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Aestetiske Protestkulturer
- 2023. - 1
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Revolutioner, opstande og protester er i høj grad et spørgsmål om billeder. Mens de finder sted, fungerer bestemte billeder, emblemer eller symboler som mobiliserende faktorer og giver konflikten form, tegner forbindelseslinjer til tidligere kampe eller billedliggør det, der kæmpes imod eller for. Når de revolutionære tilstande er ovre, lever begivenhederne videre som ikoniske billeder, der fortætter de komplekse og uoverskuelige hændelsesforløb i enkle, genkendelige repræsentationer, der både dækker over modsætninger og opsamler ny energi, så kampen mod overmagten kan genoptages på et senere tidspunkt.
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An ecology of ideas permeating science, higher education, and society : Essays for Kerstin Sahlin
- 2024
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book is a dedication to Kerstin Sahlin, delving into the world of ideas and tracing their journey through the realms of science, higher education, and society. With collective efforts of Kerstin’s colleagues and friends, the book explores the multifaceted aspects of dominant ideas in science and higher education, unraveling their global trends and pro-found influences on universities and beyond. Structured into four comprehensive themes – critical remarks on global trends shaping universities and academic institutions; exploration of intricate relationships between the sciences and society; collegiality and governance of academic institutions; and the impact of global ideas in the public sector – the volume echoes Kerstin’s pioneering research on the translation, editing, and dissemination of popular ideas and management concepts. It also showcases her recent work on the ecology of ideas in science and higher education. This book stands as a testament to Kerstin’s enduring legacy, acknowledging her profound influence on our understanding of contemporary developments in society as well as in academia.
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Austere histories in European societies : social exclusion and the contest of colonial memories
- 2016
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Austere Histories in European Societies discusses how the current economic and political crisis in Europe affects not just our present but also our views and interpretations of the past. The contributions to the book examine a firmly defined problem: in which ways do crisis and decline in contemporary Europe trigger a selective forgetting and remodelling of the past? This problem is addressed through a set of questions, which the contributors to the collection address at various levels:How do present policies of austerity and the ensuing social exclusion of migrants and minorities influence the perceptions and interpretations of the place of minorities, migrants and colonized peoples in European history?How do new regimes of historiography and memory culture relate to emerging and established patterns of discrimination and social segmentation in today’s European societies? In seeking to answer these questions, the book makes a strong contribution to a European-wide discussion on the backlash against multiculturalism, diversity, and immigration, and on changing interpretations of the imperial and colonial systems that have shaped Europe’s position in the world.The point of departure for the collection is the recent turn of European societies toward more austere political regimes, entailing budget cuts, deregulation of labour markets, restrictions of welfare systems, securitization of borders, and new regimes of migration and citizenship. In the wake of such changes, new forms of social inclusion and exclusion appear that are justified through a reactivation of differences of race, class and gender. Against this backdrop, the book investigates contemporary understandings of history and cultural memory. Are we witnessing a turn toward austerity also in theories and practices of historiography, as well as in pedagogies of history? Can we speak of an austere historiography, an enforcement of conformity on Europe past and present?The contributions to the book examine, in both national and comparative perspective, how this development entails a privileging of certain narratives of the European past, whereas other parts of the cultural heritage are being weeded out. Strong interests are apparently at work to purge the histories of specific European nations, but also those of Europe, the West, and globalization from cultural plurality. The authors also discuss how heroic and homogeneous stories about the past of nations, regions, institutions and religions are being retold, reinvented, and re-launched. The book thus explores to what extent history (including public debate on history and history education) is again becoming “nationalistic”, and to what extent Europe’s proclaimed “cosmopolitanism” is being narrowed down so as to simply celebrate the achievements of Europe and posit the West as a model of universality to be emulated by others.Most chapters in the book focus on debates on history and colonial legacies in Britain, France, Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal, Sweden and Germany. They show how an increasing number of historians and intellectuals are again becoming blind to less gratifying parts of Europe’s history. While it is still too early to speak of a historical revisionism in the strict sense (for there are also strong counter-tendencies in parts of the academic community and postcolonial and migrant communities and organizations), the authors nonetheless argue that a transformation is under way, corresponding to a new politics of austerity that seems impatient with both democracy and the complexities of past. Among the sacrifices of this tendency are multiculturalism, postcolonial memories, and minority discourses of all kinds. What is lost is thus the very complexity and contradictoriness of Europe and the West. Especially, colonial and postcolonial memories are evicted from their recently claimed habitats in the European past, and again placed at the outskirts, far beyond the limit of the Western world. There is thus a strong correlation, which this collection aims to extract and analyze, between the ways in which migrant and migrant labourers are treated by present policies and the ways in which memories and experiences of migrants, minorities and colonized peoples are treated in historiography, historical pedagogy, and cultural heritage institutions.
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Competition : What it is and Why it Happens
- 2021
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The spread of competition into all areas of society is one of the master trends of modern society. Yet, social scientists have played a surprisingly modest role in the analysis of its implications as the discussion of competition has largely been confined to the narrow context of economic markets. This book opens up competition for the study of social scientists. The central message of the book is that competition seems ubiquitous but it should not be taken for granted or be naturalized as an inevitable aspect of human existence. Its emergence, maintenance, and change are based on institutions and organizational efforts, and a central challenge for social science is to learn more about these processes and their outcomes. With the use of a novel definition of competition, more fundamental questions can be addressed than merely whether or not competition works. How is competition constructed—and by whom? Which institutional and organizational foundations need to be considered? Which behaviours result from competition? What are its consequences? Can competition be removed? And, how do these factors vary with the object of competition—be it money, attention, status, or other scarce and desired objects? The chapters in the book investigate these and more questions in studies of competition among and within schools, universities, multinational corporations, auditors, waste-disposal firms, and fashion designers and users. The chapters are written by scholars from several social science fields: management, organization studies, sociology, anthropology, and education.
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Organizations and the Media : Organizing in a mediatized world
- 2014
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The relationship between media and the organizations they cover has changed dramatically in the last few decades, which have witnessed a huge expansion of news coverage focusing on different types of organizations and their activities. In parallel, organizations have dramatically increased their investment in Public Relations and other media-oriented forms of communication. Like other societal developments – globalization, marketization, individualization, scientification – mediatization has become an institutional force.This book analyses the mediatization of contemporary organizations and how individual organizations, industry or markets are scrutinised. It examines its key influence on the actions of organizations, thereby shaping the entire landscape in which the organizations operate. What such a perspective provides is the accentuation of the interplay between organizations and different parts of the society as embedded in the media and its logic.This will be essential reading for professionals, academics and advanced students in Organizational Studies, Public Relations and Media Studies.
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Samtida politisk teori
- 2015
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Under de senaste decennierna har den politiska teorin genomgått en radikal förnyelse. I takt med de genomgripande samhällsförändringar som skett sedan 1968 och framåt har nya teoretiska perspektiv utarbetats och nya politiska visioner trätt fram.Namnkunniga forskare och intellektuella med bas i Sverige presenterar i föreliggande volym sexton tänkare på den internationella scenen som fördjupat samhällsreflektionen och omprövat de politiska grundbegreppen. Antologin förmedlar några av de viktigaste rösterna inom kritisk politisk teori och förklarar varför de är betydelsefulla för den som önskar förstå sin samtid. Det handlar om stora frågor: hur människor lever och arbetar, hur gemenskaper formas och löses upp, hur makt och motstånd utövas, hur samhällen låter sig styras och vanstyras. Med filosofiskt skarpsinne och politiskt engagemang diskuterar författarna hur dagens politiska och ekonomiska världsordning ger upphov till problem som knappast kan lösas inom dess ramar. Det finns alternativ. Men vilka är de? Hur når vi dit?De teoretiker som presenteras i boken är Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Gilles Deleuze, Terry Eagleton, Nancy Fraser, Donna Haraway, Ernesto Laclau, Walter Mignolo, Chantal Mouffe, Jean-Luc Nancy, Antonio Negri, Jacques Rancière, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak och Slavoj Žižek.Bokens redaktör, Stefan Jonsson, har skrivit en omfattande inledning där han tecknar bakgrunden till den politiska teorins aktuella situation och kontext.
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