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Introduction: Foucault’s Legacy in Contemporary Thinking: Forty Years Later (1984-2024)
Full text linkThinking and Unthinking the Present: Philosophy after Foucault
Full text linkWhat might a contemporary philosophical practice after and following Foucault look like? After briefly analyzing Foucault’s rather ambiguous stance towards academic philosophy in his posthumously published Le discours philosophique, we argue for continuing his historico-philosophical practice of diagnosing the present. This means taking up his analytic heuristic (with its three dimensions of power, knowledge and subjectivity) rather than his more concrete diagnostic concepts and the specific historical results they yield. We argue that the common methodological operation on each of the three axis is to shift the perspective from the given legitimacies, norms, identities and selves to their historical, conflict-ridden emergence. Practicing philosophy in this way allows developing Foucauldian contributions in two contemporary philosophical debates: critical ontology and political epistemology. While ontology and epistemology might seem surprising fields to work in for philosophers inspired by and critically loyal to Foucault, we attempt to dispel these reservations and illustrate the stakes in both debates, pointing to the urgent issues of ecological questions and of the problematization of untruths in politics respectively
Paranoia, (Para)cinema, and the Right-Wing Mindset: Making Sense of My Son Hunter
Full text linkThis article aims to make sense of My Son Hunter (The Unreported Story Society and Breitbart News, 2022; dir. Robert Davi). The first part of the analysis discusses My Son Hunter as an example of right-wing counter-cinema that tries to simultaneously tap into the cultural prestige associated with feature filmmaking and provide niche audiences with “paracinematic” pleasures. The second part of the analysis explores cinematic form and filmmaking techniques in My Son Hunter, demonstrating how the movie extends a promise of “truth” via an affective bombardment that draws on melodrama and paranoid fiction as well as the flexible modes of docudramatic approximation. The overall effect is to make logic and argumentation superfluous, which is indicative of how the film can be regarded as both symptomatic and productive of a “post-truth” condition
American Studies in Sweden: Navigating an Archipelagic Field
Full text linkThis essay sets out to map the teaching of American studies in Sweden. Since American studies is not a degree-awarding disci-pline in Sweden, this is not a straightforward task. The first part of the essay discusses American studies as it looks at the only center of higher educa-tion in Sweden that identifies it as a subject, the Swedish Insti-tute for North American Studies at Uppsala University. In the second part we look at the field in a broader sense, identifying courses about North America currently available at Swedish universities, and surveying their subjects and topics. Together, the two parts outline the con-tours of a field of teaching that, we suggest, is best described as archipelagic. The essay con-cludes with a discussion of the possibilities and challenges for American studies teaching in Sweden and offers some thoughts and suggestions for the future, arguing for increased teacher and institutional coop-eration, and the need to estab-lish American studies as a de-gree-awarding discipline
Teaching American Media and Popular Culture: Expansion, Inclusion, Interdisciplinarity
Full text linkThis is a reflection on my experiences in teaching American media at the Swedish Institute for American studies from 2015 to 2021. By way of concrete descriptions of classes taught and topics raised, I make a case for an approach to popular media that looks beyond both an all-too-limited focus on “mass media” and the text-centric, hermeneutically based discussions about media representations that have otherwise been the most common way of engaging with media in American studies. I also discuss challenges of interdisciplinarity that are a key concern not only when teaching media, but for the field of American studies more broadly
Data Is No Free Gift: An Anthropological Perspective on Data Sharing in an Inter-Organizational Context
Full text linkOrganizational research on data sharing in inter-organizational contexts is limited, giving little insight into why data is or is not shared, often bypassing social and cultural norms, values and perspectives, and issues of power, (dis)trust, and (un)willingness to share. Drawing on an empirical study in the infrastructure sector in the Netherlands, where administrators increasingly urge infrastructure operators to share their data to create a more integrated and resilient infrastructure network, we ask: How is data sharing enabled and constrained according to organizational actors of critical infrastructure operators? Our findings exhibit five perceived challenges and five opportunities of sharing data, providing two main contributions to business anthropology and organization studies. Theoretically, we reconceptualize data sharing as “gift-giving,” helping to identify and understand the human-centered facets hitherto overlooked such as the reciprocal relations and cultural tensions associated with inter-organizational data exchange. Empirically, contributing in a more pragmatic sense, we add the notion of “enclosing” which entails the situational exchange of mutually agreed upon, limited data among pre-selected organizations via a bounded platform. We suggest that the enclosed platforms provide a context conducive for reciprocal data-gifting and a framework for future practical applications of data sharing in (inter)organizational settings
Twisted Trajectories and Jewish-Muslim Interfaces: Bukharan Jews of Central Asia in Vienna
Full text linkThis article discusses migration of Bukharan Jews – an ethnic-religious minority in (post-)Soviet Central Asia – and the establishment of multi-confessional, multi-ethnic Central Asian diaspora in the city of Vienna, Austria. During the Cold War period, Vienna was transformed from being a major transit hub for Soviet Jews moving from the USSR to Israel, USA and other destinations to a site of the most numerous and prominent Bukharan Jewish diaspora in Europe. Using the concept of ‘migration infrastructure’, the article investigates the ways in which this transformation took place. Furthermore, it focuses on Jewish-Muslim interfaces, both in Soviet Uzbekistan and present-day diaspora, to document the ongoing, albeit changing, coexistence and collaboration across ethnic-religious boundaries that facilitate transnational migration. I argue that the Jewish infrastructure, which emerged in Vienna’s historically Jewish district of Leopoldstadt in the last decades, has also become a migrant infrastructure for the post-Soviet Tadjik-speaking Muslim migrants from Central Asia
Frivilligt emotionelt krævende omsorgsarbejde: Spændingsfelter og grænsearbejde i omsorgen for døende
No full textI en tid med stigende aldrende befolkning og manglende hænder i sundhedssektoren italesættes frivillig organiseret omsorg oftere som en nødvendig ressource i velfærdsstatsligt regi. Allerede nu ses en stigende efterspørgsel efter frivillige indsatser som supplement til professionelles omsorgsarbejde. Med udgangspunkt i et begreb om frivilligt emotionelt krævende omsorgsarbejde undersøges Røde Kors’ Vågetjeneste som en case på en særligt udfordrende omsorgspraksis i spændingsfeltet mellem civilsamfundets og det offentliges ansvar. Vi fokuserer analytisk på spændingsfelter i forhold til vågearbejdets forskellige institutionelle krav, når grænsearbejde mellem den professionaliserede og den frivillige omsorg udfordres i praksis. Dette tydeliggør de ledelsesmæssige udfordringer, når frivillige organisationer får et større ansvar for at kunne håndtere og støtte den frivillige omsorgspraksis. Artiklen peger på, at offentlige og frivillige aktører må diskutere, hvordan grænsearbejde håndteres situationelt i praksis, da grænser forhandles i konkrete interaktioner mellem professionelle og frivillige og med en større åbenhed, end det ofte antages
En betinget omsorg: oplevelser af nære omsorgsrelationer hos tidligere anbragte unge
No full textOmdrejningspunktet i denne artikel er en skelnen mellem en ubetinget, varig og familiær omsorgsrelation i forhold til en betinget og tidsmæssigt begrænset omsorgsrelation. Det empirisk udgangspunkt er en kvalitativ forløbsundersøgelse foretaget fra 2014 til 2016 blandt tidligere anbragte unge i Danmark, der ved start af dataindsamlingen var 20 til 33 år. Artiklen trækker på forståelsen omkring et omsorgsterræn, hvor oplevelser af omsorg skabes som en vej gennem livet og definerer den fremtidige vej, der kan følges. Analyserne peger på, hvordan erfaringer fra fortiden flettes sammen med oplevelser i voksenlivet og definerer de unges oplevelser af omsorgsrelationer også efter at have forladt anbringelse. Det præsenteres, hvordan de fortæller om fortidens manglende primære omsorg, og hvordan disse oplevelser har betydning for de ofte økonomiske ræssonementer, de bruger i forhold til at vurdere omsorgens investeringer og værdi. I artiklen fremgår det samlet set gennem de fænomenologiske analyser af de unges oplevelser af omsorg, at omsorg forstås i rammerne af at være tidsmæssigt begrænsede og betingede af en form for genydelse