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- Svalastog, Anna Lydia
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Att analysera och teoretisera kön och religion : Förslag till nytt religionsbegrepp
- 2009
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Ingår i: Marburg Journal of Religion. - 1612-2941. ; 14:1, s. 1-17
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While specialists in gender studies often refer to religion they seldom have recourse to carefullyconceived definitions of it. The problem of definition is explored here in terms of its plurality ofexpressions and interpretation, internal tensions and change, and similarities and relations whichcross traditions which are often perceived as being separate and distinct. Myth and ritual are takento be of central importance, both being understood as gendered and bodily constituted. Theoreticalinspiration is drawn from Wittgenstein's understanding of meaning as being constituted contextuallyand bodily and thus inseparable from social life. In this persepctive, religious language is a more orless precise act whose meaning will differ depending on the context, agents and agendas involved.Specific arguments relating to meaning and action are also drawn from the work of M. Douglas andL. Bäckman, both of whom have deconstructed and discussed (post-)colonial conceptualizations ofculture. Their elaboration of potentiality and change has been of special interest. In sum, religion isregarded as (1)a dynamic and ambiguous field of meanings that is continuously created andconstituted through human interaction (2) always gendered (3)bodily expressed and constituted (4)composed of myth, ritual and time concepts (5) a cource of continuity as well as of change inpresent social interaction (6) transmitted and renewed through mytho-poets, and (7)subject toanalysis in terms of power, with reference to social interaction, socioeconomic conditions and thewider context.
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- Svalastog, Anna Lydia, et al.
(författare)
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Comparative analysis of the risk-handling procedures for gene technology applications in medical and plant science
- 2006
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Ingår i: Science and Engineering Ethics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1353-3452 .- 1471-5546. ; 12:3, s. 465-479
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we analyse how the risks associated with research on transgenic plants are regulated in Sweden. The paper outlines the way in which pilot projects in the plant sciences are overseen in Sweden, and discusses the international and national background to the current regulatory system. The historical, and hitherto unexplored, reasons for the evolution of current administrative and legislative procedures in plant science are of particular interest. Specifically, we discuss similarities and differences in the regulation of medicine and plant science, and we examine the tendency towards dichotomizing risk — focusing on social/ethical risks in medicine and biological risks in plant science. The context of this article is the Synpraxia research project, an inter-disciplinary program combining expertise in sciences and the humanities.
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