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Att ge mening åt det svåra : En kvalitativ språkvetenskaplig analys av anhörigas berättelser om demens
No full text Denna C-uppsats undersöker hur anhöriga till personer med demens använder berättelser för att skapa mening, uttrycka känslor och bearbeta förändringar i kommunikation och relationer. Studien bygger på en kvalitativ språkvetenskaplig analys av tre offentligt publicerade poddavsnitt där anhöriga berättar om sina erfarenheter. Med hjälp av William Labovs narrativmodell, Rehnbergs teori om berättelser som kunskapsform samt begreppet small stories analyseras hur berättelserna är strukturerade, vilka funktioner de fyller och hur de fungerar interaktionellt. Resultatet visar att berättelserna ofta följer en tydlig struktur men också innehåller fragmentariska uttryck med stark emotionell laddning. Dessa berättelser fungerar som resurser för att skapa identitet, förståelse och relationell mening i ett vardagsliv påverkat av demenssjukdom. Studien lyfter också etiska och analytiska utmaningar med att tolka andras erfarenheter genom återberättelser, samt behovet av fler studier om anhörigas kommunikativa praktik i samtida medielandskap
Belonging through memory processes : A study of Karelians living in Sweden
No full textThis study aims to explore how Exile Karelians' belonging is created and formed through the lived experience of memory. I will be answering the following questions: What memories are tied to Karelia, and what meaning do they hold? How are memories tied to other persons, places, and objects? How do people navigate between Swedish, Finnish and Karelian culture and belonging through their memories? My empirical material is based on five interviews with evacuated Karelians and children of evacuated Karelians. I have analysed the material with the concept of lived experience of memory, and the concept of belonging theorised by Yuval-Davis. My results show that memories of war, evacuation, and Karelia are central in creating feelings of belonging to one’s family and to a broader Karelian community. The lived experience of memory is formed by social interactions, material practices and historical narratives. A common practice was to visit Karelia in so-called Kotiseutumatka, making memories more tangible. The participants’ belonging to Karelian and Finnish national belonging seems to be at points hard to differentiate, often being intertwined, and contrasted against being Swedish, some also describing not really belonging to anything, or belonging to little bit of everything.
Closing the Loop in the EU Fashion Industry : Reviewing the Potential Legal Strategy for a Sustainable and Circular Fashion Industry
No full textThe fashion industry in the European Union (EU) exerts a significant environmental impact, particularly through excessive resource consumption, overproduction, and overconsumption. These practices contribute to climate change via massive textile waste, biodiversity loss, and widespread land and water pollution. In response, there is an urgent need for the EU to implement robust legal measures to transition the fashion sector toward sustainability and circularity. A circular business model for the fashion industry addresses the entire lifecycle of textiles, aiming to transform production and consumption patterns. This model envisions textile products that are durable, repairable, and recyclable. It also calls for legal frameworks that support the development of profitable reuse and repair services, ensure their accessibility, and assign extended responsibility to producers across the supply chain. However, a critical gap remains in the availability of effective legal tools to incentivize businesses to adopt circular and sustainable strategies. While the European Commission has introduced several initiatives—such as the Eco-design Regulation, the revised Waste Framework Directive, the Repair Directive, and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive—these measures primarily focus on design, waste management, sustainability reporting, and enabling resale, repair, and recycling. This presentation reviews both existing and proposed EU-level legal mechanisms aimed at promoting a circular fashion economy. It also proposes a comprehensive legal toolbox to "close the loop" and facilitate the transformation of the EU fashion industry. The analysis is framed within the broader context of achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure), SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), and SDG 13 (Climate Action)
The didactic potential of fictional violence : teaching literature and basic values
No full textThe purpose of this essay is to explore how the fictional violence in Jan Guillous Evil (1981, Ondskan, Swedish title) can function to awake a didactic potential to discuss the schools basic values. This study explore how the schools basic values can permate the general teaching in the subject Swedish in the swedish gymnasium (age 16-19). The study has two problem formulations. How is the fictional violence depicted in Ondskan (1981)? What function can it have to awaken a didactic potential? To examine said problem the essay uses text analysis of the novel Ondskan, based on Malin Alkestrands defintion on the concept of didaktisk potential (didactic potential). Theory used in this essay is partly about the functions of fictional violence, how it can be looked at by readers and how it can be used by authors. The study also uses theroy connected to the ability of litterature to cause defamiliarization (Viktor Sklovskij). To show something familiar in a new light. Also the study uses theory in regard to the etichal and moral aspect of litterature for example the implied author (Wayne C. Booth). Who represents the values of the text. The study also uses Malin Alkestrands theorizing around the term didactic potential. The didactic potential is partly awaken by bringing basic values to the fore, partly by showing contradictory messages regarding the basic values. The analysis shows that the fictional violence can bring basic values to the fore. Partly by its function to cause defamiliarization and partly through a more artistic view of the fictional violence. To make contradictions visible the the fictional violences function to create a discussion about morality can be used
Creating a web of multimodal resources : Examining meaning-making during a children’s book project in a multilingual community
No full textWhile many children grow up in linguistically and symbolically diverse communities, it is still rare that they encounter an early educational experience adapted to the complexities of their everyday communicational reality. This paper takes an ecological and multimodal approach to a preschool’s book project in a multilingual community. The study examines the web of resources that emerges from activities, actors and their interrelations during the book project. It is shown how multimodal resources emerge when supported by active pedagogical community engagement, and how resources underpinning early childhood literacy cross linguistic and modal boundaries. The paper uses a multimodal interaction analysis to show how the socioecological resources emerging during the project come together in multimodal interaction. Pedagogical potentials building on multimodal resources involving the wider ecology of actors in linguistically complex settings are discussed.
Welfare service centers : Maintenance, repair, and care at the analog interfaces of the digital welfare state
No full textMany public administrations advocate digital services that allow for the deployment of algorithmic automation and the use of artificial intelligence. This shift has been discussed as the expansion of the digital welfare state. However, numerous citizens remain excluded from digital services provided by the state. In this context, welfare service centers have emerged as important interfaces of the digital welfare state. These service centers undergird many of the operations of digitalization as a large-scale, societal infrastructure project. In this article, we elaborate the specific characteristics of welfare service centers in Sweden, relying theoretically on interface theory and broken world thinking. Methodologically, we rely on ethnographic methods including in-depth interviews and observations. The article ultimately argues that the digital welfare state continues to be based on material inequalities and exclusions
Written Sources on Medieval Fighting Practices
No full textThis chapter presents a short introduction to different types of written sources referring to the fighting practices of the medieval period: Geoffroi de Charny’s and Hans Talhoffer’s discussions of laws and conventions relating to fighting, accounts of judicial duels between a man and a woman and two men-at-arms, and descriptions of fighting technique in the manuals or “fight books” of Hans Talhoffer and Paulus Kal. The examples offered, all concerned with conventionally recognised forms of combat, are discussed in terms of what they may reveal of the actual practices or the technical knowledge governing such practice, and of the significance of the fighting activities they describe to the people writing about them
A Playful Time : Working Class Children’s Stories in the History of Textile Industry
No full textAbstract for A Playful time: The article is a philosophical and literary investigation of the relationship between children’s work, subjectivity and play situatedwithin the history of textile work as recorded in the textile archives. Child labor has been a widespread reality in the European textileindustry and was a major contributing factor in the industrialization of the 18th and 19th centuries. A signpost at Rydal’s Spinnery, a textile factory in Sweden, which urged the workers not to play orfight – “Don’t play, don’t fight – rule out play and fighting at work”– provides a starting point for analyzing children’s play in relation to subjectivity and work. The article use a literary formulation, and draws on the work of Giorgio Agamben as well as Eugen Fink’s theory of play to develop an understanding of children’s play, life, and working conditions in the textile industry.Abstract for Weaving it togheter: This volume presents novel research perspectives on the Swedish textile industry’s history, with a particular focus on its international connections. One of the book’s purposes is to cast new light on the transnational connectivity of the Swedish textile industry, particularly cotton textiles. Both cotton and textiles in general have played a key part in Swedish industrialisation according to both academic and popular historical narratives, yet the subject has been treated in national isolation despite the many ways the textile industry has been shaped by processes and circumstances that are international in scope. In this book, we try to look beyond the national borders and get some glimpses of how the Swedish textile industry is interwoven with international networks for dissemination of technology, know-how, consumer products and raw material – especially for the cotton textile production. Textile is a commodity which has been traded over long distances for centuries. However, the emergence of the industrial production of cotton represents something totally new. The global proliferation of affordable cotton was facilitated by an intricate network of international relations woven by the British Empire, which linked Swedish spinners and weavers, mill owners and consumers to an international system of chattel slavery and colonialism. In other words, the cotton textile industry linked Sweden to the world in brand-new ways.
The Short-Term Market Impact of Share Repurchase Announcements
No full textResearch question: How does the announcement of stock repurchases affect short-term stock returns among Swedish Large Cap companies? Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine whether, and to what extent, public announcements of share repurchase programs affect short-term stock price performance among Swedish Large Cap companies during the period 2022–2024. The study investigates this through a comparison between companies that announced repurchases and those that did not, using established financial theories such as signaling theory, agency theory and behavioral finance. Method: This study adopts a quantitative research design based on event study methodology. The empirical analysis is conducted using cumulative abnormal returns (CAR), calculated over three event windows (1–3, 1–5 and 1–10 trading days after the announcement). Analytical methods include independent t-tests, multiple regression analysis, and CAR-index visualization. Data were manually collected from Nasdaq, company press releases and Avanza. Conclusion: The results indicate no statistically significant difference in short-term stock price reactions between companies that announced share repurchases and those that did not, across all event windows. Thus, the findings suggest that, in the Swedish market context, share repurchase announcements do not generate consistent abnormal returns in the short term. This may reflect a limited signaling effect or market skepticism due to macroeconomic uncertainty or managerial motives