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When Infrastructures and Ecological Actors Meet: Resituating "Green" Infrastructures through the History of the Willow Tree
Full text linkNot only do infrastructures put matter in motion, they also provide salient accounts of political struggles and everyday accommodations. Today, many municipalities promote them as part of "green" and "sustainable" solutions for the future. Concurrently, the more-than-human social sciences are going through their own "infrastructural turn," with an impetus to acknowledge actors beyond the human - that is, the ecologies of plants, animals, and fungi. This paper joins the call to include the ontic-epistemic realities of lively, other-than-human beings. Homing in on one ecological actor, the white willow (Salix alba), in Malmö and Scania, Sweden, I show that more-than-human infrastructural relations are far from novel occurrences. By adopting a ligneous, relational dialectic of agency, I account for the willow's shifting spatiotemporal positions and how the tree connects Scania's and Malmö's infrastructural past, present, and potential futures to wider discourses of sustainability and urban change. In Malmö, such discourses reflect the current implementation of a "green" infrastructure of "eco-pathways" (Ekostråket). Focusing on the willow, I question the municipal promise of "green" infrastructure as a panacea for humanity’s challenges in the Anthropocene
Mot en ”relationell” handledningsprocess? : en kort reflektion över akademisk uppsatshandledning
Full text linkHur ser den ideala handledningsprocessen och handledaren av akademiska uppsatser ut? I denna korta text reflekterar jag över hur detta kan (och kanske bör) te sig i praktiken. Utifrån vetenskaplig litteratur, anekdoter från akademin och mina egna erfarenheter, föreslår jag ett anammande av ett reflexivt, relationellt förfaringssätt som har både process och produkt i åtanke. Här blir handledningen inte bara ett sätt att få studenter att uppnå de stipulerade kursläromålen utan också en viktig del av introduktionen till den akademiska sfären i stort. What do the ideal supervision process and supervisor of academic dissertations and essays look like? In this short text, I reflect on how the two can (and perhaps should) appear in practice. Drawing on scientific articles, anecdotes from academia, and my own experiences, I propose the adoption of a reflexive, relational approach, which takes both process as well as product into account. Here, supervisions become not only a means to ensure that students achieve the stipulated course goals, they also play an important part in introducing them to the sphere of academia at large
Om pilträd i stadslandskapet
No full textI Malmö Stads kartarkiv hittade jag en kartläggning från 1950-talet över pilevallar i Malmö. Hösten 2021 letade jag upp och fotograferande platserna där pilevallar och alléer en gång stod. Speglingen av dåtid/nutid visar på en rad olika konsekvenser för pilens vara och framtidsutsikter; från gränsmarkörer till kultursymbol till biotopskydd alternativt totalt försvinnande. Nutida pilevallar minner om markgränser, maktstrukturer, landskapsideal och stadsplaneringsvurmar, men bidrar även till reflektion om förhållningssätt till vår mer-än-mänskliga omgivning
Allmänningar och Stråk : Att göra Gemensamma rum
No full textHär presenteras essäer, reflektioner, workshops, konstnärliga uttryck, pratpromenader och kartläggningar. I den första antologin inleds alla texter med ”om”, vilket syftar till att lyfta några viktiga teman i forskningen, som exempelvis; om pilevallar, om beständighet, om kopplingar och om betydelser av att gå. I den andra antologin börjar texterna med ”att” i syfte att markera hur allmänningar och stråk blir till på olika sätt, som exempelvis; att allmänning-göra, att planera, att kartlägga, att appropriera att förflytta eller att vandra. I del tre presenteras texter och fotografier från utställningen som genomfördes på Form/Design Center i Malmö. Genom dessa ansatser vill vi peka på hur forskning kan bli till på olika sätt och öppna upp för en diskussion om vikten av våra gemensamma rum
To listen and look: reflections on 'Scenes from a Soundscape'
No full textHow do our common spaces and pathways sound? What is the significance of sound for how we experience and use such spaces, whether we are undertaking daily routines or seeking refuge and escape from them? In modern urban planning, the sense most often prioritised is vision. The acoustic realm is relatively neglected. When sound is considered, it is most often as a nuisance or pollutant. But what happens when we listen to our environments more closely? What kinds of attention and attunement are involved? What perspectives on common spaces might we gain? This chapter reflects on these questions in relation to a video and sound piece made by the authors entitled 'Scenes from a Soundscape: Walking from Malmö to Lund', which was shown at the exhibition 'Allmänningen' at the Form/Design Centre in Malmö, in 2024
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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