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- Enlund, Desirée, PhD, 1984-, et al.
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The role of sensors in the production of smart city spaces
- 2022
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Ingår i: Big Data and Society. - : SAGE Publications Ltd. - 2053-9517. ; 9:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Smart cities build on the idea of collecting data about the city in order for city administration to be operated more efficiently. Within a research project gathering an interdisciplinary team of researchers ? engineers, designers, gender scholars and human geographers ? we have been working together using participatory design approaches to explore how paying attention to the diversity of human needs may contribute to making urban spaces comfortable and safe for more people. The project team has deployed sensors collecting data on air quality, sound and mobility in a smart city testbed in Norrköping, Sweden. While these sensors are meant to capture an accurate ?map? of the street and what is going on along it, our interdisciplinary conversations around the sensors have revealed the heterogeneity both of smart city planning and spatial formulations of the city. The discussions have given rise to questions regarding the work that goes into constructing the sensor box itself, as well as the work of deploying it, and how these influence the ?map? that the sensors produce. In this paper, we draw on Lefebvre to explore how the sensors themselves produce smart spaces. We analyze how the box depends on perceived space to function (e.g. requiring electricity), and simultaneously it produces conceptualizations of space that are influenced by the materiality of the box itself (e.g. sensors being affected by heat and noise). Further, we explore how the (in)visibility of sensor technology influences lived space.
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- Enlund, Desirée, PhD, 1984-
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Ådalen igen : Från hungerstrejk till sjukvårdsockupation
- 2022
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Ingår i: Arbetarhistoria. - Huddinge, Sweden : Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek. - 0281-7446. ; :181-182, s. 66-75
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In 2015 protests started in response to planned cutbacks at the local hospital in the town of Sollefteå. The cutbacks affected mainly emergency and delivery care and the protests later developed into an occupation of the hospital entrance. Over the course of the protests, the mobilisation was framed in the light of emblematic historical struggles that had played out in the area. To mobilise people today, the protests drew on this ‘place trajectory’ of struggles that shaped the Swedish welfare state. This was a rather successful strategy, but connecting today’s struggles with those in the past brought to light some of the old conflict lines of the past, while at the same time it hid some of the issues in the current struggle, e.g. women’s work and working conditions in the affected hospital. Drawing on place trajectories in political contention thus seems to be an ambivalent strategy that can mobilise people but risks glossing over current issues in favour of historical connections.
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- Gotfredsen, Anne, et al.
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Precarious leisure in a teenage wasteland? : Intertwining discourses on responsibility and girls' place-making in rural Northern Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Youth Studies. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1367-6261 .- 1469-9680. ; 25:10, s. 1350-1366
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The relationship with place has been recognized as a significant dimension of rural youth leisure, both through the discursive constructions of place, but also as affective and embodied dimensions. This study captures these processes by applying the concept of place-making as a set of recurrent discursive processes, analyzing how girls in Northern Sweden engage in place-making alongside, beyond, and in contrast to dominant discourses on leisure, rurality and wellbeing. The study draws on data from photo-elicited focus groups with girls from two sports organizations. The discursive psychology analysis resulted in three interpretative repertoires. The first repertoire describes the sharp contrast between discourses of the 'rural dull' and how stressful the participants constructed their own places of leisure. The second illustrates the gendered discourses around what is considered to be productive and respectable leisure. The third shows how the participants are made responsible for the survival of their leisure. Through place-making, the participants shape places of leisure, affecting both themselves and their rural community. They engage in, conform to, and challenge place-making within discourses of responsibility and precariousness, creating space for their own initiatives, which are simultaneously shaped by the material conditions under which these practices take place.
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