This article examines Spiritualism in Sweden during the end of the nineteenth century and how the concept of science was used in the spiritualist community. The analysis in the article is based on the Swedish spiritualistic journal Efteråt? Tidskrift för Spiritism och dermed beslägtade ämnen. Practitioners argued that they had found scientific evidence for the existence of spirits and hoped for the scientific establishment to confirm their discoveries. thought was materialistic. Based on David Hess's theories of the construction of the Self through boundary work to the Other, the article concludes that through their ambivalent relationship to science, the Swedish spiritualists constructed themselves as scientific pioneers. At the same time, they criticized and distanced themselves from the concept of science, which they thought was materialistic. Based on David Hess's theories of the construction of the Self through boundary work to the Other, the article concludes that through their ambivalent relationship to science, the Swedish spiritualists constructed themselves as scientific pioneers.
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Traditionally, elegy moves from loss to consolation by framing death within larger regenerative cycles of nature. But in the current time of ecological disruption, nature as regeneration is no longer available, and this absence hinders the process of mourning, not allowing consolation. In parallel, the large scale of the environmental crisis creates a sense of futility of action. Both the inability to overcome mourning and the lack of will to act for environmental change create a permanent state of grief that Juliana Spahr, Joshua Clover and Allison Cobb term West Melancholia. How can ecopoetry overcome the process of mourning for lost ecosystems and species, and instead contribute to action? I propose that in contemporary North-American ecopoetry, consolation is given by poetic research in language and activist engagement. Spahr’s "Gentle Now, Don’t Add to Heartache" (2011) and Misanthropocene: 24 Theses (2014), co-authored with Clover, tie grief to the failure of inherited models of representing nature and instead suggest consolation in ecopoetry as activist practice. Cobb’s After We All Died (2016) grounds consolation in a practice of starting from failure to researching language for modes of overcoming grief. I discuss these works to uncover the poets’ proposals of overcoming melancholia through exploration of language and engaged activist writing.
{"title":"Ecopoetry","authors":"Nuno Marques","doi":"10.54807/kp.v29.16045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v29.16045","url":null,"abstract":"Traditionally, elegy moves from loss to consolation by framing death within larger regenerative cycles of nature. But in the current time of ecological disruption, nature as regeneration is no longer available, and this absence hinders the process of mourning, not allowing consolation. In parallel, the large scale of the environmental crisis creates a sense of futility of action. Both the inability to overcome mourning and the lack of will to act for environmental change create a permanent state of grief that Juliana Spahr, Joshua Clover and Allison Cobb term West Melancholia. How can ecopoetry overcome the process of mourning for lost ecosystems and species, and instead contribute to action? I propose that in contemporary North-American ecopoetry, consolation is given by poetic research in language and activist engagement. Spahr’s \"Gentle Now, Don’t Add to Heartache\" (2011) and Misanthropocene: 24 Theses (2014), co-authored with Clover, tie grief to the failure of inherited models of representing nature and instead suggest consolation in ecopoetry as activist practice. Cobb’s After We All Died (2016) grounds consolation in a practice of starting from failure to researching language for modes of overcoming grief. I discuss these works to uncover the poets’ proposals of overcoming melancholia through exploration of language and engaged activist writing.","PeriodicalId":141494,"journal":{"name":"Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131809156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Based on an analysis of interviews with women and men who grew up in Sweden with one or two Polish parents this article argues that ethnologists can and should contribute to the research on class by using constructivist theory and illuminating processes in which class is done. Leaning on Beverly Skeggs poststructuralist writing on class it analyses how the interviewees make class with help of the capital they possessed and in relation to class as a system of classification and of judgement. Most positioned themselves as middleclass by using socially upgrading criteria’s in the system of classification, such as higher education and dedication. While most lacked economic capital, these was the types of capital many of them had within reach and used. The whiteness the interviewees where ascribed in turn proved to upgraded them socially. It furthermore functioned as a cultural capital as it ensured their passing as majority members and thereby the use value of education as well as the ability to convert other forms of capital. It made their making of middleclass positions possible.
{"title":"Utbildning, målmedvetenhet och vithet","authors":"Ann Runfors","doi":"10.54807/kp.v29.16093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v29.16093","url":null,"abstract":"Based on an analysis of interviews with women and men who grew up in Sweden with one or two Polish parents this article argues that ethnologists can and should contribute to the research on class by using constructivist theory and illuminating processes in which class is done. Leaning on Beverly Skeggs poststructuralist writing on class it analyses how the interviewees make class with help of the capital they possessed and in relation to class as a system of classification and of judgement. Most positioned themselves as middleclass by using socially upgrading criteria’s in the system of classification, such as higher education and dedication. While most lacked economic capital, these was the types of capital many of them had within reach and used. The whiteness the interviewees where ascribed in turn proved to upgraded them socially. It furthermore functioned as a cultural capital as it ensured their passing as majority members and thereby the use value of education as well as the ability to convert other forms of capital. It made their making of middleclass positions possible.","PeriodicalId":141494,"journal":{"name":"Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift","volume":"1995 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128228188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The number of Swedish children conceived through commercial surrogacy abroad are increasing and the media debate on surrogacy is heated. In the wake of this, the Swedish public sphere is being filled with personal narratives of individuals travelling abroad with the purpose of having a child through surrogacy. This article analyses two books written by parents through surrogacy: Jaga storken (Hunt the stork) and Moscow baby, with a particular interest in how these two narratives describe and justify the stark class inequalities between intended parents and surrogate mothers. This kind of personal stories contribute to the normalisation of surrogacy through representing intended parents as ”having no choice” and the surrogate mothers as ”choosing subjects”. Thus, they play a crucial ideological function in the ongoing debate on surrogacy.
{"title":"Klass och (o)fria val i samtidens globala reproduktionslandskap","authors":"Jenny Gunnarsson Payne","doi":"10.54807/kp.v29.16102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v29.16102","url":null,"abstract":"The number of Swedish children conceived through commercial surrogacy abroad are increasing and the media debate on surrogacy is heated. In the wake of this, the Swedish public sphere is being filled with personal narratives of individuals travelling abroad with the purpose of having a child through surrogacy. This article analyses two books written by parents through surrogacy: Jaga storken (Hunt the stork) and Moscow baby, with a particular interest in how these two narratives describe and justify the stark class inequalities between intended parents and surrogate mothers. This kind of personal stories contribute to the normalisation of surrogacy through representing intended parents as ”having no choice” and the surrogate mothers as ”choosing subjects”. Thus, they play a crucial ideological function in the ongoing debate on surrogacy.","PeriodicalId":141494,"journal":{"name":"Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128794226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article tells us about the ladies association Concordia, founded in Uppsala in 1919. Concordia is a kind of cultural club , were a so called salon culture (“salongskultur”) is performed. The Concordian tradition is discussed as well as aspects of class, gender and generation. Concordia can be inepreted as a kind of microcosm that reveals class and gender systems in Sweden over the last hundred years.
{"title":"Frejdiga fruntimmer","authors":"Birgitta Meurling","doi":"10.54807/kp.v29.16075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v29.16075","url":null,"abstract":"This article tells us about the ladies association Concordia, founded in Uppsala in 1919. Concordia is a kind of cultural club , were a so called salon culture (“salongskultur”) is performed. The Concordian tradition is discussed as well as aspects of class, gender and generation. Concordia can be inepreted as a kind of microcosm that reveals class and gender systems in Sweden over the last hundred years.","PeriodicalId":141494,"journal":{"name":"Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115023990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this article, we are addressing the issue of European labour mobility and show that the concept of class is embedded in the EU social policy framework. If EU provides common rules to protect mobile citizens’ social security rights when moving within Europe in order to promote social cohesion and equality, they resulted in new legal boundaries within Europe between the ones who are protected by law and the ones who are excluded. Thus, the legal framework led to a situation in which law does not apply anymore on the basis of national sovereignty but on the basis of enclaves attached to individuals. Citizens become somehow extraterritorial (embodied boundaries). The analysis of EU policy documents related to the coordination of social security systems and the investigation of the Swedish national regulations for implementation of free mobility, enable us to show that European free mobility is not a space facilitating free movement for everyone and that citizens might be bordered out depending on their class belonging. We argue that the legal framework has led to a policy of illegalization: the EU social framework far from protecting Europeans workers, has favoured market predation and the emergence of a new social class of citizens dispossessed of their social rights.
{"title":"Klassvillkorad rörlighet inom EU","authors":"Florence Fröhlig, David Gunnarsson","doi":"10.54807/kp.v29.16090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v29.16090","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we are addressing the issue of European labour mobility and show that the concept of class is embedded in the EU social policy framework. If EU provides common rules to protect mobile citizens’ social security rights when moving within Europe in order to promote social cohesion and equality, they resulted in new legal boundaries within Europe between the ones who are protected by law and the ones who are excluded. Thus, the legal framework led to a situation in which law does not apply anymore on the basis of national sovereignty but on the basis of enclaves attached to individuals. Citizens become somehow extraterritorial (embodied boundaries). The analysis of EU policy documents related to the coordination of social security systems and the investigation of the Swedish national regulations for implementation of free mobility, enable us to show that European free mobility is not a space facilitating free movement for everyone and that citizens might be bordered out depending on their class belonging. We argue that the legal framework has led to a policy of illegalization: the EU social framework far from protecting Europeans workers, has favoured market predation and the emergence of a new social class of citizens dispossessed of their social rights.","PeriodicalId":141494,"journal":{"name":"Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128887724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The article is based on a survey of segregation in three Swedish rural municipalities (Bollnäs, Nordanstig and Söderhamn). Statistics show nationally large gaps between foreign-born and domestic-born in terms of the level of employment, living conditions and level of education. The gap also reflects significant differences between rich and relatively poor neighborhoods or areas. In interviews, a segregation emerges that is not visible in the statistics, for example, the experience that society has been marginalized and torn apart, and differences between young people who have a middle-class background and working-class background in relation to an urban norm to move from the municipalities. On the whole, a number of themes are raised where segregation is associated with ethnic groups, poorer areas and cultural problems. An analysis of how society’s globalization has changed the relationship between social classes, the distribution of resources and capital, and created ”winning” and ”losing” regions, makes it clear that segregation is above all a matter of relative wealth and poverty. In the municipalities, the addition of migrants becomes a pauperization, as migrants usually lack the economic, social and cultural capital that is valued in society, while the region is weakened due to emigration and relatively high welfare costs. The article therefore suggests that segregation should be counteracted by new types of solutions, aimed at the root causes, and at building resilient communities. It would also give the research on segregation and integration a new task, where the starting point is a criticism of ongoing attempts to ethnicise and culturalize economic and geographical inequalities.
{"title":"Migration, segregation och pauperisering i det svenska samhällets periferi","authors":"Mikael Vallström","doi":"10.54807/kp.v29.16087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v29.16087","url":null,"abstract":"The article is based on a survey of segregation in three Swedish rural municipalities (Bollnäs, Nordanstig and Söderhamn). Statistics show nationally large gaps between foreign-born and domestic-born in terms of the level of employment, living conditions and level of education. The gap also reflects significant differences between rich and relatively poor neighborhoods or areas. In interviews, a segregation emerges that is not visible in the statistics, for example, the experience that society has been marginalized and torn apart, and differences between young people who have a middle-class background and working-class background in relation to an urban norm to move from the municipalities. On the whole, a number of themes are raised where segregation is associated with ethnic groups, poorer areas and cultural problems. An analysis of how society’s globalization has changed the relationship between social classes, the distribution of resources and capital, and created ”winning” and ”losing” regions, makes it clear that segregation is above all a matter of relative wealth and poverty. In the municipalities, the addition of migrants becomes a pauperization, as migrants usually lack the economic, social and cultural capital that is valued in society, while the region is weakened due to emigration and relatively high welfare costs. The article therefore suggests that segregation should be counteracted by new types of solutions, aimed at the root causes, and at building resilient communities. It would also give the research on segregation and integration a new task, where the starting point is a criticism of ongoing attempts to ethnicise and culturalize economic and geographical inequalities.","PeriodicalId":141494,"journal":{"name":"Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130939582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this article the life stories of ex-convicts are analysed. The aim is to analyse class and masculinity in the narratives of ex-convicts, by investigating how they construct respectability. The four men that have been interviewed are all active in crime preventive and rehabilitating organisations. The interviews have been analysed from a class and masculinity perspective, using Beverley Skeggs concept of respectability as the main analytical concept. The analysis shows that the life stories of the interviewees are often constructed as chronological narratives, where destructive life paths are explained through childhood problems and trauma. Will power and hard work are understood as important factors for turning your life around. Factors that are often associated with what is understood as traditional male traits. The analysis further shows that male homosociality and identification is understood as important tools to change life-style.
{"title":"Hederlighet, drogfrihet, kamratskap och solidaritet","authors":"Kim Silow Kallenberg","doi":"10.54807/kp.v29.16096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v29.16096","url":null,"abstract":"In this article the life stories of ex-convicts are analysed. The aim is to analyse class and masculinity in the narratives of ex-convicts, by investigating how they construct respectability. The four men that have been interviewed are all active in crime preventive and rehabilitating organisations. The interviews have been analysed from a class and masculinity perspective, using Beverley Skeggs concept of respectability as the main analytical concept. The analysis shows that the life stories of the interviewees are often constructed as chronological narratives, where destructive life paths are explained through childhood problems and trauma. Will power and hard work are understood as important factors for turning your life around. Factors that are often associated with what is understood as traditional male traits. The analysis further shows that male homosociality and identification is understood as important tools to change life-style.","PeriodicalId":141494,"journal":{"name":"Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134464168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper describes the history of the rural labor movement in Sweden and its specific popular adult education through life stories. The project centers on the author’s father’s narrated memories of his childhood and the farmhand Erik Eriksson, called Ecke (1903-1996). Ecke was a rural worker with just a few years of schooling who was organized in the Swedish popular education movement for workers at his time. Through his dedication he changed the social aspirations for rural workers’ children in the area, amongst them the author’s own father. The paper draws on a walk along interviews with the author’s father, in order to examine how memory, place and social mobility are interlaced when visiting the intervieweeÅLs childhood homes and remembering Ecke and his deed.
{"title":"Ecke, pappa och jag","authors":"Jenny Ingridsdotter","doi":"10.54807/kp.v29.16099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v29.16099","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the history of the rural labor movement in Sweden and its specific popular adult education through life stories. The project centers on the author’s father’s narrated memories of his childhood and the farmhand Erik Eriksson, called Ecke (1903-1996). Ecke was a rural worker with just a few years of schooling who was organized in the Swedish popular education movement for workers at his time. Through his dedication he changed the social aspirations for rural workers’ children in the area, amongst them the author’s own father. The paper draws on a walk along interviews with the author’s father, in order to examine how memory, place and social mobility are interlaced when visiting the intervieweeÅLs childhood homes and remembering Ecke and his deed.","PeriodicalId":141494,"journal":{"name":"Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift","volume":"14 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134541601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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