The concept of flight shame has raised awareness in Sweden under the year of 2019. It is closely linked to climate debates and knowledge about climate change and footprints due to flying. This has consequently led many Swedes to opt for train travel instead of plane flights. In relation to this, an internet forum called Tågsemester.nu has been launched where people can exchange train traveling ideas and get inspiration for holiday resorts from one another. This article analyses these narratives on train holidays with a particular interest in how they can be understood in terms of the perspectives of class and place. The concept of flight shame is discussed in relation to respectability. In support of the empirical material, I argue for an understanding of the train traveling practices, not only as climate active but also in particular practiced by an urban middle class. Traveling habits tend to get a biased understanding if only understood in terms of individual choices.
{"title":"Flygskam, klass och ändrade resvanor","authors":"Elisabeth Wollin","doi":"10.54807/kp.v29.16084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v29.16084","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of flight shame has raised awareness in Sweden under the year of 2019. It is closely linked to climate debates and knowledge about climate change and footprints due to flying. This has consequently led many Swedes to opt for train travel instead of plane flights. In relation to this, an internet forum called Tågsemester.nu has been launched where people can exchange train traveling ideas and get inspiration for holiday resorts from one another. This article analyses these narratives on train holidays with a particular interest in how they can be understood in terms of the perspectives of class and place. The concept of flight shame is discussed in relation to respectability. In support of the empirical material, I argue for an understanding of the train traveling practices, not only as climate active but also in particular practiced by an urban middle class. Traveling habits tend to get a biased understanding if only understood in terms of individual choices.","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":"127983219","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 his paper, "Eugenics and Other Evils" (1922), G.K Chesterton condemns the eugenics movement and argues that eugenic laws were designed by the upper-classes to control and discipline the lower-classes. Building upon the existing scholarship on eugenics and class, I argue that ‘Street-Arab’ literature provides an additional source of information in understanding the socio-political climate that favored the eugenics movement in early twentieth century. I explore a range of fictional and non-fictional sources from the late nineteenth century to demonstrate that the poor were already treated as a separate race before the advent of the eugenics movement. The article establishes that the understanding of eugenics, one of the defining movements of the twentieth century which in part led to the great wars, can be furthered by the study of Street-Arab literature.
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This article uses examples from the media debate on higher education in Sweden, as well as from a research project on independence in higher education, to discuss the significance of class and social background in relation to higher education. The article takes as its starting point how higher education in the media debate tends to be described as being in a severe crisis, and how the roots of the perceived problems in higher education are described to lie in deficits or incompetence of the individual students, but also within higher education itself. The discussion of what role class and social background may play in this, relates these examples to the assignment given to Swedish higher education institutions to promote widening participation and to the claims within the field of academic literacies that academic writing is not only a question of writing skills as such, but also a question of epistemological understandings, meaning making, and students’ background, identity and self-perception.
{"title":"Kris i högre utbildning?","authors":"Maria Zackariasson","doi":"10.54807/kp.v29.16081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v29.16081","url":null,"abstract":"This article uses examples from the media debate on higher education in Sweden, as well as from a research project on independence in higher education, to discuss the significance of class and social background in relation to higher education. The article takes as its starting point how higher education in the media debate tends to be described as being in a severe crisis, and how the roots of the perceived problems in higher education are described to lie in deficits or incompetence of the individual students, but also within higher education itself. The discussion of what role class and social background may play in this, relates these examples to the assignment given to Swedish higher education institutions to promote widening participation and to the claims within the field of academic literacies that academic writing is not only a question of writing skills as such, but also a question of epistemological understandings, meaning making, and students’ background, identity and self-perception.","PeriodicalId":141494,"journal":{"name":"Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift","volume":"32 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":"121924796","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}
My late grandmother (b. 1904) considered tattooes and whiskers to be class markers revealing a simple background; criminals and sailors had tatooes and footmen wore side-whiskers. My father thought talking too loud and chewing bubble gum were social class markers. According to my recently conducted interviews, bad teeth and crocs are todays class markers, as are certain names, such as Benny, Conny and Sonny. The youngest interviewees made a significant difference between the working class and so called white trash. They also mentioned ”Ullared”, a reality soap opera showing people with over-explicit examples of white trash class markers.
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It all started on Facebook in 2010, with a suggestion to celebrate the first Thursday of March. The suggestion was posted by a former resident of the town Jönköping. The posters suggestion emanated from the observation that ”r” in front of an ”s” is skipped in the particular dialect spoken in and around Jönköping. The first Thursday of March. Första torsdagen i mars, thus will be pronounciated Fössta tossdan i mass. Two years later somebody suggested that people from Jönköping could celebrate by eating a special cake with marzipan, in this special dialect massipantååta. 2010-2019 this celebration has exploded, on Facebook and also outside internet. Marzipan cakes are baked in all bakeries in Jönköping and surroundings, but the very last years also in other cities in Sweden. People with a background in Jönköping and the county of Småland offer their colleagues marzipan cake this very day, and everyone can follow the celebrations, pictures of cakes, special newly written songs and shows, on Facebook and other social media, like Instagram and Twitter. This is an example of how a dialect which has been used in films and other popular culture as a symbol of something rural, a little oldfashioned and embarrissing, is turned to something positive in a self- ironic and humoristic way. It is also an example of how a phenomenon – which might be shortlived, we do not know that yet - moves from the digital to the real world.
这一切始于2010年在Facebook上，有人建议庆祝3月的第一个星期四。该建议是由该镇的一位前居民Jönköping发布的。海报上的建议来自于观察，在Jönköping及其周围的特定方言中，“s”前面的“r”被跳过。三月的第一个星期四。Första torsdagen i mars，因此发音为Fössta tossdan i mass。两年后，有人建议Jönköping的人可以通过吃一种特殊的杏仁糖蛋糕来庆祝，用这种特殊的方言是massipantamatata。2010-2019年，这一庆祝活动在Facebook和互联网之外爆发了。杏仁糖蛋糕是在Jönköping和周边所有的面包店烘焙的，但最近几年在瑞典的其他城市也是如此。在Jönköping和smamatland县有背景的人会在这一天为他们的同事提供杏仁糖蛋糕，每个人都可以在Facebook和Instagram和Twitter等社交媒体上关注庆祝活动、蛋糕照片、特别的新歌和节目。这种方言在电影和其他流行文化中被用作乡村、老式和尴尬的象征，它是如何以一种自嘲和幽默的方式变成积极的东西的一个例子。这也是一种现象如何从数字世界走向现实世界的一个例子——这种现象可能是短暂的，我们还不知道。
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The modern chest freezer has significantly altered food storage practices in Sweden. Based on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Arjeplog (rural Northern Sweden/ Swedish Sápmi), this article investigates how the chest freezer plays a crucial role in more-than-human networks of food, sustainability, and living well in the local community. Among participants of this ethnographic study, most of the protein stored in freezers was hunted or foraged from the local landscape, and participants felt “rich and content” with freezers full of “natural” food. Building on theories of new materiality and the more-than-human, I examine the relationships between moose, freezer, forest, and the body, arguing that the chest freezer is not a static object of symbolic meaning but a vibrant actor in these networks of “the good life”. This paper is an empirically grounded contribution to studies of freezing practices and landscape relations in Northern Sweden.
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Guest editors' introduction to Theme: Cold and freezing.
客座编辑对主题的介绍:寒冷和冰冻。
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This essay is a humble attempt to shed some rays of light on the cultural history of the practice of using ice cubes in drinks, its past, present and to some extent future. Departing from the author’s travel documentation from trips to the US and examples from Sweden from the internet, literature, archives and interviews it aims to share reflections on the normalization and translatability to different cultural contexts of the use of ice cubes. It also provides a couple of examples of failed translations and some reflections on the future of ice cubes in an era of environmental crisis. Well aware that there are many stories to be told about ice cubes, the hope is that this essay will arouse interest and curiosity of this tiny object and its possibility to open up perspectives on our society and its history.
{"title":"Strange encounters with ice at US motels – and Nordic translations","authors":"H. Brembeck","doi":"10.54807/kp.v32.2170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54807/kp.v32.2170","url":null,"abstract":"This essay is a humble attempt to shed some rays of light on the cultural history of the practice of using ice cubes in drinks, its past, present and to some extent future. Departing from the author’s travel documentation from trips to the US and examples from Sweden from the internet, literature, archives and interviews it aims to share reflections on the normalization and translatability to different cultural contexts of the use of ice cubes. It also provides a couple of examples of failed translations and some reflections on the future of ice cubes in an era of environmental crisis. Well aware that there are many stories to be told about ice cubes, the hope is that this essay will arouse interest and curiosity of this tiny object and its possibility to open up perspectives on our society and its history.","PeriodicalId":141494,"journal":{"name":"Kulturella Perspektiv – Svensk etnologisk tidskrift","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124279240","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}
Would you share your freezer with your neighbours? Today, most Swedish households have access to a home freezer, but in the middle of the 20th century, collective freezer lockers offered affordable access to modern technology. Geographers have suggested that encouraging collective cooling practices could reduce environmental impact. The aim of this article is to investigate collective freezer lockers as a cultural phenomenon, and thereby getting closer to collective cooling practices, and to discuss the conditions for (re-introducing) collective freezer practices. Through personal narratives and media material, I trace meanings, norms, and discourses that formed part of these practices. The lockers were involved in daily practices of food, managing distances and social relations, and declined when home freezers became depicted as more affordable and rational. I conclude with discussing the possibilities and implications of a potential upscaling or revitalising of the practice of collective freezing.
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Between 1850 and 1914, Norway was a major supplier of natural ice to Britain and western Europe. The blocks of ice were kept across time and distance. The cold energy of ice was transferred as it melted in cabinets and boxes. The natural ice industry had a composite range of end consumers in restaurants, ocean liners, food industries and pelagic fish trawlers. At the same time, natural ice was also a production industry, based on methods for natural resource extraction. This article argues that while macro preconditions and structural outlines are generally understood, there has been little exploration of the social or technological processes by which it came to be a source of wealth (for a few) and employment (for thousands). It singes out for attention one entrepreneur, Johan Martin Dahll, who between 1850 and his death in 1877 was crucial in shaping the industry in a Norwegian context.
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