Copenhagen Business School: CBS Open Journals
Not a member yet
5556 research outputs found
Sort by
Editorial
Get PDFEditorial by Sverre Raffnsøe, Alain Beaulieu, Barbara Cruikshank, Bregham Dalgliesh, Knut Ove Eliassen, Verena Erlenbusch, Alex Feldman, Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Thomas Götselius, Robert Harvey, Robin Holt, Leonard Richard Lawlor, Daniele Lorenzini, Edward McGushin, Hernan Camilo Pulido Martinez, Giovanni Mascaretti, Johanna Oksala, Clare O’Farrell, Rodrigo Castro Orellana, Eva Bendix Petersen, Alan Rosenberg, Annika Skoglund, Dianna Taylor, Thomas Lin, Mathias Mollerup Jørgensen & Rachel Raffnsøe
Foucault and Somaesthetics: Variations on the Art of Living
Get PDFThis essay examines Foucault’s legacy in terms of its contribution to the field of somaesthetics. It demonstrates how Foucault’s work on embodiment, care of the self, pleasure, sexuality, and aesthetics of existence were inspirational to the founding of somaesthetics and can serve as exemplars of somaesthetic philosophy. However, the essay also explores the ways that current somaesthetic research departs from Foucault’s theories by critiquing their limitations with respect to several important issues. These issues include the varieties of pleasure, the multicultural scope and diversity of ars erotica, the range of aesthetics and art, and the demand for truth and heroism in the art of living a beautiful life. 
The Significance of Location: Practicing American History in Sweden
Get PDFThis article deals with the teaching of American history in Sweden. It focuses on developments at Uppsala University where a course in American history has been taught since 1996, as a part of our American studies sequence. Placing it within the larger context of doing American studies in Sweden, it traces the development of the course discusses important topics taught and the challenges of finding suitable reading materials for students enrolled in the course
Teaching American Studies within Intellectual History (idéhistoria)
Get PDFThis article reflects on the author’s experience of creating and teaching a set of courses with North American themes within the academic discipline of idéhistoria, intellectual history, at a Swedish university. It stresses the value of an area studies approach for training students in “a researcher’s way to see and work” within this discipline. The more courses with themes from the US (and Canada) become “American studies,” the better they contribute to prepare students to think about past thought in a way that defines the task of idéhistoria (in the author’s opinion), namely a strictly contextualist approach. The article offers some examples of this. The fact that much about the US is familiar to Swedish students creates opportunities to understand past thought historically by exploring contexts that gradually make apparently familiar things less familiar, thus allowing them to be understood in unfamiliar ways. The courses have also become exercises in linguistic and cultural translation from American English, as a language that is fairly familiar to most Swedish students becomes more complex in their perception, with meanings and bearings shifting in time and space
The Dream House of American Culture: Archives of the Self, Visions of the Future
Get PDFIn this essay, I argue that American literature and culture help students draw more expansive geographies of their selves and more articulate narratives of their experiences. Using Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir In the Dream House as an example, I show how students are empowered to make meaningful connections between the personal and the political, and how they are encouraged to reflect on their “home” identities, especially with regard to race, class, sexuality, and gender. This text—graphic, raw, and challenging to read—fosters courageous conversations that illustrate what American studies can offer, namely an archive of struggle, a context of representation, and a space of community for our students
Organisatorisk oversættelse af vilde problemer – om at skabe lingvistiske rum
Get PDFMange organisationer står i dag over for vilde problemer, der skaber dilemmaer internt i organisationen. Dette kan være samfundsmæssige problemer som bæredygtighed, økonomi, klima, økonomi, uddannelse og rekruttering eller krav fra omgivelser som CSR, profit, legitimitet, inddragelse og effektivitet, der, når de optræder på samme tid, skaber et vildt problem som organisationen må håndtere. Fælles for disse problemer er, at der er mange modsatrettede krav og fortolkninger i spil, og at de ofte vil kræve inddragelse af en række forskellige aktører. Organisationer vil derfor opleve en høj grad af kompleksitet, som de skal finde måder at håndtere. I denne artikel ser vi på, hvordan det samme vilde problem blev oversat på fire forskellige måder og førte til fire typer af oversættelser af problemet, der blev skabt i forskellige lingvistiske rum i organisationen. Disse oversættelser danner grundlaget for en varieret og flersidig håndtering af vilde problemer. Dette understreger, at vilde problemer ikke har én entydig essens, der er uafhængig af dem, der skal håndtere problemet – vilde problemer er komplekse og kan derfor opfattes og løses på forskellige måder. Opgaven for oversætterne bliver derfor at identificere, hvordan omgivelsernes krav kan oversættes til organisationen, og her bliver skabelsen af lingvistiske rum en forudsætning for at kunne foretage oversættelsen
‘Made in India’: Heritage Diplomacy and the Infrastructure of Buddhist Memory
Get PDFIn recent decades, Buddhist sacred sites in India have become entangled in various soft power initiatives that have important religious and geopolitical im- plications in the early twenty-first century. Drawing on the concept of heritage diplomacy, this paper examines the geopolitics of Buddhism in contemporary India and how the infrastructure of Buddhist memory is central to development processes and civilisational discourses around Asia as an interlinked historical and geographic formation. In particular, it will examine different spheres of heritage influence in the Indian subcontinent and how they figure into state ideological interests and existing regional diplomatic ties, which includes building trade networks, financial aid and other strategic alliances designed to strengthen India’s image and standing in the region
