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- Andersson, Catrine, et al.
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Swedish poly utopia : Dreams, revolutions, and crushed hopes
- 2022
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Ingår i: Sexualities. - : Sage Publications. - 1363-4607 .- 1461-7382.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Polyamory means having a sexual and/or intimate relationship with more than one person at a time. In this study, we use in-depth interviews with 22 persons in Sweden who have experience of polyamorous or non-monogamous relationships to explore how polyamory can include imagining utopian relationships and spaces. Thematic analysis was done which indicated narratives of politically invested attempts to create communal living or societal change that resists capitalist and heteronormative nuclear-family arrangements as well as stories of everyday events that do not explicitly involve political ambitions. The range of utopian dreams and practices of the non-monogamous participants in our study, we argue, are examples of what Muñoz calls concrete utopias, filled with joy and laden with disappointment in the face of potentiality and reality.
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- Appelbaum, Robert, 1952-, et al.
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Is economic inequality also a literary problem?
- 2020
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Ingår i: Studia Neophilologica. - : Routledge. - 0039-3274 .- 1651-2308. ; 92:2, s. 149-158
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This is an introduction to our special issue on literature and economic inequality. Beginning with a discussion of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ‘Origin of Inequality’, and moving on to a brief analysis of the current juncture of the conditions of inequality and the conditions of literature and literary study, we introduce our seven contributions and try to frame the challenges literary study faces today.
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- Berglund, Christofer, PhD, Docent, 1985-, et al.
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Fighting for the (Step)motherland? Predictors of Defense Willingness in Estonia’s Post-Soviet Generation
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Political & Military Sociology. - : University of Florida. - 0047-2697 .- 2642-2190. ; 49:2, s. 146-169
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- What makes individuals willing to defend their (adopted) homeland as their own? This is an essential question for all diverse societies. We turn to the case of Estonia, which inherited a sizable Russian-speaking population after the fall of the Soviet Union. Using recent polling data, we test demographic and attitudinal predictors of defense willingness among the first generation of males that have been raised in the republic since the restoration of independence. The results enable us to unpack differences between Estonian-speakers and Russian-speakers, as well as disagreements among the latter, which shed light on the state of social cohesion in Estonia’s national fabric.
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- Borevi, Karin, 1968-, et al.
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Välfärdsstaten och de nyanlända : en flyktingplaceringspolitisk probleminventering
- 2010
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this paper is to make an inventory overview of challenges and problems in the area of refugee settlement policies. An analysis is made of the political development, from the mid 1980s and onwards, of this hotly debated issue in Swedish politics. Then we identify a number of principal themes and problems which arise in relation to questions of dispersal programmes and refugee reception. The paper is based on an ongoing research project at Uppsala University, where refugee settlement policies are studied from a comparative Scandinavian perspective, focusing both on the national level and on the local level.
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- Brock, Maria
(författare)
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A psychosocial analysis of reactions to Pussy Riot : Velvet Revolution or Frenzied Uteri
- 2016
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Ingår i: Subjectivity. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1755-6341 .- 1755-635X. ; 9:2, s. 126-144
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Russian reactions to Pussy Riot’s performance in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in 2012 indicated that a collective nerve had been hit. This article seeks to explain the surge of public outrage following Pussy Riot’s ‘punk prayer’ through a psychosocial analysis of Russian media debates surrounding the case. By focusing on the negative responses, the following discussion investigates what such a ‘resistance to resistance’ might signify, and how it can point to latent forms of identification. It examines the public’s fixation with the group’s name, as well as the prevalence of fantasmatic enactments of violence in media discussions. Results suggest that in their rejection of the group’s performance, participants in the debate found ways of both shifting the threat Pussy Riot represents, and of once again ‘enjoying the nation’.
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- Brock, Maria
(författare)
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East German museums of everyday history as depots for the nostalgic object
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society. - : Palgrave Macmillan. - 1088-0763 .- 1543-3390. ; 24:2, s. 151-174
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article centres on two East German museums exclusively dedicated to the storage and display of everyday items produced in the German Democratic Republic between 1949 and 1989, locating both in the context of similar ‘memory museums’ of East German history, as well as history museums more generally. Examining these sites, the text investigates the types of relationships established with these artefacts of the past, analysing their function as mediators between the inner and outer world, and between memory and history. Taking nostalgia theory and specifically Ostalgie as a starting point for the analysis, it reflects on how the museums serve as containers for a multitude of objects both fantasmatic and material. The aim is to inject nostalgia theory, especially in its focus on materiality, with more distinctly psychosocial ideas and concepts. In order to understand whether there is a finality to the psychic and political transitions that took place after 1989, nostalgia’s link to a utopian politics of the future, rather than to a contested past, is addressed throughout.
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- Brock, Maria, et al.
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From high camp to post-modern camp : Queering post-Soviet pop music
- 2021
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Ingår i: European Journal of Cultural Studies. - : Sage Publications. - 1367-5494 .- 1460-3551. ; 25:4, s. 993-1009
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the post-Soviet transformations of Russian popular music culture (Estrada), arguing that its aesthetics can be analysed from the perspective of camp, by looking at two cult music performers bridging the Soviet and post-Soviet realm – Valery Leontiev and Filipp Kirkorov. The analysis is grounded in a close reading of the artists’ career trajectories, selected videos and – to a lesser extent – textual analysis of their lyrics and public statements. The article argues that their performative personas are rooted in a particular version of camp with differing modalities of subversiveness – each responding both to their respective cultural and political climates, audience expectations, and also in accordance with their individual embodiments of (post)-Soviet camp. While Leontiev demonstrates a more earnest commitment to high drama, Kirkorov continues his ironic experimentation with transgression, ambiguity and excess, thereby participating in the queering of post-Soviet popular culture. The article concludes that their appropriation of camp is strategic, as it responds to the temporal, national and global trends such as global gay culture and neo-camp in Russia.
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- Brock, Maria
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Political satire and its disruptive potential : irony and cynicism in Russia and the US
- 2018
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Ingår i: Culture, Theory and Critique. - : Routledge. - 1473-5784 .- 1473-5776. ; 59:3, s. 281-298
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- When cynical distance and ironic posturing have become the prevalent means of relating to public life, political humour is no longer considered subversive. It has been argued that both in Russia and the United States, ideology has co-opted satire, meaning that citizens can consume outrage passively through various satirical media products, thereby displacing outrage and abstaining from more active forms of resistance. This articles explores the twenty-first century potential of irony and cynicism to disrupt and subvert through parody, be it in the form of political satire or ironic protest, examining how similar paradigms are expressed across different geographical contexts.
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- Brock, Maria, et al.
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Raping turtles and kidnapping children : Fantasmatic logics of Scandinavia in Russian and German anti-gender discourse
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Media Studies. - Göteborg : Nordicom. - 2003-184X. ; 5:1, s. 95-114
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study examines the social, political, and fantasmatic logics involved in the production of contemporary discourses about Scandinavia as a symbolic site and imagined place of sexual and moral decay and as a gender dysphoric dystopia by actors in the global anti-gender movement. Empirically, we draw on a rich digital archive of multi-modal media texts from an ongoing research project on anti-gender movements in Russia and Germany – two countries which provide particularly poignant examples of sites in which this mode of anti-gender propaganda is currently on the rise. In the analysis, we explore the discursive workings of a particularly prominent node in the material – that of the vulnerable child – and show how this figure is construed and instrumentalised to add urgency and fuel outrage among domestic audiences in Russia and Germany.
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- Brock, Maria
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Reading Formations of Subjectivity : From Discourse to Psyche
- 2016
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Ingår i: Social and Personality Psychology Compass. - : Wiley. - 1751-9004. ; 10:3, s. 125-135
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article represents a critical overview of strategies to examine subjectivity in discourse, highlighting a series of methodological approaches, which seek to manage the tension between discourse studies' focus on social and cultural structures, and psychoanalysis' interest in unconscious motivations. One aim is to trouble the supposed opposition between discourse analysis and the psychosocial approach and to regard the latter as a possible extension of insights established by the former. It is argued here that psychosocial readings in general, and Lacanian approaches more specifically, offer a cautious, nuanced way of introducing psychoanalytic ideas into the analysis of texts. The first part of this article offers examples of discourse analytic approaches, which have explicitly sought to incorporate psychoanalytic notions, followed by a discussion of Lacanian discourse analysis - a method shaped directly by this psychoanalytic school's concern with language. The article concludes with a series of methodological injunctions for conducting a psychosocial form of textual analysis.
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