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About Home and Giving Voice to Experiences of Marginalization: a femi...
Edgren, Monika Journal article in Scandinavian Journal of History;4 : Routledge Taylor & Francis (2011)	peer-reviewed scientific ARTICLE

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Abstract This article explores and analyses narratives in social report-books in the context of structural rationalization during the 1960s and 1970s in Sweden, which entailed large movements of people both in Sweden and Finland (as it did in other countries of Western Europe). The characteristics of the report-books are that they claim to depict the truth and to give voices to marginalized people with the aim to contribute to social change. The analysis dwells not only on the content of the books, but also on the narrative techniques employed. It is discussed how the authors were tied to their political context and the general discourse of social critique in their rendering of voices. The main questions of this article are: whose voices were paid attention to and how was home narrated and represented? One kind of narrative content links home attachment to roots in a rural context, where home centres on reproduction of families, territorial claims and nature hugging. It is established through rhetoric of nature and timelessness, fathers passing inheritance on to their sons and a desire for a non-alienated existence in an archaic landscape. The narrative techniques used are based on an invisible narrator and on a travel narration with questions and answers. It is mainly male voices that are paid attention to. Female voices are to some extent heard but marginalized. Female bodily practices and habits are connected to positions as wives and daughters. The fisherman, the hunter, the woodlander and the farmer, are (re)presented as threatened male positions and therefore male bodies will in a near future be out of place. These narratives are framed by a patriarchal discourse where bodies are naturalized and made straight. Quite another kind of narrative content is forward-looking, dealing with voices in a suburban context. The montage as a narrative technique is systematically used there, combining text and image. The didactic montage is intended to be educational, to enlighten people with the aid of pointers. This calls for activity on the part of the reader/observer, who is supposed to be given the impression of having interpreted the meanings independently. It is based on consciousness-raising as a feminist method for change. This narrative of home is about societal participation and resenting and resisting patriarchal distinctions such as public/private. It is framed by a feminist discourse where bodies are denaturalized and orientated at finding space for the displaced body to expand.

Academic Writing in a Multi-lingual and Multi-disciplinary Context
Finnegan, Damian; Kauppinen, Asko; Wärnsby, Anna (2011) The Role of the Student Experience in Shaping Academic Writing Development in Higher Education, European Association of Teachers of Academic Writing (EATAW), 29th June – 1st July 2011 University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland	other

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Damian Finnegan (damian.finnegan@mah.se) Asko Kauppinen (asko.kauppinen@mah.se) Anna Wärnsby (anna.warnsby@mah.se) Academic Writing in a Multi-lingual and Multidisciplinary Context One crucial challenge of academic writing concerns the increasing heterogenisation of student populations. In many writing classes, we now find “any combination of native-born, international, refugee, permanent resident, and naturalized students,” exhibiting considerable linguistic diversity and multiple levels of English proficiency (Preto-Bay and Hansen, 2006; see also Hall, 2009). At the same time, interest towards academic writing in European higher education is growing, yet resources for teaching do not reflect this. Moreover, the wider student base demands practical application from their writing courses, not theoretical knowledge of language skills (see, for example, Anderson 1983, 2009 on procedural vs. declarative knowledge). To show how these problems can be addressed, we discuss the course Academic Writing in English offered at Malmö University, Sweden, which currently enrolls approximately 300 students per year. The course design is explicitly based on the general model of information processing, which assumes that “complex behavior builds on simple processes” (McLaughlin and Heredia, 1996, p. 213). The focus of all learning activities is on acquisition of procedural knowledge geared towards comprehension and production. One distinctive feature of this course is the very tight integration of electronic resources and other teaching material. This provides student populations various types of continuous feedback and highly individualised learning paths. In this paper, we present and evaluate empirical data pertaining to students’ experience of the content, structure and resources in this course. We also discuss the preliminary results obtained through tests administered before, during and after the course. References Anderson, J. R. 2009. Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications. 7th edition. New York: Worth Publishers. Anderson, J. R. 1983. The Architecture of Cognition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Hall, Jonathan. 2009. “WAC/WID in the Next America: Redefining Professional Identity in the Age of the Multilingual Majority.” The WAC Journal. Vol. 20, November. 33-49. McLaughlin, B. and Hereda, J. L. C. 1996. “Information-processing Approaches to Research on Second Language Acquisition and Use.” In Ritchie, W. C. and Bhatia, T. K. (eds.), Handbook of Second Language Acquisition. San Diego: Academic Press, 213-228. Preto-Bay, Ana Maria and Kristine Hansen. 2006. “Preparing for the Tipping Point: Designing Writing Programs to Meet the Needs of the Changing Population.” WPA: Writing Program Administration, Vol. 30, Nos. 1-2, Fall. 37-57.

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Alison Stone: Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference

Halldenius, Lena
Publication in British Journal for the History of Philosophy;1 : Routledge (2008) other

English abstract: Book review of Alison Stone's Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference, published by Cambridge UP, 2006. ISBN 978-0-521-86270-7

Andlighet i vården

Nordin, Magdalena; Schölin, Tobias
Journal article in I & M : invandrare och minoriteter;4-5 (2009) ARTICLE

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English abstract:	This article examines the Danish news media’s portrayals of immigrants and their descendants. These portrayals provide illustrations of how gender, sexuality, race and nationality intersect. Several descriptions of immigrants have been related to descriptions of visible minority women as oppressed and visible minority males as patriarchal and sexually aggressive. In this article, I show how these descriptions have played a role in constructing images of ethnically Danish women as emancipated and sexually liberated and ethnically Danish men as respectful of women. I also show how issues of gender equality and sexual liberty have become central in negotiations about national inclusion and exclusion, and how white Danishness has become the embodiment of gender equality in the news media.
Swedish abstract:	Artiklen analyserer danske nyhedsmediers beskrivelser af immigranter og efterkommere. Beskrivelserne illustrerer, hvordan køn, race, seksualitet og nationalitet er forbundet og intersekterer med hinanden. Artiklen viser, hvordan beskrivelserne af minoriteterne spiller en rolle i konstruktionen af dansk nationalitet. Den viser også, hvordan opfattelser af køn og kønsmæssig ligestilling og seksuel frihed bliver centrale i forhandlingerne om national inklusion og eksklusion; samt hvordan racial hvidhed og danskhed konstrueres som kropsliggørelsen af kønsmæssig ligestilling.

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15th Nordic Migration Research Conference Global Challenges - Local R...
Povrzanović Frykman, Maja; Malmö University. Faculty of Culture and Society : MIM and IMER, Malmö University (2010) 15th Nordic Migration Research Conference GLOBAL CHALLENGES - LOCAL RESPONSES Malmö, 25-27 August, 2010	other

Activity Flow Architecture - environment design in Active Worlds and ...
Jakobsson, Mikael Book chapter in Space Time Play : Birkhäuser Publishing (2007)	BOOK CHAPTER

AffeXity : performing affect using augmented reality
Kozel, Susan Journal article in The Fibreculture Journal;21 : Open Humanities Press (2012)	peer-reviewed scientific ARTICLE

Agonistic participatory design : working with marginalised social mov...
Björgvinsson, Erling; Ehn, Pelle; Hillgren, Per-Anders Journal article in CoDesign;2-3 : Taylor & Francis (2012)	peer-reviewed scientific ARTICLE