scale. Stimulation sites were at the most inflamed proximal interphalangeal joint in the left hand in patients with RA and the left thumbnail in patients with FM, 2 sites that have previously been shown to yield the same brain activation in healthy controls. The current results revealed disease-distinct differences during pain modulation in RA and FM. Specifically, in response to painful stimulation, patients with FM compared to patients with RA exhibited increased brain activation in bilateral inferior parietal lobe (IPL), left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG)/ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC) encapsulating left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and right IFG/vlPFC. However, patients with RA compared to patients with FM exhibited increased functional connectivity (during painful stimulation) between right and left IPL and sensorimotor network and between left IPL and frontoparietal network. Within the FM group only, anxiety scores positively correlated with pain-related brain activation in left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and right IFG/vlPFC, which further highlights the complex interaction between affective (ie, anxiety scores) and sensory (ie, cerebral pain processing) dimensions in this patient group.
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- Seuferling, Philipp, et al.
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Diraya.media : Learning Media Literacy With and From Media Activists
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Journal of Communication. - Los Angeles : University of Southern California's Annenberg Center for Communication. - 1932-8036. ; 17, s. 901-919
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Taking stock of media activist initiatives in the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region, this article discusses findings from case study research informing the media education platform “diraya.media.” Through participatory methodology, the case studies and the bilingual (Arabic/English) website aim to analyze and strengthen local media literacy pedagogies by learning with and from media activists in the region. This article reports on six case studies of SWANA-based media activist organizations and pedagogical material for the media literacy classroom. The goal is to reflect and discuss the methodological and theoretical ramifications of Diraya as a pedagogical space for reflection and knowledge exchange between media activists and other learners in the region and beyond. Drawing on the participating activists’ experiences, Diraya is embedded in the turn toward radical media education and civic media literacies, contributing to (1) de-Westernizing media literacy education, (2) creating more learning materials based on local activist knowledge as important resources to increase media literacy, and (3) enabling of long-term collaborations by archiving and making public experiences from SWANA-based media activists.
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The Planalto riots : Making and unmaking a failed coup in Brazil
- 2024
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Historical events often carry an air of uncertainty, like a fog that veils their boundaries. Questions arise about when the historical process leading to a coup d’état, or in the case examined in this book, an attempted coup, truly begins. How is it orchestrated? What delineates its scope? Who are the involved actors, and what fields of study and knowledge are essential for comprehending it?This book delves into the attempted coup that transpired on January 8, 2023, in Brasilia, Brazil, following the defeat of Jair Bolsonaro and the inauguration of his successor, President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva. On that day, thousands of extremist Bolsonaro supporters invaded, sacked, and vandalized federal government buildings in Brasília with the aim of inciting a military coup against the Lula da Silva government and reinstating Jair Bolsonaro as the president of Brazil.The essays and artistic interventions in this collection aim to unravel the various dimensions of this pivotal event. They discuss the origins, occurrence, and aftermath of anti-democratic Bolsonarist mobilizations, with a specific focus on the communicative and symbolic aspects of this historical occurrence.From examining historical aspects to exploring aesthetic meanings, communication strategies, and the dynamics of a collective unconscious, “The Planalto Riots: Making and Unmaking a Failed Coup in Brazil” provides a critical perspective on the intricate process of how an attempted coup is both constructed and dismantled.
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