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"Någonstädes mellan sol och söder, mellan nord och natt" : Interdisciplinära studier tillägnade Torsten Pettersson
- 2015
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Torsten Petterssons forskning utmärks av en mångfald och ett djup med få motstycken i nutida svenskspråkig litteraturvetenskap. Under de senaste 40 åren har han rört sig obehindrat mellan litteratur på en rad olika språk och från flertalet epoker. Till den vetenskapliga gärningen ska också läggas Torstens skönlitterära författarskap som omfattar dikter, noveller och kriminalromaner.Med denna festskrift, som utges i samband med att Torsten fyller 60 år, vill vi hylla honom och hans insats inom litteraturvetenskapen. Bidragen tar fasta på Torstens förmåga att överskrida gränser mellan discipliner, teman och metoder, och är skrivna av svenska och internationella forskare från en rad olika forskningsområden. Texterna behandlar ämnen som tolkningsteori och empirisk läsforskning, svensk, finlandssvensk, engelskspråkig och tysk litteratur, teologi och livsåskådning samt Torstens egen insats både som forskare och som skönlitterär författare.
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- Bark Persson, Anna
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Steel as the Answer? : Viking Bodies, Power, and Masculinity in Anglophone Fantasy Literature 2006–2016
- 2023
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- This dissertation examines the motif of the popular Viking in contemporary Anglophone fantasy literature, with a focus on masculinity, power, embodiment,and sexuality. The study draws on queer-theoretical perspectives on masculinity and the method of queer reading, and approaches the Viking as at once bound up with the legitimization of normative and hegemonic forms of masculinity and open to (queer) negotiations and possibilities beyond normative male masculinities.The material consists of contemporary gritty fantasy, a recent subgenre deeply invested in contemporary concerns regarding masculinity, masculine failure, and masculinity crisis narratives, where the Viking motif plays a major role. The texts under consideration are Joe Abercrombie’s The First Law (2006–2012) and The Shattered Sea (2014–2015), Richard K. Morgan’s A Land Fit for Heroes (2008–2016), Mark Lawrence’s The Red Queen’s War (2014–2016), and Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette’s The Iskryne Saga (2007–2015).Understanding the Viking as a motif that is intractably bound up with ideas of the past and the historical period of the Viking Age but not reducible to it, the thesis considers the fantasy Viking as a medial representation of spectacular hardbody action masculinity and puts it in relation to the fantasy text and fantasy worldbuilding as well as more generalized cultural ideas of the North and the Nordics. Furthermore, it asks how we can understand the masculinity of the Viking – long made symbolic of or associated with white supremacy, misogyny, homophobia, and reactionary gender roles – beyond an assumed direct relation to men or men’s concerns.Analytically, the thesis considers the Viking in relation to spatiality, temporality, and embodiment, finding that in the fantasy text, the Viking emerges with a strong focus on a mighty, muscular body and as a barbarian Other connected to the past and in direct opposition to civilization and futurity, making it an escapist possibility outside the disciplining power of neoliberal late-stage capitalism. Furthermore, connecting to postfeminist perspectives on masculinity in media, the thesis finds that the fantasy Viking has developed in ways that seemingly take into account feminist and queer critique of traditional, homophobic forms of masculinity, transforming the Viking and offering it up for (queer) objectification. At the same time, the Viking also becomes a safe site of traditional masculinity, where anxieties and concerns regarding a supposed loss of male power in modernity can be projected and ultimately resolved.
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Exploring the animal turn : Human-animal relations in science, society and culture
- 2014
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Animals' omnipresence in human society makes them both close to and ye tremarkably distant from humans. Human and animal lives have always been entangled, but the way we see and practice the relationships between humans and animals - as close, intertwined, or clearly separate - varies from time to time and between cultures, societies, and even situations. By putting these complex relationships in focus, this anthology investigates the ways in which human society deals with its co-existence with animals. The volume was produced within the frame of the interdisciplinary "Animal Turn"-research group which during eight months in 2013-2014 was hosted by the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies, Lund university, Sweden. Along with invited scholars and artists, members of this group contribute with different perspectives on the complexities and critical issues evoked when the human-animal relationship is in focus.The anthology covers a wide range of topics: From discussions on new disciplinary paths and theoretical perspectives, empirical case-studies, and artistic work, towards more explicitly critical approaches to issues of animal welfare. Phenomena such as vegan sexuality, anthropomorphism, wildlife crimes, and the death of honey-bees are being discussed. How we gain knowledge of other species and creatures is one important issue in focus. What does, for example, the notion of wonderment play in this production of knowledge? How were species classified in pre-Christian Europe? How is the relationship between domesticated and farmed animals and humans practiced and understood? How is it portrayed in literature, or in contemporary social media? Many animals are key actors in these discussions, such as dogs, cows, bees, horses, pigeons, the brown bear, just to mention a few, as well as some creatures more difficult to classify as either humans or animals. All of these play a part in the questions that is at the core of the investigations carried out in this volume: How to produce knowledge that creates possibilities for an ethically and environmentally sustainable future.
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- Lönngren, Ann-Sofie, 1974-
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Animal studies
- 2020
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In: Lambda Nordica. - : Föreningen Lambda nordica. - 1100-2573 .- 2001-7286. ; 25:1, s. 27-30
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- Lönngren, Ann-Sofie, 1974-
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Att röra en värld : en queerteoretisk analys av erotiska trianglar i sex verk av August Strindberg
- 2007
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The subject of this dissertation is a queertheoretical analysis of erotic triangles with two men and one woman, in six texts by August Strindberg (1849–1912). The material consists of the novel A Madman’s Defence (1887–88) and the plays Creditors (1888), Playing with Fire (1892), Crime and Crime (1899), Dance of Death I (1901) and To Damascus I–III (1898–1901). Employing a queer understanding of the history of sexuality and a theoretical frame provided mainly by Judith Butler, I interpret the manifestation of “sex” within the above-mentioned texts as constructed by performative means, in particular those intimately linked to expressions of same-sex and different-sex erotic desires. With Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s term “homosocial desire” I direct the attention of the analysis primarily to the dynamic relationship between the male rivals within the erotic triangle. What consequences do the erotic desires have for the gender-categories in the triangular formation, and do they change over a longer time-span in Strindberg’s writings? The result of the study is that the sexual desires of the literary characters within the erotic triangle is of crucial importance for their status as legitimately gendered subjects, and ultimately as acceptable human beings, within the heteronormative context. Moreover, the triangular formation does not alter particularly over time, and the same elements keep occurring with only minor differences between the texts. This process I interpret, within the context of Jacques Derrida’s term “reiteration”, as a means to construct gendered characters that is at one and the same time normative and understandable, as well as dynamic and with a potential for change. In this construction the simultaneous threat and potential of same-sex erotic desires is of crucial importance as it enables new ways to move, create and touch a world.
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- Lönngren, Ann-Sofie, 1974-
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Björnens sätt att vara : Mer-än-mänskligt gemenskap i Birgitta Trotzigs novell 'Björnen' (1975)
- 2023
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In: Naturen som gave?. - Oslo : Universitetsforlaget. - 9788215064567 - 9788215064574 ; , s. 176-197
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- Birgitta Trotzigs författarskap relaterar till en biblisk tradition, men hennes teologi innefattar även ansatser att decentralisera människan. Novellsamlingen I kejsarens tid (1975) har i tidigare forskning diskuterats utifrån spänningen mellan symbol och realism. Här utvecklas den analysen genom kopplingar mellan novellen ”Björnen” och den biologiska och kulturhistoriska kontexten för arten brunbjörn. Berättelsens apokalyps kan därmed förstås som straff för människans förtryck av djur och natur.
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- Lönngren, Ann-Sofie, 1974-
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Following the Animal : Power, Agency and Human-Animal Transformations in Modern, Northern-European Literature
- 2015
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- Literary transformations from human to animal have occurred in myths, folklore, fairy tales and narratives from all over the world since ancient times, and have always provided a narrative space for depictions of power, agency, and the radical nature of change. In Following the Animal, these transformations are analysed with regards to their use in modern literature from northern-most Europe, with specific attention being paid to the insights they provide regarding the human-animal relationship, both generally in the industrialized West, and against the background of more specific circumstances in the Nordic area. In three analytic chapters, focusing respectively on Swedish author August Strindberg’s novel Tschandala (1887), Finnish author Aino Kallas’s novel The Wolf’s Bride (1928), and Danish author Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen’s short story “The Monkey” (1934), along with discussions of a range of other authors and texts, the reader is introduced to several traditions of literary production that both connect to, and differ from, Anglophone and other literature in fascinating ways. In addition to the insights it provides concerning the uses of human-animal transformations in modern Nordic literature, and their significance in relation to “the question of the animal”, Following the Animal also offers literary scholars and students alike a series of useable and transferable strategies for approaching texts from a “more-than-anthropocentric”, human-animal studies perspective. In phrasing and employing the interpretational method of “following the animal” over the text’s surface, up metaphorical elevations, down material wormholes, and in constant dialogue with previous research, this book contributes greatly to both human-animal literary studies specifically, and to the field of literary scholarship generally, in both an international and northern-European context.
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- Lönngren, Ann-Sofie, 1974-
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Following the animal : Place, space and literature
- 2018
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In: Animal places. - London : Routledge. - 9781317180760 - 9780367332778 ; , s. 231-247
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- "Nonhuman animals are ubiquitous to our 'human' societies. Interdisciplinary human/animal research has - for 50 years - drawn attention to how animals are ever-present in what we think of as human spaces and cultures. Our societies are built with animals and through all kinds of multispecies interactions. From public spaces and laboratories to homes, farms and in the 'wilderness'; human and nonhuman animals meet to make space and place together, through webs of power relations. However, the very spaces of these interactions are not mute or passive themselves. The spaces where species meet matter, and shape human/animal relations. This book takes as its starting point the relationship between place and human/animal interaction. It brings together the work of leading scholars in human/animal studies, from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary backgrounds. With a distinct focus on place, physical space and biocultural geography, the authors of this volume consider the ways in which space, human and nonhuman animals co-constitute each other, how they make spaces together, produce meaning around them, struggle over access, how these places are storied and how stories of spaces matter. Presenting studies thematically and including a variety of nonhuman creatures in a range of settings, this book delivers new understandings of the importance of nonhuman animals to understandings of place - and the role of places in shaping our interactions with nonhuman creatures. As pets, as laboratory animals, as exhibits, as parasites, as livestock, as quarry, as victims of disaster or objects of folklore, this book offers insights into human/animal intermingling at locales and settings of great relevance to many areas of research, including geography, sociology, science and technology studies, gender studies, history and anthropology. This book meets the evolving interest in human/animal interaction, anthrozoology, and the environmental humanities in relation to the research on space and place that currently informs the humanities and the social sciences."--Provided by publisher.
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- Lönngren, Ann-Sofie, 1974-
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Från diagnostisering till intersektionalitet. : Tendenser inom Strindbergsforskningen 1963-2011
- 2011
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In: Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap. - Lund : Föreningen för utgivandet av Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap. - 1104-0556 .- 2001-094X. ; :3-4, s. 5-21
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- From Diagnosis to Intersectionality: Strindberg Research from 1963–2011 This article was written as a sequel to Göran Lindström’s article in Svensk litteraturtidskrift (Swedish Literature Magazine) in 1962, and consists of a qualitative, evaluative survey of research on the Swedish author August Strindberg (1849–1912) during the period 1963–2011. A selection of more or less new sub-fields (such as music, TV, radio, film, prose and poetry) arise within the larger field of research on Strindberg’s life and works during this time. Simultaneously, research on drama, modernity, history and mysticism continues to develop. The field of psychological studies underwent major transformations during this period, as tendencies to diagnose the author shifts to a discussion of the historical production of concepts such as “madness”. This tendency is also visible in the field of biographical research, where the intention to reveal the “truth” about the author gives way to investigations of the “author” as a literary function. Furthermore, the same development could be seen in the field that went through the most rapid and thorough change and expansion, gender studies, where attention shifts from investigating Strindberg’s relationship to women to a discussion of the historical production of norms concerning gender and sexuality. My conclusion was, however, that gender studies as well as the discussion of Strindberg as a national author need to employ a more intersectional approach in the future to further deepen and develop these fields. In 1962, Lindström called for additional pieces to add to the Strindberg-puzzle. In 2011, I ask for further development of the critical meta-perspectives on the great cultural construct known as “Strindberg”.
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- Lönngren, Ann-Sofie, 1974-
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I Doktor Moreaus fotspår
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In: Glänta. ; , s. 54-58
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- Lönngren, Ann-Sofie, 1974-
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Illusionen av en kvinna : En queerteoretisk analys av det homosexuella tabut i En dåres försvarstal
- 2002
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In: Lambda Nordica. - 1100-2573 .- 2001-7286. ; :1, s. 6-21
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- The illusion of a woman - a queer-theoretical study of the homosexual taboo in A madman's defence.A madman's defence was written by August Strindberg in 1884-85, during a time of intense Swedish debate concerning moral and sexual hygiene. The novel has traditionally been read as the story of the author's relationship to his first wife, Siri von Essen, and the "war of the sexes" has been viewed as its central theme. This article shows however, that both implicit and explicit homosexual themes can be traced throughout the text.The implicit homosexual theme occurs mainly in the erotic triangle in the flrst half of the book. The triangle consists of two men (Axel and Gustav) and one woman (Maria). The joint worship of the same woman has been interpreted as being partdy pretence for two men to approach each other sexually.The explicit homosexual theme occurs mainly in the second half of the novel, and consists of Maria's boundary-crossing behaviour and sexual attraction to other women. The queer-theoretical approach made possible a new interpretation of the course of events in A madman's defence, and led to the exposure of a new aspect of the motifs in the novel.
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- Lönngren, Ann-Sofie, 1974-
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Kvinnor som djur
- 2012
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- Lönngren, Ann-Sofie, 1974-
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Maktkritik och antropocentriska läckage
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In: Ekokritiska metoder. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144156620 ; , s. 141-162
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- Lönngren, Ann-Sofie, 1974-
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Mellan metafor och litterär materialisering : Heteronormer och djurblivande i Monika Fagerholms novell "Patricia Kanin"
- 2011
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In: Lambda Nordica. - Stockholm : Kristiansstads boktryckeri. - 1100-2573 .- 2001-7286. ; 16:4, s. 53-84
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- Between metaphor and materialization. Heteronormativity and becoming animalin Monika Fagerholm’s short story “Patricia Kanin (Patricia Rabbit)”Literary transformations from human to animal is a figuration that occursalready in ancient literature, but is frequently employed also in modern times,particularly in science fiction, fantasy, horror-stories and children’s literature.In this article, however, I study this figuration as it appears in a realistic text,Monika Fagerholm’s short story “Patricia Kanin (Patricia Rabbit)” from thecollection of short storiesPatricia, published in 1990. Employing the termsintra-activity (Karen Barad), performativity (Judith Butler), becoming (GillesDeleuze), the Human club (Judith Halberstam) and animaling (Nina Lykke),as well as a non-hierarchical, non-metaphorical view of the relationship betweenhuman and animal (Jacques Derrida), I discuss how the figuration oftransformation in “Patricia Kanin” enlighten the social and political processesthrough which a human body is denied or granted humanity. The realistic contextin the text elucidates the close connection between the process of becominghuman and heteronormative concepts of primarily sexuality and gender, butalso age and ethnicity.
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- Lönngren, Ann-Sofie, 1974-
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Metaphor, Metonymy, More-Than-Anthropocentric. The Animal That Therefore I Read (and Follow)
- 2021
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In: The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783030397722 - 9783030397739 ; , s. 37-50
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- How can we read literary animals in ways that do not reproduce the anthropocentric paradigm? This chapter attempts to formulate possible answers to this question, and thus to function as an introduction to the practice and theory of reading animals. Firstly, there is a discussion about conceptualizations of the ontology of literature in relation to the non-human world. Then, there is an expansion of the meaning-productive potential inherent in the tension between metaphorical and metonymic understandings of literary animals. Finally, a reading strategy is sketched in which the term “following” is proposed as a point of departure for the production of “more-than-anthropocentric” meaning in literary narratives.
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- Lönngren, Ann-Sofie, 1974-
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Oppression and liberation : Traditional Nordic Literary Themes of Human-Animal Transformations in Monika Fagerholm's Early Works
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In: Novel Districts. - Helsinki : Finnish Literature Society. ; , s. 119-133
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- In this essay, I set out to explore potential intertextual connections between two texts from Fagerholm’s early literary production on the one hand and mythology and folklore within the Nordic sphere on the other, specifically with regards to the construction of the ‘human’ in relation to gender and sexuality. The discussion will focus on two different variations of the figure of transformation in relation to two female literary characters: Patricia in the short story ‘Patricia Rabbit’ from the collection of short stories Patricia (1990), and Isabella in the novel Wonderful Women by the Sea (1994). My hope is that such a study will serve several purposes. First, I aim to understand how the intertextual relationship between folklore and literature can manifest itself in the twentieth century. Second, I wish to discuss the significance of norms regarding gender and sexuality in the discursive construction of the human literary character in Fagerholm’s authorship. Finally, I hope that I am able to deepen the understanding of some particularly significant aspects of Fagerholm’s fiction.
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- Lönngren, Ann-Sofie, 1974-
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Ordens skapande kraft : Den Okändes queera maskuliniteter i "Till Damaskus" I–III
- 2008
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In: Lambda Nordica. - Stockholm : Föreningen Lambda nordica. - 1100-2573 .- 2001-7286. ; :nr 4, s. 61-74
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- The Prolific Power of Words – The Unknown´s Queer Masculinities in To Damascus I-III The play To Damascus by Swedish playwriter August Strindberg was accomplished in two parts in 1898, and a third part in 1901. In research and stagings it has been a common practice to focus mainly or exclusively on the first part. In doing so, however, we loose track of The Unknown’s search for a stable, male identity, which is a theme that is crucial in all three parts of the play. In this article, I argue that the different representations of The Unknown that is seen throughout the play – as e.g a child, a bird, a woman, God and the Devil – are all part of a process in which he is trying to find and stabilize his own male identity in accordance with what was accepted and valuable at the turn of the 20th century. The different social positions of The Unknown are accomplished by words; hence, it is within the context of verbal interactions with other individuals in the play that the transformations of his identity gains material reality. At the end of the play, it is this negotiable quality of the material world that makes it possible for The Unknown to die and live again.
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- Lönngren, Ann-Sofie, 1974-, et al.
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Power, Myths, Materiality: A Multilingual Reflection over the Conditions for Knowledge Production in Times of Political Turbulence
- 2017
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In: Lambda Nordica. - Uppsala. - 1100-2573 .- 2001-7286. ; 22:4, s. 93-126
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- During 2016 to 2018 the research node “Science, validation, partial perspectives: Knowledge production beyond the norms,” create spaces for transdisciplinary meetings at Uppsala university. In spring of 2017, the node arranged a journey to California in the USA, for MA candidates, PhD candidates, lecturers, and researchers. The aim was to meet with academics, activists, and artists to discuss the conditions for knowledge production in relation to the current political situation, in which ideas of “post truth” and “alternative facts” have surfaced. We visited the Scandinavian Studies and the Gender and Women’s Studies departments at UC Berkeley, and the Science and Justice Research Center at UC Santa Cruz. This multilingual essay, written in the months following the trip, is a collective, rhizomatic reflection over the relationship between narratives, cultural identities and truths; privilege and politics; language and reality; art and science; potential and risk in boundarycrossing encounters.
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