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  • 1.
    Nerf, Frida
    et al.
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Sociologiska institutionen.
    Kifle, Naomi
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Sociologiska institutionen.
    Att navigera mångfaldsfrågor: En kvalitativ studie om HR och rekrytering i den offentliga sektorn2024Självständigt arbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen), 10 poäng / 15 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [sv]

    Sammanfattning

    Frågor som berör mångfald har kommit att etablera sig som ett ständigt aktuellt ämne på den svenska arbetsmarknaden. Det finns många verktyg att arbeta med för en inkluderande och jämställd arbetsplats. Det första steget för att påverka mångfalden i en organisation är genom rekryteringsprocessen. Syftet med vår studie är att undersöka hur HR-personal arbetar med mångfald i rekryteringsprocessen inom den offentliga sektorn samt vilka de vanligaste utmaningarna är med mångfaldsarbete. I och med den teknologiska utvecklingen vill vi även studera om potentiella AI-verktyg har förändrat villkoren i rekryteringsprocessen. Våra teoretiska utgångspunkter är professionsforskning av Thomas Brante samt den nyinstitutionella organisationsteorin med särskilt fokus på begreppet institutionell isomorfism. Dessa teorier kommer att utgöra grunden för förståelsen av hur gemensamma normer och tankesätt formas inom HR professionen beträffande mångfaldsarbete. Det empiriska materialet har vi samlat in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med sju personer som arbetar med HR inom den offentliga sektorn. Studiens resultat visar att det finns flera etablerade tillvägagångssätt för att främja mångfald, där ett tydligt exempel är så kallad kompetensbaserad rekrytering som används inom många organisationer idag för att försöka skapa en så pass fördomsfri rekrytering som möjligt. Resultatet visar att de vanligaste utmaningarna inom HR är urvalsprocessen. Bland utbudet av kandidater som uppfyller kraven råder det inte alltid en mångfald. Användningen av AI-verktyg framstod inte som särskilt etablerad bland våra respondenter, men det fanns likväl en positiv inställning och en öppenhet inför den betydelse som denna teknologiska utveckling kan tänkas få för framtidens mångfaldsarbete. Studien bidrar till en inblick i hur man inom HR professionen tänker och arbetar med mångfald i rekryteringsarbetet samt vilka utmaningar och potentiella värdekonflikter som kan uppstå.

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  • 2.
    Salihi, Blerim
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Byråkrater i limbo: En antropologisk studie om policy och offentlig sektor2024Självständigt arbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen), 10 poäng / 15 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [sv]

    Med syftet att problematisera det sjunkande förtroendet för offentlig sektor undersöker denna studie hur myndighetsanställda, så kallade byråkrater, konkretiserar och förkroppsligar myndighetsutövandet. Studien fokuserar på individuella aktörers agens, deras relationer inom byråkratin och deras roll i att motverka den kritiska utvecklingen av uppfattningen om offentliga institutioner. Med det antropologiska konceptet om liminalitet som teoretiskt ramverk analyseras frågeställningen om byråkraters navigering mellan policy och praktik. Genom deltagande observation och samtal med byråkrater hos samverkansplattformen Samhällskontraktet mellan Mälardalens universitet, Eskilstuna kommun och Västerås stad har studien utforskat kommunikation, skav och identitet som betydande faktorer i navigeringen av policy i praktiken. Samhällskontraktet spelar en unik roll genom att processleda parternas verksamheter från en strategisk nivå utan att delta i parternas operativa arbete. Denna praxis skiljer sig markant från konventionell byråkrati, vilket gör att Samhällskontraktet kan uppfattas som liminalt. Med viss framgång lyckas samverkansplattformen skapa systematisk förändring på lokal nivå men hämmas av kommunikativa missuppfattningar, i en större struktur av byråkratiskt neoliberala lösningar som riktar sig mot samhällsutmaningarna snarare än att förändra de system som producerar samhällsutmaningarna.

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    SALIHI Byråkrater i limbo
  • 3.
    Linder, Elin
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Caring for Olive Oil: Cultivating Flows, Crafts & Traditions2024Doktorsavhandling, monografi (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
    Abstract [en]

    Olive oil is a food, but more than that, it is a social relation, cultural phenomenon, local practice, global industry, emplaced tradition, valued concern, cyclical rhythm, embodied care-work, multigenerational flow, kindred ecology, and cultivated craft. This is the case in the region of Puglia, the heel of Italy, where over half a million ancient olive trees and an entire landscape of olive groves bear witness to its heritage of making. This thesis builds on more than one and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork with Pugliese oliviculturalists. It uses sensory and multimodal methods for collecting and representing material, and takes creative ethnography as its frame for critical analysis. Through the concepts of flow and artful care, it advances the spatiotemporal dynamics of the making of Pugliese olive oil. It frames the work of research participants as situated craft and brings attention to embodied features of knowing and doing. It curiously explores how olive oil occurs practiced and lived from the perspective of practitioners, thus making the bodies and work of beyond-human agencies into account, making claims to the broad-scope ecology of life inherent in olivicoltura (olive culture). A major finding is that Pugliese oliviculturalists live landscape and work in rhythm with the atmospheric dynamics influencing it. Another is that traditions flow together with modern developments, growing local practices of craftsmanship while creating commodities in line with global market structures. The concepts of care and value are fundamental to the thesis. They are paramount to the lived (hi)stories of Pugliese oliviculturalists, hence to the narrations and analyses of this thesis. 

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  • 4.
    Glaidos, Hani
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Det handlar om dagsformen: En uppsats om hur vuxna i Stockholmsområdet hanterar sin matallergi i vardagen2024Självständigt arbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen), 10 poäng / 15 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [sv]

    “bara för att du tål det här…betyder det inte att du är redo att testa” - Sara, informant

    Matallergiker är personer med en förhöjd känslighet inför sin omgivning. Maten vi äter är mer än biologiskt betingad - den är ofta socialt relaterad. I vissa fall är matallergi förenad med livsfara. För att delta krävs det då mer av matallergiker än andra människor innan de kan möta andra, äta mat eller gå ut genom dörren. 

    Genom semi-strukturerade intervjuer och deltagande observationer har den här studien samlat etnografiskt material med målet att undersöka hur vuxna matallergiker i Stockholmsområdet hanterar sina matallergier i vardagen. Resultaten visar att matallergi hanteras genom en riskmedvetenhet, riskbedömning och planering. Dessa utgår ifrån känslomässiga föreställningar som är erfarenhetsbaserade och ordnar sociala relationer. Detta i ett risksamhälle där en potentiell negativ påverkan genom livsmedel och miljö ständigt utvecklas och fysisk och social risk står på spel.

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  • 5.
    Flood, Elsa
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Psilocybin, Science, and Spirituality: An ethnographic study of the psychedelic landscape of Sweden2024Självständigt arbete på avancerad nivå (masterexamen), 20 poäng / 30 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [en]

    This thesis takes a broad and holistic approach to the theme of psilocybin mushrooms, commonly referred to as magic mushrooms, in a Swedish context. These psychoactive mushrooms grow in most parts of the world, including Sweden. There is a long history of utilizing them for spiritual purposes in many indigenous cultures primarily throughout South America. They are being researched as potential medical components in Sweden, as they have recently been in many other Western countries. This has been described as “the psychedelic renaissance”. Through an anthropological lens, this research utilizes qualitative methods, including in-depth interviews with various actors who through diverse paths are involved with psilocybin mushrooms. Medical researchers, psychologists, representatives of psychedelic organizations, regular users, and one shaman have been interviewed. The study assesses the process of medicalization, analyzing the potential integration of psilocybin into mental health practices. Further themes explored are legality, ontology, and spirituality. Self-management as mental health strategy is furthermore delved into, as many participants expressed that they utilized psilocybin, guided by expert discourses, for treatment of their mental health. This thesis contributes to the field of psychedelic studies and explores a substance that is entangled in legal and cultural ambiguities. It attempts to analyze the intersections of sometimes competing discourses on what psilocybin mushrooms are, how and if they should be utilized.  

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  • 6.
    Sansoni, Giulia
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Siwösauk (Moon-Time): In between sacred and dangerous: the ambiguity of menstruation among a group of Bribri women.2024Självständigt arbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen), 10 poäng / 15 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
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  • 7.
    Dan, Hansén
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Sökare och deras ritualer: Levande praktiker som en indirekt kritik mot etablerad religion2024Självständigt arbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen), 10 poäng / 15 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [sv]

    Den här studien har undersökt hur personer blandar och utövar praktiker från olika traditioner och andliga inriktningar samt vad de får ut av det. Praktikerna innefattar allt ifrån andningsövningar till psykedelia. Gruppen kan benämnas som sökare och de rör sig i en New Age eller alternativ religiös miljö. För att analysera informanternas praktiker och idéer har antropologiska teorier om sökare, religion och ritualer använts. Empirin är insamlat genom deltagandeobservationer och intervjuer. Slutsatsen är att praktikerna kan ses som en indirekt kritik mot etablerad religion där en toppstyrning sker av hur praktiker ska utföras och vilka symboler som är av vikt för andligt och kroppsligt välbefinnande. Kritiken kommer till uttryck genom informanternas blandning av praktiker som sker på ett personligt, levande och engagerat sätt. Vilket ger dem svar på frågor, gör dem mer närvarande i kroppen, bidrar till läkning, en känsla av mening och att tillhöra en gemenskap.

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  • 8.
    Elbke Christensen, Aia Liv
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Surreptitious abuse of everyday body images: When “sneaky photos” become sexually abusive2024Självständigt arbete på avancerad nivå (masterexamen), 20 poäng / 30 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [en]

    This thesis examines the issue of surreptitious image-based abuse, with a focus on how non-sexual everyday body images can become sexually abusive in virtual spaces. The term surreptitious refers to the ways in which images are produced and distributed secretly in physical and virtual everyday spaces. Based on ethnographic physical, sensuous and virtual immersion within different fieldsites localized in Tokyo, the study will focus on how women and gender-minorities experience and negotiate experiences of sneaky use of mobile phone cameras and the abuse of everyday body images. By drawing on a theoretical framework anchored in digital anthropology and visual anthropology it will shed light on how institutional neglect, gender norms, and the social infrastructure of trains, as everyday necessary commuting spaces, contribute to surreptitious image-based abuse being a normalized and inconspicuous occurrence. The analytical concepts of non-consensual virtual emplacement, onlookers, and gendered hypervisibility, visibility and invisibility will serve as the analytical foundation to explore how such forms of abuse are taking place in physical and virtual spaces. The thesis will shed light on how the virtual emplacement of a body image can be a central constituent for the abuse of images, and discuss how shame-relations are implicated in a feeling of a loss of control of virtual bodily presence. This is further connected to the potential endless presence of others and sexually objectifying gazes in virtual spaces. Moreover, the study will discuss how women and gender-minorities actively resist oppressive structures, through emotional visual expressions and the creation of artworks as a way to make gender-based violence visible. 

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  • 9.
    Szmida, Izabell
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    The “Back Way” to Europe as the Pathway to Wealth: A Study of Irregular Migration from The Gambia2024Självständigt arbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen), 10 poäng / 15 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [en]

    This thesis aims to illustrate how youths and teachers in The Gambia perceive irregular migration, also known as the “back way” from The Gambia to Europe. It further aims to illustrate to which extent the ideas of the “back way” and “greener pastures”, through their self-perpetuation, affect higher education in the country, as current structures in The Gambia make youths drop out of school. The study was conducted for two months in The Gambia during spring 2024 using an ethnographic method with semi-structured interviews and participant observations, involving both youths and teachers. The collected material, analyzed within the theoretical framework of dependency theory and reciprocity, highlights youths’ role in Gambian society, as well as their perceived challenges and opportunities. The results suggest a correlation between the perception of the “back way” and school dropouts or not continuing education. Moreover, the results also underscore the importance of several other factors related to the desire to go the “back way” such as peer influence, high unemployment rate, and how education is valued in the light of the lack of possibilities thereafter. 

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  • 10.
    Fujiwara, Sofia
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    "The Switch": Commodifying the Self and Navigating the Fantasyscape2024Självständigt arbete på avancerad nivå (masterexamen), 20 poäng / 30 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [en]

    Themed establishments known as maid cafes, where servers embody maid personas, have garnered considerable popularity across Japan, elevating the maid character to an iconic emblem synonymous with the district of Akihabara. This study examines the experiences of women working in Akihabara’s maid cafes, and the ways in which they conceptualize, navigate, and negotiate the commodification of their bodies. Through a combination of semi-structured interviews, participant observation, digital and visual ethnography, and sensuous methodologies, the research elucidates the intricate dynamics of the maid café as a site of negotiation that both challenges and reinforces idealized gender norms. Incorporating theoretical perspectives from the field of cute studies, moe, fantasycapes, and the shōjo, it highlights the varying degrees of performativity, complexities of body commodification, and nuanced power dynamics found within these spaces. This study contributes to existing scholarship on maid cafes by centering the previously unexplored perspective of women and emphasizing the nuanced experiences of maid identities.

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  • 11.
    Målquist, Ulla
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Women changing careers to the ICT sector in Finland: Liminality and Identity2024Självständigt arbete på avancerad nivå (magisterexamen), 20 poäng / 30 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [en]

    This is a study of Finnish women changing careers to the ICT (Information and Communications Technology) sector and their journey, as presented in their narratives. 

    Building on Turners (1979) conceptualized notion of liminality as both an “interstructural situation” as well as an identity limbo and applying Ibarra and Obodaru´s (2016) categorization, this thesis explores the liminal experiences and identity in a discursive space. 

    By reflecting on their past career motivations and current situations in interviews, women explained their transition through narratives, evaluating and adjusting their lives to align with their personality and their identity with their new careers.

    Liminality offers a framework for researching the contemporary career change, forming a platform for exploring topics such as motivation, guidance and precarity, as women marginal in both age and gender are entering the field of ICT.

    Understanding the conditions and experiences women face in the liminal phase is essential if we want to encourage and support them through this significant process of transition. 

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  • 12.
    Hamdollazadehkive, Parnia Sanna
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Women's role in Chinese modernization: An idea analysis of Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping’s representation of women’s role in Chinese modernization2024Självständigt arbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen), 10 poäng / 15 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [en]

    This thesis aims to investigate the representations of women made by the first and latest political leaders of the Communist Party of China (the CPC), Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping, within the context of women’s role in Chinese modernization. By employing a qualitative idea analysis, which operationalizes the theoretical principles of autonomy, communitarianism and radical feminism, the thesis seeks to elucidate how these representations reflect broader political tensions between state authority and individual freedom. Speeches and publications of Xi and Mao respectively were analyzed using ideal types, in order to contribute to the understanding of how the political leaders' ideological stances on women’s roles have evolved over time, revealing potential shifts in political narratives. The findings show that Xi and Mao put forward diametrically different representations of women’s role in modernization. Mao seems to argue on the basis of the principles for autonomy and radical feminism as he emphasizes that women need to revolt against harmful male-dominated structures in order to fulfill their own life projects by entering the workforce. Xi, on the other hand, derives his arguments from the communitarian principle as he returns to traditional values and stresses that women’s role in modernization is within the household. Women should therefore, according to Xi, honor the sacrifice of staying at home, in order to make her irreplaceable contribution in addressing the aging population and thereby enhancing the quality of population development. 

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  • 13. Borrelli, Lisa Maria
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    Hedlund, Daniel
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för socialt arbete.
    Johannesson, Livia
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen, Stockholms centrum för forskning om offentlig sektor (SCORE).
    Lindberg, Annika
    Border Bureaucracies: A Literature Review of Discretion in Migration Control2023Rapport (Refereegranskat)
    Abstract [en]

    This literature review summarizes findings from 63 articles published between 2001 and 2020 that study discretion of frontline workers at migration control. The results demonstrate that discretionary practices in various migration control situations (e.g., border zones, migration agencies, courts, public welfare services, and detention centers) are widespread but share common patterns. Frontline workers’ racialized prejudices and perceptions of migrant deservingness were the most dominant patterns found in the data, although there were some disagreements about which were most influential. Discretion of frontline workers was described as foremost detrimental to migrants, as itamplified the migrants’ vulnerable situations, even if it occasionally could increase individual migrants’ room for agency and strategic maneuvering. Contrary to the assumption underpinning the control gap-thesis in immigration policy literature that governments’ capacity to control migration is hampered by the significant discretion at the frontlines, many studies in our sample describe how governments shape the discretionary practices of frontline workers through informal, subtle, and opaque governing strategies. These informal governing strategies enable central governments to deflect responsibility for discriminatory and inhumane policy outcomes. 

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  • 14.
    Wennberg, Lowe
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Det handlar om något helt annat, det handlar om gemenskap: Hammarbyismens användning i Hammarbys supporterkultur2023Självständigt arbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen), 10 poäng / 15 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [sv]

    Denna uppsats syftar till att utforska användningen av Hammarbys supporterbegrepp Hammarbyism. Genom att följa Supportrarnas Matchprogram som är en central knytpunkt i Hammarbys supporterkultur och genom djupintervjuer med individer inom Matchprogrammet går det att se mönster i vad som försöks förmedlas med hjälp av begreppet Hammarbyism. Med Hammarbyismens användning som utgångspunkt går det att utforska Hammarbys supportergemenskap och kultur.

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  • 15.
    Lejdeby, Nadja
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Drogfrihet: En antropologisk studie om att vara drogfri som drogberoende i Sverige.2023Självständigt arbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen), 10 poäng / 15 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [en]

    This anthropological essay investigates the meaning for a recovering drug addictto be free from drugs. The paper includes three semi-structural interviews withrecovering addicts as well as material from one podcast, to investigate theconcept of being free from drugs from recovering addicts perspectives. To helpinvestigate the subject further, research regarding dominating Swedish politicalnorms is being presented in this paper. The essay consists of a theory- andliterature overview regarding addiction and recovery to help understand whatbeing clean from drugs means for a recovering addict. This essay ultimatelyargues that being free from drugs can mean being functional, living withouthighs and spirituality and meaning.

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    Drogfrihet
  • 16.
    Sundberg, Mikaela
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen, Stockholms centrum för forskning om offentlig sektor (SCORE).
    Dödsorsaksdatas produktionsprocess: Regler och aktörer inom ett kunskapsmaskineri2023Rapport (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
    Abstract [sv]

    Rapporten beskriver de huvudsakliga stegen i att skapa data om dödsorsaker med fokus på vilka lagar och regler det styrs av och strukturen följer av detta. I Sverige dör årligen ca 90 000 personer, mestadels på sjukhus och sjukhem, men även i hemmet. Det är oftast patientens läkare som bedömer dödsorsaken. Hur undersökningar av dödsorsaker rent praktiskt bör gå till är i mycket begränsad utsträckning styrt av förordningar. Lagen föreskriver när klinisk obduktion får ske, men det är en bedömningsfråga när det är av särskild betydelse att ta reda på dödsorsaken och kliniska obduktioner hör numera till ovanligheten. Lagen föreskriver också när rättsmedicinsk undersökning kan komma ifråga, men rättsmedicinska obduktioner kan i sig innefatta olika undersökningar. Det är egentligen enbart rättsmedicinska läkare som har utredning av dödsorsaker som främsta arbetsuppgift, medan alla andra typer av läkare verksamma på vårdcentraler och olika sjukhuskliniker mer eller mindre sällan behöver arbeta med detta.

    Rapporten visar hur det trots stort intresse för kvaliteten hos dödsorsaks-bedömningarna finns mycket lite kunskap hur dödsorsaksbestämning går till i praktiken. Rapporteringen av dödsorsakerna sker via ett dödsorsaksintyg som skickas till Socialstyrelsen. Dödsorsaksintyget är format utifrån reglerna för internationell sjukdomsklassifikation för statistiska syften, ICD, och har som syfte att standardisera hur rapporteringen går till. Socialstyrelsen ger riktlinjer för hur dödsorsaksintyg ska fyllas i, men det huvudsakliga arbetet med att följa ICD:s klassificeringsregler sker främst i samband med att inrapporterade dödsorsaker kodas av ett automatiskt klassificeringsprogram, baserat på ICD:s regler. Narkotikadödlighet och arbetet med en specifik substansmodul kopplat till dödsorsaksregistret lyfts fram som exempel på vilka anpassningar och samarbeten som behöver göras för att hantera ett klassifikationssystem som underminerar mer specifik kunskap om en specifik form av dödlighet. I slutorden ges förslag på frågor av vikt att arbeta vidare med, framförallt gällande hur läkares bedömningsarbete gällande dödsorsaker liksom konkret registerarbete går till.

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  • 17.
    Hedin, Alma
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    “En brygga mellan människor och resten av samhället”: En antropologisk studie om en ideell verksamhets sociala och praktiska betydelse för människor i social utsatthet2023Självständigt arbete på avancerad nivå (masterexamen), 20 poäng / 30 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [sv]

    I den här studien undersöks vilken social och praktisk funktion en ideell verksamhet fyller för personer i social utsatthet. Syftet med studien är att ge en holistisk bild av vad verksamheten betyder för besökarna, och hur den platsen formas av de som är där. Studien ger dessutom en förståelse för vilken roll delar av det civila samhället fyller för både individer, och för samhället i stort. Empirin som ligger till grund för studien baseras på observationer och samtal som gjorts under ett två månader långt fältarbete på en ideell verksamhet i Stockholm. Empirin analyseras med teorier om socialt kapital, sociala nätverk, fiktiv familj, tid, plats och agens. Studien visar att det är sociala behov som motiverar människor i social utsatthet att besöka verksamheten, och verksamheten som undersöks beskrivs som en social plats med specifika normer och regler som besökarna tillsammans upprätthåller. Dessutom ges flera exempel på hur verksamheten kan öka besökarnas sociala nätverk och sociala kapital. Den ideella verksamheten jämförs med en fiktiv familj, eftersom relationerna som formas där liknar biologiska familjerelationer i fler avseenden. Därtill visar studien att personalen på verksamheten går utanför sina officiella arbetsuppgifter och ger en dold hjälp, vilket innebär social och praktisk hjälp som inte är synlig för resten av samhället. 

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  • 18.
    Saaresaho, Stella
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Ethnographic case study on Feminist commodity networks and sisterhood building in Melbourne, Australia2023Självständigt arbete på avancerad nivå (masterexamen), 20 poäng / 30 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [en]

    This thesis examines feminist commodity networks through an ethnographic case study of QVWC SHOP in Melbourne, Australia. The work is built through an emic perspective on the understanding of selling, producing, and buying through the QVWC SHOP. The emic perspective is also connected to the larger systems, such as social networks and community building. QVWC SHOP is a store focusing on selling locally made items by women, including cis, trans and nonbinary. QVWC SHOP is part of the Queen Victoria Women’s centre in Melbourne, which is a non-profit building that rents space for different organisations for women’s needs. The centre is also an important cultural space, organizing events and exhibitions around the year. In 2020, the Women’s centre opened the QVWC SHOP, that they promote as a feminist shop selling goods made by women, for women. The focus in this thesis is on understanding how the shop builds a community for the women involved with the store, reflect over what feminist commodities are and what it means to be a producer, employee, or consumer at the QVWC SHOP. The reflections are built through data from participant observation and semi-structured interviews with interlocutors from the field, as well as relevant theoretical works. Furthermore, themes of care, sustainability, attachment, and solidarity are all important in the work. Overall, this thesis focuses on the processes of creating social networks and community building in the context of a feminist shop.

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  • 19.
    Kylilis, Philip
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Healing The Wounds, Bridging The Divide: Exploring “Community Participation” in Post-Conflict Development through Trauma Healing in Rwanda2023Självständigt arbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen), 20 poäng / 30 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [en]

    “Community participation” is a common concept in contemporary development initiatives worldwide. As an approach, it aims to include the targeted population in its planning and implementation, by recognizing the need in understanding local contexts, beliefs, and values. As such, this thesis aims to explore the possibilities, as well as limitations, of community participation, specifically in the context of post-conflict development through a case study of a development project, The Bugesera Societal Healing Initiative (BSHI), in Rwanda. This is done within the theoretical context of the anthropology of development and post-development theory. Through ethnographical inquiry into the lives of BSHI participants suffering from trauma following the 1994 Genocide, this thesis conveys the essence for development organizations in catering to the specific needs of a given local population. In turn, this is placed in a broader discourse, within the development sector as a whole, to understand the limitations and obstacles in achieving comprehensive societal transformation. It is argued that, while development initiatives driven by the idea of community participation may succeed on a local level and positively impact the targeted population, it may still leave wider political structures perpetuating issues of, for instance, poverty unaltered. In this, it seems that for these structures to be addressed, it requires a more radical approach to development in which the status quo is being challenged. 

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  • 20.
    Bernal Liller, Gabriela
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Human-Mangrove Entanglements in Shyamnagar, Bangladesh2023Självständigt arbete på avancerad nivå (masterexamen), 20 poäng / 30 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [en]

    This thesis examines the intricate relationship between mangroves and humans in Shyamnagar, Bangladesh. Mangroves in Shyamnagar are found both in the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest on earth, and in adaptation projects called nature based solutions (NbS), framed by the resilience narrative. The first part offers an introduction to these discourses, including the role of NGOs and governmental institutions, and critically analyzes the ways in which capitalist and modernist worldviews have influenced the establishment of new interaction zones between humans and mangroves through NbS projects, highlighting the omission of power dynamics and histories of dispossession. The second part delves into the nuanced relationships with the mangrove that transcend dominant global and organizational discourses. By emphasizing the agency of the mangrove as an active participant and co-creator of society in Shyamnagar, the boundaries between humans and nature, and communities and non-humans, are blurred. This challenges the notion of human exceptionalism and underscores the interconnectedness of all beings in shaping local landscapes, dynamics, and identities. The final part explores the relationships of care between humans and mangroves, recognizing the significance of care and affect in shaping human subjectivities and relationships with the biophysical environment. This thesis thereby emphasizes the importance of maintaining multispecies care even within practices that introduce anthropocentric, capitalistic, and market-oriented worldviews. By critically examining these dimensions, this thesis offers insights into the complex interactions between mangroves and humans in Shyamnagar, ultimately contributing to a broader understanding of the interplay between nature, society, and resilience. 

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  • 21.
    Bellini, Francesca
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Living in the container: Space and relationships inside Lipa Temporary Reception Center2023Självständigt arbete på avancerad nivå (masterexamen), 20 poäng / 30 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [en]

    The Lipa Temporary Reception Centre is a transit camp, located in the North-West part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for only single men who cross the Balkan Route to enter the European Union territory through the Croatian border.

    This thesis aims to describe the life inside the camp, combining an analysis of Lipa architecture with the experiences of the people who transited through there. A focus on space and relationships will then drive this thesis, reflecting on how the transit camp features and stylistic decisions affected people's experiences: discussing how places and individuals mutually influenced each other in such a context. More specifically, it will highlight the broad political implications that led to the opening of migrant reception centres like Lipa and discuss their hypothetical temporary nature, studying the roles played by European Union Institutions and non-governmental organizations within the field.

    This research is the outcome of ethnographic fieldwork conducted inside the Lipa Temporary Reception Centre from November 8th until December 19th and from the investigation of the existing literature regarding the design of camps and the Balkan Route. 

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  • 22.
    Svensson, Jennifer
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Love is that I want You to Exist: An anthropologial study of time and crisis2023Självständigt arbete på avancerad nivå (masterexamen), 20 poäng / 30 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
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  • 23.
    Nordgren, Ossian
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Multiple Futures, Diverse Paths: A Study of How Vietnamese Blockchain Professionals Imagine, Enact andNegotiate Futures2023Självständigt arbete på avancerad nivå (masterexamen), 20 poäng / 30 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [en]

    This thesis dives into the future imaginaries of blockchain professionals in Hanoi and Saigon. Looking at sites of futures enactment, and constant negotiations around an emerging technology, economy, and start-up ecology. The blockchain industry has risen to prominence in the socio-economic and technological imaginary of geeks, financial speculators, and states around the globe. In this thesis, I investigate a hitherto underexplored context of technological imagination. Based on physical and digital ethnographic fieldwork among blockchain professionals in Hanoi and Saigon and through an amalgamated theoretical lens with nodes in the anthropology of future imaginaries, emerging technologies, digital materiality, and anthropological theories of value, I set out to map and critically engage with the modes by which professionals in and around the Vietnamese blockchain industry imagine the future. These future imaginaries appear not only in speculative, predictive, and hopeful proclamation but too in present enactment; thus, doings in real time become crucial in this investigation. Technologies of imagination often deviate in form and teleology, so consequently, processual negotiations are continually unfolding. Convoluted alliances within actors are often placed at odds, or in line, with broader imaginaries predicated on different levels of social scale. These spaces between imagined future and enacted reality, along with how these are negotiated amongst, ultimately provide complex embedded contexts through which socio-technical assemblages, conceptualizations of value, and emerging phenomena can better be known in ways beyond techno-solutionist or -determinist narratives and critiques of multiple futures.

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  • 24.
    Canale, Guadalupe
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Sanctuary: The Lifeworlds of Seaweeds in Loch Hourn2023Självständigt arbete på avancerad nivå (masterexamen), 20 poäng / 30 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [en]

    As living beings, seaweeds exist at the periphery of people’s awareness, and not much is known about what they mean to people, and the relationships we can have with them. They are useful, versatile commodities, and multitask as foodstuffs for people and other beings, as sources of biofuel and medicinal compounds, and the list goes on... but, what else?

    This work seeks to shed light on the kinds of relations that people can have with seaweeds when relationships of use are purposefully bracketed out, in order to understand their social and symbolic worlds. To this end, during the months of November through January, the author discussed the perceptions of seaweeds with the neighbours of the area of Loch Hourn, a sea-loch (fjord) in the western seaboard of the Scottish Highlands, and some other nearby townships. The present study interlaces participant observation nuanced by the winter and the weather, and interviews, to explore how, through relations of biosociality, companionship, awareness and interanimation of the environment, alternative configurations of knowing, Gaelic tradition, symbolism, and hope, seaweeds embody different aspects of the meaning of‘sanctuary’.

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  • 25.
    Trägårdh, Björn
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Surrender to Dagaa: An ethnographic study of Fishing in Zanzibar2023Självständigt arbete på avancerad nivå (masterexamen), 20 poäng / 30 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [en]

    This thesis explores Zanzibari fishing practices and the fishermen’s relation to the ocean, within the context of the global political economy. The study focuses on catching small pelagic fish, locally known as dagaa, which has become vital for food security in Zanzibar. By combining anthropological theories of phenomenology and political economy, the thesis identifies capitalism and the need for cash as constituting a metabolic rift that alienates fishermen from the ocean, where the ocean is seen as more of an industrial landscape to earn a wage rather than a landscape to dwell with. The thesis further expands the analysis to discuss overexploitation in relation to the global economy with a worldview of unlimited goods.

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  • 26.
    Tengblad Söder, Joakim
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen.
    Sverige, snåljåparna och EU:s återhämtningsfond: En processpårning av förhandlingarna om Next Generation EU2023Självständigt arbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen), 10 poäng / 15 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [sv]

    EU formas av sina kriser och utgör summan av de lösningar man funnit för kriserna. Så skrev en av EU:s pionjärer, fransmannen Jean Monnet, i sina memoarer. Historien har givit honom rätt. Den ekonomiska krisen i spåren av coronapandemin är den senaste i raden av kriser som historiskt har avlöst varandra. Hur den europeiska integrationen fördjupas i framtiden återstår att se, men vad som är uppenbart är att EU:s återhämtningsfond Next Generation EU markerar ett skifte i EU:s ekonomiska styrning. Men hur kan det gå till när den europeiska ekonomiska integrationen fördjupas?  Genom en utfallsförklarande processpårning söker studien svar på hur nyinstitutionella teorier kan förklara varför Sverige röstade för Next Generation EU i juli 2020, trots tidigare motstånd mot avgörande delar av stödpaketet. Aspekter av förhandlingarna har tidigare undersökts, men forskning saknas kring Sveriges agerande som medlemsland, och inom ramen för den frugala fyran bestående av Österrike, Nederländerna, Sverige och Danmark. Studien prövar historisk institutionalism, rational choice institutionalism och sociologisk institutionalism för sig. Resultatet visar Sveriges spårberoende och att coronapandemin som ett potentiellt kritiskt moment påkallade förändring. Sverige agerande genom preferensmaximering för att tillgodose sina behov, men lämplighetslogiken påverkade vissa avgörande preferensförändringar. De nyinstitutionella teorierna förklarade förtjänstfullt olika aspekter av utfallet, men ingen enskild teori kunde ensamt förklara utfallet. Därför kombinerades teorierna och de luckor som uppstått kunde täppas till.

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  • 27.
    Alvarez López, Laura
    et al.
    Stockholms universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Romanska och klassiska institutionen.
    Olsson, Erik
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Synen på det nya landet i brev och notiser från svenska migranter i södra Brasilien kring sekelskiftet 19002023Ingår i: Historisk Tidskrift, ISSN 0345-469X, E-ISSN 2002-4827, Vol. 1, s. 3-34Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
    Abstract [sv]

    Mellan 1881 och 1914 beräknas mellan 3 000 och 5 000 svenskar ha migrerat tillBrasilien. Trots att det inte handlade om någon massutvandring i jämförelse medutvandringen till Nordamerika fick denna migration stor uppmärksamhet i densamtida svenska pressen. Brasilien framstod som ett exotiskt resmål men emigrationendit hamnade också i en relativt livlig debatt som handlade om det överhuvudtagetvar lämpligt för svenskar att bosätta sig i Brasilien. Denna studie byggerfrämst på publicerade brev och dagboksanteckningar från svenskar som emigrerattill Brasilien och hur de i dessa texter framställt sina migrationsprojekt i det nyalandet.

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  • 28.
    Angwald, Anton
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    The Illumination of Money: An Ethnography of Bitcoin in El Salvador2023Självständigt arbete på avancerad nivå (masterexamen), 20 poäng / 30 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
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    Money can be understood as a disembedding mechanism, detaching social relations from a spatiotemporal context. However, different infrastructural instantiations of money make visible–and invisible–different qualities of money. Through a two-month ethnographic study of El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin as a complimentary legal tender, I show how Bitcoin in El Salvador functions as a technology of the imagination that brings future-making and deterritorialization into the forefront of money infrastructure(s). 

    The thesis is divided into three main parts. First, I briefly introduce how people leverage Bitcoin as a tool for shaping subjective attitudes towards time, and consequently–to inspire hope. 

    Then, I show how foreigners travelling to El Salvador to use Bitcoin are not doing this out of economic considerations. Rather, this transnational group of Bitcoiners can be characterised as a recursive public that utilises Bitcoin to escape the formation of the nation-state and form a deterritorialized community around shared speculative visions of the future. Bitcoin also allows them to make general infrastructural features of money visible and to contest these. The prime example being money’s disciplinary effects on subjective attitudes towards time.

    In the last part, I show how deterritorialization and speculative futures also come to the forefront of Salvadoran imaginaries of Bitcoin. We can understand attitudes of fear and attitudes of hope as responses to this imaginary. The thesis concludes by arguing that Bitcoin’s materiality affords imaginaries of disembedded social landscapes, thus rendering visible preexisting infrastructural features of money. However, in the specific context of El Salvador Bitcoin also works as a tool for re-embedding, but only for the Bitcoiners.

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  • 29.
    Larsen, Emma
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    The Making of "White Spaces": The construction, disruption, and maintenance of stability in bipolar realities in Sweden2023Självständigt arbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen), 10 poäng / 15 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
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    Bipolar disorder is a condition rarely approached in anthropological research, and even less so through the eyes of people living with the disorder. Therefore, to focus on understanding the experience of the state in-between episodes, here referred to as a “white space”, is rare and in need of further examination. The aim of this study was to explore the various experiences of a “white space”, how it is constructed, disrupted, and maintained. The thesis is also an attempt to look at what factors affect these experiences using the anthropology of becoming, and concepts of power and agency. With the interviews of eleven individuals that have experienced different lengths of “white spaces”, a representative of a non-profit organization, a clinical psychologist, and minor participant observation, the author explores the complex views, interpretations, and experiences of a life within a “white space”. Apart from the sub-field of medical anthropology, the thematic framework and concepts involve the anthropology of becoming, agency, and power to explain and discuss the “white space” experience. The analysis shows that a “white space” has many different forms and that agency and power have a great impact on the experience. What the author also discusses in the analysis is the dynamic between what they define as knowledge-production and knowledge-sharing, alongside agency and power in relation to these “white space” experiences. The author emphasizes the importance in using these concepts to further understand and affect the experiences of “white spaces” positively. The conclusion summarizes the findings and emphasizes the need to explore this form of research further.

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  • 30.
    Asplund, David
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    The Negotiation and Crafting of Identity Among Transnational and/or Transracial Adult Adoptees in Sweden2023Självständigt arbete på avancerad nivå (masterexamen), 20 poäng / 30 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [en]

    This master’s thesis will be discussing how nuanced experiences affects the crafting of identity among transnational and/or transracial adult adoptees raised in Sweden from an anthropological perspective.The purpose of this thesis is to show that adoptees craft their identity in numerous and complex ways, one as unique as the other. The nuanced experiences are important to underscore since the adoptee demographic is vast and it consists of multiple individuals with unique lives, and if these distinctiveness are ignored, we run the risk of depicting a flawed picture of the adoptee experience. In an attempt to avoid doing so, this thesis will use an intersection of different theoretical frameworks from previous literatureon adoption and identity, which are belonging, body, and kinning, with additional theoretical concepts on materiality to complement. This paper follows eight adoptees, who share their individual narratives that revolves around the crafting of their Swedish, Adoption, and Ethnic identity. I will bring their experiences to life by putting them in relation to each other to showcase their uniqueness. Keywords: Adoption, Belonging, Body, Kinship. 

     

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  • 31.
    Johannesson, Livia
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen, Stockholms centrum för forskning om offentlig sektor (SCORE).
    The Symbolic Life of Courts: How Judicial Language, Actions, and Objects Legitimize Credibility Assessments of Asylum Appeals2023Ingår i: Journal of International Migration and Integration, ISSN 1488-3473, E-ISSN 1874-6365, Vol. 24, s. 791-809Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
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    Asylum determinations are highly complex and difficult decisions. At the heart of this decision lies a credibility assessment of the asylum claimant’s narrative, which confronts the decision-maker with a seemingly straightforward question: do I believe this person’s story? To uphold legitimacy of this assessment, semi-legal criteria have been established internationally. However, these criteria have been criticized for relying on inaccurate and simplistic assumptions about human behavior, autobiographical memory, and communication. In light of this contestation, I ask how the legal-administrative practice of assessing credibility of asylum applications gains legitimacy in the eyes of the public, policy-makers, and legal professionals despite resting on highly disputable assumptions? To answer this question, I draw on interviews, observations, and written judgements from the Swedish administrative courts to explore how symbolic messages are tacitly conveyed through the use of judicial language, activities, and objects. The analysis suggests that cohesive, albeit tacit, messages about credibility assessments being accurate (rather than arbitrary), objective (rather than subjective), professional (rather than lay), and just (rather than unjust) are produced to both near and distant audiences. The study contributes to the literature on credibility assessments by offering a theoretical perspective that can unpack the relationship between symbolic communication in courts and perceived legitimacy for disputed practices within asylum determinations and migration control.

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  • 32.
    Hedén, Jonna
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Vad händer i orten?: En diskussion kring narrativet om "utsatta områden" i Sverige2023Självständigt arbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen), 10 poäng / 15 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
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    This essay discusses the lived experiences and opinions of people living or working in so-called “vulnerable areas” in Sweden, predominantly in relation to issues of immigration and organized crime. Theoretically, the study uses Pierre Bourdieu’s framework surrounding capital and habitus and Norbert Elias concept of “the outsiders and the established”, while also drawing on the work of Gregory Bateson, Edward Said and more. This discourse analysis is based on empirical findings and interviews from fieldwork made in vulnerable areas in and around the Stockholm region, and aims to problematize the general discourse surrounding immigrants and their place in Swedish society by contrasting the views of the local population to the general narrative surrounding the areas. Generally, in Swedish media and amongst political representatives, vulnerable areas are often portrayed as dangerous areas inhabited primarily by immigrants, that culturally differs from the rest of Sweden and thus is seen to exist outside of general Swedish society. This essay argues the point of the studies respondents, which is that while it is to an extent understandable that these areas are associated with gang violence and disarray, it is highly stigmatizing and further drives a dichotomization between swedes and “non-swedes”. It also overlooks decades of exposure to segregation and socioeconomic disadvantages that migrant populations in Sweden have been subjected to, that has led to poverty and a subsequent rise in crime, as well as the emergence of parallel societies within Sweden.

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  • 33.
    Deutgen Åker, Vilma
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Vägen som gav och tog: En antropologisk studie om upplevda konsekvenser av ett vägbygge2023Självständigt arbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen), 10 poäng / 15 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [sv]

    Det har gått några år sedan en ny riksväg anlades ute på den svenska landsbygden. Det kom att påverka invånarna i ett samhälle där riksvägen tidigare passerade. Den här uppsatsen handlar om deras upplevelser av den nya vägen. Syftet med studien är att undersöka vad som sker med ett samhälle ute på den svenska landsbygden som nås av en modern infrastruktur. I uppsatsen diskuteras hur ett samhälle som präglas av det förflutna påverkas av en modern infrastruktursatsning, ortsbornas längtan efter en levande landsbygd och på vilket sätt vägen exkluderar ortsborna, vilket i sig blir en fråga om medborgarskap då det handlar om huruvida ortsborna har rätt till att nyttja vägen lika mycket som andra människor i landet. Empirin som presenteras i uppsatsen består av material från intervjuer, samtal och deltagande observation. Materialet har analyserats med hjälp av antropologiska begrepp/teorier om nostalgi och planering/konstruktion av vägar. Trots att samhället i fråga värnar om sitt förflutna hoppas ortsborna på att vägen kan leda till positiva förändringar i samhället, även om de är oroliga för att samhällets verksamheter och arbeten kan försvinna och därmed en del av samhällets förflutna.

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  • 34.
    Petričević, Igor
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Beyond Transit: Precarious Emplacement and the Wavering Reception of Migrants in the City of Zagreb2022Doktorsavhandling, monografi (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
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    The territory of the Republic of Croatia has historically been a place of forced and economic migration, mainly consisting of population movements between former Yugoslav states and other neighbouring European countries. Since the 2000s, these borderlands have become sites of continuous transit migration from the Middle East and Africa. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Zagreb over several periods between 2016 and 2020, this thesis seeks to understand how non-European migration and places of transit in the Balkans interrelate and transform each other. Thus, the study explores how different migrants’ trajectories meet, and how they interact with the spaces and people in Zagreb as the country prepares to enter the Schengen area of free movement, and the city is absorbed into the European border regime. The focus on ‘migrant’ and ‘non-migrant’ relations in a transit area presents a particular viewpoint on the mediated dynamics of large-scale migration into Europe. The thesis argues for a study of migration and emplacement as entangled with borders, the histories of transit localities, relations within them, affects in everyday encounters, and structures of precarity. As a contribution to the anthropology of transit migration, three interrelated concepts are formulated. First, ‘precarious emplacement’ captures the complexities of moving and staying on the European periphery by taking these (im)mobilities to be embedded in local spaces, relations and histories. Second, by highlighting the relationality of emplacement, the concept of ‘wavering reception’ is developed to depict the discourses, practices and orientations of local residents. These fluctuate between hospitality and hostility, and therefore form a complex affective landscape in the urban spaces where migration is prevalent. Third, the thesis develops the concept of ‘the Gap’ as an indeterminate and ductile space between individuals and groups. It is used as an analytic for exploring the qualitative shifts in position, perceptions and feelings that produce these vacillating relations of proximity and distance which are central to emplacement. This conceptual framework illuminates the changing dynamics of transit migration in Croatia, as well as the various processes and transformations which emerge as (im)mobilities interact with transit areas.

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  • 35.
    Johansson, Simon
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Comeback Detroit: The return of whites and wealth to a Black city2022Doktorsavhandling, monografi (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
    Abstract [en]

    Since the 1950s, the city of Detroit has declined in terms of demography and economic prosperity.  Once among the wealthiest and largest cities of America, Detroit now continually ranks as one of nations poorest, Blackest and most abandoned urban areas. 

    This dissertation studies urban change by focusing on the emergent reversal of the city’s long-term decline, exploring the period of time when both whites and wealth were returning to the city. As this moment of return is closely aligned to local notions of “comeback” and that the city was “coming back”, the thesis examines the reflections and contestations of the city’s contemporary comeback and the relations of power that frame this process. 

    The first part of the thesis examines how the city has changed in the past, and the ways in which this past has furnished particular understandings of the present. Racial and class struggles have defined the city’s trajectory and these struggles have shaped a cosmology of division and separation, informing everyday life and mundane relations, while being mirrored and expressed through the material city. In the second part, the thesis concentrates on the temporal, spatial and demographic dimensions of comeback and the emergence of a “New Detroit”; a city that is whiter and wealthier than before. By examining the subjects said to be returning, and how both the city’s spaces and futures are molded around them, the study inquiries into how comeback and a New Detroit is made to emerge. The third part of the thesis explores how Detroiters come to labor collectively, through ritualized events, with a city that is changing. It is in ritualized events that Detroiters come to experience diversity and community, integrating what is otherwise divided, while articulating both morality and legitimacy in relation the city’s comeback. 

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  • 36.
    Schönqvist, Oliver
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Coolhetens Kapital: Habitus i Skateboard-världen2022Självständigt arbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen), 10 poäng / 15 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [sv]

    I denna uppsats söker jag svar på vad coolhet innebär för skateboardåkare i Stockholm. Syftet med studien är att ta reda på hur skateboardåkare förstår sig själva och sin omgivning. I uppsatsen diskuteras hur symboliskt kapital skapas genom ett förkroppsligande av idéer förknippade med begreppet cool. Empirin består av material som samlats in från observationer och intervjuer av skateboardåkare i Stockholm under våren 2022, samt skateboardmedia, vilken undersöks noggrannare med hjälp av de antropologiska begreppen habitus och kulturellt kapital. 

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  • 37.
    Terceiro, Luciana
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Digital Accessibility in the Making: Introducing new component parts into the assemblage of user experience design2022Självständigt arbete på avancerad nivå (masterexamen), 20 poäng / 30 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [en]

    This thesis aims to investigate digital accessibility in the making through the theoretical lens of the assemblage theory. Digital accessibility is a characteristic of digital products and services like websites that allows people with disabilities to access and use them. Although its relevance, digital accessibility is not present in many technological objects. This work intends to describe the adoption of accessibility practices in developing projects and products, focusing mainly on design activities. My leading field site was a tech company located in Stockholm, Sweden, where I observed the “accessibility project” for almost three months, from October to December 2021. During this period, I followed how the company, particularly one of its teams, reacted to new environmental factors, the challenges they faced, and how the process of incorporating these new elements was, from not having accessibility presented in the produced artefacts to incorporating accessibility as a routine. In addition, the study also counted on the participation of Brazilian design practitioners through interviews. The methods were observant participation, semi-structured interviews, and oral accounts. 

    The main theoretical frameworks were the assemblage theory developed by Manuel DeLanda (2016) and the theory of affordances by Jenny L. Davis (2020). I attempt to analyse the organisation and its nested structures as assemblages, and the processes of changes in their parameters, creating new territory and new code through the adoption of accessibility repertoire. I furthermore analysed the relations between the affordances of technological objects produced by the company’s assemblage, as well as the affordance of accessibility frameworks. 

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  • 38.
    Thedvall, Renita
    et al.
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen, Stockholms centrum för forskning om offentlig sektor (SCORE).
    Näslund, Lovisa
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen, Stockholms centrum för forskning om offentlig sektor (SCORE).
    En utsatt position: Kunskapsmodeller, ledarskap och arbetsmiljö på ekonomiskt bistånd i Socialtjänsten2022Rapport (Refereegranskat)
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  • 39.
    Lindquist, Johan
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Follower Factories in Indonesia and Beyond: Automation and Labor in a Transnational Market2022Ingår i: Digital Work in the Planetary Market / [ed] Mark Graham; Fabian Ferrari, MIT Press, 2022, s. 59-76Kapitel i bok, del av antologi (Refereegranskat)
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  • 40.
    Holman, Isabelle
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Hur representeras klimatinduceradmigrationi nationell policy?: En komparativ studie av problemrepresentioneri två stillahavsländer2022Självständigt arbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen), 10 poäng / 15 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [en]

    One consequence of climate change more frequently discussed is its’ impact on climate-induced migration. This is especially relevant for low-lying atoll islands in the Pacific, where the impacts on migration are anticipated to be of great extent. As Kiribati is a country which is highly affected by climate change and a place where climate-induced migration is expected,Kiribatiand a possible recipient countryof its migrants, New Zealand, havebeen chosenfor analysis.Grounded in poststructural thoughtit is argued that the way we represent “problems”in policy hasramifications for which policy proposalsare considered and how the migrant is constructed as a subject. This study thusconducts a comparative analysis of problem representations of climate-induced migration in Kiribati’s and New Zealand’s national policies. The policies of these countries are analyzed using thediscourse analytical framework“What’s the problem represented to be?”(WPR)whereasthe theoretical underpinningof this study is grounded inpoststructuralism and postcolonialism, specifically the creation of the “other”. Furthermore, earlier writings about representations of climate-induced migration are used as a basisfor analysis. The findings of the study suggest that climate-induced migration is representedboth as a challenge and as an adaption strategy, where transnational climate-induced migration mainly is depicted as a strategy for increased resiliencewhereas internal migration is portrayed as challenging.I argue that the way climate-induced migration is represented both replicates colonial tendencies and the creation of the “other”, while also reflecting a dominant neoliberal agenda. 

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  • 41.
    Arleskär, Albin
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    “It’s the machine’s fault”: An ethnographic study of the domestication of Swedish production forests2022Självständigt arbete på avancerad nivå (masterexamen), 20 poäng / 30 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [en]

    This thesis explores different ways of relating to forests, and thus also different types of forestry. Starting with the Swedish forest industry one which is characterized by the planting of forests at the expense of natural regeneration, thus making Sweden the fifth country in the world in terms of planted area the study then examines different forests. This study is conducted with qualitative methods and by “following the seed” looks at various actors’ interests and potential flaws in the venture of planting forests. Different possibilities of doing forestry are explored in the thesis through letting modern forestry meet local forest-owners as well as a seed-collecting practice in central Sweden. 

    These processes are explored by understanding the forest as an assemblage of historical decisions, species and human interests, tracing relations and powers within and beyond forestsfrom a more-than-human perspective. Forestry emerges as an attempt at domestication of the forest and the thesis explores how it goes wild, as well as the meeting of modern industrialism and science with other world views, values and practices.

    This allows for an alternative understanding of forests, forestry beyond industrialism and modernity, and what sort of futures we might have living together with forests. 

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  • 42.
    Johannesson, Livia
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen, Stockholms centrum för forskning om offentlig sektor (SCORE).
    Just another benefit? Administrative judges’ constructions of sameness and difference in asylum adjudications2022Ingår i: Citizenship Studies, ISSN 1362-1025, E-ISSN 1469-3593, Vol. 26, nr 7, s. 910-926Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
    Abstract [en]

    This ethnographic study examines how Swedish administrative judges apply the principle of treating like cases the same and unlike cases differently when adjudicating asylum claims. The findings suggest that judges construct asylum claims like citizens’ claims for welfare benefits and unlike protection claims made by citizens. Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s critique of the state-centric foundation of contemporary human rights framework, I demonstrate that the Swedish asylum procedure is structured according to a similar state-centric foundation. Therefore, it reinforces injustices that exist between those who belong to a political community and those who stand outside that community asking to be let in. This study contributes to previous research on asylum adjudication by shedding light on structural injustices embedded within legal practices rather than searching for explanations in extra-legal factors. The implication of this approach is that it makes visible a paradox: that judges’ commitment to procedural justice principles can perpetuate structural injustices.

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  • 43.
    Gustafsson Nordin, Ingrid
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen, Stockholms centrum för forskning om offentlig sektor (SCORE).
    Narratives of internal audit: The Sisyphean work of becoming "independent"2022Ingår i: Critical Perspectives on Accounting, ISSN 1045-2354, E-ISSN 1095-9955, s. 102448-102448, artikel-id 102448Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
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  • 44.
    Remolina, Vanessa
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Reclaiming the city by bike: A study about urban development in the city of Bogotá2022Självständigt arbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen), 10 poäng / 15 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [en]

    This study looks at the capital of Colombia, Bogotá’s mobility department, and how this institution is using the bicycle as a tool to brand the city. Bogotá has had a remarkable increase in bicycle ridership for several years, this duo to the city's implementation of bicycle lanes and politicians that have incorporated planning that favors this transport method. Even so, the city still has challenges in making bicycle transportation inclusive for everyone. Research suggests that to make a city more inclusive, it is important to understand the struggles and dilemmas within the current planning. This study examines questions such as: Which group or specific users are a dilemma when planning and developing Bogota as a bicycle city? Why is this group or user a challenge or dilemma in the planning? And: Does this group fit into the planner's vision of a cycling city? Through interviews with important stakeholders, academics, and bicycle representatives, the study identified Bicycle messengers as a dilemma. Some representatives of this group are also interviewed. Together with field observation, the theoretical framework, and the found data, this study analyzes the three-research question and answers why bicycle messengers are a dilemma for planners, as they pose a security risk. This finding is further discussed in the paper along with the theories of place branding, the right to the city, and a southern theory approach. Exploring the fact that the mobility department's own vision and branding can be one of the causes of finding this group to be a dilemma.

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  • 45.
    Olsson, Erik
    et al.
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Álvarez López, Laura
    Stockholms universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Romanska och klassiska institutionen.
    Rutten till Brasilien: Svenska emigranters texter om migrationsindustri och nätverk2022Ingår i: RIG: Kulturhistorisk tidskrift, ISSN 0035-5267, E-ISSN 2002-3863, nr 3, s. 147-168Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
    Abstract [en]

    During the 1800s until the First World War, the migration to Brazil by Swedish citizens reached several thousands. The majority of these migrants were poor laborers or peasants traveling in the hope of finding a prosperous life in the new country. The Swedish migrants migrated to the new country with minimal economic resources at their disposal and with limited opportunities to decide on their own situation. This article is concerned with the migrants’ representation of their routes in different Swedish newspapers or booklets at the time of their migration. These texts provide insights into the conditions the migrants experienced while traveling to the new country and establishing themselves there, as well as the confinements they experienced when encountering a powerful migration regime linked to the Brazilian government and the migration industry that consisted of agents that organized and administered the travel as well as ex-migrants of Swedish or other Scandinavian origin that offered different kinds of services. The article discusses how the Swedish migrants accounted for their attempts to improve their life-situation while dependent on the migration industry for their survival. However, their strategies also included networking with their friends and neighbors for both community and instrumental reasons. In this perspective, the migrants’ interest in publishing their experiences on the routes fits into their attempts to reclaim social agency and expand their social networks to include the broader Swedish society. One conclusion of the study is that the transatlantic migration of the 1800s seemingly had a resemblance to the current migration from the Global South toward the Global North; the migrants are struggling against exploitation and a powerful migration regime by investing their engagement in a larger social network.

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  • 46.
    Román Rojas, Cristóbal
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    The 12th Player: An Anthropological Exploration of Football Supporters Emotions2022Självständigt arbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen), 10 poäng / 15 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [en]

    This study examines football supporters' emotional expressions at football matches. The study uncovers this through the analysis of football supporters from the Stockholm-basedfootball club AIK, by conducting participant observation and ethnographic interviews.There has been a lack of studies specifically analysing the emotions of football supporters,particularly in anthropology. Thus, the essay aims to understand how specific emotions comeabout through an ecological approach to emotions, in combination with the concept ofemotional styles. The author shows how football supporters come to learn and remembercertain skills through the engagement with the environment, a process which the emotions arepart of, and how these engagements can shape certain emotional registers which are thencollectively displayed.

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    The 12th Player Cristobal Roman Rojas
  • 47.
    Karlsson, Bengt G.
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    The imperial weight of tea: on the politics of plants, plantations and science2022Ingår i: Geoforum, ISSN 0016-7185, E-ISSN 1872-9398, Vol. 130, s. 105-114Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat)
    Abstract [en]

    The cultivation of tea has had major impact on societies and environments across the world. It has been the cause of imperial wars, colonial appropriations of territories and capitalist exploitation of people and ecologies. In this article, I am particularly concerned with the British empire of tea, what preceded it and its afterlife in the former colonies. Research on tea within the social sciences and humanities have mainly concentrated on the precarious situation of plantation laborers. Informed by recent scholarship in multispecies- and critical plant studies, I seek to trace the intimate relations between people and plants. Taking a cue from James C. Scott’s “grain hypothesis,” I suggest an “imperial crop hypothesis” asking if there are any particular attributes of the tea plant that lend itself to imperial ambitions. In this I straddle between a political ecology concerned with power, resources and infrastructures that enabled the British to establish its empire of tea, and a multispecies approach that foregrounds the entangled ecologies of plant life. I concentrate on four particular moments of this history: the British “discovery” of tea grown by indigenous peoples in the hills of the newly annexed Ahom kingdom in the early 19th century; the establishment of the Assam plantations during second half of the 19th century; the travel of tea across the Indian Ocean and the making of Kenyan tea industry during the 20th century; and, finally, the development of purple tea, a new variety of tea projected as the tea plant for the 21st century.

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  • 48.
    Johansson, Linn
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Varför inga kontanter? En etnografisk studie på kontantlöshetens konsekvenser i Stockholm2022Självständigt arbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen), 10 poäng / 15 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [sv]

    Denna uppsats har undersökt sociala kategorier som infinner sig i Stockholm och analyserat desskonsekvenser i relation med den kontantlösa tillväxten. Syftet med undersökningen är att identifiera ochdiskutera de sociala och kulturella institutionernas förändringar som gjorts i samband medkontantlöshetens tillväxt. Diskursen och analysen har identifierat teman som barns ekonomiskaförståelse och utveckling, kontantlöshet exkluderar, sociala relationer och återbetalning, samt dricks.Det empiriska materialet är insamlat från intervjuer, deltagande observationer och litteraturstudie.Resultatet uppvisar att kontantlösheten leder till begränsad frihet och att alla kan hamna i skuldsättning.Kontanter kan dessutom bidra till samhällsnyttig kunskap och en delaktig komponent till att skapa ochvårda sociala relationer. 

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  • 49.
    Johansson, Linn
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Varför inga kontanter?: En etnografisk studie på kontantlöshetens konsekvenser i Stockholm2022Självständigt arbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen), 10 poäng / 15 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
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  • 50.
    Asshoff, Rasmus
    Stockholms universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Socialantropologiska institutionen.
    Welcome to VRChat: An ethnographic study on embodiment and immersion in virtual reality2022Självständigt arbete på avancerad nivå (masterexamen), 20 poäng / 30 hpStudentuppsats (Examensarbete)
    Abstract [en]

    This study explore how different forms of embodied experiences in virtual reality can be explained. Virtual reality (VR) is a quickly emerging, although understudied field that in the last decade have come to take a bigger and bigger part in everyone’s daily life. With the rise of virtual reality new possibilities for social platforms in VR have emerged, one of these is the virtual world of VRChat. This paper aims to give an introduction to the world of VRChat, through looking at how different embodied practises take place in it. It is based on a two-month long ethnographic fieldwork in the world of VRChat, following at a group of around 20 individuals scattered around the world and their experiences of embodiment in VRChat. This paper looks at how different forms of embodiment take place in VRChat and how these forms of embodiment affect different aspects of being in a virtual world. I study how mirrors and avatars through embodiment and interplay of different agencies create identity and a sense of ‘me’ amongst users in VRChat. I look at how embodiment connects to immersion and how it bridges the gap between reality and virtuality, through the translation of the sense touch in virtual reality to real life a. I see that a non-traditional form of immersion plays a big role in creating this phenomenon which is called phantom sense

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