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Toy Discourses and Gendered Roles in “The Most Gender Equal Country in the World”: A Critical Cultural Analysis of Norwegian Toy Catalogues from 2011 to 2018
No full textGoverning gendered understandings of innovation: a discourse analysis of a national innovation policy programme
No full textNature Articulations in Norwegian Advertising Discourse: A Depoliticized Discourse of Climate Change
Get PDFThis article deals with how nature is articulated in public discourse, and more specifically how
humans’ relationship to nature is constructed via such articulations. Based on critical cultural analyses
of ads presented in a Norwegian context, the article claims articulations of nature serve to a
depoliticization of nature, which silence social differences and reduce environmental politics to
individual moral action. Several rhetorical patterns of particular relevance to the articulation of nature
are discussed, pointing out how disparate, sometimes conflicting, understandings of nature are
rhetorically configured and aligned in ways that benefit a global market economy. There is a
discursive distancing of nature and everyday life, even as nature remains valorized and very much
central to national identity. This constrains citizens’ political engagement and undermines
understandings of how to govern nature
The Meaning of the Feminist T-Shirt: Social Media, Postmodern Aesthetics, and the Potential for Sociopolitical Change
Get PDFThis article examines the potential for political or social change as part of postmodern cultural expression in consumer culture. Throughout the article, I discuss the way sociopolitical messages, circulating in contemporary culture, represent an interesting element in terms of their intertextual referencing and postmodern blurring. Postmodern aesthetic features merge commodifying, resistive, and identifying processes, which can enable sociopolitical messages to spread into new arenas of resistance and fly under the radar, so to speak. In particular, I claim that new forms of engagement in social media communication produce an alternative venue for politics—one created by neoliberalism itself. I explain that sociopolitical messages presented via postmodern aesthetics in consumer culture, particularly when circulated using social media, can function counter-hegemonically, even while using hegemonic structures to gain commercial success. With this, the potential for change can come about; power lies in the hands (or social media accounts) of consumers
Yhđessä – Sammen om kvenske virkeligheter: Situering og akademisk ansvarlighet i forskningsprosessen
No full textThis article discusses methodological aspects of an ongoing research project on Kven worldings. The work is inspired by Donna Haraway’s perspectives on situated research. A metalogue, where the authors share reflections and discuss their maneuvers as researchers, makes visible some of the ontological and epistemological troubles the researchers are facing related to the philosophical research approach, what kind of knowledge the researchers are in position to produce, and what it can mean to be allies with the Kven communities to/from which the research speaks. The article supports critical transgressive research, as part of a diverse and broad opposition to injustice. Via the building of alliances and relations, and a critical consciousness around situatedness, the authors argue for a collaborative effort to develop knowledge.
I denne artikkelen diskuteres metodologiske aspekter ved et pågående forskningsprosjekt om kvenske virkeligheter. Arbeidet er inspirert av Donna Haraways perspektiver om situert forskning. Gjennom en metalog, der forfatterne deler refleksjoner og diskusjoner om manøvreringer, synliggjøres noen av de ontologiske og epistemologiske flokene forskerne står i, som dreier seg om den vitenskapsfilosofiske inngangen forskningen tar, hvilken kunnskap forskerne står i posisjon til å produsere, og hva det kan bety å bygge allianser med aktører i det kvenske feltet forskningen snakker til og fra. Artikkelen fremmer transgressiv forskning, som del av en kollektiv og mangfoldig motstand mot ulike former av urettferdighet. Gjennom allianse- og relasjonsbygging og kritisk bevissthet rundt egen situering, argumenterer forfatterne for en kollektiv innsats for kunnskapen som produsere
Contextual sites of acknowledgement? Kven heritage and contemporary identity articulation processes
Get PDFIt is more than 20 years since Kvens were recognized as a national minority in Norway, yet there is still a need for acknowledgement of Kven culture and heritage. This article discusses contemporary processes of identity articulation related to Kven heritage. Based on interviews with people who relate to a key Kven place in Varanger, we discuss people’s identity articulation processes in different contexts. Specifically, three contextual sites for identity articulation processes are discussed in detail: family, public institutions and discourse, and multicultural society. We maintain that the family site has a pivotal role when it comes to heritage and identity articulation processes, but it can also be a source of pain and struggle. Public discourse and institutions such as media, museums and schools can provide authoritative acknowledgement of identity, but they come with a risk of reducing nuances in identity articulation processes. Within multicultural sites it can be a struggle to find room for people’s ethnic complexities. Across contextual sites, finding support for identity articulation processes is key to acknowledgement of Kven heritage
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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