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Coloniality and Decolonisation in the Nordic region
- 2023
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book advances critical discussions about what coloniality, decoloniality and decolonization mean and imply in the Nordic region. It brings together analysis of complex realities from the perspectives of the Nordic peoples, a region that are often overlooked in current research, and explores the processes of decolonization that are taking place in this region. The book offers a variety of perspectives that engage with issues such as Islamic feminism and the progressive left; racialization and agency among Muslim youths; indigenizing distance language education for Sami; extractivism and resistance among the Sami; the Nordic international development endeavour through education; Swedish TV-reporting on Venezuela; creolizing subjectivities across Roma and non-Roma worlds and hierarchies; and the whitewashing and sanitization of decoloniality in the Nordic region. As such, this book extends much of the productive dialogue that has recently occurred internationally in decolonial thinking but also in the areas of critical race theory, whiteness studies, and postcolonial studies to concrete and critical problems in the Nordic region. This should make the book of considerable interest to scholars of history of ideas, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, international development studies, legal sociology and (intercultural) philosophy with an interest in coloniality and decolonial social change.
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- Näsman, Mattias, 1989-, et al.
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A promised land? : First summary of the research program
- 2023
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This document lays out the background for the research program “A promised land? Drivers, challenges and opportunities related to the (green) industrialization of Northern Sweden,” (nr. M22-0029) awarded by the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond’s in 2022. The document summarizes work in progress and may therefore be updated and republished in different versions according to the requirements of the program. This interdisciplinary program aims to understand the economic, social, and political challenges and opportunities of the ongoing industrial transformation in northern Sweden. A key element of the program is to identify drivers, obstacles, and preconditions in a historical, present, and forward-looking process-perspective.
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- Funke, Michael, 1966-
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Advertising of a national importance the Swedish Advertisers’ Association and the institutionalization of Sweden’s international advertising 1955-1972
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Historical Research in Marketing. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 1755-750X .- 1755-7518. ; 15:1, s. 1-24
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Swedish Advertisers’ Association role in institutional development of Swedish international advertising during 1955–1972.Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative analysis of organizational material to analyze institutional development of collective international advertising.Findings – A new postwar paradigm that focused on a consumer-oriented brand ideology enabled marketing nexecutives in the Swedish Advertisers’ Association to develop a new discourse on international advertising inSweden, which then was institutionalized within a national network on export promotion. The institutionalization process was supported by a corporatist system typical of smaller export dependent postwar European economies.Research limitations/implications – While based on a national case, this study points to the importance of understanding how advertising concepts are embedded within other economic, political and cultural systemsthan in those they originated in and how this contributes to a heterogenous implementation of similar ideas andpractices. This study also illustrates how members can use their association to institutionalize a new discourse on marketing and network with other actors to enhance the use and reputation of its ideas and practices.Practical implications – By highlighting the importance of analyzing both internal and external organizational relations, this study contributes to the research on history of marketing by making salient the importance of an institutional perspective to understand key processes in marketing. In practice neitherthe institutional perspective nor the explanatory power of discourse has received much attention, therefore the study results should be both interesting and valid for practitioners as well.Originality/value – The study of the historical development of international advertising is limited and often descriptive. This study contributes to the literature by using a theoretical and methodological approach to make salient how the interaction between discourse, marketing associations and other collective actors propelled the institutionalization of international advertising within a specific national context.
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- Funke, Michael, 1966-
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Swedish Advertisers’ Association and Institutional Development of Swedish Export Promotion Advertising 1955-1972
- 2021
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Ingår i: Marketing and Social Change. - Toronto : Conference on Historical Analysis and Research in Marketing (CHARM). ; , s. 37-40
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Purpose – To analyze the Swedish Advertisers’ Association role in the institutional development ofSwedish export promotion 1955-1972.Methodology/approach – Qualitative method, business interest organization theory, advertisingconcepts related to the historical development of marketing.Findings – Thanks to bottoms-up engagement of members in the mid-1950s, leading to the formationof the knowledge-exchange committee for members of the association (the E-group), the associationbecame crucial in enabling Swedish companies getting access to marketing resources when competingon foreign markets, as well as becoming a key player in supporting the collective export promotionefforts of the Swedish government. The E-Group increased member participation and knowledgeexchange among members, supporting professionalization and legitimacy of advertising practices.Limitations/implications – While based on a national case, the study illustrates how marketingassociations act in an institutional system, while being challenged by member demands to supplythem with adequate resources, highlighting the importance of analyzing both the collectiveorganizations and the political system they are part of to understand the historical development ofmarketing.Originality/ value – The history of export promotion and export advertising is not well studied on aninstitutional level. This study furthers knowledge of this significant aspect of marketing history aswell as the history of political economy, making salient the interaction between the state andorganized business interests in a key aspect of a national economy. This should interest the fields ofmarketing history as well as, business studies, economics and political science.Keywords – Advertising history, business history, export promotion, business associationClassification – Research paper
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- Westin, Lars, Professor, 1953-
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Unga kvinnor i Luleå
- 2020
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Luleå kommun har i förhållande till många jämförbara kommuner en låg andel kvinnor i befolkningen. Så har det varit under relativt lång tid. Det gäller även Norrbotten generellt i förhållande till andra län i Sverige. Luleå kan jämföras med Linköping. Båda städerna har i förhållande till sin befolkning en relativt hög andel män. Båda har universitet som signalerar en teknisk profil. Totalt sett är däremot inte LTU ett universitet med en starkt manlig studentgrupp. Endast en tredjedel av studenterna läser teknik och könsfördelningen bland studenterna på LTU är jämn.Den största enskilda mantalsskrivna åldersgruppen med kvinnor Luleå var 2016 de som är 23 år. Det är en i Sverige stor åldersgrupp och i den åldersgruppen fanns även betydlig fler män i kommunen. I åldrarna mellan 40 och 60 år råder huvudsakligen balans mellan könen medan andelen kvinnor är som störst efter sjuttioårsåldern. Framförallt är Luleå underrepresenterat med kvinnor i åldrarna 25 till 40 år. Det pekar på att fokus när det gäller åtgärder för att skapa ökad balans mellan män och kvinnor i Luleå bör riktas mot åtgärder som ökar möjligheten för familjebildande par, att efter studietiden bli delaktiga i och känna sig attraherade av Luleås bostads-, arbets-, kultur- och fritidsmarknader.En åtgärd för att åstadkomma det kan vara att öka rörligheten på arbets- och bostadsmarknaderna, öka risktagande och stärka entreprenörskapet bland de relativt stora kohorterna av invånare i medelåldern i Luleå. Det kan öppna upp för de yngre att komma in på arbets- och bostadsmarkanerna.Luleå bör framförallt sträva efter att växa snabbare och nå 100 000 invånare. Med ökat byggande blir det lättare för yngre att etablera sig och för äldre att söka nya utmaningar. I ett tillväxtprogram för kommunen bör andelen kvinnor växa snabbare än andelen män. Endast genom att sätta explicita delmål för detta kan hinder och flaskhalsar för att nå målet identifieras.
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- Groglopo, Adrián, 1967, et al.
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Coloniality and decolonisation in the Nordic region: An introduction
- 2023
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Ingår i: Groglopo, Adrián & Julia Suárez-Krabbe (2023).Coloniality and Decolonisation in the Nordic Region. Routledge: New York.. - New York : Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group. - 9781032274867 ; , s. 1-21
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter aims to further fruitful conversations about the meaning and implications of coloniality, decoloniality and decolonization in the Nordic region. Such a collective endeavour cannot bypass the perspectives and historical experience of people in the Nordic region who are produced as non-belonging, absent, criminal and/or barbaric in general, including ‘non-Western’ migrants and refugees, Afro-Nordics and Muslim communities, as well as the Romani and the indigenous communities of the region such as the Sami and Inuit. However, much of the decolonial scholarship in the Nordic region approaches coloniality through a poststructuralist and postcolonial lens and reproduces the coloniality of knowledge by ignoring and depoliticizing the radical political concepts and projects emanating the abovementioned peoples in the Nordic region and the colonized regions of the world, resulting in undertheoretization. On this basis, the chapter argues for the need of reclaiming the political, which involves theorizing the materiality of colonial politics in contemporary Nordic societies, including its imperial investments and political economy.
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- Funke, Michael, 1966-
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Business Associations and Institutional Development of Swedish Post-War Export Advertising
- 2022
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The study highlights the importance of business associations in institutional development in a political economy. Utilizing Streeck & Schmitter’s concept of two logics of collective action, in which interest group action is explained by internal relations (logic of membership) as well as external relations (logicof influence), the paper analyzes the Swedish Advertisers’ Association role in the institutional development of Swedish export advertising during 1955-1972.Using qualitative analysis ofassociational material to trace institutional development, the paper demonstrates that thanks to the logicof membership, expressed in bottom-up member engagement, the association’s leadership together with members established new institutional resources and services for export advertising during the second half of the 1950s. Among the initiatives were educational efforts, knowledge-exchange forums, national trademarks, and registries with information of foreign ad markets.As the competitiveness of Swedish exports was of national interest, the services attracted external actors, as the government, state agenciesand other business associations. Here the logic of influence, conveyed in increasing contacts between the association’s leadership and external representatives, embedded its institutions in a wider network of stakeholders in export promotion. This process was facilitated by the post-war dominance of corporatism, which emphasized cooperation between collective actors. The contributions of the association grew in size and importance until the formation of the Swedish Export Council in 1972, that redrew the institutional landscape of export promotion by forming a more centralized form of cooperation between the government and the export business community.Keywords advertising, business association, business interest organization, corporatism, economichistory, export promotion, institutions, marketing history, post-war, Sweden
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- Westin, Lars, Professor, 1953-
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Towards Electric Aviation in the Kvarken Region
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The markets for aircraft, airlines and airports are in a phase of major reconsideration, transition and change. The COVID-19 pandemic has made this process turbulent and even more acute. Even before the pandemic, travellers questioned fossil-based aviation, a sign of the shift in preferences amongconsumers. Aircraft producers and airlines had not reacted fast enough; airlines introduced various CO2 compensation schemes, but customers were not convinced. A shift from international air over to national and intra-continental rail had started. In addition, although the car industry was slow out of its start blocks, this part of the transport industry is now intensifying the development of electric engines, batteries, and other engines based on non-fossil fuel. Lastly, and inspired by this, electricaircraft appear to be entering the scene. In order for this vision to be realised, the industry of aviation has to change. Moreover, technical and design related attributes of electric, compared with fossil,aviation might move the competitive breaking points towards air, in relation to land- and sea-based transportation. One aspect of this is the assumed possibility of electric aviation to add new shortdistance routes to the airline network, especially over sea. The Kvarken strait between Finland andSweden, dividing the Bothnian Sea from the Gulf of Bothnia, is an example. This paper is a first investigation of the possibilities to establish a commercially viable regular commuter airline over the strait. Institutional solutions are proposed, as well as measures to be taken in order to reap the benefits of such a route.
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- Hultman, Johan, et al.
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A Resourcification Manifesto: Understanding the Social Process of Resources Becoming Resources
- 2021
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Ingår i: Research Policy. - : Elsevier BV. - 0048-7333. ; 50:9
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In times of major global interconnectedness and environmental change, the pressure to identify, create, and exploit new resources is certain to intensify. Given that there are unavoidable trade-offs, conflicts, and arenas for violence involved when increasingly more material and immaterial things are turned into resources, we call for explicit research on the very process – a process that we label resourcification. The concept of resourcification shifts attention from essentialist queries about the nature of resources to a focus on the social processes through which things are turned into resources. In search of a better understanding of resources in the Anthropocene and, in particular, an understanding about the way resources emerge and are used, resourcification offers a new conceptual framework that allows for a systematic search for knowledge about the diversity of contexts, conditions, modes, and temporalities of resourcification. This Resourcification Manifesto offers a theoretical and empirical framework for a radical and disruptive approach to innovation, sustainability, and management studies and policies.
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Contending Global Apartheid : Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Possibility
- 2023
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Contending Global Apartheid: Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Possibility spells out a plea for utopia in a crisis-ridden 21st century of unequal development, exclusionary citizenship, and forced migrations. The volume offers a collection of critical essays on human rights movements, sanctuary spaces, and the emplacement of antiracist conviviality in cities across North and South America, Europe, and Africa. Each intervention proceeds from the idea that cities may accommodate both a humanistic sensibility and a radical potential for social transformation. The figure of the 'migrant' is pivotal. It expounds the prospect of transversal solidarity to capture a plurality of commonalities and to abjure dichotomies between in-group and out-group, the national and the international, or society and institutions.
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