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- Andersson, Renée, 1979-
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Gender mainstreaming as feminist politics : A critical analysis of the pursuit of gender equality in Swedish local government
- 2018
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Gender mainstreaming is often described as a strategy to increase gender equality in states and other institutions and/or to make them more gender aware. It should however be considered a contested concept, and the aim of this thesis is to produce a critical perspective and empirical knowledge about whether, and if so how, gender mainstreaming contributes to a more (gender) equal society. The production of gender mainstreaming as gender equality policy is investigated, using both feminist new institutionalism and discourse theory.The study investigates whether, and if so how, gender mainstreaming is facilitating new public management by transforming the ambitions of feminist politics into a neoliberal strategy adapted for public administration.The case examined in this study is a local government gender mainstreaming project conducted in a municipality in Sweden. The case also includes vertical and horizontal outlooks and is categorized as a critical case. To study "what is not there" in the empirical material, the concepts of silences and silencing are used as both theoretical and methodological tools.The thesis shows that gender mainstreaming produces a gender equality policy that is disconnected from political parties, and that gender mainstreaming becomes a common good. This, I argue, produces a non-political politics, which includes a governing technique that privileges political consensus, articulated in terms of non-conflict and win-win.The thesis identifies a conflation between gender mainstreaming, as a strategy, with the policy objective of gender equality. Gender mainstreaming did not create space for addressing gender-based violence, or include the voice of the women’s movement, from which it can be concluded that gender mainstreaming does not contribute to feminist politics. This could have societal consequences and can influence, or even hinder, actual political change.
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- Carbin, Maria, 1972-, et al.
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Vad är ett rent sexobjekt?
- 2001
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In: Aftonbladet. - : Schibsted Forlag. - 1103-9000. ; :13 Aug, s. 5-
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Discourse and ideology: story-telling, images, and the space of conflicts
- 2011
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Editorial proceedings (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This section invites papers from the poststructuralist and anti/post-foundationalist approach topolitics. Submissions may include case studies or theoretical work, or a combination of both. Weparticularly invite papers dealing with contingency and conflict, and meaning-making as a form ofpolitics. The papers may wish to focus on concepts, discourse, logics, narratives, rhetoric or specifictropes, and may draw from a range of theoretical perspectives associated with the linguistic turnand poststructuralism (Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, Laclau, Mouffe, Rancière, Skinner, etc.).The section hopes to focus on the political, and would like to devote some time in making clearthe contributions of this kind of approaches to the study of politics - rather than cultural studies, linguistics or sociology, just to name a few neighbouring fields where the focus may differ.The empirical case studies may range from an area specific focus (e.g. Latin America, Europeanpolitics), to theoretico-empirical topics such as feminism, ethnicity or populism, or urban politics,politics of the past, and politics and art. Politics under investigation may take place on the global, national, transnational, regional or local level. The study of language, metaphors and visual imagesor sounds – or indeed the classics, time and space – is encouraged but not expected. Dealing with poststructuralist and anti/post-foundationalist approach to politics, this sectionproposes to interrogate those precise moments and ideas of ground and grounding, rupture andcontingency – besides discussing the issues presented in the panels. How and what to study, whenstudying the political or politics in its various dimensions? A large part of the section will be held only in English to meet the demand for such panels byinternational researchers working in the Nordic countries, who are expected to join Nordic colleagues at the NOPSA Conference 2011.
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- Elander, Ingemar, 1942-, et al.
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Faith-based engagement and place : Searching for a Swedish muslim identity
- 2013
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In a recently published study of the political psychology of globalisation and Muslims in the West, the authors identify three ideal type strategies of identity formation among Muslim immigrants: retreatism, essentialism, and engagement. The authors themselves normatively argue in favour of the latter, suggesting that both majority and minority communities in society should strive to become “postnationalist, self-dialogical, and engaged in dialogue with a range of others. Activist, assertive, and agonistic rather than antagonistic”. They conclude that “Muslims are positioned to contribute toward new cosmopolitical potentialities for a renewed pluralistic global order” (Kinnvall and Nesbitt-Larking 2010). Starting with the notion that emotional geography “commonly concerns itself with the emotions that people feel for one another and, more extensively for places, for landscapes, for objects in landscapes and in specific situations” (Pile 2010: 15), we want to explore how Muslim immigrants arriving in Sweden emotionally and in action identify with and take part in social life at their place of arrival, i.e. their housing estate, their town/city and in their new country more generally. Focus will be on a few selected people, and a civic association, who openly refer to their Muslim identities as a faith-based driver in order to help their fellow immigrants to adapt to and identify themselves as members of their new habitat. Methodologically we will draw upon narratives told by Muslim immigrants, a recently established association of Muslim adult education, media articles, and observations done by ourselves. We will also, briefly, draw the attention to the “counter-emotional” islamophobian stance against Muslim immigrants in general as displayed in Swedish society. In conclusion we will reflect upon and critically discuss the challenges and potentialities of an emotionally engaged Muslim standpoint in front of a rather ignorant, partly even negative domestic population.
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- Elander, Ingemar, 1942-, et al.
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Swedish muslims and secular society : faith-based engagement and place
- 2015
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In: Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0959-6410 .- 1469-9311. ; 26:2, s. 145-163
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article sets out to explore how Muslims in Sweden identify with and create social life in the place where they live, that is, in their neighbourhood, in their town/city and in Swedish society at large. In a paradoxical religious landscape that includes a strong Lutheran state church heritage and a Christian free-church tradition, in what is, nevertheless, a very secular society, Muslims may choose different strategies to express their faith, here roughly described as “retreatist,” “engaged” or “essentialist/antagonistic.” Focusing on a non-antagonistic, engaged stance, and drawing upon a combination of authors' interviews, and materials published in newspapers and on the Internet, we first bring to the fore arguments by Muslim leaders in favour of creating a Muslim identity with a Swedish brand, and second give some examples of local Muslim individuals, acting as everyday makers in their neighbourhood, town or city. Third, we also give attention to an aggressively negative Islamophobic stance expressed both in words and in physical violence in parts of Swedish society. In conclusion, we reflect upon the challenges and potentialities of an emotionally engaged, dialogue-orientated Muslim position facing antagonistic interpretations of Islam, and an ignorant, sometimes Islamophobic, environment.
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- Fridolfsson, Charlotte, et al.
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Between Securitization and Counter-Securitization : Church of Sweden Opposing the Turn of Swedish Government Migration Policy
- 2021
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In: Politics, Religion & Ideology. - : Routledge. - 2156-7689 .- 2156-7697. ; 22:1, s. 40-63
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Taking our point of departure in securitization theory the aim is to analyze how the Lutheran Church of Sweden responded when the Swedish Government in late autumn 2015 made a sudden halt to a previously generous posture towards refugees. Applying the concept of counter-securitization we demonstrate how the Archbishop, and other Church leaders, strongly contested this official policy shift, legitimating their standpoint by referring to a radical, cosmopolitan reading of the gospel. Employees and lay members were mobilized to support immigrants through protest, everyday service, consultation and lobbying. Articulating a view that securitization should not be reserved for cases of a perceived existential military threat is highly relevant for the debate about the role of religion and secularism. Securitization and counter-securitization appear as two complementary approaches, where the Church may stand up as a bulwark defending immigration rights in contradistinction to retrotopian and xenophobic interpretations of the gospel. We contribute to this field by illustrating how research should not be caught in a one-dimensional reading of 'security' and 'securitization', but has to be interpreted within a non-linear, non-binary framework, with a sensitive ear to different political, cultural, social and religious contexts, not forgetting the time dimension.
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- Fridolfsson, Charlotte, 1972-, et al.
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Chair Workshop 14. "The workings of political discourses"
- 2017
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In: NoPSA 2017. - Linköping.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- 14. The workings of political discoursesDescription This section invites papers from the post-structuralist and anti/post-foundationalist approach to politics. Submissions may include case studies or theoretical work, or a combination of both. The papers may draw from a range of theoretical perspectives associated with the linguistic turn and poststructuralism (Foucault, Laclau, Mouffe, Derrida, Lacan, Rancière, Skinner, Freeden etc.).The aim of the workshop is to highlight the workings and contents of political discourses, ideologies, hegemonic projects etc, in their contingent struggles and conflicts over the meaning and content of central social and political issues. Papers may approach this question in a variety of directions. Theoretical questions could include for example the following: What is radical politics and/or democracy today? What is the (radical) political subject? Does populism constitute a specific political form? What, if anything makes discourses political? Are political ideologies and hegemonic projects constituted by demands, political concepts or something else? Are there specific organisational forms – movements, the party form – linked to radical politics?Empirically we welcome analyses of political ideologies and projects all across the spectrum: local protests, new types of parties, to analysis of new forms of populism, Podemos and Syriza but also Putin, Trump and Sanders; global, glocal or national issues of climate change, political and institutional change, and questions of democracy. The language of the work-shop is in English.
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- Fridolfsson, Charlotte, 1972-
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Deconstructing political protest
- 2006
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Part I of the thesis Deconstructing Political Protest is an introduction to the theoretical, epistemological and (anti)ontological approach guiding the analysis in the articles comprising Part II. Investigations into the ideological organisation of political protests are the focus in all four articles. The questions asked concern what makes some subjects or political gestures tolerable and legitimate and others less so. Answering this type of questions involves deconstructing the political processes where the modes and subjects of protest are conditioned. The ideological organisation of protest is here identified as a result of power struggles. Ideology is here a closure of the social, i.e. the non-acknowledgement of the instability of how our world is organised. The four articles accordingly investigate the openings and aporias in discourses on political protest, and the struggle between hegemony and its unmaking, rather than search for a hermeneutic whole. An occupation, a demonstration and a referendum serve as examples when deconstructing discourses organising political protests. What these three events have in common is how the “laws” regulating political protests are broken, yet it is exactly when the laws are broken that they appear as an independent structure. The illegal occupation is additionally breaking the law regulating political protest by appearing innocous in the hegemonic discourse. Activists occupying an operation ward are in this example not condemned as criminals but are instead respected as an anomaly deviating from regular problematic occupants. Similarly street demonstrations in the second example relate to a violent outside deviating from the normal peaceful demonstration, but in this example the outside violence blends into the identity of all activist through various metaphors. The third example examines how a referendum, formally a well-respected mode of protest, can still be questioned in a hegemonic discourse. The events studied challenge the notion of what constitutes reasonable political activity, but simultaneously maintain the meaning of, and become the condition of possibility for, the acceptable and unacceptable political protest since the laws regulationg political protest are determined by their transgressions.
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- Fridolfsson, Charlotte, et al.
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Faith and place : constructing Muslim identity in a secular Lutheran society
- 2013
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In: Cultural Geographies. - : SAGE Publications (UK and US). - 1474-4740 .- 1477-0881. ; 20:3, s. 319-337
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Non-Christian immigrants coming to Sweden encounter a mainly secular society with a strong Lutheran heritage, as physically symbolized by the more than 3500 church towers scattered throughout the country, often in central locations in cities and villages. In this landscape dotted with Christian landmarks, there are few visible physical spaces linked to the identity of Muslim immigrants. The aim of this article is to analyse the religious and cultural significance that Muslim immigrants attach to the presence or absence of mosques in their neighbourhood. Drawing upon a conceptual framework that distinguishes between physical, mental and social space, the analysis focuses on the meaning of place and the identity attached to the mosques. The empirical basis for the study includes interviews with imams complemented by articles and other written materials published in newspapers and on the internet. In the concluding section, we return to and reflect upon our overarching question: the relationship between faith and place in a multi-religious, multi-ethnic society. As illustrated in the article, mosques not only function as internal markers of religious faith but also serve as arenas where links can be developed to Christian and secular parts of Swedish society. Thus, they are important in providing both bonding and bridging capital, thus making it possible to develop a Muslim identity in Sweden.
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- Fridolfsson, Charlotte, 1972-, et al.
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Faith-based organizations and Social Exclusion in Ireland and in Denmark
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- What is the changing and differentiated role played by faith-based organisations (FBOs), in fighting social distress and aiming for social justice in cities in the Netherlands? Based on a series of semi-structured interviews over a period of time and a desk study of FBOs, this paper draws on relations between urban governance and citizenship practices to tease out the implications for FBOs in politics of social justice. We argue that neoliberalisation: (1), opens spaces for the ‘reaching out’ and ‘de-privatising’ of FBOs into the urban public realm in new and sometimes contrasting ways; and (2), creates incentives for FBOs to professionalise and maximise efficiency, heralding a new entrepreneurial approach in the urban politics of social justice. Referring to the Oudewijken Pastoraat and the House of Hope in Rotterdam, we reveal striking differences in philosophy and methodology of faith responses to social distress. Changing governance of urban neighbourhoods rooted in professionalisation captures part of the explanation. We draw attention to the incremental and contested revalorising of faith actors as the informal, but increasingly professionalising, seat or underside of traditional social democratic welfare provision in the Netherlands. The paper concludes with a reflection on questions for new geographical inquiry on FBOs and cities.
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- Fridolfsson, Charlotte, et al.
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Faith-based organizations and welfare state retrenchment in Sweden : substitute or complement?
- 2012
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In: Politics and Religion. - : Cambridge University Press. - 1755-0483 .- 1755-0491. ; 5:3, s. 634-654
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Local governments in Europe are facing difficulties in meeting citizens' demands for welfare provision. This opens new opportunities for profit as well as non-profit providers of social welfare. Faith-based organizations (FBOs) are one type of non-governmental organizations addressed by governments to complement or replace parts of public welfare provision. This article gives some examples of FBOs in action as providers of welfare in a European context, with a particular focus on Sweden. Following the introduction, the second part locates the phenomenon of FBOs within the scholarly debate about secularism/post-secularism as related to multi-level governance. The third part gives an overview of potential roles of FBOs in welfare provision combating poverty and social exclusion, illustrated by a few examples from European contexts. Focus in the fourth part is upon the role of FBO engagement in Sweden as developing after World War II. It is concluded that no system is all encompassing in catering to those who suffer from poverty and social exclusion. There will always be a need for the competence and avant-garde role potentially provided by FBOs. However, due to historical circumstances FBOs in Sweden have been, and still are, complementary rather than an outright alternative to public welfare provision.
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- Fridolfsson, Charlotte, et al.
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Faith community works in Sweden
- 2013
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In: Working faith. - Milton Kenyes : Paternoster Press. - 9781842277430 - 184227743X ; , s. -249
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- Fridolfsson, Charlotte, 1972-, et al.
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FBOs and Social Exclusion in Sweden
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In: Faith-based organisations and Social Exclusion in European cities. - Leuven : Acco. ; , s. 634-654
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This report forms part of a wider pan-European research project on Faith-Based Organisations and Exclusion in European Cities (FACIT) funded by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme. Researchers from seven European countries are addressing a common research agenda to investigate the role of Faith-Based Organisations (FBOs) in tackling different forms of social exclusion in urban contexts, and are focusing on a number of significant questions. How are FBOs positioned in combating social exclusion and promoting social cohesion? How has this role changed over time? What are the implications of FBO involvement for policy and governance in different nations? The first task of the research teams has been to undertake a mapping of the involvement of national-level FBOs in tackling social exclusion. In this report we present the findings of that mapping exercise for the UK.
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- Fridolfsson, Charlotte, et al.
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FBOs and social exclusion in Sweden
- 2009
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In: Faith-based organisations and social exclusion in European cities. - Leuven : Acco. - 9789033475504 ; , s. 161-196
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- Fridolfsson, Charlotte, et al.
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Ideologi i makt och motstånd
- 2016
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In: Fronesis. - 1404-2614. ; :52-53, s. 8-21
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- Fridolfsson, Charlotte, 1972-
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Multiplying the Unique
- 2011
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In: Politics and the Arts in a Time of Crisis and Anxiety. - University of Iceland.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Twelve small forest huts were built during the mid-1990s, nearby the lake of Skärsjön in a rural part of Sweden renowned for its age-old iron making industry. They were constructed with economic support by the local municipality and the National Labour Market Board, and modeled after charcoal workers’ lodges. Ten years later an entrepreneur opened up a hostel with an eco-friendly profile at the premises, in cooperation with The Swedish Tourist Association. Guests now stay over in the charcoal workers’ simple wooden huts, fetch drinking water in a fresh forest well, cook food on an open fire and wash the dishes under a small waterfall in a nearby creek. Wildlife adventures such as moose safaris or wolf howling tours are offered to the visitors upon request. The operation is called Kolarbyn [literally the charcoal burner village]. The ideological organization of the land and its nature – as in the actual soil, vegetation and the role of man – has changed since the building of Kolarbyn. Selective parts of a mining heritage conservation discourse is marked with new meanings and incorporated in an eco-tourism imaginary. The unique outdoor experience also produces the tourist as a busy city man on a merely brief visit to the countryside. Kolarbyn has won several prestigious national and international awards and is featured in international tourism guides and the coffee table book genre illustrating “unusual hotels”. This landscape is moreover overdetermined and contains more assets than the local natural qualities and a cultural heritage. It also borrows ingredients (such as mythic tales and special rituals) from other stagings of unique places, which introduces a paradox. Elements from other unique places are included, so this could be recognized, sanctioned and used as precisely a unique place. By invoking singularity, the place simultaneously multiplies as it becomes identifiable as one among many unique hotels.
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- Fridolfsson, Charlotte, 1972-, et al.
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Nancy Fraser
- 2015
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In: Samtida politisk teori. - Stockholm : Tankekraft. - 9789188203052 ; , s. 177-205
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- Fridolfsson, Charlotte, 1972-
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Om intelligensernas jämlikhet
- 2014
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In: Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift. - Lund. - 0039-0747. ; 116:4, s. 469-471
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- Fridolfsson, Charlotte
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Place identity of a rural Swedish landscape
- 2013
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Twelve small forest huts were built during the mid-1990s, in a rural part of Sweden renowned for its age-old iron making industry. They were constructed as a social action program for unemployed workers. With support by the local municipality and the National Labour Market Board, the huts were modeled after olden charcoal workers’ lodges. Ten years later an entrepreneur opened up a hostel with an eco-friendly profile at the premises, in cooperation with The Swedish Tourist Association. Guests now stay over in the charcoal workers’ simple huts, fetch drinking water in a fresh forest well and cook food on an open fire. Wildlife adventures, such as moose safaris, are offered to the visitors upon request.Organisation of the landscape – as in the actual soil, vegetation and the role of man – has changed over the centuries. Selective parts of a mining heritage conservation is marked with new meanings and incorporated in an eco-tourism discourse. The unique outdoor experience also produces the visitors as a busy city man on a merely brief visit to the countryside. The project has won several prestigious national and international awards and is featured in international tourism guides. This landscape contains more assets than the local natural qualities and a cultural heritage. It also borrows ingredients (such as the use of mythic tales and special rituals) from other stagings of unique places, which introduces a paradox. Elements from other unique places are included, so this could be recognized, sanctioned and used as precisely a unique place.
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- Fridolfsson, Charlotte
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Political protest and metaphor
- 2008
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In: Politics, language and metaphor. - London : Routledge. - 9780415417358 ; , s. 132-148
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- Fridolfsson, Charlotte
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Politics, protest and the threatening outside : a discourse analysis of events at an EU summit
- 2004
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In: Distinktion. - 1600-910X .- 2159-9149. ; 5:1, s. 79-92
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Social movement protests at an EU summit in Gothenburg in 2001 are here analysed using discourse theory. This perspective envisages the constructed character of subjects, identities and discourses structuring the social. A hegemonic project, attempting to explain the antagonisms at the summit, was emphasised through signifying chains and the use of metaphor. The hegemonic effort of rescuing a unified and fully sutured social, instituted a constitutive outside—the deviant activist—explaining the interruptions in the idea of liberal democratic politics, here substantiated by the summit. Power seems crucial for what forms of protests are considered acceptable, and ultimately for what is viewed as valid political subjects or legitimate political demands.
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- Fridolfsson, Charlotte, 1972-
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Trosbaserade organisationer och den svenska välfärden
- 2011
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In: Perspektiv på offentlig verksamhet i utveckling. - Örebro : Örebro universitet. - 9789176687819
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Den tvärvetenskapliga Forskarskolan offentlig verksamhet i utveckling(FOVU) är ett samarbete mellan Örebro kommun och Örebro universitet.Forskarskolan startades hösten 2008 med avsikten att stödja och inspireratill utvecklingsarbeten i offentlig förvaltning, samt samla och inriktaforskningsgrupper vid universitetet kring offentliga utvecklingsfrågor. Tackvare detta unika samarbete mellan Örebro kommun och Örebro universitethar ett flertal doktorander antagits inom ämnesområdenaNationalekonomi, Företagsekonomi, Informatik och Statsvetenskap. Två århar nu gått sedan forskarskolan startade och denna antologi kan ses som enhalvtidrapport, där delar av den forskning som genomförts inom dess ramarpresenteras.Antologin består av tolv kapitel från doktorander och forskare som ärverksamma i forskarskolan eller på olika sätt knutna till dess verksamhet.Avsikten är att belysa ett antal centrala problemställningar och resonemangi relation till offentlig förvaltning och samtidigt ge exempel på denforskning som bedrivs inom FOVU och dess angränsande miljöer. Uppslagettill antologin har växt fram i diskussioner mellan forskarskolansdoktorander som också har ansvarat för samordningen av arbetet.Antologin spänner över en mängd frågor och områden vilket belyser denoffentliga förvaltningens räckvidd och komplexitet. Kapitlens ordningbildar ett flöde där efterföljande kapitel på olika sätt relaterar till varandra.Alla kapitel knyter an till frågor om demokrati, styrning och effektivitetsom löper som en röd tråd genom antologin. En ständig utmaning förstyrningen av offentlig verksamhet ligger i balansen mellan effektivitet ochdemokrati. Demokrati är inte alltid effektivt, samtidigt mister effektivitetensitt värde utan den demokratiska förankringen. Nya utmaningar uppstår,nya lösningar prövas, bestående är dock denna balansakt. Det är därförhögst relevant att ha en kontinuerlig diskussion och kunskapsöverföringgällande dessa frågor, vilket vi ämnar bidra till genom denna antologi.
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