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Barbro Klein Prize

Pris

The Barbro Klein Prize in Nordic and Baltic Folklore is awarded by the Nordic and Baltic Folklore Section to a student for an outstanding conference paper, article-length essay, or research-based media production on a folklore topic having to do with Northern Europe and/or the diasporas of its various peoples.

In order to be considered for the prize, please submit publications (with PDF or Word attachments) to this link:

https://americanfolkloresociety.org/prize-application-form/ by September 15. Please contact Carrie Hertz, carriehertz(@)gmail.com, if you have any questions.

https://americanfolkloresociety.org/our-work/prizes/barbro-klein-prize/

Humlab Talk: Which histories reside in the study of web archives?

Föreläsningar

Humlab talk: Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam

When? Thursday June 2nd 2022, 15:15-17:00 CET/UCT +1
Where? On zoom – registration required

Read more and register here.

The talks discusses how different historiographical ways of thinking are embedded in the four dominant approaches to web archiving to date: single-site, events, national and the self. It also discusses approaches that critique but also enliven each historiography. Special attention is given to the tension between the single-site (‘everything’) tradition of the Internet Archive and the national library turn, especially how the past web has become enfolded into the traditions of archival culture and ’old media’, while it still may seek to maintain itself as exceptional, or as novel digital culture. In exploring this tension, the talk examines how particular ideas of how the web is constituted, novel or less so, have effected its capture and recording and will affect its study.

Anakrona livsvillkor: En studie av funktionalitet, möjligheter och begär i den föränderliga svenska välfärdsstaten

Disputationer, Doktorsavhandlingar, Publikationer, , , , , ,

Den 3 juni disputerar Christine Bylund i etnologi i Umeå på avhandlingen ”Anakrona livsvillkor: En studie av funktionalitet, möjligheter och begär i den föränderliga svenska välfärdsstaten”. Opponent är Maria Bäckman, Stockholms universitet.

Avhandlingen kan läsas här.

Engelskt abstract:
Since 2009 a decrease in support for dis/abled people provided by the welfare state has taken place. In this process, the concept of family and relationships are both overlooked and central. Cuts of support significantly impact family lives, rendering dis/abled people dependent on their partners, parents, or children. However, little research has been produced about how the needs, wants, and desires of dis/abled people are affected by the changing welfare state.

This thesis examines the connections between the changing forms of support in the welfare state, desire, and relationships through a crip-theoretical understanding of dis/ability and a phenomenological understanding of the welfare state as a structure for orientation in both a practical and existential sense. The material consists of interviews with dis/abled people based on the principle of cross-disability and autoethnographic writing.

The findings show that an ableist discourse shapes the welfare state’s earliest support, resulting in segregation and isolation. These discourses were challenged during the period of deinstitutionalisation and through the passing of the LSS-law in the 1993s but never entirely dismantled. During the contemporary neoliberal austerity politics, it returns, positioning dis/abled people as a societal burden. Due to its intimate nature and its conditioning of everyday life, the relationship to the welfare state can be understood as a relationship of its own. Changes in the welfare state affect the physical and emotional movements, making certain lifestyles and relationships appear possible and others impossible. The thesis contributes to and nuances the previous research on the intersection of welfare state support and services and the practical and existential experiences of dis/abled people in Sweden.

 

Autonomous Åland. A hundred years of borderwork in the Baltic Sea

Doktorsavhandlingar, Publikationer,

In Oktober 2021, Ida Hughes Tidlund publicly defended her academic dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Ethnology at Stockholm University. The dissertation can be found in diva-portal.

The abstract from diva:

”This dissertation applies an ethnological and long-temporal view of borders. The region of Åland, being an autonomous and demilitarised island territory under Finnish sovereignty, serves as an illuminative case of the work that goes into keeping borders fixed for two reasons. The region being maritime is the first one, and it being in a betwixt position between a state and a province is the second. The study seeks to explore the borders as cultural entities composed by layers – legal, geographical, political and social – and the processes through which the borders have been anchored. As important are the ways in which the borders extend into everyday life by creating a local order that activities relate to. Borders are hence seen as both objects and sources of actions. Seeing borders as objects of action function as an entry into an exploration of how the borders have been objects of continuous work since their establishment in 1921. The idea of them being sources of actions serves as a window into how the borders in numerous ways have influenced everyday life for inhabitants. In order to analyse the work that goes into borders as well as the actions borders cause, the study explores both the authoritative borderwork and how the borders or their effects have been encountered and handled by individuals who live within. The multifaceted view is achieved through a broad material consisting of archived documents, archived ethnological interviews, participant observations and contemporary interviews, in combination with studies of law and publications. Through the use of the phenomenological concept of practico-inert, the study reveals both how borders are outcomes of incessant human actions, and how they create an undisputable structure for individuals to observe and relate to, but not necessarily obey. In summary, the study contributes with a detailed description of how bordered places are created, and how individuals navigate the structures that they live within. ”

Call for abstracts: Ethnologia Scandinavica

Calls for abstracts, Tidskrifter,

To the 2023 edition of the journal Ethnologia Scandinavica we now welcome article proposals.

The editors receive proposals in abstract format until the 10th of june. Provided that the proposals are accepted, we look forward to a complete script 1st of November when a review process starts.
Ethnologia Scandinavica is ranked level 2 on the so-called Norwegian list, as well as the Finnish scientific community’s counterpart. ES is also approved for the European reference index for the humanities and social sciences (ERIH PLUS).
Welcome with your article suggestions!
Lars-Eric Jönsson (editor in chief)
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Inför 2023 års upplaga av tidskriften Ethnologia Scandinavica välkomnas nu förslag på artiklar.

Redaktionen tar till och med 10 juni emot förslag i abstract-format. Under förutsättning att förslagen accepteras ser vi fram emot ett komplett manus 1 november då en granskningsprocess tar vid.
Ethnologia Scandinavica är rankad på nivå 2 på den s.k. norska listan, liksom på det finska vetenskapliga samfundets motsvarighet. ES är också godkänd för European reference index for the humanities and social sciences (ERIH PLUS).
Välkommen med artikelförslag!
Lars-Eric Jönsson (huvudredaktör)


https://gustavadolfsakademien.se/tidskrifter

”Det hade ju aldrig hänt annars”: Om kvinnor, klass och droger

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Emma Eleonorasdotter disputerade år 2021 i etnologi vid Lunds Universitet med avhandlingen: ”Det hade ju aldrig hänt annars”: Om kvinnor, klass och droger.

En sammanfattning av avhandlingen:

”Olika typer av sinnesförändrande substanser har blivit allt fler och vanligare under de senaste 500 åren, och användningen i nutidens konsumtionskulturer fortsätter att öka. Den illegala droganvändningen i Sverige ligger på historiskt höga nivåer. Vissa lagliga preparat, såsom kaffe och alkohol, syns överallt medan läkemedel och illegala droger vanligtvis hålls dolda. Denna etnologiska avhandling undersöker hur droger och läkemedel då tar plats; hur de förändrar tid, rum och riktningar. I kroppen är de osynliga som objekt, och istället döljs – eller framvisas – förändrade känslor, rörelser, viljor och tankar. Hur påverkar användningen av sinnesförändrande objekt människors riktningar i vardagslivet? Hur kan en feministisk analys av droganvändning se ut?
Omfattande forskning visar att kvinnors användning och att arbetarklassens användning av rusmedel fördöms hårt moraliskt. Samtidigt förekommer vissa typer av rusmedelskonsumtion som centrala kulturuttryck och dessutom uppmuntras viss konsumtion av sinnesförändrande preparat som kan påverka beteenden prestationshöjande och/eller nedtonande. Hur navigerar kvinnor genom nutidens droglandskap och hur görs klass genom droganvändning? Studien utgår från intervjuer med 12 kvinnor i åldrarna 25-65 år som använder psykoaktiva läkemedel och/eller illegala droger. Deras förhållningssätt till illegalitet, jobb, stigma, sjukdom, friskhet, barn, beroende och lycka med mera analyseras med hjälp av queer fenomenologi. Hur hamnar droger i synfältet, och vad hamnar i synfältet när droger finns i utgångspunkten, i kroppen?”

Avhandlingen finns öppet tillgänglig här.

Apply for a job at University of Oslo: Associate Professor of Museology and Cultural History

Utlysningar

A full time position as associate professor of museology and cultural history at University of Oslo. Please read more here.

The deadline for application is August 1st 2022.

The job description reads:

”A permanent position of Associate Professor of Museology and Cultural History at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo.

The successful candidate will take part in initiating and leading museological research, supervise PhD candidates, and teach at all levels.

The holder of the position is expected to play a leading role in running and developing the Master program in Museology and Heritage, teaching on the Bachelor program in Cultural History and on PhD level, as well as taking part in the development of research and education connected to a broad heritage field.

Cultural History and Museology is a section within the Department with a broad research portfolio including history of exhibitions, collections and museums; heritage studies and the history of heritage; memory and time studies; the history of knowledge and the cultural history of nature; indigenous studies; folklore and ethnology. Currently the section houses two large projects with relevance for the position: SAMLA, digitization of The Norwegian Folklore Archives, and HEI – The Heritage Experience Initiative. We expect the candidate to relate to one or more of these fields.”

Radio: Vardagsliv tillsammans med ett massmedium

Doktorsavhandlingar, Publikationer, , , ,

Elin Franzén disputerade i etnologi vid Stockholms universitet i november 2021 med doktorsavhandlingen Radio: Vardagsliv tillsammans med ett massmedium.

På Stockholms universitets hemsida kan man läsa följande om avhandlingen:

”Under snart hundra år har radiomediet varit närvarande i människors vardag i Sverige. I det avseendet är radio att betrakta som en självklar företeelse i samhället. Men hur går det till när detta medium tar plats hos den enskilda individen? Vad är radio för något som upplevt fenomen betraktat?

I Elin Franzéns avhandling ”Radio. Vardagsliv tillsammans med ett massmedium” skildras komplexiteten hos detta tillsynes självklara vardagsfenomen med utgångspunkt i omkring tvåhundra personers förmedlade erfarenheter.”
In English:

Radio : Everyday life with a mass medium

Abstract from diva:

”This thesis examines the radio medium as a phenomenon of experience. The perspective relates to phenomenological philosophy, dealing with human knowledge as an ongoing intentional relationship with the world: to experience is to grasp things such as they appear to the subjective consciousness. Radio is accordingly understood as a phenomenon that is given meaning through the individual user’s encounters with the medium in its constitutive forms.

The research is based on a qualitative material of approximately 200 questionnaire responses and interviews with 17 persons, describing the presence of the medium in the current lives of the participants as well as through their lifetime, which, from a phenomenological viewpoint, makes radio appear both in terms of a present phenomenon and objects of recollection. The experiences that were documented in the late 2010s thus span almost the entire history of the radio medium in Sweden.

The everyday embeddedness of radio is analyzed by focusing on three constitutive aspects that have emerged in the empirical data: technical equipment, mediated content, and temporal structures. By breaking down the phenomenon into these aspects, the thesis presents a detailed description of the ways in which radio is integrated into and constitutes everyday contexts.

Encounters with technical equipment, mediated content, and temporal structures are analytically described in terms of biographical orientations toward shifting media environments throughout the history of the medium. How radio has been present in life shapes experiences of radio in the present. Likewise, today’s media use defines how radio appears as a phenomenon of the past. Throughout the thesis, participants navigate radio environments in the shape of smartphones, transistor radios, vacuum tube receivers, linear flows of broadcasting, and on demand-structures. Radio is shown to be one of many interlaced components in the complex making of the everyday.”

Stipendiat i kulturvitskap, Universitetet i Bergen

Utlysningar

You can now apply for a doctoral scholarship in cultural science at Bergen University in Norway. The deadline is the 15th of May 2022.

Read more here.

From the website:

”Om stipendiatstillinga:

Stipendiatstillinga har som hovudmål å leie fram til en ph.d.-grad, som kvalifiserer for sjølvstendig forskingsverksemd og for anna arbeid i samfunnet som krev særleg kompetanse. Samla stipendperiode er 3 år.

Søkjaren er forventa å skrive ei ph.d.-avhandling som skal være ei oppfølgingsstudie til den kulturvitskapelege forskinga frå Lindåsprosjektet.

Kandidatar som tidlegare har hatt doktorgradsstipend ved Universitetet i Bergen, kan ikkje søkje. Tilsetjingsperioden kan bli redusert dersom den som blir tilsett, tidlegare har vore tilsett i rekrutteringsstilling.

Tilsetjing i stillinga krev at ein har sin arbeidsplass ved Universitetet i Bergen, Institutt for arkeologi, historie, kultur- og religionsvitskap, og rettar seg etter dei retningslinene som til en kvar tid gjeld for stillinga.”